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> Your model means that I can somewhat believe 1)

What makes you believe that your data will be kept private? Is it the fact that they have paid memberships and they have something that looks a bit like a privacy policy on their landing page?

As for me, I'm not sure whether I want to use the word "trust" to describe my relationship with a company that offers "storage" in the "cloud" without any mention of, for example, encryption.

Trust is not something that you can naturally expect people to have toward a brand-new web service in this day and age. If you really want to use the precious T-word, you'd better do something that leaves any reasonable customer very little choice but to trust you. For example, solid encryption (preferably client-side) and easy exportability would minimize the risk of anything bad happening to my data even if you decided to sell yourself out to some evil corporation next year. If you already have such features, please put them on the landing page.

Not trying to bad-mouth your project in any way, just trying to point out some potentially worthwhile possibilities.
It's better to treat matters of law as orthogonal to matters of morality, since the latter depends very much on the subjective judgment of the observer.

Example: A company, acting "morally" as you define, pays more tax than it is required to under the law. In so doing, it incurs a loss so severe that it must cut staff in order to remain viable. Among those employees cut are some of the more vulnerable - those with low savings, poor health, or babies on the way.

Has the company acted morally?

Consider another issue: Should the same company pay more than its legal obligations in every jurisdiction to which it is subject? How should it allocate its extra giving? What if, in some of those jurisdictions, there's a good chance the extra money will simply go into private pockets via graft and corruption, instead of serving the public good? (There are such jurisdictions in the EU, yes?)

These issues are not as clear-cut as you suggest. It's far better for the tax law to best reflect the morality of the citizenry, and then fully excuse the citizenry (including business entities) from seeking to legally minimize those taxes.
Most people with brains understand the concept "You get what you pay for".
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Could be written as: Boomerang is not compatible with any version of iPad (except iPad2&iPad3)
Hi spot,

I'm sorry you feel that way - can I point you towards my reply to anonymouz as an extension of what we mean by that. Also, please feel free to email me directly at hello@columns.co if you have further questions or concerns.
seeing these concepts expressed in C++ syntax makes my brain wanna puke...
I was in the UK briefly this summer, but learned nothing relevant to this discussion while there. I didn't know who Jimmy Carr is until this post; it seems that the major controversy stems from the fact that he criticized others for avoiding taxes, then did the same thing himself.

I think countries should arrange their tax rates and accounting rules so that there's little incentive to avoid taxes by moving money around, but I don't think it's in any way immoral to pay as little tax as the law requires. Governments are not charities and do not run on donations.
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I can't quite see how it fixes onto the iPad itself. Anyone figured it out?
So compatible with all versions except half of them. That's a pretty odd use of the word 'all'.
I'm surprised at the lack of understanding of the music phenomenon surfacing in this article. Is this the current state of cognitive psychology?

Complex mathematical relations in harmonics induce more tension than simple ones. We've known this at least since Pythagoras. Schoenberg knew this perfectly well -- he published the bible for the theory of tonal harmony -- and never argued against it, as is claimed in this article. What he did claim was that our ears gradually grow used to the common dissonances which start to lose the tension potential and to be heard as "colors" [EDIT: hence one of his first atonal works, "Farben"]. This is what he calls the "emancipation of dissonance". Basically, we have to find the "edge" in more and more complex mathematical relations.

[EDIT: further, he thought this race for complexity was doomed and exhausted and we should let fully emancipated dissonance live a life of its own, not trying to build up and release tension; this opened a wealth of musical possibilities while alienating a good part of the audience]

Pure major chords sound more "pleasant" in a pepsi-challenge type of study. So does pure sugar in a taste study. That doesn't mean the perfect meal is a pile of sugar cubes.
Do you work at Microsoft?
Did you read my sentence? There is HUGE amount of private responsibility in your health. What you eat makes a difference on how you end up aging, it is well proven. For overall health statistics, you can go to the WHO website, but a quick info about depression:

"Based on detailed interviews with over 89,000 people, the results showed that 15% of the population from high-income countries (compared to 11% for low/middle-income countries) were likely to get depression over their lifetime with 5.5% having had depression in the last year. MDE were elevated in high-income countries (28% compared to 20%) and were especially high (over 30%) in France, the Netherlands, and America. "
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I really hope this was meant to be a joke. If so, it seems to be lost of the guy who mentioned Evernote. Regardless, I thought it was hilarious.
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Perhaps you'd like to go back and formulate a reply which follows in some way from either of the two points in my comment, lest you appear a troll?
$65 for a mount is bit high. Considering it's just a piece of plstic/metal. It seems to me like a lot of Kickstarter products seek to pay out all of the manufacturing investments with the first batch. As if they don't believe that the product can sell afterwards.
Moral high ground? The only moral directive of a corporation is to maximize shareholder value.

The writer here sounds laughably out of touch.
But mom and pop coffee shops are not making gazillions in profit and syphoning that off in weird accounting schemes to other territories.

It's not avoiding a reasonable amount of tax that is annoying to most people. It is the transparent exploitation of loopholes to evade tax that is annoying.

Eg: Starbucks has to pay starbucks to use the brand starbucks, which means starbucks pays less corporation tax here, but more in the country where they've registered the company that owns the starbucks brand. (Which just happens to be an office in a building in a country with a low corporation tax rate.)
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No, this means that you should be worried about the Cancer that is killing you (sovereign debt raising by hundred of billions every year) instead of the rash on your skin (a few millions X company did not pay over a year).

It's all a matter of priorities, and proportions. And the media (usually state-controlled, at least partly) certainly want you to see the "skin rash" rather than their own mistakes, because you should be way more angry by how lax they are with YOUR money in the first place.
Interesting. It's pretty standard for all that to happen in semi-luxury cards today. But they do have a push-button to start the engine... I guess in an electric car, there's not really any need to "start the engine" since it can just be triggered by pressing the gas.
It's a language issue. I spent some time in a major inland Chinese city this year. 2 weeks in a city of 14m people and I didn't run into a single one that spoke sufficient English for a conversation.
Here are two fiction books that I really enjoyed and learned from:

1) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. This book is an emotional roller coaster. After reading it, you will better understand what life is like for the mentally challenged.

2) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. You will get a glimpse into the life of Russian aristocracy in the 19th century. More importantly, you will learn about love and human relationships.
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I think they're talking about GNU/Linux.
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And it has a barometer!
To be fair, there is iPad 2, the New iPad and the 4th generation iPad. They're on the plus side of half, but your point still stands.
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> It seems it adds weight

Well, welcome to the spectacular world of physics -_-

Anyway, they say it's made of thin plastic, so, judging from the pictures, the bare kickstand could weight less than 100 g.

EDIT: grammar
...Apple, which gives all its development tools away for free...

I have to purchase some overpriced PC hardware to run Xcode though. Meanwhile, I can run a complete Windows development environment of in a remote hyper-visor VM on commodity hardware (and I do).

On OS X, I can at least trivially compile for older versions.

I can write a program today on Windows 7 and go install it on Windows XP, a system that was released over 11 years ago. I can also make a program that will run on Windows 95 or 98. Can you do that from OS X to Mac OS 8 or 9?

How well do Mac OS 8/9 programs run in OS X? Do you really think they run as well as Win 95/98/XP programs run on Windows 7 or 8? Do you actually run programs from that era? Which ones?

It's funny that you compare Apple, which gives all its development tools away for free [minus the cost of a Mac], with a company that charges 615 Euro to get a Pro version of their development tools, and suggest that the latter is developer-friendly.

That's not why people often say that Apple is not developer friendly. There are many reasons but I believe the primary one is that Apple often locks out developers where Microsoft does not. For instance, only Apple can affect NSScreen visibleFrame. Nobody else. That's why every Dock replacement on OS X has the same bug: windows end up beneath the replacement dock when "maximized".

Microsoft also creates tools and frameworks for all types of developer stories where Apple simply has nothing. Corporate developers, game developers and add-in developers. (Apple doesn't even have official APIs for developing add-ins for products whereas Microsoft created an entire markets for Visual Studio add-ins or Office add-ins.)
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magnets probably.
> you are OK with Google not paying taxes because... they don't provide jobs to the UK?

Google have a main office in London http://www.google.co.uk/about/jobs/locations/london/ , and also the campus startup/co-working space at http://www.campuslondon.com/, so clearly they do provide jobs to the UK.

If that's a significant percentage of their worldwide operation, I can only guess. Given that they say about the London office "We’re one of Google’s largest engineering operations in Europe", probably yes.
I'm not sure what you'd do with the data itself, but if you want to build some interactive charts to show off your project, Highcharts[1] is a good way to go.

1: http://www.highcharts.com/
By the way, downvoting instead of writing some counter-argument is not cool.
Maybe. Most customers having heard the allegations though I would have thought that it would take a lot more than this to pull the wool over their eyes. Maybe I misjudge some of their customers though...
Hear, hear!
But mom and pop coffee shops are not making gazillions in profit and syphoning that off in weird accounting schemes to other territories.
Welfare is commerce infrastructure; refusing to acknowledge this fact is what leads to the current dystopia of bankrupted welfare states in wealthy countries. Without a healthy customer receiving regular income allowing for discretionary spending, Amazon and Starbucks would simply not flourish, period. Regardless, these corporations refuse to share their burden in maintaining their own markets alive; they long for a parasitic model with no responsibilities towards their host system.

Google is in a slightly different place because it benefits less directly from this infrastructure. Which doesn't mean they shouldn't pay more than they do now, of course.
<i>The avoided taxes are corporate. All the VAT, taxes related to the jobs they've created (which are legion, as you yourself have admitted), local taxes (I am unfamiliar with how these work in the UK, but I presume they exist)... are still being paid.</i>

Amazon "sells" all the e-goods they can from a notional location in Luxembourg so that they can charge a 3% VAT rate on them. Small physical goods are / were shipped out of Jersey (although how many of them actually came from Jersey and how many were notionally shipped there and back again? Your guess is as good as mine...and I wouldn't put it past Amazon to push that little loophole as far as they possibly could) so that they incurred no VAT at all, until the government finally clamped down on that little scheme.

Trust me, if they can avoid the VAT, they will do so, and pocket the difference at the expense of local suppliers who can't afford the economies of scale that would permit them to set up these schemes.

And if you really think Starbucks artificially moving profits around by charging more than the market rate for coffee beans from it's own traders in a low-tax country is legal, I have a bridge to sell you. Unfortunately, the Inland Revenue just doesn't have the manpower to clamp down on the proliferation of ways in which companies can play these kind of "Hollywood Accounting" games, which is why some kind of alternate-minimum-tax approach is the only workable solution IMO. (Assuming you believe in corporation taxes in the first place of course, which is a whole separate kettle of fish!)
It's called "Kickstarter" but anymore it seems you need to have a really slick pitch with mock-ups/prototypes and professional graphics to get any attention (and thus, backing). All that is really expensive. It seems antithetical to the apparent goal of removing barriers of entry into making "things".
So if you ever run into financial trouble and I owe you money, when you come to me and ask for the money back I can tell you that I'm not paying it back because you need to get your affairs in order first?

The two things aren't linked, the fact that we need to get our house in order is surely a reason to make sure we're ensuring we can get in whatever revenue we can?
"no obvious deficiencies"

I would argue there is something obviously wrong. And I blame the government for not fixing it quickly. And the people for not being loud enough.
There's difference between paying 19% of your income in UK vs paying 1% of your income somewhere in the Bahamas.

Over 90% of companies pay 19% of income tax + over 20% VAT tax. They often times coexist in the markets with the corporations paying 1%.

It's not important whether it's Google or Apple or BP - they should all pay the same taxes the small/medium business owners pay. Corporations use the same infrastructure that small/medium business owners pay for. Meanwhile they say "fuck you!" to said people and pay their 1% in the Bahamas. Additionally, they get enormous competetive advantage through lower taxes while medium or small companies need to gain it through superior products.
Sounds problematic to me. What if I want to sit in the car with it off? What if the passenger has the key in their pocket and gets out at the airport?

Some things should be done intentionally, not automatically.
I strongly recommend reading the Carl Sagan book in a similar vein called "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" for folks interested in a pop-intro to genetics and the history of life.
ahh but you don't live in Canada, $50+ a month of 75gb of bandwidth, its much cheaper to store steam backups on drive, especially if your friend already has a local backup, then to download again.

Additionally moving from university, internet came with residence, to moving back home, I find myself reverting back to using usb, before I used to stream all my music/video via youtube and other networks, now I download, used dropbox a lot of files, but the now I've gone back to usb. It's like travelling back in time...
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Thanks for the correction, you're right. I'm going to leave the title of the submission for now though, to keep it consistent with the title of the actual blog post.
> Would you levy UK taxes on every penny Google makes, simply because their sites are accessible in the UK and used by UK residents? That would make no sense.

You check they're not using weird accounting to set up a (tiny) business in a low tax regime, and then syphoning money out of the high tax regime into that low tax regime.

Google has customers in the UK buying ads, and people in the UK viewing ads - it seems reasonable that they should pay UK tax on those bits.
Which was undoubtedly planned for, weighed and included in the manifests several years before launch. Not to mention getting NASA approval for being in space (lot of crazy tests), NASA dietician approval (because it's a foodstuff), NASA chemist approval (make sure nothing bad will happen to the space station if it gets somewhere). Trust me there were way too many people involved in getting that ice cream up there.
I use Subsonic. I stream music locally/remotely to my phone/laptop without a problem.
Could this be considered libel?
I absolutely agree. My point was just that it's easier to see how Amazon and Starbucks directly benefit from the "UK System" and so justify why they should pay their fair share.
Excellent points. Thank you.
If the company is bought by another company, then your data is now owned or managed by the new company. Hopefully it will be a company you trust.
My contact list currently lives in Google Contacts. It is used by Google Calendar and my Android phone automatically, and by Thunderbird via Zindus.

Have you given thought to calendar integration?
For me - not a pain point:

* I have backups - so my contacts are safe there

* I also already have multiple copies of my contacts (iPhone, Desktop, Google Apps, iCloud) without even really going out to get that

The USP for me - if there is one - isn't obvious or compelling.
Anand's new battery test suite gives counter-intuitive real world usage suggestions; I don't turn on LTE to extend usage time on any mobile devices.
If you're a skilled developer you can easily make that much freelancing on elance.com.
"Really, the only way you can make it worse is by leaving a website up with animation on it or bright colors." ... Does this mean I can surf the web on it? Does this feature get disabled automatically once past a certain speed?
My gut reaction is to temper my response to this because I tend to overreact to injustice, but this is just unforgivable.
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*in the UK
It really is surprising that life could be so rare. But then you realize that the chance of us detecting life from a distant star comes in only very fine bands: in other words our post-SETI civilization needs to be within the light-distance of the star at or after they first produce radio communications but before they start using something far more advanced for communication that we don't yet know how to detect. Plus they need to not destroy themselves. And we need to actually look right at their signal, and notice it!

Basically what this means is: SETI is looking for stars that have developed intelligent life and radio roughly exactly as many years ago as they are light-years away from us. This minimizes the ease of finding significantly.

We could assume civilizations always use advanced forms of radio after they develop it but then why haven't we found life? We assume there must be a limit to the usefulness of radio in that sense. After all, we're moving to fiber etc.
Sort of unrelated but I really like your Vinetrade site. This is how Bootstrap sites should be done, it's obvious enough to someone looking at it who is in the know that you used it and for someone who isn't the UX is familiar enough that they can jump right in but it's differentiated enough to keep YOUR style front and centre.

Did you do it up yourself or did you hire someone?
Booby trapped software. Very clever, except for when it blows up in your face.

At least they only posted to twitter instead of [1] something a lot worse (think file deletion, etc).

Generally a bad idea, if you're of the leet warez d00d type, to give any illicitly acquired app your credentials to anything important, at least until you've verified that it's safe.

The armchair lawyer in me wonders if someone could get a libel/defamation suit going because of this. The average user wouldn't probably have much to go on, but the head of a company perhaps.. yikes.

[1]: http://www.geocities.ws/johnboy_tutorials/bt.html

why yes that *is* a geocities address!
Sloppy effort on behalf of the developers. Andreas (author of the blog post) was right to deny it permission to use his Twitter account the first few times but gave in eventually because of the nagging.

If there was a way to see expanded permissions before allowing a program to update perhaps he would have not updated at all?
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I work in a quant fund. Can I just say that the longer I spend in the industry, the more I find that ML/AI techniques are useless (in general). It almost seems like collective self-delusion in building ever more complex systems that attempt to use the latest fad in the field without first appreciating that your dataset is almost always just noise...

Me, I just do my boss's bidding like a good little solider and code up whatever the fund wants. My personal portfolio is a vanilla asset allocation model. Guess which one has done better for the past 2 years?
If I had cancer I'd still get a skin rash sorted out (and I don't think that's just a problem with your metaphor).

Sorting out the government debt needs to happen but the 600-odd MPs and hundreds of thousands of civil servants employed by the UK government may well be capable of dealing with as many as two things.
Except you're ignoring the relevance of this ...

> because the transaction, upon its face, lies outside the plain intent of the statute. To hold otherwise would be to exalt artifice above reality and to deprive the statutory provision in question of all serious purpose.

...to the weird accounting used by Starbucks where their profitability (or otherwise) is chosen to please the people they talk to.
Yup that stuck out to me also. Also note they are looking for $40k, which in the the scheme of things is nothing, i would imagine that video alone would cost a couple thousand dollars to produce(i could be 100% on this tho).

Does not seem like a valid "KickStarter" to me at all.
Not sure if this is the answer you are looking for, but you could build 1 Wordpress site a month for a North American client and likely make more money than that.
Hi Eugenio,

Yep - your contacts can be easily transferred from Google Contacts and then used on your Android phone and in Thunderbird just the same.
not in the UK. Over here it can still be libel even if true(!)
The fact that the developer would only allow the app to run if the user granted access to their twitter feed would be very annoying to me. This scenario is exactly what Apple tried to help users avoid with Twitter permissions. I understand the developers wishes to stop piracy - but this is the wrong way. Simply checking for Installous is an incredibly lazy hack to check for piracy.