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I was told not to register by my old accountant, it was one of the few pieces of good advice he gave me. ;)

I know of a few contractors who registered so they could claim back 20% on a new TV, new iPhone, top of the range gaming PC... Perhaps I'm just too honest but I already had everything I needed (a high end laptop) and didn't like the thought of the extra hassle. Not just the day-to-day bookkeeping side of things (I use Sage anyway) but keeping up with the changes in allowances and thresholds and remembering to submit the quarterly returns. I'd rather just get on with my job!
Uber is in every way reducing tax income.

Old model: The taxi company spends 100% of its income in the state, meaning the state collects 100% of the taxes of the costs.

Uber model: Uber spends next to nothing in the state, so the state gets less.

Uber still uses the same governmental resources, uber drivers earn less than the taxi drivers (less income, less taxes), and have less money to spend (economy shrinks, less taxes).

Uber makes the economy less efficient, as more money ends up in the US than in local businesses.
Send the bill to Sweden then. It is their problem.

Edit: Can someone explain the downvote - the UK government spend 12M GBP to monitor a person that Sweden wanted. It is up to Sweden to decide if such prodigious waste of resources is warranted.
5 years of Ed Lee: How San Francisco has changed under the mayor
And nobody is having their Facebook account flagged for using "Peggy" instead of "Margaret," they're getting flagged for using "John TheSexMan Doe" instead of the "John Doe" or "Samantha Applebee" instead of "Mark Applebee." So it's a false comparison.
So...the employees likely pay a larger amount in income taxes than Facebook would have paid in corporate taxes, and the remainder goes to the actual UK employees rather than shareholders in the US. Isn't this the best possible outcome for the UK? Is this article just pure mood affiliation (greedy corporations!), or is there something I'm missing?
I remember being interviewed randomly on the street by local TV news for a "student's opinion" on Berkeley's Energy Biosciences Institute, which was funded by BP. This was during Deepwater Horizon, and they were despised as much here as anywhere. The research seemed pretty useful though, and it's great to get that kind of funding given how tight grants are these days. When the goal of the corporate funding is to build something, rather than to "impartially" assess policies on which the corporation has a well-defined self-interested position, then the process seems less prone to corruption.

Still pretty controversial though now that they are pulling funding:

http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2015-...
> name = what they call themselves

That ability to call yourself something at your option is more than just a name - it's the very definition of privacy in the modern age.

It used to be that you had privacy when you moved away from society. Acquiring privacy was mostly an exercise in hiding information. In the modern world where logfiles exist forever and the difficulty of getting away form all network-connected microphones is rising fast.

When you know you cannot hide from eavesdroppers, the tactics switch form concealment to steganography. You have the possibility of privacy if-and-only-if you have the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.

Unfortunately, real-name policies are de facto attacks on privacy and the right of to chose how to present yourself to the world. Worse, suggests a new interpretation for the "real-names make social interaction more polite" argument, societies without privacy resist experimentation because of chilling effects.

As for the proposed workaround of using a fake name: I guess they are supposed simply hope that Facebook doesn't ask about their name, everybody they know doesn't tell them the truth
What do you envision such an agency would look like? "Tech buses" is a thing that hauls thousands of people from all over six counties to a small area. The only thing similar in scope is BART, and we already have BART, and it's not that good.

What we need is a S-Bahn-like service running up both sides of the Bay from San Jose to San Francisco and Richmond. The tracks are already there, we just suck at trains. An electrified two-track mainline railroad operating on 5-to-10-minute headways with bi-level cars would completely solve our traffic problems, and bring the Bay Area up to the standards of minor second-tier European cities.
Thank you for the reference, I'll give it a read!
NetApp is faltering by all accounts and their market cap is <$10B.
Or people could actually have a point when they think there are other parts of the bay area that are more suited for large scale development. What's ridiculous is to have buses running from the most developed area in the region through wast areas of sprawling suburbia and back again day after day. Then make simplistic statement how if you just build more SF will over night become like NY or Paris that had a 100 years to build their infrastructure. I don't know of any city outside China that manage to handle this level of growth by building in established areas, it just doesn't happen.
Why I won't reenlist as a Yale alumni interviewer
It's not hatred, merely open minded progressive concern about newcomers with a different culture immigrating, changing the ethnic balance of SF and (indirectly) causing job loss. /sarcasm
48V and DC power is ok for low amperage stuff like telecom. But powering servers takes a lot of watts. So the only practical way to do that would be to power a rack with high voltage AC (120/240/400) and then have a single AC-DC and supply servers in the rack with DC. The battery systems described in this article would have to be single per rack in this configuration.

Until the industry started getting making new DC-DC power supplies with batteries.
It actually is, from the MET statement above:

...the MPS will deploy a number of overt and covert tactics to arrest him.
Eh, look at Germany: We had like 5 or 6 different uber-like businesses already competing before uber even was a thing.

The only reason uber even ever made profit in some German cities was by refusing to buy insurance and thereby being cheaper than the competitors.
I'm not sure if you are being facetious, but that's actually exactly the right question to ask. Not only would it be great to explicitly know the exact number, but that number should be the same no matter who the victim (or perpetrator) is.
I tend to doubt their methodology of surveying people who are already riding the buses. I think many of those who claim they would drive or take public transportation would pretty quickly realize that both options pretty much suck for getting from SF to Menlo Park, Cupertino, or Mountain View. I'd guess that "live closer to work" would be the dominant option once people were exposed to the reality of their choices.
What kind of data for each profile? Sites? URLs? What types of "selectors" are available, e.g. "profile number X" or various demographics? And roughly what does it cost?
First I've heard of FreeAgent. I've had Xero recommended to me by others in the same boat, and I personally use Wave just for invoicing (as it doesn't cost me anything and at least help me keep track of whether I've been paid).
Russia Today on Hacker News? Really?
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You might be right, except that very few are going public compared to historical numbers.
Yes, that's why I wrote "seek justice".
The not so funny thing is that when results from studies commissioned by a supe don't meet their expectations, the supes commission new studies hoping the new study gets the hint and brings results in line with their presumptions.

Looking at you supe campos.
That's the case at every university; students are, for the most part, whiny entitled drunk and high children -- especially in intro classes. Giving their opinions influence over an adult's career is absolutely insane.

The skillset required to really get through to kids like that is entirely divorced from teaching more advanced classes or research: it's half nannying and half high-school football coach with a splash of the subject material.

And every department hires almost entirely based on research they have to more and more as budgets are slashed since research is their only opportunity to bring in more funding.
>atleast you get to skydive before you die.

But, you're on fire!
Thats actually not the case. Starbucks voluntarily paid tax in the UK, even though it was apparently not obliged to as it has never managed to make any money(!).

The problem about prosecuting these cases is that transfer pricing and IP "costs" are difficult to demonstrate as faked, and some of the loopholes may be legal, although Apple is now dismantling its double Irish Dutch sandwich, one of the tax avoidance strategies it invented.
Where I live we have 5-6 and they have worked great. The first time through can be interesting. Years later they are just a normal part of the the road. Everything is clearly marked and lanes are painted brightly. The upgraded intersections are very quick to get through now. In the past you could wait six or seven light cycles before getting through. Now you might have one short stop.
And one of those led to Facebook being charged billions, and the others will lead to the same outcome.

"Investigations in the EU" means you’re fucked.
There wasn't any need to guard the Ecuadorian embassy, now or then. He couldn't have travelled out of the country without being arrested at the port or airport, and could have been picked up easily if he'd stayed at a house or hotel anywhere inside the UK.

People who are far less well known are routinely arrested by the police for failure to turn up in court. There was no need for this expensive 24 hour guard.
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It's a good headline but in this case, HMRC made somewhere between two and five times as much money through Facebook's accounting choice here than had they kept the money as corporate profit.

That's because the Facebook paid out those profits to employees as bonuses. That wiped out the corporate profit but the employees have paid income taxes which are much, much higher than corporation tax.

This is significantly different from the corporate tax dodging companies like Amazon EU do by bribing EU states into letting them have a super-low corporate rate if they put all the EU books through that country. Not saying that Facebook aren't also doing that, that's just not what this is about.
A Canadian startup is removing CO2 from the air and turning it into pellets
Depends on what the cost of not providing the police presence is. Is he worth more than £12m alive, when other countries may want him silenced (say by "wetwork")?

And by removing that police protection, perhaps they are trying to entice him to provide some £12m or more of information in light of the likelihood of that wetwork?
I felt that this video was particularly bad; not only did they stitch together very short video clips, but they also stitched together short audio clips to form sentences. It makes me feel like they could be making the lady say something completely different than what she was actually saying, even though I know this probably isn't the case. See 0:41 for an example: https://youtu.be/k6N_4jGJADY?t=41 ("so they... <obnoxious cut> aren't easily crushed.")
The article doesn't ask the question "how many people moved to the city who otherwise wouldn't if there wasn't a free, comfy, Wi-Fi enabled bus available?" It starts from the assumption that everyone commuting from the city would do so regardless.
They are all over Missouri. I think the first one in the country was in Springfield, MO (because there is a sign there stating this). They are very confusing the first few times through, but you get used to it.
I won my physics class egg drop challenge and three years of California MESA competitions in high school using spray insulation foam to make molds of specific eggs.

The MESA rules were 14" diameter max, no liquids, no parachutes, dropped from 60'. I cut a pattern of holes in cardboard and sprayed the foam over the eggs (lubricated with PAM), pulled the cardboard off, lubed them up on that side, and sprayed the other side. I trimmed the whole container to a sphere a little over 14" diameter and then compressed it as much as I could (Literally having someone stand on top of it) and wrapped it tightly in tape.

My best record using this method was 32 eggs with 100% survival.
It would be nice to have some toy-set for kids with this.
Your first sentence goes real well with the last sentence.
Why don't you provide an example?
Don't want to run it.
If this is a mature space because the channels are well defined. So the question is where do you expect paying users to come from? Have you gotten any successes with this approach? (Once you do, then it will make sense to get someone else to outsource the work to).

If you are building a video hosting service for businesses, do you know what they think of your business?

One suggestion would be getting someone unbiased to look at your competitors websites and your website and to pick who the top 2-3 solutions that they would evaluate.

If bills have to be paid, then pick up a job. But before you spend it on someone else, make sure that you are spending it on something that will have results.

One thought is if your product is in a mature space, I would recommend innovating with the channel. Maybe target a lower cost do-it-yourself customer? You will want your marketing (design, pricing, outreach/ads, and feature additions) to line up with that.
Smartly: as much as it can be afforded. Stupidly: 0.

This outcome was predictable from day 1, yet they still spent £12M. It wasn't to seek justice, it was to maintain appearances.
San Francisco is nowhere near as tolerant and open minded as it claims to be. It's still far better than almost everywhere else though.
This is definitely not the first. It's been happening in the networking and software spaces for years. Now the trend is moving solidly into the storage realm.
I think you've just uncovered more about your own biases and prejudices than any kind of politically correct idea you were trying to further.
The big problems the world/USA are currently working through are

1. Preventing Global Warming / Dealing with what's already occurred etc

2. Unaffordable / low quality healthcare etc

3. Income Inequality / Affordable higher education etc

There's a bunch of big problems, but I bet you could make the case that they go in those 3 categories above. The point is none of these are solved by having a fancy animated website that makes money via ads. Facebook/Google/Reddit etc created a bunch of value by connecting everyone. They were a necessary unicorn for the time, and they can still be replaced.

But if you're looking to create a unicorn, you need to set your sights on solving the big problems.
"Growth hacking" is nothing but marketers rebranding themselves because word "hacking" is hot and cool (i.e. meaningless).

> What happened to the good old days when "growth hacking" was building a good product that people want to share with each other and then making it easy for them to share?

Business came in. The Internet became serious money, and with it came the "entrepreneurs". What you see is what happens everywhere where competition is intense enough - ethics are one of the first thing to fly out of the window. They harm the bottom line.
David Cameron?
Security through obscurity? xD
Lots of high growth cities accomplish this, look at singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, India, etc. Not just China, but, no, we want to preserve character while at the same time remain affordable, two opposing forces. And truth be told, change should be the only constant.
I understand we have a bit of envy vis a vis Europe, given their thousand plus year histories of cities, but I prefer the more pragmatic eastern philosophical take and action. When you need housing and transit, you promote it and build it.
7 reasons why you should prototype even if you code
Can you design and develop at the same time?
The hack presents a way for the owner of a site I visit, but did not give any other consent to whatsoever, connect that page visit to my LinkedIn profile (which is, basically, me). And then uses that to contact me.

This goes a lot further than an ad broker that knows I am the person that visited sites X,Y and Z and therefore probably have an interest in something (without, still, knowing really who I am).

I know Facebook (and the likes) could technically know where I've been, but I have no clue on whether they really do that, is there proof for that? And is that really accepted? And even then, it's a step further because Facebook at least knows who I am because I 'willfully' told them and chose to 'trust' them.
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Which mainstream guidelines are you referring to?
yes. it's all over the place.

On the web as well https://imgur.com/vU8sYyu
I was actually being serious and I agree with you that it would be good with a defined number.
Rather than asking brewers to cut back on a value-added product, California should ban all companies from bottling the state's shrinking fresh water supply.
Transatlantic divide: how U.S. pays three times more for drugs
Sorry, I might not have made that point clear: they wouldn't be taxed at all. Not at the corporate level, that is.

As far as I can tell, money will exit corporations in three ways: 1) salary, 2) shares and 3) payments for goods/services, mostly to other corporations. Income and capital gains taxes will take care of 1 and 2. The company won't owe taxes, but whichever natural person receives the money will. As for 3, my proposed system would be captive: because it doesn't charge corporate taxes, corporations won't have any motivation to try and move their earnings to other corporations (as they couldn't be taxed any lower).
All forms of public transit in the region require subsidies. Why should we spend public tax dollars on a bus to Google, of all things?
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Good grief.
Meccano?
Tarot Facade
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Craps has negative ev but it is pretty small playing the no-pass line. My hypothesis is that the rake is so high on daily fantasy that any "skill based" positive ev is more than swamped by the cost of playing. So the daily fantasy sites are essentially lotteries where you need very abnormal winnings to make up for the rake.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10375062.
Not so much, but the long bow they drew relied pretty heavily on the existence of the buses. The buses were a centralised point in SF that had all the Tech companies and tech workers so they could make a showing. Otherwise you've just got a lot of people who are fairly indescript. (then it looks really racist and anti-immigration when you're protesting foreign people).

There was a part of me that really hoped the buses stopped just because the problem wouldn't. Then everyone who's up their own arses about SF's progressiveness would actually be in the position of Shut the fuck up or protest immigrants and look like racist douchebags.

Mind you, also the latter isn't strictly true either. SF does have a housing problem, but when one of your major cities won't build over two stories high and have high density housing, well... no shit right?
They do cost real money. The price of the newspaper is proportional to the number of pages printed, including ad pages.

You are right about online tracking though.
Start with the thumbnail view. If the thumbnail is in color, it has an animation.
I mostly agree. Although I'd say it's radically tolerant in some ways and very intolerant in others. Or perhaps it's more accurate to say that most inhabitants are very tolerant and a few extremists are not.
It's true; while his grievances are valid in effect he's putting forth a very good argument for the MBAs running the show in the administration that are frothing at the mouth to cut faculty, hire adjuncts and pay them nothing, which makes room in the budget for fancy unnecessary buildings and higher admin salaries -- Sorry, I mean "make universities more efficient".
As long as everyone wants to build tech businesses only in the SF area, you are going to have problems with too many people and not enough (desirable/affordable) places to live. I lived there 20 years ago for a year and never wanted to go back, even less now. Thankfully I am moving to a city with lots of room and very pleasant choices for places to live. No latter how denimbyed you want to make SF, there isn't enough land to deal with even more people.
You may want to consider re-naming it, as there's a (probably better-known) HashiCorp product for storing secrets called Vault (https://vaultproject.io).
But you are conceding the point, aren't you? It does not matter if you do the wrong thing because you are an incompetent hack or because you are a low status pawn that got cornered by management into choosing the least worse of a bunch of bad options. The fact remains that a weak solution was implemented, by you, and that it is a matter of time before your employer and their customers suffer the consequences.

I'd like to believe that if we were like doctors and our managers came up with some incredibly stupid idea like "let's save cost by reusing hypodermic needles", we could simply refuse to work and force the penny pinchers to back off. But the cynic in me tells me that doctors have to fight every single day to fend off a parade of equally misguided (though not recognizable as such by the public) ideas, and that more often than not, they end up choosing to keep their own families fed and clothed over the theoretical Hippocratic Oath.
On insecure software distribution practices
I developed a fixed mindset from a young age because I was constantly told that I was smart, which caused me to expect school to always be easy. When I got to college-level work, I failed hard and had to struggle to reinvent my thinking.
"This video contains content from Channel 4, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."

This is as ironic as BBC content not being available in the UK sigh.
https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2015/10/09/do-you-kn...

No, mainstream advice is still to control the amount of saturated fat you eat. This advice has remained the same for a while now. It hasn't changed. Shitty newspaper reporting makes people think it's changed.
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Protons and ultra-low fat once more
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9954159
If we got rid of corporate taxes altogether it would be different, and it would likely "provide a level playing field for all companies". And I'm not sure why companies that are not multi-national can't afford to do this too.. if their corporate taxes are absurdly high like they are here in the U.S., they are free to offshore their operations just like U.S. companies do, or lobby their government to reduce or eliminate corporate taxes altogether. In that respect, the playing field is level because the global economy is now the playing field.
There's also option 3: Google further expands its presence in San Francisco until everyone who lives in the city can work there too.
The full corporation tax, on their share of their worldwide income generated in britain.
these 'loses' are entirely due to bogus licensing fees paid to the mothership, and the 'loses' are made up with very generous term 'loans' from the same.
ncdu is good and super-useful, but this omhu is not only software, it is a work of art.
Cannot +1 hard enough. The F-35 will eventually cost $1 trillion.
Is there any way any private access to said tracks could be had?

What about designing rail cars based on Teslas open patents for small, semi-autonomous electric rail cars that operate on a very tight automated schedule along a public track.
Now you create an incentive for everyone to stay just below the limit of what counts as "poor" and have their actual assets in other countries and get it as loan from themselves.