skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I mean, really: how is paying 4% APR on a loan[1] you got from the government "at their mercy?". It's not even a bad rate for an unsecured loan! People routinely pay much higher for car loans, and even now mortgages (which are at historic lows) are only a little better.

Because I didn't want the loan. What's not to understand. I wouldn't have had a problem paying the full amount if they had told me sooner. Also it was over 6% because it was 2+ years and not 3.

> My guess is that they weren't actually "estranged" three years ago, and she probably did meet the definition of a dependent.

I'm certain it met the definition but not the spirit. It wasn't worth having us fight or prolong this. As it is it took 8 months, four registered letters, 20+ hours on the phone, and numerous meetings with my tax attorney to get this resolved. IRS didn't just say "Cannot qualify for Hope Credit because lifetime limit was reached." They outright denied it and asked for the full amount with interest immediately. If this was a business deduction like restaurant bill, we would've paid it immediately. But denying education credit without any reason why? We had no idea her 4 years credit was already used. We had to contact her school, Sallie Mae, review all of our past records etc. and finally our accountant suggested that maybe when she was younger, someone claimed her.

This 2 year $500 'unsecured loan' at a wonderful interest rate cost me easily over $3k and delayed my citizenship process by 8+ months. Did you know if IRS has an open claim against you, you cannot file for citizenship even if you're married to a citizen, lived in US for 13 years and have a green card? I'm not angry. I'm just saying their systems and processes leave much to be desired.
I mean just what I wrote: these lists and charts comparing everyone to everything make little to no sense without context. Global standards in the vacuum make no sense. And in the case of global salary charts - well, comparing apples to oranges doesn't even come close. But, as much as I hate generalizations, I'll try to clarify my point. So: usually, above certain, and rather low level, your happiness doesn't scale linearly with the your wealth expressed in money, and the farther you are in the "rich" percentile, the more so. This charts tend to imply that wealth should (well, that it has to!) be distributed uniformly, when it isn't, and has never been, and I'm pretty sure will never be.

Now, let's suppose you make $15k/yr. (By the way, how's that for your estimate of a European salary? See why I said I hate generalizations?) This site says you're in the top 13% richest people in the world. Immediately, a ton of questions arises: OK, top 13% - what of it? Was it practical to take everyone in the world into consideration? Why and how should this (unverified) information change your feelings about your well-being? Is the current wealth distribution, as represented by the chart, really not OK? Will the knowledge about being in the top 13% help you pay your bills? Should you, now knowing that you are ahead of 87% of population, start to think about redistribution of your wealth and transferring it to those behind you? Should you not be pissed off by those guys higher than you? What if you'd find yourself in the lower 50%? Should you get depressed, or get to work, reaching the 50% mark and then stopping, or what? I could go on and on, but the point I'm trying to make here is that all those questions can be answered in a dozen or so ways, exact number depending on your will to participate in rhetoric battles, and that's why I just can't figure out how this chart can be of any use. There's probably some statistical value in it to me, but almost none practical value. I hope you now see what I was trying to say in the GP comment.

Lastly, and moving from the comparison chart itself to the idea that it's used to be backing up here: I dislike cheap attempts to make people participate in some charity out of induced guilt, and I dislike portraying of being wealthy (whatever that means) as a kind of being unclean with money and obliged to share as a tool of said shame/guilt feeling inducing. I don't think charity should work this way and I think this instills the wrong views of the basic principles of economical and social responsibility in the readers and just exploits the guilt feeling.

TL;DR: Do you need money? You should probably stop contemplating 'global salary comparison charts' of questionable real world value, and instead get your statistics straight and start working on your skills/paycheck/whatever keeps you wealthy. Do you want to participate in the charities? Stop getting anxious and building guilt inside you for no reason, get informed (really, get your statistics straight already) and get involved.
The error in this exercise is the assumption that they would even take your money. Dwolla is going to accept your $75K last February? And you are?

Really like ChuckMcM's acquihire/deadpool idea.
I was about to ask that :)
Simpler Raises $1.2M From Andreessen, Kleiner, Khosla for Paperless Onboarding
All I'm saying is, Go was touted as a C/C++ replacement while it clearly isn't; it's a Java alternative, and as such, more than justifies comparisons of the two. When you compare them, you see some advantages for Go and some for Java.

I don't think there's a rivalry between Rust and Go, and if there is -- there shouldn't be. They serve completely different purposes: Go is an alternative to Java, while Rust is an alternative to C/C++. It's not about speed, either. It's about level of control.
Visual Studio, Netbeans, Eclipse, etc. get frequent updates. They get replaced on a regular & frequent basis with something similar. It's not "hundred year furniture", it's replacing the sofa every year with a new sofa featuring better upholstery, stronger joints, and better stain resistance. Might be the same general design, made by the same manufacturer, but it's not the same instance of "sofa".

It's the emacs/vim example which is more applicable. The core code hasn't changed for a very long time. The facade may change, but the operation behind that interface is unchanged.

Methinks the article refers more to deliver once, update never, restart never, crashing intolerable. Having a pacemaker makes one keenly aware of the difference: just a battery replacement (4-8 years) is a major undertaking, deliberate restarts are avoided and undertaken with grave care, and crashing, well, I wouldn't notice that problem for long.
Tumblr Surpass 1 Billion Blogs With 44.6 Billion Blog Posts
I will have to check out the site more often, I haven't noticed anything :/
What is your use case for why this has a reason to exist, in a market that all ready feels over-saturated (Steam/Desura/GOG, etc)
'especially given law changes and thousands of options that exist'

The IRS needs to have this logic and data import anyway to be able to verify the return. So, all they really need to do is process everything by say March 15, and allow someone to see the data on a website and click (Accept).
The best Thanksgiving turkey I ever had was not brined but was salted and then roasted at an incredibly low temperature (~250) for many, many hours. The result was delicious, but it ties up an entire oven for most of a day, which is simply not practical for many families.
A new startup journey
"No one pays penalties for simple mistakes. That's what FOX news tells you, but it's not true"

My first reaction is "agree" as I have been through this as well.

But now I will modify that agreemet to recognize that not everyone is smart or capable enough to know how to approach fixing something like this with a letter. Or to take the time to read the letter or understand what is going on. Or maybe they go to the clerk at the tax prep office and they are clueless so they ignore the letter and then they have a bigger problem. Stuff like that does happen. There are probably more people who don't know or have the resources to handle this then people that do.

As an aside many years ago I received refunds of thousands of dollars of overpaid sales tax to a state by simply submitting a letter and a spreadsheet which they never audited or checked. I could have said anything with practically any amount (iirc maybe 20k was the amount requested inflation adjusted approx.). By simply presenting a spreadsheet showing the errors each month and writing a letter a check arrived back cheerfully iirc 6 mos. later. Just like that.
If you are not listening to Cooking Issues, even if you don't really cook much, you are seriously missing out. Cooking Issues is amazing.
Well, I guess it is time for a distributed P2P scraper?
Standards for developing flexible, durable, and sustainable HTML and CSS
I encourage you to take the 5+ mins to read over this. Quite beneficial :)
The broken Euro
Man gets 30 months in prison for shining laser at plane
I barely use Calendar or Contacts. I only use Gmail for the mail -- something everything else can do, too, and it's a far cry to call gmail something impressive. By web dev standards, it's a fairly basic application.

When I got my n7, I considered Reader to be the core of the core of the core of that device. As soon as I powered it up, I was on Reader instantly reading new posts from tens of blogs I like to follow. I wasn't interested in the magazines they wanted to throw at me because immediate digital publishing has pretty much killed the magazine/newspaper industry. So for me, reading news and tech articles on my Android device WAS Reader. That's a HUGE part of why the device was purchased.

Do I use it to gmail? No, maybe to read mail, but not to respond to it because typing more than a paragraph on a touch interface is maddening. Do I use it to sync contacts? No, it's not a social device for me. Do I use it to do calendary stuff? No, I do that on my phone, so syncing both of those are turned off. The device is a web browser, game console, and news consumption engine. What drove those were Chrome, the app store, and Reader. One would think those things would be held up by Google as core parts of the platform, but maybe they want to push their own news web portal and Currents. Who knows.
There's a company called MatobMobile who sell a variety of "accessible" handsets from a variety of makers. Doro is one well known brand.

(http://www.matobmobile.co.uk/) EDIT: This website is bafflingly awful considering they're aiming at customers with accessibility needs.

But putting one together is a great idea, especially with 3d printing.
Like the PadFone?
Show HN: Simpler, New Hire Paperwork Without The Paper
The video is a real eye-catcher, nicely done!
But all this will end up being the same thing right? I paid $199 for the iphone with Verizon. T-mobile will charge $99. I looked at the plans and it is better to go with verizon because they have a better tethering plan and better coverage and service. T-mobile's unlimited plan allows 250MB ~ 500MB or tethering only.
How to Gear Up For the Great Outdoors on a Budget - mint.com blog
I really hope transparent pricing takes off in mobile. When consumers see the true cost of the device they are buying, manufacturers are going to have to compete on price. Which is awesome.

I think what T-Mobile is doing here is pretty brillant. Their biggest obstacle is that consumers don't care if the iPhone really costs $600 when all they see is the $199. But they've managed to find a way that makes the upfront costs significantly lower at only a slight bump to their monthly rates. I think this has a chance of working, but I worry that T-Mobile doesn't have the muscle to push other carriers into doing something similar.
That's like saying you shouldn't get stressed about receiving a parking ticket as long as you have the money to pay the ticket. Or you shouldn't get stressed if you get dinged with a penalty for not using an airline ticket or (pick your example). The truth is people do get stressed regardless of what their financial situation is. (Add: Logically they shouldn't but they do.)

More to the point the thing that causes stress is the fear of the unknown. The fear of "what if" where you don't know the outcome. One of the ways I have found to at least reduce a bit that stress is to come to the acceptance that the outcome even worse case scenario can be dealt with or how it will be dealt with which seems to work for me as a mind game.

Add: Also the parent's wife may have a different financial upbringing and might have a case of ptsd because of family history or other factors.
I use to mess with rss and agree with Marco on the purpose of them. Then I found a better solution, just subscribe to some of the awesome curated newsletters out there that do all this for you. HN has one - http://hackernewsletter.com and Peter Cooper's tech focused ones (https://cooperpress.com/) keep you in the loop in a particular stack, plus a lot of others that I've seen.

Now I don't have to check anything these days, except my email, which of course I check everyday anyhow!
The Racket Blog: 200! (Rosetta Code tasks for Racket)
Yes, I agree. I am starting to dislike seeing people I went to school with and their babies. Some babies are cute and some are hideous.

I started using twitter a lot more a few months ago after getting bored with FB.
The technology stack of the site is pretty interesting. I wrote a little about it here:

http://leafo.net/posts/introducing_itchio.html#technology

Essentially the web app runs directly inside of nginx (but a special build of nginx from the project OpenResty[0]). The entire site is coded in MoonScript[1], which is my language that compiles to Lua.

I developed a web framework called Lapis while making this site, it doesn't have documentation yet but you can find the source here: https://github.com/leafo/lapis

I you want to see another sample Lapis webapp you can check out my MoonRocks project. The source is here: https://github.com/leafo/moonrocks-site

[0]: http://openresty.org/

[1]: http://moonscript.org
[Replying to ajanuary]

Thank you, now I actually do see your point. I would still not think of it a considerable weakness. To find such a collision would take more time than bruteforcing any likely password.

There doesn't yet exist a single example of any SHA1 or SHA2 collision, and if we use SHA256 as an example, we could probably not find one the next few years by bruteforcing even if we used all the world's current computing power and storage.

Edit: Actually, that whole argument falls to pieces, because if we can search through enough possibilities to find any collision, the output size of the hashing function is too small to for the hashing function to be secure.
Good news for Android users too, they no longer have to subsidize the $400 that Apple demanded from carriers.
T-Mobile's new contractless data plan
Take a look at FSLaser (http://fslaser.com). Minimum cost for an entry-level system is $2350+shipping.

Disclaimer: I'm an employee.
Unfortunately, the pensions are largely gone the way of life 401(k)s, and with the furloughs that have been coming due to Congressional instability, those things are not really that true anymore.
i think you are projecting some point that i wasn't trying to make.
Not sure about Desura/GOG, but Steam has a vetting process. If you're not a game developer with a following, or if your first game doesn't meet their standards, you can't get onto their marketplace.

You're also required to use their SDK and integrate some functionality into your game. Looks like with itch.io you can just upload your binaries.

Also DRM. Some (small percentage of?) players would love to play games without launching Steam. I love the no-DRM games on humble bundle.
I'm playing with a couple of strategies: creating a list, and then viewing tweets on the list (which show up jumbled when the list is first created, but seem in order thereafter), and just having multiple accounts...
Swedish here. There are deductions you can make but for the majority, it is either simple, or it has been prefilled. For example, for retirement savings of a very specific kind (IPS for Swedes reading this) there is a possible deduction and I believe it is pre-filled. Same thing for interest on house loans (I believe).

For capital gains vs losses, when you trade with stock, you however have to do it "manually" (not pre-filled). (For Swedes: K4 I think is mandatory but can easily be computed by your portfolia broker such as Avanza).

I think today the website that the Swedish tax office provides for you to actually fill in and confirm your tax statements is like a free, online version of what previous generations commercial tax software was about. Every year it includes yet another bit of functionality that simplifies it or handles a new corner case. For the majority it has been very simple for quite some years - send an SMS to confirm the pre-printed statement for example. But if you trade with shares, or if you have a business, or for example own forest (which automatically makes you a business), it is not as simple yet.
"This is an important day for people who love their iPhone but can’t stand the pain other carriers put them through to own one,"

Buy an unlocked one, then, and be completely free to do whatever you want?
It is indeed a low bar, so the fact that it seems so effective as a crapfilter probably says something rather depressing...
This stuff about Golang "touted" seems to turn on picky definitions "touting" that include "stating the objectives of the language project". But more importantly, they are just not relevant to developers.

So, having watched Rob Pike talk about Golang many times, and read a lot of what he's written about the language, I object to the way you're distilling what he's saying about the project. But, more importantly, I object to the sideshow.
All of those sites have a huge barrier to entry. If you were an indie game dev and you wanted to start selling your game immediately it is not possible with those sites. There is an entire market of tiny game developers who never would dream of selling their game on something like steam. This gives them the opportunity to host their game, and set a minimum price of say 0. Now they have the potential to make money off of their side projects. I'd say that's a pretty empowering.
Exactly. Most of the blogs I read are updated once a week or even once a month, but they have great content I don't want to miss. RSS allows me to not have those sites in my bookmarks but always get their latest content.

I've also used it for Craigslist searches and store updates when items go on sale, which are infrequent enough that I would miss them unless I checked every day.

I would like to use RSS to grab frequently updated tech news, but in a separate bucket that doesn't count as "unread". I'd rather strip out the site design and just focus on the content. That's what news is, right?
Clearpath Robotics Announces Grizzly Robotic Utility Vehicle
If they were relying on "faith" they wouldn't have bothered to test their guess, would they have? Isn't that the very opposite of "faith"?
Virgin Mobile[0] (Sprint's pay as you go provider) has the iphone 4S for $450, with unlimited text/data[1] plans starting at $35/mo.

[0] http://www.virginmobileusa.com/shop/cell-phones/iphone-phone...

[1] Where unlimited data really means 2.5GB at full speed, and then 256KBps afterwards.

edit: Uses Sprint not Verizon
The Food Lab's Complete Guide to Dry-Aging Beef at Home
In my experience of living in four different US states that the quality of customer service in government departments varies from locale to locale and even department to department, just like in corporations. My visit to the DMV here in Texas was quick and easy but the visit to the DMV in Las Vegas was such a maddening experience I'm surprised anyway bothers to get a drivers license in the first place. In the office if someone announced they were going to the DMV we would assume their inability to escape and start looking for a replacement. I heard stories of a guy that got in line as the foundation was being poured for the DMV and he's still there to this day, fifth in line.

I think you probably get the point.
I should point out that I completely agree here. Streamlining any sort of manditory process, especially one like this that can affect people financially, is always a good idea. That, after all, is what the linked article is about.

But I'll also say that if you want to address tax complexities in a way that will most help those in need, catching unclaimed EITC returns (something like 30% of eligible filers don't claim it, I believe) is a much better use of effort than trying to eliminate underpayment mistakes.
"People who can't own their own sports teams play fantasy sports. People who can't invest in the stock market do virtual trading. Why should I be left out? I decided that I'm going to publish my list of investing picks (that I've kept private up til now), so that in the future I can (and you can) look back and see how I do."
Is there a single analytics product on the market today that can give me this solution?

Is there a product that's self-hosted?

If there is either, I haven't found them. I built these exact metrics in house... such a pain.
For the same reason that I have 14000 messages in my inbox (half unread), this is bunk. Who cares if you can't read everything? OCD much.
FCC Still Won't Declare Whether Wireless is Competitive
I'm currently with T-mobile. They started charging for tethering recently and this is making me want to switch. Their tethering charges seem insane since I plan to tether once a month or so.
thinly veiled brag.
By the Numbers: The State of Converged Infrastructure 2013 [Infographic]
Why The Inventor Of Pong Says We're More Creative Now
Death march is often the norm, and when more effort is needed the only option is a super death march or just giving up.

And yes, it's not a good way to work. Nor is it even a fast way to work. It's a an equilibrium point that is reached when certain initial conditions in regard to the value that is placed on the appearance of work and dedication are higher than craftsmanship et al is valued.

For people who are immersed in that world view it seems perfectly logical that adding more hours worked will make everything better. But the paradox is that it doesn't, it often makes things worse, for a whole laundry list of reasons. People become physically and emotionally exhausted by the pace, there's no room for higher level improvements which are often the only way to achieve orders of magnitude gains in efficiency, productivity, and quality.

There are a handful of companies that do things right and at those companies employees tend to stick around for not just a few years but decades and the products they make tend to have an outsized impact on the industry (valve, blizzard, 37signals, pixar, etc.) But it's still so hard to fight against the conventional wisdom.
Ha! Had a similar one; said what I didn't like about it and the two guys interviewing me looked at each other, sighed, nodded their heads and asked me the next question.
I like it, and went to create a page for one of my games (free, but I'd like a nice landing page), however you only support downloadable games. I guess it makes sense to begin with, however if you add support for browser games, let me know!
Georgia and Tennessee go to 'war' over water
Context or not, I doubt disrespect was intended. The capital casing in the article title is a recognized norm in the written English language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization#Titles
Why post this twice? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5445175
Is MariaDB Galeria Cluster mostly-the-same as MySQL Cluster?
No ones saying you have to dress in casual clothes. What were saying is that everyone should get the choice to wear casual or formal. Some organisations don't hold to that and think everyone should have to wear formal.
> In the same way that unconscious eating habits make people obese, unconscious tax policies makes the government obese.

This analogy doesn't make sense since unconscious eating habits do not have a causative link with obesity and existing studies about correlative relationships are fraught with issues.