skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>The other awesome thing about Norwegian taxes is that the government does it for you.

The US has also attempted to do this. However, every attempt has been killed by corporate interests (like Intuit) and politicians (mostly Republicans) and special-interest-groups (conservative anti-tax organizations)

The latter claim that the government shouldn't automatically create a form with all taxes done because the government will not try to minimize citizen tax payments (and most people will check the 'OK' button without reviewing their taxes to see if they can get additional deductions). In reality, I think that most anti-tax organizations realize that they'll lose a significant portion of their support if filing taxes becomes easy. In the case of companies like Intuit, the motives are obviously transparent.
Ah, but 6 is interesting! It's the smallest number that can be expressed as the product of two different prime numbers (2 x 3).

Of course, all natural numbers are interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
I'm not so sure you should be trying to push "leave your family and friends behind" as an upside. You are just reminding people of an obvious downside, you aren't actually turning it into an upside.
> 'moving to multiple platforms with minimal rewrite'. Where did that message get lost?

After the Amiga/Atari/Commodore/etc era when games were ported on every platforms came the PC age (which was relatively divided from the consoles during a long time). Now heavy crossplatform is back again.
great!!!
like my friend says, now is missing just the java 8 :)
If your runway depends on patent grants, you're already dead.
I'm not a founder, so maybe that's why I don't understand. How does the status of your patent affect your business?
Most citizen renunciations are dual citizens living aboard and deciding the paperwork is not worth it. Its rarely someone with a a single US citizenship, residing inside the US and deciding to exit due to taxes or moral convictions. Some of these dual citizenships inherited their American citizen by birth without ever living inside the USA.
Precisely what problem domains are Python and Ruby adapted for that Haskell and Rust are not?
Not really a book but the following post was very insightful, I go back to it frequently

https://sivers.org/ml
(disclosure: another CoreOS employee)

> When it comes to distributing container images the ACI spec only requires hosting ACI images (tarballs) behind a HTTP webserver

Just to clarify a little: the spec [1] actually only stipulates that the _metadata_ for image discovery is provided over HTTPS. The actual ACI images (i.e. tarballs) can be distributed using any desired mechanism. For example the meta discovery service can provide HDFS and BitTorrent addresses, and then a client can choose how to retrieve the payload. This is one of the parts of the spec I'm personally most excited about, so would welcome feedback and/or implementations!

[1] https://github.com/coreos/rocket/blob/master/app-container/S...
This book deeply influenced me last year. I think it is one of the best books I've read among 500+ other.

"Do you teach students quality?" is a question I'll remember forever.

Highly recommended.
I'm hoping people will start to realize this more over time. The taxes we pay in the United States are not that low, not when you start talking about the lack of social services we have and compare that to other countries with far more comprehensive programs. I have some Canadian friends who were shocked to learn I pay more taxes than they do. Well, of course, they were also shocked to learn I had health insurance at all, but that's a different story.

High taxes. Long wars that promise to only get longer. Lack of meaningful industry regulations. For what? What is it getting us? It's not like we're getting free tuition out of it, or even reasonably cheap tuition. It's not like we're getting more land and resources--and freedums, I seem to have a lot fewer of those these days, and it weren't no Al Qaida that done took 'em from me. We aren't getting cheaper products with more innovative features. Republicrats and Demicans can argue all day about what change is needed, and we've only ended up with the worst of both sides of the aisle. We'd be a lot better off with the whole program of one system, even if it was the system I didn't agree with.
Craig Venter (Human Genome Project, Craig Venter Institute, etc.) has previously proposed sending a small DNA sequencer to Mars to look for DNA on Mars, and then radio back any DNA sequences found back to Earth for study: http://www.space.com/24923-faxing-life-from-mars-craig-vente...

With a sequencer the size of a USB stick, that seems very plausible. Of course, it assumes that the same nucleotides are used by any microbes found on Mars.
Actually, this response is exactly what is wrong with the original comment. No, the fact that Bill Gates is a white guy has nothing to do with the race and gender of the authors of these books.
> He is advocating taxing avoidance clear as day.

What's so extraordinary about "avoiding" to pay taxes for services you will not use?
Triage is fine, but it seems that the extra scrutiny, for those patents selected to receive it, is taking much too long. That program needs more resources.

Strongly agree with your last paragraph. They don't get it yet, do they?
Albert Einstein: Future Usage of Uranium Letter (1939)
If only there were a way to compensate people for R&D that most people would consider pretty mundane but that nevertheless makes the world go around.

I know! We could call it a "market."
Sure, my Top 5 books by non-whitemen I read in 2014 are:

FICTION

1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah
2. Terezia Mora - Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent (not translated yet I think)
3. Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Sower
4. Jose Saramago - Blindness
5. James Baldwin - If Beale Street Could Talk

NONFICTION

1. Melba Patillo Beals - Warriors Don't Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
2. Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir - Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
3. Laura Fermi - Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi
4. Judith Newton - From Panthers to Promise Keepers: Rethinking the Men's Movement
5. Sikivu Hutchinson - Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels

and as a bonus, because it's written by a white man...

Jeffrey Haas - The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
Good for him. There is nothing "patriotic" about complying with unreasonable and out-of-control tax demands. I expect that this process will accelerate as income taxes continue to rise and more indirect income taxes are added such as the affordable care act health insurance requirements and booming student loan debt/interest. It may just wind up being a wise move drop the financial burden of being an American citizen and leave. How ironic...
I'd like to think Gates produces/films/creates his own little videos.
I'd love to try Bettir, but it's iOS only. I understand that the reasoning for this is probably a combination of standard reasons why startups ship only (or at least initially) on iOS and the usage of HealthKit. Are there plans to ship on Android or any other platform anytime in the near future?
Thanks! Glad you scraped us :)
The app may not be great, but it's pretty good, especially for the vast majority of users. From Google's perspective, I doubt it makes sense to add features that many of their users don't need and won't use.
An overly narrow view. A predictably potential rapist who was subsequently convicted would become permanently unavailable and and could bring down a huge liability on an employer. An employee who gives birth (or who becomes a father) is engaging in normal human activity; you treat that the same way you treat any other indisposition like an unexpected health condition, and hedge against it.

Really, ask yourself how you'd feel if a prospective employer or business partner said 'Joe, what assurance can you give me that you're not going to knock your wife up and go all googly-eyed over some squalling infant a year from now? Can you commit to tying a knot in it?'
To clarify, Xemacs is a fork, but almost nobody uses Xemacs any more.
It has nothing to do with it. But up until now the majority of accounts negatively impacted by these rules have been owned by US Citizens, US Permanent Residence have slipped under the radar so far partly because our accounts are owned by a local national (in our respective home countries) from the perspective of the bank and partly because they just haven't done it yet.

If you change status from a permanent resident to a citizen it won't magically cause your bank account to close, but you might now be on their "list" and the US government can move easily bully a bank into closing the account of one of "their" nationals. It has nothing to do with the USCIS, and everything to do with the IRS.
I think the quality of numberphile videos vary quite considerably. The one you linked is a rather honest explanation of the idea of comparing the size of sets through bijections and a good explanation of Cantors diagonal argument. As a mathematician I'm quite fine with it.

The one linked in the submission is more of an obvious statement hidden by obscure use of language. Slightly silly, but not very bad.

The worst offender with "magic" is the one with the Riemann zeta function [1], which went viral a while ago. The problem here is that they get people started off on the wrong foot, confusing them with wrong arguments and hidden definitions. Now, if people really want to understand why this can be made meaningful, you first have to explain that the better portion of the video is absolutely wrong, and only then can you explain what is actually going on.

[1] http://youtu.be/w-I6XTVZXww
> Go's error handling works well in small programs but there's a couple of issues.

It works fine in big programs, too. If you need more context, you add custom errors that have a context field. If you need to match different types of errors, you can have an error code that you can check against, or you can simply match strings (a lot of Go code does this). What you see as a problem is not really much of a problem in practice for well-structured code.
That's already happening... co was released over a year ago, and still requires the dev version of node and the --harmony flag... this is something that should be in 0.12 which should have been released by now. Any modules relying on generators already require gnode or > 0.10 ... so uptake speed is very relevant and already an issue.

It's about how slow things have moved since 0.10 as much as anything else.
it wouldn't, but it would cause inconvenience (wrt paying the loan).
See below. You're like the fourth of fifth who is trying this stupid gotcha. No, I actually DO MAKE A POINT of reading diverse authors. I no, it must be inconceivable for people of your ilk.
I'm actually at RPI right now. A majority of the student body, at least those I've talked to, don't particularly like her as President. A part of that is the inflated salary, but it's also how the school's being run. The most recent example is actually happening right now.

There have been some robberies in a couple of the residence halls recently. Mainly in the one which is in probably the most sketchy area near campus. The robberies are blamed on people from the neighboring area "piggybacking" into the residence hall (waiting for students to scan their cards, and then following them in), and going into unlocked rooms to steal things. It's an understandable assumption, right?

Well, they responded by locking down all residence halls to only the people who live there. Now, if you want to visit a friend, or you actually need to get into another hall for something, you have two options. One, wait for a friend to come down and let you in, or two, follow somebody else into the building. The policies meant to help prevent robberies through piggybacking are actually making legitimate students piggyback into buildings. After a couple more robberies, they've only increased security measures further.

Each residence hall now only has one entrance/exit in the entire building, with every other door designated as emergency exit only. RA's are supposed to stay at the doors and check IDs, with their obviously unlimited free time. If a student's door is found unlocked, campus security will lock it and put a sign on the door announcing to the world that this person left their door unlocked. Even if it was just to pick up their laundry. With each robbery, the campus is turning into essentially a police state.

A lot of people think that these policies are instituted by Residence Life, but I've got friends there and they're all just as pissed as the rest of us. They also get crap from all the people who think it's their call, when in reality the decision came from MUCH higher up.

And all this is in the past month or so.
Is Apple's next product the stylus Steve Jobs said nobody wanted?
when I enquired about having mine done (after I learned about the FBAR) I was quoted in the realm of £2k and I'd have to make the trip to London with all my data.

Considering my taxes would be easy peasy, I wouldn't think $5k is out of the range of normal.
Being "financially responsible" is the last thing a government wants to promote. From a moral standpoint we like it when people save, but for the prosperity and growth of the economy at large, everyone should be spending every cent they make.
The Freedom Tower Was Supposed to Be the Greenest Skyscraper. What Went Wrong?
Languages, and even syntaxes, do matter. In a lot of ways and not all of them are immediately obvious.

Personally I went from "languages matter" to opposite and back again during the years.

At the beginning I used C and then I started learning C++. At that point I had some experience with Pascal and BASIC and by comparison C++ looked like the undisputed winner. At this time I assumed that "languages matter" (or rather "C++ matters", but close enough).

In the following years I learned a couple more languages. Ada, PHP, Python, Java. This is where I started believing that languages don't matter - they of course differ from one another, but the differences are minimal.

But I didn't stop there. I started learning more and more languages, some really, really different. I first learned OCaml, then Erlang, then Prolog, then Scheme. Then more than a dozen of other languages, including Clean, Smalltalk, J, Forth and other such "esoteric" ones. I don't remember exactly when it happened, but somewhere along the road I realized, again, that languages do matter.

There are two parts to this realization actually. One is that I started doing programming professionally - this caused me to interact with other programmers, to read their code, to explain things to them. I realized that language design has to accommodate large variety of people's habits, projects and circumstances and that not everything is completely rational when it comes to language usage "in the wild". That language design has non-trivial impact on language community (and language syntax on idioms/best practices) and that community matters very, very much.

And the second part was that, as mentioned, I finally learned some languages which really were different. There are many notable differences between Pascal and C, for example, but they are not that great. On the other hand C, Smalltalk and J don't have almost anything in common and they all have specific niche where using one of them is clearly a win.

In the end I concluded what I said at the beginning of this comment: that languages do matter and in many different ways at that. Some make thinking about certain problems easier, some make writing certain kind of software easier, some make learning particular concepts easier and some make earning money easier. Some differ more, some less, but - outside of purely theoretical discussions - you can't pretend that they don't. Or that the differences are negligible.
Almost all integers contain the first ten trillion digits of pi, consecutively and in order.

And yes, it's really not that interesting. Infinity!
Yes, but permanent residency is easily abandoned, and can later be reobtained if desired (through any available means of immigration).
I know, diversity is so WEIRD. Yucky girls and all...
I'm curious if you'd be willing to share your monthly take-home and your monthly rent... or maybe at least what percentage of your take-home you're paying for rent?
they could probably do it anyway, but intuit lobbied against it:

http://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-maker-linked-to-g...
I'm not a founder either, but I could see someone relying on a patent to coax the next round of investors on board.
And here's me thinking Piketty was all about blaming capitalism for wealth inequality. Care to correct me, and explain why you think he's an "avowed defender of capitalism"?
This is very interesting. How will this affect RubyMotion?
Sure it's possible. It's just not mathematically likely. Sexist, too, since there's only 1/2^5 = 3% chance that all 5 books would be written by men if the choice were made fairly.
And the special interest lobbying of tax preparers to not let the IRS fill out our taxes.

The IRS could prepare a fairly reasonable tax return, and let people modify it for their deductions or unreported income. But for most people, all their income is reported, along with mortgage info.
We currently have a (beta) mobile webapp that works on Android, and we will definitely have an Android app in the future. We also give our service to some people over email and SMS. Visit http://recordbp.com/ from Chrome on your Android to get it going. It supports being added to your home screen.
Brief FAQ about IO.js
As somebody with sites using all three tiers of their service, I haven't noticed a speed difference between any of the tiers.
Yes, the IRS should. The fraudsters (and rich people with expensive accountants) already have this info, for example by hiring former IRS examiners and executives. Making the algorithms public at least puts everyone on equal footing.
It doesn't hurt that Oil accounts for 30% of Norwegian government revenue[1]. Of course you experience higher services at a similar tax burden.

1: http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21570842-oil-ma...)
A simple cue is warmed towels for washing your hands.

Or maybe some minty breath freshener.

Or maybe some coffees.

Social cues do not have much to do with the money exchanging hands.
The funny part about this to me is that the largest beneficiaries of tax loopholes are big companies like Apple, Google, etc. They have billions squirreled away overseas, and the .gov is likely never going to see a dime of it.

So, instead, they prey on little folk.
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins - gave me a framework to think about how the mind navigates and learns about the world.
Read the fine print. You don't have any real rights to your permanent residency. The USA can decide not to renew it for any reason they deem fit.

Also, laws may change in the future that further restrict the entitlements permanent residents have. Permanent residents can be deported. I've been subject to extra screening in customs.

There's a lot of reasons to be a US citizen if you're planning on staying in this country for life.
At Apple’s request, we removed the ability to “Send” files to other services
Just a heads-up: I'm assuming you meant "uneven" in "Avoid making graphics with straight borders. Borders may come up unever after the cutting process."
The answer is fairly simple here, is that software quality is not everything in this space. The systems are not mission critical, and PR, marketing, money and a good "property" (eg: star wars) can pave over quality issues.

For example, look at Assassin's Creed - will the bad launch cause people to avoid AC in the future? Maybe, but probably not.
Vox and Outbrain: A Tale of Two Publishing Worlds
I think that in most of the cases, there is still a bill presented at the end. The article itself points this out:'

> The system also allows for different kinds of tickets, allowing for variable pricing. (Most restaurants are not prix fixe and will sell tickets as down payments on a meal as opposed to a full prepay.)
Haxe looks really cool, but the last time I looked at it, the documentation left a lot to be desired (most of it assumed familiarity with the Flash drawing APIs).

It does look like the situation has improved since then, but I'm guessing that documentation is a big reason for Haxe being so underappreciated.
Well, if you're looking for a location like that, consider Pillar Point Harbor in California. There's a small industrial area with cheap space, 2-3 short blocks from the ocean. It's adjacent to Mavericks Beach, one of the world's great surfing spots. There's a small-boat harbor. Several riding stables. Some nightclubs. Decent restaurants. A small airport. Housing prices aren't too high.

It's a half hour drive from there to Silicon Valley. 45 minutes to San Francisco. There's bus service to both places. 10 minutes to Half Moon Bay with supermarkets and hardware stores.
I think it adds too much line noise, especially if people start nesting callbacks.
wait, am I crazy? As soon as I touch the search bar in the mobile app the search history is right there. Someone below mentions "send to mobile" from the desktop, but searches from desktop google maps also show up in that search history.

You do need to turn it on originally, but I believe that option is also fairly prominent...
According to the description it was more a "kickback scheme" than selling trade secrets.
UberFRESH
> Postgres has no facility to make it possible to do faceting (histograms). This is a pretty big deal breaker for most kinds of eCommerce. I've seen a few attempts at this, but they are incredibly complex and slow compared to other search engines.

why exactly GROUP BY doesn't work here?
The lobbying by Intuit that prevents us from having first-world taxing bodies makes my blood boil.
Immunotherapy absolutely works for melanoma–I'm living proof. As a Stage IV melanoma survivor, immunotherapy via a tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) trial at NIH has extended (if not saved) my life. I'm over two years out from treatment and am currently NED (no evidence of disease).

Also, Federally-funded research at NIH continues to push the envelope at relegating cancer to a chronic disease (if not cured altogether).
I don't think length of table use is generally a problem. Most restaurants have it figured out. Shit happens and you move people around. I don't think there is any solution for this beyond proper table management.