skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's neat, you could almost convert me.

For Bash, M-# (alt-shift-3) puts a comment token '#' at the start of the current line and begins a new empty line. Handy if you are 150 characters deep in a command and realise you need to do something else for a moment (i.e. momentarily in the correct sense). You can store your 150 char command and come back to it, it is in the history and can be retrieved with a couple of Up-arrows.
We would never steal from our customers. That's not what this is about.
Is aligning months and days of the week to the same time every year a good thing?

There are benefits for things like accounting, logistics/scheduling, standardizing periods for better comparative analysis, etc.

Such systems are already in common use (though the extra day of the year does create a wrinkle):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-4-5_calendar
Its reasonable journalism. Certainly nothing worse then Legalize It! stuff I have seen that claim cannabis will cure all.
The poster is attempting to incite our fear for the children as a reason to fear the legalization of marijuana. He neglects to mention that Colorado has a 21+ policy, just like alcohol. He's ultimately arguing for a nanny state since he feels he is incapable of raising his children without them consuming the drug.

In short, he's sensationalizing, and that's not doing anyone any good.
> Can't buy it at the grocery store either.

In Pennsylvania, some grocery stores get around this ban (which includes liquor and wine anywhere other than state stores, and beer in stores that are not exclusively beer distributors) by creating a small building within their store that operates somewhat separately as a "cafe" or restaurant, which are allowed to sell alcohol (since they also serve food).

For example, the "Whole Foods Market Devon-Mile Post Pub" (http://www.beermenus.com/places/2550-whole-foods-market-devo...) is basically a garden shed with a walkin refrigerator that is inside of the Whole Foods. While it can sell beer, the enclosing Whole Foods cannot.

Really a ridiculous system. If pot legalization progresses as alcohol legalization did/continues to, then we have a long road ahead of us.
Will add. Revisit the page tomorrow.
Probably a similar number if you looked at it as an actual percentage of new companies. My next door neighbor is the founder of a little company called Garmin. Cerner was also founded here.
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Have you ever thought about building tax software for the other side of the fence i.e preparers? I'd love a chat about why the existing competition sucks and what's truly missing from the software market for tax professionals.
Wow, this blows me away.

Are you open to sharing what stack your team will develop with? I didn't catch that here, on your site, or your HN profile. As someone that's interested in this, that's one of the first questions I have; others may as well.

I'm not co-founder level, but I'm going to keep an eye on this.

Best of luck, I really hope you guys knock it out of the park.
No no no. There is nothing visionary about seeing pot is going to be big. Right now its a lot of small players that will have vicious,vicious competition. Are you going to be the one to win?
If there's anything we need more of on HN, it's partisan bickering.

This whole story is worse than useless
I code in NZ for a German company. We are very competitive on price compared to Germans, and very competitive on quality, compared to Indians. It's a happy middle ground.
Wish sometime in the future such devices get waterproofed and can be used to search missing airplanes. Lost a loved one :(
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might I suggest the angry video game nerd?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bByE7n2AJj4
That's racist as.
Seems like everyone needs to go back and read Mill's "On Liberty" again. Social pressure to silence speech is not prohibited, but we should seriously question the state of our society if it happens. Silencing someone rather than meeting them in open debate (or stating that you will not give them credibility by responding to them) is a sign that something has gone horribly wrong.
Check out his robotic ant too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaNkff5Yyg
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But daniel-cussen's question wasn't that at all.

You can flag a story as off-topic if you feel strongly that nothing like it should be on HN.
Yes, being a C programmer I knew curl is overkill, but not what's the best lightwieght alternative, now I believe it's:

http://at2.php.net/stream_socket_client
If I had to choose between having kids and starting a company, I'd choose the kids with no regrets. Startup life is overrated.
Power describes the abilities and consequences of speech - e.g. the government official saying no surveillance was done; the ethnic minority painted as a "dangerous thug" by the news media. Free speech laws exist so that a powerful force can't turn enemies into criminals. They don't act as a "get of jail free" when power is exercised; that is a different kind of debate, but free speech arguments tend appear primarily when power is being challenged.
Oh, I'm sure there's room for some gender sniping in here somewhere.
Has anyone had experience with "early exercise" of (non-ISO) options? As I understand it, this strategy lets you treat them for tax purposes as if you bought the underlying stock, meaning no tax liability at vesting or exercise, and capital gains are all you pay at final sale.

The downside is you have to pony up for the full strike price of all the shares at hiring. Works great if the company valuation is still nominal (ie before a 'valuation event' such as series A, though there may be cap note seed investment already)

One could imagine a company offering a hiring bonus that covers the cost of early exercise (padded for expected tax loss).

Maybe the real problem is this shit is complicated. Then again, we're programmers, right? Don't we do complicated by nature?
I think this is about image, not influence. Y combinator is much hipper than google, and makes for a much better media story.
Tax pros are like developers, most comfortable closer to the bare metal if you will. They use a separate product line that mimics the actual forms closely. They don't like the interview style because it just slows them down when they're barreling through hundreds of returns. Beyond the UI, there's no difference in the calculations they work with so that should tell you something.
Heh, just keep scrolling. You're almost at the bottom now
Seems par for his course.
I am wondering where all the downvotes are coming from.
Addition/Edit: They own at least two: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/aircraft/GlobalHawk/in...
+1 for CODE, I can't recommend that book enough to... and when you start talking about Morris code, telegrams, braille, OHMs, and binary math as your build up... well, it really just connects a lot of mental dots.
It is Startup Framework: http://designmodo.com/startup/
wow. that blog post was really hard to parse because it buried the lead so deep.

from the github repo

jsfmt formats javascript and allows AST searching and rewriting
You seem to think it was quite simple. It was not.
It's like that where I am in eastern Canada people go out smoke weed and drink every weekend if not every night!

Most have menial jobs just enough to get by with government assistance.

Yet everyone goes to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico every year and they make nothing. I can see how all-inclusive vacations became so popular.

I work with 20-year-olds who laugh if they are sent home at work for doing something wrong or if sent home due to some issue at work. A few have travelled all over Europe, Australia, South America yet make nothing as a salary I probably make four times what they do but can't see how they can afford it let alone me.

People are OK with you if you pay your bills nobody freaks out or looks down on you if you aren't super successful or even if you don't work full-time.
Could you include the "attacking" tweet as an example? I couldn't find it, just a post suggesting that you open a bug report unless you clearly just wanted to post the bug to poke fun and not really make it better.

If the individual(s) who responded to your tweet did so should apologize for it. They should have just asked for a bug report and respectfully requested that security issues be reported to the organization before making it public for bad actors to use. Although you are free to post about it however you feel is best.

As far as speech goes, there's a big difference between FREEDOM TO SAY WHAT YOU WANT and FORCING OTHERS TO ALLOW THEIR MEDIUM TO BE USED. That's what XKCD is saying.

If I own a microphone and you want to use it to say something I don't agree with, I don't have to give it to you just because you are free to say what you want to say.

If you want to praise Nazis, racism, bigotry, or whatever, you are free to do so. But you can't expect people to be forced to hand over their platform of communication for you to do it, whether it's a conference presentation slot, hosting servers, social media site, etc.

The government can't make laws preventing you from saying what you want to say. But it also won't make laws forcing anyone to enable you to say it.

As for the argument about show creators who are "forced" to censor certain jokes or statements, again, they are requested to do so. They don't have to do it, but the networks don't have to continue funding the show.
We came to this conclusion as well; we decided to do bonuses based on Y/Y revenue growth rather than equity. The bonuses are not capped.

This allows us to:

1) Justly reward our employees to the upside (with cash, delivered semi-anually) if things go according to plan

2) Automatically controls costs if we don't perform as a team

3) Achieve upside fairness across early vs late employees since we can adjust the bonus % as we hire each new person

4) Eliminates oddities due to variations in company valuations where swaths of employees end up underwater due to bad luck of timing

Downsides:

1) the tax treatment of bonuses as income rather than capital gains is nominally worse; but given the complications with options, it probably works out better for all but HUGE equity gains

2) this plan might not work well for a company that will be pre-revenue for many years, but that should be a pretty far outlier case.

All-in-all this allows us to offer the opportunity for employees to earn above-market comp without having hope they get lucky with company growth, market timing, and their timing of joining the company.

It's been 3 years now and so far, so good!
incorrect, I have had kimsufi servers before and I'm not an EU resident
I have also seen folks use bungee cords. You can get a lot more wood in a big circle, then stand on top of it and split it.
I love it when a comment fits a username so perfectly.
At the moment it's a Java stack, but we're intentionally not limiting our search to Java developers because we don't mind learning new ways of doing things - we love that part of software development.

That said, web is pretty broad so if you're a database expert that also dabbles in sys admin and node then we're interested in talking with you. If you're a talented engineer you can adapt to new technologies is the way we see it.
Hi, how expensive is it? I mean, I live in Southern California, and a 3 bedroom house 17 miles inland is upwards of $500,000. Checking real estate in NZ, houses can readily be found within blocks of the beach for $300,000 NZD (257,000 USD). Seems like a pretty good deal to me...
Nope. This guy is wrong and XKCD got it right. It is the enemies of freedom that want to blur the line between the govt stopping you from speaking out and a company that stops you from using their private resources to express your unwanted opinion.

Go back and listen to Snowden's SXSW talk last month. He makes exactly the same point that govt spying and govt actions are what need to be carefully prescribed by the constitution because the govt has the ability to take away your rights, throw you in jail and silence you without recourse. Google, Yahoo, et. al. do not have such power.

If HN kicks someone off this forum, no rights have been violated -- even if the reason for the ejection is unjust it still is not a First Amendment issue.
I would argue that Lua is way easier/smaller/neater than C#, but both CryEngine and Unreal have visual flow-based scripting systems, which are significantly easier for a novice than scripting.

In CryEngine their FlowGraph is basically a way of connecting predefined C++ and Lua code boxes. Blueprint in Unreal takes things to extremes and basically exposes almost the entire C++ API to the scripter.
OpenSSL could make the same argument about the original tweet that in essence was a threat against the security of the application done publicly without any thought of engaging the organization.

This is like hackers who compromise servers and then post sensitive account details publicly to harm the organization that was compromised. The original tweet did the same thing since he clearly hasn't take any steps to notify the organization about the exploit.
Congress should change the law so that the transfer of stock to workers is not taxed. I am not sure why pro-worker legislation like this wouldn't be supported.
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My favorite video channels are about microfinance and financial inclusion you can find them at
http://indiamicrofinance.com/x/microfinance-videos
If someone won't tell you the number of shares outstanding then you should value it during hiring negotiations at zero. I've had two potential employers (over 16 years) try to pull that on me and I was sure to tell them how much I thought their equity offer was worth during salary conversations. They both eventually produced information on company structure and valuation. It always helps to ask :)
Do you have any sources for that? Not the Chinese part, but the processor benchmarks.

I'd be very interested in reading them!
> Certainly, it's technically inaccurate to cite "First Amendment"
> rights universally, as that's only a restriction on government. But
> the "free speech" is distinct: you can certainly cite your "right to
> free speech" in cases that have nothing to do with government.

Yes you can bring up unrelated concepts in any discussion. That does not mean that people have to take you seriously or that you will not sound comically ignorant. pg did not consult me when he picked dang for the HN moderator. Can I cite the 26th amendment and demand that pg consider my vote for rdl?

I think we should just chalk this up to someone had a bad day at erratasec and leave it at that.
I shot you an email. Definitely interested in "fixing" tax prep... It's pretty sad how obtuse they make things and how often tax prep software nickel and dimes you even though the actual computational aspects of filling in the forms is pretty negligible.
Ask HN: Anyone has experience with Elastx
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I've come to believe that, while Obama ran as an idealist, he's more of a cynic and a pragmatist at heart. But if anyone could get away with holding his attention long enough to tell him off, it would be the YC crowd. He needs their money and he needs their influence. And I have no doubt he's going to try to sell, somehow, moving tech jobs and manufacturing back to the US or something.

While we can't expect much from Obama, at least publicly, we know some of the techno-riche are reading this thread right now (or having someone do it for them) so I think they can consider themselves as having their marching orders.

... not that the rich have ever, historically, had to follow... marching orders but whatever.
That really doesn't illustrate anything besides silliness.

It does illustrate how these don't mean anyone actually has $10 billion cash[1], but that wasn't the point here.

[1]: which does still confuse many as shown and explained here: http://money.stackexchange.com/questions/11368/how-are-start...
Open question: how do you look at the equity where one of the co-founders (Founder A) does not have to work for X number of years, since they've cashed out of another company. They have the capacity to work full time, whereas the other "co-founder" (Founder B) is only able to work part-time. Founder A has the means to not work for a lengthy period of time. While they're taking on an opportunity cost, is their risk viewed the same as some other guy that quits his job (kills his income) and maxes out his credit cards?

EDIT: According to Spolsky in his hypothetical situation, Founder B was not a co-founder because he kept his job. Founder A, OTOH was essentially unemployed and took on all the risk, and therefore was a "legitimate" founder.
My major reservation about using newly developed software to do my taxes is that it has no reputation - I have no idea whether to trust it or not. Will it expose me to the risk of being audited? Will it accurately send the IRS the same numbers that it's displaying on my screen? There will be no reviews available on Amazon or elsewhere when the software hits the market, and nobody I can ask about their experience with the software. I'd have to trust it on blind faith.

Also, there are strong forces working against a tiny company that wants to enter this complex market. A company with four people:

- Can't afford to hire as many testers as Intuit (or H&R Block, or the other major players) to test their software to make sure that it operates correctly.

- Can't hire as many CPAs and tax lawyers to confirm that they comply with the latest tax laws. If they want to "make income tax preparation and filing free for every taxpayer in America" (as their web site claims), that would involve staying on top of federal tax regulations, the tax regulations of fifty states, and also cities like NYC that have their own income tax.

- Can't hire as many security specialists to make sure that they're haven't overlooked a vulnerability on their web site.

So what's the value proposition? Why should people risk using this product next year instead of shelling out $25 or $50 dollars for the tax prep software they used for the last several years?
I am shame on that 15yan.com come from my county
It's especially disappointing that Anne Wojcicki (estranged wife of Sergey Brin) and Marissa Mayer would orchestrate this. They are lending serious tech community credibility and support to someone that deserves none of it. By hosting someone that has clearly damaged us, has not apologized for it, and seems to have every intention of continuing to do so, they are kind of betraying us.
Why did you exercise them?
VCharge is another startup in the Northeast working on the peak-leveling problem: http://vcharge-energy.com/
Good observation and I completely agree. On a slight tangent I've been spending time thinking if I had the ability to change the high school curriculum, how would I do it? So far the thought that has had the most appeal to me is to introduce "reverse engineering" as a core subject. I don't mean reverse engineering in the software or hardware sense, I mean it in the sense of a collection of logical techniques for figuring out the logic behind something phenomena or problems. In some sense "forward engineering" requires reverse engineering from the conceptual finish of a product to its current nonexistent state. Science is the reverse engineering of the laws of nature. But rather than have schools teach any of those skills, they teach encyclopedic knowledge. Knowledge is useful, but without the skills to analyse and use it, it's just wasted effort and brain space.
> I don't imagine it's done like that today; this was a long time ago.

Sadly, it still is in many (most?) places' CS curricula.

> And most didn't really understand binary and hex, and how it relates to code either. You'd be amazed most 3rd year students didn't know how 2^10, 2^20, 2^30 relates to kilo, mega, giga bytes

I've worked with graduates who didn't know binary, didn't understand signed/unsigned overflow and how integers wrapped around, and perhaps even more disturbingly, had never used a command line or knew how to do a lot of other things that could be called "basic computer literacy for CS students"... because almost all they were taught were mechanised steps on how to open an IDE, write some code, and click the Build/Run buttons. I think your book would be suitable for those students.

> But suggestions are welcome and I'll consider it when I get some time.

I think for the purpose you created the book, the organisation is fine; it appears to be a collection of selected topics instead of one meant to be coherently read from start to end.
Only nobody likes Java desktop applications. Including me, and I've programmed professionally in the language since 1998.

And they are non starters for demanding multimedia work, which is some of the most interesting stuff you want to do in the desktop as opposed as a web app.

.NET feels better (because MS didn't screw up as much, as Java did with the overengineered uncanny valley mess that is Swing), but it's not cross platform.

So, still, not comparable to deploying in the browser sandbox.
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I understand the problem. I just don't give it any validity. The renters think their wishes and desires to live in a specific area are more important than other people who wish to live in that same area. It comes across as immature and whining.

It's not just renting. It's income as well. There are lots of folks whining about how others make more money and how that "isn't fair". It's a broad theme of people complaining and having a sense of entitlement.
Where "computer science" = "computer architecture".
The fact is that Andreesen stands to benefit from claiming this is totally normally and rational.

That means there's a chance of personal bias in his opinions, not that he's automatically wrong.
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You can early exercise non-ISO options if your stock agreement allows it (also ISO but it's a little more complicated). If you also file an 83(b) election then you are indeed treated for tax purposes as if all the shares vested immediately, so if you exercise before the value of the shares exceeds your strike price then you pay no taxes until you sell the shares (or there's an acquisition or something).

http://www.mystockoptions.com/faq/index.cfm/catID/B7469ACD-2...

As you say, the big issue with this is paying the exercise price. There's not really any way around that. If you're going to pay your employees extra money to cover the exercise price then you might as well just give them shares instead of options. Another option is to loan the money to employees. I don't know how common that is with startups.
This was a great effort. Glad to see this happen.
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Off topic: Given the existence of a chicken pox vaccine. A chicken pox party is not even pragmatic. :)
I have experience with early grant of non-ISO shares, which may be different from what you're asking about.

I was granted shares (on a vesting schedule) at the time of formation of the company. I paid tax up front on the entire potential share grant when the shares were valued at $0.000001/share, which was a reasonable valuation at the time (very high risk, no tech proof, no demonstrated market, etc.). Although I have a significant # of shares and a significant % of equity in the company, the tax I paid was quite affordable. See 83(b) election.

If it pans out and I sell my equity, I will pay long-term capital gains on the difference between the valuation at the time of my 83(b) election and the sale price. If it doesn't pan out, I'm not exposed to AMT or other tax weirdnesses that other posters have noted. I found this mechanism useful.