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Nokia were doing awesome right until then! I fricking loved Symbian, so much better than Android/iOS. Oh. wait, no, it actually was complete garbage. But yes, Elop ruined their kick-ass smartphones. Gimme a break.
Disclaimer: I'm no physicist

Are you thinking of the Michelson-Morley experiment? Interestingly, even after the development of special relativity, Lorentz and Einstein [1] continued to discuss the possibility of an ether. Dirac also discussed the topic in 1951 [2]. The fact that it continued to be discussed by these scientists has always made me wonder whether the idea would ever return.

[1]: http://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Ether_and_the_Theory_of_Rela...

[2]:
http://www.researchgate.net/publictopics.PublicPostFileLoade...
Which isn't to say named parameters don't help a bunch over boolean positional parameters!
A company valued at $41 billion, apparently.
Made a online tool that tests for this vuln: https://lab.xpaw.me/MS15-034/?host=bing.com
Maybe it's just me but I see a lot more liberal leaning comments on here than I do libertarian.
Very excited to see this happen. The US surely wasn't going to do it, but it's well past due.
My understanding is that they already do. That is, I send in my tax documents, and they check the documentation against what they've already received from others. Then upon comparison, they decide, if things match up, I'm OK. If not, they send me a notice that they think I owe more or less than I think I do.

It seems to me an altogether more sensible approach to have them make available the records they have for me, and I can check them, or ask someone to check them, or whatever. I'm tired of the fact that in 2015, I am still waiting until sometime in February to get that one piece of paper about my house mortgage before I can go off and pay someone to do a bunch of mindless redundant (see above) paperwork for me.

I'd much rather my financial planner just pull up my information, and file adjustments on my behalf, etc, and go about my business.
Being Italian and accustomed to such stories (and very much an ancient and medieval history enthusiast, so not dismissing the importance of this discovery) my curiosity goes to the hypothetical menu of Trattoria Faggiano.
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Everything you say in your comment was already said by the fifth paragraph of the piece.
> it is a “conflict of interest” for the government to both collect taxes and calculate how much people owe

Doesn't the government do this anyway? Try claiming that you owe $0 and see how that goes over. The individual taxpayer has already had the money withheld and then submits paperwork after the fact just in case any of the business entities involved failed to submit their required documentation.
To your second point there has always been a contingent in the museum community who opposed the reparation of artifacts. This is not to say they may lament the means of acquisition but feel that the artifacts would be better protected in a more stable or better funded place.

This group has been given more attention as of late. Especially with the rate of destruction currently occurring in parts of the middle east (re: ISIS). But even in other areas of the world this a concern. I've herd it said by some that artifacts returned to Peru cannot be fully accounted for. Admittedly, this was second hand, but it seems quite logical knowing a thing or two about the backlog of even the most funded museums.
This is a really interesting integration.
I don't think I'm proposing to ignore tribes. I'm calling tribes out as harmful. If people promote the old idea of declaring themselves distinct from the rest of the human family because of various body attributes, I'm going to oppose it.
It's almost beside the point -- it would be a problem even if TurboTax worked perfectly -- but I agree, I've found the interface quirky enough that it makes me question if it's always doing the math correctly.
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$30k/week? Would love to read more about how that worked. I thought my $180/hour with $1k per diem for on-site was phenomenal.

Jeez, I need to charge more.
Oh come on, we both know that if you give people a choice the feature will be underused. If you want proof just look at python code!
Usually startups using this kind of domain end up moving to .com once they get funded. I do data mining for a VC, and see this all the time.
But if NSA controls DNS, by extension they control the TLS CA tree as well. Because domain validated certificates is what everyone relies on for security.

Again, that's the point. You keep pointing out that DNSSEC is somehow government controlled, when what you really mean is the entirety of DNS and CAs put together are, and not specifically just DNSSEC. That doesn't make for a constructive discussion since there is no context of an alternative system. Status quo still leaves us with easily falsified domain validated certificates.

I can agree for the sake of discussion that the DNS and CA system is under government control. So against an intelligence organization with unlimited resources anything built on DNS or certificates would fall, so DNSSEC wouldn't help you there. But against every other attacker in the world it absolutely would (while making the attacks it can't defend against easier to detect).
As demonstrated by the discipline of economics.
I wasn't asked but ... I didn't like this. It starts out relating to Maxwell's equations, which are a bit much to explain the basics. Maybe they are not expected prerequisite, I didn't proceed to find out, because it struck me mostly as automated exercises. Besides, the offered excerpts from the professor's book were little more than sneak peeks.

Nice to see that it helped others and spawned more courses, anyhow.
Ask HN: Anyone making anything with the Oculus Rift?
If so what are you making?
It seems to be pretty even split IMO. It depends on your personal bias - if you lean in X direction, comments leaning in X direction will seem "reasonable", therefore not trigger your "oh crap this person is a Y" alarm. Since the human brain isn't really wired with an "all is as expected" alarm, it tends to not notice these things.
That's not the same as race/gender/etc.

No, it's not. Which is my point.

If you want to make the argument that racial/gender/etc groups think differently, be my guest - but that also implies that an unbiased hiring process might have disparate impact. E.g., if onion2k's hypothesis that women are more emotional than men is correct, then a hiring process aiming for rationalism might hire fewer women.
Sorry, what I mean here is that this news article took the story from digg. Which is something of a role reversal considering digg's past as an aggregator.
is google still trying to have standards go its way or hell with everything?

I don't almost see plugins anymore, but I don't like browser deciding for me what can I consume on the internet.

especially the unity player thing sucks. I know many indie that have a game demo delivered this way (i.e. http://dinopoloclub.com/minimetro/ ) adn it's a quick, cheap way for them to get an audience (who'd install exes from random guys off the internet anymore?)
In about 15 years in the labor force, I've never once had the withholding match up perfectly with the taxes owed. Either not enough is withheld or too much.

Either way, I'm stuck filing the #($&ing paperwork.
There is something really wrong about Biicode. They seem to be way too focused on marketing and buzz words and popularity instead of just letting the software do the talking.
My experience with him has been the same. His advice and encouragement (not to mention his blog posts) are priceless.
Xiaomi seems to be taking the right steps to get there.
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Only two major mobile telecom equipment manufacturers left. Great news for Huawei !
Why wouldn't they follow a Keplerian orbit?
This reminds me of a great line from DeVito in Heist:

“Everybody needs money! That's why they call it money!”

http://miniver.blogspot.ch/2004/02/everybody-needs-roger-ebe...
The Yahoo Geo team that gave birth to WOEID is no longer. But if you were looking for a geo acquihire, Foursquare would be a pretty amazing one.
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To some extent, this is also true of any bare type. In C, I try to wrap primatives in a single-element struct that means something, particularly at function boundaries. On a modern compiler this doesn't change the emitted code, but it makes it much easier to avoid shooting yourself in the foot in ways like this.
> It seems to me an altogether more sensible approach to have them make available the records they have for me

http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/Get-Transcript

If the IRS has any documentation on you, it's available on the web. This includes notices, etc. sent out.
Stop being a slave to looks. I'm as laid back as I can be. I don't panic when something happens. Yes, I've had management get mad at me for not screaming in a panic with them, but I don't care.

Of course, I don't care about their profits either or how they look to their boss. Yes, that makes some management types annoyed that you don't sell your soul to the company.

Show up, do your job well. If you do you will be calmer. You are just there to do the job you were hired for. Stop caring so much about anything else.
While I don't agree with everything in the article, I did enjoy its hyperbole and think it touched upon some really good points that are sometimes difficult to convey. Especially within an organization where the standard groupthink is hyper-driven and hyper-competitive.

I've observed similar patterns since joining the workforce at a large consulting shop several years ago. It's one of the reasons I started freelancing and will always seek to BYOB (Be your own Boss).
Because of your #3, that means they had some time. Rather than torpedo something that was still a bit of a success, if no longer a moon shot, they could have innovated something new alongside the existing product. Either a compelling new feature or a separate product that was able to leverage their huge data set. Their users were delighted by the existing product, but they ignored their users in order to go with the torpedo route. Clearly they had never read anything by Paul Graham?
While I don't know RethinkDB is structured internally, I don't see any technical reason why a non-mapreduce group-by needs to load the entire table into memory instead of streaming it, or why a mapreduce group-by needs to be slow. M/R only becomes a slow algorithm once you involve shards and network traffic; any classical relational aggregation plan uses a kind of M/R anyway.

Postgres has a schema, of course, but it still needs to look up the column map (the ItemIdData) in each page as it scans it, the main difference being that this map is of fixed length, whereas in a schemaless page it would be variable-length.

Anyway, I'm hoping RethinkDB will get better at this. I sure like a lot about it.
Is it that bad? I tried out TaxACT for the first time and was fairly unimpressed. It didn't help clear up any of the tax questions I had, basically just linked me to the tax docs. It also had a pretty poor UI. Was thinking about trying out TurboTax next year, but it is more expensive and if it is just as bad...
I never understood the antitrust angle towards Google search. Is there some kind of browser or app out there that is forcing people to use Google as their search engine on all their devices?
This guy is awesome. I read some articles of his on kalzumeus ages ago and thought, "he really gets it." To see the pic of him and know more about him is really great. Thanks for this post.
Easy: It's not.

Having said that - there are billions of dollars to be made in simplifying existing implementations of existing ideas.
Turbotax has a view that lets you see all the forms and how they're filling it out. It's pretty easy to check the math there if you really want to.

Depending upon how complicated your taxes are, it can also be easy to do them by hand. I only recently started using turbotax because I was tired of doing it by hand. My taxes are fairly simple though.
Nit-picking southerner: Pimento cheese has pimentos, not red bell peppers, which are not the same thing. It's the little red thing you see in olives.
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Whenever I've ordered a roast beef sandwich anywhere else, the meat is served cold. This has been echoed by acquaintances. You've had warm roast beef sandwiches in the south also? Mostly just curious!

I completely understand something being less prevalent in various areas. Certainly barbecue places are generally few and far between here in MA, NH & ME.
All the arguments against seem to stretch credulity. The IRS already computes your taxes, they are just not allowed to share that with you (thanks to Intuit's lobbying). Instead, you must repeat the computation, and hope that your computations match what the IRS has.

If you don't match, then the IRS will either audit you or send you a proposed correction (along with penalties); i.e. once you fail to match, then the IRS is allowed to show you the correct calculations.

This is an incredibly convoluted system.
Linking to actual content. If you click on your link it claims the page doesn't exist, you have to click the same address from the sites front page.

Basically that site breaks how urls work.
Then a better name would be the Hannibal Buress effect.
I have trouble understanding what you want to say but I did not say what you quoted me with. Please don't put words in my mouth.

The title was giving people the wrong impression about the severity of the vulnerability. This has nothing to do with "avoid giving people ideas" which would be stupid anyways.
If you had read the article before posting, you'd have realized that what it's calling for would solve every problem you just raised.
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> easy to cheat on

> national sales tax

Haha, good luck with that. Sales taxes are substantially easier to cheat than income taxes for most people.

Nationalizing sales taxes just provides more incentive to cheat.

https://craigslist.org
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I live in Finland, and I have never filed a tax return. The tax office here has used pre-filled annual forms since the mid 1990s, and since 2006 the pre-filled form is automatically accepted if you take no action. For me, the information has always been 100% correct, and should there be an error you can correct it in an online service using two-factor e-banking login or a government-issued ID card with smartchip for authentication.
Holy crap. You are right. Thanks for the tidbit.
Pump the brakes a bit here, a lot of folks I trust saying no such acquisition talks are taking place.

http://recode.net/2015/04/15/sources-say-yahoo-foursquare-ar...

Ugh... I hate that I enjoy this type of gossip so much. It's the reality TV of my demographic.
What I'm trying to show here is that JavaScript is also a JVM-like runtime, so it's possible to "cross-compile" things to JavaScript and get a lot of functionality that way.

Lua is a convenient, easily embeddable scripting language, but that alone does not make it the best choice given how complicated the world is.
There's been an update since the joke: Over a dozen women have openly accused Bill Cosby of being a rapist. I know it has been widely reported, so I would hope that you aren't reducing the statements of those women to "an unfounded accusation."
The average won't necessarily be systematically skewed but a couple of random (or not so random) reviews of a restaurant or a service means they're not worth much. (Obviously it's somewhat different when the reviewer is an "expert" critic but even then they're outliers.) Out where I live the restaurants, such as they are, don't get a lot of reviews on Yelp so the results don't mean a lot.
The annoying part about all of this is that our taxes are already done. Due to various required forms for businesses, the IRS pretty much knows exactly what you make and how you did it.

Banks file forms. Charities file forms. Employers file forms. They know how many kids you have, they know how old they are, they know if you own or rent, and how much your mortgage is and the interest being paid. They have info on your outstanding student loans. Except for the edgiest of edge cases, there really should be no surprises. Even a moderately powerful desktop should be able to precalculate the taxes for everyone in the country in less than a day.

Why is filing taxes even a thing anymore? Hell, at this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook could do our taxes for us due to all of the info they have. Our tax system is stuck perpetually in 1960, and it's just sad to watch.
Anyone who bought a home in California in the last 10 years probably saves money by itemizing. Or any other high cost state with decently high income tax. It isn't huge but I wouldn't call it extremely small...

Any tech worker probably saves money by itemizing in California too. State taxes and salaries are high enough for that.
> The best way to simplify tax preparation is to simplify the tax code.

That much I absolutely agree with. A flat tax would require a single tax form the size of a business card.

> The percentage of people who save money by itemizing deductions is extremely small, as is the percentage who claim (or are eligible for) any of the more generous deductions.

Not true at all. Anyone who owns a home itemizes to deduct interest. Anyone who pays enough state taxes itemizes because you can deduct state tax payments on your federal taxes.

I do agree that taxes should be drastically simplified, but in the process they would also need to be lowered so that the average person pays the same or less in taxes as they would have with today's high taxes and deductions.
I would say more than 1500 people forcibly relocated to the Island in the first place to work in the plantation and stayed there for hardly a century.

While there are plenty of arguments on what actually defines a nation from both historic cultural perspectives this one is a far stretch for any acceptable "litmus" test for a nation, even if it's simple because they never had the political legitimacy to being a nation state, not to mention ever had the capabilities of forming one.

Where they've mistreated? yes, do they deserve a compensation? yes, are they a nation? well not really if we are frank about it.
This is certainly feasible from a technology standpoint. But so is backing up emails, and the IRS doesn't have a very good track record on that comparatively simple task. I'm no fan of filling out taxes each year, but it's reasonable to exercise skepticism when contemplating large US Government IT projects.
>my very loose understanding is that in a lot of countries without robust Internet infrastructure, music is often traded directly from phone to phone.

You are indeed correct.

https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-saharan-ce...

Africa has had a spoken-word radio radio culture for a long time AFAIK.
I think this ignores a lot of other points.

Console requires a high quality TV.

Console may require controller or other accessories to play local multiplayer.

Console games are significantly more expensive, especially for a more casual gamer.

The games they like to play 5 hours a week may only be available on PC.
Yes, I think you're probably right. I noticed after the fact that they mentioned "hundreds of machines" and I was estimating more towards "dozens of machines".
I'm not going after labels here, I think programmers should be able to tackle new languages, however libraries don't magically switch from one language to another.

If you've got a lot of JavaScript code, or you want to use NPM, you can't use Lua.
In 1956, an eye witness to the assassination was on a game show, which itself is now on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_iq5yzJ-Dk

There's something about how this bridges the past to the present that I find deeply fascinating.
I did, I was agreeing. Sorry for annoying you - perhaps I should reread the commenting guidelines in case they added a "don't every restate things from the article" rule that I missed.... Oh it doesn't say that. However your comment is very similar to this guideline:

Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

Note also - the article doesn't mention any of my opinions or preferences in it. So no, not everything I sated was in the article by the fifth paragraph.

edit - the parent originally started with something like: "I suggest you read the article before commenting". I'm leaving the above as is, because I don't think substantially changing a comment after people reply to it is good behavior.
Very true. If people I know are any indication, when we'd get to a new city (for a wedding, for example), they'd furiously swipe every person that showed up. All that does it water down the entire app and defeat the purpose of the whole thing. Last thing anyone wants to hear is "Oh, I didn't mean to swipe right..".

It's a question I've been interested in about how you can improve response rates and whether you should give people more swipes based on the amount of actual interaction they have with other people, which may indicate they're using it properly.
The withholding is calculated by you and your employer, not the IRS.
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No worries! The reason I make the distinction is that here in the US typically a freeway is something that has controlled access (on and off ramps) and no traffic controls like stop lights, stop signs, etc. Highways are much more up to interpretation but typically have higher speeds (hence highways) but may well have lights, much less controlled access, etc.
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Tested against three servers, one patched and two not. Small test but it correctly identified which was which.
Sales taxes are also a regressive tax. Low income households and those living paycheck to paycheck end up paying as a proportion of their income far more than high income households, since they consume more relative to the money coming in (and there's no exemption or deduction).
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So how can I request $0 withholding?
I know these frameworks to work with web applications:
- Lapis: https://github.com/leafo/lapis
- Sailor: https://github.com/Etiene/sailor
- Luvt: https://github.com/luvit/luvit

There is also the Pegasus.lua - http://evandrolg.github.io/pegasus.lua/ -, it is a http server to work with web application written in Lua
The Finnish tax authority switched to prefilled tax forms years ago - I have literally never had to do my taxes unless I have wanted to report some extra deductions. Usually I don't bother. You don't even have to provide receipts for your deductible expenses, just store them for some number of years for the purposes of a potential audit (a mostly hypothetical scenario for a middle class private person.)