skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bad version is that anyone who pays taxes at a rate above some set amount gets to use the car pool lane without a passenger. Or perhaps the rich are allowed to park in handicapped-only spaces.

This is all over the place: e.g. London congestion fee (rich have no trouble paying, and it clears the lanes for them as an added bonus). Same for all other: parked in the wrong place? The secretary will send off the fine.

IKEA: Kamprad insists, that he and his family have no control over Ikea, which went entirely to Stichting Ingka Foundation and its subsidiary Inka Holdings, based in Liechtenstein. Billions are spread through Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Virgin Islands (travel Branson :) and Cyprus. When confronted, Kampard has declared, that Ikea respects the law and pays its taxes, but he added that it doesn't want to pay too much (GOOG comes to mind with Irish-Dutch-Bermuda triangle money laundering scheme).

It is just a structure optimisation, which gives the possibility and flexibility to use capital towards new markets to develop business without the burden of double taxation ...declared Kamprad. [src: SVT]
Is that true, or are people just trying to make themselves happy using the most obvious methods, ones that make other people happy, and it fails for them. It is not easy going against the grain, doing stuff that makes you happy that everybody else would laugh at.
Do I need to go to a big-name university?
Egypt shuts down Al Jazeera bureau
It's a Mac thing. Alt-f prints ƒ on Mac. On any other OS it's a pain in the ass. Granted, you can use fu but I think it would have been wiser to promote the usage of fu instead of ƒ.
I have no experience with ASK HN, so I can't really help you on that. Sorry :)

I guess that if your app really solves a problem (or just offers some cool features so it gets hyped), it will be successful anyway.
The person the government sends the tax bill to is rarely the person whose wealth is reduced by the tax. Since all employers must pay payroll tax, there are few practical alternatives for earning a living (inelastic supply of labor), and employers are price-sensitive and will employ fewer people if they cost more (elastic demand for labor), even the employer's portion of the tax comes from wealth that would've gone to the employees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence
I should be clear: more than people who are in the middle/lower classes in terms of the effective tax rate (not just marginal), and given our current situation, it may have to be even more than it is today (along with cuts) or the alternative is that the system could collapse.
What I got from it is that innovation is a specific application of an invention. Inventing the internet didn't result in much until people found innovative ways to use it. Of course, these innovations could be described as inventions... if that were to ever happen, people might start to do silly things like try to patent software. How crazy would that be?
It's a lot like jQuery's $ selector mechanism and fluent API. Here's some of your examples compared to their jQ equivalents:

---

ƒ('selector1').ƒ('selector2').ƒ('selector3');

vs.

$('selector1 selector2 selector3');

---

ƒ('body').style.background = '#f4f6f8';

vs.

$('body')[0].style.background = '#f4f6f8';

---

for (var i=0; i < 50; i++) {
ƒ('ul').appendChild(ƒ().createElement('li'));
}

vs.

$.each($('ul'), function(index, ul) {
for(var i=0; i < 50; i++) {
ul.appendChild(document.createElement('li'));
}
});

---

I'm not even a jQuery user but I don't see a lot of difference in your approach versus jQuery's here. I already only use lightweight libraries like jQuery or Ext.Core for situations which call for only minor Javascript (read: not an RIA).

In what situations do you imagine your framework is more useful?
you must be very unhappy with this "journalism" thing then. Have you ever seen that journalists would do statistics on anecdotes? Most of them have trouble researching and pointing to similar accidents that happened in the past.

I don't think anybody would base any serious policy on an article in the news. So there is not much reason to perform real science on it. When you're putting together anecdotes of racial attacks in Israel and you have to give it a title ...
You should really change the color of the links to distinct them from the text.
Yes, I can confirm that it's surprisingly easy to run git with gitosis over ssh on your own server for a few dollars. Takes a couple of minutes to setup. And of course you can make it public and you can share it with other people with keys.
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Suggestion for creating a startup:

For private repositories gitolite is really awesome, but I think there should be a company about it. What I mean is that github or some other company should offer hosted gitolite instances, in the following form:

You pay something like price_of_small_linode_instace+price_of_service, to get:

A virtual machine with gitolite up and running, with a good web interface and online documentation. I think that the web interface part is the piece this company should not opensource. With this web interface you can create repositories and users, and modify the gitolite settings in general.

A backup service, in some other different VM and network, so that if something goes wrong with your gitolite VM you can ask a free (and automated) restore, possibly with hour granularity for the latest 24 hours, and less granularity for bigger periods and so forth.

Note that this gives the user virtually infinite repositories... if they don't upload movies to their instance, as there is a lot of space even in a small linode instance for git repositories.

This way this is a "pure product" as there is no need to repair or install manually virtual machines, and the company can focus into evolving the offering, developing a better version of gitolite, of the web interface, and so forth.

p.s. I mentioned linode but can well be ec2 or whatever is better suited for this stuff.
can someone explain to me please how exactly are these money given? The startups receive the $150k in exchange for a percentage, or how ? I keep hearing the "no cap" and "no debt" thing, but I can't figure out what that means.

Thanks!
My assumption is that California has been a donor state for much of its history, so much of that defense money "invested" in California was probably Californian tax money to begin with.
Ouch? Reaaaaally?

Actually, there are many more people obsessed with Political Correction than actual female hackers...
Am i the only one who has the feeling that if you are already in an ecosystem where you need _3 weeks_ to raise a perfect ("silicon valley level") angelround you even almost not need the 150k$.
I think it would be great if I can somehow know the type of internet user - typical or hacker and then apply the color scheme accordingly. Just Kidding. Btw, the site isn't for typical users. It is meant for hackers and entrepreneurs who for some strange reasons like black more. So, I think I will stick with black. I will also experiment with various other white/blue combination in case I need to switch to more traditional version in future.
I picked the font colour to match HN's colour scheme.
I disagree because HN deletes all my post.
Actually, my another startup project is a web application that integrates deeply with facebook and will have an interface similar to facebook to provide consistent user experience. So, I thought it will be nice if my personal site also looks similar. Anyway, I will experiment with other shades of blue but I think I should settle with black. It is more appealing to my target audience.
This reminded me of Venti.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venti
You don't really have to have networking or files to write programs. Currently in a baremetal embedded system (I am including the RTOSes) you can write programs in C or C++. It would be very useful to be able to write programs with a main() function using python. You could write an interactive shell, device drivers, even a small operating system. So what I mean here is instead of aiming for applications, you could use python to write system software.

I think there are already lua interpreters ported in this way but python is more common and perhaps easier to use.
> Sure I wasn't there on the ground witnessing this, but I believe that story to be true.

It is true.

There is a recent (and very dangerous, IMO) rise in Anti-Arab attacks in Israel; Jewish hooligans attacking Israeli-Palestinians, Rabbis calling to ban businesses employing Arabs, a prominent businessman saying in an interview he won't sell housing (in East-Jerusalem, an occupied Palestinian territory) to Arabs, etc.

Translated daily updates about racist incidents, as well asother undemocratic activities from Israel can be found @ http://www.hahem.co.il/slipperyslope/en/
It is possible to be both anti-Israel and anti-Russian, y'know. The idea that the BBC is any more "truthy" than any other news source is laughable; they're all run by humans after all. And the BBC recruits most of its staff through one route, the media section in the Guardian, which no-one would claim is anything other than a left-wing paper. It could, for example, balance it out by recruiting 50% via the Graun's big rival, the Daily Mail, but it doesn't.
I disagree becuase HN deletes all my comments.
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The end of the video shows "Pilot: David Windestal". The video from the sentry with its target rectangle makes it appear that it could have been autonomous, though that could have been added after.
NB: You meant "no cap...no discount". Now to your question:

These sums are notes (loans, debt). The money is either given as a check or wired. That is all. Just that simple. It is real money. Since it is a note, the investor gets zero equity (percentage, ownership). Rather, he gets [1] a compounded interest over time, in the case where the company has to repay, and [2] a percentage of the company "in the future".

Since startups go on to raise an A-round, investors who give startups loans (convertible debt), like to put a cap (maximum) on the amount of $ that may be raised in the future A-round. They do this because the higher the $ raised in an A-round and subsequent rounds, the more dilute the % the seed investor owns (if he does not follow-up). In this case, Yuri/SV Angels -- without fear of dilution -- are allowing the companies to "feel free to raise as huge a sum as they like/can in the future". There is, "at large", one main reason why a seed investor would do this: because he intends to and can participate in the future round. More basically, it is a branding statement that earns the entrepreneurs' trust or fondness.

The second provision is that of "discount". A discount simply answers the question: "How much % slack will you give me compared to your next round investor? i.e. How much cheaper "for me" will your stock be in your next round?". In this case, Yuri/SV Angels say they don't want any slack/discount.

What we don't know is if there is/was a liquidation preference (exit-clause or clause in case of a default). But that is another story.
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As I said: I am not much of a student of political history. But my general understanding is that the very name "United States of America" came from the idea that these would be separate "states" -- nations -- that would band together for certain specific purposes, like defense, but would otherwise operate independently. The problem came in that the Federal government had insufficient power to raise money (or an army) to perform defense. More power had to be ceded to the Federal government in order to ensure that the entire thing didn't simply fall apart. As a young nation, newly separated from England by force, the US was quite vulnerable. Had the Federal government remained hamstrung in its ability to raise money and raise an army, this country likely wouldn't have survived for long.
But there is a noticeable rise in hostility against activities against the Israeli-Palestinian population in Israel.

Just open an Israeli paper (most maintain an edition of their website in English: try http://www.haaretz.com/ or http://www.ynetnews.com/)

And as an Israeli, I see it everyday on the street, in public opinion, in the papers...

Some friends are maintaining a detailed list in
http://www.hahem.co.il/slipperyslope/en/ --
It's quite a saddening read.
Al Jazeera's bureau ALWAYS gets shut down anytime there are breaking news any where.

EDIT:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera#Attacks_on_and_censo...

(keep scrolling down to Controversy)
Maybe for a few months. When you run a server for 2 or 3 years the distro goes out of support, software upgrades are getting behind, before you know it you are compiling patches from source, ...

I've done this several times over the last 5 years and am now finally moving everything to specialized hosting services. Just hosting a web site, photo repo, mail and svn on a machine (vps) is enough to make it a serious hassle Moving all those to specialized services costs the same, is less work and more reliable.
If this is not true about other news bureaus, this says a lot about Al Jazeera.
You can still kill people with swords, knives and hammers. Don't knock the deadliness of old technology. As I say, it's not the gun in the hands of the lunatic in front of the leader he needs to worry about: it's the stilettos in the hands of his ambitious friends standing behind him.
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Who is your best audio book reader (narrator)? Can you suggest any best narrated audio books?
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No, I'm including the whole package including health care (see 2b) and military spending which I know just about everyone agrees we need to have some of (see 4), and so on.
It sounds more like Tonido (http://www.tonido.com).

At least, the broader principles:

* Disk is cheap and getting cheaper

* Put the user in control. Own your data.

* Privacy and paranoia

* Decentralization is important, but..

* End users won't be dorks. Must also be possible to be easy, hosted.

* Content-Addressability has so many awesome properties (validation, cachability, etc). Use it as much as possible.

* Redundancy and over-explicitness is fine. Compression will help. Redundancy and over-explicitness will be convenient for future digital archeologists, too.
From discussions with my Dutch friends, I know that it is ridiculously easy and inexpensive to get your driving licence here in Australia when compared to the Netherlands.

I imagine that Germany has very similar standards as The Netherlands, and I could imagine that many US states take a more relaxed approach.

Perhaps this is the "driving culture" to which the parent is describing?
I think more than a "big-name" university, it is important to go to a university with a great course structure (which most "big-name" universities do have). I've often looked at courses at MIT, Stanford, CMU etc and said "I wish this course was offered at my school" or "I wish this course was structured like this at my school".
For a news organization that can be taken as a complement.
How many other communist countries are there left besides China and North Korea, though? And is China even really communist any longer?
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I would argue: it depends.

I live and work in London ; the only places where I've seen recruiters or job ads specifically ask for a 'red brick' or 'top ten' university degrees is the financial domain. They specifically ask and check for a top ten university in order to hire you for most jobs, be it analyst or IT consultant. I would also argue that the pay scales you get there reflect this.

Most startups I've seen, again in London, dont really care where you are coming from. I used to work with one which basically said 'we dont care how you look or where you finished uni or even if you did, we just want you to be a) hard working b) smart working c) eager to learn'. Worked very good for them as they are now a successful business and most people have stuck around for years. I now work in a "top 3" uni in central London and we also dont care where yo u got your degree from. Our job ads are, by law, neutral - we are not able to distinct between candidates based on university alone. Again, works fine for us. It doesn't matter where you went, it only matters what you are. At the end of the day, I myself did not finish a 'big name' university,far from it, and its worked out well for me.
There's also value in being right, which he definitely is. Whether anyone likes it or not, brutal honesty pushes everything forward.
Like, say, China?
I haven't had any trouble, but I have seen more interruptions happening recently. I relate it to growth, because as you grow, these things sometimes happen more often; "growing pains" if you will. Overall I am happy with Github, and their downtime has not cost me any time or money.
George Clooney is an American of Irish descent. Does his interest in Sudan (to which he seems to have little "personal connection") make you wonder about his motives?
Right, the cost functions could be defined in terms profit maximization (thus, the cost being lost sales, eg).

Either way, these experiments are very difficult to control because you can't fully validate models by predicting sales a posteriori with holdouts once you have the data as you don't know if some algorithm might influence certain sales not reflected in such real-life data. You could try a/b testing, but I'm not sure the Amazons are willing to run someone's models very readily. Either way, this is a good thing.
In my definitions, innovation is simply the step after invention and before imitation.

* invention: have an idea and build a prototype to verify

* innovation: make it a product and sell it

* imitation: make it scale
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It hasn't yet, but it is making great headway, and I for one can't wait!
For some context, that was an alt-weekly editorial written immediately after the red states knowingly re-elected Bush. The cover led with "DO NOT DESPAIR": http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/CoverArt?oid=19811&ye...

I wouldn't know whether it's good political strategy, but I found it comforting at the time.
His delivery is exactly what anybody is bound to get on the internet, and there's seriously nothing wrong with it. If you have an issue with brutal criticism like that, you should re-evaluate even spending time on this site.

This is, quite simply, the most _useless_ and badly written 'library' I've seen in some time. I applaud the author for pushing his work out there, but this is the part where you take criticism and run with it, fix it. Listen to Sephr, he's spot on.
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I wonder why you are being doubted. Because I'm not doubting you, I somehow am made to feel naive. Please address.
The pattern is very simple. Control leads to power which leads to coerced profits. The tighter the control, the greater the power, and the greater the profits. That's their formula, and it seems like the only one they know.
Additionally, ninjas never self-promote without adding a disclaimer. Moreover, ninjas despise calling developers "ninjas."
So all news sources are equally truthy? There's no such thing as perfect objectivity, but there are shades of gray.
Why do you care if you have mental illness or not? Either way, you have a bit different perspective on the world from everyone else, drugs could make you feel better, etc. Mental illness is just a label.

Try talking to your close friends about how the world is and how you'd like it to be (no need to get into details about leaving it). Maybe you'll find you can do something about it, albeit small.
My brain felt thoroughly hacked by about half-way through GEB...
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You're right, enomar; I've updated the post to reflect Google's recommended placement of the asynchronous snippet (and your other comment regarding the script type attribute only defaulting in HTML5).

Perhaps instead of appending to document.body, it would be better to use document.documentElement.firstChild to use the head element instead (this is what is present on http://diveintomark.org).
Thanks for this - my account was linked with Clickpass before and it was a bit of a pain to log in - going through three or four different pages on a mobile isn't fun. I didn't know I could just use this and change it to a normal username/password account.
You could try outsourcing and/or hiring students, but I suspect that the quality of outsourcing available to the average individual or startup has decreased as a result of the publishing of books like 4HWW and The World is Flat.
I'm probably being down-voted because of my tone. And I _sincerely_ apologize for that.

But look, this has just appeared on the front page of HN: Egypt shuts down Al Jazeera bureau (aljazeera.net)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157796

I'm just asking that people think a bit more before knee-jerkingly rushing to judgement.

From the article: The channel was founded in 1996 by Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, a small, oil-rich American ally on the Persian Gulf. Though sponsored by the Qatari government, in its early years the channel was considered by some western observers to be a beacon for democracy in the highly censored world of state-controlled Arabic media. In 1999, John Burns of the New York Times called Al Jazeera "hard-hitting" and "revolutionary." In his book "Al Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel that is Challenging the West," journalist Hugh Miles writes that Al Jazeera drew ire from across the Middle East for, among other things, allowing Israelis to appear on-air.
I guess this is a ringing endorsement of Al Jazeera. It's the network the dictators fear. I can see some people saying they are being shut down because they are supporters of radical Islam but from what I've seen of them this is pure nonsense.

It's nice to have a news network that doesn't suck so bad. It's shocking that this network does better (in my opinion) at news reporting than American news networks given that it comes from a part of the world where free speech isn't a concept rooted in law.

Look for the network the dictators hate. The network that the ruling class denigrates. That's the one more likely to be telling the truth.
This looks pretty interesting. I wonder if they will integrate Homebrew in any capacity. It would be great to have there apps on the install list.
A news organization that isn't causing controversy is probably not doing their job (although controversy alone is not enough).

Truth and controversy are often complementary :)
meta: their schema seems to be JSON instances plus comments. http://camlistore.org/code/?p=camlistore.git;a=tree;f=doc/sc...

This is probably just a temporary notation, but perhaps it's clear enough for ongoing use?

Optional/required is handled by comments; JSON "[ ]" syntax indicates lists - but it's unclear if the contents represent a repeated group, like (abc)* , or alternatives, like (a|b|c)*; alternatives in general don't seem to be handled - in general, alternatives could also appear as the value of a field, not just in a list.
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