skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like most moral questions, It's Complicated.

Even straight personal theft has a range, from the obviously amoral (snatching an old lady's purse) to the morally ambiguous (Robin Hood stealing from aristocrats to feed starving peasants).

Are there legitimate reasons for tax avoidance? Yes. For example, if you were rich but had the misfortune to live in the regime-controlled part of Syria, you'd be stuck there now, and nobody would fault you for trying your very best to move your assets elsewhere to avoid funding a corrupt and murderous government.

So to your abstract question about whether tax evasion is theft, I'd say "sometimes".

However, the specific cases we're talking about here, revealed by the Mossack Fonseca leak, were definitely theft.

There's a perverse trend of rich people in rich, democratic countries who consider themselves above taxation. They're in free countries, and they're free to leave: if they really wanted to take a moral stand against taxation, they could pull an Eduardo Saverin, give up their citizenship, and emigrate to a low-tax country. Instead they stay and lie about their income.

The poor don't pay taxes because they can't. The middle and upper middle class pay taxes, often a huge fraction of their income, because they can't not. Only the truly rich have the flexibility and resources to set up, say, a system of Panamanian shell companies.

It becomes even more starkly amoral and flagrantly hypocritical when elected officials do it.
Wouldn't this mean a Google Map of public statues would be considered of Commercial value and should be removed?
They missed "Your 25 year warranty is probably worthless." I installed Sharp 185W panels on my roof in 2002, one was damaged due to a rock falling out of the sky (seriously) and Sharp could not replace it, I've now got 3 more which are damaged with some sort of cracking/oxidation creep. Sharp doesn't make the panels any more, they won't replace them. To get enforce the warranty I have to sue them, its really annoying.
> Paul Fussel (Class)

> family there are no college professors,

Fussel's Class was sort of OK, but then he went on a wish-fulfillment tripe dump, whereupon he wished college professors like himself to be above it all.

Hardy har har, sure, sure ...
Interesting, definitely taps into a very large market.

Some Questions:
0. Website/app ? url ?
1. How many rooms/houses have you managed so far?
2. How many tenants? How many owners?
3. Whats your take (assuming you're renting on behalf of house owners)
4. How big is your team? track record of building products/businesses (not that it matters but good to highlight if you have done relevant stuff in the past)
5. What have you learned about the marketplace in the last 11 months?

meta-comment: I think Apply HN is a great idea. I (and I'm sure many others) might consider partnering/investing with promising ventures even if they actually don't get into HN)
I assume that's why they have a service which prints it as a book.
Apply HN: Dribblr – app to organize pickup sports
Dribblr will allow players to create games, invite FB friends and saved groups of friends, view RSVPs, and split costs through RSVPs. Invites can be sent to contacts regardless of if they have Dribblr or not.
Players looking for a game can search a map view or a chronological view with the sports they like, get invited to games, or set up subscription alerts.

The novel part of the app is the SUBSCRIPTION PREFERENCES: Knowing when a player is free, his preferred sports, competitive level, and geographical range will notify him of the best games for him being created by friends and other users.

I hope to eventually build an AI to take everyone's preferences and create perfect games for them to save everyone even more time and frustration.

Demo: https://youtu.be/6JipGzUHMJE
Looks neat for demo apps. I did try it out on one of my simpler express based apps and it failed during the npm install. Looks like this is possibly using ied?
How would you handle the market that emerges between the two currencies? If Gresham Money is deemed less valuable, and some market exists between the two currencies, it seems that GD would just weaken relative to USD. I'm not sure how you could stop merchants from then just inflating GD prices, neutralizing the viral effect.
This is the great fallacy of the theoretical ideal of "rule of law" which is the basis for the idea of a "republic". In physical reality, a law is a piece of paper with words on it. If you sit on it, it's not going to sprout arms and do something about it.
Your assertion is patently ridiculous.
We are based in Paris and the entire team is French (some of us work remotely). We could either translate it into English or more "rare" languages (ie. where text-based training sets are rare)
Does this support native modules and is it running on Linux 64?

If so it'd be an interesting "hack" to have it run arbitrary code. You could have the default "npm run" script download a python/ruby/golang/foobar runtime and kick start an app on the expected port.
TL;DR: The currency is valuable to them.

The core mechanism behind Gresham Dollar is that each unit of GD lives for a limited amount of time (e.g. 30 days) after which it expires and we replace it with an equal amount of USD from our reserves. Whenever someone spends GD, we reset that GD's lifetime (e.g. back to 30 days).

So the merchants would be getting their USD. They'd just have to wait.

When the first credit cards were introduced, American Express convinced merchants that it was worth a small transaction fee to accept a more convenient form of payment. It should be even easier to persuade merchants to accept money that customers otherwise wouldn't be spending at all. In either case, the merchants benefit by offering customers a new way to make purchases. When they accept credit cards, they have to pay a transaction fee. But when they accept GD payments, the fee they pay is time.

Pretend you're a merchant. I come up to you and say, "Hey we're giving people this free money. Do you want these people as your customers?" What's your answer?
Remove Facebook, add WhatsApp.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0glpjll%2C%20...

Both Instagram and WhatsApp belong to Facebook.
Honest question: what sort of work are you doing on a desktop workstation that cannot be safely checkpointed once or twice a month?

A small Azure instance is probably cheaper than the electricity you pay for your beastly desktop machine.
This is the problem with intelligentsia, they want to sound intelligent, using "heavy hitter" words. What about the intelligent person who is non-native speaker? This association of English fluency with Intelligence has ruined untold number of careers in the world, esp. in countries where English is official but non-native language.

I welcome simplified English in every shape or form, from limiting words to changing spellings and streamline it. Its no more language of people from England, every one in the world has stake in it. English reformation is long over due.
Can you have database dependencies? Like a full-fledged SQL database?
Ask HN: How do you find a mentor at a new job or a new place?
Hey HN. I was hoping to tap into the collective wisdom of the veterans.

So I'm just about to start a new job (graduated right now) in San Francisco for a well known mid-size company. I believe finding a mentor is one of the best ways to learn how to navigate the landscape, but I'm not sure what is the best way of doing that.

Any advice on how to find someone who can act as a mentor, either in your work or outside?
I think there is CSS that can make your scrollbars actually visible
Meetup/Tinder/Craigslist

Why use koopului?
I know you're ribbing us, but paying for a Pinboard account is like buying shares in Berkshire Hathaway. It's for true believers. I think there's always opportunity in concentrations of users like that.

Of all the partners at YC, I ran the startup that was the most different from everyone else. And my approach might be more aligned with your values. If you were seriously interested, I'd be delighted to work with you.
Like snapchat?
Y Combinator can't get more awesome than this! I hope something great comes out of this experiment.
My calculations showed that as few as 10 instances was enough to make self-hosting cheaper and easier.
Not providing.
I agree. It's not just software either. Their work on OpenCompute, which opensources datacenter designs and server designs, has also done really impressive work. Their interest in Occulus shows their appreciation of advances in IO hardware.
Slava @ Rethink here.

Not yet :( Document-level TTL is a surprisingly challenging feature to implement correctly in a distributed system. We'll try to get it in as soon as we can; sorry we haven't been able to do this sooner.
Founders/management/whoever need to maintain the ability to vet the value of the new perspective / data.

To use a silly example: A flower buying website might do best to avoid spending time/money crafting promotions aimed at single biker dudes who live life off the grid. Even though there is possibly large group of folks that are under represented in the rebel luddite flower purchaser demographics.
I've been a programmer since 1985, so 31 years. In the last 10 years I've been more in the lead/architect role, but in relation to this article, still just a programmer. I too am good at delivering, so I make pretty good cake as a consultant in Chicago.

Even so, it's true you rarely have a voice in changing things. On the plus-side, you generally don't get involved in office politics as a consultant. On the minus-side, this leaves you with nearly zero power.

I've gone through cycles of looking for ways out and I found one outlet that may or may not pan out, but it keeps my skills fresh.

I'm a serial entrepreneur (currently without a success) that works on my own ideas with my own money working with people I like and respect. My first start-up was in ed-tech and although every (and I mean everyone) loved my idea, I couldn't get it off the ground.

My second is a work in progress, I have a partner, and our app should release this summer. It will be interesting to go through that process.

Even so, I still love coding and being around coders. I was at a design agency a couple of years ago and a young guy, early twenties, out of the blue said, "Dude, you're awesome."

I had no idea what he meant and then he added (I'm paraphrasing), "You've been writing code for 30 years and you still love it. I just started two years ago and I love it and I've always wondered if I could do it as a career...if I would still be passionate when I get old. You're living proof that I can. You're awesome dude."

The OP was kind of talking about money and stability and effecting change, but there are also responsibilities on that side of things some of us programmers just aren't cut out for...so I say be passionate programmer and be happy you have a marketable skill.

Without one or both, the world gets a lot darker.
Kinetics of Steeping Tea
I'm not so sure they want to actually ditch their internals. Most people agree that in terms of a secured environment for Desktops with users who just have 0 education, Win10 and even Win8 were surprisingly robust.

Which is not to say there weren't a ton of issues. It's just that we've seen historically how bad it could be and it was nowhere near that bad.
> But the problem is not nearly as widespread as generally believed...

Yes well we agree to disagree because I firmly believe, and my 35 years of experience following the issue closely prove to me at least, that not only is the problem widespread but is papered-over and much worse then will ever be reported.

There is a solid statistic that something like only 10% of crime is reported on and solved. I think this number matches nicely to the real damages, waste, and fraud caused by the issue.
your point about bloat being business driven rather than devs is accurate.

one point though:
"Adobe even scrupulously documents how their products deviate from the standard"

that is being a bit generous. Even though the pdf spec is around a thousand pages there are still many areas where it is vague or allows multiple different implementations.

in a lot of cases the only way to find out what acrobat does (and therefore what the users expect) is to load the document and see how it differs from what you expected.
How We Saved the TSA $185,200. I Mean 185,200 Bytes.
Would it be truly random, or would there be some effort to match people likely to understand each other's backgrounds and problems?
Back in the middle ages, when the French conquered Britain, the ruling class spoke French and the peasants spoke English. A lot of French words flowed into English as a result.

But even today, if people use the words of French origin rather than the old English words, one is regarded as being from the upper class, such as using 'purchase' instead of 'buy'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Frenc...
My view of having a mens rea requirement with child porn statues are derided with comments like:

"Congratulations, you're now on an FBI watch list." ( (s)he did agree with me)

Yet if there is no guilty mind, there should be no crime. Frankly possession of CP shouldn't be a crime at all, because it is proof of a crime. Snuff videos aren't illegal. Rape videos (of 18+) aren't illegal. Just horrible videos are that: horrible. They aren't illegal.

And that's not to go after the idea of "I plant CP on your machines..." Strict liability means you lose.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11431128
I don't know. I never seeked out a mentor. I would guess identify someone you truely admire that is not in your command chain and ask if you can pay for their lunch and ask them questions.
If you need something that works in exactly the way you're used to and that's how you evaluated fossil, then I guess fossil isn't what you need, because fossil is different. I'm not sure why you're being toxic and venting frustration, though. Use whatever you like, these aren't football teams. :P
What happened when the NFL found IoT and what's it mean for the connected world?
Trivial. The way to do this in a courtroom is to demonstrate it to the judge and jury by having a reputable forensics expert certify a computer is free from kitty pictures. Then have the judge connect that computer to a "Free WiFi" network to be used for the demo and have them go anywhere. Just start randomly browsing the Internet. Meanwhile, use an intercepting proxy like The Burp Suite, Fiddler 2, or Charles operating transparently (ergo., port 80 is routed through the proxy) and in every HTTP response replace the close HTML tag with a bunch of 1x1 sized images of kittens playing with yarn or something. After about five minutes of browsing, have the forensics expert look at the computer again and nail the judge for looking at kittens. Using an intercepting proxy which allows scripting, the whole thing could even be done in a way which would very much look like the judge was seeking pictures of kitties playing with yarn, right down to search engine queries. The last time I looked, not a lot of search engines implement cross site request forgery (CSRF) tokens for the entry of simple search terms. It's not like setting up a demo like this is even tough. At most it's a couple hours of work for a basic functional demo.

UPDATE: For anyone claiming the forensics expert would find the tampered markup, the no-store cache directive pretty much takes care of that. For all tampered requests, just set the cache directive in the header to no-store and per the requirements of the RFC, the HTML will not be cached to disk. Also, I've encountered very few forensics experts who understand the web enough to grasp what can and cannot be done via the browser.
Oooo I would like to apply this as a filter, for various thresholds, to various favorite works of e.g. fiction. Not with and replace; just a hard filter... very Oulipo...

The resultant word count plots would I am guessing cluster by author, maybe other things (genre?)...
Apply HN: Synaptitude – Remote Mental Health Monitoring and Treatment
Synaptitude: http://synaptitude.me

Problem:

According to the CDC, one in five American adults deals with a mental health issue. However, only 44% of adults with diagnosable mental health problems and less than 20% of adolescents receive treatment. That leaves the majority of people with mental health issues untreated. We believe these low treatment percentages are due to a mixture of expensive treatments, the taboo nature of mental health, and the inherent ailments that come with a mental disease.

Description:

We are making a system using an EEG (measures brain activity) and webcam that allows real-time mental health tracking and treatment in the home. This information is then made viewable to patients and to mental health specialists via our app. Specialists can then track patients remotely and test the effectiveness of different therapies and drugs outside an office.

Over time, we will apply machine learning to collected data and use therapists’ and psychologists’ notes as tags. This allows us to improve various offline techniques/activities, notify specialists about critical patients, and automate many aspects of mental health treatment.

We will also provide patients with activities centered around therapy techniques, such as neurofeedback. This will help patients practice self-regulation techniques in their home, as opposed to expensive trips to a therapist or clinic.

Product URL: https://thinksuite.io/

Demo URL: https://youtu.be/6kB-T9Uz65Y

Our YC App Video: https://youtu.be/EOHfLdtHXag
Mostly a solved problem. 155mm artillery rounds with full computer guidance and rocket-assist exist, and they get 50k G. (We can put nuclear bombs inside 203mm artillery, which is maybe 30k G.)

The bigger the bore, the lower the peak acceleration, and RAMAC is inherently a "long shove" vs. a specific impulse at the breach.

It absolutely rules out passengers, but doesn't really seem to be a big problem for components.

The much bigger problems are sound/ablation at the muzzle (hitting the atmosphere suddenly at 10km/s...), and barrel life/erosion (big battleship guns got...150 round lifespan. Barrel erosion is related to velocity. The breach of this will not have much difficulty, but the muzzle end probably won't do well. OTOH it's not rifled or otherwise close-fit, and could have "wipers" which are themselves ablative/disposable. Since there's a rocket/guidance package, it doesn't need to be as low-tolerance as an old battleship gun.

(System has been prototyped by Bull using 16" surplus battleship guns in Barbados)
So you're co-opting them into a credit issuing agency?

What if your company goes bankrupt in that 30 days?
The Golden State Warriors Have Revolutionized Basketball [with 3-pointers]
Interesting perspective. I've found that certain places I've worked, they overload you and do everything they can to keep you over time.

Usually the scenario that other people lay out is that you have to stay late and put in that time your first year or two. Then you can go back to being a 9-5 (though in many orgs this shifts from 11-7 or 10-6 to give the illusion you're working later rather than walking out at 5PM).

I disagree with this because then you set a standard that you'll stay late, but on the other hand you can't be let go if you have mouths to feed.

I'm more than strong enough to walk out the door, but the thing I think you're missing is that it's usually NOT the manager at fault here. It's the other employees. They encourage this culture, either brainwashed or hoping it will get them ahead.

American work culture is completely upside down. Bottom line is that the org and laws shouldn't force you to stand for yourself in this regard. Every 1 minute of overtime should result in severe penalties for anyone who has any employee go over. So much that they're hustling you out the door at 5PM. That's how it is in other places, like France.
A place I've both lived and worked.
OK, so just because it is universally applied, that makes it fair, or smart, and nobody should care?

Candidates who are demonstrably better in every dimension related to the productive goals of the company (and probably even better at beer pong and foosball) are denied opportunities for work and income on the basis that they don't look 'like a bro' when going out for a beer?

Apply the same to any similar category - blacks, Asians, women, LGBT, etc., etc. If you universally apply the discrimination without fail, it is fair, or smart?

What is frightening is this apparent scale of this willful ignorance, based on broad observations that "nobody cares", in a whole generation of supposedly educated and intelligent people. Those that do not know history are condemned to repeat it, and it is evident that basically nobody in this generation paid much attention, especially to history.

More importantly, this is demonstrably STUPID, and any VC worth the title should be managing it mercilessly if they want a return, especially considering how many top HN discussions are about how to hire right.

Yet, everyone is happy to ignore the fact that the talent pool is being artificially restricted to a small set of marginally-skilled young white frat guys because the so-called "leaders" of these organizations are more comfortable drinking a beer with them -- i.e., "culture"?

Meanwhile, entire categories of available talent are left by the wayside. It is pretty clear that all this talk and angst about finding the best talent is bullshit.

Since it is so critical to find the right talent, it is no wonder that so many VC funds have returns lower than mutual funds, when they don't even bother to monitor this critical metric of whether their companies are hiring the best bros or the best actual talent.
Sorry for the confusion there — our integration that sends data to Salesforce is on the integrations growth tier, but the pricing for data sources and warehouses is separate (and does indeed have a free trial :).

Your point prompted us to add a callout in the UI to prevent this sort of confusion going forward (see here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yoc6a3nvsoupesa/Screenshot%202016-...)... and more generally we'll be working to make the distinction between data sources and data destinations clearer from a UX perspective in the near future.
I think you mean soft contacts. You can buy hard contacts that last a year right now.
This seams to be a moot point... So far most people named in the Panama docs are not US nationals.

Most US nationals have lots of options of hiding their taxes inside. Weather it's Delaware corps, or trusts in the Dakotas. There's a great story on Planet Money about this.
Facebook bets big on Live with new mobile video discovery tab
hopefully it's slightly less clunky today, just wrapped up the semi-annual refresh this past week. Still... we have our fair share of "-isms".
Not quite. I'm currently using version 5.7 on openshift. You can define the node version in the .openshift/markers/NODEJS_VERSION file.

Docs here: https://blog.openshift.com/any-version-of-nodejs-you-want-in...
> The fees first: The slides note $200 million of Yahoo has dubbed TIPLA from China’s Alibaba Group...

I assume there's supposed to be a "what" between the "of" and "Yahoo" in that sentence.

> While Yahoo will still get another $120 million annually for branding and alleged technology from Yahoo Japan...

What's "alleged technology"? Is that like "technology that is innocent until proven guilty"?

> Let that sink in: Buying revenue.

aka Marketing.

I don't mind hatchet jobs if they're well-written. This one wasn't even proof-read.
Seems pretty good overall. The only primary bullet point to "fail" was here:

>In conclusion, TEXTSECURE only achieves deniability
theoretically. Content deniability is provided due to our
security proof but we can not prove that no delivery request will be recorded at the TEXTSECURE server.