skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't assuming that. I was saying that it means that they don't think that you're one of the top 50 or so startups that applied.

All of the information you need is contained in that above statement. All of this advice is basically just saying, "interpret that above statement literally, and don't make any false inferences from it".
"You should be comfortable using Github, having basic programming proficiency in at least one language and have a reasonable grasp of HTML and Javascript. Experience collaborating via IRC is handy, but not critical."

So... very technical?
They're working hard - the time will come.
IRS estimates an e-filed tax return will have the refund issued within 21 days. The paper form equivalent takes 6-8 weeks.

Source: http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc152.html

The other thing to know is that e-filed tax returns are subject to an immediate sanity check (i.e., has this ssn already been used?, is this a valid zip code?), which doesn't exist for paper forms.
will they be contacting us via email or what?
The quantity of roads in length and width available increases and I wouldn't be surprised if the cost of supporting that infrastructure rises with the square of the land accessible by those roads (i.e. one long road is much cheaper to maintain that a grid of roads with equivalent length in miles). If the homeowners are only allowed to drive on the roads that were there when they bought their home the situation would be fair.

Education on the other hand I expect to remain fairly constant on a per unit (child) basis once a school hits 150 children per grade.
ReportingDatabase
Internet-wide port 443 (https) port scans
The thing is, the applicants would have read them too. I don't think most applicants would have the obvious red flags. Many that don't get in would be the corner case, ie, pushed down by those with a slight edge.
This one certainly was. Another story of my friends was sitting in on a meeting, where one of the old-school specialists of nearly 30 years experience made a snide remark about 'newcomers not understanding how things are done'. The target of the remark responded 'I've been here 17 years...'.

The point remains the same, though - letting physicians choose whatever they want is not a magic bullet given by 'the free market', and can make things worse in practise. And it's not like 'the free market' has shown us that comms protocols are followed with any particular veracity in the software world, for things that have no regulation on them. Do we have an open video codec yet that runs on all browsers, for example?
Until some botnet owner will think it's funny to DDoS FBI by posting bomb threats from accounts under his control.
> At that point, why not just ask them to provide the equivalent of Turbo-Tax on the web and put the code on github?

Because we are interested in only the algorithm, not any implementation.

Software blurs the line between algorithm and implementation.
> One of the craziest things is, it save their tax department money for every single tax filing done online vs paper

One of the HUGE benefits of e-file for them is that there are sanity checks that happen almost immediately and if they fail the IRS completely rejects the return. This does two things:

1. ensures accepted returns look much closer to accurate

2. places the burden of rejection notification on the e-file transmitter. For example, if I transmit a tax return that the IRS rejects due to a re-used SSN, the onus is now on me to notify that filer that their SSN has likely been stolen and provide customer service on what they should do next. From the IRS perspective this is a huge win. For e-file transmitters and tax software providers this is an un-fun problem to deal with.
Doesn't make these laws any less flawed, of course.
The real root of the problem is people giving up on expectations of basic decency and moral conduct 'because capitalism'.
Thanks mate for your calculator.

I had a similar problem when I started out and your calculator was one of the tools I used to make a point.
wrote about it too and links to few other resources I used plus the above calculator
http://carrotleads.com/how.php

and yes I don't think 50-50 split is right. If someone joining after 1 yr dev as in above example from @technotony can't stomach a 40% share with the original founder getting 60% then that needs to be clear upfront and partnership terminated.

what is to say such people will not want more than 50%. any split must be fair on what has been done, what will be bought to the table and need to be protected by vesting schedules.

IMO the calculator takes most key factors into account.
Full instructions on how to take part are at this link: http://theunitedstates.io/contact-congress/

And here is the Github repo: https://github.com/unitedstates/contact-congress/
Sure, but in that case they would be blatantly dishonest as opposed to lying by omission.
I think it's really great that the EFF is reaching out to the community like this. I reached out to donate time and I encourage you to do the same.
Did you mean s/clever/environmentally friendly/ ?
Okay, we'll remove "not very" from that paragraph :).
I went from doing my taxes by hand to using TurboTax. The comparison is like night and day; I get a more complicated return done way faster using TurboTax than when I did things by hand.

The verbosity of TurboTax seems like a feature to me, not a bug, in that it pre-answers many obvious questions.

I don't enjoy using TurboTax because I don't enjoy doing my taxes no matter how good the software. But I certainly don't blame TurboTax for that.
Carin Meier (the author) works for Neo, a software company with no ties to Cognitect as far as I know.
I'm glad this included the "Signs you should not be using a bash script" section. Bash is a very good solution for many cases, but it becomes downright unruly when dealing with a lot of string manipulation and more complex objects.
What is Augmented Reality? Quick 1 min demo.
Experiment: Put a listener on port 443. Log traffic to port 443.

As far as I know this scanning is still ongoing. The src IP is assigned to the University of Michigan.

I am told if start a listener on tcp/443 you can expect to get scanned within 48 hours of when your listener first comes online.

scan data from zmap + heartbleed exploit utility = ?
Sarcasm on their post :) I wish that I had the karma to downvote!
Not surprising to see Twitter finally acquire Gnip after working with them for four years. A great achievement for the team at Gnip, and will be interesting to watch the data model they intend on developing with Gnip as time goes on.
I'm not familiar with the strobing/scrubbing terminology. I don't think my memories have decayed that badly. :-) I don't suppose you have a paper you'd mind linking to about this?
Thanks! That site is helpful. The UI looks great, and would be even better if it had GitHub fork and star data.
There is no need for long set flags, e.g. use

set -e

and not:

set -o err

etc.
MIA, and until it actually happens they shouldn't be using "open source" in their pitch.
A lot of the work here is parsing contact forms from sites using a bookmarklet. Lots of details here: http://theunitedstates.io/contact-congress/
> Secure Connection Failed

> An error occurred during a connection to www.eff.org. The OCSP server has no status for the certificate. (Error code: sec_error_ocsp_unknown_cert)

Anybody else getting this?
Yeah DrRacket is fairly slow unless you have a powerful computer. I recommend just using a text editor and making use of XREPL, see: http://docs.racket-lang.org/xrepl/index.html?q=

tl;dr, open up the normal repl by typing "racket" and then type (require xrepl) and then ,install! (leading comma denotes an xrepl command).

Then when you want to interact with a file you can do racket -i $file to interact with it using xrepl.

If you're wondering why this isn't just the default, I think it has to do with the readline license.
I think the issue of feedback is a bit different from that of reasons why a group isn't selected. What YC seems to be saying here is more like, even if the group had done everything "right" for their project, that project/idea just doesn't seem to have the potential of another group's. (In the opinion YC).

So you could ask for feedback separately from asking why you weren't selected. The potential issue there is that groups will still interpret it that way and say things like "YC said they rejected us because of this, but that's a ridiculous reason to reject...."
This is probably better left for "Idea Sunday", but I keep coming back to the fact that:

* We have languages for defining business processes & workflows (e.g. BPMN/BPML);

* We have open-source workflow engines (such as Activiti in Java and others all over the language spectrum) that utilize BPMN and terms;

* We have open-source ways of maintaining changes to these things over time.

I know it would be a monumental task, but why not start an open-source org to tackle Tax visibility at Federal and State levels?

With enough civic-minded hackers and accountants (both of which I believe exist), we could begin the process of transcribing the tax code into an interchange format. Then as we begin to see the updates each year, we can track the changes via source control.

Does anybody know if efforts like this have been undertaken anywhere else? Otherwise, I may have found my passion project.

Furthermore, does anyone know anything about the process by which Intuit makes this happen? They clearly have workflows and inputs into them; they had to get there somehow. I'd be interested in any/all knowledge that could be opened up on this.
I understand that, but I thought in practice most CAs will automatically revoke the former certificate when rekeying. It sounds like godaddy does, at least.
What happens with the money after you sell them? That has to go somewhere, and couldn't that create the "link" required?
Several states already offer a high quality, secure, stable, and fast online filing so your clearly mistaken.
Merchants already have to understand and factor in risk with credit card reversals – merchants will need to learn what their risk is with bitcoin and factor that risk into their price just as they already do (or should do) with the risk from non-cash txns.
Reading those pieces and taking the advice seriously are entirely different things. For instance I knew two non-technical founders with a company who were outsourcing their app and had no users and were shocked they didn't get an interview. On paper and in person they are both very bright, had attended elite schools and done a lot of interesting things in their lives. But I think that was actually their downfall, they suspected they had enough good things going for them in general that they ignored a lot of very specific advice from YC.

My bet is the companies that don't get interviews are a lot more like my friends who just didn't pay attention than a sea of corner cases. It's actually really hard to meet the criteria that YC asks for. If you follow their advice you need the following things:

- At least 2 founders who know each other well, preferably have worked together before or known each other for years

- Have found your domain problem through personal experience

- Are good hackers

- Have already put together a decent product/have some semblance of a reasonable start

It can almost sound simple but that's really really hard. And I say that as someone who has spent the last couple years talking with my friends about whether they would be interested in being co-founders for startup ideas and searching for problems in my own experience that would make for scalable ideas. I go out and talk to companies and I don't see much of what YC explicitly asks for. It's not far fetched to imagine they interview nearly 100% of the teams that fit the profile above.
Got it briefly. Tried again and it worked.
It is not true that a low sample size means a high amount of variability. Depending on the people chosen, you can have a very low P value with as few as 26 or so participants.

It should be more interesting to you how reactive you were to the headline of this submission, than to the results.
It's not bullshit, below are similar studies:

MARIJUANA USERS HAVE ABNORMAL BRAIN STRUCTURE AND POOR MEMORY - http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2013/12/marij...

Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline from childhood to midlife - http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/08/22/1206820109.abst...

From personal experience, I smoked recreationally from 18 to 24 and definitely felt serious, structural changes in my brain. I won't go into the details since it's anecdotal evidence, but if research like what I linked to and the OP was presented to me, I would have dropped it.

People need to be aware there are consequences to your mental development if you smoke marijuana casually. Obviously the government has blown them way out of proportion, but the problems still exist.
Oh FOR SURE. It's leaps and bounds better than paper forms... IRS says average time to prepare a 1040EZ(!) by hand is over 3.5 hours. Only ~5% of filers use paper forms anymore though.

Maybe "enjoy" is a high bar? But surely there's room for improvement.
They are functionally equivalent, but the longhand versions are clearly more readable/greppable/google-able. The longhand versions have the exact same benefits as calling a variable eg. `target_file` instead of `a`.
Testing your CHICKEN code using the test egg
Well, to be fair to an otherwise impractical idea, getting up above the dense part of the atmosphere helps.

If you're trying to get to space quickly, then much of the air-resistance losses are in the first 10 km.

Look up "rockoons" for more info on replacing a rocket's first stage with a balloon platform.
True, but not at a fixed cost, and with no guarantee of residence. For people with families, the elderly, and people with strong community connections, the value of having a shelter that you own has substantial value.

You can also customize and improve a home you own. Many people have housing needs that cannot be met in the rental market. With a home you own, you can make the modifications you need, and accept the impact to your home's value.
An organization that I had hope in, posts something like this for captcha breaking and subtle bullshit. Really? Is this HN or ODesk?
Nice, I like the simple layout, but maybe the formatting could be a little smaller?
But if, in a very unlikely case, something actually happens then no one wants to be pointed out as the person who said 'lol idiots'.

>>> 3) can destroy lives of people who should know better

Yes. But on other hand, everyone in the right mind knows that joking about bombs and air planes is not funny for some certain institutions. So if they are smart enough to make jokes like that, they will totally find more ways to destroy or severely damage their lives.

In Vilnius (Lithuania) airport, near the check in tables, there is a warning saying that you can't joke about bombs. Because every year or two there are some geniuses who are 'joking' that they have a bomb once they board a plane.
Can I sign up without having to call or email?
Recently sitting down and manually preparing my taxes for the 9th year in a row now... I am not surprised.

This type of tax-code-manipulation must certainly have been happening since the dawn of time. That, or it was written to confuse the public on purpose.

Finding, reading, learning and understanding the tax code is no mean feat for a layman that was told nothing of it in school (none of us Canadians were taught taxes in public school). And this is coming from a relatively smart person who willingly reads cryptography papers and learns new programming languages for fun.

How much more difficult does TurboTax propose that the IRS make filing? Should we get individually filed returns notarized by our deceased relatives as well?

It usually takes me about 12-24 straight hours of work, and this is for a simple sole-proprietorship that just tallies up income and deducts expenses.

I manage to get it done properly and on time every year, but realizing so many schortcuts along the way that "they" could be making for us yet fail to year after year... it's really quite infuriating.

That, and the fact that I have to do the work to figure out how much I owe them. :/

I am proud to have completed my taxes myself and will strongly urge everybody I know not to vote for TurboTax with their wallets and why.
Don't forget the 45k+ traffic fatalities (not injuries) per year in the US.
I guess I wasn't clear and just letting out a bit of steam. Still doing it but to be clearer... Go feels more like a framework than a language. could be by design, but didn't expect it. also you are right, "bumps the road" is not fare. Better would be to say, in referring to myself, i guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks ;)
Ah. So that partially explains why Lenovo, after ditching their circular connector for a USB-A shaped connector, made no improvements at all.
Simple enough to swap the actresses around to remove the individuals as confounding variables.

On a related note. HN gets pretty obnoxious nit picking about experiments. Guaranteed half the posts about a social science experiment come from novices whining about some flaw only they can see in the experiment yet a hard science paper gets posted and surprisingly no one has any complaints about the experimental design.
your script is longer than a few hundred lines of code
you need data structures beyond simple arrays
you have a hard time working around quoting issues
you do a lot of string manipulation
you do not have much need for invoking other programs or pipe-lining them
you worry about performance

It's not a sign you shouldn't be using bash. It's a sign you shouldn't be using ONLY bash.

People who insist on rewriting an ENTIRE program in Python, Perl, or Ruby fail to understand the Unix philosophy (this is a real misunderstanding I've encountered in my work, not a straw man).

You can just write the complex part in another language, but keep the rest in bash. In other words, main() stays in bash. Python et. al. is used as just another process. bash is a language for coordinating processes.

You don't want a 2000 line bash script. But it can be worse to have a 5,000 line Python script that shells out to tons of other utilities, or awkwardly and verbosely reimplements 'xargs -P' or 'sed -i'. Often you can do the same job with 500 lines of bash and 500 lines of Python (or C), and that is the ideal solution.

Python and bash are pretty radically different languages, and they are not interchangeable (the advices "just rewrite in Python" seems to imply they are). You can use each one for the things they are good at.
> Overall, I've optimized to just using TurboTax, and I'm sure there is some laziness involved in that decision, but overall, unless something else is much much better, there isn't too much impetus to switch.

And in fairness, there's benefit to sticking with them year over year: that's a lot of data that gets transferred automatically. Most of the less expensive alternatives are horrid (I've used almost all of them). There's a good reason they're the king of their market. My point is simply that no one's giving them legitimate competition in the space and that surprises me. My evidence was only to point out the low-hanging fruit to go after (and while that low hanging fruit wouldn't be enough to sway a 10-year user, it's potentially enough to sway earlier users)
> If i was paying $2400/mo in rent, then i bought a house for $2400/mo mortgage,

If rent was $2400/m, I can assure you that a house in the same area would be a lot more than $2400/m unless you put %50 or more as a down payment which is at least a few hundred thousand if not a million dollars. That's a lot of capital. If you choose a house in a cheaper area with a mortgage of $2400/m, then I can guarantee that there will be cheaper apartments in the area as well.

> the capital in the house is not part of the capital i would have if i had been renting. That would just be gone.

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying? Are we in agreement or are you disagreeing?
I found this web page, from the author of musl libc, very insightful:

http://www.etalabs.net/sh_tricks.html

Shell scripts are great, I use and write them every day (and quite advanced ones, too). But it's very hard to make a shell script robust.

Unfortunately it's hard to find a replacement that is stable and installed everywhere. Perl is pretty close. And python too, if you are careful about making your script compatible with all the different versions.
Another useful capability I use to do cleanup is `trap`.

function cleanup {
...
}
trap cleanup EXIT

See more here: http://linux.die.net/Bash-Beginners-Guide/sect_12_02.html
Steve, first off I respect you a lot for the work you have done. But, the elephant in the room is that when you changed jobs, you totally fell off the map with Rails: https://github.com/rails/rails/commits/master?author=stevekl...

I would have done the same thing, getting into to Rust, etc. after the job transition, as you have other things to focus on. However, you mentioned Rails, and I think this is an opportunity to talk about "leaving the garden".

I have a few projects I had enjoyed working on, but when I left the old job, I was stuck with those projects and no one wanted to take them on- I tried to find help, but it was temporary- no one has taken over. Do you or others have suggestions for successfully abandoning a project, because I can't seem to, and those projects languish with the lack of effort I put into them because it is so infrequent, but I do just enough apparently to keep others from thinking I've abandoned them.
Presumably because he spent that time engaged in more profitable activities?

Obviously, with no absolutes, the definition of 'more profitable' is entirely subjective - but there is a general threshold in Western society that you could use to discern the popular definition of 'more profitable'.
This is really neat. What powers the corrections? I was stunned by the results of the paragraph about Shackleton.
Greg, thanks for all of these suggestions. I appreciate you taking the time to look over our service. I will work on some of these recommendations in the next couple of days.

Joseph Holguin
Founder
Wusk.co
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Flap your arm to fly!
The studies do not show causation, only correlation. And one of the studies was funded by the NIDA which will only fund studies which show harm. It is possible that the opposite is true: that people with a predisposition to mental illnesses use cannabis to self-medicate.
Japan population drops for third year straight; 25% are elderly
Soon it will be completely open source. In less than a month.
Technology and Everyday Life
So basically it's a 0-10 minute buffer on transactions that if you pay them enough to cancel your mistaken one... they'll do their best to get the secondary transaction mined first?

Cool!