skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when Commodore was a company I had the opportunity to get a look at its tax structure (I was interviewing for a VP position with the parent company). It was pretty impressive how effectively one could exploit nominal loop-holes in various jurisdiction tax codes to achieve near zero taxation.

One of the more dubious strategies was having a company in the Cayman Islands that owned the cars that people drove and paid for the gas and maintenance out of corporate accounts, and paid rent and bought food for folks. So your salary could be 'poverty' level and yet you could have quite a nice lifestyle. The poor company in the Caymans was losing money quite rapidly.

As a systems guy I had to be impressed at how they worked that particular system. A CPA friend of mine once quipped that if laziness was the mother of invention, taxation was the father of innovative accounting.
Have any evidence to support this Alex Jones drivel?

Bill Gates has done more for the poor than all the conspiracy theorists in the world combined.
A swing and a miss.
And even if it were true, the "alleged victims" don't get to decide whether the government prosecutes. The only cases where the victim can force the prosecution to abandon their case are those crimes such as spousal abuse where the only hard evidence is the testimony of the victim themselves. In other cases, the government can get all of the evidence it needs through subpoena.
Looking for cofounder who interested in same-minded autogrouping!
Well, I'm student and currently working on new project. But I'm only good at UI/X Design + some frontend, so I want to find someone interested in building this with me :)
My project is basically autogroup with nearby friends and share activities. so basically it will let people auto square(group) their friends by activities they did together, hangout together(autogrouping histories) based on semantic algorithm also(if possible)

Activities graph will include location area,histories and activity words and keep changing graph by interactions between friends and me. and then, notify that might be interested in.

It will connect you nearby same-minded people, and next activities.

and keep them interact thru frolic by that, notification system i said above. But also behind it- It will know, and change how we get info and act outside. The reason I put auto grouping thing on the front side of concept is, people usually not gonna use something looks very technical. By covering graph side to nice auto grouping to let them share activities without feeling something awkward.

comment or email me toddoh [at ] me.com my bio is on YC profile :P we can talk more about it!! I'm working on frontend dev now, so we can definitely talk :)
merc really doesn't want us reading their news.

The URL works fine if you paste it and edit it up a bit. Just can't click through.
Well in this circumstance that's not true because thy aren't paying any tax on more than 95 percent ifthe income because it sits outside the united states jurisdiction in a foreign Corp in the caymans. Until they decide to repatriate the income or bring it back into US territories then it is legal untaxable.
for a self proclaimed person named "programminggeek", you should know that we're not cheap, its just the cost vs effort. I could easily spend half a day installing git on a server backing up to s3 regularly or actually storing git repositories on s3. The cost of gihub has to be cheaper than the effort for me to do the equivalent.
I think my interpretation wasn't well put. I also see the child-like wonder, but what it does the most for me is remind me that even someone as great as him feels insignificant compared to the marvels of nature, so I don't need to stress if I don't get everything. I may be lucky to find one smooth pebble or touch an interesting shell.
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Disclaimer: This is coming from somebody who loves to buy and sell stuff, but doesn't have any experience in the import/export business...

I'm guessing your bank account is a bit smaller than Walmart's.

If so and you still REALLY want to do import/export, find a very specific niche product, blackhat SEO the crap out of it, make a good chunk of change really quick, milk it for as long as you can, then rinse and repeat.

However, import/export is a hard business to run because it requires a significant amount of capital and is generally low margin (unless you find a very niche/exclusive product).

I would suggest you leverage your internationalism in the software development space. I think there are HUGE opportunities to clone successful US-based web products in other international markets. If you have access to those markets (via language and travels), the sky is the limit. This route will be immensely more lucrative for you than any import/export business.

I'd go so far as to say, if you could identify an international market that is a natural fit for a existing software product that isn't marketed to that country, I'd be VERY interested in discussing the opportunity with you.
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Lol. It sounds like I worked with your friend.

I'd like to note that the US is also a noted tax haven for foreign countries. We aggressively allow our country act as a tax shield for European and Asian companies so we should be throw rocks either when we live in a glass house
> while still doing nothing new

Really? So the GNU implementation is an exact match for the functionality of the SysV implementation? If so, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you...
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Do you think the two groups are equally likely to be raped?

No, but maybe not the way you are thinking...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender#Rape_of_males_by...

It's a pervasive stereotype that it doesn't happen to men, but it's never addressed.
Kout: We're working on an exciting implementation. Launching soon. http://www.kout.me

(Full obvious disclosure: I'm the co-founder)
Google is using its technology to a lot more than only protect us from malware.
In the first paragraph, yes the tax due would be zero, in general (certain industries and/or countries could harbor exceptions). The final amount paid is independent of the tax rate on profits, though: if revenues are offset completely by expenses, it doesn't matter if the effective rate is 2.4%, 40% or 90%, it still comes to 0. But you want the former if your company is highly profitable.

For your second point, I don't know the specifics in this case. But even if it's just deferring taxes that have to be paid eventually, that can be a huge win, since it lets you collect interest or store funds for an emergency. There are probably other financial benefits too though; maybe someone who knows can comment.
I think (and have thought since the iPad launch) that the tablet market will be bigger than PCs. They will take over roughly 90% of the laptop market (leaving behind the graphic designers and vintage geeks), and also add a whole class of users who don't currently have a computer of any kind, at least doubling the size of the "big screen computer" market.

It's a fascinating example of displacement at work. Apple was never going to get the PC world to start buying Mac laptops. So they're just going to displace that entire market with a new product category. Classic strategy from the Innovator's Dilemma playbook.
arXiv seems to fit this bill, and has a reasonable bulk data access policy http://arxiv.org/help/bulk_data
Isn't that a tax rate of 2.4% on foreign income? Or does "effective tax rate" mean taxes across all income? If they've only saved "$3.1 billion since 2007" (to October 2010), it seems like they haven't saved that much (er, relatively...).
Not to mention startups compete with jobs on Wall Street for top devs. Though I guess it'd be like starting something here in SV and competing for talent with Facebook/Google.

The advantage that NYC has is it has vastly more top shelf design talent.
GE is a special case. Their tax department has been compared to the big four accounting firms as the unspoken big 5.

They pay their tax staff very well and truly are some of the best in the field within every tax specialty.

But it's unfair to single out John. I'm sure given the opportunity you'd attempt to maximize your profit. It's quoted from judge Learned Hand of New York, one of the most respected legal minds that it is your legal right and American duty to tax plan.

The code is set this way obviously due to politics but also because the American people value jobs over taxes. We would rather have high employment that additional Corp tax revenue.
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Knowing the ins and outs of the DOM API implementations can get a bit arcane but optimizing JS is mostly about work avoidance and making sure you know how to make the native-code-implemented methods work for you to avoid putting extra work on the JIT/interpreters. You have to maintain a knowledge-base to be strong at it, but it can be very rewarding to see how much more you can get out of your code with a little bit of thought and study. The analogy also holds in that JS is extremely flexible and denies you very little. You can design and code to most any paradigm you want although I suspect attempting to implement static typing would get a little silly where numbers are concerned.
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Many university libraries allow to you join as a "friend" of the library, which typically costs ~$100/year and gives you full access to all library resources.
"The world today has 6.8 billion people... that's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent."
-- Bill Gates (in public speech with published video)
I saw the video, the quote is correct. Don't have link handy, find it yourself.
Did he mis-speak? Maybe. He never corrected it, despite it going viral.
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The only people who need to think like this are scam startups.

If you have good fundamentals (traction, revenue, defensibility, market strategy) there is always money available for you.

The only people who need to worry about catching the bubble are those who are trying to get funding without doing the work of building a business.
Anyone interested in this will also be interested in learning about IKEA:
http://www.economist.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=691913...

And, more recently, some details about how they do it:
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2437643c-2985-11e0-bb9b-00144...
Excellent read, thanks for the link.
I suspect some googlers are going to have a long night :-).
Alternatively, you could keep your tech job and just lurk on Less Wrong!
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The project (an internal tool) had a dependency on an Eclipse plugin and platform.
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A wiki seems to be a pretty good example. A wiki processor parses data (text) looking for "structures in the data" (camel-cased words), which it then converts to a UI element (hyperlink) that a user can take action on (click it to cause the browser to transition to a new page). At first glance to me it appears wikis violate this patent, so if you can show a wiki as prior art, the patent can't hold.
This. Thank you.. They should at least specify it on the home page..?
I'm not the biggest MS fan, but they do have my sympathy in this regard. Imagine Ferrari shipping new cars to the dealers, and the first thing the dealers do is bolt on stupid large spoilers, ugly plastic body kits and paint the cars green. Every dealer does it; the only way you can buy a Ferrari is green with added plastic bits.

Ferrari then have to watch as other car buyers laugh - "ha! Ferrari's are so slow and ugly. You need to spend a good day or so just to get them to run correctly". Must be pretty frustrating
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I don't really see the point of this. OSX is already a perfectly suitable OSX, what does this add?
Twitter just celebrated its 5th birthday? Is it profitable yet?
On an 8-bit system with 16-bit-wide ints, i++ is almost certainly not atomic (with respect to threads, interrupts, etc.).

A few months ago I fixed this exact bug in a developer's code, on a 8-bit embedded processor.
...and I, as a single user, own at least 1% (maybe even 2%) of them!
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imagine if your computer was infected and it injects html looking like that and take you somewhere else instead of google
I was more so talking about Gnome 3. The titlebar fonts are generally okay, but the way fonts are rendered in web browsers on really any desktop environment in Linux versus how they're rendered in OS X or Windows are considerably worse.

I'm referring to the visual style in general, there's a huge difference between having something work and enjoying using it, and Wine is most of the time the former, but rarely, if ever, the latter.
Why was the salt her name?
Looks like it is available in the US store only? Can't get in Singapore.
Despite it being "fixed" not long after the blog post went live, I wonder how long/how many people knew about this bug. Seems like it would be a great trick for SEO (build page to certain PR/remove opponents ranking above you)
But many state schools let you join the library even if you're not a student. e.g. http://www.lib.iastate.edu/info/6197 - $20/year for a non-affiliated member.
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I needed a new MBP by the end of this summer, so I actually hurried up to buy one yesterday. That way, I can stay on SL while any kinks in Lion are smoothed out.
He might be safer in a jail cell than running around on his own; look at Sam Hoare. I have a feeling this means no Sun email trove, though. Oh well.
It's at times like these where I wonder if the Node.js community overhypes their "webscale" framework. Evented or not, if your server doesn't have the resources to serve up the requests, things are going to break in fun ways.
No, that would be more like a dry test. They serve similar purposes in some ways, very different in others.
Tim Ferriss is very keen on dry testing - see 4 hour work week.
It reads like a hash-based sharding front-end for Redis rather than a layer for notification systems specifically.
First, if you are going to embrace the 'agile'/lean startup approach, you need to cozy up the idea of vaporware. Sell it first, then build it. Setting the proper expectations is critical. But this is the single best approach for a bootstrapped company. Having one sale of one dollar is a huge milestone and makes your position way stronger when talking to investors. Here's a good video on the subject: http://vimeo.com/15894299

Second, do yourself and your potential investors a huge favor. Build whatever prototype you think you need for the investor presentation. Then go and give the same demo to 20 potential users first. Then refine your demo and present it to investors. The insight you'll receive from the customer demo is invaluable! Here's another good video on this: http://vimeo.com/16200157

Third (and most controversial), don't waste your time with investors until you have a built product and paying customers. Seriously. Finding investors takes A LOT of time. And you'll have to give away your company to get investment at this stage. The general rule is to wait as long as possible before taking investment because (theoretically) your company will improve its position with time and the cost of the investment capital will go down. Find some friends and family money (< $50k). Build a product. Sell the product to 10 people. Then entertain the investor route. If you can build a product and sell a product with <$50 investment, you will be in an exponentially better place than you are right now.

Good luck and keep us posted.
What about replacement? Also company sales, I'm sure there are plenty of companies running pcs where the employees would prefer to use macs.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that he's in charge of a PAC rather than a startup. IOW these charges could be politically motivated.
I'm a bit confused about how a web app doesn't infringe. Your claim is it doesn't because it's split between two machines, but that's merely a function of one use. A web app can be used from a single machine, with the server portion and the client portion executing on the same processor. You could even jerry-rig it so the browser and the server communicated via a shared memory map, if using the same memory locations is an issue.
I am ashamed of the code in some of the older ones, and I don't trust that certain of my clients to keep to our maintenance contracts in others.

Certainly there are some which I would feel okay about sharing the code. But since there is a non-zero chance of there being security holes in the apps, I think the risk could be too great.

I understand that making the code public could result in patches from other people using it, but I just don't think anyone else would be interested in using for that reason.
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I'm starting a website to provide "open-source choreography" - a place where people can post their own original choreography, with the agreement that it may be used, reworked, performed, etc.

I posted about this a while back: in the previous version, my site was more of a YouTube clone. I abandoned that idea, since I didn't want to deal with the legal issues of the music itself. This new version will be more like a blog, linking to YouTube videos instead (since YouTube has everything in place to deal with copyright issues).

What do you think? Any suggestions? Anyone know of anyone who might be interested in contributing choreography to this project?
I can confirm that this appears to be a Google issue and not a browser (or virus) issue. Searching for these terms, Google serves up the counterfeit ads on the search results sidebar. I tested this on both my Mac (Safari) and Linux (FF) machines.
"Generally, Google and companies of similar size are audited every year. Thus, the IRS actually has a permanent office within the Googleplex compound because they audit them year-round"
I think this statement is incorrect. The auditors hired (PwC, Deloitte, E&Y, whoever) are at the Googleplex all year round, but not the IRS
I would be impressed if it's an actual trend that guests were being blocked from accessing licensed content.

I work in this field and I can say that almost all databases and journals have IP authentication, generally with the entire campus IP range white listed. If the vendors don't implement that, they generally use password protected accounts. There are some alternatives such as uploading a list of barcodes, Referring URLs (I'm not kidding ProQuest for example allows this), Athens, Shibboleth, and a few others. These, however, are not commonly implemented by libraries because they are not widely adopted by vendors and require additional IT support that libraries simply don't have.

Therefore, unless libraries proxy all their users through their proxy servers (They don't for on-campus users. Usually, all links will go through the proxy, but if on campus the proxy will redirect you directly to the database to avoid the overhead), it would be near impossible to enforce the restriction of guests. I would wager that in many of these scenarios, it's all smoke and mirrors, and that access is really there if you know what you're doing (e.g. just visit the vendor site while on-campus without going through the library links).
I don't know how is possible that a so obvious bug passed their quality department, and I wonder if someone didnt discovered it before and was doing this to take out competitors indexes..
Thus constraining the automated repairs from taking you further into a degraded state but opportunistically fixing things when you were nominally healthy. By managing the hysteriesis gap between fully healthy and degraded as a percentage of overprovisioning you can supported automated repairs with minimal risk of them being the source of future downtime.

That reads almost like the marketing blurb on a can of "magic enterprise pixie dust". ;-)

the further into degraded mode you go, the more likely the next failure can take you completely off the air

This kind of measurement really only works for rather simplistic systems where all inter-dependencies, bottlenecks and failure-modes are well understood. I.e. a disk-array, a cluster of streaming servers, or a network cable.

The nasty stuff for complex applications is in unexpected/non-linear bottlenecks (RDBMS-monkey?), intermittent failures (packet-loss-monkey?), cascading failures (monkey tag-team?) and... human error (beer monkey, bug monkey?).
I think it's sad that he had to resort to publicly releasing this exploit because he couldn't find a way to contact Google about it.

In the past, when I've had problems, I couldn't contact them either. They've done a great job at making sure there's no human contacts available. You have to post something in a public forum and hope they'll contact you. (They won't.)
My original macbook has an SSD in the optical drive slot with all applications and the OS. In the HDD bay is a large hard drive containing all user data.

Fun oddity after switching to SSD: If the laptop gets REALLY hot from long term summer usage, in the past I would just slap a cooling pad under it to get the fans to stay quiet. Now, the cooling pad somehow causes the SSD to freeze, so I have the cooling pad sitting only under the left half of the machine, and all is well.
Well, it does seem that if JSTOR serves 7000 institutions around the world, having that number effectively jump to 7100 for a couple of months shouldn't be a big drama. Also, it's pretty surprising to me that the average number of downloads at MIT was about 1.4 per person per month. (2 million / 100 / 12000 people / 2 months.) I would have expected at least one order of magnitude higher.
Well, well, well. Let's take a look at the comments section... always an enlightening place...

Some of the choice ones:

"shindig24 1 hour ago
I hope they beat these little bastards so bad they can't type their own name without help

5 people liked this."

"bootfklibs 44 minutes ago
Taze em!!! Over and over!!!"

Why hello there, fascists. I don't know much, but I know this - that mindset is bad.
JSTOR might watermark PDFs to prevent this, as some other similar services do.
His first blog post...talk about setting high expectations.
I asked them to split the difference, and they came back with 55K, a 2K increase over the original offer.

I was thankfully able to get my current employer to give me a raise that has brought me up to what I think my skill set is worth, so I'll be sticking with my current job for now.
So, 502. Can you please (seriously) write a post about what your server setup is and what its like to be deal with the rush of traffic. I'll be doing it one day soon and all the info I can get would really help!
Sending an email to security@google.com will result in a quick response. As part of their bug bounty program Google would have paid $1,000 for this bug if not more.
Bugs happen. Even big ones like this. Any engineer worth his money knows that no amount of Q&A will discover 100% of the bugs. But, as Joel Spolsky said somewhere, bugs are just bugs, you fix them and then they're fixed.