skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If done correctly, the price appreciation of a home and tax increases should be unrelated. At least in NY, your share of the property tax levy is the value of your property divided by the value of all properties in the taxing district, multiplied by the total tax levy. If everyone's property appreciates 10%, but the tax levy stays the same no one has higher property taxes.

The reason we have higher property taxes is that school boards and the town/county government continually pass budgets that outpace inflation.
I've been thinking about the overweight (and overpriced) laptop adapters for a while and reading about this project made me very happy.
Could anyone suggest some scientific reading on their claimed very high frequency power conversion (or any similar technology)?
I find this article very interesting because it suggests that the effects of moral attribution to the self vs. the event has the opposite results of achievement attributions. There are numerous studies that show when you praise a child for being smart instead of working hard, they become less curious and motivated. Perhaps this dichotomy is because of the commonly-accepted distinction between talent and work ethic, whereas being good and doing good are largely the same.
Beware of cupcake fascism
Not yet, apparently they will start shipping in about six months.
> The truth is, buying a home is the only form of investing on margin for most. Also, it's compulsory investment and savings -- both with the principal payment and in the form of property improvements.

I find it weird that people look at houses as "investments". For an asset to be an investment for me, it has to be productive. Buying stock in a company or starting your own is productive; buying farm land is productive (you can use it to produce food). A house in itself doesn't produce anything, it's just an asset. If you're relying on buying it cheap and selling it at a high price, that's speculation, not investment (that house still hasn't produced anything, it just happens to be more valued by other people).
The MVP of gym equipment is kettlebells.
I'm loathe to say with confidence, but you're right, that does seem to be a relatively novel contribution. It's certainly unusual!

I spent some time reading Hewitt's PLANNER paper recently. I am tempted to think that something drawing from his ideas on hypothetical explorations could be implemented for debugging (more than just numerical adjustments). But it's been a while since I reviewed the debugging literature to say with confidence if such a thing once existed.
All that effort to avoid simplifying the tax code so that the tax preparation industry can thrive.
As long as there is a wealth of knowledge coming out of academic research, what's wrong with that approach? I'm not saying that is what Google X is doing, it sounds like they are pursuing their own academic interests as well, but if all they did was cultivate the research of others and utilize it in ways that have not been fully explored, that seems like a solid strategy. Instead of languishing in academic journals, let's put those ideas to the test.
While I understand your sentiment, and to a certain degree, agree with you, you're implying "the game" is "how to extract the most money from other people", and not "how to build the best stuff for humanity, and hopefully get rich in the process".

If the game really is "extract the most money", then yes, we should hate the game.

I certainly hope most of us are playing the latter game, rather than the former.
"If you don’t want the IRS in your online business, Dyanim suggests ratcheting up the privacy settings on all of your social media accounts. And never posting anything that you wouldn’t want the agency to see. You could also try a charm offensive. The IRS has 24,000 Facebook fans and 52,000 Twitter followers."

Isn't it true that "liking" a page on Facebook gives the owner of that page information about your profile? It seems like the two calls to action for this article are contradictory.
Hiring criteria at First Look Media: "Not white. Not male."
How has Glass transformed your daily routine?

Is it easy to decouple Glass from prescription glasses?

How long is the typical battery life in your experience? How long does it take to recharge?

Has slow internet connectivity been an issue (via cellphone or Wifi)?

Would you recommend Glass to someone who likes tech, but doesn't feel the need to be married to it?
We have a page that is being hammered out on ajax testing. It's just not quite there yet: https://github.com/emberjs/website/blob/master/source/guides...
7 Dangerous Apps for Kids (via a children's hospital blog in Texas)
By the letter, the situation might be better. But I don't think that in effect it is so much better.

How could one say, that something is "offensichtlich" (apparently) not usable in the business of the company. With any bigger company and when you take the software business and you program something for your own, you are caught. Which type of software related invention would "apparently" not be usable for (e.g.) Microsoft?

I have also spoken with German lawyers about that topic and what they told me, was not so rosy.

What is meant by "fair" compensation? I doubt very much, that this is regulated in detail and in effect the compensation will be what your employer says. For employee-inventions you also get some compensation ... and that should be fair too, I guess? But it is not, what I know. The compensation that regularly is given to the inventors inside a company get a fraction of the patent filing costs (in the US and also counting lawyer costs). I doubt that that could be counted as "fair", when the lawyers get more from the invention than the inventors.
What does an estimate of "Two Weeks" really mean
When you find yourself not jumping onto a task, the task is unclear. Break it down instead of solving it. Break it down until it takes so little effort that you would actually rather finish it than break it down further.

-planning the day in advance. Planning between tasks incurs HUGE overhead.

-isolate yourself from distraction

-declare goal in terms of whats-in-it-for-me

-list things to do, write down (.txt / post-it)

-iterate on breaking down

-only do work if you can not break it down further

-measure time

I found the biggest waste is not in working slowly but between blocks of work. Include them in your next task's log. Log time every time you finish a task.
Guesstimate time when breaking down a day/task, log time when finished. Improve.

I found being in a flow is different from being extremely productive. Being in a flow only guarantees high concentration. It doesn't verify that you are moving in the right direction. Regularly breaking down tasks and iterating on breaking them down gives you a habit of refocusing.
AppointmentReminder by patio11 relies pretty heavily on Twilio AFAIK.
A 3-Day Weekend...Every Weekend?
Show HN: Factory pattern for Objective-C
I've know this team for some time (also an MIT grad). I'm so happy they have pushed their product and have moved to the Bay Area.

The Dart might look like a small device but its an incredible feat -- specially since it needs to safely work with all laptops and devices. Very excited about the future of the product.
The plot to kill the password
:) That is just in case, IRS excludes its fans from its filters.
I've met countless of founders before and after they get funded. Some of that money goes to their heads and they become total assholes.
The way I see it...you become a entrepreneur to solve a problem, which in turn makes the world a better place.
So for all you founders out there, don't be a dooche!!
"If Nike is analyzing my information, the worst consequence is that they market stuff to me that I don’t want and it’s annoying," says Dayanim. "If the government does it, the worst consequence is there could be legal ramifications, whether it’s fines, penalties or imprisonment."

Maybe don't evade your goddamned taxes then.

Seriously, people who not only evade tax, but follow it up by flaunting that fact in public, deserve absolutely no sympathy.
It's pretty recent. This is a good overview (especially page 2) http://www.powerpulse.net/powerViews.php?pv_id=48&page=1
Yes, this is a trope amongst the amateur fan base of the Raspberry Pi and it is familiar in many other avocations.

"I know my hobby X is not good enough, but if I got enough of them, it might be way better than things actually designed to do X!"

When it was first proposed to me about a year or two ago, to massively connect RPis, I quickly did the math and showed a simple top-of-the-line graphics card ( I did the numbers for a Radeon 7970 ) outperformed RPis at a factor of something like 10 to 1 in price/GFlops. That's without even considering interconnections.

I know Jacques Mattheij is some kind of folkhero here on HN, so I'll tread lightly, but I find this weak as it's years overdue and comes complete with a non-committal call to someone else doing the action- not a value in this community. He implies his time is worth more than other people's:

"Doing this will be [...] well worth it." "If anybody builds this let me know"
Researchers Develop Ultra-Fast Circuits With Quantum Plasmonic Tunnelling
An Issue Of Trust: Secure integrated circuit design
If you don't want the IRS in your online business, I think there's an easier solution: Pay your taxes.
The ageism, to me, is the biggest sign that most of Silicon Valley "innovation" is bullshit.

It takes time to get to the forefront of an already-explored area, and to become a good software engineer. People who get there by 25 are extremely rare (maybe 1 in a few million). Some people peak early and some peak late, but the median (across the arts, sciences, mathematics, and technology) is around 45-55 and for technology it should be, if anything, later.

But most Silicon Valley "innovation" is bullshit and doesn't need high-power people. It needs an image of "newness" and that requires youth. It needs people who can exploit the chickenhawk instinct of venture capitalists, and that requires youth as well.
After Google Glass, Google developing contact lens camera
Title is a little misleading. I own a LaCie External HD and I went there expecting something about hardware level data breaches.
Search for jawed karims talk at CMU I guess. One of the key reasons of YouTube fast growth was the HTML snippet that you could embed in you MySpace page.
Updated comment for HN pedanticism.
What Is Async, How Does It Work, And When Should I Use It?
Seriously? This is essentially a static HTML page, why is it completely useless unless JavaScript is enabled?

EDIT: Useless meaning there is 0 content that can be seen. It's not that it's ugly w/o JS, there is nadda, zilch, nothing without it.
Show HN: An HN-Style Site for Integrated Circuits Folks
Contrarily to a lot of comments here, I don't do much exercise, I don't eat particularly well more often than not, nor do I sleep much. That said, I'm sure a healthy lifestyle does probably help to an extent, and it's definitely not a bad thing generally speaking.

In my case however, this is definitely not what helps me "get and stay in the zone", or concentrating as people used to call it.

The first thing, which I guess is not that easily replicable, is that I used to be fully deaf, and I can get myself in that state of mind pretty much whenever I want to. It's basically turning some sort of autism switch on and off, which essentially involves removing yourself from your environment. I know a lot of meditation can eventually get you to the same point.

The other thing which probably sounds really obvious is staying motivated. I always have several tasks on the go so I try to break them down into less/more interesting tasks. When your motivation is high, go for the least interesting tasks, when you start feeling your motivation getting low, pick one of the more interesting tasks.

I think it's also down to work habits and experience. I've worked crazy, intense hours in my life, simply because I didn't have a choice. The more you do it, the more you don't want to do it, so the amount of time you can spend un-distracted in one go will slowly increase.

One final tip, which is probably going to sound stupid to most people, is keeping rhythm. I play a lot of music and I constantly feel/hear a rhythm in everything. When I occasionally find my mind going idle, I remind myself of the ambient rhythm (tap my fingers together and whatnot). I see my mind going idle as being out of sync in an orchestra, if that makes any sense.
Built this because my buddy kept complaining about how he didn't have other IC folks to chat with.

My first time dealing with a server and using meteor. Pretty fun.
Looks like it'll only work on US outlets, so it's unfit for most of the world.
Great idea! If I ever take a salary position again I'll definitely make this a part of my employment agreement!
Santa Clara Valley was some of the most valuable agricultural land in the entire world, but it was paved over to create today’s Silicon Valley.

Exact same move the Maya pulled. At their tech level, that plus climate change ended their civilization.
Right state, wrong city.

Los Angeles is the California city that is known for its smog problem. The US is big, so its easy to get the various cities confused.

It doesn't help that California is huge. San Francisco to Los Angeles is a 381 Mile (613.16 km) journey... which is 20% longer than the distance between Paris, France and Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Florida recently solved that problem by making homestead caps transferrable after a certain period of time.
To be fair, if you have hand-created many Makefiles, you'd already be quite familiar with that error.
Galaxy S5′s fingerprint scanner has been hacked
Interestingly, Plato had significant reservations toward writing, and writing philosophy in particular. He believed (as common among the ancient Greeks) that philosophical truths emerged and were understood only through a spoken dialectic. This probably accounts for his books' unusual format.

I have seen one particularly amusing quote where Plato basically says that he would never write down philosophy. But I forget the exact wording and I can't find the quote now.
It is a simple leapfrog integrator (which is indeed symplectic). I found that, at least in a test implementation, higher order methods were too computationally expensive to run the simulation at a good frame rate.
Will Work For Food And Lodging
Baremetrics (https://www.baremetrics.io) by Josh Pigford is built off of Stripe. There are also a handful of dunning-related services that sit on top of Stripe, also.
> Global Dart: You live abroad and you want a Dart. This reward is for you. The Dart will work internationally, but you'll need a plug to match your outlet. This reward includes the Dart PLUS a plug adapter for your region. Your Dart, your color holds for this offer. Choose your favorite from among our signature Kickstarter colors. Please note the later estimated delivery date. Not MacBook compatible. Shipping is included.

(Emphasis added)

It seems this is in fact fit for most of the world.
Great, more of the same. They're really doing a great job of re-establishing trust in the government after this major failure.
Hmm, this sounds like the old "you shouldn't mind surveillance if you've got nothing to hide" argument.
How many people tell the whole truth on facebook? Yay my side business just made the first $300 sale! (but I spent $2k on advertising)
I was thinking about that, and the thing is people are often deceptive to children for their own good, as a way to handle them without upsetting them (arguably not ideal parenting but let it pass). So that, if you convince the child you really did drop it, you won't feel bad.
But if you are overtly mean - it's unmistakeable that you deliberately the toy back, then it's hard to kid yourself that the baby didn't realize. Now did the baby realize? That's the whole thing we're trying to determine! I'm just saying that the actresses' model of what the baby will understand and won't will affect how they feel about it.

This of course all depends on the actresses having a particular model of the baby's ability to model them.
The project is supported by Prezi with the aim of making it production ready ( http://engineering.prezi.com/blog/2013/05/21/elm-at-prezi/ ) and all development effort is focused on that.

With the two most recent releases ( http://elm-lang.org/blog/announce/0.11.elm and http://elm-lang.org/blog/announce/0.12.elm ) it is really easy to drop an Elm component into an existing JS application, which we are experimenting with both at Prezi and in the general Elm community.

So I'd (biasedly) say to give it a try. Even if it's still too young for you, I think you'll come out of it writing way better JS :)
This looks like a great and promising product.

At the headline, I had the kneejerk doubt that they could fit laptop-level power in such a small adapter, but they claim that's exactly why their product is interesting.

Nevertheless, I'm going to wait for the first wave to prove itself and for them to iron the kinks out (there are always kinks in a first-gen HW product). As such, I hope this is a true "kickstarter" that starts company momentum and isn't, like too many others, a one-shot deal.
One word of warning, the product timeline says you should expect your product in 7-11 months. That is a long time when you are talking about device compatibility. All Kickstarters have risks, but buying an accessory for a device that may not even exist yet is a larger than normal gamble. There were plenty of Kickstarters for iPhone accessories that didn't arrive until after they were already obsoleted by the lightning cable.

Will this work on your next laptop? Probably. Can the Dart team guarantee that the device will "work with all major PC brands" manufactured in the next year? Probably not. Is that risk worth the extra money you save on a pre-order? That is up to you to decide.
Institutional investors who could be pension funds or middlemen who repackage this new class of asset to sell to individuals for convenience. Not writing off the utility of such an instrument but multiple levels of complexity could be dangerous.
I wish I could use the cool things I see on HN. If it runs on someone else servers, I can't use it. The woes of working in a heavily regulated industry.
I hope that's not the only standardization we will get, since I don't really like vendor lock-ins (talking about Windows...) and I think we need something better than that.

Silly me? I know. And still I don't like it.

Maybe I am still too young. :)
"The FinCEN Subpoena requires Karpeles to appear and provide testimony in Washington, D.C. on April 18, 2014 – the day after the scheduled Bankruptcy Deposition of Karpeles in Dallas. The FinCEN Subpoena did not attach a document request and did not specify topics for discussion."

Why?
I did, but it only lasted like 50 yrs.
UMotio: Arduino compatible 3D Gesture Controller
I think all they have to do is litterally like or retweet your post.

Imagine the fear of someone when the IRS likes your post.

You would definately do your taxes right after that because you'd think they knew what you are up to.
> How has Glass transformed your daily routine?

I wouldn't say that Glass has been transformative for me in an everyday way. It's just enabled new kinds of interactions that I wouldn't have thought about before.

To take one example, I feel that I'm much more likely to use Glass to film myself doing something when I want to show someone else how to do it. I've used it at a whiteboard quite a number of times and I've found that to be extremely helpful, especially when I'm sharing my ideas or work with others remotely.

Before Glass, I probably would take a picture of the whiteboard and email it with some thoughts.

> Is it easy to decouple Glass from prescription glasses?

On the initial version of Glass, you couldn't really wear Glass and your own prescription glasses at the same time. It just wasn't comfortable. This was a huge drawback for me since I wear glasses, so the first version was sort of a bust.

The v2 Explorer model supports custom lenses, and those lenses are very easy to add or remove. They fit snugly into a tight metal/plastic brace embedded into the top frame. It's very easy to remove or swap them. However, the lenses are expensive (iirc $400) and it's unclear to me whether they're covered by health insurance.

> How long is the typical battery life in your experience? How long does it take to recharge?

Battery life is pretty abysmal. It's maybe ~120 minutes of active use, tops. I'm using "active use" here to mean swiping, recording, taking pictures, etc. It will last for a whole day if you just occasionally wake it up to ask for directions, take a recording, et cetera.

It charges pretty quickly, but I haven't actually timed it. I'd guess 0% ⇒ 100% can be done in a couple of hours or less.

> Has slow internet connectivity been an issue (via cellphone or Wifi)?

Not that I've found. Slow Internet doesn't affect any Glass more than it does your cellphone. You can still take pictures, record data, et cetera.

> Would you recommend Glass to someone who likes tech, but doesn't feel the need to be married to it?

I think you definitely have to be a gadget nerd to pay $1,500 for this and feel like it was a good idea. The novelty wears off fast (which is partially a good thing since it's a testament to the engineering design that it feels so natural).

If you're not going to actually carry Glass around and wear it a few times a week, you're not going to get much value out of it. It's kind of pointless to put it on at home. I should mention that I walk a lot (almost everywhere: work, the gym, the grocery store, etc.) and usually don't drive unless I'm leaving my city.

Hope that was helpful!
Soneca, there are a few links on the sidebar. My hope is that people will look for answers among the many excellent resources that are already available online. I also hope to develop the game further to make the physics that drives the planetary dynamics a little more clear.
and we broke it
Except it's not. This is the "you don't get to complain if you brag about your tax evasion in public and then go to jail" argument.
If you have to resort to an adapter you lose the main proposition (the small form factor), so the point remains.
Put glitter nail polish along all the seams of the device. Then photograph the dried pattern. Once the device is through the border, compare the patterns to the known ones to check for tampering.
I am for over complicating the tax code. Let me tell you why.

If we over complicate the tax code as well as complicate doing your taxes, maybe folks will finally get more upset with it.

The more folks get upset, maybe the more outspokeness to change it. The IRS is a huge problem and the loop holes are even a greater problem.

I am all for flat or fair tax at 9-13%. First you might say no, but with a flat tax, you no longer have to worry about filing taxes, but maybe a small slip of paper. Secondly, how much time is spent preparing and filing? Time could be drastically put back into the citizens rather than being taken away with another government task.
Siri was built--and still relies--on Dragon Mobile Speech Recognition from Nuance
Thanks. I read that, but was hoping that I could get more detailed information somewhere.
I'll see what I can do over the next couple weeks.
This is an innovation that is great for entrepreneurs. AngelList is certainly thinking out of the box.
Sadly this isn't directly Apple compatible. It says the mac version they buy an off the shelf apple power adapter and then connect them for you or something. I guess the magsafe connector is patented?

I would hope Apple was working on a smaller power brick, its kind of silly when my power adapter is almost as heavy as my Macbook Air 13". yeah, i know #firstworldproblems
Thank you! The palette is the awesome base16 by Chris Kempson.