skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really give a hot damn why. The difference is that with a Mac it's a hypothetical and with Windows it happened to me twice in the first week.
This is not true, or kind of true, or kind of complicated.

Under $90K and you pay taxes on your income in another country, and you didn't earn any of it in the states, you can exempt it entirely. Over $90K, you can take the foreign earned income tax exemption AND then deduct your foreign taxes from the rest using a complicated formula. This year I did all my taxes the long way (deducted my Chinese taxes) as I didn't fit the domicile requirement, but the result was the same.

If you live in a high tax country, you usually do not owe to the states; that wouldn't be fair right?
I can't speak to what is actually happening but I can correct your misunderstanding. The author thinks that the users who had visited affiliates' fake discount code sites (and not found discount codes) would have completed their transaction anyway if those sites had not existed.
Why Are Dre Beats So Expensive? Fashion.
My knee-jerk reaction is to say that would have been a good thing, but in all honesty his replacement would have been just as full of it.
To his credit, he'd already established that changing commissions from 10% to 5% to 1% made almost no difference to the affiliate schemes behaviour. It seems reasonable to assume that "optimising his campaign to reward affiliates" for any particular behaviour is unlikely to be worthwhile, if 50% and 90% reductions in payouts dosn't motivate them to change anything...

Perhaps an "experienced affiliate marketing user" might get different results, but if you're suggesting that a business who'll mislead you and rip you off happily unless you're a sophisticated-enough user of their service deserves a "trashing" any less than used car salesmen deserve their reputation – I think you're wrong. If _you_ come to me knowing your proposal involves you taking 10% commission on sales - where 98.4% of those sales were mine already, I'd call you out as a thief.
I came here to ask the same question. The post comes across as if those $200k were on top of baseline revenues.
This produces inputs to an arbitrary regex library. You could of course build a regex
"(w1|w2|w3|...|wN)"
for words w1...wN (assuming an efficient regex library) and save the hassle, but the frak output will hopefully be more compact.
30MB would fit in nice for scientific computing. Does it mean that Haswell Xeons will have 60MB?
If they don't live in a high tax country, sure.
Forest for the trees.

I met a triple Dutch/UK/American citizen. Sounded English, self-identified as Dutch, but always travelled on her US passport (she was a world traveller, big time). Why? Because the US actually does things to support its citizens when they travel in foreign lands, whereas everyone else just gets "well, you were stupid, weren't you". She was quite clear on the point that Americans get more assistance than others do, and she wasn't well-connected in the US (being early-mid 20s European)
From golang.org Release History [0]:

Includes fixes to the gc compiler and cgo, and the bufio, runtime, syscall,
and time packages. See the change history for details. If you use package
syscall's Getrlimit and Setrlimit functions under Linux on the ARM or 386
architectures, please note change 55ac276af5a7 that fixes issue 5949.

Full changelog here[1].

[0]: http://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/go/source/list?name=release-branch...
American unions are political patronage jobs. They will quite cheerfully spend the entire budget digging holes and filling them back in.

If you do not account for this, you will have no budget left for technology.

Making the design an open source project is a major step towards European style (socialist) unions, where the unions help decide what to do and how to make it succeed.
If we wanted to go down the conspiracy track, imagine if the NSA was behind it all. They are growing bitcoin large enough that tons of people rely on it, and also building up huge amounts of computing power in several large server farms. Then they can "switch the flip" - so to speak - and use a 51% attack to screw with the people who rely on it. While it wouldn't be very good to just crush the system as a whole (why would they have spent the effort in the first place?), they could selectively target their biggest nuisances by turning on their big building in Utah, take over the network for a few blocks and wipe out somebody's entire savings. Then they could shut off their building in Utah, and everything would chug along smoothly except for the one or two dudes they bankrupted.
When refactoring: Instead of typing fast, use ST multicursors or VI/emacs macros in an intelligent way. And I really really recommend ST if you don't want to debug your editor macros before debugging your build macros before debugging your code macros before debugging your code (yo dawg etcetera).
frak seems to generate a regex that precisely only matches the input list of strings, no generalizations.

So this seems not to be the tool to auto-create a .gitignore file...
Congress makes the tax laws, the IRS just enforces them.

Over the threshold, you only pay taxes if you live in a country where taxes are less than the US, which is, to be honest, not that many countries.
Kevin Kelly: How Linux Will Shape the Future of Technology
Reminds me of VimSpeak.

https://github.com/AshleyF/VimSpeak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEBMlXRjhZY
Person doing the advising was obviously clueless. What happened should have raised a red flag right away.
This functionality has been available in Emacs (ELisp) for a long time:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/RegexpOpt
Yes they don't because its not feasible _yet_. If your residence/office is within 30 mins from the stations at points of origin/exit, then with this, it'll be about 1.5 hours end-to-end (I'm sure auxiliary services would spring up to support this like shuttle buses etc). I know people who change buses, trains and do some walking, chalking a total of that much right now everyday while working and staying in the same city.
In the article, 6M expats, 1k renouncers. That's less than 0.02%. Taken over a year, it's still not enough to hit 0.1%.

It's not like money would be flowing from these people anyway - they were hiding assets, according to the article, and now that those assets have to be disclosed, they want to cut the ties. These weren't people who were already contributing their fair share.
Or virgins?
His response to this doesnt surprise me at all, completely misses the point of the problem but still manages to blame someone else for it.
Spying? In MY country?

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/x-in-my-y
I wonder why they do not use ice. Melt it as a heat sink in normal operation, and vent it to the tunnel for emergency evaporative cooling.
Here is the 57 page PDF for Hyperloop.
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/hyperloop
My biggest problem with GNUstep is that there is never any mention of an OS X build.

There was one, but it is pretty broken and answers to inquiries were basically answered with "why would you even want to do that"?

Quite simply: for testing purposes! Most Cocoa applications are developed on Macs, so being able to build them with the "other" framework on the same machine would help alot.
HyperLoop: Elon Musk’s Idea Leaves Out Some Simple Considerations
The article is stating that the exflux is due to the additional difficulty of hiding assets, so it's not at all like this is a straight loss.
> For instance, to actually encode a Cap’n Proto message, I couldn’t just allocate a buffer of zeros and then go through each field and set its value.

Hah, dealing with native-encoded binary data in Haskell is rather cumbersome. I asked on r/haskell about decoding a native representation of float/double to corresponding Float/Double Haskell value, and this is the thread it generated:

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1k56i1/how_to_read_...

People have generally come with helpful suggestions, and rwbarton's excellent answer [check out the whole thread] has fully explained to me how to essentially reinterpret_cast a byte buffer.

I have been successfully playing with Haskell to implement some nontrivial _algorithms_ and liked. Like the OP, I'm now rethinking whether I want to invest more time into Haskell after seeing how cumbersome it can be to coerce the compiler into "DO THIS" where THIS is not a pure computation.

Now I'll take a pause from Haskell and start reading about Scala as it seems to provide a mix of FP and imperative (OO) that is more palatable to me.
We don’t need a string type
Looks like there is a company that creates these items of exaggerated price to farm traffic http://www.topcoolstuff.com/double-lines-above-x-canvas-art-....
Some Thoughts on Facebook's Ads, Stock Price, And Instagram
I just tried to play around with showterm. Why does it have a different theme? When I use Vim with solarized theme, showterm shows it in a different ugly way.
http://showterm.io/15104fd85863532b74150
Am i doing something wrong?
Kogan.com itself seems pretty scammy. An auto-loading give-me-your-email pop-up that doesn't appear to have a close button. Nice.
How does someone become a citizen of hong kong? hong kong is not a country and all native hong kong people a chinese citizens who hold permanent residence cards in hong kong. If you want to naturalize in hong kong you must become a people's republic of china citizen
You are making assumptions on a system you know nothing about (otherwise you wouldn't have written what you wrote).

Read about how this tax work before complaining about it, please. It's only for generally big amounts of money, and your mortgage and other stuff is subtracted, making it a non-issue for almost everyone. And you can fine invest the money instead.
> Real world materials are rarely ideal black bodies (or ideal reflectors).

That's true, but it's also true that all objects eventually reach thermal equilibrium with their surroundings. Were this not the case, it would violate the law of energy conservation, and that's a law that's never broken.

In that sense, most objects, solids and plasmas in particular, are reasonable black bodies once they achieve equilibrium. Some of them show spectral lines -- emission, absorption or both -- but in most cases those lines appear on top of a blackbody curve. The sun, for example -- perhaps surprisingly, it exhibits a classic blackbody spectrum appropriate to its surface temperature, with many spectral lines contributed primarily by its comparatively low-pressure atmosphere (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_Spectrum.png).

The state of matter least like a black body is a low-pressure molecular cloud in space, which often shows only emission and absorption lines, no classic blackbody curve. The lowest pressure gases show the narrowest spectral lines, which is how we can estimate the pressure of a remote cloud of gas illuminated by distant energy sources.
Well the positive part is that the CEO knew the employee's name. The negative is, well, obvious.
Have a look at the transaction again. It looks like it was meant to be spendable.
Hacking winamp for fun & profit
> Your argument assumes that individual bitcoins exist...

No, my argument only assumes that bitcoins represent symbolic value, i.e. are "currency".
Why is everyone so negative?

Musk just posted a innovative, open-source, thorough, alpha design study which addresses a real problem.

Personally I think it's great, and I hope it gets taken seriously by the right people.
> I doubt that, since paper money is guaranteed by law to at least be accepted by the government for tax payments.

Fair enough. I think over time that will change -- either the bitcoin idea will evaporate, or they will come to be accepted by all sectors of the economy.
Ask HN: Which is the most common frameworks used in freelancing?
Most I have seen a lot of RoR and Django, but is that all there is? Any front-end stuff, have yet to see any Angular/EmberJS.
The Xeon Haswell refresh isn't due for another year, and is expected to feature DDR4. The Ivy Bridge refresh in this article isn't even out yet.

You could be right, but it would involve one hell of a bold move on Apple's part. They'd be getting Haswell Xeons a year before everyone else, to mildly improve a product they didn't even bother to upgrade to Sandy Bridge. In which case, why isn't it the 15 core version?

More than likely, they've instead figured out some way of supporting Thunderbolt 2 in the Ivy refresh.

By the way, this CPU is an EP, not an E (there is no 12 core E), which seems in line with the current specs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Pro#Specifications
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)#Con...
But he never says that. He doesn't indicate whether revenue increased, decreased, or stayed the same - something that would have been really nice to know.
jQuery plugin for caching forms using HTML5 local storage
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The learnclick.com story
The big benefit of being "not a plane" is that your emergency measures can be built around that concept. There's also a big benefit to only moving 30 people at once - terrorism looks for mass casualties or mass hostages. Blowing up a hyperloop is basically like bombing a bus - no one really bothers to try.

The big benefit of hyperloops over planes would all depend on how quickly you could brake those pods and re-pressurize the tube to let people escape. Because that's something you definitely can't do on a plane and it governs most of our thinking about them - if anything happens, you're possibly over an hour from being able to land anywhere and no one is able to get off quickly.
Because people are willing to pay the price.
Using GNUstep to develop Android apps is a HUGE win. You really should push this angle more. Look at the success Xamarin have with their 1 language for multiple mobile devices solution. You have the same thing going.
For Kickstarter style has been shown, over and over again, to be very important. He isn't talking about the product or an article.
No prototype - nothing even remotely close to a prototype. At least rockets and electric cars had some basis in reality before Elon started working on them.
Analysing Data To Enact Real World Change
Virgins on trains
Excellent. :) It's not the best solution, the best solution would be the ability to uninstall it completely, but it's better than nothing.
There are pauses, even worse than in Chrome. Use MemChaser add-on to see GC activity in FF. In Firefox Nightly on the particle demo I have non-incremental 0.6-0.7s pauses every ~10s (not to mention stutter from incremental GC in between the big pauses). In Chrome on the same sample I just don't have any pauses longer than 0.1-0.2s (every ~2s).
Inside the boxes, you might use a (State SymbolTable) monad to carry around the symbol table:

type SymbolTable = Map String Symbol

Me and a codeveloper are working on a type system in Haskell, where our current code has iterative computation, until it reaches a fixpoint.

Here's the iterative code:

https://github.com/Peaker/lamdu/blob/master/Lamdu/Data/Expre...

If you need to internally carry state, you just use a State monad to thread around the state purely.
Bootstrap Navbar Helpers for Rails and Middleman
"There is no evidence that the FISA Court and NSA programs are effective. Mass surveillance did not prevent tragedy in Boston or aid in identifying those responsible."

I think this part very much weakens your argument and should be removed entirely. First, the NSA has nothing to do with domestic surveillance -- that falls upon the FBI. Secondly, you can collect all of the data that you want, but you won't be able to prevent the lone wolf element (as opposed to organized terrorism), especially with no national database of firearms.
Maybe they should get Chinese citizenship. I hear they're economy is growing and if you have the money you can get away with anything over there.

In all seriousness, if you don't at least support the American gov't with your wallet or with your life (military service), you aren't really American. Why should you always have the option to go back to the US?
I've tried to use RetailMeNot in the past, and their coupons have never worked. I think they are part of the author's "big ugly affiliate scam"
Tangentially related, but I'll throw it in here, since so many developers aren't taking ergonomics seriously. RSI can happen to you if you are not careful, and it can wreck your career (almost happened to me). Several years ago, I started having aches in my arms. Over half a year it got gradually worse, until it was so bad, I thought I had to give up coding altogether. Fortunately, I managed to get it under control, mostly with the aid of a break program, and an ergonomic keyboard and mouse. I'm now completely over it, but I still need to be careful not to get it back. A lot more details in this post: http://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/18/how-i-beat-rsi/
Can someone please create a sewing machine / 3d printer hybrid?
Australia/New Zealand are pretty attractive, citizenship-wise. As an Australian, I get the 'reciprocal' treatment - i.e., we will treat you as you treat our citizens, and since thats pretty good right now (Australia lets many European citizens in for a working-visa, two years on average), this means I can move around most of the western world without too much fuss.

I cringe at the hassle my American friends have to go through whenever they travel through a densely-packaged country region such as Europe .. whereas we Australians seem to get treated pretty well.
Yes, salted hashes are the best
I remember using SDL more than a decade ago and in general it was a pleasant experience. My only gripe was that it needs to hijacked the main loop.

Nevertheless, I will give it a shot again.

Good work Sam!
Even though it seems like your setup is not really good, (as others have remarked here) I think the central question you posed here still holds up to some extend: "where do they get their traffic from?".

When getting involved with aff-networks I have noticed that there are quite a lot of 'low quality' (of course depending on your needs) networks around that basically lure people into visiting your site, other than referring truly interesting people to you. That seems like business 1-0-1, but it really amazed me how many large networks use shady landingpages with obscure lotteries and other 'prizes'. (This was a about 2-3 years ago, but still..)

Always do a small run first, track what's happening and why and always be suspicious about people 'selling' you other people's data/attention (data-pushers, is what I used to call them) because that's basically what is is, to some extend.
I don't know if they can claim "the first scientific framework for the near-death experience". Dr. Strassman (http://www.rickstrassman.com) experimented on humans in the mid 90's could consistently reproduce near-death experiences by administering DMT intravenously.
Also, it could in fact be very effective. That information is never released to the public.
I know this is HN, but not everyone is trying to "make a business" from his hobby project. Couldn't you consider that the campaign author is just an engineer that wish he could afford to spend more time on something he likes to do and is passionate about? That's why he is able to offer a year of work on undercompensated rate. The same moment when he tries to "do it like a business", the fun is over, the joy is over, and it's just a work. And I doubt any remotely competent software engineer needs to bother with kickstarter to do the boring worky thing.
I've backed this because I'd like it to succeed. However, I think Cocotron had a far better chance at succeeding with their philosophy of using Xcode and cross compiling to other platforms. This drastically reduces the barrier to entry for the majority of Cocoa developers and lets them use Apple's (excellent) developer tools. It's a shame there isn't more collaboration between the two projects but I understand this is down to licensing differences.
This is a cool project, as I think a voice interface would be the ultimate in computing, something like in "2001, A Space Odyssey," or "Star Trek."

I remember first playing with voice recognition and voice command on a PPC Mac back in 1994.

That the technology hasn't progressed along the same lines as cell phones and processors is testament to how difficult voice recognition actually is when dealing with a wide variation of dialect within any given language.

I would love to be able to use my voice as my main input to my computers and other devices.
You can listen to the actual call here: https://soundcloud.com/jim-romenesko/aol-ceo-tim-armstrong-8...
The OS X "version" is a nightmare. It's guaranteed to break with every major OS release. Nuance takes months to release working versions. When it does work, it's hostile to any other apps that use the accessibility hooks, such as Text Expander, Alfred, etc., which would be awesome with speech input.

The history of the Mac version (acquisition of a company that licensed the Dragon engine) means that it and the Windows versions are very likely permanently divergent. Given the relative market sizes, the Windows version has the best development, the best recognition, and the least schizophrenic product support.

I am glad that dictation (apparently powered by Nuance's engine anyway) is to be included in Mavericks, including a disconnected (i.e., non-Siri) mode. Maintaining an application with a skeleton crew and relying on system services that change at a fundamental level every couple years is not a path to customer satisfaction.
Wow, thank you, that is exactly what I had in mind
This is another reason why you should rank for [your brand name] + coupons / discount. Read Zappo's take on coupons http://www.zappos.com/truth-about-zappos-coupons . If people know they can save 5-10% by a simple search they will at least try a quick search.
Tibetans Targeted As Dalai Lama Site Hacked To Serve Malware
Not sure, but I believe European countries give some support if you're in trouble abroad (read, some bad 3rd world country)

Maybe American support is better, depending on the region, do citizens get evacuated to US military bases in case of emergency? (Tsunami, etc?)
Never had any stability problems for more then a year now, on both work Windows 7 x64 and various Linux variants at home.

A year ago there were a few addon problems here and there, but these days addon authors are used to the new release cycle, so I don't have even these problems anymore.
BlackBerry goes up for sale after years of struggle in smartphone market
I would actually expect leaks to be easy to detect. Just run a high-frequency high-voltage plasma discharge detector on a skeleton vehicle. Wherever the discharge quenches you have a leak. Barcodes laser etched during construction could help you localize the leak to within a few centimeters.

Pinholes might be repairable by pressing a sapphire drift against the leak and melting the metal underneath by shining a laser through.
Looks like they changed their license from LGPL to zlib as well. I wonder if this will increase adoption, or if it just was so Valve could use it in Steam for Linux.