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"...no capital gains tax on any shares of stock (private or public company) held for 5 years or more, and no tax on dividends paid to shareholders who have held stock in the company for more than 5 years."

Wow. That would change Wall Street in a hurry. I don't know the full macro economic effect this would have on our system but I know the effect it would have on my personal investment.

"And solutions won’t come from bureaucrats trying to prevent the traders from hacking the system."

This is obvious to anyone... except lawmakers unfortunately.

Damn. I think of Mark Cuban as a one hit wonder from the golden ages who freaks out at basketball games but this article was pretty damn intriguing.
This is great news. The only thing that kept me from using a "higher level Javascript language" was this.

I predict a massive surge in CoffeeScript usage over the next couple years.
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Sheriffs tend to be even worse than city police when it comes to abuses (e.g. see Sheriff Joe).
Paper bags seem to have disappeared in the 1960s, they've never been an option in my area just plastic, your own bag or juggle.

I don't think a fee is a deterrent and it could be abused by stores more interested in a different kind of green.

Whatever the solution some company will make money from it and put the blame on the customer.
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Pick one: determinism or fairness
This is awesome! It will be nice to see what kind of debug tools we can come up with.
In the first case (to do less communication), you are sort of correct; but the amount of extra computation can be truly enormous, and the version of your program that does the least communication and computation is necessarily single-threaded — and so, in the case of a parallelizable problem, slower.

In the other two cases (doing extra work to tolerate communication latency and node failures) I have searched long and hard for a way that your statement could be correct, but I cannot imagine what it could be.

You are very likely correct that it continued to be true as long as computing remained recognizable to the men (and women) of earlier generations. But in a world of multiprocessor microcontrollers, it is no longer true.
I read the previous comment as a reference to Swift: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal and, as such, not intended to be offensive.
No, he means, if you are going to criticize something, use constructive criticism. i.e. Don't just say, your product sucks.
I'd also like a ban on shorting.

Noone should benefit from sabotaging a company. It's way too easy to drive the price of a stock down...the slightest rumor sends them into free fall.

Granted it wouldn't solve much. Wall Street could just as well drive the price of a stock down with a false rumor, then buy up the stock at a discount before it rebounded.

But at the very least, they wouldn't make twice as much on each transaction.
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Great summary of the tax advantages available for buy and hold investors in Australia.

How would these concepts integrate with the US tax treatment of stock trading? As far as I know there is no imputation of dividends under USA tax law - capital gains tax concessions might be of some benefit to value investors.

I suspect they wouldn't alleviate Cuban's concerns over the impact of HFT and exploiting market movements. A flat tax on trades seems like a more effective way to reduce the prevalence of those practices (for better or worse).
On coffeescript's behalf, I've never felt it was a big shortcoming for coffeescript. It really helps to have the actual coffeescript lines, but coffeescript compiles to such a clean javascript, that it is not hard to find the which lines are which.

Emacs mode[1] from Github co-founder Defunkt also makes it really easy to compile a single method/function, so you can easy get the hang of how the compiler works.

But this is great news for production js, which is usually minified, and for other languages, that may not compile down to such a clean js.

[1] https://github.com/defunkt/coffee-mode
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I want to use vim as my IDE, so my favorite plugins are the ones that integrate the functionality you'd expect in a development environment.

- 'NERD_tree': provides a hierarchical directory view in a sidebar (much like a project view); open a file by hitting enter, or by double-clicking in MacVim

- 'a': toggle quickly between a source file and its header

- 'cscope_maps': search through my cscope-indexed source files and system headers

- 'fuf' and 'l9' (a.k.a. FuzzyFinder): quick way to open files, auto-completing as you type

- 'tagbar': displays navigable list of functions/methods in a sidebar (better than the old 'taglist' plugin)
They will, now :)
That said, in this competitive market, I don't think that being nice (just because) helps anyone the week after launch.

There is a difference between false praise and every thread looking like "What's this?! You dare call yourself a startup? You're attempting to solve a problem which other people have attempted to solve before, and your solution looks like something two guys could have made in three months! Why are you in YC and not me?!"

Ideally, we'd be aiming for constructive advice. "I would not use this" can be constructive advice, but it isn't most of the time I have heard it here.
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This is quite interesting! I suppose your plans are to revolutionize the entire Insurance industry? I personally know how bass-ackwards it is to get a quote for things like general liability.

Is there any chance you guys are going to break into the commercial insurance space? I'd love to talk to you!
I just wish that browsers would allow some bytecode format with linemap/registermap/... data for debugging, and entirely forget about directly supporting languages directly.
This is not an easy thing to do, especially if you use EC2 in conjunction with EBS volumes, which is typical setup. EBS volumes are created in a particular availability zone ("facility") and can only be accessed from the same zone. Therefore you not only need to distribute computing resources but also data, which is significantly harder. So even distributing across multiple Amazon data centers is not that simple. To distribute across different cloud providers you would have to rewrite large chucks of code for each provider or come up with some way to "abstract away" cloud providers. Either way it would be nightmare to manage and is likely not worth it for a typical startup. But yes, this CAN be done.
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They have 919 submissions, the top 142 of which have between 11 and 252 points. They only have 206 comments by comparison; their second-highest-rated comment was a direct link to a pdf of Hacker Monthly #2.
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I agree but if you watch the footage from back then it's a case study in media framing bias. A lot of the stories focused on blacks rioting/looting white small businesses. Similar to how Katrina was framed.

Now imagine any other ethnic riot in another city where this would be acceptable--it doesn't exist unless they are brown in a predominantly white city. The military would never be used against a majority of whites or even asians, but if you're brown or black it's accepted-- because they're constantly other-ed all the time and scapegoated.
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Ask HN: What do you use: SIGN IN or LOG IN?
So I'm working on a new web app I'm at the point where I'm writing the account UI. Is it SIGN IN / SIGN OU LOG IN / LOG OUT? What do you use? (Help me procrastinate...)
That's kinda exactly what this is ... JavaScript is the "bytecode format", and you provide a line-and-column map for debugging.
People may complain all they want about the overall book or even Python 3 in general, but the chapter about strings (http://diveintopython3.org/strings.html) is amazingly good and will help you understand a lot about encodings, internal string representation and how to read/write strings to the outside world.

Of course a lot of the chapter is python 3 specific, but IMHO p3's handling of strings and encodings is very well done.

Provided that the strings you are going to deal with can be represented in Unicode, which still isn't always the case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification#Rationale_and_c...
For what it's worth, I'm going with SIGN IN. I think that sounds more consumer-y. LOG IN sounds like a corporate intranet.
> (much like NP-Complete problems are a subset of Complete problems)

That sentence is messed up in a bunch of ways. You probably meant: "Turing-undecidable problems are a subset of NP-hard problems."
To be fair the last one was a lot longer than a 1/2 hour and even though it was a small percentage there was permanent data loss. 0.06% of 100 PB is 60 TB which is still a lot of data. I have no idea how much data they store in one DC, maybe somebody could hazard a real guess.
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I really wish this wasn't considered ground breaking. The same has been spoken of CEO compensation vesting rather than guaranteed compensation packages.

The idea of separating measured performance from compensation is a joke.
It costs engineering time to do so. Time that could otherwise be used to build features, better protect against more common failures, attract users, etc.

Amazon probably has ~5hrs/year of complete failure of a region. Figure, conservatively, it would take 3 months of engineering time to protect against that, plus a 'continuing' cost of 1/2 a week per month to maintain that protection. You'd also have to (at least) double your provisioned capacity (which may include a larger ops team, etc). Assuming your servers cost $20k/month and devs cost $100/hr (both fully loaded), we're talking about ~$340,000 to prevent 5 hours of downtime (just for the first year).

If downtime costs you more than $50K/hr, then it might make sense to be that fault tolerant. Otherwise, there might be better places for a startup to spend its (limited) resources.
I thought it meant something like "don't be a dick to them just because they're one of the many launches." I mean constructive criticism is always good if you're trying to help them, not make them abandon entrepreneurship and the internet.
Javascript is a rather terrible bytecode format. It's got all sorts of arcane requirements. (For example, the original text of the function must be preserved), and semantics that make optimization of many constructs quite hard. All numbers are doubles, ffs. It would be hard to do worse as an intermediate language.
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There's an AZ with "chronic" availability issues? Where do I find out more about this?
I should have been more specific, I was in a rush =)

The original us-east-1b has chronic capacity issues, meaning that it is always at or near its capacity. AWS refuses to sell instance reservations for this AZ, and it's often difficult/impossible to launch new instances in this zone.

Keep in mind that AZs are remapped for all accounts newer than a certain point in time (say, 1 yr ago). Your 1b may not be my 1b.
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I live in Montana and even our biggest cities are small compared to the rest of the country. I'm not aware of any 'massive influx' of gangs here.
I do not agree. In fact, the insanely cool examples are what makes this book worth reading. This book is not for beginners but for programmers who have experience in some other language and are curious to know why python might be a better choice for them as their next high level language.
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Sign In. Like you, I was ambivalent. I went with Login. Surprisingly, a couple friends, who don't take a particular interest in tech stuff, mentioned to me that they'd prefer Sign In, so I switched it. I still don't think it matters much.
Cool stuff you guys are doing over there at bocoup.
This is what it is all about. Doing something for yourself on your own terms. I keep telling myself that one day I'll be joining the ranks of the self-employed.
Sample question, choose one option:

a) we are winning the war on terror
b) we are losing the war on terror
c) unsure

This right here tells me "More of the same". How are they going to change things if their very thoughts are constrained by the propaganda machine. Might as well ask if we are winning the war with Eurasia [1]

How about d) there is no war on terror. it is all made up.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nations_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Four
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I'm sure the team is fantastic and will create a great and successful product leaving egg on my face, but aren't they attacking a problem solved by either DropBox or RapidShare et. al.
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Is this pure network issue (ie: strictly connectivity), or were instances rebooted?
I use "Sign In"
To me every time I see "Log In" my mind sees Logged In
What he really said was:

"I'm usually quite pleased with what comes out of YC. That said, in this competitive market, I don't think that being nice (just because) helps anyone the week after launch.

I personally look forward to the day HN tears apart my project so I can say I truly learned something."
My example tax is only a conversation starter. You would be right to say that the reality is a little more complex. But not much. I worked in the bond, fx, and commodities end of Wall Street for nearly 20 years and an average guy from my old department would know how to set, implement and administer such a tax for each product. It's not that hard. In fact a similar system existed for regulatory capital for a very long time.

The Communism comparison is really a red herring. The principles of the price system, the central feature of a free market, are under constant assault from informational asymmetries and externalities of all kinds. Before our era of jargon, they were simply called fraud and rumor mongering. HFT is 21st century micro-rumor mongering.

To protect the functioning of markets these are appropriate objects of regulation--even for a free marketeer like me. I merely suggest we modify the the regulation of an already regulated market.

Unfortunately the style of regulation we keep opting for punishes bad behavior of individuals--when it does anything at all--and ignores the systemic causes. This repeatedly plays into the hands of industry interests every time. The public interest requires more information, to reduce the tendency for fraud that our regulators have proven they cannot control.
Interesting chart. I found a similar chart, albeit much less artistic, specific to countries while browsing the NYT.

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/08/06/business/06sp-r...
What are the 3 gestures? I can only figure out how to make a box or draw a line. How do I get text?
>Among investors is the Binladen Group, the Saudi construction giant owned by the family of Osama bin Laden.

ironic
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I realize its hosted by cafepress but there is a link to it from korea-dpr.com homepage.
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fyi, I may be late to the party, but if you want to debug minified js in firefox and prefer not to wait until its integrated, I have been using this add-on[0] with success.

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Otherwise it would also mean the rioters would be armed."

Aren't they? At least some of them? And those that aren't carrying guns, might it be that they're mostly opportunistic looters who generally wouldn't be carrying anyway?

"It’s bad enough they have makeshift weapons without giving them efficient ones. Once you have armed weapons you can’t make sure only the ‘good guys’ have them.

Well, but that's true of any weapon.

"I feel 30K of gun deaths a year illustrates that point fairly well :-("

Well, it shows that different cultures have different problems that are not easily equatable. Not to dismiss the obvious issues with gun violence in the USA, but are you sure that the right set of gun control laws allowing private ownership would lead to the same results in the UK as in the USA? Gun deaths per capita is not a universal ratio.
Is that actually good advice?
Yes. I was waiting for this, this is something I really wanted for one of my side projects.
Why are they targeting the presidential elections? No matter how you change that system, you will get a president that is from either the democrats or the republicans.

Targeting the elections for the house of representatives should be more rewarding, because there you could actually get candidates elected that aren't part of the two-party system. And if you do that, then maybe you could get rid of first past the post, which is the underlying cause of the mess.
I heard this somewhere (quite probably on HN actually)

"In America 100 years is a long time, in Europe 100 miles a long distance"

Your perceptions are shaped by your culture, and particularly in the US people rarely look at history before the revolutionary era (if they even know about that) so 100 years would be almost half of history. Whereas an older empire might trace some of it's roots as far back as the dark ages.
> I always thought of complexity as being a subset of computability theory

But while that's certainly true in a sense, that doesn't imply what you stated -- just because they care about computability theory doesn't mean they care about this aspect of it.
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Ask HN: Do I have to work 80 hrs a week because I am entrepreneur?
Hello..
I am currently working around 80-90 hrs a week.. and just like any business owner.. I would believe it stills not enough time to get things done.

Do we have to work all that long hours, just because we own our business, and the type of the responsibility is different?

Is there anyway to work on a relatively good time.. and keep things on track.. like work smart, or any other techniques that any of you are using?
Actually I am suggesting something more innovative (radical/extreme?) to companies. Toss away those GAAP crutches, and confess to the congregation all your transactions--realtime. Enter the kingdom of Real Transparency (TM).

I don't need your accountants, only your auditors. Imagine for a minute what that would do to the business of financial analysis. It would add real value, unlike today.
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It's going to be slow for global algorithms in large graphs, and fast for local traversals in any graph. Which is the best you can hope for, and they're probably close to the state of the art at doing both in one DB.
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" A real engineer applies physical laws to create a product with some certainty of functioning properly."

"Most/all people who call themselves software engineers are not engineers. I'm not convinced that software engineering itself is actually a field of engineering, for that very reason."

Extracting meaningful information from a corpus of documents involves dealing with physical laws.Identifying spam deals with physical laws. So do a lot of other problems which often have strong mathematical theory. Mathematics is lot abstract and often comes before the physics of things.
I pay the extra money for US-west which seems to have a much better track record.
If you're a rural cop in need of funding, any brown guy will look like a Mexican cartel hit-man. You can see the same sentiment elsewhere; here in Australia there are horror stories of Sydney/Melbourne/OtherDenOfEvil gangs moving to the country side, going under-ground for decades as farmers/miners/GoodGuys(TM) and suddenly springing to action to kill innocent people & prize whining cattle.

They did a TV segment of a Bangladeshi dentist who evaded taxes. Yeah, a fucking tax evasion case made into a 60-minute segment of hard-hitting journalism. GTFO!
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"All numbers are doubles" is not something that any self-respecting JIT will emit. All numbers must behave like doubles, but what actually happens is code is agressively type-specialized. So, integer math is emitted, and overflow of 31-bit tagged integers is guarded. If (and rarely) overflow actually happens, then doubles are used.

Yeah, a sane intermediate language may work better, but there is a lot of thrust behind js optimization; the overhead of using JS as an intermediate language, assuming you understand what sort of type-specialization is going on behind the scenes, is really not bad at all.
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Or perhaps he meant that NP-complete problems are a subset of NP-hard problems? But that wouldn't be analogous...

(Actually, are uncomputable problems necessarily NP-hard? This sounds obvious at first, but then you realize, wait, why would the reduction be polynomial time? If we assume our undecidable problem is at least as hard as the halting problem there's an obvious constant-time reduction, but what if it's intermediate? Is this something that's known?)