skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used TaxACT from 2000 until last year, when its interface for handling my HSA made me want to immolate my computer. Then TurboTax helped out.

This year, I just said "fuck it" and went to H&R Block, because I'm just done with doing it myself. Someone else who does this all day can do it faster, yell at the computer less, and I'll get the same results.

All of this should be automated by now, but no...
But not until you've filed the tax return that requires those documents, right?
That doesn't really seem definitive. That page also includes a link to this[1] page, from a month ago, stating that LinkedIn is moving part of its stack to Scala.

[1] - https://engineering.linkedin.com/frontend/new-technologies-n...
FYI, $180/hour is phenomenal by nearly anyone's standards.

Nothing wrong with pushing for higher, just don't get worked up trying to keep up with the McKenzies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9378532
AFAIK, modulo the date where this was put in place that's the case in much of Europe.
Right, many people do put down their home interest, real estate taxes, medical expenses, sales tax on a new car, etc...but even then, most peoples' itemized expenses fall below the standard deduction, especially for married filling joint.

So yes, a large percentage of people are just getting the standard deduction.
I don't know why, (probably mostly because I'm accustomed to modern new reports)

but that strikes me as a sort of absurd way to learn that the President was dead
3 Mistakes Most Students Make with Flashcards
Is saying "Ping" actually a thing? I've only ever heard "P-N-G"
Submission from yesterday: Announcing LLILC: An LLVM Based Compiler for .NET CoreCLR https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9375398
Reasons I downvote comments fall into two categories:

1. Poor etiquette

2. Poor writing

Examples of poor etiquette:

- Obvious self promotion that adds nothing to discussion

- Any mention of "downvote" in the comment body

- "Flamebait" and clearly mean-spirited remarks

Examples of poor writing:

- Completely off-topic, especially if at top of thread

- Factually incorrect

- Extraordinary claim without extraoridinary evidence

- Ambiguous language or poor wording that leads to confusion

- Aggressive conclusions based on faulty logic

I try to avoid downvoting for emotional reasons. Just because I disagree with a comment does not mean it's wrong. I have noticed a trend, especially around NSA/government/surveillance/conspiracy type comments, where people will downvote logical arguments without refuting them. This is not good for discussion. If you disagree with a comment, try to understand its author before reflexively downvoting. An equally logical reply contributes far more to discussion than a downvote.
Sorry, I only have dozens of unfounded accusations that say he might be a rapist. Do I need something more substantial to say that he might be?
Great read, thanks. One sentence in particular stood out to me: "... a sharp report of a pistol was heard, which merely attracted attention, but suggested nothing serious until a man rushed to the front of the President's box." I found myself contrasting the initial reaction with likely reactions in the modern era. I'm going to guess that in many places in the US, many wouldn't know that they had heard a gun shot. Also, I suspect the reaction would be different in those that knew what they heard.
This might be computationally feasible in this lifetime for a simple app of sorts, but we are dealing with potentially an insane number of combinations that would have to be tried.

We still have trouble calculating all possible 20 character passwords.
The fact that most people use the default, and that Google mandates the browser be Chrome and the search be Google for all Chrome web browsers (largest desktop market share) and Android devices (largest mobile market share). And that they then prioritize their own products and services in Search as well.

The issue isn't "everyone is forced to use Google Search" as much as "Google creates a monopoly through connected use of it's various products and services".
If you underwithhold several years in a row, you get hit with fines and retroactive interest.
Only if you view DRM as intrinsically evil.
The article says

> 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.

Where are you getting that the 'antitrust angle towards Google search' is a subject of the complaint?
"The calling convention of the System V AMD64 ABI is followed on Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and other UNIX-like or POSIX-compliant operating systems."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions#System_...
Samsung Puts Blazing Fast NVMe SSD Technology on a Tiny M.2 Stick
It's a few years ago, but I had a slightly complex multi-state situation and found that the numbers TurboTax calculated changed based on the order in which I typed them into their interface. That really felt like a bug.
I've used turbotax for years, including this one, with some rather ... interesting ... returns in some years, and have never had a problem.

I've used TurboTax this year and it's frighteningly stable.

Anecdata isn't terribly helpful.
Very similar in Spain. We get our pre-filled forms and you only have to correct what's missing (typically, in my case, the annual rent I paid the landlord) using a secure on-line system. You then submit it on-line too. Done. Takes 30 minutes of your time in total or less.
When I lived there I saved a tiny percentage by itemizing about half of the years, but then got hit by the AMT so it was all a massive waste of time.

I could see that homeowners in CA would benefit by itemizing, however a simplified system could make something like mortgage interest much easier to factor in.
Does anyone know how this affects azure?
It has always bothered me that it's so common for people (including me) to say something like, "Man I've been working since 7:30 this morning" as a way of bragging "oh look at me I have such good work ethic, I'm so much better than people who work less than me."

But what really bothers me about it is that it's so hard to NOT work that much when other people ARE working that much. Like sometimes I'll come into work in the morning and there will be pages upon pages of conversation from the night before on HipChat. I have to now read all that stuff and try to understand the context or I'll fall behind just because I didn't want to stay up until midnight working.

I recently took a vacation. Only 4 days. I had a lot of fun but I couldn't help but feel regret for taking a vacation when I got back and realized how far behind I was because of how much stuff has moved on in just 4 days.

So am I part of this cult? Yes, absolutely. Luckily for me I'm not super deep into it: I still go to the gym and play piano. But I know I have a problem because every time I think about having kids, this resentment wells up inside of me because I know having a kid will make me less competitive at work. That can't be healthy... but I'm competitive and I fear getting left behind because my co-workers might choose NOT to start a family and instead stay up until midnight working.
Not necessarily anyone that owns a home deducts. Consider that the median home price is $188,900. If you have a loan of 4% (current rates), that puts the amount of tax you would pay at about 7k for the first year. If you are single, this is just over the standard deduction amount. If married, it is below.

So, yes, plenty of people in the "we can afford expensive houses" category are in position to deduct. Majority of the nation? Not so much.
A progressive tax would require the same size tax form, even a progressive tax that went negative at the lower incomes.

Flat isn't the simplification -- elimination of the billion deductions is the simplification.
Yeah... I don't know what to think about performance. We tend to be careful with page design and cache everything so once the cache is built the site flies.

But developing a drupal site is painful. Clearing the cache every few minutes takes forever.
I love the articles and comments Patrick makes. He helps remind us that there are good intelligent people in this world with good hearts.
Someone should combine AFL with an x86 code emulator. Sure, it'll be slow. But it'll be better than nothing. (And you'd be fuzzing the emulator at the same time!)

(An interesting alternative route would be to rewrite the binary in-place, using something like PEBIL.)
Samba doesn't run as a kernel module though.

I suspect such a patch would not get far, just as many ridiculed the TUX web server some fifteen years ago.
Since withholding is performed upfront it either uses older declarations or (more likely) some sort of standard chart. So it's similar to a utility bill: some amount is withheld throughout the year and once all data is in the actual amount of taxes due is tallied and the payment is adjusted (with a check to or from the IRS).
Intel is still selling (well, trying to…) 32-bit only Atom/Quark CPUs for smartphones and IoT devices.

Coincidentally, Android defaults to PIC in newer SDK versions. So there is still a pressure to optimize for IA32+PIC.
And this is the way it should be.

Our government seems to think computers are operated entirely via witchcraft. I doubt we'll get something like that before 2050.
I've used it for the last five years. The interface isn't the best. That said, for a program I use once a year it's OK. works fine for me.
It may be a reference to Infinite Summer, which was a (more traditional) online book club a few years back reading Infinite Jest.
Or:

foo[someCondition? 'show' : 'hide']();

Although looking up functions using raw strings is less than elegant. I'd be tempted to abstract the pattern using a function, but at that point I'd be doing functional programming anyway and wouldn't be using methods ;)
(a) is an unbiased method analogous to blind orchestral auditions. (b) and (c) are not. (a) is also basically identical to hiring by github unless the candidate illegaly uses proprietary code as their sample. (From her article: "...not all programmers own the rights to their code..." in which case I can't look at it when hiring.)

The entire article is about how using github (i.e. evaluating code with the human absent, i.e. the closest thing [1] we currently have to blind auditions) is "biased" against women.

[1] Maybe we'll have something closer when starfighter comes out. I look forward to it.
Got to agree with this - stop patronising people with so-called "positive discrimination" and all the horrible PC bullshit.

Give those who want to learn a helping hand, sure, but not some over the top tech minority outreach program that then pisses all over the very people you are claiming to try and help in the first place.
adding ?_r=0 at the end doesn't suddenly change the content of the article...
Consider re-framing. I choose not to be overly competitive at work because I'd rather be competitive at things that matter.

Very few of us are changing the world. Relatively few of us are really making it better. I'd rather push hard on things that do those things (or, failing that, make me better, and work doesn't).
With the high localization of individuals in SF, NYC: you're probably not wrong.
Who are the journalists? Have you just curated a list of big publication journalists? I would love to know how you identify a mention as coming from a journalist.
A better work environment for more of the employees and a wider applicant pool with more qualified applicants making it through the pipeline doesn't seem to be PR by my definition, but maybe if it is by yours, then I suppose we don't disagree.
A way to say where I 'need' to be for various times during a trip (pre-planned events, arrival/departure times + places, any business meetings), and then to have suggestions for things to do in the between-times and spaces.

In other words, it's a routing problem - I have these fixed points in space + time - what interesting things/events exist in-between those and are routable?

(also needs to allow sensible amounts of time for food breaks, lots of buffer time to enjoy the surroundings, etc)
There doesn't need to be any "forcing" to violate competition laws (known as "antitrust" in the US).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law

Such laws seek to "promote and maintain fair competition"
Last year I was impressed but on this year's return it fetched some 1099s and imported data which exceeded some built-in field limit, then wouldn't let me edit the form to fix the problem.

I think for a professional tax preparer it would be great but the wizard left me scratching my head wondering if I'd filled it out correctly.
Does it have to be the original purpose to be a useful feature?
Best I could do on a freshly installed Win2k12 with IIS was:

curl -v http://server-name/iis-85.png -H "Range: bytes=18-18446744073709551615"

Run the curl twice and the bluescreen happens the second time. If I don't request the image then it doesn't work.

I've not added any specific rules for output caching.

Edit: The crash screen is very dull:

http://imgur.com/MZ7VNHQ
I'm aware of that but my point is that most employers would not allow that since the employer is also liable if it under-withheld for a W2 employee.
It's important to balance work and life. Whether you do it on a daily basis, a weekly, monthly, or yearly basis, make sure to do it. I worked 70 hour weeks for the first 10 years, and my health suffered, but then I learned to take long vacations and enjoy the fruits. I recommend you consider the same. Similarly, I may not have been able to take these enhanced balanced actions if I hadn't worked so hard early on. But, i believe it's more about working smart then hard.
A comic version for the impatient:
http://thattherepaul.com/features/uford.html
How do you definite technically exceptional? Trendy javascript frameworks?

http://labs.yahoo.com/
Simda botnet taken down by Kaspersky and INTERPOL
> and that Google mandates the browser be Chrome and the search be Google for all Chrome web browsers (largest desktop market share) and Android devices (largest mobile market share)

No, they don't. You're free to use any browser on your desktop. You're free to use any browser on your Android device. And you're free to go into Chrome settings and use any search engine in Chrome on any of these devices.
I don't see a conflict of interest there. If the rules are spelled out so anyone can do an independent check of the calculation than it's fine.

Is it a 'conflict of interest' for restaurant to both collect money for my bill and tell me how much my bill is? No. The rules are clear so anyone can audit their own bill if they feel they're being cheated.

If the government just said "You owe $673.25" and wouldn't tell you why or how they got to that number, then I would see a conflict.
Sourcecode:

https://github.com/xPaw/HTTPsys

@xPaw: Nice to see you on HN, too^^
Marpa is amazing.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this site DoS vulnerable servers when it checks them?
I just get the standard "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We're just collecting some error info, and then we'll restart for you."

Edit:

Actually sometimes you get additional info:

http://imgur.com/zRHUV8o
Negotiations are based on facts, not perception. M&A revolves around balance sheets, usage statistics, product strategy, and other metrics based on real data. The press is clueless and articles are worthless in the long-term.
I was going to comment this as well.

OR has no sales tax, everyone goes crazy about it, yet they have one of the highest income taxes in the nation.

Even for the poorest, it's very difficult for that to be a good bargain.
Could I just call out David Williams, Intuit's Chief Tax Officer, for making statements that range from disingenuous to despicable. I mean, he may coach his kid's little league team and be a wonderful co-worker, but could you imagine having a job that required you to actively lie and make tens of millions of people worse off so that you can make more money?

'And rather than download people’s financial data from government sources — which Mr. Williams said might not be very secure — Intuit prefers to connect its systems to banks, employers and other private companies to obtain taxpayers’ information, he said.'

David Williams knows perfectly well that every US taxpayer's tax transcript (showing W-2s, 1099s, etc.) are available online at http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/Get-Transcript . Intuit is using security as a cover for their regulatory capture <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture> of the US tax paying system.
Not withstanding that Opera, Firefox, and other browsers are available in the Google Play store for android, you can easily change the default search in the Settings menu. The ease of this change can be compared to changing the default search in Internet Explorer or Safari. [1]

[1] http://www.androidcentral.com/how-change-your-default-search...
I think that reflects more poorly on you than you might think. Not because you're calm and laid back but because you don't care. If you're working a job that doesn't excite or, at least, interest you, you're not doing anyone any favors by continuing to work that job.

Do yourself a favor and find something you like to do and a place you like to do it in.
The point regarding literary wit is well taken, and I think it works so wonderfully in "real" literature is the difficulty and delay in responses. Folks have to be pretty vindictive to carry their gut angry response all the way through to publishing, whereas here, all I have to do is hit "reply".
> So yes, the IRS has all this information. Eventually. They do not have it by the deadline they set for people to make their tax accounts right.

To the extent that is true for some information simply due to filing and delivery deadlines and processing times for various forms, the policy changes necessary to rectify it are fairly trivial to implement alongside any provision allowing IRS precomputation.
I am glad to see Nokia still making strides in any/all areas they can, i love their phones, still do but dont own one for obvious reasons,
How Android Leverages Open Hardware Without Compromising Security
The fact that you can change it is irrelevant. Microsoft learned that the hard way. Most people will use the default.
Daughter of Astronaut
Core Games on Mobile: Has the Time Come?
That was exactly what I assumed when I wrote my comment.

The point is that the issue that is relevant to whether or not their behaviour falls afoul of EU anti-trust rules is whether or not they have a monopoly position for search, and whether or not they are using such a monopoly position to expand their reach in the shopping space, not whether or not Google Shopping faces competition or currently does well.

If anything, the fact that Google Shopping faces stiff competition makes their alleged attempt to leverage their search position to expand its reach more serious, as there is an existing market they may hurt through anti-competitive practices.
A flat tax isn't progressive though (unless modulated by significant exemptions and deductions, and then you're back where you started). And effectively regressive once you factor in diminishing marginal utility.
Sigh.

From my angle, I've been learning/using the CUA-type keyboard shortcuts since I was about 8 years old - so that's 20 years now, and 16 or so before I wrote a line of code.

The question is not 'how quickly can I learn open/save/etc in vim/Emacs?', or even 'how quickly can I learn open/save/etc and remember it next time I open vim/Emacs?' but 'how quickly will I be more productive in either of them than something that does use all the shortcuts I've been using for two decades and are basically wired into my unconscious as deep as the need for oxygen, food and sex?'

On that scale, I think a few weeks is the most generous estimate possible. I understand why people love vim and Emacs, but they often underestimate how steep the learning curve is if you're very, very used to doing the same things slightly differently.
So, what has EU done in the example of "NotableAlamode"?
EU has made sure Tom gets his money back, despite the fact that he had recklessly lent money to John to get high interest rates -which John had been providing all along till the Ferarri case.
And John's debt is not only the same, but much higher, because EU has forced him to sell off 25% of his property that was providing him money (be that human capital or state assets).
So, Tom (EU banks) is bailed out and John (Greece) can never pay back his debt.
Energy sector is dominating the climb
Kepler's laws can be a pretty good approximation to reality and probably good enough for figuring if the galaxy contains unseen matter.
There are two issues: 1) What is the nature of hackathons? Many are pitchathons. 2) Think about people's incentives. There's a tech climate, constantly perpetuated in media and many people's conversations, where women are under attack in technology. If you you don't show you care as a man, if you don't bend over backwards to make sure everyone feels extra welcome, you might be branded sexist. I think people are tired or being attacked, and wanted to encourage some people new to programming.
Probably related: http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/static/TabsSpacesBoth.png
From the fact that it mentions Google's position as a dominant search engine company prioritizing it's own search results.
20+ women, all telling eerily similar stories spanning across 4 decades ... it is enough to extinguish reasonable doubt for me.
Scripting and Tooling becomes more robust wrt Unicode. You write a short script which works on some ASCII data. Later that ASCII suddenly becomes utf8. With Python 2 you could easily run into weird issues, when there is a unicode object instead of the expected str. With Python 3 decode is more explicit and robust.

Scripting and Tooling are the major uses of Python for me, so I like Python 3.
Which one to start with?
> Because there is no reason to expect stars going around a galaxy to follow keplers laws for two body systems.

The 'Kepler' law for galaxies are modified to accommodate for a mass distribution. See e.g.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve#Halo_den...
Show HN: Want to find out what people is posting on instagram near you?
Here's one with a full discussion:

LLILC – LLVM-Based Compiler for .NET CoreCLR

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9371238
What exactly would submitting to the corporate BS get you? A promotion, the recognition of your current batch of co-workers? Are you really the kind of person who cares about such things? Do you need more money, are you afraid you might be fired? No? Then what's there to worry about? At any rate, it sounds like option 2 is more up your alley.
that would be another bad acquisition.
Java’s days numbered as Chrome 42 blocks plug-ins by default
That cartoon was offensively terrible. Like, "you wasted your money making this" terrible. I can't see it working for anybody. There are some artists that could make an amazing SDF cartoon, like Kenichi Sonoda or Katsuhiko Nishijima, who have done anime with amazingly rendered aircraft and guns respectively. So much missed opportunity. I know the video was for kids, but even the old crappy pokemon cartoon looks better than this.
Please, tell me how you sell a product and pay your developers without advertising. It is clearly a tool focused in the community, free to use and now open source. Yes, it seems they want to get rich...
And no, I do not work for them.
Rentaholism over Shopaholism
Or should be anyway, that's the premise behind www.therentaholic.com, but I'd love feedback. If renting were easier (we deliver to you), would you do it for those things you know you'll only use occasionally? What would you want to rent?