skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that "it's always been that way" is no refutation of the fact that "it's a problem" that you could lose money and yet still owe taxes as if you had gains because capital losses (hysteretically) saturate at $3000.
They have gotten really good at finding money. Even
employees at banks are rewarded by the IRS for turning
in anything they think is suspicious--not just over 10K
amounts-anything the minimum wage worker "thinks" is
suspicious! I'm not bashing minimum wage workers--just
pointing out low level workers can turn the IRS on you.
Personally, If I came into a huge amout of cash. I would
bury it, until inflation really gets moving. If you bury
it, do it sober. True story: I know a guy who buried
800,000 grand in a PVC pipe--while intoxicated on a conacopia of substences. He woke up the next day
and couldn't find where he bured it. When ever I drive by
the house the guy lived in--I feel extremely sad; even
though it wasen't my money--such a waste. What's even more
interesting is the ex wife told the current owners of the
house that there might be close to a million dollars on their property. The owners did not believe, or even do
some test digging? Sometimes, people do tell the truth. I
wish I was never told that story.
I think this is a salvo against Amazon. I don't think Google cares about Box very much right now ... Box has a long way to go.
It is no different than having your money in multiple banks or brokers.
Keep coins in a secret wallet. When you need to change for USD, transfer only that amount to your "public" wallet, and pay taxes just on that.
Good point. Coinbase is also an exchange so it knows exactly how much you paid in and out BUT there's no reason why a service couldn't integrate to an exchange's API and do the same thing.
Should emphasize that whatever valuation will be expected to be reasonable and done consistently (so don't pick different exchanges for different payments or whatever, and probably don't pick Mt. Gox, and so on).
They can monitor it when it hits the real world, i.e., as soon as you want any actual goods or services instead of just a virtual coin.

Noone in IRS cares if you hide $100 or $1000; but for large amounts the spending is traceable.
You are singling out the one thing that allows everything else to shift to software (ie, non-capital). Rock's Aphorism is currently true, but always? I measly mortal can still get chips made at said plants.
Geeksphone provides nightly (1.4pre) builds for their B2G devices. Mozilla announced plans to sell a reference phone that will also have nightly builds available, though it's not on sale yet.
I like some of the Microsoft products, but at least if they had been releasing MS-DOS 6 or 7 and Word 5 that would mean at least a bit of something, but this ...

And all released in the "look but don't touch" licence, I guess they need some waving cause of the Win 8 fiasco, the 8.1 fiasco and the retiring support for XP, if it hadn't been for the lucky Win 7, Microsoft would have gone the way of Nokia.
Unfortunately, the legal system is intentionally designed in such a way that you can't easily satisfy your idle curiosity on that subject. You can ask a lawyer, who'll give you their best guess, but the only way to tell for sure is to get sued: there has to (with a few specialized exceptions) be an actual controversy before a court considers a question. This was (in programmer language) designed intentionally to protect scarce resources (court time) from certain kinds of denial-of-service attacks.
CDT c++ for linux, free java IDE
its slow but no alternative i wish someone did java IDE build
with c++
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The thing is, free speech in Europe that contained effective propaganda got a whole lot of people killed within the memory of Europeans now living (i.e., Hitler's "big lie"). So Europe is less likely to view free speech as an unmitigated, absolute good.
Well, if your bank's internal systems/offices already run Windows, then it is better to use the same platforms for your ATMs too - you can reuse code between the two systems, and you only need one developer team instead of two.

Also, ATM development started way before Linux was a major player and people basically only had MS-DOS or OS/2 as choices - and as banking software develops at the same speed as a glacier moves (and those ATMs tend to grow OLD), you're stuck in a lock-in effect.
Neither idea nor netbeans seem to have killer feature that would motivating me to move. I know eclipse too well, I am used some its plugins and I can write my own plugins and use some of those.

Netbeans was too slow last time I tried and Eclipse is not unstable for me.

If I would work with android, I would switch to IntelliJ. I heard that one is better and Android plugin for Eclipse is horrible.
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Very nice. One week too late though. :)
Whatever he wants :)
just when I thought I was being original! I probably just needed to rant a bit
> So that means if I hold it over 1 year I can treat any gains as LONG TERM capital gains, right?

The tax issues don't change because you've held an asset for Y years, it depends only on the date when you sell the asset. Remember that capital gains don't apply to assets that aren't sold -- this happens only when they're sold.

Any asset held for longer than a calendar year is taxed as long-term capital gains, otherwise short-term. And short-term capital gains are taxed the same as income.
I believe orik is referring to the halo effect, a term used in marketing. It's the idea that when a customer has a positive experience with a companies products, they will likely choose that companies products in the future simply because of the past positive experience.

The idea is the customer thinks:
"Look at this amazing product Nvidia is producing! They must have great engineers working on bleeding edge technology!".

Even if they don't buy the $3000 GPU, they now associate Nvidia with high quality GPUs which may influence them to buy Nvidia product in the future.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/halo-effect.asp
"The only thing you have to know how to do is build something people want."

I have actually found this to be the most difficult thing - a lack of ideas that turn out to be wanted by other people.
Google’s Bigger, Cheaper Cloud
I feel I should comment and say that MSR-LA is 'technically open source'. It really limits what you can do with changes to the software, and any modifications can only be re-licensed and sold (or used commercially) by Microsoft. Other wise they must carry the same license.

"You may not use or distribute this Software or any derivative works in any form for commercial purposes. Examples of commercial purposes would be running business operations, licensing, leasing, or selling the Software, distributing the Software for use with commercial products, using the Software in the creation or use of commercial products or any other activity which purpose is to procure a commercial gain to you or other" [1]

Technically Open Source, the source is open for studying and learning. And it can be distributed, and redistributed.

[1] https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/msr-la.txt
TypeScript finally gets some preliminary documentation
As someone very unfamiliar with Windows administration anymore, how would you do this without invoking 3rd party tools?

Found MS's description [1]. However, that's not useable by most office workers, and the steps are likely beyond the average home user. So it's really just a feature for power users and IT departments.

[1] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753321.aspx
Sales taxes are regressive, so much so that combined US state taxes are also regressive, being largely funded by sales tax. Refer to the big square in the middle of https://xkcd.com/980/
Open Source:

Adjective Computing

Denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.

You can modify, and redistribute. You can't sell or us it anywhere near commercially. Its not FREE as in Freedom.
So, if military capabilities can detonate the planet in under a millisecond...

The "property" is so liquid that it can be taken away faster then it can be processed, and acquired...
JavaScript creator takes Mozilla helm
And it IS a basic feature of Java. Just not one that is used much, and therefore not one that has a particularly clear or succinct idiom.

Java didn't grow up in the world of unix where scripts that read from stdin and write to stdout get chained to produce pipelines. It grew up in the world of long-running stand-alone applications that communicate over sockets (like web applications). Java, because of the virtual machine, has a particularly slow start-up time and would be a poor choice for implementing mini pipeline components like this anyway.
There is something weird with Eclipse on your setup. I just checked mine and it takes 0.5. I normally keep three eclipse instances open (I switch projects and do not care about closing them) and they do not take much memory.
The Trouble in Startup land
Aren't you still stuck using their implementation of BigTable? I forget if that's changed.

The main benefit of say Heroku is that while migrating away is not trivial, in principle you shouldn't have to rearchitect your app to do it.
And Google Checkout (a paid product) was pulled as well. Google Wallet is a replacement in the same way that Google+ is a replacement for Reader.
As I understand it, the main difference is that, if it were currency, you’d need to go though a lot of regulation to process it, keep it and change it with dollars.

I doubt the IRS can influence SEC and the Financial commission into the finer points of Legal tender. What they say is: no matter that, these things are like stock, and we feel the right to tax your profits on trading them.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Put otherwise: it sounds like when a lawyer (or The Dude) says that you are “an asshole”. Most lawyers don’t really have the moral standing to accuse anyone of that, but what they are saying is: my qualifications are telling you what is legal and what isn’t, and this unsavory action isn’t illegal. IRS is saying: BitCoins are not just to pay for your groceries, they are a way to store and accrue value; they have no standing on how convenient they are or should be to buy groceries.
Trade code/design skills for room/board
Google Cuts Cloud Services Prices: Compute by 32%, Storage by 66%
That's just a side effect. The motivating reason is your own convenience.
Indeed, that's how they got Al Capone in the end: tax evasion (on the proceeds from his criminal activities).
Nvidia and IBM create GPU interconnect for faster supercomputing
I love all the work the Firefox team is doing here over the last year. Things have improved so much, its terrific. These are the things Firefox needs before I could start to consider it as a primary development tool:

- Performance analyzation

- Resource management (cookies, local storage, etc)

- Option to completely disable cache when dev tools are open

- Ability to search the document in the inspector

I'm sure they'll get there before too long.
Your comment looks really silly in light of the two directly above it.
And that's exactly what I'm getting at. Once you establish that there has been a breach of law, you _have_ to take the context/wording into account, which is highly "slimy" on its own merit, as the grandparent post puts it, and turns what might otherwise be a "don't word your hiring practices in such a way or collude them between companies" reprimand into a "you're clearly doing really underhanded things, and are even _self effacing_ about this" (citing the "let's not put on paper something we could get sued over" memos)

I (as an engineer) have my "jimmies rustled" because this sets a really worrying precedent for the behaviors of these companies I do/might work for, and is frankly the sort of behavior that makes me have implicitly low trust for people with this sort of power, which is an unfortunate state of things. (I'd really like to be able to trust people, I promise...)
> IE9 is a dinosaur? Loads of locked-down corporate intranets still run IE6.

IE6 is pond scum.
Are you talking about Amazon Auctions or Askville?

If you had used any of those services, would you ask the same questions about AWS? The notion that any company would shut down a service handling billions of queries per day is patently absurd. Just because Google shut down some duds that you used doesn't make them any more likely to shut down their cloud offerings.
As a 'metacoin' protocol built on top of Bitcoin itself, Counterparty functionality can take Bitcoin beyond its current primary use as a payment network and quasi-store of value. Counterparty has created the world's first fully functioning distributed assets exchange, and the protocol includes other components such as distributed betting, CFDs, callable assets, dividend payments, and more. All of this is fully functional today. We also have a web wallet that will be released on mainnet next week most likely: testnet.counterwallet.co.

The linked article on Coindesk discusses our recent debate with a few of the Bitcoin core developers over blockchain storage mechanisms. This ultimately becomes an ideological debate over the blockchain itself. Does "acceptable use" exist? Should content be censored or blacklisted? What are the best means to control "spam" content? Is Counterparty-type functionality valuable to Bitcoin?

All of these are questions that are being worked out, especially on our Bitcointalk thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=395761)
>these rules won't really apply, since those transactions and gains aren't detectable unless they're declared.

Well, this is only assuming you use precautionary measures to protect your identity. If you, for example buy a stereo from a store, and use bitcoin. If you provide any information about yourself, such as your name/address/email/etc. Then the gov't has easily obtainable information that can connect you to other parts of the block chain. At which point, you're toast if the feds want to come after you for tax evasion.

Bitcoin is a great tool, but don't think it's going to open up some anarco-libritarian fantasy camp. It's not. Pay your taxes people.
Strange. Why don't they treat the cost basis as your cost of production? That is, if you spend $X to mine the bitcoins, and sell them for $Y, why not tax you on $(Y-X) rather than Y minus "whatever the market said they were worth then"? $(Y-X) is your true dollar-denominated realized gain.
No, because the exercise is taxed as income at the time of the exercise. If you sell it, there's not _more_ tax to be paid, because your gain after the exercise is zero. If you sell it after some, you'll pay long-term capital gains rates on the delta between your sale price and your exercise price.

Exercise-and-hold is a bad idea for most people in most cases.
Was? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx (some strings attached)
If nothing else, if you want to learn. If there was an article about building a hobby OS would you respond

'''In what situation would "just use linux/freebsd/etc." not be the appropriate solution to this problem?'''?
I think you would need to refile your 2011 taxes, recognizing the income (and probably deducting some of your mining costs, but it isn't obvious that would be 100%). If you sold them that year, you would also figure the capital gain or loss.

In a later year, you would list the capital gain or loss.
Thanks rex, this was the main issue I see with the app. I somehow need to get a bunch of loads and a bunch of trucks right away. I appreciate the advice, I'll look into the magazines!
Thanks for the info, love the site!

FYI: Your footer is missing a link for getting updates: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lpipzrhrnigj1nb/Screenshot%202014-...
Interestingly Denmarks IRS just ruled that it's not taxable.

(in Danish)
http://epn.dk/samfund/politik/ECE6587289/afgoerelse-gevinste...
Algolia extends HipChat to customer support
The description of :nth-child is misleading here. It would only do that if the first two elements in every DIV were P elements. A more accurate description would be "Selects the second element in each DIV if it is a P." The description given there sounds more like :nth-of-type.
20 Crucial Terms Every 21st Century Futurist Should Know
> If you are investing enough to open yourself up to a capital gains loss of more than $3000, you have no excuse to be ignorant.

I disagree wholeheartedly. The tax code is needlessly complex. These are not laws of nature, they are arbitrary rules that have accumulated over time. Large capital gains happen naturally and it's silly for there to be gotchas like this.
I also really like strong typing, for the reason you stated, though there are also lots of things I like about a "more dynamic" approach (duck typing is great, for instance).
> one can say what one will about Amazon (and there are certainly many reasons why I believe the future is not AWS's alone), but AWS services do not have a trust issue.

... so far. Trust is fragile, it only takes one incident to completely take it away. Just because AWS hasn't faced such an incident so far doesn't mean they never will. And when they do, they will be at the same level of trust as Google. It can happen overnight.

Similarly, there is really no guarantee that Amazon won't decide to shut down AWS at some point in the future for some reason. The two companies are really on an equal footing on these two points.

Which is why I think the reasoning "GCE is not seeing traction because people don't trust Google" is flawed. There are several possible reasons why GCE is not growing fast and Google is slowly addressing them one by one.

Don't discount them, and don't think for a second that their competitors are magically immune to the flaws you are currently seeing in Google's offer.
You mean Datastore. Yeah.

I kinda like Datastore though. Maybe I'm just use to it. The limitations just make sense if you want to scale.

They also have a RDBS you can use though ... I've never used it.

Still haven't figured out a clean way to do geospatial stuff with Datastore, so that is one big caveat.
> Yes, minix ran on 286, so MS could have/should have, but that was then. Don't judge them too harsh.

There was xenix. As inconceivable as people might find it today, people CHOSE to run simple DOS over Unix on their very resource-constrained hardware.
Disappearing up your own backside to implement something like this is a time-honored indie game development tradition.

(I should know, I've certainly killed enough projects by doing it.)
Looks like a useful tool. I always have difficulty deciding on the best speed for an animation. Being able to easily change that in the app and try different speeds for periods of time should make the process of settling on a speed easier.
Apple Sends E-mail Users Offering Refunds for Unauthorized In-App Purchases
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Is there a special library used to power the comments editor? I'd love to have a library that let me do drag and drop images into markdown.
Title needs "[scribd]" removed now that link points to original source.
Syncthing (Bittorrent Sync / Dropbox replacement)
You don't write unit tests to assert that a function never gets called a certain way. You can't, in a dynamic language: a function could conceivably be called with anything, and even in a statically typed language, there are some functions which cannot be determined at compile-time never to terminate without error. (For example, if you're using signed integers, the input could be negative). The goal of unit testing in this case is to ensure assert that if that happens, your code does what you expect it to, whether that's fail with a nice error message, return some default value, or simply bomb out. Depending on what context that function occurs in, it might be guaranteed to never happen (e.g. sqrt is only ever called by function foo, and foo always calls abs on its input before calling sqrt.). In those cases, it's not necessary to write those assertions into sqrt. You should separate what's actually subject to variability at runtime vs what can be ensured by program flow, and write unit tests accordingly. There's nothing wrong with the kind of assertions/preconditions described above, but I remain skeptical that they offer anything fundamentally stronger than a comprehensive suite of unit tests.
DOGE DOS
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Free email upto 10 users (Rackspace and Google App Engine)
Needs a countdown widget...
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This announcement make me even trust Google less.

First GAE was one price. We attended Google I/O session and learned about the virtues of fully using BigTable, so we wrote our application to be tightly integrated into GAE (stupid mistake).
Then GAE got a 10X (1000% percent) price increase. Effectively removing the service if you based your business on the initial pricing structure.
Now, google is talking about Moore's law and how the service should be cheaper.

Why do I trust google less? Because I don't get a feeling Google has any long-term strategy here. It seems like they're winging it every 6-12 months. In contrast Amazon and AWS have been steadily marching in one direction.

I want to like GCE/GAE, I still run services from it, it's good for some use cases. But in back of my mind, I know google can pull the rug at any moment, depending on the popular flavor of the month.

So what am I saying? Use it at your own risk. It's good for somethings but there are other solutions and there are businesses where cloud services is their main or only business. You know those guys will steadily innovate and build up their services.
Thanks for the detailed reply! I understood your intent, don't worry about the tone.

We're a small enough team that we all understand the business drivers. The main goal of our agile transition is to improve predictability and clarity. Month-wide error bars on a three-month release don't help those goals much.

Right now we're working to shorten our release cycle and learn how to communicate clearly even when it hurts, on the assumption that shining light on the difficulties will help us find and solve the problems as quickly as possible. But it's definitely a painful transition.

One more point: I agree that negotiating scope with a fixed schedule is difficult. We have done that occasionally. But sales and business people are definitely more willing to accept schedule slippage than scope reduction.
If the article about building a hobby OS was on a blog about making actual useful software, and framed building an OS as a reasonable subproblem of making actual useful software, I would expect lots of people to reply like that.
The EITC and a basic income are actually very similar in effect. The difference is largely in the mechanism of distribution. With a basic income, every citizen gets a check every month. With an EITC you get it in a lump with your tax refund, if you qualify for it.
In at least one customer I deal with Google services are not considered an option and Google is almost a bad word after a large (tens of thousands) user Google Apps roll-out was aborted - ostensibly due to a "So what? We're Google, that's how it is." attitude regarding what were perceived as minor problems.

Obviously, this is not exactly the same as a service being killed, but I think it speaks to same sort of distrust - a feeling that your needs as a customer are at Google's leisure.
If a coffee shop is accepting bitcoins in exchange for coffee, they are already exposed to the FX risk that bitcoins will fall in dollar terms before they can be liquidated.

In other news, the number of coffee shops which accept bitcoins is indistinguishable from zero in practice.
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Firefox worked for me...