skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contrary to popular belief there is no real freedom of speech in Europe, as least not in the sense as Americans know it. You can still get up to 2 years of prison time for insulting the King or a friendly Head of State in the Netherlands (and Germany apparently), you can be prosecuted in French for ridiculing the Holocaust (just look at the case for Dieudonné) and the list goes on and on.

Erdogan is of course an insecure and manipulative guy who likes to get back at anyone who mocks him, but he's also quite smart to be aware of and to use the legal options that are available to him in Germany as well as in Turkey. If you don't like it, and supposedly uphold liberal values, change the laws. It's as simple as that.
>German Chancellor Angela Merkel has cleared the way for the prosecution of German comedian Jan Böhmermann (Wash.Post) //

>Chancellor Angela Merkel granted Turkey’s request to prosecute a German satirist who derided President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Bloomberg) //

The crucial statement of what Merkel has done to "clear the way" and what action she took to "grant" Turkey's request to start a prosecution appears to be missing from both stories? Can someone fill in this detail because without it it just looks like "Merkel has not attempted to prevent democratic legal processes from continuing in their normal course".

What's this really about?

Edit: someone on reddit informed that there's a statute protecting foreign heads of state and that it requires the German parliament to 'allow' the prosecution in some sense.
i guess that's the point of the experiment, but i would be shocked if they didn't find plenty of useful shit to do with themselves.
Google was heavily criticized for killing Reader. Why should we not criticize Microsoft?
There's no magic bullet. Runaway disequilibrium takes concerted and relentless effort across a wide array of arenas. This goes for income inequality as much as it does for climate greenhouse effects. In both cases the alternative is that it goes until we hit a breaking point.

The millionaires and billionaires of today are betting that this breaking point won't happen in their lifetimes. They're probably right.
This is ridiculous. Of course the top income earners pay the most taxes. When you are uber rich the trick is convert all your income to capital gains to avoid the taxes. There are a lot of tricks to further reduce your capital taxes to a fraction of what you would pay were it income.
Almost all of the tools I use professionally on Windows are open source.

VS Code, Cygwin, Git, Go, PuTTY, Vagrant, VirtualBox covers 99% of my workflow on Windows.
Macquarie Island gives scientists a view of ecosystem without bees
Well, the housing market behaves in extremely irrational ways because the decisions have so much impact on people's lives. It doesn't behave like the market for tomatoes or aluminum.
>Exactly. This was a brilliant choice of action. And Merkel is blatantly telling the Turks how different things are handled in the EU.

Well, considering how dictatorial, under-the-table-ish and badly the EU handled the Euro-crisis, I'm not sure that's really true beyond this particular case...
Best version until now.
Clearly, going in front of judge to plead your case is a day in the park free from any downsides what so ever!

Wait no, that's not true at all. Being forced to go to a trial is being deprived of your liberty while your there. Even just waiting for that day is highly stressful.
Yes she can but she would look just like Erdogan.
You'd never go to jail for that here.
sorry, I have to more than upvote this.

I wish my parents had subscribed to your stated model. As an adult I've had to scrape and twist to grow the kind of discipline I've seen lattice up great things. Friends, colleagues, lovers, teachers, the lot of them I've seen practice less or more discipline. And always the ones with more looked healthier, more content, creative and joyous. Then again we can't always rely on appearances.

Still, it's better than it could have been, my raising. No sour grapes.

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?" - Robert Browning
Which could put the liability on the people who are importing/selling them.

Or, if it's literally end customers buying directly from foreign countries, caveat emptor and you should buy from somebody in a country with functioning consumer protection laws, in much the same as it is if you travel to abroad and bring some lead paint choking fire hazard back with you.
No, is lazy.
NexDock with Ubuntu Nexus 4
Yes, like subprime mortgage rates didn't go up ...
> But Docker currently has a limitation in how it handles removing files in a build. After each build step, the intermediary state is committed as a layer, just like a git commit. So removing files in a docker build is like removing files in git: they are still taking up space in the history.

That's true unless you do the "everything in a single RUN statement" trick that is very popular.
She has the fear that she loses her new political friend, so she has chosen to let someone other decide.

I think it's right that the judges and not the regime should decide, but it's convenient for her, so she does it, not because it's the right thing.
Surely I won't be jailed for calling anybody -- even our president -- a goat fucker.

Perhaps we may (regrettably) go down that road someday and perhaps there are instances of police overstepping their bounds to regulate "proper" speech, but I'd be willing to bet* my next pay check that being arrested for calling somebody a goat fucker would not hold up in court.

* - OK, not my whole check but like $5
Regarding the decision she had to make, Merkel had two choices. If she declined to prosecute then she would be making a quasi-judicial decision in a county where judicial decisions are rightly made by the courts, not politicians. In passing the decision to the courts she is, in my opinion, making a clear statement of German values: this is how we do things - with the rule of law.

Which starkly contrasts with Erdoğan's contempt for the rule of law and anything that gets in his way.

The German constitution guarantees freedom of expression and the case will undoubtedly be dismissed when it reaches the courts.

(And I agree that laws such as this should be abolished.)
What is missing is that the total income in the state in 2012 was $1.1 Trillion.

So the top 1% earned 28% of the income, but paid 45% of the total taxes:

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/aboutFTB/Tax_Statistics/Reports/2013/...
I worked on VAX/VMS mostly with FORTRAN and loved the hardware and the DCL (digital command language). I ending up founding and building a small company around building RDBMS based manufacturing applications using VAX/VMS as the initial computer we supported. Then we moved to UNIX and were glad we did when DEC was starting to tank.

I went to NT as soon as it was available. It helped me with my productivity but it did take a long time for the applications to catch up with the OS.
This is one of those times, despite all of the criticisms people on the other side of the Atlantic have about us (some of which are perfectly legitimate) that I am unabashedly proud to be an American, and of our laws and customs.
Obviously incorrect, and I struggle to see why you'd even say it. Everyone knows this is wrong.
How do you all stay productive with laptops? I can't imagine doing any actual coding work unless I have two monitors and a work station.
You can do everything within a single RUN statement to avoid that.
I got it by trading with someone else. You seem fixated on the money supply, which is (mostly) irrelevant in a discussion of wealth and income.
That shows a massive revealed preference, and says nothing about what is possible in software.
In this specific case, I would start by trying to come up with an idea for a solution to an existing problem instead of trying to build a solution looking for a problem. Trying to build just another Siri will be wasting your time because you're just one person competing with pretty much all the big tech companies, whereas if you try to build a useful tech for a specific use case and people like it, then you can build your platform on top of it. I've never seen any small startup succeed by trying to build an ambitious "platform" from scratch. Most successful platform companies started out as small application providers and went from there. Some people are encouraging you to do it because that's how you learn things, but I would rather make something people like AND learn something new at the same time, instead of spending the same amount of time working on something that will never see the light of the day.
If and only if the competing sellers also raise their prices in step with yours. But that's generally not how the price rises for food, even for restaurants. It's more they're in line with imperfect competition where MR >= MC and in most cases MR is only but a fraction higher than MC (say 1-5% if we take grocery store business accounting profits as a measure which is around 1%). Basically, food markets aren't very profitable businesses compared to technology or entertainment where you have various legal restrictions on supply. There's nothing stopping a firm from starting up their own farms, bakeries, and the like. So, unless you can show me that MC for all firms is going to rise in step with each other versus demand for supply of food I can't say your argument holds water. I'm not saying there won't be a rise in the price, but rather than the rise in the price will be negligible for food. Now, for services or any other product I'd say you're right. And we'll see many goods come out of reach for the proof despite the injection of money. But that would likely be goods like housing and services of any kind like Internet or phone utilities. But for the rest of the economy, there's not much incentive to raise the price unless your costs of covering the extra demand is killing your bottom line. If it doesn't then you don't care either way.
Of course it's a tax. I think the commenter was just pointing out that you do still pay a recurring fee for property even when you own it.
>Having a such a small percent pay such a huge share is toxic.

Having such a small percent _earn_ such a huge share is toxic.
Spotify Founders Blast Sweden’s Business Environment in Open Letter
There is always going to be high demand for houses that are close to the large job centers. How strong that demand is will be partly influenced by the economy.

The housing boom we saw in the mid 2000s was a bit of a fluke due to asset inflation that arose from the Feds ZIRP. One could argue that the current asset appreciation we are seeing from 2011 to present is another unintended consequence of the ZIRP.
It is still a long way before:

* pattern matching / active patterns

* Discriminated Unions and many other crucial type system enhancements over POCO in C#

* real functional orientation (function composition, immutability by default, partial application)

* type providers (it is not necessarily about data provider)

* more compile time safety harness

* plenty of other things that become apparent when you get comfortable with the language

C# 7 is still doing catch-up with F# 1.

My hypothesis is that it is easier for many people to not try too hard to grasp at functional programming or just learn a new language.
I'm pretty sure bitly dedupes.

They also have partnerships to do branded shortening. Bitly will happily generate shortened URLs for other domains, eg http://amzn.to/

As part of their content scrubbing, I suggest HN re-shortens URLs. Another +1 use case that bitly or other service could provide.
From the article I get that the top 1% pays tax at 2x the rate per dollar earned than the bottom 99% does in aggregate. That seems like a reasonably progressive rate to me.
I got my first PC in 1990 at age 11, having used only Commodore computers before that. I wish I had had the foresight to preserve everything I've ever created.

Cheap Internet access (i.e. a local dial-up number) didn't come to the area where I grew up (a small, midwestern town) until about 1996. From 1990-6, I was heavily involved in the BBS "scene". Being a teenager with lots of time but little money, I ran a BBS but couldn't afford to pay for all those door games. Instead, I learned to reverse engineer them and write "cracks" (binary patches, basically) to "unlock" those games. In the middle of the night, I'd dial into far away BBSes and upload them everywhere that I could. I'd love to have that source code to look at again today.

I did find some of my old paper notebooks in my mother's garage a while back. These are the ones that I took to school with me. Instead of doing schoolwork, however, I'd spend my time in class writing code (on paper, by hand) and then I'd type it all in to the computer when I got home after school. It was very neat to find those and look back at code I wrote ~25 years ago.

For the last few years, now that we all have a camera in our pocket at all times, I have kept backups of every picture I've taken but there are probably thousands of photos that I took before then that I'll never see again.

With storage as cheap as it is, I've resolved to never again "lose" any of the photos or videos I've taken. It'll be amazing to look back at them in another ~25 years or so.
International politics is a game of its own, where there are no rules, but actions still have consequences. Looking at it purely under the prism of internal law is simplistic.
The article states that Google has deployed defenses against brute forcing, so attempting to do slow at a rate that doesn't trip these defenses may not be worthwhile.

I must admit that I don't understand how the number of characters corresponds to bits of entropy. Know of a resource that explains this?
I am so happy to see that even the creations of the genius Carmack are full to the brim with 'ugly' hacks, workarounds and tweaks.
Just make sure you use the paperback!
When I buy a stock or invest in some company, I'm taking a risk. That risk is a type of production - it requires me to think and make decisions. Obviously, I can lose in an investment. So, yes, it is a productive activity.
Everyone asks questions
Until then it does not show up as income, so it really is hiding. Further, you can send money off shore by paying off shore subsidiary's for arbitrary costs, in no way does that money purely represent off shore profits outside of pure accounting magic.
100% agree, he's a scumbag.
cmd-opt-v...
World Report 2015: Turkey
A lot of that is because in California capital gains are taxed as income; the set of people who have meaningful capital gains in a given year is small (a core of people in that set every year, and another set who are in it some years due to infrequent sales of assets like houses, businesses, major equity stakes from stock grants or options, etc.)
On the face of it the law seems incompatible with the ECHR wrt rights to expression and freedom of conscience, so an appeal might well have the prosecution overturned even if the law stands and the actions are considered to contravene it. Without seeing the video though it's not clear if it's just plain libellous or not.
This is true.

However it's important to add that state income taxes are deductible on your federal return. While this doesn't entirely offset the imbalance, it does mean that the federal government indirectly subsidizes states with high tax rates (often wealthy+coastal+more to the left politically) in a proportional way.

I'm actually glad that in the US this isn't a charged political issue. My family comes from a place where half the country (by region) hates the other half in part because of this kind of tax redistribution. It's not a pretty way to run a country.
> there is a natural balance that occurs when the tax rate is so high that people prefer to ask Putin for a citizenship

[citation needed]
... like it already does?

Since 2008 the IRS has required a security PIN code to e-file. It's not the most secure system in the world, but everyone needs to understand you can't just e-file someone's taxes by knowing their SSN.
As they should. That's what happens when you have a progressive tax structure. Do you think we should we shift some of that tax burden onto people who make less than $25k per year?
"Reduce inequality in income distribution" is the easiest solution that comes to mind with this respect, however I think that is is not the real problem.

In truth, we are getting to the time where there will be too many people for the amount of work required by the whole humankind to possibly satisfy its needs. We should all embrace this new reality and think of a way in which people can live without working, or in other word, we should solve the economic problem [0].

[0](http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf)
Facebook wouldn't exist without Zuckerberg. He deserves every penny of it.
Or we can work to help people appreciate how they would have nothing without the work of billions of humans toiling over the past 10,000 years to bring us to the modern day where they can live comfortably in a society that provides high paying jobs enjoyed by the more gifted or fortunate citizens. I say this is as someone who was in the upper 10% of CA income last year.
But that too is as it should be. Extra tax on the wealthy means they have to settle for the Citation Jet instead of the Gulfstream. Extra tax on the poor means they have to choose whether to pay for food or rent this month.
Law or strong corporate policy tantamount to a law. They're too small a market otherwise.
Why isn't this drying up in Canada then?
>Facebook-grade responsiveness

When did Facebook become the pinnacle of security response? The last thing I read about them was pretty horrible. Much worse than the Microsoft response here.

http://exfiltrated.com/research-Instagram-RCE.php
They're good for Rick rolls.
Ask HN: Is there an HN like site for designers?
I am just curious if there are any HN type sites for designers. I am an engineer by trade, but often times I need to dig into front end design. I would like to find some good sources to keep up on what is new in design.

I do subscribe to a few newsletters, but I would like to find something like HN for designers.
Well the fine would be in Euro ;) Apart from the usual rules there is nothing specific about the fine in that law, no. They would need to fine him at least five days worth of income if I haven't missed something.

But a symbolic fine is really unlikely. Much more important than the amount fined is the label "guilty" or "not guilty". I can't see how they would rule him guilty but resort to a token fine in that case. If the court thinks the law should not be applied, they will find a reason not to.

I just quoted the entire provision (where the wording and length is absolutely standard for a German criminal law). There are no boxes which when ticked would result in an automatic conviction. The courts have a great degree of freedom to decide their cases. (Usually they base it on older decisions by higher courts which usually spell out what criteria should be used to interpret a law.)
Get the sense that this was rewritten for use in the original publication references in the bklog, not the blog's readers. This post was likely done to help promo his new book.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/13/opinions/is-data-you-send-to-i...
If you think anyone can make the same investments then you don't know finance very well. The highest earning investments require huge amounts of cash to participate in and they are not a matter of simply holding some stocks.
ooc, most if not all of these software are second-class citizens on windows, and would perform much better under linux/bsd (as in OSX). how come you are running windows?
Could have fooled me. I get 3-4 letters a month from realtors wanting to buy my condo for a Chinese investor.
If you work in Silicon Valley you almost certainly are subject to the AMT and, therefore, cannot deduct state income taxes.
The whole "having nothing to hide" argument is deflated by "then you have no reason to look".
Yeah that one! The memories.
I worked in Filefront's news department for almost two years, worked closely with the file guys and had a small staff under me. I hope they save everything, lots of oldschool mods and whatnot on there. I remember when we covered E3, we got a video of Gary Coleman, someone asked him to say "Hi Filefront!" and he just said "What's filefront..." LOL.. ahh good times.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3464628/Woman-35-fac...

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/05/23/a-methuen...

http://www.businessinsider.com/teen-justin-carter-faces-tria...

http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/15763074-story

http://www.wdrb.com/story/30881928/judge-olu-stevens-gives-m...

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/man-wins-35000-arrested-cal...
I need to hire developers that can work on these applications. For specific tasks, like c10k, node works incredibly and where it fails, frequently nginx comes to the rescue with a similar architecture.

But you're always going to win this argument by suggesting a lower level solution until we arrive at coding assembly optimized for a specific bare metal.
I ran the very first beta of Windows NT and it was glorious. I had never before experienced anything like it: you could compile and run your C code in a graphical debugger, and it would catch bad pointer errors by breaking the program right were the bug was. Fix, recompile, rerun.

16 bit Windows computers would crash reboot on errors like that, leaving you with the printf errorlog to find the bug. Sun and Silicon Graphics workstations did not have software like that, and were ten times more expensive. Linux was just an experiment then.

I was never able to use Windows 3.1 and 95 after that, I would search for programs that ran on NT for everything. I still do. Poorly written software crashed, but the Windows NT OS was immensely stable on the right hardware, from the very first beta.
Where can you buy with 2.5% down? Those days are long gone. Skin in the game and all that.
There is nothing inherently wrong with a short URL, provided that supporting infrastructure has proper security.

Even now, if you connect to your favorite “trusted” long domain names, nothing stops that from being totally hijacked by an untrustworthy Internet service provider or other entity that has access (or more insidiously, inserting crap like ads that were not in the original source).

And heck, long URLs are suspicious as well. I’m sure by now everyone has received one of those ridiculous "important@facebook.com.kdsjfksdjfkdsfjdskfjdskfjdskfjdskfjdskfjdskfjdskfs.oopsmalware.com".

The push should be for broader adoption of mechanisms that make it hard to subvert what you download, and easy to verify what will happen when you click a link.
https://www.designernews.co/ ?
I know basically nothing about the Canadian market, or the various factors (regulatory, tax-related, currency-driven, or otherwise) that might make it more or less attractive to foreign investment than the market in SF. I also know very little about which types of foreign buyers consider Canadian real estate attractive.

Since I'm admittedly pretty ignorant of that market, I honestly can't say.

The best I can tell you is that, while foreign demand in the aggregate might be global, there are many local factors that determine whether a particular market is or is not the recipient of significant investment at any given time. We can't assume a global/universal phenomenon applies itself evenly across all localities. Indeed, many of these locales might be substitutes for one another at different points in time and under various macroeconomic circumstances.
More like they pay the people who they order to produce things for their profit less than those people need for medical needs, education, and maintenance of the roads they commute on, then they are forced to give a portion of the profits they made by paying those people so little to the government to provide those things for them.
An HTTP accelerator