skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For student tax exemption you would be best off referring to the following link. Deductions has to do with treaties, exemption not so much.
http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Forei...

> AC-21 portability doesn't come into play until you are almost at the end of the green card process. The long wait is before you get to that stage.

This is not true at all. AC-21 portability allows the transfer of employment to another employer willing to sponsor the visa. Employment with the new employer can begin as soon as a request to transfer has been filed. The confusion is usually surrounding the idea that once permanent residency has been applied for the employee is stuck, which is true for 180 days post application.

From the M-274 Handbook for employers (documentation on Form I-9 but relevant to this case)

Under the American Competitiveness Act in the Twenty First Century (AC-21),
an H-1B employee who is changing employers within the H-1B program may begin
working for you as soon as you file a Form I-129 petition on his or her behalf. To
qualify for AC-21 benefits, the new petition must not be frivolous and must have
been filed prior to the expiration of the individual’s period of authorized stay. You
must complete a new Form I-9 for this newly hired employee. An H-1B employee’s
Form I-94/Form I-94A issued for employment with the previous employer, along with
his or her foreign passport, would qualify as a List A document. You should write
“AC-21” and enter the date you submitted Form I-129 to USCIS in the margin of Form
I-9 next to Section 2. See Completing Form I-9 for Nonimmigrant Categories when
Requesting Extensions of Stay below.

For more information about employing H-1B workers, please visit www.uscis.gov.
Isn't stock == cash when the acquiring company is public?
The point of the comment was to monetize the data in making a YellowPages-type app, while leaving monetization out of the other part of the business. Basically make money using the data that your users give you while ignoring attempts to directly turn those users into money (i.e. serving ads).
you forgot the step of waiting in line for 20 minutes after collecting your goods for the privilege of giving them your money.
Nginx redirect Http Requests to Https. Any Ideas?
At least the gold supply tended to increase over time, and (by luck) tended to increase by the size of the overall economy.

With Bitcoins having a finite supply, it's guaranteed deflation. The early adopters love it for that, but there's no reason for anyone else to hop on board.
Algorithm starts working at 7:38 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCurBYI_gY&t=7m38s
Is Emotional Commerce the Next E-Commerce Disruption?
So don't install the extension then.

Who are these low karma users who keep submitting these Google bashing/feigned indignation posts?!
Building a toy template engine in Python
I feel the author's pain. I don't hold it against Google for looking at the way RSS is (was?) used and re-implementing it in a way that they can more easily make money off it, while simultaneously removing any traction they are offering for the old non monetizable way of doing things. They are a business after all and no amount of money in the bank is enough [1].

But I find the whining a bit distracting since the same thing that made RSS in the first place is still out there. There is no "patent" on aggregating RSS feeds or creating a more durable (and by that I mean self sustainable) service which has the same capability.

My advice is don't look at this as a loss, look at this as an opportunity. Rarely does the invading army come back to revisit the burned out village they have left behind. It is dead to them, so it is a uniquely safe place to avoid their future gaze.

[1] I asked Eric Schmidt at one of the TGIF (friday) meetings why taking the $30M/year they spent on bottled water and putting it into their bank account made sense. His answer was that there were a lot of unknowns facing Google and the only insurance they had for dealing with them was to have a lot of capital. There is always something that could happen, that you might have prevented if you had just a bit more money. And sliding rapidly down that slope as early as 2007 (when I asked my question) it continues to be the goto answer to this day.
Assuming a vesting period, that implies much less liquidity from the deal, and very much relies on the longterm value of the stock. IMO, stock later is worth much less than cash now.
I actually kinda like G+, BUT... I agree with the author of TFA about Google and their move away from the Open Web and towards another walled garden. If I could subscribe to RSS feeds to populate my G+ streams, and post to G+ using AtomPub, and expose my social-graph from G+ using FOAF, consume G+ using RSS/Atom, etc., then I would have no problem with it. But right now, Google seem determined to build something that's just one more walled garden, albeit one with a gate[1] that you can laboriously, manually, tediously drag your "stuff" out through.

[1]: http://www.google.com/takeout
Love the app!! and the video :)
How does liquid cooling affect the lifespan of the computer hardware?
Some of those characters in Cook's blog didn't render in Chrome. Perhaps Chrome should ship with a default font that renders every Unicode character!
If you leave it running, you're asking for trouble.
> So I'm trying to work out why?

Have you checked out the Xbox Marketplace? See "Microsoft Points".
Handling your friends who have the next "big idea"
Done, thanks Bubs. Can't wait to get ahold of this. :)
Checkout the gh-pages branch:

https://github.com/crabasa/seattlehacks/tree/gh-pages
Overstayed the web's welcome? I'm not convinced that's happened yet.

I certainly don't disagree with your points, but it's moot. Normal users don't care about things like "privacy" or "neutrality" or "standards". If it works and is free, that's good enough. And the page views Google gets is testament to the fact that nobody outside of the HN-esque world has any issues with Google.

Heck, I (and most people here) use GMail+Search+Docs+etc for the same reasons "normal" people do.. the privacy I give up is worth the convenience of their products.
really nice conceptual approach.
Sorry man. I want to agree with you - I really do. But I cannot envision myself both focusing on work and caring for a preschooler effectively. I might be able to do one well, but the other will necessarily suffer. Humans cannot multi-task, period, and research very clearly shows that switching tasks and contexts on a regular basis hurts productivity significantly.

I think the idea of work-life separation exists for a reason. You cannot have your cake and eat it too.
They advertised me for free, 3 occasions, almost 1000 000 downloads..my app is alive because of it.
The problem of course it's so laid out to obtain the desired results. Artificial selection. But it's indeed shown that mutations, completely random, can breed evolution. The end results are unforeseeable solutions that work great.
Sort of a bummer though in some ways. What if you make great records but suck live? What if you make great records and just don't want to have to relentlessly tour to get paid?
In terms of 1995 turnover, IBM was by far the biggest IT company ($71.95 billion) and it was trying hard to kill Microsoft. IBM was followed by HP ($31.52bn), Intel ($16.2bn), Apple ($11.06bn) and then Microsoft ($5.09bn). Sun was bigger as well, but I can't turn up a number.

Google's turnover for 2012 was $50.18bn, so Google is 10x the size now that Microsoft was then. And it's much more powerful.
Nice! Do you know why that benchmark show almost no read improvement but massive write improvement? The slides here (http://symas.com/mdb/20120322-UKUUG-MDB.pdf) suggest the opposite? Or am I reading them incorrectly?
Mostly based on the Wikipedia estimate of 69 trillion as the world wide GDP. Though as I said, it's also very much a gut feel:)
So we talked to a few artists who said they thought it was a cool idea. BOOM! Our idea had been validated!

Why was that sufficient data to justify spending months and months of your life bringing this startup to fruition?

EDIT: I did not intend to make a sly insult toward the author. I've seen people do startups with similar justifications and I am confused.
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... nobody outside of the HN-esque world has any issues with Google.

Until they do. And that's the rub. Even non-hackers often eventually get burned by these issues, but they aren't usually thinking about any of this stuff in advance. They lack awareness.

What that tells me is that we need to find a way to do a better of educating people on the importance of things like "privacy" or "neutrality" or "standards".

How best to do that is, of course, an open question...
Inflation doesn't transfer wealth from the poorest, for normal-world version of "poorest." They have debt, not piles of cash hidden in their mattresses, and inflation reduces the amounts of those debts.

Inflation is a bugger for someone who wants to hide dollars in their mattress and have them be worth the same in 30 years.
India’s Startup Industry Has A Major Gap – Product Marketing
I actually wonder if this means that SF-based startups (or those who are blindly following this 'culture hacks' mentality) are actually worse places to work overall? I wonder if focusing on the quick fixes like free lunch, company trips & ping pong tables ends up outweighing REAL company culture in terms of ROI.
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My Chat With Joel Spolsky on Why StackOverflow Works
Hobbyist PC builders and overclockers have been doing this for a while. This video described the basic process of building one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtufuXLvOok -- pretty neat.
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I've worked in open-plan environments that made it a lot harder to focus than when I had to babysit my niece. You just give the kid some crayons, an iPad of Dora videos, and some fruit roll-ups and they are occupied for the afternoon. In contrast, there is little one can do to make an office busybody leave you alone, for even a couple hours.
I did some bitcoin transactions as a lark a few years ago. It was an interesting experiment and I wanted to try it up close.

If it wasn't for the deflationary aspect, I might love it; but it's not, and it won't be changed to it, because the bitcoin community thinks deflation is the bestest thing ever.
Ask HN: From a full-stack developer to pa full-stack marketer
Hi,

I consider myself to be a full-stack developer. I confounded a startup and unfortunately we don't have enough funding to hire someone for marketing. Therefore one of the founders (who are all more or less technical) has to work on marketing.
So I'm asking:
Is it possible for an engineer to become a marketer? Im sure many of you have been in similar situation. What have you learned? What are some good resources (books, blogs, websites) on the subject?

Thanks
Reading about failures can be more illuminating and educational than reading about success. It's interesting to see how you reached a number of gateways where you could have terminated but instead continued to pursue your goals/dreams (despite going against what many would consider the logical conclusion to close).

I wonder how many other business have adopted that strategy (of ignoring initial reduced interest in your startup) to only find glory and success down the line.

Either way you failed but you should be commended for it.
Nitpick: the extension would not need to send every URL visited to Google. Just the ones where it detects a G+ widget. And by serving you the widget in the first place Google already knows that you've visited that page.

(Unless I misunderstand what the extension actually does)
I don't think the indignation is feigned.
No, you can see it subverting the payment system right now. In the lifetime of a good-for-10-minutes Bitpay quote, the spot price for Bitcoin can and has swung by tens of dollars.

Your argument is basically a flight to abstraction. Everything can be made to sound good in the abstract. In reality, Bitcoin is first and foremost a speculative bubble.
"So don't install the extension then."

So if a crack house opens up in your neighborhood the proper response is not invite them to the barbecue? Shouldn't we also use our voices to call attention to things we want changed?

"Who are these low karma users who keep submitting these Google bashing/feigned indignation post?!"

If you think HN is a haven for Google bashing you are hilariously off base.
Ah, funny coming to HN and clicking and then reading this article while listening to Super Mash Bros's 20 minute "Pure Fix Mix"[1].

Anyways, only half way done with the article but quite good so far.

1: https://soundcloud.com/super-mash-bros/pure-fix-mix
The reactions on r/bitcoin, are interesting and tragic. The title of the top thread with 515 comments: I think this subreddit should seriously consider having suicide hotline info posted

http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoin
Try out FreeMono, thousands of glyphs. Almost entire BMP. Excellent coverage as well [1]. Looks reasonable on my Emacs [2]

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/coverage.html

[2]: http://i.imgur.com/gTk5H00.png
Samba de Setup - Panic Status Board's first launch song
It wasn't sufficient data. OP was describing their foolish attitude at the time.
I hope they do a better job with Pulse than they have with Rapportive
Then get a real job! There is no rule that musicians have to make a living plying their craft. Alternatively, get a sponsor. If it was good enough for Mozart and Beethoven, it's good enough for you. Art has never really (nor should necessarily) be commercially viable.
The post was clearly meant to be firmly tongue-in-cheek. That part in particular was simply self-deprecating sarcasm.
And then the next sentence: "After that moment we basically stopped talking to artists for a year."
I get that, but I think this is an example of a desperate move. In order to have any value left for the founders and employees, the company will have to sell for some huge valuation that they are almost certainly not going to get.

I'm not questioning the decision on the Foursquare side anyway, although they are clearly avoiding releasing any data that would give people an understanding of the current state of the company. I question the decision on the part of the investors. This is a lot of money to put in, and for what? The best case might be a 2x-3x return, but in my opinion the median return on this is $0, all the money spent and virtually no value in the end.

I would imagine it's very hard for the management of FourSquare to let go emotionally, especially after hopes ran high in 2009/2010 and they had huge growth. It's clear that that growth has ended, and that they are now in a period of declining use. Combine that with an inability to monazite the existing user base and I see absolutely no hope of success.

I suppose they could pivot the company, but why would they do that? It would make far more sense to leave FourSquare and build a new company that didn't have all of FourSquare's baggage and dilution from investments in the old model.
I think that's his point (illustrated with sarcasm) - with the benefit of hindsight he realises it wasn't.
>"There is no "patent" on... creating a more durable (and by that I mean self sustainable) service which has the same capability."

I'd love to hear why you believe going from a decentralized open shared system like RSS to a centralized proprietary system controlled by one corporation (Google+) is even conceivably more "durable."

I'd bet $100 that Google+ sharing will be dead and buried long before RSS goes anywhere.
7 Things to know about Bitcoin
Hi, thanks for your feedback. The classifier behind the scenes has already been trained with a supervised learning algorithm, so it can be customised/adapted to any user input. This is a business case I explore with each customer in order to properly fit the tool to the particularities of their problem (e.g., the specific salient features that represent their data).
It seems like humans are doomed to continually rediscover that the weakest part of markets is always the other humans.
Having a camera pointed on your 8 hours a day? Yuck.

I can't imagine being concious of that all day long. You can't even scratch your nose!
How is that analogy valid?! why install a browser extension when you're not interested in its functionality?
Really? The Japanese Yen is acting a lot like BitCoin the last few months, only it's going down, not up...
Bitcoin relies on a bunch of crypto for it to work, far moreso than traditional currencies, commodities, or shares. It also relies on ubiquitous computing and internetworking, and the styles of thought that accompany those things.

Yes, it's underdefined and underproven from a professional or academic crypto perspective. But worries about such perfection slowed or discouraged others from building something similar or better before now.

In that way, Bitcoin's a bit like Linux or the Web: an ad-hoc success where more professional approaches had stalled, in development or adoption. It likely has some success-bringing aspects that even its designers and current maintainer don't fully understand, but lucked-into. Sometimes these things are only fully appreciated in retropect.

Also like Linux or the Web, a lot of formalization and hardening can be bolted on later, now that the essential utility is proven and the potential rewards for fixes are clear. Even if giant parts of the existing system collapse -- the SHA256-based mining, the P2P transaction broadcasts, the bloated global blockchain -- if the ledger of keys & balances survives, multiple teams will then try to reboot a next-gen system that allows those balances to keep trading.

(I conjecture that crypto control of 1 BTC today might wind up, a decade or two hence, spawning usable balances in a number of official and unofficial offshoot projects... vaguely like how 100 shares in the original AT&T eventually wound up becoming shares in both AT&T and the 7 'baby bells'. We will see 'baby Bitcoins' in the future, which attempt to accelerate their adoption by endowing everyone wiht a Bitcoin balance a balance in the new system as well.)
Getting to the point where an idea is truly validated by unbiased and honest customers is way, way more difficult than we all pretend like it is. I think the idea that you can figure out if your business is viable by talking to a few people can be just as dangerous as it can be helpful.
So one thing I've noticed and have been logging for a while is the fact that there is huge disparity between prices on various exchanges. My first inclination was to create an arbitrage bot that would buy on one exchange, then transfer to another, and sell again. There are numerous problems with this approach, not the least of which is that you can only really transfer BTC between exchanges and not other currency.

My next thought was this: watch MtGox and assume that it drives the market price. Then buy/sell on another exchange, taking advantage of the fact that there is a delay.

Long story short, it's not as easy as this. However, there is definitely an opportunity for arbitrage here as for example currently BTCe is showing $65, while BitStamp is showing $61.
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Have you worked at many non-sf-startup companies? Just because you don't have foosball and catered lunch doesn't mean you're doing squat to build a "culture."
The goal has always been that you compensate a person for their time. Time can always be equivalent to money. It doesn't make any sense to bring someone in, have them bust their tail to create or work on bettering something and yet they don't get paid. If you are good at something it shouldn't come free. To me that exposes the culture and ethics of a company. Not only how they treat employees but also its interns. The goal of a founder/entrepreneur is the sense that we get to create our own great businesses and or products and create opportunities for others. Interns today, bring in not only fresh ideas that support the founders but also they also many times your greatest ambassadors. What message are we sending when we don't pay them and force them to find another job outside of this internship so they can support themselves and the companies they works for free? It would be the same as Being the entrepreneur that works hard to create a product that is suppose to sell but everyone takes from you for free yet you are spending the money to create. You'll go out of business because you're just burning cash. It's the same philosophy in having working interns. In short, Pay Them!
A tongue in cheek remark and calling somebody an idiot are two very different things.
i worked at home and cared for a four year old. it sucked. in fact, i avoided it as much as possible. didn't work for me, but it might work for some.
Please. Bitcoin fanatics, come out and tell me that Bitcoin will change the world.

That there will come another rise, and this time it won't be a bubble.

Because I know you think these things, that you're true believers, and you think that an unregulated currency with a track record of insane volatility will replace our means of commerce somehow.

Here's the thing:

The majority of people that have Bitcoins now are the people that don't want to sell them. Ever.

The mainstream media watched you this time. It saw just how dysfunctional Bitcoin is.

You lost.
On the plus side, I checked: Mr. Dunderbak (note spelling) is still around. Now I'm all hungry.

Also I definitely need to learn more about Python. It's always deeper than I realize.
I'd bet they started talking to the reporter near the $266 peak -- "look how savvy we are!" -- and publication came after the last 24-36 hour crash.
>"For their part, the Winklevoss twins have used some of their bitcoin to pay for the services of a Ukrainian computer programmer who has worked on the site of their venture capital firm."

Who is this new Ukranian Mark Zuckerberg they have just created? I am sure people should invest in his imminent Bitcoin spinoff...

TheBitBook.com???
There may be a case for oil cooling, but this article doesn't make it; it's mostly just an ad for Green Revolution based on an outdated understanding of data centers. Facebook and others have already done away with raised floors and chillers while Microsoft has eliminated the building completely, just parking their ITPACs outdoors. I would be interested in seeing a TCO comparison between ITPACs and Green Revolution, but I doubt we'll get one.
Better yet, don't tie your social accounts to your real name unless you're going to be professional on them.

Think of it like the difference between chilling on the beach with shorts and talking shit over beer vs. chilling a the beach in your $company uniform and name tag and talking shit over beer. If you're going to do the latter, you best hope that you know and trust all the people you're shitting with.
There is a lot of software that would be "nice to write," but wouldn't necessarily pay the bills. You don't see me turning to the law to make a business model.
If you keep trying to point something out and no one gets it, maybe the thing you are trying to point out is false?

The subjects of the article are converting USD into bitcoin in the hope that one day in the future their bitcoin is worth more than it is today. What else would you call that but "investing", and "speculating" at that?
No you need 50% of the mining capacity, not the bitcoins
I'm not saying it works for every office, I'm not saying it has to work round the clock, and I'm not saying it's appropriate for every age. No office culture could have handled my daughter 10 years ago.