skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's even worse than that, since there are cities and counties which levy their own sales taxes. If an Internet retailed has to collect all of these, they need a comprehensive sales tax database plus a mechanism for sending payments where they're due.

I see a great opportunity for a webservice startup here.
The Windows Store Crosses 50,000 Available Apps For Windows 8 And Windows RT
but how can a curvecp based protocol benefit from a tls over udp protocol?
Chrome has an old implementation but as far as I can tell also supports the new one

http://jsbin.com/notification/1/edit works in chrome and firefox

If apps are using the old spec they may need to switch before both browsers work
Sales taxes are also regressive: poor people spend a higher percentage of their income than rich people, so any tax on spending will affect poor people more than rich people.
When you get to digging holes in alternate dimensions, and making a mesh of connected holes, it's probably time to drop the metaphor. :)

Staying "in the flow" -- I'm not sure how you think of it, but for me this means significant depth. When I'm properly engaged, I'm past the point of flipping idly between thought-streams, and I'm completely engaged in a single task.

The interesting thing about having multiple projects is not that we can flip rapidly between them (i.e., never deeply mentally engaged in any of them), but that when the engagement is waning on project #1 and we come up for air, instead of opening HN/NYT/whatever and wandering off, we can switch to a fresh project and dive back in again.

I.e., our brains don't need "rest" as much as they need sufficient novelty and variety; if you can harness that, you can be hugely more productive -- not just because you're minimizing downtime, but you're also getting into the habit of frequent deep mental engagement.
HN has a hair trigger about banning IPs that request too fast (sorry about that; we don't have a lot of spare performance), so I wrote something people can use to get their IP unbanned once if it gets banned by accident.
http://news.ycombinator.com/unban?ip=<ip address>

Obviously you have to use it from another IP address, like your phone.

from PG on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4761102
Every girl wants to feel 'special' too. But really, there's 3.5 billion of them.

You are just going to weed out all the people who are not bullshitting you, and take in all the people who will. And amazingly, you are happy proclaiming this!

I'd thank you for weeding me out though. I like reality. Don't like happy rainbow snowflake dreamland, which you've just outed your company as. Since such things never last.
Nice MVP, but it's not ready enough to use it.

I would need at least:

- offline mode, even if everything goes down it should work using the remote + I would like to know that we lost connection. Not sure if it's already working.

- authorization using QR

E.g. my best use case for this site: lightening talk session. Able to have multiple presentations linked to each other and be able to rearrange them from different computer.
This has nothing to do with the Federal government. This bill only allows states to collect taxes.
CloudFlare is down in some EU regions
I read this when I was 4. It's a simple but amazing little book. I think it contributed to my active imagination as a child. The only downside is that I drew on the walls a little bit. :)
Can you elaborate what you like more about Debian-testing vs. the Ubuntu-based version?

I use a different distro for myself, but I have my family running Mint (Ubuntu version) on their computer. It works well, because they can just use it without thinking about it, and I can handle all maintenance remotely.

They have incredibly basic needs, so I don't think they'd really notice the difference, but I'm curious where the differences lie - I installed the Ubuntu version without thinking much about it because it was the default (only?) version at the time.
It's not a new tax. It's to allow states to collect taxes that are already on the books.
I'm not sure I buy that as a "because". I think it's more likely sales taxes are passed preferentially because income taxes are more often defeated in legislatures due to political opposition, not because of technocratic arguments about collectibility.

It would be interesting to have some numbers on collectibility, though. Both income taxes and sales taxes can be dodged (black-market purchases and out-of-state online purchases are two common ways of dodging sales taxes). There are a number of examples of states raising either one, and it'd be interesting if someone has extracted data on the results.
Proposal for Congressmen to Work From Home Districts
Currently my second favorite distro behind Arch..

brief history..

1999 - Slackware Loved compiling everything and troubleshooting

2004 - Fedora 2 - Blown away when I saw how easy it was to install packages via RPM

2007 - Debian (Sarge?) - Blown away when I used apt* for the first time and dependencies just auto magically installed

2011 - Linux Mint - Looked like *buntu without the extra cruft.

2012/13 - Arch - reminds me of my Slack days where less magic happening under the hood but with great package management tools.
Just a reminder to those who believe that royalty-free licensing _is_ an advantage, the IETF is a completely open standards body. Anyone can join the mailing lists and contribute to the decision making. The rtcweb chairs are currently planning to call for a decision on a Mandatory To Implement video codec on the mailing list in a few weeks, after Google publishes the license terms that came out of their deal with the MPEG LA.

List information: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/rtcweb
this reminds me of the time at Microsoft with Visual Studio 6 where the version comparison was a string compare, but build numbers were julian dates, with 4 digits - 9365 was december 31st, 1999.

so we couldn't go from 9365 to 0001. So we just went to 9366 and so we had 999-366 days to sort out a better version numbering system.
The Chevy Nova is another oft-cited example; "No va" means "it doesn't go" in Spanish.
This is a lesson in how intellectual dishonesty works. You quote the HN guidelines, and you quote PG's reference to them ("strictly speaking...") but you omit the guideline to which he was obviously referring:

please don't use HN posts to ask YC-funded companies questions that you could ask by emailing them.

Instead you change the subject with "The real question is..." when, in fact, that wasn't the question. The question was about title changes. No doubt a dozen more "real questions" are waiting in the wings.

There's no way PG can win this game of whack-a-troll. I'm surprised both that he even tries and that he doesn't snap more often.

[Edit: deleted a dumb and superfluous bit here.]
I'm not sure it's good enough if it doesn't say, "Welcome Mr. Stark" when I connect...
djangoproject.com itself is open source, and you can find it on github: https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com
Fork My Dongle T-Shirt
Some mockups from comment #18:
http://shorlander.dropmark.com/80842
One of the things preventing me from using this all the time is that I can't click through the presentation manually on my computer. At least if the internet connection failed, I could have that as a backup plan and continue with any presentations.
And quality is in turn at least partly about productivity (i.e., it's usually faster to avoid the bug than to fix it after the fact).
Closure Please - Community maintained resources for the Closure Library
Expect a letter from a lawyer representing DC Comics demanding you to rename your product. An acquaintance of mine also launched a product (entirely unrelated to comics and toys) with the same name recently and was asked by DC Comics to change the name.
This could be remedied with a tax credit on the state income tax return, i.e. you get an automatic tax credit for sales taxes paid in whatever amount is decided to be "fair".
I find your tone disappointingly arrogant, sarcastic, and dismissive, to a level which is not justified by your evident knowledge of the Bitcoin ecosystem.

You may, if you choose, maintain Bitcoin in an account in a Bitcoin trading site, but you can also send it to a Bitcoin address whose private key seed you've memorized ("brainwallet"), maintained on an isolated machine, or printed out on a barcode kept in a safe. While I don't trade Bitcoin, my Bitcoin-enthusiast friends use these approaches.

In short, Bitcoin trading sites do not provide the same service in the Bitcoin ecosystem that banks provide in the fiat-money ecosystem; they are more like Western Union or PayPal, as reflected in the FinCEN's new regulatory guidance this week.

In the future, at least on Hacker News, please attempt to engage in rational discourse like a civilized human instead of a 4chan troll.
What are benefits of Debian-Based version comparing to Ubuntu-based one?
I would give them six months to migrate off of mongodb first.
Open source projects have always had funding for developers. A new source of funding doesn't mean death to open source. Open source is "Free as in freedom", not "free as in free coffee".
It's S 336. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.113s336

HR 684 is the corresponding bill in the House. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.113hr684

edit: replaced with permlinks
Finale for Now on Google's Self-Inflicted Trust Problem
when visiting some of their internal sites(http://www.cloudflare.com/overview, http://www.cloudflare.com/people), I get this message: "Sorry, cdnjs.cloudflare.com is currently unavailable. Please try again soon."

That was when I started writing this comment, they are back up now.
Well, yes. Everything you learn in education was something someone came up with on their own without being educated first. The point of education is to facilitate that process.
hey thanks
That is optimizing for the short term. "When I've run sl, I clearly wanted ls, so you should give me that (even if you also punish me)."

Optimizing for the long term is also plausible. "Don't reward me for making mistakes (even if you also punish me) because it'll dilute my muscle-memory training, and I'll be more likely to make mistakes in the future."

Neither of these is inherently more correct than the other. The long term has more uncertainty, but greater potential rewards. We just have to make a judgment call.

I tend to favor the long-term approach for sl. I can't easily quantify how valuable my stricter muscle-memory training will be, but I can imagine the possibility of a significant upside if I actually become a more precise typer. Also, the worst-case downside just isn't that bad -- retyping ls just isn't that hard.
Sales Taxes are vary economically destructive as unlike income tax they artificially shift the economy from real goods to services. The only way to avoid this is to tax all spending and gift giving which ends up being just another income tax.
Linux Mint seems to be a nice distribution, but I just don't see any benefits of using it compared to Debian Testing. When I tried installing it, the installer didn't even have an option to do full disk encryption, and I did not have time to try doing it myself (à la gentoo).

My needs aren't really high, all I need is a great packet manager and a simple window manager such as dwm.
Were some companies acquired multiple times the same year, or is there a bug somewhere? (RazorFish is listed 3 times in 2002, DoubleClick and Skype twice in 2005, Getty Images twice in 2008, Sterling Commerce twice in 2009.)
I'm aware of that. California does not need to tax people more for the exact same reasons.

Competition between brick and mortar stores and Amazon is a smokescreen. Tax deals are given to big box stores all the time, to this day. The whole "protecting small business from online competition" angle is a ruse.
In other words, this isn't really about innovation or "theft of ip", but suppressing competition, more evidence of the abuse of the patent system.

As to why a reasonable person would want to not use H.264? It's simple. Organizations like Mozilla cannot ship software with IP encumbered codecs. WebRTC doesn't say that you cannot use H.264, it allows you to negotiate the codec, this debate over what is the minimum fallback codec that everyone has to support.

Given that Microsoft/Skype/Nokia have been against the IETF WebRTC proposal, you can gather for very good business reasons. A non-IP encumbered spec widely deployed would be a threat to Skype/Cisco/Nokia et al who have commercial video conferencing stuff, it would commoditize the market for video chat and make it a trivial matter.

The established players only have to gain by delaying an open spec. I think even if H264 were used over VP8, there Microsoft and others would find other reasons to stop it.
Every few minutes?
A friend of mine and I coded the same thing a while back. There are many draw-backs like the aforementioned network reliability.

Still it was pretty fun to see the slides move when we moved a finger across the phone's screen.
I suppose in an age where we're used to being able to contact anyone from nearly anywhere with a cellphone and it's increasingly hard to find payphones, those might not be a "luxury" per se. And cellphones can be had for relatively cheap. But televisions? Nobody needs a television.

I'm not a luddite and I appreciate the things that technology enables for me, but I appreciate those things even more because I realize I don't need them.
1. Resource hog

2. Bad code structure rooted in Zend Framework

3. Has fostered a community of developers that create poor-quality extensions or dev. shops that will bleed you dry.

4. Not built to work well out-of-the-box with the various caches you'll need to make it usable.

5. Horrible docs

It's not worth the headache.
Exempting specific categories of purchases quickly becomes a quagmire of complexity. Better to just have an automatic tax credit of whatever amount is determined to offset tax on the typical "basic necessities" purchases of an individual or family.
Don't put the cart before the horse: videos are only one way to cover the material, and not always (or even usually) the best one. The people that are strongly pushing videos as an integral component of flipping the classroom are in fact still stuck in a lecture mode---but why use videos of lectures if the complaint about lectures is that they're less efficient than just reading the book? Video is appropriate for some things, but other modalities (such as books, viz software, practice problem engines, etc) are more appropriate for much of the "before you come to class" material.
I think it's time for me to switch from Ubuntu to LMDE.
Lately i was thinking a lot about Canonical and the many decisions they did, which i disagreed with (i don't like Unity, i don't like the Mir "disaster", i think efforts should be combined and not made to split the Linux community).

But it's not so easy to switch, because Ubuntu really is the most desktop friendly Linux distro out there. I was considering Fedora (but i like dpkg!) and Debian (but i like bleeding edge!). So this will give me the nicely designed Cinnamon Desktop, the awesomeness of Debian, without too much breakage by using debian testing..

Yep.. Good Bye, Canonical. After years of Ubuntu usage, after switching from Debian to Ubuntu i'm switching back. Debian has goals i can identify with, Canonical tries too much to create yet-another-incompatible-replacement-for-XYZ instead of fixing stuff (upstart, lightdm, mir, unity come to mind).
They're not taxing you more. You already need to report and pay any sales tax that you didn't not pay on items purchases over the Internet. The so called Internet tax moratorium was not an actual ban on taxes, instead it did not allow states to force Internet entities to collect sales tax. This removes that barrier.
Once something is unencumbered, there is nothing to stop forking. For example, Mozilla could take VP8, use a new container, evolve the codec, etc. There's the difference.

You try and fork H.264 you get sued.

The fundamental freedom in "open" is freedom to fork. Everyone forgets that.
Great and nice 3d pictures
I would like to show you my favourite set of amazing 3d pictures. See them, you would be amazed!
There are a number of companies doing this kind of data collection/rental, though they're mostly focused on the enterprise market. The data is needed by folks like supermarkets who operate in lots of jurisdictions and need to charge the correct sales tax in each one. In addition to the rates varying by city/county, the taxable items may as well, e.g. in some jurisdictions food isn't taxed, and the definition of "food" varies, too.

This is one of the companies that collects a giant database of jurisdictions and tax rates, as well as a db mapping SKUs to jurisdiction-specific tax categories: http://tax.cchgroup.com/sales-tax-data/default.htm?cookie_te...
What about a computer screen?
Hmm, let's see if I can do this without too much hand-waving on my part lol. To be fair, most of what I like about the debian-testing backend will probably not apply to your family (Based upon the "...they can just use it without thinking about it..." part of your comment).

Probably the biggest thing I like about debian-testing as opposed to ubuntu is the rolling releases. I really don't like the "run `do-release-upgrade` and cross your fingers" method of upgrading.

For the most part though, the ubuntu-backed version seemed to "fight" me when I would get into my "mucking-around" modes. I know, I know, it's all linux underneath, but I just find the debian version so much easier to customize.
It's also easier because it's a state issue (national politics always get more coverage) and usually tied to something people can actually see or understand (we're raising the sales tax .25% for 15 years to fund mass transit).
Adding a JS build-system to Sublime
Yes, this on the JVM. No, that was not the issue.
Multipath TCP, a solution to our mobility problem
"Nobody relies on it to get to work so they can feed their children."

That isn't true but why it isn't true is not immediately obvious. Google reader drives a ton of traffic, what that means in real terms is that there are a huge body of people who don't have time to regularly visit a blog, but they do have time to look quickly at what 10 or 15 blogs have recently posted. Thus they discover where there is an interesting article on "your" blog and visit. That is how it drives traffics to otherwise poorly visited blogs. It is more effective than G+, Organic Search, and Facebook in that regard.

Those bloggers that benefit from this feed do feed themselves and possibly their family on income they get from their writing either in ad-clicks or affiliate links.

When Reader goes away, a number of those blogs will be hurt, and those people will be scrambling to find other ways to drive traffic to their sites.

Now this will also hurt Google because there is a crap ton of AdSense for Content advertising on those blogs, and I expect that what use there had been of Blogger will drop below the 'minimum sustainable point' and so Blogger too will get tossed into the spring cleaning trash bin. Now its probably not noticeable (much) the last time we (Blekko search engined) looked through the blog crawls in depth Google was the dominant ad network provider on those blogs, but they do something like 3.7B$ of revenue in 'Partner sites' [1] per quarter and 1% of that being tossed out the window is only 37M$ per quarter (or about 150M$ for the year) isn't a huge loss for them but its going to hit a number of their "partners" quite sharply.

Unlike sites which are bogus flick-n-click ad reapers these folks are actually trying to use the system in the way it is supposed to work, they write quality content and Google helps them monetize it.

The thing that few people "get" about Google isn't that they are a search monopoly (they aren't) it is that they are an advertising monopoly (which they are). They are synonymous with "internet advertising" and having dealt with a lot of advertising partners, they all seem to end up re-selling Google's ads in one way or another. Its like having three different pizza restaurants but only one kitchen.

I'm hopeful that this will create opportunities for actually new advertising networks to appear> We'll have to wait and see though.

[1] http://investor.google.com/earnings/2012/Q4_google_earnings....
It's nice, but I can't think of a use case for behaviour like this on the web.
I think that depends on your attitude toward it. People who are self-consciously smart and think it's worth something are irritating, like beautiful people who feel like they don't need to have a good personality. It can develop into a complex if you are not careful to balance it with real emotional intelligence, just like any unbalanced thing. (Unbalanced things are unstable. Consider how many lottery winners lose all of their money. The money is a new, unbalanced influence in their life. It hasn't always been there, so it's not a balanced part of that life, and may just evaporate as things do come back into balance.)

It's best to just forget about being smart, and assume you're smart enough to do anything. The best way to be smart is just that it removes "I'm not smart enough to do X" from the way you think. If it does anything else, it's probably not good. It shouldn't make you think you don't have to try, it shouldn't raise your expectations, only just take "I'm not smart enough" off of the table. In fact, there's always someone smarter anyway. I find that, while keeping any sense of self-congratulation in check, without developing a superiority complex, I do need to keep in mind to a limited extent that I actually am smarter than a lot of people, so I do need to sometimes review their decisions and that some of the rules really don't apply to me. It's a fine line between that and hubris or narcissism, and it did take me sometime to come to that balance, going through "I'm better" to "I'm no better" to simply "I'm different, not really better or worse, but uniquely capable and in a position where I'll have to keep in mind that sometimes I'm wrong, but sometimes, the world is wrong." In the judicial system, you're judged by a jury of your peers. But there is an added responsibility if you are without peer. No one really has the insight to act as a check on your thinking, so you can be alone the way a pilot can be in a cabin full of passengers. They're not any less valuable than you, but they're really not in any position to review your decisions.

It's hard to explain.
Might be a good idea if you are paying 12% interest on your mortgage, but not such a good idea if you're paying 3%.

I don't know what country you're in, but if you want to invest in the US stock market, I'm sure your broker sells an index fund with very low management fees. That may be a better investment than putting everything into a single home in the current market.

(In the US, mortgage interest is tax-deductible, making this strategy even less of a good idea.)
VP8 and WebM are formats, not standards.
Interesting read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM
both buttons exit the game immediately. See the one on the left? The one that's always there?
We have this in form of VAT back in the other side of the pond. It's a massive, massive failure because it's impossible to actually keep the items list up to date. For example, a refrigerator and a TV are counted as luxury items because of the date the law was enacted, and it has since not been updated because of the gridlock not unlike D.C.'s.