skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently this is an unpopular opinion here but fucking mental standing slow clap in my head when I finished that.

That's a nice piece of cogent writing.
Any places cheaper than St Kitts/Nevis ($400K)?
1000-horsepower technology-packed hybrid race cars take the pole in 2014
Very well put, Patrick. Funnily enough, I'm living in Peru right now (been coming here for the past 15 years) and make the same argument to anyone who challenges what free markets can do to lift a country out of poverty. Chile's results are even more impressive, given that the country is now in the top-10 freest countries in the world, and the wealthiest per capita in Latin America.
One of my problems there is that we have a large number of foreign people (myself included) who've only been in the city for a few years. For a number of them this is their first job. Accordingly, the social networks are small. I'll try to work on that, though.

Thanks for your feedback
>This may be a correlation-vs-causation effect. It's possible that companies that are in poor markets and likely to do poorly in the next few years have to pay more to attract qualified CEO candidates, because good executives realize the shit the company is in and don't want to take the risk of a failure on their resume without being compensated significantly for it.

I was also thinking that it could be the correlation vs causation effect, but I think it may have more to do with the fact that the highest paid CEOs are usually going to be found working at gigantic companies that are struggling to continue to grow.
Hey all, first hacker news post.
My friend made this interactive art website. You click to make noise. Its more fun with more people, enjoy!
Great work Peter!

This would have been perfect when I was trying to get my head around how DynASM works.

I should try and pick it up again soon..... (if only there was time!)
Sortie En Mer
Are all non-citizens required to file US tax returns for US source income, or is that a rule specific to citizens?

A large chunk of this forum likely has US source income, so it would be good to know.
Can't navigate to docs.angularjs.org in chrome
Navigating to any url under docs.angularjs.org redirects my (latest) chrome browser to https://%26/g. Doesn't happen in other browsers :/. Happening to anyone else?
It's these comments that get a little old. Yes, obviously Facebook wants to make more money, and they do that by selling your information to advertisers. Thanks for the reminder. At the same time, I don't think it's a stretch to say that Facebook has enriched the lives of millions of people. I know it has allowed me to stay in touch with family and friends who I otherwise would probably speak to more rarely. That's meaningful to me.

I'm also tired of the "why don't you go out and have a REAL conversation" comments. I would love to have lunch with the friends I keep in touch with primarily on Facebook. Unfortunately, they live halfway across the country, so it's not that easy.

Just because the interactions happen online doesn't mean they're not real or meaningful. The fact that your comment on an online forum suggests otherwise is particularly rich.
I'm a writer and I think "like that". I know many other writers that do, as well.

And it's not surprising, because writing itself is a technology in a traditional sense. Further, it's more "tech" oriented (in the more contemporary sense) than you give it credit for.

It's very close to coding: It's structural, admits of procedure, copy reuse, partakes of historical design advancements, adapts to tech around it, etc. Fuzzier, maybe. But try and do it well, sometime. The edges are harder than you might think.

(And, as an exasperated aside: Ugh!! There is no wall between creative types and tech types! No such types exist in the first place. Only weird, sticky prejudices.)
Windows basically moves this responsibility to the developer. Apple's approach for this matter has been proven much more pragmatic - at worst you'll see a few assets pixelated but at the correct size, and to ensure retina compatibility, developers only need to define their assets twice.
Absolutely amazing release! A quarter back we had a small chat with @coffeemug, to see if RethinkDB would be a good fit for our product (geospatial indexing, ad-hoc queries, realtime updates, ...). He said then that it wasn't yet, and promised that it would be in a year's time. I see now what he means, Rethink is already looking like a very strong contender!
I think http://DailyCred.com has a good solution for this. They host the entire front end during authentication and shoot you back an auth token which you can then grab the user info from.

Surprisingly, its the only one service I could find in the space that supports email login. There's lots of providers for social login, but as far as i can tell DC is the only one doing email.
Taxes pay for government services, which the citizenry of the United States broadly speaking wants, though they quibble every 4 years about the relative mix and funding levels. Tax laws are complex, highly technical, and require application of a voluminous body of rules to the infinite variety of potential fact patterns.

Many citizens, particularly those who have complicated fact patterns in their personal lives, are not capable of calculating their own taxes or would prefer to avoid doing so. Tax accountants and attorneys assist citizens in their obligations to calculate and pay the taxes required by the law, without paying more than they are obligated to pay.

I have a great accountant. (Hiya Cameron. waves) He sherpas me through my increasingly complicated international tax situation every year, which will never include renouncing my US citizenship but does often include such scintillating topics as "Does the US Revenue Code consider Japanese Self-Employment tax to be an income tax or not? If it does, should my income tax return for 2013 reference Japanese self-employment tax paid in 2013 or accrued in 2013? Is it most to my advantage to treat that as a necessary expense incurred by my business or as a deductible foreign tax or in some other fashion defined by the US-Japan Tax Treaty?" I pay Cameron so that I don't have to spend a week figuring that out, and can instead ship software, write emails, and otherwise move the business forward.
It seems remiss of the article to not mention the word 'manna' meaning a mystical food or a spiritual nourishment. The OED has it as a Hebrew word, possibly coming from Aramaic word. Most often rendered in English with two N's, following the Greek μάννα, it is sometimes spelled with one. It appears not only in the bible but is used in English in multiple senses in every century from the 13th to the 21st.

I'm not saying there isn't a Austronesian connection, I just think an academic piece would do well to mention a credible second hypothesis. I'm not a linguist but without very clear and direct evidence my working hypothesis would be that both words probably had an influence on the fantasy version. "Manna from Heaven" would have been heard in conversation by almost every single person he names in the article. Shakespeare, Milton and Dickens all use it.
The first editor I used was HomeSite in the mid 1990s. I eventually wanted a more powerful editor. Many programmers recommended Emacs and Vim, but their learning curves seemed too steep. I switched from HomeSite to jEdit in the late 1990s because some jEdit users argued that jEdit had the power of Emacs but without the steep learning curve.

I used jEdit for a few years, but eventually I needed to program in a language for which there wasn't a good jEdit plugin available. That's when I switched to Emacs. It took me several full days to make the switch, much shorter than I expected it would, but I was far more experienced at that point than I was when I first heard of Emacs.

I wish I had switched to Emacs sooner, mostly because of Org mode, which has changed my life. Even if I were to start using an IDE because of a job requirement or whatever, I would still use Emacs for knowledge management.

FYI, I don't code in Java, and many people who do prefer IDEs, even some Emacs users.
The US taxes you on wages only if you are within the borders when you do the work. So a noncitizen doing work outside the USA and getting paid by a US customer or employer is not taxable in the USA on those wages.

You would not need that intervening corporation in Ireland for income tax reasons but there are probably good business reasons for putting a layer between you and the US company.

If you are a US citizen you are taxed on your wages no matter where you are on Planet Earth. Some relief is possible (first approx $100k not taxable, for instance).
but when you did it, it wasn't called "crowdsourcing". ;)

I think it's generally not a great idea because people don't know how to sell their network. They may be able to sell their friends, but anyone in an extended network? Probably not - the other party is likely better at selling themselves than I'm going to be.
You all know this article is from a year ago right? Relevance?
Kind of surprising it took so long to figure out and optimize. As an outsider it always kind of smelled to me like their marketplace was flawed, even back several years ago when I first saw it.
> there are many cultish aspects to the mainstream

Quite literally, given how many aspects of 'cults' went mainstream. Environmentalism, meditation...
The greatest part is that now most of these banks are required by law to report our accounts to the IRS. So now that the IRS is notified we no longer have to worry about penalties right? Wrong. Now they have an automated way to detect and fine us.
Saw the IEEE domain and was intrigued, but this is just another "I don't get it" piece, wherein the author reveals himself to also not get it (or more likely, is being deliberately obtuse because it makes for a 'better' article).
When you give up your citizenship, don't you owe the IRS capital gains tax on all assets you own, as if you had liquidated them? (iirc)
I suppose this can depend on the context of the users. Personally, I've gone through the beginnings of MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat (the last of which I've uninstalled and never use). Having more than a decade of various types of social networking, I've "grown up" on what amounts to a more wordy, involved kind of interpersonal communication.

The generation of people who are just turning 18, though, have grown up with more immediate forms of social networking. Snapchat, Secret, etc reign supreme in younger demographics.

An interesting parallel is the concept of a meme. For people who were around for the growth of the meme, they're stories or actions. For younger folk, they're image macros.
Long wave radars are fine for early warning. (e.g. HEY! There's some thing out there!) But they can't help you figure out where it is exactly. (e.g. guide an anti-aircraft missile to intercept).
Similarily, Westboro Baptist Church protests are public safety issues, because they provoke large angry gatherings. How does the FBI handle that? Do they collaborate with corporations and local police departments to systematically discredit, propagandize against, and wage psychological warfare against the WBC?

Or do they do striaghtforward police work, provide a detail of officers at protests and counterprotests just in case anything gets out of hand, and generally behave reasonably?

There is a very far divide between "wholly ignorant" and "actively subverting." There is also a far divide between that and "sharing information on what to expect."

See also: undercover police excesses in the UK and US, including having children with activists to maintain cover.
What did you always suspect was the core flaw?
If the US source income has tax withheld at the correct amount (default is 30%) then no tax return is required.

The magic is in understanding the metaphysics of the definition of US source. Just because the money comes from a US customer doesn't mean that you have US source income.

If I hire a web developer in Canada and he designs my site whilst sitting in a chair in Vancouver, the income he ears from me is not US source. Weird I know. For services, income is sourced where the human body who did the work is physically located. God what an awful sentence.
This. Also Iceland and NZ. Pretty much any developed country, really, because among those the US stands alone in subjecting its citizens to this onerous tax filing BS.

Obviously, if you want to live in the US, that doesn't apply. Just plan on staying there, or only living abroad for a year or two.
You don't think they're building things that matter? have you seen their app install ad network?
Same with Chrome.
I like the idea. It could shake up the whole lurker pool of users or fail miserably. Wouldn't it be interesting to have a community of users that are 100% engaged?
The Google career path, Part 3: Performance reviews and promotions
>If you are a US citizen you are taxed on your wages no matter where you are on Planet Earth. Some relief is possible (first approx $100k not taxable, for instance).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but after that $100K deduction you're essentially paying the higher of the local tax, or the US tax?
Soylent and food are not mutually exclusive. Soylent replaces feed, not food.

If anything, soylent makes those times when you eat out extra special, since you get to eat out for the sake of flavour rather than to fill up your belly, and you get to spend the money you didn't spend on regular meals.
I stopped reading after:

...effort to produce a single foodstuff that could
be consumed, to the exclusion of anything else...

I am interested in Soylent. I am interested in what people, who took the time to find out about it, say about Soylent. But this is a strawman at best, and ignorant at worst.
Amazon introduces SDD EBS
The only ones would could regulate CEO salaries in this manner is government and given the job they do with taxi cab medallions, I do not believe they are competent to do anything but screw it up.
I could lease a new BMW with the money I'd save eating Soylent. There is no food in the world that produces more happiness than a new BMW.
Everything discussed about limiting CEO salaries is actually anti-competitive and will lead to control of everyone's salaries. That has never worked.
Any news regarding hosting this yourself? I remember this being asked a few times, but I'm curious if your stance has changed since.
You'll miss the goats, the burning mannequins, rockets being thrown of a lift onto a crane on a tank, the toaster bolted onto a tank and the grand finale.

Also you'll miss the fact that everyone except the guy that said what would happen got promoted and he retired prematurely.
Read up about it, if you can find the time: the Puerto Rico situation is different than all other foreign countries for US citizens.
I see. Thanks. I'm a former Peapod user and that is very different indeed.
That's certainly not the only or even the most common usage of the word.

For example, most educated Catholics don't consider the Anglican church or mainstream Judaism or Islam as cults. On the other hand, many Catholics would consider Jehova's Witness and some pentecostal churches as cults, even though at some level Catholicism's doctrines share more bullet points with these organizations than with Judaism or Islam.
Ah, that makes sense, actually. What about someone in Canada, selling a product on a website hosted in the US, with a customer billing address in the US?

My intuition says "not us source" because the production and administration of the product was in Canada.

There are also categories of income which are exempt from witholding, such as royalties. For instance, Canadian authors receive royalty cheques from Amazon with no witholding if they submit a W-8BEN. Is their income "non-US source" because the owner is not resident in the US?
I recently took a regular cab from the San Francisco airport. The driver had some choice words to say about Uber, and told me that he's lost 80% of his customers inside San Francisco in recent years. He uses an app to find customers and I ended up paying him with my card using Square. I'm not sure there is a difference between him and an Uber driver, except that he's held accountable by regulation designed to protect those who ride in these cabs.
Agreed. But my question is still valid (and not deserving of the down votes) given that so many Americans do not react to their government's privacy and anti-democratic intrusions with the same disdain they have toward China's.
I can't tell if you're serious or not. If you're not, well, cool.

If you are, well, your perspective might need a bit of realigning. As someone who's driven nearly every new BMW that's been made in the past 10 years, I can _assure_ you the happiness they produce is short-lived, at best.
I should have read their FAQ first, but I didn't see it. Their fastest delivery was 12 minutes. :^)
I could go for a new MBA myself, but to each their own :)
I wonder how much work is actually involved with running such businesses that cater to peer economies. Airbnb, Uber, and Lyft, their site is a simple web app. I see more and more startups with simple web apps that is catered around a business model that involves being a marketplace or automating some process.

What's happening behind the scenes to such startups? Is it a group of marketers?

Say I create an Airbnb clone, what now? Or say I create Uber app, what's the next step? Does the chicken or the egg come first?
> What the Maori thought it means, and what Christian missionaries allowed contemporary culture to understand it to be

You are committing a common error in portraying the Māori and their culture as being crushed and suppressed by colonialism. Hapless victims. The reality of the interplay between missionary and Māori is far more nuanced than that and you a strong disservice to Māori in your portrayal.

I'd ask what basis you have for your assertions about the 'lost' definition of mana, when the definition of mana in the Māori Dictionary specificially states:

> 2. (noun) prestige, authority, control, power, influence, status, spiritual power, charisma - mana is a supernatural force in a person, place or object.

It goes on to explain how mana originates from the Atua and propagates down. It also discusses the close relation between mana and tapu. http://www.maoridictionary.co.nz/word/3424
Correct. If you are "rich" ($2 million net worth or $157k average tax bill over the previous five years) then you pretend you sold everything. The first $680k of gain is tax free but you pay tax on everything above that. Bad things happen to your retirement plans and IRAs.
On the first of every month there are two posts on HN by "whoishiring"
[1]. The first submission is the "Who is hiring?" [2] post and the
second is the "Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer?" [3] post. You'll want to
look at the latter to find a remote front-end developer.

[1] HN user: whoishiring

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7829013

[2] Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7829042

[3] Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7829013
Phones falling off a roller-coaster could be dangerous!
I'm pretty serious. I have an old one now and driving it makes me happier than any meal I've ever had. But that's mostly because I hate food :)
I agree for the most part but I would like to question your use of rural in this context.

As I see it, there are a couple of rural pockets near the city but they're the exception rather than the rule. There's an approximately 20 mile buffer of suburbs between the city proper and rural areas.

Maybe it's a difference of experience so where do New York eyes see as rural near the city?
yeahhhh i mean i guess part of the "guilt" i was expressing is a regret that I was too young/inexperienced to be able to contribute and I too just handed money over to Max/MSP when they were still on version 4, which IIRC was not very different from Pd at the time.

I think when Max 5 introduced "Presentation Mode" I knew it was over, and then Max for Live was the nail in the coffin, but prior to that I'd seen most students using Max because they believed it was more feature-rich even though most of our professors were using Pd to do more complex work than my Max-toting peers. Similar to Matlab/Octave... I've seen a few Octave users outpacing Matlab users simply because they were free to experiment without having the roadblocks of toolkit purchases.

Cycling 74 has done a good job over time for sure I'm just saying that as recently as 5-10 years ago there wasn't such a clear dichotomy, and the release of Max for Live really struck me because it was a proprietary integration, huge departure from pluggo's VST philosophy.

I think I just have to get used to the fact that despite the great work being done on projects like Pd/Jack/Ardour, audio technology is probably drifting further away from OSS than towards it

It's tough, I want to contribute to to some audio projects but most of the ones that are gaining traction seem to be putting up paywalls or are too rooted in platform-specific code. I'm toying with some audio stuff on the JVM, will see how that goes....
I'd argue it's not.

People that are paid most to do a job that isn't repetitive manual labor have worst performance scores, time and time again.

So unless CEOs are paid to manually bolt things or throws ball into a hoop, they probably aren't doing well because, in part, they are given money.
Money introduces fear (i.e. fear that you won't make enough money or lose your position with lots of money) and that leads to tunnel vision.

People give more performance if you give them more autonomy, mastery and purpose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
It exposes your application structure.