skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there really a market for this? Why would anyone outside the US want to open a US company when you can just as easily open a company and bank account in a tax-free country with little/no oversight?
No source except a local yellow press newspaper? Yeah, riiiight.

Nothing about it in other German newspapers.
Show HN: Usersnap – tracking bugs and collecting feedback
it seems to be a shell like shape.which would make sense as a nautilus is a type of marine mollusk.

the Debian logo looks like i lock of hair to me.
There is a major error in the linked article which is claiming its the end of the establishment rather than just another turn of the cyclical wheel. Also it carefully avoids recent history.

On the R side I'm one of the guys who was kicked out by the neocons for not being a bond villain warmonger or televangelist wannabe. The neos were the establishment for a couple decades, and now the wheel turns and we're going back to "real" republicans again and kicking out the neos. I'm pretty happy Trump voter, but I'm really an anti-Jeb voter or anti-Rubio voter. Is Trump the best real republican out there? Probably not, but he's the first in the limelight of this new cycle.

On the D side their party kicked out all the hippies and replaced them with Wall Street shills. At least in leadership positions. The R purged their entire party whereas the D has always had hippies, just no longer in leadership. Again they're not eliminating the concept of an establishment, they're just kicking the wall street shills out and putting the hippies back in charge. Again, is Sanders the best hippie out there? Probably not, but he's the first in the limelight of this new cycle.

If I can't vote for Trump I'll vote for Sanders. I trust an honest enemy more than I trust my own parties former leaders. I don't think this is an unusual outlook, either. If, oh who am I kidding, when, Hillary screws Sanders out of the nomination, Trump should pick Sanders as veep, that would be epic.

The interesting part is the synchronization across party lines. Both parties having a coup at the same time? Well, the rank and file have more in common with each other than they do with their former leadership, so...

Other than those minor issues its a very good article.
The focus is a tabloid paper that belongs to the right of the political spectrum, they're rather fond of taking the police report at face value. And it's like the parent says: The police counts scratches and paint bags as "damage" (note: it's not a dozen police cars burned) as well as ankle injuries as "injured" (1). There are some clashes between the police and the protesters at the castor demos, but the demonstrations are not violent. The overwhelming majority is peaceful.

(1) That's fair to do, but something to keep in mind when interpreting the numbers.
This jacket uses the same material as NASA’s spacesuits to keep you warm
Ask HN: Any reason to believe that Dell systematically falsify delivery times?
When ordering the dates always seem to say 2-4 days. Once ordered 2-3 weeks is almost always the actual estimated delivery date.

I just thought I'd take a quick straw poll here and see how far we can go with anecdotal evidence.
List of failed and over-budget custom software projects
Give them some time... here is the first one written by and for people with at least basic medical knowledge: http://www.apotheke-adhoc.de/nachrichten/pharmazie/nachricht...
Another shameless plug: easy web-based accounting that is free to install locally, or pay someone to host it for you. https://beansbooks.com/
This is not designed for cloning businesses :-). But we do definitely want to support other incorporation hubs beyond the US.
Does this fulfill the requirement from the YC application? „International founders, please note: if your company is a non-United States entity (corporation, limited liability company, etc.), your participation in YC is conditional on conversion of your foreign company into a United States corporation.“
Could just sell the intellectual property from A to B for a $1.
Certain people seem to have more than enough to share around. Instead they seem to concentrate on accumulating more of it by (often by taking it from other people).
Under the best of circumstances, Skype on WINDOWS is at best barely functional (I know we use it every day for remote business meetings). So I can hardly be surprised any other OS's client is so broken ...
8.5 Billion!
http://www.wired.com/2011/05/microsoft-buys-skype-2/
I don't think the law would differ between that case and if they found the drive that way.

If the FBI has the legal right to assistance, that shouldn't change based on whether they messed up earlier. It should depend on the situation now.
I hear my own voice. It's only ever my own voice -- it's not modified by the speaking character or the writer. I also feel my tongue forming the words even though nothing's moving.
Citation? It seems pretty unbelievable that a US court can order someone to do something that violates US law.
I don't think it's the dividing line used in the parent comment to yours, but one interesting dividing line is people employed full time with benefits vs everyone else.

Maybe a slightly better line would be based on US GDP. Per capita it is ~$53,000, capturing a share of the economy larger than that can reasonably be described as doing ok (of course the line would be different for a household than an individual).
I am not a legal expert but this is from the application form of Citibank:

7) US PERSON CERTIFICATION:
I/We certify under penalties of perjury that (Please tick one box)
(i) I am/We are not a U.S. Person (as defined below)
...
“U.S. Person” as used by the Bank means any of the following:
...
(ii) a United States resident; meaning:
...
d. an individual with a U.S. mailing address or U.S. telephone number.

Make of that what you will.
> - Pay federal income tax on income generated in the U.S.

> We strongly recommend that you work with tax and legal experts to handle these ongoing requirements. To help, Atlas users get direct access to resources and guidance from Orrick and PwC. You can also chat over the phone for free with a professional from PwC.

^ from the FAQ, should be in bold characters on the home page.

"tax on income generated in the U.S.", what does income generated in the U.S. means? Good luck finding an easy answer to this which will satisfy both your local jurisdiction and the U.S. PwC and the likes thrive because the tax code is a complicated beast that just get bigger every year.

Apart from raising money in the US, as a Canadian company, I don't see any advantage to this.

The amount of knowledge needed to deal with those issues clearly makes it suited to experienced entrepreneurs with the means to get good counselling.

My guess, it's designed for YC founders. :)
GDP isn't bullshit, but it doesn't necessarily matter as much as other macroeconomic measures. For instance, some other commenters here have mentioned demographics, our projected carbon footprint, or levels of extreme poverty as being a more important focus.
http://eml.berkeley.edu//~saez/saez-UStopincomes-2012.pdf

That is the first i found. But it is somewhat dated.
> 1. It's ridiculous to incorporate in the US, due to ridiculous tax policies; and

What are these ridiculous tax policies? I've often heard complaints about US taxes for citizens/residents, but nothing yet for companies... (I realize that many companies choose to incorporate in tax havens to evade taxes; but I'm mainly interested in knowing how is incorporating in the US worse than incorporating in e.g. UK, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, Germany, France)
Wow, did you actually hear a bell in your head??!

I've got a cursor in my head that I mentally move around and click and select things with. When I go insane, I'll probably experience somebody else moving my cursor around, instead of voices in my head.

I wonder if people used to think like typewriters, and heard a right margin bell as they thought, and then had to mentally hit carriage return every 87 characters before they could think any more...
How about making a phone where there isn't a backdoor?

The fact that Apple has the ability to update a phone while it is locked is a backdoor.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10880604

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882762

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11035143
It may be the case that every process is purely chemical and physical, and it most probably is, but it is not a useful way to understand the world. Even if merely conceptual, a metaphysical side to our essence does exist. What's trancendental might indeed be an illusive physical phenomenon, but we're sort of trapped into it, even if we understand it one day, the subjective experience that is, our understanding will happen within our subjective experience, so why try to deny it? I think it's better to embrace it. Karen Armstrong has produced some very interesting reading on the topic [1], though I do not agree her on each and every point she makes.

BTW, when I say metaphysical and trancendental, I do not refer to religion and divine existence. I am a bit close to Sartre, though not completely, I'm adding this just to clarify my stance a bit more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Armstrong
lol #truestory
well, im not impressed. stripe took it 80% the way there, they left out logistics.

freight, customs and last mile are the most expensive and complicated factors of global physical ecommerce.

where is the stripe solution to simplify that?
Great with the payment solution. But why would anyone want to pay US corporate tax, US accountants etc. - often on top of the local tax, local accountant etc?

Don't forget that many other countries would still regard the "Stripe Atlas company" as taxable in their local country if the company is actually run from the local country or has offices in the local country. So from day one you would have to deal with international taxation, double taxation etc.
Yes, but you wouldn't know in advance that this codebase you're going to be
assigned to is well-written, or that it does amazing things (unless you're in
its target users group or know the target industry already).

If somebody offered you a job to merely maintain an old, gigantic codebase,
I don't think your first thought would be "wow, I'm going to learn so much
from this!", and there probably wouldn't be any way you could assess the
codebase quality before accepting the offer so you could end up thinking that
eventually. This is how things that you want and that could help you grow can
be vastly different.
How to Turn Off Kaspersky Firewall and Safe Money in Windows 10
Summary for those who do not read German or are allergic to tabloids:

* worked in lab cultures

* worked on humanized mice

* they have not done any clinical trials yet

Here is the English press release by one of the two research institutes that conducted the research: http://www.hpi-hamburg.de/en/current-topics/press/singleview...
Pc Watson riconosce tristezza da testo
Interview with Dr. Bennet Omalu
I'd have to copy a whole page of various things that make you fall into that definition. Citizens and residents obviously are such US persons but there are others like having a US phone number. See my comment above.
WebGL bindings for React DOM
That's what I was thinking. Why would I want to do this. What would be the benefit. Why would I pay tax to the US government?
Heinlein in the 60's suggested rooms that would have a daily "wind" cycle to blow off any accumulated dust and anything loose would be forced to one area where it could be picked up to place back in the room, recycled, or disposed of.
LizardFS – Reliable and Scalable Distributed File System
Hangouts works very well for this now. Well, Chromebox for Meetings (the business version of hangouts group chat) does. It has hardware support for encoding/decoding and generally does a much better job of it than just trying to use 1:1 hangouts via browsers.

That said, it's still far inferior to any commercial videoconferencing product I've ever seen. Literally, the only advantages are cost & integration with other Google services (which is only an advantage if you're already a Google Apps customer).
Sometimes I hear, sometimes not, depends on how much fantasy I unleash or if I use voice "recordings" to prevent me from making mistakes in writing a text in a foreign language. And I practiced fast reading as a kid (e.g. 1 page in 2-5s), and that was for sure without any distinctive voice. Now this helps me to spot a line in code I need to change extremely quickly ;-)

It's like with thinking - when you are a kid, you think in some proto-thoughts that aren't really based on a language (something like assembly language of mind) and the older you are and more languages you know, you tend to think in languages instead, except when you are in a creative flow when things just happen automagically.
You have to compare that to fees that other credit card providers would charge.
Which country lets you easily open a bank account and accept Stripe Payments with little/no oversight?
Do you really need an explanation of why people might want to do business in a way that includes the US?

If you don't want that feature, why complain about Stripe - just incorporate and get a bank account in Honduras or wherever you think it is most useful to your business.
I would far rather we incorrectly rushed to decarbonise and replace with renewables than assume the science is wrong and have an oh fuck we're doomed moment in 30 or 40 years. I won't care, I'll probably be dead by then. My children would.

Decarbonising would remove many other pollutants and particulates from the atmosphere, and should lead to health benefits like reduced asthma in cities.
I'll think you'll find that Robert B. Reich's expertise extends a bit further than "reporting".
> edited one word

Dammit. Now I want to know what word that was and how many instances of it did you change. :(
You say that people like Doug Engelbart should benefit more from their inventions, and to achieve that we should grant patents only to individuals or non-profits.

But a patent for Doug Engelbart most famous invention - the mouse - was filled, and it was assigned to a non-profit (SRI, a nonprofit research institute), and yet it seems neither he nor the institute got much from it.

As for Alan Kay, from what I can tell, he doesn't have a single patent with him as the inventor (which is always a person, an employer would be the assignee). So how could he benefit from your law?

I don't disagree that it would be fair for inventors to benefit from their inventions, but I don't frankly see how would your proposal actually achieve it.
Ha, from the Wiki, looks I'm not the only one rubbed up the wrong way by this phrase

http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
Design Book Reviews from my extensive library here in my home studio
Interesting.

When reading, I have an internal monologue. I find it hard to hold a definite train of though when walking, though, because there's too much too see.

So, I'll go for a walk to think about some algorithm, or whatnot, but can't really consciously thing through the algo because of all the visual input. The visual input does tend to drive visual or tactile thinking, but there are no words for this.

In the past, I've resorted to speaking out loud to think through concepts, carefully. Somehow spoken (not subvocalized) words are more concrete (and limiting) they don't flap and fray in the wind of my mental music video.
Seems to me from my naive viewpoint that efficiency also needs to be taken into account. If my disposable incomes is fixed but each year we get better at making all the things I need so they cost less then, yes, growth in GDP will be stagnant or even declining but every year I will be better off (more stuff) than the year before.
That would be great, but zero growth also implies zero return on investment, and lots of current capitalist economic structures don't really work in that environment.

(Yes, growth is ultimately unsustainable, but I think there's a long way to go in bringing up e.g. large areas of Africa to Chinese growth levels)
Germany and Canada are excellent countries to run a business from. Can I pitch you on the United States? We're a large country with a thriving technology industry that spends billions of dollars on the thing you sell. We have thriving capital markets, including a majority of worldwide dollars in seed stage tech companies, at terms which are better than you will receive anywhere else. We have millions of very smart engineers available for hire. Doing business in the United States: a great idea!

Doing business in the US? Do it as an American entity! We're institutionally equipped to deal with companies from 50 jurisdictions but as soon as you say GMBH or Euro we get very confused. US companies have huge logistical difficulties doing international payments relative to domestic payments; you can find a company with $50 million in the bank whose CFO literally had no button available to her that could possibly authorize an international wire. Many routine acts of commerce will require a number from you which any US entity can get by sneezing and which a foreign entity will take months of effort to achieve. We have a variety of cultures nationwide; essentially none of them routinely interact with foreign corporate entities and essentially all of whom will view those interactions with caution and annoyance rather than the routinely extended trust and assumption of fair dealing that all domestic entities enjoy by default.

You will be in great company! (Ba dum bum?) Substantially every German and Canadian major corporation, and hundreds of thousands of natural German and Canadian people, choose to use a Us entity so that they can conveniently interface with public and private US institutions when their business dealings bring them to the United States.
Yes, there are far better alternatives out there, so if we could stop using skype and switch to something else, would be a great move here.

However, the network effect is strong with this one, so it is impractical to make the switch.
Good to Know that. Thanks!
Forecasting is.
At this point isnt't like asking Microsoft to port over Word to Linux?
If you've got a better suggestion for secure group chats on iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, OS X, and Windows, please let me know! My family uses telegram extensively, but I'd love to replace it with something better if there's anything with similarly good UX on all of the platforms we use.
Because then you can do business in the US (largest English speaking client base) without any trouble?

And accepting debit cards (especially US cards) is still quite hard in most of the world afaik, aside from the UK, so this is a godsend to any entrepreneurs who want a real chance at success.

This was actually the dream just half a decade ago, to incorporate in the US without having to actually get a visa and go there and easily conduct business with anyone in the world...

Nowadays, it's not as pressing, but still a great service imo...
I experience very similar phenomenon, and I've found some research with relevant content, from the related reading list at the bottom of the original post:

http://digest.bps.org.uk/2013/12/the-science-of-how-we-talk-...

It seems that you were actually right in using dialogue.
Red Hat and other companies no longer accept job applications from Russia
I think participating to a YC batch requires to be incorporated in the US.
The End of Bad Home Wi-Fi
@con from SlimFAQ here, happy to answer your questions:

We make content creation super simple and include a seamless integration with Intercom. We are also free (forever) for up to 20 questions. You should give us a try and see for yourself!
Wales accelerator underpins £500M digital growth project
are you sure those are the only 2 options? that's like saying you can't improve your apartment w/out influx of new furniture.
>> Connected to your google account meaning I'll need to juggle several google accounts to keep my personal and business chats separate
>This would be easier with Skype if you have 2 Skype accounts?

to some extent. depending on how you start a hangouts, you have no idea what account it's going to start under. The number of times I've gotten on a work call on my personal account because google felt it should use that one
Ask HN: How do I find buyer for my Startup?
Background: We are a SaaS tool based out of India and have been into market for the last 2.5 years and our primary audience are marketers in US and UK. We have close to 200 paying clients which are largely SMBs including including few Fortune 500s. Our revenues are in the range of $3k-$4K per month. Our primary mode of customer acquisition is paid advertising and content marketing.

After months of efforts we realized that there is very little we can do to further scale up our revenues. Moreover, the industry we are in has a dying market because of a strong negative sentiment around the technology that we serve. We have two options now. Either close the company down or find someone who would be interested in buying us.

What do you suggest we do in such a situation. Any suggestions on how to go about selling your company are welcome.
So there are thousands of climate scientists which came, over and over again, to the same conclusion: that the extent of current heating is caused by co2 release, which is caused by coal-burning by mankind.

Those have all made several mistakes and continue to make them and the 15 scientists or so who are of a different opinion are probably right?

Is that what you are saying?
the example I gave is exactly how stuff has broken in projects. static linked on a kde library that had widget, new one doesn't have that nor a fallback, application crashes.

or just go get some old static compiled stuff run on your modern distro and see yourself. like, mindrover the europa project port.
Decide weather, really? Really? A comic reference, are you serious? I mean, this is kind of a serious topic so your comment would seem inappropriate, but I appreciate the helpfulness towards language learners. It's just the person making the mistake would not even get the joke if they don't know it's supposed to be spelled 'whether'.

Seems ridiculous anyhow that anyone would seek permission for suicide. If somebody is so dependent, allowing it is obviously grossly negligent. If she doesn't recover, her death is a problem that will eventually solve it self, it just takes patience.
infinite growth with finite resources is obviously a dumb plan. I think the problem with the graph is not that growth will slow down, but catastrophically crash with total devastation upon our species.

When with a bit of planning and foresight it could all be avoided.

Is a shame
Location, location, location (and policy): Global house prices 1970 – 2015
https://www.shipwire.com/ ?
Well, based on inspection of content, maybe. But we're not talking about mere words as an expression thought.

The simple fact is that within U.S. borders alone, there are maybe 300 million animals, each weighing in at probably 150 lbs (75kg) or more. They drive cars visible from space. They flip light switches on and off wherever they go. They clock in at work. They clock out. They walk in front of cameras, and there are cameras dotting every place of business, and in homes and outdoors. They plug things in and then unplug them. They power on machinery. They use credit card terminals. They visit ATMs. They buy things in cash, with serial numbered currency, which passes through more optical scanners than you might guess. And almost everyone speaks English, exclusively.

And then there are the mobile devices, the uniquely identifiable radio beacons we've, almost all of us, have volunteered to be tagged with.

So, VPNs, and proxies, and TOR, as much as they do, are only going to go so far.
<pedantic>"brief" would be a closer translation</pedantic>
That's pretty egregious. No password means you can read the VIN from outside a locked car and retrieve the driving history of the car and control at least the aircon. Wow.