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Of course it is an issue of morality. I could choose to avoid paying taxes in the society that I'm a part of. It would be in my economic interest to do so.

But it is morally wrong because it is that same society that enables me to make my money in the first place.

Simple, right?
Short-term capital gains are already taxed at income rates. Long-term capital gains are lower in part because they are not inflation protected, which can substantially discount the real returns. Having a lower tax rate is simpler than computing inflation-adjusted returns for every long-term transaction. For example, if you buy an asset for $500k and sell it for $600k ten years later, you actually lost money after adjusting for inflation but you still have to pay taxes on the $100k capital gain.

Another factor is that long-term capital gains taxes are much less efficient than income taxes in terms of adverse impact on the economy. If you need to raise additional revenue, it is better for economic growth to take it from income (or sales) than capital gains.
im in the opposite opinion, after customizing my android.. Theres many things that I find unintuitive about my iphone.
Visual presentation and styling. Of course, if you write in Markdown then there is some limit to the degree to which you can change the way things look simply with a LaTeX header or CSS.
These sorts of articles are pointless. If this guy has such a strong opinion, why doesn't he go innovate instead of telling other people to do it. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Off top of my head - look at the right edge of your text. It doesn't look good. They have some work to do on their line break algorithm.

InDesign can use the Knuth-Plass line-breaking algorithm for its H&J. In this case, it looks like hyphenation has been disabled, so obviously that doesn't apply, though.

TeX, and LaTeX, take care of it so automatically and so well that you could put a ruler to it.

Until you get an overfull box that just ignores the right margin, anyway. :-)

There's a lot of typographic conventions developed by trial and error over centuries. They just look good or easier to read.

Or, in many cases, they are just folklore with no substantial evidence whatsoever to support them, propagated within a discipline notorious for confusing subjective/aesthetic preferences with facts, and placing undue weight on doing things the "correct" way without being able to demonstrate that any particular advantage results.
I don't like the ribbon either.
But that won't work if some very small country lowers it's tax to 1%. The US can't compete with that.
http://html5boilerplate.com/ is a great choice not yet mentioned. More of a blank slate though so you will need to do some design work. It is responsive in nature which makes formatting for mobile devices easier too.
It actually serves two different purposes: prevents information leakage from the remote (secure) networks to the local node, and prevents possible malware stored on that local node from migrating into the remote network.
Thanks! This is a really good idea and shouldn't be to hard to implement. We'll look into it to see what it takes.
I mostly agree, but I find Chrome's two-finger swipe gestures to be terrible. It's really hard to "cancel" a swipe if you've already (accidentally) started swiping.
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Favorably comparing Windows Phone to Android is kinda damning with faint praise, IMHO. I have an Android; once the initial joy of "YAY GPS AGAIN" and "YAY INTERNET EVERYWHERE" wore off it's really pretty awkward.
Well I applaude you gdb - Stripe is a very well regarded startup so you're doing a lot of things right. Doesn't your "Veto" though negate the ability to ensure they're rejected for the right reasons? If you feel as though a Veto is for the wrong reason do you challenge the "Vetoer" and get it overturned etc?
Well Bush II lowered taxes to the point of unprofitability (I assume you are speaking from a national governmental view). Governments engage in deficit spending and some foolishly lowers taxes at the behest of its monied interests.

You appear to assign to the government of Ireland some sort of rationality and ignore things like regulatory capture and corruption. Your belief that a government will only lower until "revenues raised == cost of services + small margin" is not rooted in fact.
Study a few books on algorithms before your first interviews so you don't get tripped up on a question about hash tables or red-black trees. I think Physics gives a programmer a unique perspective especially for debugging and optimization - something that is rarely taught.
You're right with much you said nevertheless you still have to solve something users (in millions) want - have a solution - be useful.

They have / had millions of users and that's were such valuations with consumer products come from at least in the moment. Yes we seen that before particularly up into 1999 with tech start-ups, but even worse with telcos / operators that sunk billions.

The hype alone does only help for a short moment - if you have not found a way to monetize - be useful at that point, your company (and all your money) is going to melt away quicker than you finished dreaming up the numbers you were worth on paper yesterday.
Even more,

I don't notice an effort to expand the workforce by training or by recruitment of non-traditional workers, etc.

The contra-logical statement "99% of programming applicants are unqualified" gets a lot of play in this field. But I would suggest something like "we can make 99% of applicants look like idiots with our circus-like hiring process".

Yes, we've decided we have a shortage once we decide on five arbitrary disqualifications, expect all applicants to work 18 hours a day and start yesterday having no time to get up to speed (so experience on earlier large systems, say, is indeed not useful).
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I don't recall exactly. I'd been away from much use of Excel for a few years, then had occasion to use it helping someone else. Whereupon I suddenly went from an early 200x version (lastly 2003, I think?) to 2007.

The ribbon was annoying enough. But then I started manipulating using shortcut keys. And a subset didn't product the expected results.

I spent some years working heavily in Excel, including extensive on-the-fly worksheet structure modification (shoving data around, adding and deleting rows and columns, copying values or just the "text" portion of cells, etc., etc.). So those shortcuts were second-nature, or "muscle memory", as they say, if a bit stale.

It was a one-off, helping that person. I currently do a little budgeting in Excel, but without much such manipulation, so I haven't continued to trip across and so recall in detail what broke.

I do continue, in my more spiteful moments, to hope they reserve a special level of hell for the people who make such UI changes. For a subset of people, Excel is a heavy-duty industrial tool, and dicking with the UI is tantamount to dicking with their livelihood, not to mention peace of mind. At a minimum, implement and insist on backward compatibility (as an optional mode, at least), no matter how much your "rock star" designers piss and moan, or your Management pisses and moans about supporting multiple interfaces. You have a responsibility to the user base that has propelled your product to such success while integrating its functionality into their subconscious actions.
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Why? You can turn those off globally if you don't like them.
Adding to that, I've no problem whatsoever with Mozilla's choice to not implement these (braindamaged without exception, IMHO) features, as these choices are partially what drives me to use Firefox, and the only feedback Apple might ever listen to with regard to drunk scrolling and suchlike is user uptake.

Here Firefox enables me to vote with my feet.
For instance, given a street segment ranging from 1000 to 2000, it takes a very simple calculation to determine that a house at 1500 should be about halfway.

This is why its so much harder to geocode in rural areas. I suspect its also why delivery guys always miss my apartment (I'm #607, but the second on the block).

Geocoders are still black magic to me; just starting to understand it. Would love to see more posts like this on HN.
You can atleast double the adsense earnings by changing your adplacement.

Some suggestions :
1. Move 300X250 on the sidebar above your Facebook box.
2. Move 300X250 in the content area up, close to your content.
SFW, you say. I think I will play it safe by not clicking.
That doesn't make any sense at all. Tax avoidance is perfectly legal. Tax evasion is not. Playing within the rules created by society is not morally wrong. Every deduction you take on your personal income taxes falls under tax avoidance which you can't possibly be describing as morally wrong.

"The legal right of an individual to decrease the amount of what would otherwise be his taxes or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted." - US Supreme Court
By that definition, the only absolute shortage is in things that aren't available at any price.

There can still be a relative shortage. There's shortage of gold-per-pound relative to rocks-per-pound, for example
Regarding how Ireland is mentioned in the article- Apple has had a significant presence in Ireland since the year 1980, has a workforce nearing 3000 and is expanding, announcing 500 jobs just this month [1]. Hardly "little more than a letterbox or an anonymous office " as could be misinterpreted rather easily from this article.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/20/us-apple-ireland-i...
If you can draw clear lines at what a society is, sure.
Ask HN: What do you use for code-search now that Google code-search is defunct?
I haven't found a suitable replacement. It would be nice to find something that indexed github projects as well.
Surely HN must now be next?

The cobbler's children have gone unshod so long!
In ex-USSR desktop Opera has a marketshare of 20%+ for quite a few years.

Major websites' patchy support for Opera helps local players ;)
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Indeed, and there is no excuse for jerky scrolling and a broken full screen mode.
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So $120k and (very expensive) lottery tickets is what you're saying =P
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These are a lot better than anything else I've heard today. I'd greatly appreciate anything else that evokes a similar mood.
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> there is no excuse for jerky scrolling

Unless those jerks have a 1:1 correspondence to actual user input events

> broken full screen mode

Multiwindow, multiscreen OS supporting only a single maximized window on a single screen, with totally uninformative, pretentious >500ms mandatory transition animation. "Broken"
The latter. By veto, we mean that we won't hire someone over a current employee's strong objections. But we always debate and push back on those objections, and more than once we've had people change their minds after this kind of discussion.
Sure, it's partly both, but 'lat' and 'lon' are used almost universally across Geo-related APIs. See Google Maps for instance.
I want to say "Woz is the most handsome man in tech business." just to emphasize that beauty is subjective.

But I am curious, a lot of praise comes to windows mobile from iphone fans (I am not talking about Woz but many others). Would there be a lot of Apple fans really switching to Lumias or are they simply telling it just to criticize Android?
250ms to Fibertel in Buenos Aires.
I spent about 5 minutes thinking of a name. The thought of "reading tea leaves" came to mind and a quick Google led me to tasseography.
1) You don't really need the (b) term. (1 - \phi) is on the order of .5, so if you round the result of ((a - b) / c) instead of truncating it, you can ignore that term.

2) How long are your floating point numbers? You code works for n up to 71, but no further. The linked example works for any n.

Every time Fibonacci is discussed, someone brings up the Binet formula. If I'm interviewing for a position that requires any sort of numeric coding, this is a reason not to hire -- it demonstrates you don't know the first things about floating point.
I've done this kind of thing most of my career, including doing it for NASA and Unilever Research. You can't really train an average graduate to do this. You need someone with a pretty highly developed integration between 1:intuitive/creative abilities, 2:mathematical/analytical skills, and 3:engineering/ability to make things happen. Add to that 4:work experience in the real world, and 5:ability to easily understand how things work in a field you delve into for the first time... And there's very few people in the world who can do this.
At my previous work place we tried for a whole year to hire someone who would at have at least some of these skills and seems promising to develop the rest on the job. We couldn't find anyone although we interviewed about 30 different people (from about 500 resumes most of them with a PhD in ML from a good university). And this was in central London, UK.
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Jadi apabila shalat tersebut dikerjakan tanpa tidur sebelumnya maka shalat itu tidak di namakan shalat tahajud tetati sholat su
The Metro UI is really good, but it's too little, too late, or at least that's what sales numbers are showing: WP7 can't make a dent in the market, which BTW Android is zerg-rushing.
In a world of short attention spans I particularly want to listen to a podcast of the "Woz" because this is not the normal corporate gibberish that strongly contributed to the "short attention span".

The occasions they let the Woz out are rare enough.

Or as they say - listen and learn ;-)
(and thanks for all the links)
Seriously, why the FRICK does HN take 45 seconds to load a page?

Also, another OSS project that has a bajillion dependencies and which doesn't even bother to mention the URL of the main thing that it's supposed to build on top of.

Typical coder mentality. Write a million lines of brilliant code. Write 3 lines of SHITTY docs. Then sit there and wonder WTF nobody is using this great product.
I think part of the problem is that the loopholes are for sale. Their original existence may be accidental, but their continuing existence is not.
I don't have any damning evidence to win a lawsuit :) but would still make a attempt to give empirical evidence

Tiobe 2012 report
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

https://github.com/languages

Javascript is 9th and Ruby in 11th for popularity on tiobe but take first and second rank on github open source projects

I understand not all pre-github projects have moved from sourceforge and google code, but even for newer projects people have biases for technology choices
> Playing within the rules created by society is not morally wrong.

There are people who honestly believe that? It’s not that simple, it really isn’t.

I, for example, think there are many immoral but legal things and I want it to stay that way. The law is not supposed to perfectly mirror our morality, that would be a clusterfuck, tyranny, and otherwise a really bad idea. (For example: I think not tipping in the restaurant is immoral. I, however, never ever want that to become a law. Just one example.)

In short: Just because it’s legal, doesn’t mean it’s right. Just because it’s not right, doesn’t mean it should be illegal.
I don't know what you're using, but I'm using a base model macbook air and the cpu barely took a hit. Very smooth rendering.
You asked about distribution and that's an example of distribution.

http://www.businessinsider.com/growth-hackers-are-the-new-ma...
@ibisum if you read this: I am sorry to see that your account has been hellbanned; you should probably create another, as your comments are hidden to most users.
"The main reason you aren't going to be getting any answers is anything the companies say can be extrapolated to prove discrimination."

That might be part of it. Another part of it is that many people are loathe to criticize anyone, and would find it uncomfortable to give a negative, but honest evaluation of someone to their face (or even through email).

Another reason for not giving evaluations to rejected applicants is that people are busy, and feel like their own time would be wasted for the benefit of someone who's not a part of their company.

A related reason is that the employers feel it would not benefit them in any way to give a rejected applicant an evaluation. It would only benefit the applicant.

Finally, I think a lot of people just don't really care much about others. This goes double for people who they barely know, have no business relationship with, and will probably never see or hear from again.
webOS is good on paper: I got one and while the UI is perfect there are far too many bugs and slowdowns.
This is very true

What the "regulation fans" don't realize is that the bigger the company the more lawyers/accountants it can hire and work the cracks in the system.

This is also valid in the case of Starbucks. Regulation is increased for a reason, and the only company that has the resources to comply with it is Starbucks.

Regulation has to be simple, and in the case of transnational corporations, were country borders are mere a detail, increasing regulation will mean essentially nothing to the company and a loss of revenue to the country.
Your insurance company example is totally unrelated.

A well-run insurance company spreads risk among all of its customers. There are NON-PROFIT insurance companies that do an excellent job of spreading that risk around (Kaiser Permanente spends 95% of its insurance dues actually paying for medical care, for example). When you buy insurance you're not EXPECTING to have a problem, but you want to be protected if you do. When someone DOES have a problem, the insurance company hasn't "screwed up" -- the entire point of insurance is to cover unexpected problems.

The only time that the insurance company could be said to have screwed up is if they're losing money overall. And in that case they'll eventually go bankrupt.

>why do people choose to pay them?

Ignorance? Given how many times I've seen advice to never (or at least only rarely) place a market order, I have no idea why anyone does.

Or possibly it's just the "greater fool" theory: They will sell to the HFT if and when they think they know better than you do.

You're claiming that the HFTs are providing insurance to the people who are buying or selling? I find that to be a stretch, since the entire point is that you look for sure bets and attempt to only sell this "insurance" to people who (in your opinion) don't need it.

And frankly most people trading in the stock markets don't know they're even "buying" this insurance. If they did, then yes, I could buy your argument. But they don't. And the ability to choose makes all the difference in this case.

I'd like to hear from someone trading stocks for a mutual fund, and whether they would "choose" to pay an HFT.

The reason that we don't have market makers standing around in pits any more -- that computers can do the trades directly -- also implies to me that we don't need those intermediaries at all. There's a lot of economic leeching that goes on in Wall Street, and I suspect that much of it is obsolete. HFTs are merely another symptom of the same problem.
I would look really hard for any way to even just release a single feature of it — just get _anything_ released and "working".
You need to reinspire yourself here, and one hell of a good way of doing that is being pushed by peoples feedback. I know for myself that at the point you apparently are at its very easy to take a break and think you'll come back to it later — big mistake. If you can't muster the energy to release something now then chances are you wont ever.

Try to release something, gather feedback and use that loop as a motivation for doing minor, really minor, fixes and improvements. If you can manage that you can pick up new steam and in the same time learn more about what direction you should be taking.
I guess I feel that there'll always be loopholes and ways to exploit the system if you try hard enough, so having that be something that can tarnish a company's public image is a much bigger deterrent than the law can be. Also, realistically, it's a lot easier to have a bunch of students refuse to buy the iPhone 5 until apple pays its fair share of taxes, than to have legislators change the tax code.
I lol'ed, mission accomplished!
I mean actual computational geometry. Reality is significantly non-Euclidean in complicated ways that have to be accounted for if precision matters.

Spatio-temporal analytics or the processing of sensing data frequently requires this. For a simple example, the surface of the Earth is approximately an oblate spheroidal surface, not even a 2-sphere. You can use Euclidean approximations for many cartographic purposes but for analytics this can introduce large errors in the analysis. Understanding how to compute non-Euclidean geometry models is surprisingly useful.
This kind of thing (on a smaller scale, admittedly) is what I do in my day job.

In the same way we hear "The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" we can say "Money interprets taxation as damage and routes around it."

Someone imposing censorship upon the internet might have all of the morality and justification in the world behind his/her argument. Irrelevant. So too with taxation. You can talk about moral imperatives all you want -- one should support the country you're in by paying taxes. Irrelevant.

You make tangible objects float in mid-air by altering the law of gravity, or by using magnificent quantities of effort (e.g., fly tons of metal through the sky by burning vast quantities of fuel).

You (as a government) make money change course and come to rest elsewhere by altering the law of taxation or by using magnificent quantities of rhetoric (look for "should" and "ought" and "them" in sentences). Or you use magnificent quantities of enforcement (tax audits, put people in jail, etc. I live in this universe, too.)

Ultimately, the point by @yummyfajitas is correct. Countries have sovereignty and can do as they damn well please.

The U.S. has the bullying power of the U.S. dollar and a lot of guns to convince other countries to behave in ways that the U.S. wants them to behave. This will work until it doesn't work anymore.

The way this will cease working for the U.S. government is that the bullying will become unacceptable for other governments. They will rightly see this as ceding national sovereignty to the U.S. government. This will not happen until the U.S. dollar weakens and a plausible reserve currency appears. China's slow moves to relaxing currency controls tells you where the next likely reserve currency will be.

The other way this will cease working is visible in the cited article. Large economic organizations -- like Apple -- are starting to develop their own anti-gravitation fields and can float above tax laws of any particular country.

It's fun to watch. Put your moral imperatives in your pocket for a while and just observe. What is Congress doing, and why? Why, for instance, is a lot of the anti-international tax legislation in Congress coming from Senator Levin (D-Mich)? What are companies doing? After you see something happen, don't ask "Why?" Better to ask, "And then what will happen?"

You might surprise yourself. The unintended consequences are sitting there, in plain sight.
This doesn't surprise me too much. I just got a Nokia Lumia 900 (I'm using it right now in fact) and from a design and usability standpoint it really impresses me. Everything's so smooth and fluid, and the interface is so clean and consistent that it's just fun to use. It's so good that I could care less that the screen doesn't have some super high pixel density, that there's not that many good apps, or even that the camera performs poorly in low light situations.