skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Actually, no. We tax transactions. Your customer is buying a service from you, and we tax that. When you hire an employee, you are purchasing his labour, and we tax that.

But if you pay yourself a dividend, there is no transaction. If you own an asset, and it goes up in value, there is no transaction. (Capital gains tax is not on the transaction of selling your stock, but on the change in value of the stock; it's only realized at sale. Some countries do charge a transaction tax on stock sales, usually called a stamp duty, which is entirely different.)

More generally, we tax things when they change ownership. (We even tax things when you give them away!) In the case of a small business owner, everything in the business is owned by you. It's yours. You own the business, the business owns the couch, therefore, you own the couch. Ownership is inherently transitive. Even in a large business, everything is owned by the stockholders. Businesses are not people. (Note: At this point, people usually bring up Citizens United, despite the fact that the decision does not claim that businesses are people. Try reading it; it's actually pretty interesting.)

Thought experiment: Can we tax you on the rent you are implicitly paying yourself for living in your own house? Why or why not? And if we can't tax you on the value of the rent your house is providing you, why can we tax you on the value of the things your business is providing you? (Well, obviously, we can do it because the law says we can. But morally, the difference seems remarkably theoretical.)

Further thought experiment: Should you be taxed if you hire yourself as an employee? I'm actually torn on this one. Logically, the answer seems like it should be "no"; it doesn't matter if you hire yourself as an employee for a salary, or work for "free" in exchange for equity. Intuitively, it feels to me like it's okay to tax an owner on his salary but not his dividends. shrug Guess I'm not that logical. :)

2) Yglesias' post is suggestive, but doesn't really prove anything. As I said, there's a LOT of research on this point, and saying, as he does, "Germany added a capital gains tax, and their savings rate didn't immediatly change" does not really tell us as much as he thinks. Germany has also been noted for extremely low wage growth recently. Clearly the result of underinvestment caused by their pernicious capital gains tax, right? I doubt it, but it's no more implausible than Yglesias' argument.
I didn't think this was the consensus on Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1401332).

It seems more honest to me to visibly self-promote than to create a sockpuppet account to make it seem like the community likes it.

Update: Meant to reply to grandfather post.
I agree. My point was that you don't know what they're doing. It probably isn't as bad as "nothing at all", but you can't say where along the spectrum between that and "rock solid" they actually lie without taking a peek under the hood. Which is why I'm a proponent of free and open-source software wherever possible, especially for security applications.
This video exemplifies for me the 5 wrongs with business school yuppies:

* Smart looking guy in a fancy suit

* Confidently talks about stuff he doesn't have a clue about

* Applies over-simplified abstractions completely detached from reality

* Draws wrong and ill-conceived consequences from said abstraction

* Never realizes it's really the guys in the trenches
who keep his bacon afloat by politely ignoring his pointless
ramblings and just quietly cleaning his mess after him.

But yes, next time our "server crashes" I'll apply the "5 why's" for team motivation. A good laugh never hurts, especially when you make it a proportional investment.
the phrase "dick around" is actually from "dicker around" which is a 19th c. term. "Dicker" is to "Engage in petty argument or bargaining" and "Treat something casually or irresponsibly; toy with something".

So when someone is "dick[er]ing around" they are treating serious matters lightly or doing things in an unnecessarily protracted way; which is precisely how we use it.

The word "dick" however, which I would gather, people would envision it meaning "penis" here, simply doesn't work. We don't use "dick" as a verb, yet alone a progressive verb. "To dick" or "to be dicking" a person, although fairly clear in its sexual connotation, is certainly not in use, "dicking (with) a person" however, makes perfect sense, because it's from that ye olden term "dicker" again.

So "dicking around" has nothing to do with the slang term for penis or the disused colloquial meaning of a rookie detective, or it being an everyman; all wrong. Sorry to bust your bubble.
It's easily automated. It's still a nice thing to do for your users. Also just because you're a fortune 500 doesn't mean you shouldn't take steps to build relationships with your users. The same attitude works in reverse. You have freedom of choice with the service you use.
That isn't the Flickr logo verbatim.

Artistically---its not even the same font, nor the same colors (not all blues and light pinks are created equal).

It's apparent just by glancing at it that its not the same thing. Any argument that it'll create confusion in the marketplace is null. Even the nature of the service further differenciates FlickRaft from Flickr.

Did you really look at FlickRaft, and think "gracious, Flickr want's me to move from their servers to Snapjoy!"

Do you think anyone ever could?

If there's no problem there, then there's no trademark violation.
All that's left is calling this a copyright issue.

However with a word logo, there's only 4 points to its artwork:

1. The actual words (Different in the case of FlickRaft)

2. The font (also different)

3. The color combination (reminiscent but actually different)

4. The pattern (there's just two colors, a protectable pattern this does not make).
I've heard figures bandied about a few years ago implying there were about 12 million.
During my "learning" life I have been in both sides; in different fields but definitely in both sides. While I have learn most of my knowledge in the university (2 undergrads, 2 masters and finishing a phd) there have been other topics besides CS, mechanical engineering, statistics,... that were interesting to me. Sports and nutrition being the most important, and I have never had any mentor or taking any course on them.

In the University the education has to be focused on teaching what is needed, not what an individual wants to learn. I did not like databases, but I took 2 db courses. I did not like compilers but I took 1 course just focused on this topic. And both topics are useful, and somebody working on CS need to know its basics. This cannot (and should not) be decided by an individual sorely based on his interest or needs. A basic layer of knowledge is decided by experts on the field that consider that ANY xxxx (put here whatever career you want) must have.

What I felt in the fields I am an autodidact is basically a huge lack of basic knowledge. How am I supposed to decide whether the book A is better than the book B for the topic I am trying to learn? Do I need to know something before getting into this other topic? How I decide the path I need to follow to reach a certain knowledge? Those questions are (almost) always solved with somebody guiding you through the process of learning.

There is something that has always shocked me: is that most autodidacts cannot accept that their education might be partial and the lack of base (generalizing here) might affect their adaptation for new projects or their speed on learning new techniques.

Following the structure of a university in careers like CS or engineering should be a must, and new methods of education are stepping on the learning process by helping autodidacts to be directed into a clear path of what-is-needed.
Android Tethering on Linux
Giles Bowkett: Sorry, I Fell For This
I don't think I'm alone in thinking that this should be at the top of the page between the headline and article itself, not at the bottom.

"The following guest piece was contributed by Cary H. Sherman, who chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America, which represents music labels."
> Half of the world sucks cock.

[ citation needed ]

Or were you trying to cleverly point out the sexism in his comment, while completely missing out on your own?
Unity keyboard shortcuts
There's a big, big difference between making the code you write freely available and stealing other peoples' code in order to make it public.
Or, he could have compiled evtest and been done in about 30 seconds.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~whot/evtest/
Promising title, doesnt appear to have a table of contents currently.
I fear you are confusing counties with countries.
Google reportedly developing Android-powered smart glasses
Can someone please enlighten me on how to avoid this kind of situation? Is this because these guys didn't have any papers signed with the guy about him being a temp until they decide later?
A php mysql book like this may be a good start.

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0470096004/
Remember the good old days which it was considered slightly distasteful to pitch your product in another product's launch? It seems that time has been and gone, so with apologies to cookiestack and listrophy:

We're building http://CircleCI.com: a zero configuration, continuous integration and deployment service. Currently in private beta, email paul@circleci.com for an invite and some personalized service.

I look forward to seeing jay, josh and all the others in our launch thread ;)
> Not disclosing this modification is putting individual stores at a disadvantage when they and their customers are putting in the work of adding pins.

I find it hard to sympathize for the trivial "work of adding pins" when it's Pinterest that created the universe in which those pins even exist and the community that gives them value.

> One specific, problematic issue is that when individual online stores pin their own content, it is unlikely they would insert an affiliate code. But if the store has an affiliate program, it is highly likely that those links now will have an affiliate code in them that gives Pinterest a percentage of any sales.

It's also hard to sympthasize with online stores having to cough up some money for marketing directly to Pinterest's community.
There is no duress here; they reached out to him about how getting him to waive his claims. He had no obligation to do so. Likewise, they had no obligation to accept his offer and could have simply decided to risk it.

IOW, there's a snowball's chance in Saudi Arabia that these guys will be able to recover any money they pay to the "lawyer" to settle his "claims" against them.

The lesson to take away: have an employment agreement with everyone you bring in to work for you, even if it's just a simple one page document.
It's worth noting that the AddressBook API dates back to mid 2008:

"The Address Book framework provides access to a centralized contacts database, called the Address Book database, that stores a user’s contacts."

It has been there since iOS 2.0
Sure. The key benefit in a nutshell: it makes context switching less painful.

I'm introduced by email to a lot of people I don't know - new and potential customers, new and potential partners, lots and lots of potential hires, etc. A fair number of these introductions evolve into two-way conversations. And, as probably everybody here, my overall dose of email is way too high.

The result of all this is constant context switching between too many mental threads. Rapportive makes each context switch slightly easier. In aggregate that saves me immense amounts of mental cycles.
The reason most do that is to rob the site you're visiting of context about the page you're just on. If I click through from a friend's Facebook profile they can't see the referrer URL is, for example, facebook.com/nickbarnwell
Yes, that is the entire problem in a nutshell. They hired a lawyer and then completely failed to use him in a legal capacity.

On that note...they could potentially have a malpractice suit against him for his failure to advise them on something as basic as an employment agreement. We'd really need to know a lot more to know if this is the case.
I don't use Rapportive, but the idea that when I receive an e-mail it might tell me "you don't know this person, but your coworker Bob knows him from their old company together" (which is what LinkedIn generally provides) is compelling enough that if I used Gmail I'd be installing it right now.
The reason for that difference between ctrl-d and ctrl-f is that one moves the cursor half a page (or 'scroll') and the other scrolls the screen one page.
Dear me, how patronizing.

The reason, by the way, that leadership is often correlated with extroversion is more to do with American ideals of the perfect citizen since about the time of Dale Carnegie than due to any actual results.

In fact many successful CEOs are introverts, because deep critical thinking and mediation tend to be useful qualities, surprisingly enough.

Not in finance though. And the world of finance has had a smooth ride, alright.
I do it mainly when I find a bug and want future releases to also include my fix so I don't have to patch future versions. So it's kind of selfish in a sense, but overall makes the software better.
Because it requires 2 API's both of which have legitimate uses:

1.) Get the user's address book and 2.) upload it to a server.

Installing an application implies a higher level of trust than a web application. You can't prompt the user for every API that might have a nefarious use. Location data is also much more sensitive so it makes sense to prompt the user for that.
As helpful as that book would be, I'm almost certain it wouldn't be allowed. He's ordered a few of those types of books before and they were all rejected by the facility.
I agree that at this point, it's completely unsuitable for the staples of college mathematics (e.g. calculus, differential equations), although it was not clear non-mathematicians were being subject to any sort of rigor anyway.

That said, these tools have been used to teach Freshmen CS majors, and to reasonably good effect.
Apple would simply tell their SSL library to dump the raw data, I mean they wrote it (or at least have source access to it) and have absolute control of the devices used to test. Nothing hard at all.
Here is how I do it:

1. Find a pen.
2. Find a paper or notebook.
3. Sit down for 5 minutes.
4. Write whatever idea comes to my mind in those 5 minutes.
5. Review ideas.
6. Pick the one I like best.
7. Design it.
8. Code it.
9. Test it.
10. Ship it.

Rinse and Repeat.
Amazon & IEEE Data Science Competition
Amazon’s Information Security organization is providing this non-confidential access data set to enable testing of academic models against real industry data.
I would love to know more about this book but it seems to not be released yet and there are no reviews. Not sure what the point of posting it is or why it is up voted. More details would be great.
Not really answering the question, but for quick fixes;

A friend of mine recently implemented an Enigma machine (i.e. for coding WWII messages - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine) which he enjoyed and said was a great challenge.

Alternatively I've recently done Spotify's coding puzzles (http://www.spotify.com/us/jobs/tech/) - who knows, you could even get a job out of it!
Nice project.

Will you be accepting contributions from readers(May I contribute)?

If so, where could you be contacted(other than twitter(I don't tweet))?
I thought this was going to be a story about the Eames lounger or Le Corbusier haha. Know one too many Facebook designer friends that have them..
Machine Learning StackExchange site launched BETA
This is what deal forums have done since time immemorial (1996-ish).
Komen's Karen Handel quits after Planned Parenthood row ~ Daily World News
I realize now you are using "injure" as simply, "to offend". It is rare I use, or hear it used, in such a fashion. My apologies.
From the traction this story is getting, it sure looks like address book information is considered sensitive by a lot of people. Possibly on par with location data.
It wasn't the chair that cost $5K. It was the lack of the most basic possible written employment agreement.
I think it helps having Sergey Brin (google) doing a promo on the CS 101!!
Even if it does not promote the progress of science or the useful arts?

On what basis then should it be copyrightable?
Do you have evidence that they are correctly detecting Firefox Mobile? In my day-to-day use, I've seen it treated as everything from desktop Firefox to Mobile Safari, so I'm not terribly optimistic on that point.
From the release notes:
"ReactOS now has the infrastructure needed to theme the user interface and shell, allowing users to install and use something besides the classic Windows theme."
Apple may be finally cracking down on bots after warning to developers
In corollary to this post, does anyone know what's up with the Stanford Machine Learning course? Haven't heard anything since the delay
Can we ever trust instinct?
It was the GPU that ran 20% faster by leveraging the CPU, not the other way around.
There already are "constructive alternatives" to SOPA and PIPA. They're called Spotify, iTunes, Rdio, Netflix, Hulu, etc
Cheatsheet to LA tech incubators for LeanLA event
"... Cheatsheet to LA tech incubators for tonight's @LeanLA event -- http://t.co/Op3mLDED #LeanStartup..."

A tweet by @pv "Patrick Vlaskovits". The pdf file direct link is here ~ http://t.co/Op3mLDED Fascinating reading.
Story of my website launch: 8K Unique page view in 3 days
A point by point response to your points:

1. What is wrong with a suit?

2. He cofounded IMVU and had a number of failures before that, he has plenty of time in the trenches to back up his assertions.

3. A short 3 minute video is hardly the place to go into depth perhaps a blog post? [1].

4. Huh? Saying it doesn't make it so, perhaps some explanation.

5. See #2

[1] http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/07/how-to-conduct-...

ps I didn't down vote you.
An Insider Shares Mark Zuckerberg's 6 Secrets for Success
Well, whether they will be successful is a matter for the courts, but they are on pretty shaky legal ground. It's not clearly a parody, they are clearly a competitor and the colours and font, if not identical, are similar enough to evoke the Flickr logo.

I wouldn't be surprised if a cease and desist was already on its way...
A semicolon is not exactly sufficient-- it leaves the expression open, and thus unexecuted, until you close it. Try `puts 1;` vs. `puts 1;0`.
Finding a place to live (in San Francisco) while working on startup?
I'm working on my startup and may be looking for employment to supplement my income. I'd like to move back to the Bay Area, so I'm wondering what to do to get an abode while not being able to demonstrate steady income.

Any tips?
I could be wrong in what I think you're saying, or in what I'm reading at http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/ but according to that site, MtGoxUSD alone had $17M worth of trades in the 30 days.
I briefly looked into it. Logging in and registering with Instagram apparently won't work behind an http proxy (mitmproxy)
> Similar fonts are not the same---if similarity were enough to sue upon then every free sans-serif font would be forced to pay money to the professional font they're inspired by.

You pointed out earlier in this thread that trademarks are different from copyrights, and now pretend to not understand that fact?
Those fuckers should be in jail for this.
DHH vs The Stock Market
I'd say something more along the lines of:

"If a tree falls in the woods, and it doesn't make a sound, who even knows it fell?"
FTA: "... but also explained that if an affiliate link was in the original pin, Pinterest wouldn’t modify it." If that's true, then there is no cost even for users who have attempted to use their own affiliate links.
Sorry. I'm not leaving Flickr. It's one of my favorite spots on the Internet. I love the community aspect of the site and the countless quality (and not so quality) Creative Commons contributions.

I have spent more hours than I'd care to admit sifting through photos, admiring people's work, reading comments - all the while listening to trip hop or whatever is on SOMAFM.

It's one of the best parts of website design: finding the perfect image. I'm not going anywhere.
It is a okay introduction to the concept but there is far better introductions on how it should be gone about. [1]

[1] http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/07/how-to-conduct-...
Fixing the Internet in Ubuntu using driver BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
In Facebook's case, this is to protect the user from potentially giving away information about themselves in their Referer header and from potentially malicious links that we didn't have enough information on at display (or email) time, but which we now have enough information to know it is malicious.

This is explained in more detail at https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/link-shim-p...
Understanding Singletons - Check it out HN, My First Post on Design Patterns
It should be going live soon. I got an email about the Model Thinking class which launched a preview at http://www.coursera.org/modelthinking/lecture/preview

Hopefully that means they're getting ready for the other classes to go live as well.
250,000 photos downloaded in 2 hours, according to http://www.flickraft.com/. 100x the API limit!
Proof assistants have close ties to logic and type theory, so it's not much surprise that they're quite good for doing this small, subarea of mathematics. (Indeed, I think in the not too distant future we will be teaching logic using something like an interactive theorem prover. It makes a bit of the formalism quite clearer.) There has been some push, especially in Europe, for using these programs to prove other mathematics; it is certainly possible, although few would say it is pleasant or resembles how ordinary mathematicians work. But I think that, for specific areas of mathematics, these tools are useful today. Especially when trying to teach students how to think formally; you'll find that formal corresponds closely to how the computer thinks about things (and the whole problem is that mathematicians are not very formal at all.)

CPDT is not a good first text; Software Foundations http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/ does better for people with less math experience.
Facebook: A Desktop Company, in a Mobile World?
I thought they hired a CEO who happened to have a legal degree and the ability to practice law in their state.
I have absolutely no issues with this:

1. It's the most scalable way for them to generate revenue without shoving ads down your throat.

2. Skimlinks doesn't "modify" your links, they simply put it through a redirect to see if it affiliates. The link you've submitted to Pinterest will likely stay as is.

3. If users submit affiliate links already, then services like Viglink/Skimlinks don't overwrite your cookie (i.e. Reaffiliate it) so those users will continue to see revenue.
I did one of Spotify's or Facebook's coding puzzles a while back, using 4 languages in the same source file and obfuscated my contact info in the response.

If their recruitment team isn't up to the task, I don't want to work there. :)

However, it was a fun exercise.
I think it's smart to have it disclosed somewhere (FAQ) because people that know what affiliate links look like can figure it out themselves anyway by looking at the links.
Microsoft wants to kill C. I don't know why.
What if I gave someone my silent, protected phone number and that information was stolen by Path like it appears to have done? I may not "own" the information, but I may have rights under law for the information to be protected, and not shared without my permission. Similarly for addresses of people who may be in witness protection programs or escaping violence of some kind. The simple fact is Path stole this information without any kind of consent from the user, information it had no right to access.
You're right, that quote sums up so much of what makes my lifestyle possible.