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This article is much more about emotion and generalizations than numbers.

It suggests that people who agree or disagree with some tax policy proposals:
(a) do so based on the tax bracket they're in; and
(b) aren't being cowboys or men if they happen to advocate a policy that would reduce or maintain their current tax burden.

Is this really what we need in the political debate? More emotion and personal attacks?

No, what we need is better accounting, more numbers-based analysis, and voters who take their duty seriously and as objectively as possible.

My opinion: I think that closing loopholes and eliminating tax breaks across the board (not just for rich people), and generally simplifying the tax code is the best approach. And that nearly everyone should pay some net taxes. I also think stability is important, so we could announce such changes and apply them gradually over a long period of time.
Everyone, except the North Korean people, has easy access to information about the North Korean goverment and their missdeeds but secret infos about the US goverment or global corps doesn't get mentioned in main stream medias. And these have definately a lot more influence on all of our lifes than the Nort Korean goverment.
The single phrase would have sufficed to make my point, I stated it as a link for those unfamiliar with the concept.
> Why does Anonymous focus so much on attacking the US government ... when it could instead be focused on fighting the governments that are actually oppressive?

You probably didn't, but I think many people will see an obvious contradiction in that statement.

> Nothing the US has ever done, even at it's most oppressive

However North Korea is not advertising itself around the world and taken seriously as a bastion of freedom, democracy, and human rights. US is while also managing to conduct wars on all continents, drop bombs in countries we are not even at war with (Pakistan), raped South American Continent for years, installed and supported countless of brutal dictators around the world. It has tortured, killed and starved to death (via sanctions countless) countless people.

US is attacked because it exerts the most influence. If you live in Columbia you are more influenced by US policy not North Korea. And that true for many regions and countries around the world. North Korea doesn't control the internet, US does.
Anonymous is leftist, not libertarian. They don't actually oppose government power when it comes to taking your money.

Had they hacked the IRS or the SSA or the NYT or harvard.edu, we would see true gloves off behavior from the authorities.
So you raised finance for a business based on an app which can be used (amongst other things) to raise finance for an app?

:-)
> Everyone can agree that funding a police force, fire department, ambulances etc (basically all things required to ensure and protect property and human rights) is an essential and beneficial use of taxes

One may think that, but I have had coworkers who have said "I'd rather take my chances, thank you."

>>I do have a problem when they take that money and blow it with totally irresponsible behavior. That's the growing sentiment in the US with taxes.

What are examples of totally irresponsible behavior of the US government spending that you'd like to see changed?
We have services like youtube and Flicker that provide hosting for movies and pictures for free. The data requirements are far greater for these services than they would be for an academic journal hosting. If you didn't want to go the centralized method a small journal with under 1,000 readers (>10MB per month per user) could probably host buy hosting for under $100/year. Something that small would be easy to cover out of pocket or via donations
I totally agree, it's a disaster. I feel the same way about GridMove, which is the best thing I've been able to find for managing multiple windows on a big display. For some reason, the syntax for defining the grids is so opaque to me that whenever I look at it I feel like I'm trying to read in a dream.

By the way, you can definitely remove those buttons. I don't remember how, but I do remember thinking it took far too long to find the setting to disable them.
The research seems to have been done mostly among nerds. There are plenty of tactless, sensitive folk I would not trust to multiply two-digit numbers.
Well, then let the prices be fair, they will enable other small businesses to rise up and make more efficient models. That is no real excuse, and these companies are making enough money. Ask yourself if the profits they make are not too much.
Simple, bittorrent has inbuilt hashing mechanism. Just host the .torrent file on your own server. Hosting a 20KiB file is cheap as chips.
The sidebar jump on each page-change is quite jarring.
Please fix that and please port it to nginx. It's gorgeous!
I appreciate your thoughtful reply!

One (of the many i'm sure) problems here you defined are:
"...who would love to have a way to embed interactive graphs and tables into your papers to make them more understandable for the reader..."

The solution however may not necessarily be a private 'reader', 'player', or 'binary'. Though the 'format' may be 'open' this single implementation isn't.

You bring up Adobe which isn't a very good business case to follow as the very reasons I brought up are pressing the industry to move toward open implementations[1][2], away from 'free' binary distributions and plugins (for a various list of reasons from security[2], to access on other systems/apps).

This really isn't 1999, and CDF isn't yet a popular nor a de-facto standard[1] much like PDF was. Besides you and I are much more capable these days with newer and _open_ technologies are we not (browser, linux, open documents, etc...)?

Speaking of documents, other examples of 'perceived' open standard files are Microsoft's ill faded OSP[3] promise which spawned traction for OD/F[4] and other.

These reasons are why HTML5/CSS3/JS as a basis to create an open two way street for 'documents' and/or formats are so powerful. It is not enough to only provide an 'open' format, but also an open implementation. This way both use of and implementation of such product be beneficial toward academic progress. Why wouldn't that alone be worth it?

Thus a likely more popular solution I am proposing to your problem could be a service that uses HTML5/CSS3/JS in the delivery which solves your problem in a WYSIWG general user manner. Especially so as the very tools (your browser, and a million libraries must I really list them all?), UIX experience, and entrepreneurs (HN! Y-comb!) already exist!

To your quote "Some problems are best solved by large corporations trying to make money" I would say the same to "Some problems are best solved by small groups of entrepreneurs or open source developers trying to make money and/or looking for peer fame."

I would go further in saying that for 'open' standards and implementations, that small group of entrepreneurs or open source developers are the ones carrying the torch of open-ness [5][6][7][8][and on and on...] and innovation.

[1] "was originally a proprietary format controlled by Adobe", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format

[2] http://andreasgal.com/2011/06/15/pdf-js/

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Open_Specification_Pr...

[5] http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/06/01/statement-abou...

[6] http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/oracle-ha...

[8] http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Jul-18.html
People who describe taxes as theft, which has occurred multiple times on Hacker News, are not exactly falling into the category of "Recognizing that taxes are necessary and useful in some situations".
In the Update it says Mashable has html code in its post but I don't see it? I only see the <i></i> tag in Clinton's post.
I believe FB blocks links to TPB. They actually changed my password and sent me an email saying that they thought my account had been compromised when I tried to do it once. However, as alanh said, a little redirection will work to post it.

Edit: Source:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090507/1152134782.shtml
That actually is grammatically incorrect in English even though it is used often in common parlance; they is supposed to only be plural. The correct usage would be "he or she" if you don't know the gender of someone; the reason why "they" is used so commonly for singular is because of how unwieldy it is to say "So about your friend; does he or she bring his or her ipod on his or her way to work?"

It's actually a huge flaw in English, and there has been tons of proposals of gender-indifferent singular pronouns like "xe". On the other hand, "you" used to only be plural and apply if you were talking to a group of people ("thee" was singular) and obviously the correct term today is you for both singular and plural.

It's easily possible that within the next 50 years it will be commonly accepted to use "they" as a singular pronoun in formal communication, but its not today. You would almost certainly be marked down for using it in that manner on the SAT or GRE for example.
This is good news. Chad will be the type of CEO that understands code and how innovation in that area will lead to new opportunities for Etsy. The history of the Internet is littered with great dot-com ideas that were ruined by clueless CEOs. Chad has done a great job in building an awesome engineering team at Etsy. I think the challenge going forward is to increase the marketing and awareness of what Etsy offers.
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For people who want to become accredited investors in the US:

Satisfy one of the following:

Have a $1,000,000 in worth without the value of a home
Made $200K individual or $300K joint (spouse) for the last 2 years, + this year.

Hard for some of us to be like that right? or am I the only non-multimillionaire in HN ;)?
Yes, but let's face the hard questions, but right questions, in favour of doing the obviously wrong thing just because it looks easy.
How many different paywalls are there and how many articles are trapped? I'm able to access 5 different databases + one of the biggest research libraries in my state and there are still often articles that are simply inacessible. Or even more ridiculous: Single chapters of a book sometimes cost up to $ 20 online, even if the complete book could be bought for $ 30...

In my mind an easier way to disrupt this system would be to create a p2p site for article sharing - this often takes place informally anyway.
Just a place where you could ask "Does anyone have article..." and then a friendly person would upload it to some filehoster and shares the link.
Wasn't Etherpad the latter, and then they found out that big new focus had been canceled and quit? Same with Dodgeball, Aardvark, Jaiku, Jotspot, and any number of other acquisitions.

You shouldn't assume anything about what your job duties will be in a big company, even if it's written into your contract. Big companies have an internal logic that often makes no sense to the outside world, and usually depends upon what the decision makers are paying attention to at the moment. Priorities change.
Quote: "I’ll just say, all of you people who are making over $200,000 a year, some of you making over $200,000,000 a year should just quit lying, quit being a dick and pay your taxes."

Btw, $200k in california pays:
33% in federal tax
10% in state tax
7% in ss/medicare
9% in sales tax

that's 60% in taxes (do they get any free higher education or healthcare? yeah I didn't think so). Not to mention the food/living cost is about 10X what it is in many countries in Asia. The only fools in California left are middle class wage earners.
It's not so much a "trend" as a "tradition". Wherever a formal system of justice exists, it is invariably used to some degree by those in power to do their bidding. After all, it decisions and actions are still those of fallible (and bribable) humans.
"Here is the ideal: we pay people for the time/effort/resources to create"

This could only work for ideas that are obvious. For instance, it's obvious that a more efficient solar cell would be great, so we could create a prize for that.

But could the public have pre-funded the telephone? No, because they hadn't thought of it. The most notable inventions are the ones that nobody saw coming, and hence, couldn't have commissioned.
I produce less code, but better code. Usually if I stay up really late, whatever I worked on after 1 or 2AM ends up being a throwaway. At that hour the logical abilities in my brain have gone to sleep even if I haven't.

I'll come back to the project later and wonder what I was thinking. Then I'll take a mulligan, revert whatever nonsense commits I made after midnight or so, and start over to write it the right way. So all I've done is waste a few hours of good sleep.

Also, if I was up until stupid o'clock working on something on one night, I'm not very likely to want to work on it the following night. That loss of momentum is really the biggest thing that can hurt me, as I need constant successes to keep me motivated.
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404 now, I wonder why.
That link gives a 404 :-(
Am I wrong in my understanding that there is a single private key which, if stolen, will cause the whole system to fall apart?
My heart says yes, but my schedule says no.
Especially if the items belong to people sitting >1 row away.
Only functions which leverage multiple arities will use arguments.

That said, it seems like a fairly simple optimization to the compiler to avoid resorting to arguments.
Here is a good quote for you:

"Economic analysis has come up short of providing either theoretical or empirical grounds for assessing the overall effect of intellectual property law on economic welfare."
-- 'The economic structure of intellectual property law'; Landes, Posner; 2003.
(Conclusion, p422, s3.)

Landes and Posner are the accepted orthodox authority on the subject, and even they are telling us that we do not even know if copyright is doing any good.
The biggest reason I've avoided Clojure in the past was because of the JVM. I know the interop is useful, but I really do not like Java, and the whole thing just stinks.

This, on the other hand, I can get behind.
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If you have multiple Gmail inboxes, Google Apps, Google Calendar and Google Plus, then you know what a pain in the ars it is to manage all those separately. Let's make a statement and remind Google what users actually want and need to see fixed ASAP!
The quality of content on JSTOR is much, much, much higher than on Wikipedia.

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Movement_P...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Lamest_edit_wars
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Yes, there is, due to a lot of the data being sourced from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, whose data is US-centric. If you look at the detail view of eg crayfish ( http://whichfish.org/detail/crayfish_us.html ), the issue is that the other sources have no data, so I had to use the likely overly US-centric view.
I imagine it's a legal defense fund of sorts. It's not like he owns these documents.
I work at a university. I don't think universities have any vested interest in maintaining their place of privilege. Certainly faculty members don't, with rare exceptions (at least one of which I know about).

But I think there is not a lot of interest in changing the system. The people who could change things are not directly affected by the disadvantages of the current system.
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It would help if they'd start being stricter about carry-on luggage, so we don't have people standing in the aisles desperately trying to cram a 42-inch rolling bag (the bane of my existence) into a 38-inch overhead compartment (or however big they are).

I always use a medium-sized duffel bag and a small backpack when going "carryon-only" for a long flight. The non-rigid bag makes it easier to stow and remove, making the whole system move a hell of a lot faster. Laptop goes in backpack for safekeeping.
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I tend to think of offers in terms of how long I can live on the savings from a single year. If you make 100k and save 20k, you make 200k and save 120k[1]. It's not 2x but 6x.

[1] I'm not considering taxes and so on, but the basic idea of leverage still applies.
Startup founder will also have no shortage of people willing to back her next company and a network of interesting people she can draw on for advice for life. Might that be even more valuable than the money?
$250k easily? I think that's a level of skill that is not at all common.

I'm not saying nobody gets paid that all, but developer compensation needs to be more realistically looked at on this forum. I'd say the majority make less than $100k, and $150k or more puts you in the top 5 percentile.
Someone once wanted to know what inversion of control was. I told them that inversion of control simply meant in Soviet Russia, API calls YOU!
I like the person who had the problem with the use of the word "biweekly". "Thou shall receiveth thy cheque fortnightly!" rolls off the tongue so much easier. I be diggin' that.
You are mistaken on retroactive copyright; publishers and artists who failed to secure copyrights the first time around did not get retroactive postmortem copyright granted to them. The classic example is the library of H. P. Lovecraft, whose stories are considered public domain as there is nobody who has a reasonable claim of copyright to them.
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You might want to read the filings in the civil case (http://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/candce/5:2008cv0...) and poke around Mr Adekeye's websites before taking everything in this story at face value. There's a lot left out, and the reporter's backgrounder on page 2 is simply cut'n'pasted from Adekeye's own bio at http://www.multiven.com/about

The Vancouver Sun, whose reporter wrote this story for Ars, strikes me as a rather sensationalist paper. YMMV.
"who will never see a dime from social security"

Anecdotal evidence suggests that 20 and 30 year-olds in 1940 were saying the same thing.
He designed the app around this blog post.
You, sir, are ignorant to how marginal tax rates work..
The actual checking out goes faster with SVN, nevertheless, because it's so much less data (assuming a decent amount of history). I'm not stating a preference, just facts.
It would also help if people were smarter about arranging their bags in the compartments. I can't really think of a way to unambiguously describe what I'm talking about, so I drew a crappy diagram: http://i.imgur.com/pILt1.jpg

Note that a compartment will hold three bags side by side just fine, as long as you put them in long-way-in. One idiot putting it in horizontally is like the guy dropping a straight-piece in Tetris on its side - congrats, you just shafted everyone, and potentially delayed take-off by 10 minutes because now we have to ferry one bag from the passenger compartment into the baggage one.
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There is, I'm using it, and we'll ship it soon. :)
Something like this maybe?

http://www.google.com/search?q=577d58aa66beaceb71518ec417ab3...
Assuming that planes load rear-to-front, aren't you going to be stuck behind everyone in the zone that is boarding after you - that is, closer to the front of the plane?
Agreed. Maybe make a tab on the side that you can click to expand the tree?
> You don't want to SEO yourself into a murder investigation.

I think this will be the most brilliant thing I read today
Dunno about you, but as someone who's highly sensitive to sound as well, I found my Sony noise cancelling headphones made everyone elses sounds crystal clear - with the HVAC and desktop whirring cancelled, I could eavesdrop up to 4 cubes away.

I think noise-isolating earbuds or headphones are what you want. Just completely block out external sound, listen to nature/bird chirps or your favorite music.
government help will likely be needed to get a system like Telex off the ground

I can't see this as being good for international policy. Imagine China's response to the US directly helping people circumvent their controls. That might as well be a soft declaration of war.
That's not the case.

Each Telex Station has it's own private key which it uses to decrypt the 224 bit tag. If one Telex station loses its private key, then the user will just use another.
Awesome. I want this on nginx.
Google was not an outlier, they were from Stanford, etc, etc. But it doesn't imply anything about the possibility to catch outliers, they can't catch them with those rules.

Even for non outliers, how can you catch Microsoft in front of casual opportunities (DOS) that gives them an amazing opportunity. Chance and Rules collides.
Good mash-up. And for the greater good of helping earthquake victims. Well done.
Yes, talent acquisitions tend to be 1-2m per founder. The founders make more after tax though because they pay long term capital gains tax rather than income tax.

A talent acquisition is not usually the founders' first choice. What they get in return for the risk of the startup failing is the chance of a really big success. A talent acquisition is usually a backup plan. As a backup plan it's a pretty good deal.

(A talent acquisition is sometimes the founders' first choice if it happens early enough. Then it's a better deal because the money is divided by less time.)
My real question is how changing boarding order affects the volume of overhead bins used. They kept emphasising that in the article, but I don't know what spacetime warping they are using.

It could conceivably affect the way people stuff things into the overhead bins, so that baggage fits better, in some unconscious way.
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Taking things on face value I congratulate him. There's been a few times when I've tried to access an interesting academic paper only to find that it's only available behind some pay- wall.

Why should we have to pay for a scientific paper if it was produced by a public funded institution?

What's the long term effect on the spread and advancement of knowledge if access is restricted and "gamed" for profit?

If he's sued (against assuming I properly understand the issues here) I'll probably contribute to his defence because
he's acting in everyone's interest.
Let me give you my method, it might help. Don't go head first full bore into an idea at first. Build a quick, cheap prototype with only the main features and see how your target customer responds. Gives you a ton of feedback while validating or invalidating your idea without wasting a huge amounts of time. You might find that you need to pivot your idea or target a different group. So don't waste time and money on an idea before you prove the underlying assumptions.