skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this report: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-was-interested-in-m..., Microsoft was not interested in buying Motorola. Instead, they were (supposedly) close to settling their patent dispute with Motorola, and signing a cross-licensing deal giving them access to Motorola's patents.
"But for those making more than $1 million -- there were 236,883 such households in 2009 -- I would raise rates immediately on taxable income in excess of $1 million, including, of course, dividends and capital gains. And for those who make $10 million or more -- there were 8,274 in 2009 -- I would suggest an additional increase in rate."

That is his recommendation. Is it not specific enough?
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Of course I read the post, the reason prices went up for this auction is because the winners planned to go on the offensive (those licenses add up when you're shipping a half million phones a day). Google's upset about having to spend so much money for defense against dubious patents. It's not hypocritical whatsoever.
http://semver.org/

Version numbers are useful. They allow you to communicate a lot about the risk/reward involved in an upgrade without having to read the release notes.

When presented with 2.3.12 -> 2.3.45 it's a pretty easy call to accept 33 patch releases without much investigation.

2.3.12 -> 3.0.1 Whoa, we should stage this and make sure we aren't going to screw ourselves on compat issues.

The target audience isn't Joe user, it's professional courtesy to your peers in the field. You're welcome to add (or not) some kind of marketing "version" beyond that, but really, it's valuable.
I wonder if joint support with somebody like heroku is coming. Being able to develop and deploy all from your web browser would be a very cool feature.
>I think their one exception is consoles

Uhh, Zune? And it's particularly relevant given the ipod/iphone transition path.
You mean like http://fafsa.gov ? They tell users to get the latest browser version, and then block them if they're running anything higher than Firefox v3.6. (Complaints are met with "install 3.6" or crickets. Same problem with running any browser from Mac's 10.7 Lion, as they also do OS sniffing.)

On the bright side, removing version numbers may help push ignorant web devs away from version-based browser sniffing toward the more palatable/usable/progress-friendly functionality-based sniffing.
This plan conjures an image of accountant given a copy of the PHP manual and the instruction to write a login form. He may do it the right way... but I'd be a wee bit scared.

Prior to implementing something like this at your own company, I'd ring your friendly neighborhood tax accountant and make sure you didn't just create a taxable event for all employees. Much like writing a login form, I think there are a lot of very subtle infelicities in implementations which have very serious consequences.
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A lot of this has to do with Excel. Average finance guy lives in Excel and no, libre/open office is not a replacement as they will not run a huge number of macros and DLLs connecting spreadsheets to external systems. Quant guys are often locked in matlab world and again - octave on Linux cannot be used due to incompatibilities.
Some work of artists:

http://www.designer-daily.com/remarkable-shadow-art-405
Hopefully (for Apple) they used an image that Samsung actually produced somewhere in a pre-release mock up or ad or something but it seems doubtful. I don't know German laws but I'd hope falsifying information is not taken lightly.
To clarify:
* Employees working now will get nothing if they leave.
* The amount you get is not tied to performance.
* Chances of this happening are slim.
* In many cases employees get new stock-option/bonuses at M&A anyway (to keep them on board).

Sounds like the only good thing from this is: You have something to tell loyal employees asking you why you won't share with them some of the proceeds they created you by hard work.
This just seems like the owners are being menschen in trying to ensure everyone gets a taste if they ever IPO.

Given that this "isn't [used as] an incentive to work at 37signals" I don't see how it's an alternative to options which exist entirely to incentivize employees & management.
This is not the case in Canada! I'm sure it isn't the case in many other countries too.

Here's someone who said 18 times that he didn't want to talk to the police and asserted his right to silence. Appeal denied. Convicted of murder. 2007 Supreme Court of Canada case (R. v. Singh, 2007 SCC 48, http://canlii.org/eliisa/highlight.do?text=interrogation+sil...).

"Whenever the discussion turned to the incident in question, however, Mr. Singh was less forthcoming. Although he provided some information regarding his presence at the pub on the night of the shooting, he repeatedly denied his involvement and asserted his right to silence. He indicated that he did not want to talk to the police, that he had nothing to say, that he knew nothing about the shooting, or that he wanted to return to his cell. Before Mr. Singh was shown the photographs in question and made the impugned admissions, he asserted his right to silence 18 times. Each time, the interviewing officer would either affirm that Mr. Singh did not have to say anything, or would explain to Mr. Singh that he had a duty or desire to place the evidence before him and he continued the interview."
Agreed. If it just implemented killing and yanking (and selecting regions, which goes along with these), it would be semi-viable.
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Startup Weekend has been great for me. I met my CTO and lead enterprise salesperson both at Startup Weekend. It is a great cause to rally your tech, business and creative community around.
It is important to note that the age of consent could have something to do with the differences in attitudes in the US vs Netherlands. In many states in the US, the age of consent (sexual) is 18. There are a few states where it is 16, or even 14, though. It would be interesting to compare responses from parents of 16 year olds in these states. In the Netherlands, from what I was able to find online, the age of consent is 16, but with the consent of parents, it can be as low as 12. Given that, it would make sense that attitudes of parents would be different.
Personally, I would be more interested in a profit-sharing system. I understand that actual equity is difficult to do in some situations, but the 1-5 units system could be adapted to offer profit sharing. When the company makes a profit, the portion designated as a distribution gets divided into the total units as employee bonuses. I'm not sure how these units are handled once an employee leaves, but as a guarantee against missing out on a windfall profit or exit I could see this system being useful.
You know, in some countries you're still drawn into the service, no questions asked
seconded. and an opt-in growl notification for applications that are trying to outbound connect.
I think the main issues were accessibility, IE support without a canvas stand-in which could be very slow, and accessibility. Also, general rendering is pretty speedy on all browsers, whereas canvas rendering was pretty variable until recently (and still is for fast redraws).

Also makes theming changes quite a lot easier using css.

(http://groups.google.com/group/ace-internals/browse_thread/t..., http://groups.google.com/group/ace-internals/browse_thread/t...)
This is neat editor and it's cool to see how Github could eventually bill itself as your one stop shop for code editing and collaboration. My only concern is that of feature creep hurting the user experience by creating a cluttered and confusing UI. I personally feel that Github's web UI is very cluttered as it is. They possibly have one of the best user experiences that I have seen, given the large amount of data and information that they have to present and I do not think that this feature necessarily hurts it at all, but it's getting close, in my opinion.

Just my two cents.
This is my biggest problem with Firefox. Up until Thursday, I was still running 3.6 because I really dislike dealing with add-on issues during upgrades. When a new version of Firefox comes out, I tend to backup my install, upgrade to see how badly it breaks, then revert back out to the older version.

When I finally upgraded to v5, I spent a solid hour trying to get the thing back into a workable state.

The biggest mistake I ever made with Firefox was installing Tab Mix Plus, because now I have easily manageable rows of tabs, which led me to using tabs as ephemeral bookmarks - things I want to read but not now. I currently have 175 tabs open (and no, I don't complain about memory usage - it's not that bad and I know what usage there is is my own fault).

To keep things in check, I use an extension called BarTab, which keeps tabs unloaded on restart until I switch to that tab. Upon upgrading to FF5, that extension broke horribly, leading all of my tabs to fire at once. Turning off compatibility checking didn't fix it, and neither did installing a beta version upgrade to the extension. In the end, I had to go searching the extension library until I found something called BarTab Lite, which worked.

Also, my theme was incompatible with Firefox >=4, but I resigned myself to just deal with it, since I was tired of being made fun of for not upgrading a not-quite-five-months out-of-date browser (the community seems to be becoming one of the worst parts of Firefox). Eventually, I found a new theme, which was a non-linked upgrade to my old one. It would be nice if that was a little more obvious.

That was a long winded way of saying I'd like to see more explicit links between extensions. Rather than saying "there are no upgrades for this broken extension", I'd prefer that there be a way to identify "spiritual successors" so that Firefox can tell you "it's got a different name, but this is where extension Foo lives now."

It would have saved me a lot of time and trouble, because as it stands right now it seems a lot of broken extensions don't have upgrades when really they do - they're just hidden and you need to spend some time looking for them.

(Sorry.. /rant)
Although I am not a Windows developer, if I were, I would appreciate some more information as to what to expect when developing applications on W8. So far, I've only heard HTML+JS, which is great, but hopefully more information on developing for W8 will make its way soon.
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By how much? 1 Percent? 20 Percent? Does "taxable income" include muni bonds? Ex-pat VCs? Enterprise zones? Minority-owned businesses? Sales of primary residences? And so on.

I'm not trying to be pedantic. The tax code is a mess. Simply saying you'd raise taxes on folks making more than a million of taxable income a year doesn't really say very much.

Something like an elimination of capital gains for startup investors and an increase to 35% of gains made over $5 Million per year would at least have some meat to it. Heck, just come up with a number. 20% rates good enough?

How can I evaluate "fair" based on that statement? Could you? I could make assumptions -- such as the definition of "taxable income" staying the same or perhaps the capital gains tax matching the income tax rate, but then I'm arguing with myself, because I'm adding detail that wasn't present.

Nobody needs a 30-page whitepaper. A couple of paragraphs with specifics isn't too much to ask. After all, it's the core of his argument.
"We treat this entire idea purely as a bonus in the unlikely even of a future sale/IPO."

At far too many companies, equity is seen by the employer and employee as a form of cash-equivalent compensation, even though it isn't unless that equity has an income stream attached to it (as would be the case in, say, a grant of restricted stock in a company that pays dividends). So it's somewhat refreshing to see a high-profile tech company eschewing this.

The problem here is that 37signals' "plan" lacks all substance. The company doesn't intend to go public or seek acquisition, and its "bonus pool" is potentially limited to just 5% of any acquisition price.

As such, this "plan" doesn't promote retention the way equity does, and for all intents and purposes, it doesn't promote much of anything as the savvy employee will never expect it to bear any fruit.

Put differently, this "plan" feels sort of like an equity version of a poorly-made Louis V. knock-off. While, to its credit, 37signals' isn't pitching this as a justification for a less-than-market salary, there's a strong argument to be made that offering an equity substitute like this is worse than not offering equity at all.

The better approach for a company like 37signals? Make sure salaries are highly-competitive, offer an attractive benefits package and, if you want employees to feel like they have a direct "stake" in the company's success, implement a profit sharing plan. The benefit of this approach is that you attract the type of employee who wants to work at a company like yours without creating any confusion on trying to pretend that you're offering something that you're not willing to offer.
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without even knowing it's running on top of Illumos

What's the advantage of running Linux->KVM->Illumos instead of Linux->KVM->Linux?
That was my first thought. That they might end up creating something that already has an existing name and existing requirements. From the employee's point of view, as long as it comes across as regular taxable income with proper withholdings taken out, it is probably safe.
Seems like an awful lot of words to say
(a) computing has changed much in the last 15 years [you don't say!], and
(b) we're going to start talking about changes early so the market isn't surprised or apprehensive.

Not much meat in there.
In Canada they go to far, far greater lengths than writing letters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Big_(police_procedure)
Salary comes from the proceeds created by the employees' work. If the employees don't feel they're receiving enough of the proceeds, they can search for other employment. It's not like the high-value employees at 37signals would have much trouble getting hired elsewhere.
From what I've mostly seen and read else where, it really looks like Windows 8 is going to a cross between Windows 7 and webOS.
I 'm happy for all the involvement of Joyent in opensource, but how about also dropping the prices in their accelerators? I 've been using the same servers with the same prices for 3 years with zero upgrades.
It all depends on what you want to get out of your business. You can definitely structure your business in a way that minimizes the amount of time you have to be involved. This can be through outsourcing, delegation, or even just by picking a business model that requires less hands on involvement. If you haven't already, read 4 Hour Work Week. http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/
Stop spamming us you're wasting your time? Why are you censoring techcrunch?
I got a stop spamming us you're wasting your time when i posted a techcrunch article.

It was a really awesome link from Techcrunch and it was censored! Why are you moderators censoring Techcrunch links? Techcrunch is pretty much like the best go to place on the internet to get tech information why are you censoring their links here?
Then in MongoDB's case durability is a function of scale, which leads back to the parent's suggestion that it is a technology optimized for performance.

Personally I think this is a bad foundation for data that is important. There are probably a lot of use cases where data not being on disk for n seconds (or one minute in the case of MongoDB) is ok.

Even when that is the case, I still think that is the most important question to be addressed when choosing MongoDB as a data store.

The flexible query API, schema-less document format, secondary indices... those are siren songs of rapid development.
I hope that it reveals more of his business philosophy, reasoning behind some of the decisions he has made.

For example:

Does he regret hiring John Sculley?

With the benefit of hindsight what mistakes did he make with the original Mac?

What mistakes does he feel he made at NeXt?

What was his pitch to Gates when seeking Microsoft's investment into Apple?

I hope the book answers some of those questions. I am no Apple fanboy but he is quite simply one of the best business leaders in the past fifty years.
Ask HN: Code Snippet Search within the IDE
I recently built an Eclipse plugin that allows programmers to quickly search for and insert code snippets. I find it incredibly useful - it significantly decreases my programming time.

Here's the website (with video): http://languageinterfaces.com

Unlike Eclipse Templates and Microsoft IntelliSense:
(1) snippets are searchable (this isn't a simple dictionary lookup)
(2) search queries can include parameters. For example, type the shortcut key to open the search box and enter: "print "hello"" to quickly insert: "System.out.print("hello");" or try "for 10" or "for myVar" (where myVar is a local array or int)
(3) snippets can easily be shared (they are stored in an online repository)

I primarily use it in two ways:
(1) to save time typing (fewer keystrokes are required when I've memorized a search)
(2) to quickly find/retrieve complex code snippets (e.g. search for "tcp" or "screenshot" or "file")

Do you think this would be useful to you? I'd love to hear your thoughts. I am a PhD student and this is an active research project. Critical feedback is encouraged :)

Please try it out and share with others!
We had the plan vetted by lawyers and accountants. It's a taxable event should it trigger, but by then you have money to pay the taxes. It's not taxable at its implementation.
"control over most US law-enforcement communication"

No, that's the other Motorola, i.e. Motorola Solutions.
Is reflection cheating?
That's what I meant. Once you finish writing in Emacs you copy and paste and then do the whole formatting biz.
You said "I understand that people want higher taxes on the rich. I think it's stupid, but I'm not going to argue about it." This is not a question, it's a statement, and a provocative one at that. Saying you're not going to argue about it is not going to stop discussion on exactly that point.

You also said "His real argument is probably too snooty of an argument to make in print, but something tells me that's what he's really getting at. I wished he'd have just come out with it, though. It would have been a lot more honest."

This strongly implies that the author (Buffett) is dishonest in his arguments. I'd say that's calling him out.
I'm guessing Metro UI caught his attention, and I must admit - I also find it quite interesting and for lack of better word - beautiful.
yeah that title will get you a lot of traffic
I thought Buffett was very clear -

"But for those making more than $1 million — there were 236,883 such households in 2009 — I would raise rates immediately on taxable income in excess of $1 million, including, of course, dividends and capital gains. And for those who make $10 million or more — there were 8,274 in 2009 — I would suggest an additional increase in rate."
I'm far from an expert, but from what I can tell the debt occurs because you'll have to "pay" it to move on.

To use your tent illustration, there's no debt because you don't plan to grow the tent into a proper house - the product is finished.

Now, if you actually wanted to build a two story house, but built a tent instead for now because summer's already here, you'll then have to "pay the debt" of dismounting the tent so you can rebuild the house properly.
I believe this to be a misunderstanding of the press out for W8. They are simply promoting the fact that you can now have HTML+JS+CSS as first-class apps. They don't seem to be deprecating support for native or .NET based development.
It would be good for all if our cultural attitude toward sex here in the US was more practical and mature.

However, as you note, age of consent is a very important factor. The two families could be enlightened, mature and responsible, but if either kid is below the age of consent, then both kids are at risk of being registered sex offenders, and the enabling parents may be in for legal trouble also.

I would prefer to take the Netherland's approach, but the legal issue trumps everything, in my opinion, in these hyper-puritanical United States.
Many US states have Romeo and Juliet laws that decriminalize sexual activity between minors providing that their age difference is close. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_rape#Romeo_and_Juliet...
Thank you for this information, I was not aware of graze before, but now I will see if they have something that I can copy :)..

I think even if somebody is doing pandora for snacks, the market is still open for competition. I believe there are a lot of niches that can be done. Also MVP is just testing the initial concept of candy subscriptions. I will see if people like it, and it can grow before adding additional features.
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This is a brilliant feature, and as close an example of cloud editing that I would consider using as any on the internet.

Does anyone know is there anything to give this a modular editor feel like vim?

If someone can deliver me an online experience with a fully functioning vim, I would be browser bound almost exclusively.
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Stop spamming us you're wasting your time.

Why am I getting this when posting up a Techcrunch articles? Do you guys have something against Techcrunch?
Added more money to it. Enjoy, and give back.
Could you elaborate a bit on what you learned or realized? Was it simply a different vibe or were there more tangible differences that the rest of the world could learn from?
You're giving away 5% of the pre-tax value, but that only translates to 2.5% net for those at the receiving end here.

One key distinction with options is that they can be more tax advantageous if the employee exercises and holds their stock for more than one year, triggering long term capital gains (LT cap gains may or may not exist in the future, though).
Do you think this detailed plan is even worthwhile then, rather than just a stated commitment to pay out at least 5% of the sales price to employees?
It takes two to bid up a price.
I don't follow you - what's wrong with the title?
I forgot about Excel. I think people outside of wall street will be surprised at this. I, myself, used a visual basic app to do some trading (not visual basic.net, VB!) as recently as a couple of years ago :).

Even in the linux world, PERL is used by many quants for their analytics...not just to parse files, but as an alternative to R, matlab, etc.
Yep, they are also tackling the same problem. An to be honest I haven't used Mandeley in a while but their approach was not what I think is most suitable for me. To me, the main problem is not document management or reference management or ways of finding fulltext papers (these are all important but not the major problem). The major problem in my mind is exploration, which means keeping up to date with the literature, when despite using all the tools I still need to go through hundreds af papers a week to make sure I am not missing something relevant to me, I say my tools are not effective.
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Well, as someone who only uses Windows when he has to, I'd say IE10 being the default browser is pretty exciting. Win7 ships with IE8 so people may or may not upgrade. With IE10, it's "HTML5" in full force.

http://html5test.com/results.html
"apple store for candies" :) ?

But that is a good input, I will see if I can alter the layout to put more candies picture. We are just starting, so we don't have that many pictures yet, but as we grow, I am sure I will put more pictures based on the candies that we sent.