skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. The taxes are always the hardest to get over with. Way to tackle it and make serious project on moonlighter. Looks interesting. I just signed up for the beta.
Rails Array#forty_two method
The right way to do it, as far as I can see, is to allow people to report their taxes in whichever form of money they prefer. US Dollars, Euros, gold would all be a valid numeraire to use when reporting your current assets and income to the IRS. And the currency you choose to report your taxes in, is the currency you pay taxes in.

This is just currency competition. Nothing more than that. The ability to freely choose which currency you want to use to measure value.

Whether bitcoin should be considered alongside dollars, yen and silver is an open question. If people are allowed to report their taxes in bitcoins, they can really shoot themselves in the foot. But, personally, I'm generally speaking not in favor of the government preventing people from shooting themselves in the foot.

Say, for example, I choose to report my taxes in bitcoins. I currently hold 10 bitcoins and $1,000. Later, the price of bitcoins in dollars (BTCUSD) falls from 225 to 50. This means that one dollar is now worth 1/50 bitcoin instead of 1/225 bitcoin. I then buy 20 bitcoins using the $1,000, and -- because I report my taxes in bitcoins -- it means I've realized a capital gain of ($1,000×(1/50) - $1,000×(1/225)) = 20 BTC - 4.4444 BTC = 15.5556 BTC, on which I pay capital gains tax. The bitcoin value of my dollars has increased (before 1/225 bitcoin per dollar, now 1/50 bitcoin per dollar), so I have to pay bitcoins to the IRS if I convert dollars into bitcoins, after the bitcoin price falls.

This just shows that bitcoin really isn't ready to be used as proper money. Proper money is a money you would report your taxes in. Bitcoin just isn't stable enough in value yet.
Highly active community with awesome mentors like Jeffery Way (laracasts.com).
Can you link to any studies showing IF increased T levels substantially? I am genuinely curious. I have been considering doing IF (since I am half way there already) just for the longevity boosts and general body composition benefits.
I think the story is even simpler than that as the code in question is prefaced with: #if DEBUG

The shipped product doesn't include this "randomness".
This should be really helpful at showing me what sites I think I should submit to HN that have already appeared as popular in the past. Really neat plugin, already enjoying looking at sites with it!
I was thinking along the same lines. I noticed this when I moved from San Francisco to Atlanta -- people in the middle in San Francisco don't have laundry in their apartments, but in Atlanta they do, because in Atlanta people rent larger places than they do in SF. So in Atlanta the laundromat density probably goes down when you move from "low" to "middle", but in SF when you go from "middle" to "high".
Ask HN: What are the popular business models for government serving startups?
I got an alpha version of something we call FastBoot working for Ember apps: https://github.com/tildeio/ember-cli-fastboot

FastBoot allows you to boot up your JavaScript application on the server, gather model data, and send the rendered output as HTML to the client. This allows search crawlers, cURL, and people with very slow JavaScript engines to access apps that were previously unavailable. I've had a fire in my belly to make this work since I had a conversation with Dan Webb at Twitter about all of the reasons they switched away from client-side rendering[1].

1: https://blog.twitter.com/2012/improving-performance-on-twitt...

Most people think this problem has already been solved by being able to render templates on the server, but the problem is much harder than that. For example, I learned on HN yesterday that most server-rendered Flux apps can only handle one request a time, due to the reliance on singletons[2]. You really need an application-wide DI system like Angular/Ember to get this working with multiple requests in parallel.

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8989667

I'm really really really excited about this work because I think we can have a single, robust solution for all Ember developers that is dead simple to install and get running. Most importantly, this makes JavaScript apps accessible for everyone, while retaining the UI advantages for those whose devices are capable enough. In other words, I think once this is complete, we can finally put to bed the controversy over whether server-side or client-side rendering is best—we'll have a hybrid that offers the best of both worlds.
This is a perfect example of why the term is protected by PEO. I used to think the PEO overreaching in its attempts to protect the term/designation, but I can see why they have taken issue with the term "Software Engineer" being genericized.

I applaud the effort to learn the topics of "statistics, probability, and linear algebra", but these would have been relatively fundamental courses in most software/computer/electrical engineering curricula that I've known about, and most definitely a prerequisite to calling oneself an engineer.
Why triple-A devs are going indie (and why indies aren't going triple-A)
The point is that regardless of whether or not the product is any good, TechCrunch saying it's the "definitive leader" doesn't make it so.

If it was really the leader, you wouldn't have to tell people; they would already know.
Metrink: Dynamic Alerts
Thanks. I guess I'm about to blow my cover. :-)

http://icon-sizerator.davidjpeacock.ca/

I know zillions of people have solutions for this, but it was a nice self-contained project.
>I think it's dishonest to call yourself a Software Engineer and not have an engineering degree.

Definitely semantics. For example, I have a BS/MS in applied math from a good engineering school university. I am a software engineer mainly working with ECEs, physics, and other math guys, who are all "software engineers".

I see where you're coming from about being a SW eng without knowing a lot of math - but there are other majors - math/physics/stats etc that will be very math heavy and not "engineering degrees".
I wish that Stripe would just acquire a few of these really great ideas for extensions to their core platform so that these features were rolled into Stripe itself. Stripe makes it so easy to drop in some code and have secure payment pages on your site, why don't they make it so easy to drop in some code and have secure payment history for your users on your site?
It is a well known fact that one can deduce the quality of a software product simply by the the number that comes after its name.
I'm a fan of Symfony but love that there are several advanced frameworks pushing the state of the art forward (Symfony, Laravel, ZF2).
The Final ‘Hobbit’ Film Is an Unprecedentedly Gratuitous
After finishing my "One Game a Month" challenge in 2014 I got back to my plan to learn (again) some electronics and I'm building a AVR based 8-bit 80s style microcomputer.

On January I got the video driver (composite video, PAL; rendering from external SRAM) and the keyboard driver (PS2).

Reading and learning about PAL and PS2 has been very interesting, and also I had to learn a EDA software (KiCad) to keep the schematics safe because the Arduino board has now more cables that I can safely track ;)

Besides I had to understand lots of details about the AVR, mainly how SPI and the USART interfaces work.

Good fun!
I grew up in New England, so I can provide a bit of relevant context:

New Hampshire is a very quirky state, politically, in a number of ways. In a sense, New Hampshire state government looks a lot more like city-level or county-level government in many other states.

Compared to other states, state representatives are far more likely to "average citizens" instead of career politicians - just everyday people who have decided to do as single term in state government, and have little to no plans to run again. This is very frustrating for the leadership of both chambers, since it makes it very difficult to whip votes! On the other hand, it arguably makes it easier for elected officials to buck party lines and vote their conscience, if they so choose.

In addition New Hampshire does not (last I checked) have direct-vote ballot initiatives the way California does, but it does make it much easier for citizens to propose legislation. Whether or not this legislation gains traction or actually passes is a separate matter. Look no further than the long history of repeated attempts at marijuana policy reform in NH to see just how difficult it can be to predict which bills will end up gaining traction[0].

As a result, it's very common to see bills that are proposed and supported by a small contingent of backers, but never end up going anywhere. This bill may or may not end up passing, but just keep this context in mind whenever you read news about a bill being brought to the NH legislature with only a handful of supporters.

[0] This issue is actually a particularly fascinating case study in NH government, because NH is a very libertarian-leaning state, and it baffled reform advocates for the longest time that they had such difficulty in getting NH to pass relatively uncontroversial reform measures.
Over cake, it's modern, widely used and supported.

Over Symfony, not a lot tbh (large parts of Laravel are built on Symfony), it's a lot more opinionated out the box than Symfony and Eloquent has a flatter learning curve than Doctrine.
I got the impression that he's not upset about all the dotfiles, he's upset that they put them on external media. Most unix programs will only create those in the users home, which is usually not external.
Downvoted ?
Go to http://proxy.donttrustrobots.nl/www.facebook.com/ and tell me if your grandma would see the difference
Could you share more about workflow on Trello you have? (I imagine you are utilizing it alone)
IANAL... is this even legal given that the US Dollar is the only official currency of the United States?
Zinc, magnesium and vitamin D are essential for the production of testosterone.
I wonder if there isn't ageism inherent in technology. I mean old tech retains old employees. The old companies and old divisions go down when new tech wins.
That's a bit complicated due to the lack of a real API.
When in doubt, blame Microsoft, it's always a safe bet.
Do the repo owners get a cut? :)

I tried it on Clojure then imagined how guilty I'd feel buying it knowing Rich Hickey wouldn't get any money but the printers would get lots, hah.
* Found a house and applied for mortgage

* Finalized my tax return for 2014 (best year ever for me)

* Tinkered with isomorphic React rendering, and got a working example that loads data asynchronously
Working for us! Here's what we see when we click the "Try the demo" button: https://i.imgur.com/ZUi3sib.png
Managed to finish the code, get most of the assets done and get a beta out for testers for my iOS/Android game (Flaming Notes) to learn the music staff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_xNPk2y8N4
Huh, how fortuitous. I've been looking for this exact type of thing and HN gives me a great starting place to evaluate.
Chaim Gingold the creator of this is pretty awesome. Here's some more of his work http://levitylab.com/cog/
If you liked Axler, you might check out Abbott's Understanding Analysis, also in the Springer UTM series. I think it covers somewhat less than Rudin (e.g. looking at baby Rudin's contents, I'm pretty sure Abbott doesn't touch Lebesgue integration) but it's a pretty great introductory analysis book IMO.
Wouldn't it make more sense to convert all the stores to microcenters? microcenter.com
Yeah, definitely, but there are drawbacks too. if you already have a woman by your side that you want to spend rest of your life with (and judging by your comment about son, you should be there) - extra ladies attention is annoying as hell. If you are actually mentally a grown up, this ain't an impressive result as it might seem :)
(Yes, been/am there, but to impress ladies you don't need to be creepy muscular type. Just a sporty one. Especially if you care about quality of your partner, not just quantity).

as for strength - I find it much better to have real world-usable one, combined with endurance. Examples you describe are OK, but better use cases for me are - being able to climb that mountain (or just hike it), full day of of-piste skiing (its damn hard on quads) etc. In many sports, too much muscles has negative impact. For high altitude, common knowledge is that gym type muscular types struggle more up there. For climbing same. But that's me.
It also brings freedom in eating - keeping huge amount of muscles while doing some 3-week effort on Aconcagua... not really possible.
Show HN: Visualizing the IBM Watson API
I launched Rocket Renegade. Developed in Swift.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rocket-renegade/id955229059?...
Wrote at least 500 words every day, outside of work stuff. It's the start of a habit, but it's early days. I use Commit[1] to track my progress.

[1] http://thinklegend.com/commit/
The framework found a new home and its now under active development again. Unfortunately, since v3 which is still not officially out, the framework has fallen behind its competitors.
The user of open source, in the absence of the skills necessary to change code themselves, can easily pay any other developer on the free market to do it for them.

You can never do that with proprietary software. If you want something changed or fixed, you must appeal to the singular entity with monopoly access to the source.
This has nothing to do with technology, but hey: I finally decided to take saxophone lessons, I will buy a sax on Saturday morning and have my first lesson next Tuesday.

I've been playing both flatpicking guitar and mandolin respectively for 14 and 4 years, but have been in love with the sax for more than 20 years.

At almost 29 years old I decided it was time to take the plunge and learn how to play the thing.

It's going to be a good excuse to finally learn how to actually read music in the process.

I feel motivated like I rarely felt before.
Started volunteering with three different learn to code initiative with the intent to help curb the gender gap in tech and get kids interested in programming: CoderDojoChi[1], GirlDevelopIt[2] and Code and Cupcakes[3]. Also looking to help out with PyLadies. You guys should volunteer for/start these things too ^.^

[1]:http://coderdojochi.org/

[2]:http://www.girldevelopit.com/

[3]:http://codeandcupcakes.net/
That's an odd argument. Is Rails poorly designed because it's had 4 versions, or Django because it's had 8? Seems much more to do with the pace of the development than the architectural quality, to me.
I use them to buy toner for printers at work. Free next day AM delivery and they usually have better prices than amazon.
Launched my first SaaS, and I have quite a few users registered... some paid accounts, even!

http://sendtomycloud.com

Also, gathered a lot of attention for the ANSI & ASCII art communities (and at least 2 new artists!) with my rewrite (and promotion) of http://artpacks.org.

FYI: A new pack full of ANSI art from Blocktronics comes out today, around 2pm eastern. You'll be able to see it at http://artpacks.org/2015
>"XMPP messengers are slowly sinking"
I'm sure telegram is a good choice for your company, but "XMPP messengers are slowly sinking", I think, is a silly statement.
A closer look at Raspberry Pi 2 and a new resource
> So if these folks are so good at predicting to the point where we should trust their predictions, then why aren't they all retired from predicting the stock market and getting rich?

Because the value of particular investments is a different thing than any of the things that they are dealing with, in much the same way that climate is different than weather.

> I think it's plain for most folks to understand that living beyond your means continually eventually means that debt payments comprise a large portion of your budget.

This isn't actually necessarily true. IF you continually live beyond your means (expenditures > revenue) then, assuming financing costs aren't continually decreasing, you will have debt service costs that, on average, increase over time.

If your revenue also increases over time, however, its quite possible to continually have expenditures exceed revenue without having debt service costs increase as a share of total expenditures.

> It's not hard to see that eventually the debt will be crushing. [...] What's much harder to do is predict exactly at what point this will occur.

That's the only thing that matters. Predicting what a trend would result in given an infinite time horizon is pointless "But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead." [0]

> I would fully agree that the exact date of the debt service exceeding other large fixed payments is highly speculative.

Defense and nondefense discretionary spending may be large, but they aren't fixed.

> But that it will happen, absent structural changes, I don't find terribly contentious.

I'm not really interested in why you find it contentious, I interested in the basis for your position that the level of debt service at which that will occur is a (1) problematic in itself as a level of expenditures on debt services (dismissing the conclusion in the article that the expert consensus is that it is not), and therefore a matter of near term concern.

[0] John Maynard Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)
no longer developed by EllisLab, perhaps..
https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter
Started online grad school at Georgia Tech in CS and managed to launch a beta of my first product.

http://www.thesnaffu.com
Quill is still around. Our secretary orders all our office supplies through them through an account they've had open since the 90s.
Avast Mobile Security doesn't detect adware
I'm pretty sure Dell and HP provide support on all their Ubuntu machines, as do System76 et al. And they have extended support offerings all the same. Not sure on pricing, though.
JVM implementation challenges: Why the future is hard but worth it [pdf]
Finally, got productive after months of burn out. Couple of features for http://thehorcrux.com/ (A backup integrity verification phase exposed to the user). Pressing the "Submit for Review" button today. :)

Also doing a machine learning project at a nice uni. It's probably the reason for my recovery. It's a way better environment than staying at home getting distracted. I think I now get the concept of co working spaces.
It's apparent to me this court is not interested in the truth!
Forgetting Firefox
Thanks, we changed the URL from https://github.com/laravel/laravel/releases.
Sure. I believe it actually originated here on HN, though I got it from Pieter Levels.

On my board I have the following lists:

2015 Week N | Now | Today | Tomorrow | Week | Month

Long-term work items originate in the month list, and get moved left as time progresses. Obviously as items come up they can be input whenever is appropriate.

At the end of the week, 2015 Week N is archived (I actually move it to another board), and a new week is created to cover the next week's completed work.

This setup pressures me into meeting my commitments, and allows me to feel accomplished by looking at the previously completed weeks.
I've been doing project Euler problems and I realise it really really helps to know Number Theory to get to an optimal solution for problems. Can anyone recommend good books on the subject? While learning via problem-solving is fun, most of the time it boils down to me sitting with a naive, brute-force solution that's too slow and then google how to make it fast, discover a new number theory axiom/tool and then changing the algorithm. There's gotta be a better way to learn...
Staples has owned Quill since 2002.
Do you plan to integrate with e-mail? I would like to have e-mails sendt to special adresses displayed in the group chat.
Spring Is Dead to Me 💀
It was revived a while ago: http://forum.codeigniter.com/thread-650.html
Quite americano-centric, no ?

Considering that the average reader reads more in Europe than in the US and that there is a very dynamic domestic industry in many of these countries, I would say the opposite.

And I didn't even take India and China into account...

source: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nop-world-culture-sc...
McDonald's Facebook campaign enrages Mexican tamale fans
So earth works by being controlled by a god?

Was my first though. I don't know if this is more in support of science or religion.
As someone who works in IT at Office Depot, I can say that the Office Max merger isn't even close to half way done from a technology standpoint
Launched into beta my Android note taking / whiteboarding / vector draw & show.

You draw on Android (multiple people can co-draw in real time) and also can view docs online (also with realtime updates)

Here's a sample drawing / note
http://write-live.com/d/dba21681-8d3f-4fbe-8b4b-e5c1983df934

sample diagram
http://docs.write-live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=2b...

landing page
http://write-live.com/
Google SoundScript: faster OOP for JavaScript
So having looked into php frameworks a bit.

There are 2 main packages of reusable components in php. Symfony and Zend.

Somewhat confusingly Zend and Symfony also make frameworks built on top of these components. But you can use the components on their own. Use the Composer to install the ones you need. You don't even need a framework to use them.

Laravel is built on top of Symfony components.

I think the main advantage to Laravel is people who use it really tend to like it... a lot. I hear a lot of complaining about other frameworks, but Laravel people enjoy. People that figure it out tend to get sites up really quickly. The main downside I hear about is performance.

For me documentation is key. I tried using Zend components, and while they worked I find the documentation really lacking. Zend have some great stuff like an api builder, but documentation is really important and its why I'll probably end up trying Laravel
In some cases returns on saving accounts won't cover the minimal handling fees so you are loosing money. Talking about Hungarian banks and not a big salary here.
Why you should take a walk
AQAP is not a UN member. Yemen is at war with AQAP. Yemen allowed the US strikes. The US thus no more needs UN support to strike AQAP than it does to raid a Montana militia compound.
I don't see how this doesn't cost us money unnecessarily, otherwise I wouldn't really care one way or another if we start accepting internet fun bucks.

The State is still going to do business in USD; looking at the volatility of USD/BTC exchange rate, exchange fees and infrastructure/training, I don't see how this is anything but a loosing proposition.
But other forms of gambling are not? The bookies? The slot machines in the pub? Online poker?

I don't see why the lottery (which is the only gambling that has any measurable positive impact on society) deserves to be singled out. Or is it that the positive impact that makes it a tax, instead of just a way of [company k] making profits.
So Internet Explorer is a better engineered product than Chrome and Firefox?
Doesn't include retired people, investors, the rich, people with an irregular but high income, actors, singers, contract consultants, people taking a long vacation or sabbatical, people who own a business in the early stage, y-combinator companies...
Android One and Android 5.1 release
I think it fits with apartment living where washer/dryer is seen as a higher rent thing and having apartment buildings with crappy laundry rooms with too few machines.

I remember in college there was a chain (Duds -n- Suds?) that moved into town with really nice commercial equipment that server food while you did you laundry. I think they closed because they couldn't get an alcohol license. It was very clean, nice, and took a lot less time than the apartments laundry.

I often wonder about opening a coffee shop / laundromat with commercial washer / dryers. I think it might work.