skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really an issue. Businesses in the EU are mostly taxed at their base, so it's up to them which country they choose. The problem is the use of the Netherlands to funnel the cash, which means the tax revenue is escaping the EU.

Effectively, they have set up shop in an EU country, they are enjoying the benefits like infrastructure, state educated population, health care, and are allegedly paying practically nothing for it.
That's one of the trade-offs when deciding between a statically or dynamically typed language. Static typing isn't really going to help you with debugging/avoiding concurrency issues, though.
Sorry, I should have added Adobe.

Unfortunately, I can't edit the title.
Exception-like is not the same as proper exceptions. From what I've read about it (there's the caveat: I haven't used it yet), the error handling model in Go sounds pretty badly broken.
I don't think it is bad news for Blu-Ray. When I want to watch a movie and I don't care how it looks, I'll go with streaming or torrents or Netflix or Blockbuster or Amazon. I get the movie but I don't really care about the quality or the medium. Maybe I watch it on my netbook, or my desktop, or maybe even my TV. That is a cheap throw-away experience.

When I buy a Blu-ray, I know it is something I want to watch on my HDTV with my surround sound going and with flawless quality. I probably want to watch it more than once in my lifetime. I bought a couple documentaries on Blu-ray before I even had a blu-ray player, becuase I knew someday they would be cheap and I'd want to have those films in high quality.

They're not exactly competiting. It is the difference between McDonalds and a real restaurent. Sometimes I'll stop in McDonalds for a snack, but if I want a steak I'm going somewhere that knows how to do it. That is streaming vs blu-ray for me.
Simple answer: No.

Long answer: Who knows? Apple has always developed the Mac port of Java, with a lot of customization in the GUI (custom Swing properties, events, etc). This was historically because at the time, the Mac user base was too small for Sun to support themselves. So, Apple took over the project and has run with it ever since. They've added some good things to their JVM too, such as shared memory for libraries (I believe).

However, I think that now, Apple has decided that it isn't worth it for them to support it. So the answer to your question will largely be up to Oracle. If they decide to port Swing over to the Mac, then I think there is a shot of having a good JVM for 10.7+. If not, I think that you can say goodbye to the JRE in the Mac.

It isn't like the client has ever been a big focus for Oracle. To them, Java is all about the backend. They may want to work on a JVM for the Mac just to allow developers to still code on their Macs, but I'm not sure.
This whole thing happened when Java 1.6 came out. It took Apple forever to get it into OS X and there was a big fight for it. Now it's happening again. Must be a pain for Apple to manage it.
That's an intriguing idea - but sadly it's also straight from the "what if the world cared!"-bucket.

Google will not risk their competitive edge in search for the cause of IPv6.

Joe Sixpack wants good search results. He doesn't want a bad site ranked over a good site only because the bad site was quicker to implement IPv6. Joe Sixpack doesn't even know what IPv6 is.
see this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1745802
There's another site that does this, I think its called Hacker News :)
That is a very common idea among right-wing Americans -- they'd rather have companies take care of us than the government. The government is wasteful and full of beaurocrats. Let Walmart, P&G, and Monstanto clothe, wash and feed rather than the beaurocrats in Washington.

I guess the idea is that many educated and informed consumers will pick among the best companies and competition will drive the costs down.
Thanks for taking time providing feedback! Very useful comments from end user usability perspective. Will definitely try to incorporate these changes to the application. For #1, this is customized per organization - it's my mistake - didn't spend much time to customize the login page for the demo account.

As a bootstrapped company, it is always a challenging situation when you've to spend moolah :-) I'll look into the links that you've provided for usability testing to see what fits our budget.
In the analogy it's not the government who's sandwich Google is taking -- its the average citizen. The government is just a proxy organization representing the citizens in a much more direct way than a company represents its stock holders.
For one of the primary usecases (frequent traveler) the backlit keyboard is pretty important--try typing on a dark plane with the backlight off. Fine most of the time, but when you have to hunt for which symbol is which, or you're not a great touch typer, then you're going to have a much harder time.

That said, my guess is that it's a major battery-suck, and that's why they took it out. White LEDs require non-trivial amounts of power.
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Yeah, I think they have been focusing on installing wireless access points in the residences instead of upgrading the wired speeds, which have probably been at 100 Mbps for over a decade. Still, hard to complain, as I haven't ever seen any non-datacenter computer get more than 100 Mbps on the Internet.
Google has corporate personhood and the right of political speech that comes with it. One would hope that the right of political speech also came with a responsibility to improve the system. If there isn't any responsibility attached to political speech beyond increasing profits then I have some serious concerns about what the impact to individual people will be.
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Go actually has a fair amount of syntactical sugar, the language design document has a fair amount of "ooh! And we did this cool thing to save you from typing an extra line!"
See comment below. In the analogy "I" am Google and "you" is the average citizen who has to pay more as a result of Google's tax avoidance. Not the government.
Flash has had "publish to exe" capabilities since forever so I'm sure something'll emerge that publishes to w/e Macs use.
FizzBuzz comes from a game for six to eight year olds, who also don't understand modulus. That's part of the reason it is such a great problem: they fact that you realize "Hey, this is a whole lot easier with modulus" demonstrates that you can reason abstractly. You certainly don't need a mod operator to make it work -- if you're capable of writing a function, you can write divides_evenly_by_3(int number) using facts that every fourth grader knows.

If you prefer, you can substitute a similar problem which doesn't require even fourth grade math. Here's one: write a program which calculates the sum of all numbers between 1 and 1,000 whose digits sum up to 7. Or write a program which takes this post as input and tells me what the 3rd most common letter used was.
LastFM removing some ability to personalize listening experience.
Clever idea!

Although I prefer Chrome Dev Tools for this task - measuring page load time of people with different connection speeds, CPUs (for rendering), browsers seems a little weird.

The graph about bounce rate caught my attention. Although the author draws a straight line, it looks more like a parabola with minimum around 3.5 seconds. Which is kind of unexpected (and I can't even think of any reasonable explanation for this).
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As the author, I certainly agree that this isn't useful yet in anything like its current form.

Intelligibility was one of my biggest concerns while making the hack: singing can be harder to understand than speech. On the other hand, the vocabulary is limited. Phrases like "turn left" and "turn right" are easily distinguishable, and other unobtrusive audio cues could make it clear that the words came from the GPS. Over the course of the hack day, intelligibility improved dramatically as I tweaked parameters.

Mainly, this is an experiment, and there are lots of ways to improve on the first day's results to make it more practical. Instead of following the melody exactly, the pitches could be chosen from a limited range to be consonant with the song. That would split some of the difference between traditional GPS speech and these results. Also, Yamaha has apparently withheld their higher-quality Vocaloid voices from the free Canoris API, so there's potential for improvement there as well. (The documentation warns that the initial release of the free voices works better in Spanish.)

Even more practically, the GPS could use the timing information to slip in spoken directions at less distracting moments, like a human companion might.
Core Python Programming (2nd Edition) by Wesley Chun (http://python.net/crew/wesc/cpp/) is very good. It's somewhat dated now, but is very readable.

Once you've learned the language, David Beazley's Python Essential Reference (4th Edition) (http://www.dabeaz.com/per.html) is excellent.
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Yea, sorry I messed up the comment in editing and had the "After all you" stuff twice.

Anyway, I wonder what your thoughts are on the central idea. Mainly our ability to generate value is directly related to the value the government provides us. The ability to walk the streets unmolested is hard to quantify but the economic value is directly related to our income. Also, murder investigations are independent of the amount of land we own. And things like food safety and public vaccinations are cheap and valuable so bundling all of that stuff up and simply taxing income seems more reasonable than trying to have individual taxes on every transaction with the government.

As to leaving I think that's an important option. It's what separates slaves of the state from people that can accept the deal or move on. A young talented American can has many options for relocation to another area, the fact that so few do suggests our system has many benefits even if they are not all obvious.
If you're interested in more aspects of web page performance, Show Slow (http://www.showslow.org/) is a good tool.
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Thanks for providing valuable feedback. I did get couple of feedback on the secondary main navigation - which is very useful. I didn't get your 3rd point wrt. "I might like to see Projects and Customers/Support segregated somehow from Employees"? Can you please provide some more details?

For #1, we'll do some more testing with different browsers. BTW, what browser did you use?
No, a dream job would be all the responsibility with twice the money and stock and revenue sharing. :)
Watch the Facebook movie "The Social Network" for an example of this.
Please allow the website owner to rate the review he receives and allow his sites to be reviewed based on the rating of the review that he has given.

So for example: If i rate site A.com and the siteowner of A.com rates my review as 5/5 then my sites should be eligible for 5 reviews. The ratios could be different - essentially reward owners for better reviews.

I see a very clear monetization opportunity here. I pay money and get X number of reviews. I am sure you would have thought about this. Cool stuff.
So, we go from "Simple cells hardly ever engulf other cells" to "it has/will never happen anywhere in the universe"?
Duped (related) post, or am I missing something?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1815195

Edit: just pointing out a related post as people may have missed it.
Do not send passwords in the clear via email! That is all.
I like it, still if your going that far why not have them play inside a giant pinball machine?
What is the difference between parallel and concurrent programming?
"Imagine that there are several different ways to meet these energy requirements"

OK, what are they?
What... I can't even... If you can't fool people, they're hard to monetize? Have you tried being honest for a change?

Opera did an IAmA, had ten engineers answering every question in a very informative manner, and I feel that they got a million times better publicity than Microsoft ever did.
The government provides services which are pretty fundamental to Google's success including enforcement of Google's various property rights (including IP) and providing a stable environment in which to do business. Surely the value of that service is broadly proportional to Google's income and well in excess of 2.4%
WTF? Why isn't there a Winamp for Linux then?? Oh how I miss it.
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I think Visual Studio is one of the most painful pieces of software I've ever used.
This is a counter to the commonly espoused internet-forum notion that there's some law corporations would be breaking if they don't engage in the most sociopathic behavior possible in order to "maximize shareholder value". There is in fact no such law. Bringing up Dodge vs. Ford is relevant, because that is indeed where the concept of "maximizing shareholder value" was brought up, and it's the only case ever cited.

The notion that shareholders can bring about a suit in the United States because Google is not dodging enough taxes enough is absurd.
Thanks for the feedback! Currently we have pagination instead of scrolling. If there are more than 7 records, it will automatically display <prev> & <next> page options. Actually we had discussed this with some UX guys and the feedback that we got from them was that pagination is better than scrolling - specifically if you have multiple sections in a page.

We'll definitely take your inputs and try to clean up the home page and add more graphics.
I've launched some similar stuff before, but nothing that got this viral. But in this case, I had that funny gut feeling that this would work. You should never, ever ignore that gut feeling -- you'll know it when you feel it.
I had a workmate on a J2EE team who had a Physics degree but couldn't work find anything on his field here in Chile. He moved into computer programming around his mid/late 30s and now he works in the largest bank, but he's always hacking small proyects.

I'm 34, and have a job with Java technologies that pays the bills, but I can't help to hack small projects after hours. I often feel that I need to escape that 'sinking' feeling, so I'm trying to build my own small business right now.

If you review other posts here on HN, you will notice a pattern of people which feel on a crisis around our age. It's common. But it's not the end of the world. You are not old, and you've proven to have the will to keep going forward, so just keep trying. Best wishes!
If the money stays in the company forever, why should they be taxed? Imagine a company that makes billions but never distributes income in any form, a 90% shareholder could starve to death.
Income should be taxed only when distributed, it's like it doesn't exist if it's not.
What is the extent of a corporation's fiduciary duty to its shareholders then?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary#Relationships

Under Corporation-Stockholders, Dodge v Ford is not cited.
Ustream is often higher in unique views (but not always, and not currently), but Justin.tv has people stay on site almost twice as long, and has almost half the bounce rate. It certainly pumps far more video in and out (at one point at least more than even youtube, but I don't think we've measured that in a while). Livestream is a distant third. Ustream spends a lot of money projecting their image, while we just keep making sure that our product is several times better.
I'm on a TN too. It's transferrable as far as I know because I've just done it (well I guess they just issue you a new one). I know the nightmare at the border fairly intimately. I always get secondary inspections. The second last time I got this whole giant grilling, with the officer threatening to not let me in. The last time the office said "I don't know why you're in here (secondary inspection), is there something you want from us?"
See also: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/57f8d7e0-daf4-11df-a5bb-00144feabd...
Excellent - thanks.

Oh, hang on, I'd still need to use Windows, which is a rare event for me. Still, nice to know I can use a Windows machine to read Windows files.

Oh, hang on, I also need the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats. I'll put that on the list too.

And actually, this still isn't the point. There are still the "embrace and extend" issues I need to deal with, and the "interesting" interpretations they put on the standards, and the inter-operability issues raised.

Microsoft is no longer the company they once were, but I've had so much grief and so much pain from dealing with their systems I just avoid them. I can't bring myself to care, or to waste the time.

Which is why I won't bother replying further to this thread. I've answered the question, I've provided information, and explained my circumstances, and now I'm moving on to get stuff done. Without Microsoft.
Hi, please send me an email dawson @ nhs .info
Well, "tree-bombing" won't help much with that.
A corporation has no LEGAL fiduciary duty to "maximize shareholder value," that is just a business "best practice."

There are actual corporate laws regarding shares and shareholders and corporate boards and whatnot, but they are mostly about trying to keep the game clean and not defrauding people, not "maximizing shareholder value."

Edit: So long as we're referencing wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Company

"Dodge is often misread or mistaught as setting a legal rule of shareholder wealth maximization. This was not and is not the law. Shareholder wealth maximization is a standard of conduct for officers and directors, not a legal mandate. "

It's actually a very interesting case, because the DODGE in Dodge vs. Ford is actually the guys behind the Dodge motors brand. They were using their investment in Ford motors to make money in order to start their own competing car company.
I liked the idea, but I think there should be some sort of options or categorization of websites that you are submitting and you would like to review. I just tried it out and I got a website to review - but it did not have any details on what aspect needs to be reviewed.
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Ask HN:Why MS Office over OpenOffice/LibreOffice?
In your company, organization, or personal business, what are the contributing factors as to why Microsoft Office is used instead of OpenOffice or Libre Office.

Or, if you did choose OpenOffice/LibreOffice, what was it that made it so?

Or did you skip both and choose Google Docs?
What would OpenOffice/LibreOffice have to have in order for you to use it instead of MS Office?
"I'll give you the last two, but I'd say you're off by an order of magnitude on the first one. That's a generalization of the site as a whole, mind you. Your figure might be entirely accurate for, say, r/pics."

My figure is from every subreddit on the front page (without adding any of the specific ones you can add yourself). I could find conservative/republican subreddits, but that wouldn't represent the community as a whole either.

It's pretty obvious even from the link titles users have posted.

"As I said before, r/tehcnology is hit and miss, but the smaller tech subreddits are good. I personally frequent r/netsec, and I often find good links and discussion at r/python, r/linux, and other tech subreddits."

This also doesn't represent the community as a whole. These are small subreddits.
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Interesting concept. What's the business model here? Advertising? Maybe a premium service where you can choose which sites to review and be able to target certain reviewers for your own site.
I don't think I suggested anywhere that it's Google's fault?
Thanks for adding it to the list, I've always been stopped by the Windows-ish UI (as Google closure) but I read good feedbacks coming from it.

I also forgot GWT if you're coming from Java it could be a simple way to do some web development. I used it a bit at Seesmic and keep a good overall experience.

Of course GWT abstracts lot of things so you'll ended up by having a nice final product but not really understand the roots of html and javascript.
This Javascript tutorial is aimed at Python programmers:

http://bitbucket.org/jfine/javascript-for-python-programmers...
> The Lenovo doesn't run Mac OS X.

Yes it does.

> Not sure how much this matters, but the Lenovo is also using Intel Graphics, how well does it work on external monitors? Can it power a 2560x1600 30 inch monitor?

Yes it can.
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This doesn't seem to affect the (free) "My Library" station.
I'll say this...I've never been a Mac person but I do find the new Macbook Air very attractive. In the past few years I've had a Dell Inspiron (my current laptop), an HP Pavillion, a Lenovo, and an Acer. They've all been bulky and prone to overheating, and the battery life is terrible. My current Dell started at about 3 hours but now I'm down to about 30 minutes.

As a developer, the only software I need is Zend Studio and Adobe CS, which are both available on Mac. With the increased portability and longer battery life, the Macbook air may be just the thing I need. I'm looking at the 13 inch right now, and I'm strongly considering buying it.
I think that Google will make better use of these financial resources to help the people who live in the US than the US Federal Government will.
Irving H. Plotkin, a senior managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers' national tax practice in Boston, says that "a company's obligation to its shareholders is to try to minimize its taxes and all costs, but to do so legally."

This is a pet peeve of mine: company directors are not obligated to minimize costs or maximize profits.

http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/25/what-obligation-maximise...
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1013744
I'm dubious about your assertion. Yes, players would be willing to put their life on the line, but the way fame and fortune are achieved in football is winning the game, and a team whose best players have sacrificed themselves isn't going to win many games. The football field tactics would necessarily change to protect the most valuable assets, the players.
As of Python 3, that finally works :)

Python 3.1.1 (r311:74543, Aug 24 2009, 18:44:04)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> def 什么():
... return 1
...
>>> 什么()
1
1+2+3 = sound advice.

Failing that, if worst comes to worst get income support (if that's what your country has) and/or a part time job and create a startup... At the very least a startup is an awesome resume piece to show prospected employers.
A much bigger subset. Although even that misses the larger point.

Probably the most useful part of the Android story is side-loading. After that the ability to host Android on any device I like. After that the ability to add or remove any part of Android I like. At somet point we eventually get down to something like public commits, but that's far below things like ability to audit and escrow code.

Again, I'm not saying that the things Joe wishes for are bad things. But the absence of them does not make something closed.
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