skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had both, but I prefer heated. I think it depends on the type of establishment. Also, whether it is being prepared fresh for you. Pre-packaged (or pre-sliced, but not universal) tends to be cold while fresh tends to be warm. Then there's toasted which obviously comes out hot.

I guess it could also depend on the definition of cold sandwich, which could be different region to region.
Yep, there's nothing intrinsically magical about that time that made language designers better than now. In fact, 30-40 years later we even have more collective experience under our belts!
Thanks, but I read the article before it was even posted to HN and it doesn't even come close to resolving anything for anyone who's self-employed or has their own business. It might resolve the problem for some people, in a marginal manner, but overall, it doesn't do much.
I have to wonder if the mechanism here that leads people report increased productivity isn't being better rested, its that they have set clear boundaries on what they will do and what is realistic, push back accordingly, and are judged by fairer standards.

On the other hand, treating your free time as a potentially infinite bank of extra time leads to overpromising and giving the perception of underdelivery, no matter how much total work gets done.
Google had over 80% of the market before Chrome was even released, and they achieved most of that with MSN Search being the default on Windows.

The majority of Web users on the most used browser (IE) manually chose to use Google.
> I think that reflects more poorly on you

Only if you are interested in climbing the corporate ladder. And I don't care about that.

Yes I suppose it's bad that I'm not passionate about making money, heaven forbid.
Google's response to EU
The US tax code is stupidly complex. There are over 500 changes a year made. That is just federal taxes. You are also affected by state, county and city laws. For all practical purposes, it is impossible to do the returns 100% correctly. Legislators use the tax code extensively to achieve things, from social good through corporate welfare and what most would consider outright corruption. Voters in areas may also add to laws with various funding initiatives (eg extra taxes to cover funding for school construction).

Look at sales tax just for California - http://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/pam71.htm - and that table of quicklinks should frighten you. That is just scratching the surface. For example sales tax for in person transactions is charged based on the address of the store. Unless you buy a car, in which case it is your home address.

Two other factors apply. One is an American mentality that doing minor things against the law isn't that wrong, and being caught is where it becomes real. An example is speeding - it almost seems a contest of wits to not get caught, rather than fixing the limits or realising why they exist. Is it wrong to lie on your tax return about something, where the odds of getting caught are very low, and everyone else is doing it anyway? An example of that is how people call Amazon sales tax free because they are out of state. The supreme court says yes they are sales tax free (to not hinder interstate commerce), but then states charge a "use tax" which happens to be exactly the same as the sales tax. Very few people admitted to their out of state purchases since they were so unlikely to get caught.

The final factor is a distrust of government. They are seen as plodding, corrupt, useless, expensive, political, uncaring and largely pointless. They are very rarely seen as an instrument of voter will. This is what provides the perennial source of jokes - the DMV (department of motor vehicles), the IRS, city hall and all that. Who would trust government to get things right?

So tax returns turn into a contest. What do people think they get away with? Which of the many rules will they obey to the letter? What are their neighbours and others getting away with? Was that really a business lunch? How am I paying more tax than I need to?

Despite their values, neither of the main two political parties do anything to fix this. They are however happy to keep adding to the piles of laws, which makes it more expensive to comply, and increasingly unfair.

I often end up paying fines on my returns. This is not because I am a bad person, and I actually try very hard to get it all correct. It is just cheaper than doing some things the right way, and fairly normal! Some of those fines are also because I don't have a time machine, and I couldn't actually do things correctly without one.

(Note that factors above are generalisations, and don't apply to every last person.)
As a woman engineer I understand what the OP is trying to say, but it sounds callous and (surprisingly) oblivious to the realities of this field.

As someone else pointed out: "1) What is the nature of hackathons? Many are pitchathons."

I have also lost "hackathons" to projects that were objectively NOT technical (mocked-up images of an app, without a single line of code). It happens often, and it's always a bummer to lose, but often they might actually be solving a bigger issue than me or my team.

For the group of women (girls?) that won - as you pointed out - maybe they will continue doing hackathons (and maybe - despite your doubt - they even eventually progressing beyond the Wix stage) because they won an encouragement award at their first hackathon. It's like a consolation prize for mustering up the courage to present their product that was obviously not as technically advanced as some other products. That takes guts, a lot of people (men/women/other...) might just slink out the back door after the first few presentations.

So good for them, in that sense - they indeed are an inspiration for people just starting out.
I knew people who worked at Intuit. The company's monetization plan is to make money off of old people. I switched to HR block online, it was much cheaper.
Compilation is speedy enough that you can just use `go run` in development and it feels like running a python script.
US in-flight Internet could be hacked, watchdog warns
Honestly, I'm a little torn.

It sounds like a huge pain, and I wouldn't want to do it. Neither would anyone else.

On the other hand, huge pains like this are how policy gets changed. If it became more obvious to everyone that this was yet another hidden tax, perhaps there'd be more pressure to eliminate it or make it more rational.
The competitors that are allegedly being hurt by their preferential treatment here are not selling things either - they are comparison shopping sites.

It is not the consumers this anti-trust action is intended to protect, but those competitors of Google Shopping. The presumption of a lot of anti-trust law is that protecting competition is in the long term public interest that outweigh short term impact on consumers. Some anti-trust actions are motivated by direct consumer interest, but most is motivated by preventing anti-competitive practices by a monopolist from harming competitors.

If competitors of Google Shopping are treated fairly in terms of search results, and can buy the same kind of position that Google Shopping can (I don't think they can), then there would be no issue.

My point in terms of Amazon is not that Amazon search isn't different to Google - clearly they are, though they too have paid third party results on their pages.

My point is that to Google it's their search dominance they need to downplay, not the relatively market position of Google Shopping. Giving their own business preferential treatment is perfectly legal if they're not in a monopoly position. The moment they're found to have a monopoly position, a lot of forms of preferential treatment becomes illegal anti-competitive practices.

They can beat this in two ways: By convincing the EU or EU courts that they do not have a search monopoly, or convincing the EU that they are not giving Google Shopping preferential treatment. The latter I think would be extremely hard given how Google Shopping results are positioned.

The way they can not beat this is by talking about how there's a lot of competition in comparison shopping. If anything, that gives the EU Commission a stronger reason to act on allegations of anti-competitive behaviour, as it means there are Google competitors that may be harmed by any anti-competitive behaviour that might be occurring.
They usually don't call you out on it, but they respond as if they're defending the position of women should be in tech, which is not the issue.

I've experienced this personally.
The stated purpose of making mortgage interest deductible is to make home ownership more affordable. We should take a careful look at whether it accomplishes that goal.

My not well studied understanding is that people price homes based mostly on the monthly payment they will make, so the mortgage interest deduction tends to make them willing to pay more for a given home. Rising prices do not make housing more affordable.
Used to be one of my favorite apps - used it a few times a day. Until great bate-and-switch! :)

http://locationplay.blogspot.com/2014/08/so-long-and-thanks-...
Chrome overtook IE because it is (or at least at the time, was) a superior product.
I think that saying "lots of people want to make paying taxes painful" is quite a bold assumption, and it works all too nicely with the argument that Intuit is merely riding along with public sentiment. The reality is that the bottom 50% of tax filers in the United States have a federal tax rate of about 3%. [1] That isn't too much to get worked up about, and certainly not worth the punishment of needing to deal with complicated tax forms that can otherwise be completely between employer and government. I can't find a statistic that backs up my instinct here, but considering that 56% of individual returns were filed by preparers [2], I would posit that most of these 3% tax rate filers pay someone to do their taxes, such that they are hardly aware of the "reality" of their tax situation. Why would these people want to continue paying Intuit or HR Block or whomever for something that can (and should) be completely automatic?

A more accurate assumption might be that "lots of people [with money to throw around] want to make paying taxes painful [so that they can continue being employed/acting as a middle-man in an industry that would otherwise be rendered obsolete by advances in technology]." See this comment [3].

[1] http://taxfoundation.org/article/summary-latest-federal-inco...

[2] http://www.irs.gov/uac/SOI-Tax-Stats-Tax-Stats-at-a-Glance

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9381549
AFL already has support for using QEMU for blackbox binary instrumentation. The NixOS packages (maintained by me) automatically have it supported out of the box. There is also 3rd party support for using Dyninst to statically instrument binaries in place (which is faster than QEMU and looks more robust than PEBIL): https://github.com/vrtadmin/moflow/tree/master/afl-dyninst
This article is problematic. It's common knowledge that women need special handholding and encouragement to succeed at software development as well as a shield wall of allies to fend off constant microaggressions, so we have to ask, in the most nonjudgmental way possible, why the author is so obviously acting against her own interests.

[Edit: /s]
EuroPython 2015 – Extended Deadline for Call for Proposals
"Another thing—be clear with your clients in terms of what their expectations are, and provide falsifiable success metrics"

I'm going to assume that that is a typo (and they meant unfalsifiable) as it doesn't really make sense in the context of what I've heard about Patrick before.
The tricky bit is that they are giving a crap ton of code and services away to consumers/customers, while taking payment from other companies for better references etc.

In a sense it can be likened to the drug dealer classic "the first dose is free".

There is also Ara. While one the surface it seems to break down the old consumer facing problems with mobile devices, there is no indication that Google will give up control over the endoskeletons that the modules attach to. Heck, they may set themselves up as sole distributor of modules. Even go as far as tracking modules, under the guise of disabling them if stolen.
No. If your employer has issued a W2, anyone has issued a 1099 to you (via SSN), or any other documentation has been sent to or from the IRS, it's there.

I used it this year to verify my tax filings.
Unfortunately, this is the kind of thing we can expect a lot more of in the coming months and perhaps years as the "tech media" continue to attack it from the fringes.

You are damned if you do and damned if you don't. There is no satiating the thirst from the "tech media" for faux outrage driven clicks.

This is a woman in tech, but more specifically she is a techie in tech. She has been assimilated into the normality of the modern tech industry and is participating in a highly competitive, skill driven arena.

Make no mistake, any company that does not behave as the organisers of this hackathon here - not actively displaying an organised, certainly biased, effort to promote the "Women in Tech" narrative - are open to being squatted on from above from the "moral highground" occupied by the tech media.

This is what happens when you attack meritocracy in the name of making people feel good. It is what happens when you create an unrelenting narrative that continually assaults an industry over how many or few people with a penis or vagina they have in it. It is what happens when you've an industry surrounded by "journalists" who've never spent an actual day in it, ready to fire out articles shaming you for your lack of, or apparent abundance of, penises or vaginas in your company.

The author here is simply another bystander to the continued assault on the technology industry.
I would have expected closer to $250 to $300 from a decent accountant for your tax work. $135 is a pretty good price, if we're talking, say, two hours of total billing time.

I think it's very easy to find good tax accountants, it just becomes a pricing matter. I think you're getting a great deal and I'd absolutely stick with your accountant.
This Gina woman, I like her. Maybe I'm sympathetic because I agree with her point and enjoy a good rant post, but my own acknowledged biases aside, I think she really does make a great point here.
We can look at their past smartphone efforts: a bunch of lackluster Windows Mobile phones. These companies are not good at developing software, and they would have been crushed by Apple. Google was only successful because they were able to leverage their existing infrastructure to provide a portfolio of advanced services.
What many are missing is that they transitioned from a consumer company to an infrastructure company. Their location database (and API) was just announced by Twitter as the backing for all location handling in tweets. That's a big freaking deal, especially given they already do that for Facebook.

If you read the FS CEO's comments about the Twitter thing, you'll notice he mentions they have basically focused on what their main value prop is: solving the difficult problem of accurate and quality locations.

The consumer apps are just something they "still do" but I certainly don't think they consider it their primary business model anymore.
This is comforting. Thanks for the detail.
> - When do you need to accept your return or settle your outstanding balances by?

This year I got it in early March, and it's due by mid-May.

> - How are business taxes handled?

Pretty much all businesses employ an accountant that takes care for the basic stuff (paying and declaring salaries), and most also have a CFO - usually someone with a legal decree - who knows how to optimize the tax stuff. Every large corporation of course have a whole department of internal accountants and lawyers.

> - How complicated are your tax codes?

Not too simple at least! Multiple types of tax for different types of income (salary, capital, property) and the tax level depend on factors like municipality of residence, membership in a church, total income earned, sums and types of loans outstanding etc. If you collect social benefits, they further complicate as some are taxable and some not. There are also some "tax-like" fees payable by your employer, some of which are deductible in personal taxation and some not. And this is just what I know of personal taxation, the corporate taxation is a whole world of its own.

I don't think the issue here is that our taxation would be so much simpler - and anyway the IRS probably has disproportionate R&D budget compared to a small European country.
Gmail OAuth2: Broken and Fixed
Short term, doubtful since the majority of ArXiv papers are math/physics papers and latex is popular in both of those fields.
While there have been some truly misguided mapreduce implementations, mapreduce is just a computation model that isn't inherently slower than others: A relational aggregation of the type you get with SQL like:

select foo, count(*) from bar group by foo

...is essentially a mapreduce, although most databases probably don't use a reduce buffer larger than 2. (But they would benefit from it if they could use hardware vectorization, I believe.)

Mapreduce works great if you are already sequentially churning through a large subset of a table, which is typically the case with aggregations such as "count" and "sum". Where mapreduce is foolish is when you try using mapreduce for real-time queries that only seek to extract a tiny subset of the dataset.
Forbes and RFactr Team Up to Launch Social Sales System Forbes Socialport
So now people are going to "transpile" their nginx configs? (And still not be as fast as Lua?)

In nginx there are two places for scripting that I know of. One, to replace the somewhat awkward config stuff, like the "if" statement. Two, to enhance HTTP requests/routing a bit. I doubt people are writing long applications and I hope nginx isn't trying to become an application server.

I just can't see how a weak language like JS makes any sense for such an environment. Maybe that's why the nginx guy says he's making his own JS VM, to get it working well enough for nginx.
Credibility is important. We all want to be credible and have or accomplishments actually mean something. We do, as a society, give special prizes to folks who are doing there best but have some disability (in the broad sense of the word) that makes their best spectacular only in the light of the realization of their disability. We cheer their accomplishment because it is amazing, and we wonder what might have been if fate hadn't dealt them a bad hand. Their best might not even make it to normal and certainly not world-class. But, it inspires and we acknowledge that as a society.

This isn't one of those situations. This is giving the same credibility to people who are not encumbered as people who put the time in and understood the rules of the situation. This is giving a "Most Effort" prize to someone entering a vegetarian salad at a BBQ competition. It diminishes the credibility of the hackathon, cheapens the sense of accomplishment for participants when they finally win, and diminishes the value of experience in our industry which is a huge problem.
It looks like profile_node.stp is just probing timer.profile, but in theory this could be any event that systemtap is capable of. A function in glibc, a syscall, a kernel function, a perf event on say branch misses, ... there are many many possibilities. (Might need to tweak other parts of their analysis that assume a time-based event though.)
> 1) What is the nature of hackathons? Many are pitchathons.

It's even more basic than that - What is hacking? Take a look at the MIT Gallery of Hacks for one perspective: http://hacks.mit.edu/

To me it means building something awesome, and it sounds entirely possible this team did that without writing a line of code.
Yep! You'll just have a gigantic bill come due in April
Did you know that Google indexed redirections?
These comments should be merged with this submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9381437
Alcatel bought Lucent .. Microsoft bought Nokia .. now Nokia bought Alcatel-Lucent .. All mixed up
Vine's Infinite Loops
Poll: HN readers, what's your karma?
Just to get an idea of the breakdown, and see if the long tail really occurs here too. I noticed some people (patio11 & pals) have upwards of 100k karma. Incredible. So I'm including a top line just to be safe. The choices only make sense if you chose the largest one less than your karma.
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Who incessantly trolls Node threads asking "Who uses Node.js?"
Awesome article. This is something much of the HN crowd will have trouble coming to terms with I'm sure. An actual woman programmer (that is, not a tech journalist/some other peripheral body commenting on an industry they are not intimate with) who (apparently) sees behind the veil of getting as many on-the-fence women kinda-sorta interested in programming into the field in an effort for an employer/organization to say "Look, we're diverse! Look at how many women we employ!" while being 100% disingenuous in the same breath.
Extremely similar behavior. Basically the same premise, just a different division of the company doing it.
The carnivalesque in Persian and Turkish miniatures
Now this is interesting

> At issue is whether the company uses its position as the dominant search engine company to muscle out competition from specialized search services, specifically comparison shopping sites, by prioritizing its own Google Shopping search results.

Google Shopping results suck but when I search for products almost always is an Amazon, Walmart, Target and others linked at the top of the results sometimes higher than the actual company that produces the product. As far as I can tell you can only get their shopping search results by clicking on "Shopping" (at least I can't seem to trigger it without that).

I don't understand the issue here. foundem is behind the initial lawsuit and kinda kicked off this whole thing but they're a search engine. If I owned a search company I certainly wouldn't want to be federating queries and indexing them doesn't make sense; why would I index an index when I can just index the source?

Am I missing something here?

> The European Commission also confirmed that it is opening an investigation into Android as well. Although the operating system is open source, meaning that any manufacturer can install it on the phones and tablets they sell, many core applications, including the Google Play store, are proprietary. Manufacturers must enter into special agreements with Google to include these proprietary apps. The investigation will attempt to determine whether Google is using its position to discourage the inclusion of rival applications on Android-based phones.

I don't understand this one as well. These applications require the use of Google's infrastructure so if you want to use them why shouldn't you agree to handle them as they want? Besides I think Barnes and Noble's nook and Amazon's Fire platforms show this is a non issue.
I actually really wasn't being facetious. It was my understanding that podcasts were an Internet centric thing, and was curious whether there were offline versions I wasn't aware of.

I love the idea of an "aural mobile tradition" (so to speak I guess). The idea of a content being traded via mobile untethered from a central server. I suppose that's kind of like Bittorrent for mobile?
Very nice. I'm a little confused at the "over 15 new features" phrasing. It lists precisely 15 features. If it added exactly 15 features, why say "over 15"? If it added more features, why does it list precisely 15? I would have expected the list to end with something like "And more!" if there are features it didn't want to list.