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Taxes in the U.S. are absolutely ridiculous. Nearly everything is already reported to the IRS by employers, banks, brokers, etc. Why spend hours filling out and copying all that crap, and signing thing after thing after thing just to send the IRS information they already have?

The problem seems to be trying to carve out exemptions for little things here and there.

Just use a decent tax rate, get rid of all that crap, calculate what I owe and send me a bill or send me a check if I over-withheld or something.

Ugh it's so hard building a proper civilization.
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If you're disappointed in Obama over the USA PATRIOT Act, that's your own fault - he was very clear about his opinions on USA PATRIOT from long before he ran for office, as early as 2003 (or 2006?). Obama has voted in favour of expanding/extending the USA PATRIOT Act's powers from the earliest possible time that he had US lawmaking influence.

There are many reasons to be disappointed in Obama perhaps, but he was clear about this from Day 1: He supports unchecked US domestic spying.

Citation: http://www.ontheissues.org/barack_obama.htm
With mean-shift you can get non-convex clusters
I'm pretty sure that's a first generation, as there is no 'Fn' mod key on the left.

2nd gen has the 'Fn' key but still has the fingerprint reader on the right margin like the 1st gen. 2nd gen is also distinguished by having the split middle button on the trackpad.

3rd gen (the current one?) moves the fingerprint reader below instead of to the right from the keyboard.
She's not scantily clad. Her leggings go almost down to her ankles. Her suit is probably brightly-colored and only looks scandalous in your brain when you fill in a different color. e.g. http://www.dancewearsolutions.com/leotards/cl1270.aspx?posit...
> (My thinking is that if the mass of the singularity was redistributed evenly into a small sphere in the center of the black hole, the gravitational strength around the black hole wouldn't change despite density not being infinite. However that thought experiment is newtonian thinking, not GR, so perhaps flawed)

Update: It turns out I was describing something like the "Schwarzschild radius", confirming that in GR you don't need a singularity for a black hole - the mass just needs to be compacted into a volume smaller than a sphere of the Schwarzschild radius.
You're being pedantic. I'm not saying that literally no dating products are getting funded - in fact, I'm an advisor to CoffeeMeetsBagel which is on that list. Just that there's major resistance (which that article talks about) and there isn't very much funding for the category compared to a "hot" category like SaaS/on-demand/messaging, etc. My point is that it's an uphill battle, and I gave the reasons why for investors are skeptical.
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Ehh. I see him more as a true libertarian. I know he's come out in support of the tea party recently, but that's not really his roots (unless you consider the tea party to be libertarians as well. The definition has changed a bit over time).

Generally speaking, I think most people would get behind libertarianism if they could get past the nut job conspiracy theories. Generally speaking, liberterianism is fiscally conservative, socially liberal, in favor of limited government, limited intervention in individual's lives, pro small business, anti crony capitalism, and generally on the right side of most recent issues that have come up from bail outs to wars (overseas and on drugs).

Of course, you'll hear the nutjob stories saying that libertarians want to eliminate public schools or privatize fire departments. This is no more realistic than it is to say democrats want a perfect utopia complete with killing people off once they reach retirement age.
Adapting to 'Mobilegeddon'
> all I've ever seen much of from recruiters are jquery, knockout, angular

A year ago they weren't even asking for angular.
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About time they see it! I've been pushing native, Internet apps over web since the beginning. The reason: native apps can be faster, leaner, more flexible, more portable, and more secure. Most things I can do to boost one of these metrics in a native app I can't do in a web app. Let's put this in perspective: my 1998, 200Mhz P2, 64MB RAM machine's native apps did more than modern web apps and with fewer problems. And could connect to people and use presentation layers... just like the web!

One writer argued the reason the Web took off was a standard, usable presentation format (HTML) combined with easy distribution (hyperlinks) and instant updates (connect for freshest version). This spread across both users and platforms. Its continual improvements gave it new features. To this day, the standardization and easy distribution makes it easier to push content to most users via a web browser.

Yet, even big Web companies such as Facebook are switching to Internet-style apps for mobile and Internal use. That's saying something. I guess they don't want around 500 bytes of HTTP overhead to send 1 byte of data. The best solution is a portable platform that solves the presentation, linking, and updating issues that web did. There's a number of older vendors and startups doing this. Hopefully we'll see more take-up and network effects on that side of things.

Note: Anyone still thinking the Web was the best route to go, but wanting native advantages, should Google Tannenbaum's Globe distributed toolkit that supplemented Amoeba distributed OS. They even ported the Web to run on top of it and side-by-side with its applications. Compare work like that to the web of the same time period and you'll see why Web is inherently inferior due to bad (or misappropriated) design. It always will be to a comparable, native product.
Yes, apples to hilarious apples
It is not necessarily overrated. If you had a tech blog covering what Facebook, Twitter SnapChat can do for you, or how to get more out of Linkedin, SalesForce, Mailchip, and how they can help you at work, people will read it. It's just that a very few care about the newest round of funding, or the acquisitions.
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I'm also talking about the required specs of the machine that will be driving the goggles.
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IE was available for OSX all the way through 10.6 IIRC.
Compete uses an ISP-level packet-inspection appliance, I believe, and this shoulder-surfing is to me more buyable than a panel-based approach. Similar problems with a small sample size, but not subject to as many biases as self-reported data.
According to Feynman there once were people saying that since experiments need to be repeatable, to be scientific the laws of physics must be deterministic, by pure logic. Oh, quantum mechanics? Oops.
Given his record and ideology, and the availability of that information at the time, a decision to vote for him wasn't a matter of his honesty.
If making the size of a item of data different required a lot of effort to change your problem is one of a far more fundamental nature than YAGNI.
Yagni says that more often than not, you won't need it.

No, it doesn't. But even if it did, it could still be wrong.
Establishment Republicans should have a harder time than they do distancing themselves from the PATRIOT Act.
I think it also has to do with the expectations users have these days. People use well polished apps all day long, so to push out a first iteration of a new app, for users (even early adaptors) to take the app "serious" it needs to have a certain level polish. Adding polish to an app is what takes most time.
>Why spend hours filling out and copying all that crap, and signing thing after thing after thing just to send the IRS information they already have?

We wanted to; the tax-preparation lobby killed it.
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There is no date on this post or date in the URL. This could have been posted in 2001, 2002, 2003, etc...
> they are quite literally inventing an industry

But that's the thing, they aren't. VR in some form has been around for ages. It's already a multi-million dollar industry.
Surface statements: he believes it makes America safer.

Reality: Obama believes in a large, powerful, intrusive central government. These spying powers are an immense source of power and ultimately control. Supporting vast domestic surveillance is consistent with his overall ideology.
Saying you don't understand journalism's obsession with CMS is like journalists saying they don't understand HN's obsession with programming languages.

"But it's what you do that matters, not how you get it done!"

Yeah, sure.
I'm a bit less optimistic. Having different programs for each content type would restrict the developers' control into how they can interact with the users.

Simple playback of video? Not so bad. But if you want to swap the source of the video to your 240p version if the video is buffering 'too slowly'? YouTube-like annotations? Show suggested videos after? Developers aren't going to want to support all environment configurations, so you'd likely end up with a separate supported player for each website.. which doesn't sound better than visiting a webapp tested against the popular web browsers.

Additionally, there's a lot of great research going into browser sandboxing and user-driven permission granting. Allowing content-compatible-but-unsandboxed XYZPlayer to take over content playback negates a lot of the potential benefits.
How about they actually get around to releasing it on Windows Phone? I bought a Lumia 735 three weeks ago partly based on advertising on the MS NZ site that said Cortana was available. It's not, and now they've removed that page.

The most annoying thing about that is the "quiet hours" feature is somehow dependent on Cortana, so the phone doesn't do that either.

(Other than that, very nice phone and OS, just hobbled)
IE 5.5 on OS 9 was, at the time, the best browser available for the platform. Literally every fruity iMac had it and used it by default that I ever encountered. Including my own.
> Last I checked you couldn't even have another browser other than IE on Windows Phone, and I assume that won't change with Windows 10 mobile.

Opera is available for Windows phone now.

https://www.windowsphone.com/en-ca/store/app/opera-mini-beta...
That is an argument for refactoring only immediately prior to implementing a new feature in order to support development of that feature. In itself that is reasonable enough, but it becomes less effective as a strategy if the cost of just-in-time refactoring prior to implementing each new feature turns out to be significantly higher than the cost of setting up the same design at an earlier stage.
Great work, Mike! :)
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I'm a little puzzled about the "I disagree" part -- it sounds like you and I have some similar ideas about how things should be for front-end development!

Perhaps where we part ways is on the question of whether the industry leans towards sensible agreement. My impression is that it doesn't.
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I am the lead architect of a public facing data platform for a fortune 500 company. I influence over 60 engineers through my team of architects, and indirectly influence countless other teams deploying to our platform. My background is start-ups.

We do not suffer the failure modes you describe in your second paragraph.

I love my job.
It's more equivalent to caring about what language HN is written in.
my impression was that freshness and # of updates per release has an affect on ASO.
Because the app store is turning out to be one of the worst things that has happened to the web. An entire generation of startups have poured their dreams into a disaggregated, narrowly distributed store model.

The dreaminess of the iphone is finally wearing off, as we realize we can't solve really interesting problems within its restrictions.

1. Controlled, central distribution

2. No natural interconnectivity

3. No push update model

4. No community or central navigational paradigm other than iOS

5. No ability to distribute a genuinely new UX model

6. No real hardware access
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I tried my hand at ceramics and found the craft to be very soothing and unlike anything I'd tried before. Do you work on honing any similar craft?
Honest user review of Flynx
I am in no way, shape, or form tied to the developers of this app. Just an enthusiastic user playing with a new toy.

Flynx is a relatively new product that just came out of beta not too long ago. If you've never heard of it, Flynx is a minimal browser made for productivity and multitasking. It allows you to load content in the background as you continue to browse the web/social media. Didn't find it all that great at first, but as I kept using it I noticed I a decrease in the amount of time it takes me to absorb content from the web. It's pretty great for those looking for a way to read/consume links you fnd on social media faster. It's much quicker than loading up your browser everytime. It also laods links in a stripped quick read mode to display only the relevant content. This saves you load time and data. It has a few quirks, like some lagging, and a few features you'd miss from a real browser, but nothing too big that can't be added or fixed later on, in my opinion of course.

If you're interested, check out the full review at http://claytonwrites.com/flynx-a-smarter-way-to-read-the-web/

Has anyone tried Flynx, or any other browser like this? If you have experience with it, let's discuss. It'd be pretty cool to see the other side of the spectrum. Let me know what you think about it.
>That is the argument, but that doesn't make it true.

My comment was addressing its parent's assertion that Yagni fits on a "continuum". It's a "kind of pregnant" notion in my view. Either you're following Yagni or you're not.

>Aren't these going to give much the same result in practice?

It's probably more the same in theory. But, in practice, it's the difference between, say, simply minding separation of concerns versus attempting to develop a full "framework" based on attempts to predict the future, then implementing the solution to the current problem in that framework.

>how can you judge things like where to put your module boundaries and limit coupling

Concepts like DRY, loose coupling, encapsulation of business logic, MVC, and other design principles stand independent of any particular application.

For instance, I can't recall an application I've developed wherein it wasn't clear where to separate responsibilities (i.e. impose boundaries) for the current problem. These separations are generally applicable to future iterations.
Since nobody else is saying it: Congratulations.

Re/Code was a startup. They built it into a thing someone else wanted, and they sold it. That's hard work.

Congratulations and best of luck carrying the torch at Vox.
Yes! Clearly the only appropriate action is to cut their budget another 20%. Maybe then they'll learn their lesson and fix the problem!

The budget cuts will continue until security improves!
I still use Word 2000. Am I missing anything?
Why spend hours filling out and copying all that crap, and signing thing after thing after thing just to send the IRS information they already have?

Because Intuit, H&R Block, and others like them who have built substantial businesses doing all that empty-work for you have made damn sure that Congress doesn't legislate their meal ticket away.
Eh, I feel like we're just talking past each other at this point. Just to clarify exactly what my position is:

We posit that it makes sense to have a "backup": A physically isolated, self-sufficient ecosystem in which human civilization might continue independently. We can decide to put this backup in a distant gravity well, and call it a "colony". Or, we could decide to put it somewhere very, very safe on Earth, and maybe call it a "bunker".

My stance is that bunkers are universally preferable to colonies, at least for the foreseeable future of human technology: the bunker survives the same extinction events that the colony survives, and the inhabitants of the bunker have a better shot at rebuilding afterwards.

Reading between the lines, you seem to be supposing some event which destroys the bunker by definition. That would certainly suck for humanity, but it's answered by my most recent post: If there are human-extinction events the (Earth+)bunker wouldn't survive, there are dramatically more such events the (Earth+)colony wouldn't survive. So existentially, on the balance of probabilities, you are better served by building bunkers rather than colonies.

Mind you, I'm not saying there's no point in a colony; at some point, if you already have a dozen or a hundred bunkers, the marginal utility justifies the expense. And of course there are lots of reasons, both practical and sentimental, why we might want to go to Mars. It's just x-risk ain't a very good one.
I'm at a loss- I don't know what the SV acronym stands for :O
It's probably around 2009 - there's a reference in the first paragraph to 'the last 10 years'
What's worse is that investors are actually funding companies run by people who don't recognize that fraud is really bad, compliance is a pain, customer acquisition costs are high, trust is a challenge and remittances are primarily used by the unbanked.

It goes to show how much the investors know these days.
Ugh. Polling? You better have serious throughput to justify that....
>Realistically Microsoft could strike a deal and make an Android phone use Cortana by default (which might be really good) which would be quite interesting (especially if it could integrate with third party apps on Android, too).

Is there no way for the user of a Android phone to set Cortana as default? That seems strange given Google's and other folks' claims that Android is open.

If this is the case then it looks Android is more closed than a Windows PC where it would be trivial for a developer to create such a service without the platform owner's permission. How is Android more open than Windows again?
I dont know how many of you are windows phone users but I think Microsoft missed a few very important features with Cortana. Most notably the qr scanner and Bing backgrounds that they had with the previous search feature. It diminished my experience soo much that I disabled Cortana entirely from my phone only to go back to the default search, which is just as good if not better than Cortana. I wasn't a power user with Cortana by any means, but they sure didn't bring the features up to Cortana that they already had with default search. I still love my phone, but the default search is much nicer feel than clunky Cortana.
I hadn't considered someone would use polling like this. Profoundly wasteful of the CPU unless you have a ridiculous throughput.
I take it "data platform" means server-side work? I was guessing that was your line of work. In my experience, server-side programming and native client software (applications, frameworks, or systems) are pretty radically different in a lot of non-obvious ways. I think this might be one of them.
It's possible that it might turn out to be voice-capable, I'd like to see how the Guardian Project's work with voice over Tor has gone. But there is a notion that more latency is better for anonymity, and clearly worse for voice, and we don't even necessarily know where the sweet spot is for anonymity. And the anonymity that you get from something like Tor is already of questionable value against either a global adversary or one who's already monitoring you. To make the anonymity stronger there, we have to make the latency worse.

The traffic analysis comes in where you notice correlations between increased or decreased activity on one link and a corresponding change in activity on another link. Just having noise isn't necessarily enough to spoil those correlations; after all, so much of modern statistics is about detecting very weak signals given many noisy observations.

There is also research about active attackers shaping traffic flows (like delaying or blocking packets injecting additional packets). Then the notion is that the changed shape of a flow will be visible elsewhere on the network, and that's the destination. Unfortunately, this seems to work really well!
> I am having a really tough time believing she never suspected she was doing something illegal.

Why? People fall for the "I have $20 million for you, I just need a few hundred bucks to do the paperwork" scam all the time.
I'm not sure why it would seem curious or even mildly surprising. Obama is a self-proclaimed Marxist and has been from the start. Creating a centralized, unchecked position of power is what Marxists do; you know, for the good of the people.
I do have similar sentiment, and I just work with Org-mode, and export to whatever format recipients want. (PDF through LaTeX, Doc via ODT export, etc.)
wow.. thats.... genius.
OP here. This was published Aug 15, 2012.
Couldn't agree more, 'selling' how much fun being in the community is, will be much better at building a brand.

I'd seriously avoid going down the sexy models route, if you're site featured girls in tight tops holding RC 'stuff' on the front page I would have clicked away almost immediately, it cheapens what you're promoting.

Simply using professional photo/video people for imagery will help more than slapping on some tacky model shots.
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Android has a couple of these things.
There's still competition when you have multiple browsers. Companies might create a proposal for a standard and then implement it in their browser. This may or may not become a standard but usually it is pretty close. In this way we can have the benefits of diversity without the negatives like having to have different skill sets for each platform and then of course there is Apple's walled garden.
Paperless bathrooms exist in various parts of the world. The folks there use water to wash which is more cleaner.
> Of course, you'll hear the nutjob stories saying that libertarians want to eliminate public schools or privatize fire departments.

Many do (more so the former than the latter, since public safety is definitely one of the near-universal agreed-upon functions of government), but any reasonable libertarian is well aware that that kind of thing shouldn't happen overnight. When people have relied upon a government service for years, grown up expecting it, and grown up paying for it, it would be the height of irresponsibility to dismantle it without a clear transition plan and a way to make sure people got value for the money they put in.