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Nothing against your chosen profession, but a system in which businesses need to worry about planning and optimising their taxes rather than focusing on their weath-creating activities is flawed.

BTW I live in Brazil, where we have big problems with both the tax rates and the byzantine complexity. Companies spend thousands of man-hours doing taxes.

Again, once you are in such a system, specializing in giving tax advice is a decent, honest way to make a living. But it's a bad system to begin with.

I think the article's point (maybe poorly expressed) is that having a bad tax system cripples the economy so much, that it has to be addressed in any serious effort to increase competitiveness. That's what can't be engineered around.
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I've went through rails for zombies. Second thing i went through after poignant.

Was following Nettuts suggested method:
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ruby/the-best-way-to-learn...

Incidentally I met Obie Fernandez in person :D at the Red Dot Ruby Conference in Singapore he sent me a pdf version of his book :D

I'll try out eloquent ruby, maybe after the pickaxe.
He should have said any headline that is a yes or no question.
Given how often these light and frothy publications appear on HN you would think that they have their fingers on the pulse of the "hacker community."
This was probably exacerbated by Neil and Vivek working on it full-time, while the other founders were not. One can feel a little weird if one is going full-time and one's partner is going part-time, and there's an equal division of equity, even assuming everyone does the same amount of work.
I had a similar experience, except it was a MacBook Air stolen from my doorstep. They overnighted a replacement immediately with no questions asked (other than, "did you check with your neighbors?")

Your point about the service level relating to your customer history is a good one, though - I've spent upwards of $50,000 with Amazon in the last 3 or 4 years, so the real test would be how they'd react to a new customer in the same situation.
I like it. The hard menu button is unintuitive. Pressing it is always a last ditch effort to find something.
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These results mirror the experiences I've had with large JSON payloads of time series data and experimenting with different wire formats.

The best message sizes I have obtained by custom compressors with complex predictive models and bit level encoding.

However with JavaScript on the critical path (say browser side) even a simple bit/byte bashing format like MessagePack was a performance loss and in my case the payloads were bigger.

YMMV, but if you really need aggressive compression or performance none of the standard solutions (protobuff et al) come close to hand rolled solutions.

If you have JavaScript on your path, I've had the most success by using JSON-to-JSON transformations utilising a predictive model (think say rows to columns and delta encoding) with gz over the top. This has got my payloads down in size without blowing out time - but it does spray the GC with lots of short lived object traffic.
i thought it might refer to buildings laying fallow and having no substance in the context of their use; ghost buildings. nowhere in the article does he refer to why they are see-through but he does mention unused buildings.
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I would generally avoid building applications that assume clients are going to speak directly to the database. We see a couple of them every year (it's a common pattern in enterprise applications) and they tend to be horrorshows.

In any case, the typical web app deployed by HN readers has no business having an exposed MySQL port.
I could say the same thing about the need to select proper platforms and technologies for scaling a website or SaaS (i.e,. AWS, database choice, even language choice)..."A system in which people need to worry about planning and optimizing their technology platform for future expectations rather than just building something that works from the ge-go is flawed."

But that's not the way tech works. And that's not the way tax works either. If you are a small fry, the tax burden (or savings) will not be large enough to matter (because as a corporation, you get taxed on net income, i.e., profits). Affording a tax lawyer to "game" the tax system won't be necessary until you are at the scale where you are already pulling in serious profits.

Ultimately, people tend to vastly overestimate (or underestimate) the difficulty of activities outside of their profession.
A city for one million residents is very small for China. Most of the time such a place would only be called a village. I lived in another ghost city in China for a few months. Suddenly, over night the city filled up and everyone was told they must work in a certain industry. Previously there was some other small industry (e.g. a shipping company with a few trucks with using the street as a warehouse and local services like a laundry mat). They were all kicked out because they were not the designated industry. The laundry mat re-opened a few weeks later on another street.

People forget that China is a command economy. The government tells you where to live and what to do. If you want to live somewhere else or do something else you need to apply for permission from the government.

Cities like Ordos shouldn't make anyone blink. Once the government knows what it wants to do it will be filled overnight.
VAT is different to import duties. There will be a customs duty to pay on imported goods over a certain value (as well as VAT (chargeable to the end user, rather than each person in the chain.))

VAT (and import VAT) are easy enough - there's a few different rates so as long as you're careful describing the goods it's okay.

But customs duty is complex. Each item has a commodity code, and that code has its rate of duty. There are 14,000 different commodity codes.

(http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/customs/tax-and-duty.htm)
Wow tmuxinator seems like real time-saver. Thanks for the tip!
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I disagree. IMHO, there is no better person than the founder to market your startup passionately.

I am not saying MBA skills are not valuable. But what is more important is ability to write pithy blogs, write tons of emails to your potential customers, investors and do lot of other routine activities to keep your startup afloat. None of this requires MBA as such in the initial days.

Your passion, reading some of the best blogs out there on specific topics is more than enough provided you take all the advice as just that 'advice' and tweak it to apply as per your situation & needs.
Yes, that is quite pedantic. It is clear from the article that Betteridge meant headlines that could be phrased assertively but are not (i.e. yes-or-no questions).

And the word "universal" is generally scoped to some domain — if we say "living human brings universally have some cardiac organ, whether natural or man-made", that does not extend to dead human beings or to rocks. In this case, the domain is, as noted above, newspaper newspaper headlines that question an assertion.
I've used it to store blobs of data in databases, specifically when space tends to directly equate to memory (like redis and mongodb). You can take this pretty far and apply different serialization or compression algorithms based on the data (and store a field that says which approach was used for when you deserialize it).

Using this from the browser is not the first thing that came to my mind.
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I am not sure what you are talking about?
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Dena Bank is one of the earliest national bank in India. It provides better services to customers. Thousands of the consumers trusted on this bank very much. When any person becomes a customer of them, than he/she does not take any tension about financial services and return.
Can someone alert the relevant authorities of Germany. Yes, they may have already noticed this. But: Kann ein deutscher Sprecher mitteilen, Bundesnachrichtendienst und BfV.

http://www.bnd.bund.de/EN/__Home/Startseite/startseite__node...

http://www.verfassungsschutz.de/en/index_en.html

A least one country takes the threat seriously.
Just to be clear: I've also had mixed experiences outsourcing development, and I'm a developer. I'm a proponent of outsourcing modular tasks that you're not an expert in.
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This is correct. Salt just defeats rainbow tables. They could still be pre-generated for high-value usernames, though.

Some say that this is most useful in giving the company a more sizeable window in which to react (e.g. force password changes).
Ordos has high GDP because it's extremely rich in natural resources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordos_City#Economy

I think it's comparable to Dubai.
He is not visiting, he has been a member all along.
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TIL I learned about what actually makes a flame. I never really asked myself what makes up a flame. I kind of took it for granted.
Apologies -- saw "fifteen" and read "fifty".
It practice it doesn't very often unless there's a very weird EGL configuration being requested which the h/w version doesn't support. But your point applies that you'd be better off removing the s/w renderer.
For anyone running phpMyAdmin, make sure to lock it down.

Here's a guide for limiting access to it by IP address via the apache config for Ubuntu users:

http://mixeduperic.com/ubuntu/how-to-restrict-phpmyadmin-ip-...
I built it from the sources in the emacs-24 branch without a problem. For some reason only the tarball sources threw up that config error. Strange.
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Just tried the various one-liners mentioned in the comments on a hardy (8.04) release using mysql 5.0.51a and could not get in.

This is a slicehost box, so I'm assuming that can be extrapolated to mean that anyone using ubuntu on slicehost is probably safe.
Are there many such cases where you would use python, though ?
...Came expecting a detailed interesting dissection of the recent Flame virus... left disappointed...
I know a lot about security, but know nothing about security.
I could explain to you SQL injection or a rainbow table, but in practice, I don't know how to keep my own PC safe (eg. when browsing on public WiFi). What configuration do you use to keep your computer secure?

1. What antivirus do you use?

2. Do you use a VPN? A personal one or a service?

3. What Firefox/Chrome plugins do you use? (eg. HTTPS Everywhere)

4. Do you use a program to store passwords?

5. What do you use for backups?

6. What other tricks do you have?
The blog post confused me until I realized that the author meant "Don't Make Your Apps Offline-Stupid," rather than "Don't Make Your Apps Offline, Stupid."
I'm using this as an opportunity to complain about seeing the NYT and friends on here so often. This is somewhat related to the fact that they also have vote-bait headlines.
Cross compilation is not yet supported. You want to build on osx/intel and target ios/arm. Not yet. ghc still needs to target the platform it was built on.
If you have a choice in framework, I'd actually recommend not learning Ruby through Rails. I'd learn it through Sinatra. Sinatra is a lightweight web framework (Rails is a heavyweight), and it has a lot less "magic", so it's more plain Ruby and less connecting framework components together.

Not knocking Rails, it's just that you'll get a really narrow and somewhat skewed perception of Ruby if you learn it through Rails (you'll have no way of easily separating the Rails magic from plain Ruby as you learn things).
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I don't necessarily disagree with your point, but your analogy is severely flawed. Nothing forces taxes to be complicated, its not some sort of inherent property of taxes -- and in fact regardless of where people stand on whether taxes should be higher or lower, I rarely find someone who disagrees that taxes are too complicated in the US. The people who seem happiest with the status quo are precisely the ones whose employment relies on it (no offense).

I'm really surprised you'd then compare this situation to choosing between different available techs: it has nothing in common except "being hard". This is a legitimate expense from a natural consequence of invention: there are going to be several options with different trade-offs. You act as if Amazon is doing you a disservice by providing you with another option. Unlike the tax world, if there was a way to simplify this choice, everyone in the industry would immediately jump on board. You don't have to take my word for it, its the pattern we've been seeing from the beginning of technology. Making and scaling website today is vastly simpler than 10, 15, and 20 years ago. Can you say the same for taxes? Or have taxes become increasingly harder to deal with as time progresses? Many aspects of running a website that required experts yesterday are completely automated today.

In other words, the cost of "choosing a platform" is justified because there is no workaround and it is not an artificial position that you have been placed in. On the other hand, you have not proven that there is no alternative to a convoluted tax system that requires tax experts -- and furthermore it is not even clear what the benefits of a convoluted tax system even are. BTW, I am not taking a position on this, I am simply pointing out that that is the correct attack vector: explaining why this system that requires tax experts is necessary vs saying "Sure it is hard, but many other things are also hard."

EDIT: Added last sentence.
Check out the Richmond, Sunset, or Glen Park neighbourhoods. There's more to San Francisco than SOMA. Also see Berkeley, or Temescal District in Oakland.

Likewise, check out Mountain View, Cupertino, or Saratoga: suburban and safe, relatively affordable compared to Pacific Heights in SF or Palo Alto/Menlo/Atherton area, yet relatively free of general suburban cliches.

If you pretend that San Jose (with the exception of few parts) and SOMA don't exist, Bay Area becomes a much nicer place.
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I don't like the createMyx page. I can't say why but it doesn't look good.
The [login] link should be an image.

Also, what if I want more than 16oz in my created mix.
The "1" at the bottom of the homepage shouldn't exist.

It might be a bad idea be running a Groupon/Google offer/... campaign could work.
I can confirm. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (64 bit).
That is what I was guessing you meant, but I have never heard anyone say the NYT or Washington Post were frothy examples of newspapers. And it did not seem relevant because the wikipedia page that pg submitted is not expressly about HN culture.

However in order to cover all my bases I added two of pg's own essay titles/headlines to the list to make sure it meets your HN notability requirements.
That effective tax rate of 12% is not by design, though. It is due to loopholes that have been thoroughly exploited. A big one being foreign profits are not taxed until it enters the country, so many companies now take their income outside the US and keep it there. So, I would say the tax system was more...hustled around than it was engineered around.
This is especially true of British tabloids, in particular the Daily Mail.

I often find it interesting to read the headline and then the final paragraph of the article text.

For example headline: "X causes Y"
Final paragraph: "No links were found between X and Y"
... and if you wouldn't mind to spend some more time...

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/

"mvn deploy" is probably all you need? :D
As an American I was wondering about non EN-US language headlines. Can anyone comment on non-english language publications?
I publish an extension, Textcelerator (https://textcelerator.com) off-store. This is the first I'm hearing about this, and it would completely the sign-up flow for my extension. (My extension is in the Chrome store, but my landing page doesn't link there.)

Fortunately, it seems this only affects the head versions for now, not the version regular users get on a new install (I just tried it) or an autoupdate, so I have some time to switch links around and make it work. However, I really think there needs to be some sort of deprecation before this is rolled out, probably in the form of a warning on download if Developer mode is enabled, backported to versions 19 and 20.
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Although the original blog post focuses on JavaScript and browsers, MessagePack itself doesn't mainly focus on them.

A major use case of MessagePack is to store serialized objects in memcached. A blog post written by Pinterest describes this use case (http://engineering.pinterest.com/posts/2012/memcache-games/).
They use MessagePack with Python which is faster than one with JavaScript. They could store more objects in a server without performance declination (e.g. gzip).

It's true that MessagePack is not always faster than JSON (e.g. within browsers), and it's not always smaller than other serialization methods (e.g. with gzip compression). So we should consider that which serialization methods should I use for "my" case.

There are also general tendency which is helpful to select MessagePack or JSON:

MessagePack is faster to serialize binary data such as thumbnail images.
MessagePack is better to reduce overheads to exchange small objects between servers.
JSON is better to use it with browsers.
From your link, "Eight committees investigated the allegations and published reports, finding no evidence of fraud or scientific misconduct" (concerning the "climategate" e-mails).

By hearing the cherry-picked quotes from those e-mails, you could get the impression that they're full of fraud, but now that the dust has settled and the investigations have been made, do you really think they're disgusting?

I think this example is counter to your point. The initial media reaction gave the complete wrong impression, and the later findings that the story is nonsense went completely unreported.
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This is also important in other environments, for instance shared hosting where you may connect to localhost, or places where you may have given non-admin shell access to a developer (assuming they could not connect to mysql root user).

This is a serious vulnerability. Especially since the latest ubuntu seems to be affected(I'm on mint 13, and it is)

See Ready shodanhq query for latest mysql version:

http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=port%3A3306+5.5.22-0ubuntu1
I intended that to mean "light and frothy general technology news." As I understand it they're respected for the journalism they do but I don't think half of it belongs here.
Anytime you require consistency with more involved training, go the oDesk route.

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So if I try logging in with phpmyadmin 256 times, will I succeed?
Thanks for this! Can be an even bigger help if this works with transparent pngs.
MessagePack includes a concept named "type conversion" to support types which are not supported by its wire format.
With the concept, we can serialize/deserialize user-defined classes as well as strings with encodings.

So far, MessagePack for Java, C++ and D implement the concept.
thanks for your advise.
On this note, make shipping times very obvious (ie, with the current date). If I order before 2pm PST, can it be shipped same day? Speaks to the above; drives people to want to order.

Also, re-occurring orders. Monthly, bi-weekly, etc.
Your domain was scoped by the "living human brings(sic)," that is why it is clear that dead people or rocks where irrelevant. I have always taken universally to mean as wide of a scope as possible.

I was not sure where you where referring to when you said "as noted above?"

The two pg essays I linked to could have been an assertion but the answer did not seem to be no, but I could be wrong. From the quick essays of pg's that I read he seemed to use the question mark for pieces that required a much more nuanced answer than yes or no.
because only this tight connection between germany, france and the uk is providing europe's longest period of peace - ever. the while thing started in the 50s and is the greatest, most succesful peace initiative ever.
Hmm, if someone made a chart of how many man/women had given birth I wonder what would the ratio be? I dislike people wanting their rights in cases where those rights have been made up by other people. It's not about whether you are a man or a woman, the problem is that we are corrupted as a species. We are nothing more that virus on this planet, why do you feel that no one quoting you is a bad thing? People that have power come up with these "rights" for other people so they could oppress/reward them when they do as they say without thinking of gender or age or anything else for that matter. And the people that have power are first of all animals then people and after that they male and female. It's not like aliens are in control...
The homepage looks much better than your CreateMyX page. Why do you have a nice looking login form on the main page but on createmyx it's just a text link? The images on the homepage look far far more appealing than the generated images I was seeing on the createmyx page.. those look like shit tbh.
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Do you have any references for this anecdote? I'm very interested in this
An Apple computer is just a computer. And the market for computers is an old, big, diverse market. So there are functional equivalents for every Apple product. And Apple products do have their own flaws and complexities, which one learns by using them, the same as any other thing of nontrivial complexity.

What Apple is really killer at is cultivating this kind of brand loyalty. The fact that Apple fans couch their reasoning as 'Apple products are just the best' does not indicate that they are the best, it just indicates that said fans are completely convinced.

Which is not to say that they are wrong - any more than the guy who smokes Camels instead of Lucky Strikes is wrong. Familiarity contributes a lot to your comfort and efficiency with a tool, and it's important to be happy with what you have.

Many of the things you like about Apple products are bound to be true. There's nothing wrong with buying Apple products, they are just fine. But it is just wrong to say that there is something wrong with people who choose the non-Apple alternative (like that they are just cheapskates, or poor, or nerds who don't value their time). These things aren't true.

It's just that most brands do not have the same hard core of extremely pushy, inflexible evangelism on display here. I don't question that Apple products are just fine. I question the idea that there are no viable alternatives, and that you are what you buy.
This vulnerability could also assist with local privilege escalation. If an attacker managers to use a vulnerability in a web application to execute code as a web user account, they can likely access the MySQL server instance via the loopback interface (perhaps a Unix domain socket too?).
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