skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recall that uber-rich Steve Jobs has an annual salary from Apple of $1, wears black turtlenecks and jeans (ever anything else?), and is building a modest 5000 square foot home on property he owns outright. What to tax?
Plus he's a genuinely good guy, a pleasure to be around. And I swear he never sleeps, given all that he gets done.
Those are share buttons provided by shareaholic, I imagine if the rest of the page was missing it would seem a little fishy.
It certainly makes sense that Autosuggest shouldn't pop up any "NSFW" results. There's a difference between suggestion and answering. That explains why the sex/curse words are dropped.

But what about the racist results? That's just as verboten in the office. And talk of torrents doesn't qualify by this standard.
I'm struck by the enormous amount of agriculture. It's easy to forget how, not so long ago, the average human spent most of his time trying to generate food.
Does "Lean UX" really include requiring DL of font "reeniebeanie" ?

Naivete disclosure: This is first time Safari has ever had to ask my permission to DL a web font.
Exactly. If we rolled back overall spending to where it was in 1999 and curtailed the military (stopping the two big wars, closing assorted bases).

A decade without real economic growth should be matched with a decade of no government growth.
Hmm, sounds more serious than I thought it was. Like Apple is readying it to be the biggest differentiator since the original Mac, in terms of user interface.
Why are people assuming the 150k is from this batch onward?
New HN users: do not overlook the "Lists" feature
If we don't have data for your area, then we don't send you email.

We experimented with a multi-step sign up process where we first prompted for a zipcode, then prompted for an email address (letting you know at that step whether we had data for your zipcode), but a multi-step sign up process felt too heavyweight given that we really only need two pieces of information to create an account.

We will consider showing people sample items for a given zipcode based on feedback.
To those confused by the use of "Apple's" in the title, Siri was acquired by Apple in April of 2010.

(edited because I was one of the confused)
To go one step farther, with autonomous drones leaders don't even need to convince any human soldiers, much less the public.
Why? Are you saying it's easy to make money if you're just providing financial services? :/
>has the Egyptian government made any public comments about what they think of Al Jazeera reporting on this?

At some time around 3PM UK time yesterday (bang in the middle of the rioting), they suddenly broke off the commentary from their studio in downtown cairo, saying "The police have entered the building." There was a knock at the door, some shouting in arabic, a moment of silence then they carried on with the news, perhaps sounding slightly shaken.

Take from that what you will.

EDIT: Also at one point they had a split screen with their live footage of a burning upturned APC on one side, and the feed from egyptian state TV showing a calm and placid view of the skyline on the other. They then spent the next few minutes roundly mocking the regime for living in a dream world. It was pretty funny.
I'm not normally one to complain about downvoting, but could whoever did so explain why, because it seems that each time I try to bring some legal facts into this whole discussion some people feel they need to express their dislike of reality by downvoting.
No, I'm saying the industry as a whole failed.
Moreover I think it says something of interest about Google - while she is trying to be positive, you can read it closely to see some organisational issues - projects being cancelled despite staff enthusiasm, and an environment that feels too "safe".

I think these things speak to other topics that have proven of interest to HN, such as the lower appeal of Google to new talent, and whether Google will be a platform for innovation in the future.
The using statement the flietz is referring to goes at the beginning of the program, generally, next to all of the other "usings". It's mostly useful when you don't want to type out the fully qualified name of a class just to use an object of it. It's a code brevity feature.
..and old people on fixed income.
Convertibles with no-cap, frothy valuations, great time to be an entrepreneur. I wonder if this is going to pressure other angels into offering similar terms, and I think if they try to then ultimately angels have the potential to get severely diluted in follow on rounds. I do think that this is a great PR move. Given the hands-off terms from Yuri, I highly doubt that this is a kiss of death for other large VCs who are looking to invest in the follow on rounds, I think it puts much more pressure on Angels who are looking to get into the seed round.
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Scott Adams, like the politicians in Washington DC, is living in a dream world.

Cut all discretionary and defense spending to 0, and we would still be running a deficit due to entitlements. Tax "the rich" at 100%, and we would still be running a deficit. Tax corporations at 100%, and we would still be running a deficit.

On the left, politicians make it sound as though we're just a few tax hikes and some defense cuts away from a sound federal budget. On the right, they make it sound as though all we need are some cuts to programs like the UN or foreign aid and some tax cuts to spur economic growth.

They are both in a DREAM WORLD. Some taxes will have to go up, but most importantly, Social Security and Medicare will have to be substantially reduced. Whether it means privatization, defined contribution, or some combination of solutions, no one in my generation (I am currently 24) will see either of these programs as our parents did. In fact, current retirees and soon-to-be-retirees will also probably need to have their benefits reduced. There is just no way around it.
We Fear for Our Online Privacy, But Do Little to Protect It
There's nothing here that's specific to the iPhone - NFC and phone companies handling payments - yeah, there's potential downsides. But it's not iPhone specific.
For me the hour depends on how excited I am about the project i'm working on, could be night, morning, doesn't matter.
However my best ideas happen at night.
Approximately nobody holds physical cash these days, and I expect bank accounts would still pay interest like they do now (and higher interest if there was higher inflation). Bonds would also pay higher interest, you can see they're already priced to include expected inflation by looking at inflation-protected ones.
At that moment the police just wanted them not to stand on the balcony - since the curfew was about to start.

So they stayed with the camera inside for like 15 minutes and then moved out on the balcony again.
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This is almost entirely incoherent paranoia based on the idea that a) the iPhone will route payments through AT&T and b) phone companies used 900-number reconnection scams in the 90s to prove to banks that they should be in charge of payment processing.

Even if you somehow manage to follow the logic behind (b), the idea that Apple's going to just throw away its pre-installed and -activated iTunes account on every iOS device and just give everything to AT&T is completely insane.
Why would someone link to anything written by John Dvorak who made a profession out of trolling Apple?
Doesn't affect the wealthy that much because they hold more of their wealth in property, shares, etc, rather than in bank accounts.

And everyone would switch to using euros.
@your first sentence: IT IS. How can you interpret the Auteurswet any other way? Please tell me how you can come to this conclusion because I really do not understand how you can honestly make this claim.

@the third, IT IS, it says so right in the Auteurswet that I quoted several sections from a few posts up, explaining exactly why your reasoning was wrong!

And you of course the factual situation is so that it makes the legal reality irrelevant. But it's not because stealing a bike in practice does not have any consequences that it is legal. (I'm not trying to move this into a copyright violation/theft discussion, it's just an example of another infraction of the law). My beef here is that you are making broad sweeping, demonstrably factually wrong claims about the law and then weave a web of straw man and vigorous assertion fallacies to not have to address them.
Inflation hurts the poor and the middle class the most since their savings are not in inflation protected assets - land, stock, etc...
My so-called "day work" is usually from 10am-10pm and I tend to be more productive from 6 -8(pro-dinner). Side-project-wise maybe 12-2am.
The ones called 'Doctors of the Church'; Aquinas, Augustine and Anselm. Those three hurt me, how I wish they had devoted their inquiries in anything other than Theo-philosophy.
I agree that is seems misleading. I was diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency. Which maybe isn't that surprising that on the average day I might have gotten no sun at all,and don't eat foods like fish, eggs, butter.

Now I do make a point of a midday walk and a vitamin D supplement. Severe vitamin D deficiency can be pretty yucky.
> Cut all discretionary and defense spending to 0, and we would still be running a deficit due to entitlements. Tax "the rich" at 100%, and we would still be running a deficit. Tax corporations at 100%, and we would still be running a deficit.

Do you have some numbers for this?
Democrats will have to be the one to do it too. Republicans don't have the credibility. It's the Nixon in China thing where a Republican can open dialog with a communist leader but a Democrat would appear to be socialist for doing so.
Would they give a crap? Possibly, when you consider that the badge would symbolize an investment in the infrastructure that supports everyone's lives.
The neatest solution for handling forms I've seen was XForms (http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms11/), originally part of the XHTML2 proposal. You had multiple, potentially schema-validated models per page, the ability to neatly segue in RESTful behaviour and custom controls for dates, ranges, tabs, composite controls etc.

However, the standard relied on robust browser support instead of being added on as a library (here's a current attempt at this: http://code.google.com/p/ubiquity-xforms/). There was also an almost slavish adherence to XPath which was too clunky for certain uses, and finally it ended up as an unfortunate victim of the XHTML2 debacle.
Ask HN: YC new move will change SV dynamics. Are you sure for the better?
With this move all small angel investors are out of biz. This new thing will change the dynamics of seed investments forever. Startups (in pre-seed stages) must embrace constraints to stay focused on what really matters, must stay in the garages working with few resources. This is like give alcohol to babies, they will get drunk.

Small angels will just need to seek investments outside of YC, but that takes some good companies off the table. It will definitely reduce the number of angels in SV within 2-3 years, only the smart ones will survive.

It looks like a bubble, and in the human history every bubble has crushed; soon or later. There will be a lot of burn outs and wasted money over next few years.
I don't think that's true at all.

Several banks did fantastically, announced record profits etc. The industry as a whole didn't fail, some particular institutions did.
Why is he in at a better valuation than YC? From what I read it seemed like he loans 150k for an option to be repayed in stock at whatever valuation they take their first round of funding at? YC's 30k goes in at somthing like a 0.5 million valuation, so i would assume the rounds most of these companies are taking are higher than that?
There's certainly a lot of merit to this article. I think it's important to remember that the "rich" aren't necessarily people as wealthy as Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. Moreover, while there are many people born into wealth, there are many who make their own wealth through earnest work and frugal investments. They're the ones who are likely more outraged than "taxes on the rich," and it's a very valid argument.

If we look to how the private sector handles this, we see that airlines have their own VIP status system. You might have "Elite Access" status on Continental Airlines, you might have an American Express Platinum card, you might be an HHonors member at Hilton. These companies offer loyalty incentives to hold onto customers, and I think it's a model that the government could eventually adopt.
There is some testing being done on them but it's really only the known viruses that are tested against. It's the viruses that are unknown that are what you want to worry about.
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What? Are you serious? Are you saying that murder is illegal 'to make it easier for the populace to swallow'? Are you saying that measures against capital offenses, various forms of assault, protection of private property and enforcement of contracts "do not represent your morality or ethics"? Pray tell, then what are your ethics?

(with claims as outrageous as these I feel like I'm being trolled, but there are at least two people upvoting you?)
Wait...NFC payments involve the phone company?

I had assumed it would work like contactless credit cards, which obviously do not have a phone connection. That is, the phone would simply be used to store your credit card information, and use NFC to transmit it to the terminal when you want to pay.

The stories I've seen on this say it is coming to both iPhone and iPad 2, which would seem to confirm that the phone company is not involved since iPad 2 is not a phone.
You're taxing the wrong thing. Your idea would be great if we wanted billionaires to act like regular joes. But generally, in North America, we don't care about that. The problem was about fixing the deficit.

yummyfajitas was right: consumption taxes are generally considered regressive. Also, the rich, or even the professional class, have many more options to disguise their consumption as business expenses.
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A special ID that gives you status isn't so hard to imagine: it is basically like the Black Card, which is actually pretty shitty in terms of benefits but rich people (and people who want to appear rich) want anyways because it is a status symbol you can whip out when ever you want.
Ahem-- I don't think suicide bombers need to worry much about the fine print.
no one in my generation (I am currently 24) will see either of these programs as our parents did.

You're gonna laugh, but I thought the same thing when I was 24 (twenty years ago) and Social Security is still solvent for the next thirty.

That system ain't broke. It's just that they really, really, really want that money. If they manage to get us to break it for them, your pessimism is - quite literally - a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The irony is this article is completely wrong in its analysis but completely correct in its conclusion. Once tons of money is flowing through iTunes for consumer goods, eventually there will be a "Apple tax" on all consumer goods where the majority of payments are happening from iPhones (hello Starbucks!), to offset the fees Apple is going to charge for using their payments system.

This fee of course is going to be the fee the credit card companies charge, plus the Apple-related chunk, so that's why it's going to inflate prices more than the already inflated prices you see due to the luxury of being able to use a credit card.
I'm curious why Al Jazeera has such a negative reputation in the US. Is their Arabic-language reporting different? I don't regularly follow them, but their English-language reporting seems to be professional and not greatly slanted whenever I've run across it. It's actually less obviously partisan, from what I can tell, than a lot of typical Western news sources (think MSNBC v. Fox News), even well-respected ones (think Libération versus Le Figaro), possibly due to their attempt to appeal to a fairly broad pan-Arab-world audience.
But a combination of a consumption tax with a very progressive property tax would probably work rather well, especially if "property" is extended to include assets of all kinds and not just real estate.
That's only because payroll taxes were sold as a retirement plan contribution for yourself. The idea is that you get all of that money back plus interest. Sadly, it's not run that way. People have the let the money be spent on other items for years, and now they are retiring and it's not there.
I believe in California there is something called Cal-COBRA which lasts another 18 months after COBRA expires, that gives you three years total.
Says the former comptroller-general of the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.O.U.S.A. Cutting out the military now might fix today's deficit (and it should happen) but that baby boomer time bomb is ticking.
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Just getting accepted in YCombinator means you're part of an elite group. Even among these select startups there are those whose original idea doesn't work.

How many fail because they ran out of money trying to execute a pivot? All this added capital is going to do is increase the success rate. I respect you Scoble but you're wrong.
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I get what you are saying here, but I think the questions generated by this statement are numerous:

"When speeding, you're endangering people's lives."

Does this mean 56 mph is, and 55 is not dangerous somehow? By what science is this the case?

What about weather conditions? The condition of your car? The type of your car?

Your skill and ability to drive?

Also, the randomness with which this law is enforced is troublesome as well.

But perhaps if speeding tickets were $1000 dollars and up, we'd all think about it a bit more...
It's very pity, but I am the most productive at night.
Ask Brazil how that strategy worked out.
That's the whole point of the article; the rich must perceive that they'll get additional value (ie., no waiting in line) before they'll voluntarily agree to pay additional taxes.
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Well, I suppose on any OS you can find a similar application with Mac's iCal which will send you as many notifications as you want, at the hour you want, without the danger of spam emails.

On Windows there is MonoCalendar and I'm sure on Linux you will find more than one app that will do the same job.

It seems a bit strange to use an Internet application to send you emails ...
Reading this thread is like having a nightmare.
Here in middle of Europe, individuals pay basically $50/mo. That covers everything needed at 95% private doctors and nearly 100% hospitals ... then you only pay for optional higher standards, other optional treatment/drugs, part of the prescribed drug costs and $1.5 per any private doctor treatment.
When you're employee, then insurance is paid by employer and based on a month sallary.
When you are self-employed then the cost is based on yearly taxes, but generally quite low.
Whem you are unemployed and registered, then the state pays the insurance.
So Eric Schmidt would pay some pennies? (Since he is paid $1 a year :) )
JavaScript must die 
"My thesis is that the security situation with JavaScript is so poor that the only solution is to kill it. End users have very little in the way of protection against malicious JavaScript, major web sites suffer from XSS and CSRF flaws, the language itself allows appalling security holes, and as data moves to the cloud the 14 year old JavaScript security sandbox becomes more and more irrelevant."
I have been on HN for almost 3 years and never knew about that page.
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If you get a ticket for exceeding the speed limit by 1 mph, there are larger issues at hand than how much this ticket will cost you.

Yes, speed limits are to an extent arbitrary, but practical alternative is a total judgment call.

Do you always know the entirety of the condition of your car, and if not, should you be limited to 30 mph? Should drivers' licenses include a quantifiable evaluation of your skill and ability to drive and be tied into different speed limits, and how will that be tested? How will police officers know who is exceeding their license's conditions and therefore who to pull over?
Innovation Is Doing Little for Incomes
When I first got into Y Combinator, our company with two founders straight out of college with no prior software engineering or startup experience and a prototype calendar demo was valued at 300k.

We were ecstatic. That was the best deal I've ever been offered in my life.
We're well on our way from turning war from a matter of human costs into a matter of monetary cost.

Whether this is a good or bad thing only time will tell.
Try mentioning it in a conversation to someone, and then asking them to spell it. Total nightmare. Despite Ooyala having pretty serious traction, very few people have heard of them. As someone who used to work there, I'm convinced that the name is a huge strike against them on this front. When people ask where I've worked, I first ask them if they've heard of Brightcove, and then say that I worked at Ooyala, which is their main competitor. Much easier to explain:)

BTW, my father _still_ can't pronounce Ooyala properly, after 2.5 years, nor can a lot of people I run into in the valley.

Based on that experience, here's a couple rules I go by when naming products/companies I'm involved in:

- It has to be easy to pronounce.
- It has to have a completely unambiguous spelling.
- An average person should be able to spell it based on hearing it once.

You shouldn't have to say that you work for "Ooyala, spelled o-o-y-a-l-a". That's just embarrassing.
The whole industry didn't fall. It was about a dozen extremely large insitutions, and the extremely small institutions that depended on that group.

There were institutions in the middle who weren't involved in the mess. See BB&T, as an example, they were actually forced by the government to accept a bailout, as to make it seem like the whole industry failed.
I don't think any would claim otherwise.

But you don't need objective for that all you need is useful.
> Are you saying that murder is illegal 'to make it easier for the populace to swallow'?

No. I'm saying that by using 'morality' as the reasons for outlawing murder is used that way. In reality, it's very simple to derive the reason that murder is wrong: if we're all allowed to go around murdering each other, we'll have to watch our backs the entire time, and collectively, humanity will never move forward. Very utilitarian. No morality about it.

> Are you saying that measures against capital offenses, various forms of assault, protection of private property and enforcement of contracts "do not represent your morality or ethics"

Yes, I don't think that John Locke was the absolute end to philosophical thought. "Private property" and the accumulation of capital have been the root cause of a large amount of the injustices in the world. Greed is not good. Markets don't work.

> Pray tell, then what are your ethics?

I'm still working out the absolute details, but I'm most certainly in some part of socio-anarco land.

> (with claims as outrageous as these I feel like I'm being trolled, but there are at least two people upvoting you?)

It's because you're thinking on the surface too much. For example: America's rape laws are not in line with my morality. This isn't because I think rape is all good and fine, it's absolutely abhorrent. However, in the eyes of the law, an 18 year old and a 17 year old having sex is wrong, and the 18 year old will be branded a sex offender for life. This is wrong. I don't agree with it.
One might assume that the system has a way of establishing the true magnitude of an individual's compensation.