skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, in the US once you make over $75,000 (before most deductions), you no longer qualify for student loan interest payment deductions. For someone making $74,000 before who receives a $2000 bonus, they lose out on the deduction--potentially worth significantly more in tax-adjusted terms than the gross amount of the bonus before taxes.

The student loan interest deduction (and this is true of most -- AFAIK, actually all -- deductions with an income cap) doesn't have a sharp cutoff, it has a phaseout -- you get the full deduction up to $60,000, and it is reduced continuously with income down to zero at $75,000.

At $74,000, the maximum student loan interest deduction is a $167 deduction (which, at that income, is worth $42 in reduced tax liability.) Even with a $1,000 bonus that takes you just to the cutoff, its not possible for the loss of the deduction to be "worth significantly more in tax-adjusted terms than the gross amount of the bonus before taxes". [1]

[1] http://www.irs.gov/publications/p970/ch04.html#en_US_2013_pu...
A significant cost for who? How many employees does the Danish government have?
Not about what prevented them from collaborating. The original claim I disagreed with was "Several systemd contributors cite this as the reason for starting systemd in the first place."

This does not make sense to me. They could fork it if it was good enough. If they started from scratch, then CLA wasn't the main issue. It's like "the corner store didn't have the milk I like today so I had to start my own farm".
Anti-Net-Neutrality “Fast Lanes” Are Bullshit
That was a title Crowley took for himself, as he enjoyed being a notorious figure. His actual behavior, though, amounted to little more than being a sex maniac and saying blasphemous things during a much more socially conservative era. His 'autohagiography' makes for entertaining reading if you can get past the turgid Victorian prose.

As for Parsons, the Wired article is being a bit clickbaity. In the last paragraph: Wired.co.uk contacted JPL and we asked whether Parsons had been written out of the history books. Historian Erik Conway said: "Jack Parsons is included in history books and other venues, and in fact, his role is discussed in the JPL-involved standard history, JPL and the American Space Program by Clayton R. Koppes. Parsons was one of the original founders of JPL. He was the team's chemist and developed the first castable solid propellant used to power aircraft."
>Please contribute your Haskell regex-dna program

No. I stopped bothering with that cluster fuck like a decade ago. It is a complete waste of time.
You can keep ipython kernel running in background if you want. Quick unscientific test showed that it didn't reduce ipython console startup time significantly. But it should be possible to make a leaner console to connect to the kernel.

edit: my test was flawed, with more accurate test there is almost a full second time difference:

$ echo -n | time ipython console --existing kernel-29793.json
1.06user 0.06system 0:01.52elapsed 74%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 29968maxresident)k
0inputs+64outputs (0major+19245minor)pagefaults 0swaps
$ echo -n | time ipython console
1.07user 0.08system 0:02.40elapsed 48%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 30264maxresident)k
0inputs+72outputs (0major+20538minor)pagefaults 0swaps

of course two seconds is ridiculously slow either way
>> High-ranking execs and employees change jobs all the time for numerous reasons.

They don't, that's why people are reading into it.
Ah right, I remember reading about you guys a couple of years ago. Glad to hear of your success! I used to work for the Public Knowledge Project and I think we learned a thing or two from your companies' attention to UX and design.
I just exported my data via http://moves-app.com/export and deleted my account. Know of any alternatives for Android?
Redis 2.8.9 Released
In today's atheistic science culture I'm not even sure who is offended by this.
If you think about it, these softwares the best attack surfaces for secret services. A prime example is the Google hack, when the hackers used Facebook as the attack vector.
5 Up-to-the-Minute, Essential and FREE Apps For News-Junkies (Android)
These are the best Android apps to stay in the know 24/7.
When it come to the sad state of technology in hospitals, any improvement is better than the current state of things. Sure, this is the kind of software that would really benefit from redundancy and a waterproof disaster-recovery plan, but the main thing here is that someone tried and actually managed to make a dent into a very real problem in the industry. This is a small step in what I hope will be a near-term future for better healthcare. You have to start somewhere.
> too much money chasing too few assets

And why are there too few assets? To put the question another way, why is it that, even though the Fed has given banks $2.8 trillion in quantitative easing, the banks can find nothing better to do with it than to leave it in their accounts at the Fed earning 0.25%? Is there really nothing more productive going on that they can loan money for?

My worry is that I don't see any "mainstream" economists asking this question.

http://blog.peterdonis.com/rants/non-beatings-will-continue....
> Can you imagine any other industry where the people doing most of the work aren't compensated financially and conglomerates make most of the profit.

Every online company relying on user generated content?
So, Thomas, when do I get to say "I told you so"?
The Golden Ratio and Typography
I imagine a world where the vast, arbitrary .. human .. distance between magic and science are embraced by the world at large, and not shunned by the ruling technocratic order. What if, in fact, we could discuss the vast magick order here on Earth so comfortably well that one day, we do it on the Moon?

I wonder if we will go to Mars with purely scientific purposes in mind? I hope not.
How do you organize your bookmarks?
How do yo deal with this problem (if it is a problem for you)?

Whenever I come across a good article or tutorial on a specific dev topic I always bookmark it because I know I am going to want to reference it at a later date. Having multiple gmail accounts (work, personal, etc) I can't sync my bookmarks in the basic chrome bookmark bar. Do you use anything that solves this, or know of any good tools? I can't find anything good out there. I might just have build one!
New law restricts rights of Russian bloggers
I'd be interested to know as well, my current pay grade isn't privileged to that information. When they rolled the system out, we all collectively sighed when we saw the mapping. To be fair, however, our maps must have hydrant information. The county/city GIS people provide the maps we use.... I suspect the crazy layers of bureaucracy and COST! is to blame. Cities are strapped for cash and IT folks are dumping government jobs faster than a downvote on reddit. Truth be told, I don't blame them...
Tracking Flu Outbreaks with Wikipedia
What should I do if LastPass gets bought out next?
A lot of my private data has been transferred to big companies via acquisition. What if it's something like LastPass next? It's safe to say I'm a little concerned.
Sorry if I'm asking a stupid question, but:

How come all these "internal memos" always leak? Is it fine to share an internal email without getting in trouble at a public company?
I wrote a script to import Wikipedia traffic data for the Influenza page and graph it. (Updates daily)

Graph: http://www.additiveanalytics.com/solutions/flu_tracker

Inspired by this study published last week: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...

The researchers found that Wikipedia page view data provided better real-time reporting on influenza outbreaks when compared to the CDC's data (which has a typical lag of 1-2 weeks) and Google Flu Trends (which had trouble with the 2012-2013 flu season and 2009 H1N1 panic.

Graph was done with d3.js.
> And _all_ of that interest was shot dead due to attempts to own identity by enforcing the use of real names[1].

It was an understandable, safe, and wrong decision at the time.

Facebook's commercial power was widely attributed to the fact that for the first time, wide swaths of people were using their real identity online. With the investment that Google put into +, the risk of having another sea of MetalHead444s was high.

I'm just unhappy that they didn't take any really bold steps to differentiate themselves from Facebook, and instead went full Microsoft by attempting to replicate the UI.
Not switching, not angry... just hold them accountable to simplify their code base AND get the TLS WG to cut back on features. Heartbleed AND LibreSSL will force their hand to make changes.
No, the reporter created and submitted a fake paper, he didn't publish it. It's not your fault -- the author of the linked article got the facts wrong also.
Eric had already stepped down as CEO at the time the Real Names decision was made. That came from Vic, Larry, and the team leadership.
That signed cookie scheme you are talking about exists in Apache as AuthTkt...
So many choices. What was I thinking?
Viber sends video and images unencrypted
Thanks for the tip, dang.

I resubmitted the story here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7641897
Hey, I think sending some cash is cheap too. It is that "you are worth exactly $25" I hate. If it were - - a public thanks, that would be way better than anything.
Either send nothing, or do something good. This bug is not major, but as you said "went above and beyond" some cheap giftcard only implies "you got your $25 that you worked so hard for and we are not grateful anymore, it was a nice trade." These people usually do this because they like it.

This is my point of view and not necessarily right nor wrong.
I think that's just people suggesting companies that have had a recent people of hiring people that say stupid things, not serious speculation. [Brendan Eich, Tom Preston-Warner, Tom Perkins] Because vicg@ also says a lot of stupid things (and does a lot of stupid things).
Most Facebook haters could be satisfied. Just not by anything copying the creepy and unethical practices of Facebook.
Except the code used in the benchmarks game is hardly idiomatic
Upvoted for mentioning TempleOS, I have never been more frightened when reading about OSs.
Marissa resigned by e-mail and just didn't come into work that day.
Well, I hate the opaque bits of both those, but that doesn't mean an upgradable board can't be designed around the specs they implement, and those chips are just the commodities that populate them. Write your code for ARM, make a good pin-compatible interface that can allow for replacement with other components if necessary.
I really appreciate this post for a number of reasons, but you should be aware of some irony in what you write, particularly as it relates to Andy.

Andy Warhol's entire worldview as an artist revolved around the parody of fame and "art". He was primarily an unmasker of those with a certain view of "art" as a precious, special thing. He would be laughing at the idea that anyone took his images for "art"! The fact is made even more delicious by the insanely high value placed on his images of ridiculously mundane stuff.

That said, Andy, probably much to his own chagrin (although there are few artists who don't occasional marvel at their own skill!), was a brilliant graphic artist. His work is immaculately designed, beautifully proportioned, elegant and indeed, very "special" (in the sense of art, the craft without the air quotes). This is a double or triple or Nary entendre, if you are Andy Warhol: You are commenting on the ridiculous qualities of "art" while at the same time creating exactly the type of "art" that you are parodying - and loving every minute of it! Genius! Someone has to do it!

Please don't think that the fixation on people like Andy means that others are lesser. All are not. Like any other discipline, some are, some aren't. Andy just happens to be famous! And dead, of course.

I don't think that art historians have really caught up with the digital age. It's kind of funny that 99% of all of the images we see today have been manipulated by computer.. you think that some of them might have figured that out! Either way, Andy elevates all digital artists by creating digital art on the Amiga. I'm very glad they discovered it.

Give the art historians a little time. They'll figure it out eventually.
Yes, this is the core worry. OpenSSL needs a press release to commit to a 360-review, top-to-bottom and engage more to lead the tech / stds WG to reduce complexity.
Watch as swarms of micro-robots run around making stuff.
Early Googler here. It's funny how often the story of the mass-firing is misreported. This article gets two basic facts wrong:

1) Larry was targeting engineering management, not project management.

2) Nobody was fired. The engineering managers shifted to pure engineering roles (an easy move, since they all had technical backgrounds).

On many teams, the managers continued managing, but they did it more discreetly, taking care to stay out of Larry's way. A year or so later, after the engineering staff had doubled in size, it became clear hat it wasn't practical for one VP (Wayne Rosing) to have 200 direct reports, and engineering management came back out of the shadows.
Titillating 'secret history' isn't really the same thing as "deep politics", it's just cocktail-party conversational fodder. If you didn't know of NASA's roots in the Third Reich's military rocketry programs then you weren't paying attention in history class - especially true for readers of Wired's UK edition, since the vast bulk of German rocketry efforts were targeted on London after the Luftwaffe was defeated in the Battle of Britain. You can't live in the UK for any length of time and not be aware of this.
That was the sequence to accept a security transfer and print the screen (hundreds a day). Then I would match the print-outs to trade confirmations and type the data back into a spreadsheet. Sort of a digital equivalent of digging a hole in the morning and filling it back up after lunch. It was supposed to be a temp job for a couple weeks until the fancy new system was ready, but I quit after 6 months.
The article was removed because OP snuck a Bitcoin tipper into the article.

https://twitter.com/alexia/status/459376944006856704
Another rule for a small freelancer: Bill hourly. Never accept a fixed-bid contract. These small clients will withhold payment until every last detail meets their desires. Plus, it's NEVER a good enough specification. Also, most clients will change their mind about they want when they start seeing results.

Suppose you take a fixed-bid contract that you expect to take a month. You do your month of work and deliver it to the client. Now the client asks for changes X, Y, and Z, and says they aren't paying you until it's done. Now your options are (1) Argue about whether that was covered by the original specification, which does no good even if you're right because they're refusing to pay. (2) Follow the sunk cost fallacy and do extra work for free, hoping to get paid for the work you already did. (3) Walk away, and don't get paid for the work you already did. Also, if there was a deposit, now the client may try to sue you! (4) Sue to collect, but they know that you, as a small freelancer, don't have the resources to lawyer up and sue. Even if you hire a lawyer to write a tight freelance contract, they may refuse to sign it or attempt to negotiate it, and the lawyer fees are more than your revenue.

For example, at my last job, my employer hired a freelancer (not me) to do a WordPress site. Even though the site was done, he refused to pay, because "his business was having cashflow problems". I pointed out "Hey! The guy did the work! Why aren't you paying him? It's not his fault that you're having financial problems!" He did, several months later, pay. Then, the guy put a logic bomb in the site that I had to remove. (Owner: "WAAH! My site was hacked! Fix it! I'll pay you extra if you fix it now!" [I was not there that day.] I fixed it, no bonus was paid.)
As others have said, the technical arguments against FIPS don't mean anything when a huge potential customer requires it.
Perhaps 99.9% of them don't leak.
They have / had an explanation about what needs to be done on their home page. Their news bulletins and their wiki are as important as the distribution itself.
"With little emotion, speaking in his usual flat, robotic tone[...]As Page talked, he kept his gaze averted, resisting direct eye contact."

Journalists have a tendency of portraying figures in tech circles as being on the spectrum, while very often that isn't the case.
Yes he was an extreme pack rat, like a lot of artists. I read he even archived his garbage. If you do mixed-media work or still-lifes, it makes sense too. I think Rembrandt and Picasso were pack rats too.
You paid someone to build you a house. Therefore you built the house! It wouldn't have happened without you to pay, would it?

It's not dishonest, it's just shorthand. Context, dude.
Another ignorant question ... so you have a massively powerful microwave beam pointed at a certain spot of your nation. What happens when it misses? Passes over the inhabited land that's infinitesimal fractions of a degree away from the target?

From 36000 miles, a few miles is a rounding error. Must take some huge tolerances to keep the beam pointed in the right place.

Is this even dangerous, or am I off base? I know they're nervous about nuclear since Fukishima, but unless I'm mistaken there's similar risks with this option.
There A LOT of downvoting across all HN threads recently. In every single topic there are comments upon comments that are in gray and barely any actually deserving to be there.

These aggressive downvoting sprees also seem to coincide with that change in HN stewardship from few weeks ago.
I'm not sure this is true. I see plenty of products that have 1k+ rollouts more frequently. Maybe some businesses aren't sophisticated enough to do that, but those are the large, slow businesses of the herd that will get picked off by faster movers. That's why healthcare, defense & education are popular industries to enter right now, because many of the entrenched players can't keep up with the game. There is _no_ intrinsic reason that b2b should be different from b2c. I bet the old guard's lobbyists and capital can only last for so long.
I would say relational data is the dominant use case for spreadsheets. It's a natural fit given the rows and columns. What other kind of data do you see in spreadsheets? Hierarchical data is not a great fit for spreadsheets.
> it's starting to be assumed that systemd is the only init system that anybody will use.

You can still use Windows, OSX or FreeBSD.
In fairness, Parsons's occult history isn't particularly new, shocking, or politically dangerous ground in 2014.

It's not mainstream knowledge, by any means. And I'm sure a lot of folks are reading about it in Wired for the first time. But Parsons's backstory has been covered pretty extensively -- most recently as a significant side chapter (or two) in "Going Clear," the NYT-bestselling book about L Ron Hubbard and Scientology. Prior to that, Parsons figured prominently into "Barefaced Messiah," another Scientology history, written in the late 1980s.

For the record, "Going Clear" and "Barefaced Messiah" are fascinating reads. I recommend them. It's unfortunate that Parsons, a man of legitimate and numerous accomplishments, has been so thoroughly overshadowed by the con artist L Ron Hubbard. But Hubbard had a much better knack for publicity.
> I don't even want to consider what a bad government might do in this case

So you just magically assume that there are no bad governments? That doesn't seem very reasonable to me. Nor does your claim that this is something governments are somehow magically good at. They're not.

> for you your life is usually precious

If that were actually true, people would behave very differently than they do. Any behavior that, on average, reduces your life expectancy, is irrational under your assumption. And since most behaviors do that, your assumption leads to the conclusion that people should not do most of the things they in fact do.

> Basically it comes down to bargaining power.

If governments actually did nothing more than bargain for the best rates for any given treatment, on behalf of every citizen of the country, and then let each citizen choose (along with their doctor, of course) the best treatment they can afford, that would be fine. Even subsidizing some people to level the playing field for "what they can afford" to the extent possible would be fine. But no government limits itself to just doing that. Governments always end up rationing actual treatments. And they do it badly.
My impression was that G+ was stymied by a bad go-to-market strategy. I'm sure the real names issue didn't help, but I'm not certain it had the impact you're suggesting.

Their go to market strategy was essentially the same as the Chinese government-run construction companies that build an entire city from farmland, cut the ribbon and expect a stampede.

Getting it right is complicated and I couldn't do it justice in an HN comment, but generally I think they should've focused on a specific winnable market and grown from there.
I'm very much interested in this as well.

"There are huge political, monetary and bureaucratic reasons, too."

As a standard web / mobile developer how could I help at least in those areas?
Yeap, aware. But handing someone a multi-million lottery ticket can Anna Nicole Smith them. To start, 50k or so and see how they use it. More as they show ability to budget and results.
Glass is back: Order page returns to life after “one-day” sale
Bug bounties also pay for the work an individual puts in on x-random company's product. The time taken to figure out and fully demo a POC isn't inconsequential.
The buying spree continues! I wonder what they paid this time?
Real Names didn't come from Eric. He was gone by the time G+ rolled out. Vic had a large hand in the real names decision.
Careful, last time I made this as a top level comment, he pretty much lost it on me.
I could have sworn I saw a comment from you where you said that others could and should do as your are doing and telling people why their comments were not appropriate, but now I can't find it, so it must have been someone else. Oh well, no matter.

Anyway, while I know I have your attention, I really appreciate how active you've been in working on HN and making yourself available to the community.
Animated spoof video of Y Combinator
VC Steve Jurvetson: Elon Musk is more capable than Steve Jobs was
People on secret are one subpoena away from being revealed.
Just to clarify what you mean by "on the spectrum", do you mean the mental illness one? It's a new expression for me and searching only came up with things related to autism, etc.
Well, yes, it is bad policy -- it hinders development of a home-grown technology and business in a field dominated by foreigners. But the direct-sale bans are based on politics, not rationality. In the long run, many Americans will be employed in a very successful domestic electric car industry, and when that happens, the politics will reverse. Then the car dealers will say, "What were we thinking?"

People may wonder why Tesla is moving part of its operation to China. I don't. It's a shame, but it's perfectly understandable.
Yea, I knew it was Vic for a while now. BTW, I wonder if my emails to you helped.
Did this article get flagged? It was one the first page, and just found it at #132 (in spite of 17 points in 26 minutes). This is front page news, no?

The algorithms HN use baffle me sometimes.
Alternately, they are low-content comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606127 .
Yeah, look me up when you've been cleaning up Rails code from developers who didn't bother to understand solid design principles for several years... that whole "wait til its a problem" thing falls apart pretty quickly in non-trivial domains.