skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically, upvoting an article merely means you think it is interesting, not that you support it. So you can in good conscious upvote this article if it is interesting and you want to see the discussion.

Unfortunately, most people treat up/downvotes as "agree/disagree", which is not actually the intended purpose. I routinely upvote quality comments even if I disagree with them, because the author has shared some interesting/well supported insight that provokes conversation (regardless of my personal feeling towards it)
Violent Video Games: More Playing Time Equals More Aggression
Opt in doesn't necessarily mean hidden in settings. For this feature it probably should be a pop up that appears the first time each user enters a search request before it gets sent over the network.

The question could have a positive spin "Would you like to see network enhanced search results?" with details and privacy policy links. Options of "Yes", "Ask later" and "Disable enhanced search". They could even put an "Are you sure?" If disable is selected.
I don't think you lied, but I also don't think you would fend off money that's actively chasing these companies. Are you actively telling interested investors that they can't invest because it would bring the amount per startup over $80k?
Does somebody have a list like this for Android?
You are free to send the government as much money as you like. How much do you send? If you are in the US, do you just send the amount that turbo tax tells you to, or do you send more?

Do you take any deductions (i.e. the standard deduction, or itemizing)? By the reasoning of your post, that would make you "something close to evil."
Resistance to this design decision by Canonical should have been intense when it was announced, and not when someone with an audience decided to state their opinion.

It probably should have been. I don't use Ubuntu, and I had never heard of the issue at all until Richard's article. Knowing about the issue doesn't have an immediate practical impact on me, but I will likely make it a point to avoid Ubuntu in the future.
You can play word games looking for precise definitions of anything. I don't have a clear-cut definition of the word "hacker," but in most places it's clear who is or isn't (I'm definitely not at this point in my life, though I might have been five years ago when I registered here). Yeah, there are some edge cases - maybe someone thinks he's a hacker because he runs Gentoo and knows a little shell scripting but people who contribute substantially to open source projects think he's not - but the vast majority of people clearly are or are not hackers.

Reddit started out like Hacker News, because it was initially best known for being funded/mentored by Paul Graham, so people who were interested in him went there. It mutated into the Reddit we know today - which is why pg felt the need to fork a new community a year or two into reddit's evolution. HN would probably do the same thing given a laissez faire attitude. It's up to HN to decide whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Tax competition might be a good thing, but creative accounting just to dodge taxes isn't. Not in my book, at least.
So in the vast world of disciplines, there are two kinds: disciplines that are scientific, and disciplines that aren't. Economics is one of the latter. There is no reason to take what economists say as conclusive, specially in the domain of macroeconomics.

The comment by the Cornell professor above also ignores a very simple fact: capital expenditures are tax deductible. The idea that taxation directly reduces the money available to invest in the company or hire workers is just factually incorrect. It may reduce those things indirectly, through deadweight losses in the economy, but tax law is structured so that capital expenditures and salaries are paid for with pre-tax dollars.

There is a strong fairness argument to taxing corporations the same as individuals: corporations are treated as separate persons for liability purposes, they should be taxed as separate persons for tax purposes.
They run a version of Android called Miui (http://en.miui.com/). It's based off of AOSP (Android Open Source Project) and also some off of Cyanogenmod (http://www.cyanogenmod.org/), another custom ROM for those unfamiliar.

However, it's diverged to have little in common with either AOSP or Cyanogenmod in the past few years. They more or less try mimic an iphone-like experience on Android, only with more customization and features.

I'm not a fan of it really due to the fact it's closed source and I won't touch any Android ROM that doesn't post its source. Quite a number of people like it, but there's many other options out there.
I say good on Google. They've found a legal loophole that allows them to use their funds more efficiently.
Corporations can't hold on to money forever: at some point it goes to actual people. For the sake of argument, without saying whether it's a good idea or not, you could make a revenue-neutral elimination of corporate tax by raising taxes on people.
> Yeah, OK, however it is paid by all the other companies working in the UK, Europe etc... and many have not the means to register at Bermuda...

They all have the means to register in Bermuda (or Cyprus or several other countries used to offshore money), it's relatively simple for an accountant to setup, but there's little point as the UK doesn't have any easy way to get the money back into the country from offshore without paying the required amount of corporation tax; so there's no point in sending it overseas in the first place.

The US does have periodic amnesties that allow offshore money to be brought back into the US at a reduced tax rate which makes hoarding it overseas for a few years financially worthwhile.

Of course, there's nothing stopping a UK company with good cashflow (which is required if you're going to be keeping lots of cash overseas in the hope of a future amnesty) from moving their headquarters to the US and doing exactly what these US companies are doing to pay little/no UK corporation tax.
This strikes me as a tragedy of the commons. It's in everyone's individual interest (including corporations) to pay as little tax as possible.

Assuming that this is entirely legal, I don't see how this is a problem in Google's behaviour. If there is a problem, it is in the tax code, and the Government has sole responsibility for that.

Making tax codes simpler would make it easier to not leave loopholes, but politics always seems to drive it in the other direction. Perhaps the need to avoid this kind of situation can be a good force in keeping tax codes simpler.
Peter Thiel on Entrepreneurship and What To Do With Your Life
>60 fails to produce more than a 40 hour week after 2 weeks of >60 work
The important thing is not that piracy is good, but that the "war against piracy" is a bad thing.

Just like in US drugs aren't "good" (at least they're no better than alcohol and cigarettes) but "the war on drugs" has a pretty devastating effect on the american society without addressing any drug problem.

This is the same with piracy: to fight it movie and video games studio are adding DRM that affects paying customers without preventing piracy, and to censor piracy websites (like the Pirate Bay) the government passes laws that can later be used to silence an opposant (= restrict freedom of speech).
Client side Glimpse on the server
Exactly.

Companies get profits proportional to the value of goods they provide to the economy.

Saying that somehow $100 earned by Google is more beneficial than the $100 earned by a small dental gabinet is extremely stupid. Both companies should pay taxes on their profits and none of them can claim it does more good for its money than the other.

To me, what Google tries to say is pure bullshit.
check out the demo video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke8Rw2BGPG0
d) ok, great! We'll all use off-shore companies to get our taxes down to a few %. Then let's see how we fund the NHS, roads, infrastructure, education, welfare and everything else you use daily that you don't pay for directly.
Not to mention that California's state government is in lots of debt. If the big tax-avoiding companies in CA paid a bit more tax, well...
I did consider that, but it would be far too easy to just put #mpt #eaten 10000. So I left it as 1 per tweet.
Good point. In fact, Jono says this:

> With this in mind, just because someone may have differing
> views to mine on the implementation of privacy in software
> doesn’t mean they are wrong. Likewise, just because my
> views may differ to theirs doesn’t mean I am wrong. We are
> all different and we all manage our information and our
> expectations around information sharing in different ways.

I kind of regret the way I said what I said above now, but I still think Jono has failed to address my privacy concerns. From the point of view of somebody who is worried about the privacy implications of the Amazon integration, all the post really does is to say "Well I'm not worried". It does say it in quite a reasonable and comforting way though.
Why would anyone here support a fundamentally racist, oppressive de-facto apartheid occupying state which is about to commit genocide?

Especially considering the above average intelligence i presume people here to have.

Israel needs to be boycotted, globally. Not supported. Not in any way. Not in the slightest.
First screenshot shows an application on what, Windows 2000? Rofl, nice try.
From the tax money they would pay only a very little part would go towards their community and employees. Most of it would be wasted on a lot of nonsense. If their goal was to make the world a better place it would be a lot more efficient to take the matter in their own hands and use their money directly on stuff they think should work better. States and governments are hugely inefficient.
The difference being that Google is not going by opinion, but rather by law. Not saying I like what Google is doing (or like that they can), but if you want Google's behavior to change, the only route is likely going to be to change the law.
i.e.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4898851
Was the point of this to build it or because you needed it? I don't see the use of this other than as something to make. Travis already does what this does.

However, it does look like a fun weekend project, so I'm assuming that's what it is, seeing as the first commit was Saturday.
That's a feature I might add, location of consumption. Thanks.
But candidates can view the whole thing as a package can't they? $x at A% valuation + $y at deferred valuation.

If a startup needs $95k investment to get started, YC is a viable place to get that. Isn't it?
What about Go? http://golang.org/

This is a bit off topic but I'm in a similar situation and wanted to know if anyone had any thoughts on Go. It seems to strike a balance on everything except for current market demand (which could change going forward).
My point being that your comment was the one that was getting uppity. What did you think that it added to the conversation? Yes, I did miss the line in the article saying that Vic Police had reported the problem to Apple. Fair enough, I made a mistake, and the first response called me out for it. You then decided to pile on with a zero content response. I mean seriously, your comment added exactly zero to the conversation. There's no point coming off all hurt by my sarcastic rejoinder - if you want to throw stones, you have to expect them to be thrown back...
Yeah, something fresh and unique article wise can never hurt. I always figured the mentality of a hacker was to be curious about everything in the world around them, even if it's not directly related to start ups, programming and technology.

Curiosity leads to wanting to figure out why things are as they are and how they can be improved. Never know when something seemingly independent can lead to some other inspiration.

However, I do agree the content is lacking and it says that the actual research behind it is on an open site (though no link). Would have been nice to link that instead of the above link.

Since it wasn't posted here's the direct link to the research: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
Here it is http://www.apptlantis.com/app_reviews?platform=android 70+ sites
Sure? Wouldn't you optimise the attack to try words or wordlike c0mb1n4t1ons first?
yes, I do send more [than I could].

I could set up my salary through some finance companies in europe that help you keep up to 85% of your salary, but I don't.
Would be as well pointing to http://altjs.org/ - the linked article is a much shorter list, and doesn't really offer much insight; the content for each language is a copy-and-paste of the opening paragraph from each of the 9 language's websites. e.g. if you're going to mention Roy, then why not compare and contrast it with http://fay-lang.org/?

altjs isn't much better on the content front, but lists dozens more of these languages, and points you to an irc channel where you can talk about them.
Agreed, the search is worse than the actual data.

When iOS 6 was first available, I hit a link to a restaurant on a web site that opened Maps to the restaurant's supposed location. The location it opened actually had the restaurant's exact, correct, latitude and longitude. But Maps decided it knew better and showed me where it thought the restaurant with that name was, which was about a half mile off. If I removed the name and left the lat/lon then it was correct.

Or just search for "emergency room" and notice how, even today, it still shows tons of medical stuff but no actual emergency rooms.
It's so frustrating to see this come up again and again and see people refuse to acknowledge the reality of this. Corporations, separate taxable entities, can be created on demand, and profit and loss distributed at will across them. Given that, there's very little chance that a large company that knows what it's doing will ever pay any significant taxes.

Argue about loopholes or Republicats all you want, this is fundamentally built into our system and there is NO ONE who wants to take on changing it. I guarantee you Romney and Obama BOTH know how this works and yet they play dumb in tax debates for hours, and no one calls them out on it.

I think getting rid of the corporate tax makes sense because it would at least level the playing field for smaller companies, but pretending that it makes a difference for larger companies just demonstrates how uninformed the electorate is.
Microsoft mothballing Silverlight website
These "loopholes" are not really what you think they are. Most of the complexity of the tax code doesn't come from "loop holes," but from trying to define a framework for computing net income as opposed to gross income. In the corporate tax case, complexity also comes from trying to avoid taxing companies for profits that have nothing to do with American operations.
If it was an 8k tv (8000 pixel wide display) and I had access to all of pixar/disney's back catalogue in that resolution I'd be interested.
If you are in the US, do you just send the amount that turbo tax tells you to, or do you send more?

Speaking for myself, I enter deductions into the H&R Block program and watch the estimated payment. When the payment is something I think is reasonable, I stop entering deductions. So yes, I do send more than I have to.
Nobody ever became a great writer by reading a dictionary
FriendsForMinecraft Announces Launch of Public Beta
If the freedom to communicate without fear of arbitrary interferance is a good thing (via the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights) and "piracy" cannot be realistically stopped without compromising that freedom (for example, by requiring ISPs to support large-scale surveillance, or by undemocratically influencing the government to adopt positions that are in conflict with social norms) then "piracy" is a good thing in at least the sense that the freedom to participate in "piracy" is a pre-requisite for that other good thing.

I think privacy easily trumps non-commercial copyright so even when I'm feeling sympathetic to the pro-copyright arguement I am not willing to budge if it means things like more surveillance or increasing the fear that your are being watched by your government or some copyright enforcement company.

I think that's a common enough feeling to explain why "Pirate" political parties have any success (despite many political systems being dominated by a small number of established parties, and the popular sentiment being that voting for anything else is throwing your vote away).

As you have observed, that is quite a different arguement from the other possibility presented in the main article - that "piracy" (what everyone used to simply call sharing) is a good thing - which I am also receptive to. I mean, why bother having the Internet if not for the potential to distribute everything everywhere without saying "Please sir, I want some more"?
The article doesn't even show one of their phones. The mi-1 looked just like a Samsung phone, the mi-2 kind of resembles the iPhone 4. Looks like a standard knock-off business to me, what's special about them?
Quite interesting and using hashes to identify malware is just not effective in the least. However...

> Last but not least, we notice that VirusTotal (owned by Google) has not been integrated yet into this app verification service.

This strikes me as a bit odd. While I do think Google is likely to use VirusTotal for this sort of thing in the future: 1) They just bought VirusTotal 2 months before 4.2 was released, so them not having integrated it yet is not at all surprising, and 2) The binary itself isn't uploaded to the app verification server, just some info about it, so running VirusTotal against the binary isn't viable, severely limiting the integration possibilities.
From the guidelines:

Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.
Equally persuasive arguments can be made for either copying or typing code out.

On one hand, copied code is likely to work, typed code is likely not to work.

On the other hand, typed code might constructively immerse the typist in the minutiae of the code -- but learning why the code does what it does, then creating one's own version, is obviously a better approach.

On the topic of copying versus typing, the submitter of this article decided to type out his headline instead of copying it -- and got it wrong. The expression "write it out" is not remotely what the article describes or advocates (the phrase appears in an unrelated context).
Updating my Windows Phone App to Windows Phone 8
That quotes reminds me of playing Settlers of Catan. I remember when I first played I would notice someone win with a certain strategy and I'd go into the next game trying to replicate it. Since then I've realized the importance of adapting your strategy based on each board. I never know what strategy I'm going to use until I look at the board and place my cities and even then it changes mid game based on which resources are most plentiful.
No politics in HN, please.
No matter how much cryptoz makes, he won't get near paying $2B in taxes. The extra taxes cryptoz could pay would have no effect on anything in the government but could really alter his/her quality of life. Google looks like they will make over $12B in profits this year, so $2B less of it wouldn't be noticeable in any tangible way.
It's funny how the acronym FUD has such an extremely negative connotation that the entire discussion is whether something is FUD or not rather than asking if there is any legitimacy to the FUD.

I mean let's be honest here: FUD is RMS's bread and butter. But just because FUD is his tactic doesn't mean he doesn't have legitimate concerns. Certainly he's operating at a much more realistic level than the Microsoft marketing FUD of decades past that was so completely full of bullshit that it deserved little more than acronymical dismissal. I'm sure it's pretty galling to be on the receiving end of one of RMS's absolutist rants, but no matter how over the top or strongly worded they are, they can't be made to go away with a sober appeal to level-headed moderation. Regardless of the words we choose, Canonical's actions are cause for concern.
Google pay taxes on all US income (not to mention payroll taxes, consumption taxes, etc.). There is a massive miscomprehension of these tax stories as they portray Google, Apple etc. avoiding all taxes when this is not the case. The income housed in Bermuda is from non-USA receipts, each of which have already passed through a local tax jurisdiction from wherever they were generated. They are not avoiding any taxes.

The reason they are kept offshore is because if the funds were naturalized back in the USA they would be double-taxed. It is difficult to argue that Google should pay local taxes once where a product is sold and then pay taxes again on that same money when it is transferred back to the USA.

Many large corporations that hold large cash balances keep them offshore. Around 75% of Apple's large cash holdings are held offshore. They have already paid tax on that money. It is the US naturalization laws that are broken, and the perception that Google, Apple et al aren't paying taxes or somehow avoiding them.

The best thing the US Government could do would be to institute another repatriation tax holiday. There is precedent for it as happen in 2004. As much as a trillion dollars could make its way back into the US economy if a deal could be worked out - a private mini-stimulus that the economy of 2 years ago really needed.
Google is reaping benefits from the infrastructure built on taxes paid by small companies and yet they fucking dare to say they do more good than them.

Fucking hypocrites
Why not? Just because a successful burglar hasn't used force before doesn't mean they won't if something goes wrong on a job. Anybody actively breaking in to other people's homes is providing the potential for a violent situation (even if its just "self defense" against a surprised homeowner).

I'm not saying that all burglars are violent thugs, but from a law enforcement perspective, the time to make that distinction is after apprehension, not before. (The obvious exception being criminals with a known history of violence, in which case additional precautions can and should be taken.)
Completely missed that -- thanks!
Well, sure, we'd all like a pony.

EDIT: But the problem here isn't even getting hi-res re-renders of Pixar movies (do-able, if insane), it's getting you to buy a new 8K TV every eighteen months or so. Unless and until someone figures out how to utterly destroy existing TV business models, nobody is going to try and build value-add TV sets. It's a fool's errand.
Actually multiple venues talked (sometimes critically) about this problem, Mark Shuttleworth made a blog post about it, criticizing the critics. So it's really nothing new.
You failed to perform due diligence before deciding to rely on this service. I wrote about this kind of thing over a year ago: http://lee-phillips.org/gcaldisaster/ If you just Google (hah!) "calendar privacy" today my article, and a few other relevant warnings, are on the first page.
A 20 page stack trace is the symptom of another problem, not a result of decoupling.
I wanted to say DO NOT try to build a marketplace for students to buy or sell textbooks. But looking at the site, you made that mistake already.
I responded to his comment. But I agree that what Google is doing is common and I do not blame them since it seems legal. IMO, laws will change.
They could stay with the truth and claim that they are not... Bermuda-based?

It seems as simple as that, from my ordinary tax-paying citizen POV.
You're conflating the use of the word public here.

Public corporation: open to any old Joe or Jane that wants to become a shareholder.

Public interest: needs of a society.

Walmart, Google, etc. should not have to pay for lighthouses or sewer connections down a street, nor a legislator's fact-finding trip to Shanghai.
And in fact all new gTLDs will be required to have a policy to limit this kind of thing.