skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, businesses can legally reject employment based on an arrest record. In France it's illegal to post arrest records where there's no conviction; probably wanted posters are an exception though.
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There's a pretty good, if underdocumented, interface for configuring it programatically.
The average time to crack will just be half of the maximum, so it's not a big difference (compared to order of magnitude errors, anyway). Still good to point out, though.
Condensed version: Don't be afraid to dream big, as long as you're ready to work your ass off.
He was a regular on Planet Gnome, and was quite involved in Guadec. Why don't you ask him?
I think there is but you need to have a certain score to access it. Be thankful, otherwise you'd violated the guidelines based on your political bias without even knowing :-)
Very good point. I'm 27, and still remember a time of buying books, CDs and movies in the late 90s.

Anyone 21 or younger here who can say roughly what the opinion on buying things is among people your age?

It won't be wholly accurate, as my opinion on buying things (for example) changed as I got more disposable income.
Are Google (depending on how you define their identity) bound to do this out of fiduciary duty, or do they have some semblance of choice in this?
Sure, if it lasts 10 years, it's good code :-)
That's funny, because I made such stickers that I put in Paris subway on top of ads: http://emotion.inrialpes.fr/people/synnaeve/index_files/qr_w... that redirect to a random Wikipedia page...
To be fair, I'm more disappointed, that i didn't track each scan a little further, and I'm also disappointed no one flamed me when their scan took them to a web page telling them they shouldn't go around just scanning random things.
You say evasion, I say avoision.
Talk to Farabee (check first, I think he closes during the hottest part of summer). There is an abandoned mining site along the way to the racetrack that is nice (bring a flashlight, but someone sometimes leaves one in the shack). He'll also tell you where to stop to get AT&T coverage. Strange little spot where for some reason there is cell signal. A nice spot to check in with your family. The moving rocks are mostly down on the far end of the racetrack, don't despair if you start looking on the wrong end. Distance is a bit deceptive, you can easily walk all around the racetrack.
I can travel to almost any point on the planet in less than a day for the cost of a few days work. I can converse with billions of people instantly at almost zero cost. I have access to medical tech that makes it trivial for me to survive ailments that would have killed anyone in the last several million years. We can "see" hundreds of planets around other stars, and are finding more every day. These are just the first few that popped into my head.

Compared to all of human history, we are already superhuman.
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Indeed, but the public's appetite for alternative and crowd funded entertainment is relatively insignificant, as evidenced by a glance at your average torrent tracker. That's why it's described as alternative.

The public want slick, expensively produced mass market entertainment. They just don't want to pay for it if they can avoid it.
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Maybe showing it is difficult, but it looks to me like you're not even trying. You make very poor claims, and only present stuff that's even remotely sensible later on. For a good argument, you need to think through all of the possible objections ahead of time and then present your best case, not your worst.

Ditch the emotional language, ditch the obvious fallacies, and present a good argument. If you are still dismissed with that, then you can complain about it.

I know you say that you've done this and have still been dismissed. That does not excuse putting forth bad arguments now and then complaining about the reaction. Do your best, or don't bother.
"As with the NIC’s previous Global Trends reports, we do not seek to predict the future—which would be an impossible feat—but instead provide a framework for thinking about possible futures and their implications." Consideration of possible futures seems like a difficult but important task. You disparage PM, but in reality is this speculative task so different from the work that product designers/inventors do when they attempt to predict the behavior patterns and wants of future users?
Well that seals it. We had the same crap from shuttleworth.

Don't piss of your customers canonical. Unlike windows, there are plenty of compatible alternatives.
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In the U.S., there is no fiduciary duty to minimize tax liability or to maximize profits. In any case the bar for a successful shareholder suit is extremely high, and executives are given tremendous leeway in situations where conflicts of interest aren't involved. I can't imagine that you could successfully sue a CEO for a company's not taking aggressive tax positions.

Achieving low tax rates is largely about keeping up with Wall Street analyst expectations. CEO's of public companies having to face a bunch of analysts every quarter to discuss quarterly earnings, including after-tax earnings, is a huge driver of this sort of behavior. CEO's are judged on how analysts view their stock, and it's a horse race. If some other company makes $0.05 more than you per share because of a lower tax rate, they are going to get credit for that.
Isn't this whole issue moot considering that you can disable this feature of Ubuntu by running a one-line command?
How about not scanning robot barf in the first place?
That part of the article is misleading. It's not Javascript that does it, it's just CSS. North Korea do have a small few websites available to the outside world, so I've taken my example from one of them: http://www.kcna.kp

goHome.do (HTML)

<nobr><span class='spanT'>Kim Jong Il</span></nobr>′s Whole Life Devoted...

kcna.css (CSS)

.spanT { font-size: 120%;}
you just posted a link to the story itself.
check your url...
If there are thousands of foot traffic by the 80 stickers per day, then I'd say 10 scans in a month do sound relatively scarce. But you are right, 10 != no one.
Exactly. A public company exists to bring returns to its investors, not to the government.
The term you are looking for is "avoidance" not "evasion".
I don't understandd how that can be a legitimate mindset for Canonical.

Ubuntu is on the verge of becoming the major player in the early-stage linux convert market. They have the best supported platform, the largest and most accepting community and userbase, and are beginning to branch out towards more traditional markets like gamers with the soon-to-happen inclusion of Steam.

It would seem a better move politically to make this feature either opt-out or opt-it, and not required.

I've used Ubuntu's dash search when looking for an app that's not readily available. Who keeps things on the desktop nowadays? :)
What was the advantage of using a 64-bit processor in a consumer electronics device like the N64? Presumably addressing more than 4GB of memory was not an issue back then.
And I'm saying that it's impossible to take the whole country off the grid with a cyber attack.
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There are many different distros that use Ubuntu as their core, the most popular one being Linux Mint (Cinnamon), and last I checked it didn't include the Amazon stuff. Two other nice ones are Zorin OS (Windows 7-like) and Elementary OS (Mac OS X-like).

http://linuxmint.com

http://zorin-os.com

http://elementaryos.org
I wonder... why do they not hire abut 2.000.000 people in Bermuda? That would be very helpful to Bermuda's economy, would it not? Instead of just pumping money into it, give them some jobs.
My favorite blindingly obvious business plan straight from HN discussions: (insert non-US country X here) clone of (insert successful US-only business that HNers constantly whine about not being in country X).

Examples: Stripe for Norway, Twilio for New Zealand, etc.
I love looking back at the crummy things I've made[0]. It's the best way to see just how much you've learned. Not only the overall quality of the product, but little things, like refactoring abilities, readability, and following convention.

Sidenote: Aperture science logo? EDIT: WOW, Portal came out 5 years ago?!

[0]: http://jscal.es/2012/10/12/you-oughta-be-ashamed/
Full details of how someone who knew almost nothing about web development managed to piece this thing together: http://lifebeyondfife.com/98-what%27s-new-music.html

This side project though nothing revolutionary has been a bit of an obsession and labour of love for most of this year. I would just like to thank the HN community because, whether or not I read any of your blog posts, links or comments, coming here and getting motivation and mental stimulation has really dragged me up and kept me going. Cheers.
Well, but what have you heard of Babbage outside of university?
By what measure is second is miles better than torrents for the rights holder? It's been shown, at least in some cases, that having a free download of something increases the sales of that thing. It can be good publicity. The myth that free distribution is always harmful to sells is one of the things we need to kill if we want to have a reasonable argument of what's the best way to get content from creators to consumers.
They are pointing out that they pay taxes on tangibles such as salaries, VAT and business rates. Corporation tax is based on the fungible concept of profit and really is unworkable.
Canonical isn't Ubuntu either, they just happen to own the brand, but not the community.
There is a wide band of freedom given to business judgement. The critic that is the capital markets is a bit more harsh, however. If your returns aren't good enough relative to other investments of similar risk because you opted to pay more in taxes, you may have a harder time attracting investments. That's the theory at least, and a pretty good one if you ask me. To ignore that is to basically ask for not only increased taxes, but increased cost of capital overall.
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This time I completely sided with RMS. Sorry, It is not Childish.
> "I once read an article that said you should be very careful of
> anybody who can disagree vehemently and convincingly with another
> person's point without ever categorically accusing them of being
> wrong."

In fact you should seek out such people, because in matters of opinion that is the exact definition of someone with whom you can have a civilised discussion.
Most economists agree that corporate taxes are bad anyways: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/10/18/163106924/a-tax-pl...

"The corporate income tax makes no sense whatsoever," said Robert Frank, a professor at Cornell. "We don't want to prevent Microsoft and General Motors ... from investing more and improving their product line," Baker said. "That's a good thing in my view."

Our economists said if you want to tax rich people as public policy, then tax rich people — tax the people who own corporations. But taxing the corporation itself is taxing the thing that really does create jobs.

In my personal opinion, the money does more good in Google's hands than in the government's hands.
Libraries pay for their books/movies/music/whatever often many copies due to theft/damage/demand.
Please join https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/operation... if you'd like to chat more with Python developers and teachers doing the same types of things. I'm working with K12 teachers to find ways to connect with Python developers for curriculum development, networking and just getting more computer science taught in schools. :)
They're waiting for a US tax amnesty (last one was in 2004) to allow them to bring the money back into the US and only pay ~5% tax on it rather than 20% to 30% (depending on what has already been paid overseas) if they brought it in now.

Apple has ~$74bn sitting off shore waiting for the same thing: http://news.yahoo.com/apples-phantom-taxes-hide-billions-pro...

The European countries are annoyed because they're not getting any of it (apart from Ireland who are getting 12.5% of a lot of this money as they're one of the countries where these tax schemes do pay corporation tax).
a) It is in the interest of all companies, shareholders, and consumers for corporations to pay the smallest amount of tax possible. Higher taxes are simply passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices or lower supply of products.

b) All of this 'tax dodging' is perfectly legal. But the laws are not perfect that incentivize this sort of behavior.

c) Of course the Europeans opt for some larger-government solution, all in the name of 'fairness'. I say that much injustice indeed has been done in the name of this fairness, since those with the lawmaking power are the ones who decide what's 'fair.' These outcomes usually do not promote liberty, free markets, or growth.

d) I'm sick of those who spout off this 'fair share' business about taxes. Show me some figures on who is paying the taxes and who is free-riding (as far as personal income tax goes), and I will then be able to hear an argument about 'fair share.' Hint: the top few percent pay the vast majority of income taxes.
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Maybe it's the cat genes... ;)
This is pretty exciting for the Israeli scene. That space was long awaited and the (pre-)accelerator too. I'm looking forward to hosting events there (I'm one of the organizers of GDG Tel-Aviv).

Spaces and accelerators like this, or Microsoft's in Herzelia (Starting it's second group soon) make it one of the best times to be an entrepreneur in Israel.
They are just being polite. For $2B a year I doubt they care what the public thinks. And anyway every corporation does it. Talk to your congressman.
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No - but this demonstrates the mind-state of a full-time trader. Full-time traders also build that into their mindset, along with the idea of long-tail events.
It'd be really interesting to scan codes in the wild, print replacements that forward it through a tracking service, and replace the originals. Information on when and where people scan QR codes across different markets (e.g. which products are most scanned) could be quite valuable.
Well, no, actually.

Public companies exist for whatever reason they put in the articles of incorporation :)

They have fiduciary duties to shareholders, most of which have been seriously distorted over the past 50 years by legal decisions.

It Was Not Always Like This (TM).

In fact, you also don't have to go all that far back (mid-late 1800's, i believe) before not only were there no limited liability corporations, but to a time when shareholders were always responsible for paying for the illegal acts of corporations.

Crazy, I know.
Another anecdote:

I was sitting outside a brewery last week that is right next to a mall here in Colorado. This is a mall that has both an outside and inside. We were right near a mall kiosk with a mini-map and a QR code that will let you download a map of the mall. Over the course of 2 hours, I saw about 10 people scan the QR code.

I think it takes non-technical people more time to understand how to use, and incorporate new technologies into their lives. I am of the belief that most people only realized how to use the internet effectively in the last few years. Meanwhile, it's been integral to the lives of many HNers for over a decade.
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...

I can bet they can manage pay no VAT (because this is a compensated tax, you deduce what you spend...).

I may agree: corp. tax may be unworkable but saying "we are honest, we contribute to the economy" is flatly insulting to the other companies which cannot get away with it like Bermuda-based Google.
Your first point is interesting, but I'm no so sure about the second one:

Given certain search strings it should be possible for amazon to detect that this [person] engages in piracy.

Amazon does not see the search as coming from an individual. Rather, the Ubuntu servers act as an intermediary. All Amazon can see is "some unidentifiable Ubuntu user is searching for this". That's hardly something they could report to any authorities.
Sivers offers something of a response in the article:

>The guy that stole $9000 from me? My fault. I should have verified his claims.

which could also take the form of:

>My domestic partner abuses me physically? My fault. I shouldn't have entered a relationship with this abusive person, and should have removed myself from the relationship before it escalated to physical violence.

In this manner, you would acknowledge the role that the abusive partner played in the violence, but also acknowledge the steps that you could have taken to prevent being the target of violence.
> Nowhere do I claim that.

No, you just provide graphs comparing educational achievement and worldly achievement that strongly imply that they're meaningfully correlated, i.e. show a cause-effect relationship.

> What I said was that there is research that suggests that the educational level of political leaders is a significant positive predictor of economic growth

Your use of the term "research" implies a scientific basis for the result. But there is no scientific basis for the claim --- it's a raw correlation with no real meaning, and beyond this, it pretends that there is a correlation between education and schooling. In other words, it relies on two meaningless correlations in series. Like this:

Worldly achievement <|> Years in school <|> Education

My advice is not to support such unscientific speculations by dressing them up in Web pages that try to confer unearned status to guesses.

Do you know what distinguishes what you're doing from science? In science, an explanation is offered, one that can be tested and potentially falsified. Your page only describes, although it pretends to explain. But it cannot do that, for lack of evidence.
I just love it when politicians express indignant outrage when they're the ones who made the rules...

Tax competition is a good thing. Kudos to Google and Bermuda.
Public corporations are purely legal fictions created under the law to, ultimately, serve the public interest.
And private companies exist for...?
Holy hell this is awesome!
Maybe they were replaced with "One cool trick that will save you thousands...", "President Obama said..." , and "[Insert big industry] hates this!" ads. I see those all the time.
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Everyone pays VAT, but as a matter of economics it is, like a sales tax, bourne by the consumer, not intermediate producers. Salaries are deductible everywhere I'm aware of, and "payroll taxes," although they are nominally collected from the employer, are, in the concensus of most economists, mostly if not entirely bourne by employees in the form of lower wages.
A while back I created a script that reminds you about projects that you committed to some predefined period of time ago - a bit like Timehop[1], but for git commits. I've found it fun to see how my code (and my project interests!) have changed over time.

[1]http://timehop.com/
It's unfortunate that it apparently doesn't parse how many you eat -- you need a separate tweet for each consumption.
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And that allows them not to pay any taxes in the UK because...

I just don't get it.

And I don't care about Apple right now: this is a Google thread.

Edit: I obviously understand "how" it is done. I do not get why that gives them the right to do so (apart from the obvious "being able to do that").
We all know that always are going to be changed and earnings will drop by quite a bit, the govs are starving for cash. They were always hungry but now it's starvation time.
I've been thinking about doing something similar with an air swimmer, but mounting the pi on the actual swimmer would weigh it down too much to fly. Instead I was hoping to break open the RC unit and trigger the signals via the GPIO pins or something. I don't know much about electronics so it's a pipe dream, any ideas how feasible this is?
The only one at fault here are the governments that allow this. The government is the one trying to collect money, they are the ones who make the rules about collection, and they are the ones with the power to enforce said rules.

If governments are allowing this, it's because they want to, not because of some accidental goof.
Maybe it's because I'm young and don't have experience with large-scale tax problems, but I have struggled for years and still cannot understand why companies do this. Is it truly in Google's interest to work towards the minimization of government capability wherever it is? To ensure that California roads are less taken care of? To ensure that any local public debt is increased rather than decreased? It doesn't make sense to me. Wouldn't a company want to contribute its share of taxes to the government of where it is located, so that the quality of life is better for everyone there including the employees?

It seems to me that Google, especially being in California, is being...well, something close to evil by making sure they help out their local governments and people as little as legally possible.

I understand that their profits are higher each quarter because of this. I understand that's what shareholders demand. But why?! Can this attitude lead to anything except terrible news? I just don't get it.
What irks me is when they reject special characters like ?!#$@", etc.
I think you missed the point entirely. The assumption was that the matter under discussion can be argued and it is possible to determine what is correct.
I would be stunned if Apple released an actual "Apple TV" display. It's a super-low margin, commodity business, with very low turnover (how often does someone shell out a grand for a TV?) It's not at all clear to me that there's a strong argument for Apple even to get into set-top boxes; where's the revenue? Rents from the cable companies? Ick.

Maybe they'll get in bed with the devil as they did with the iPhone, but a) none of the mooted ideas for an expanded Apple TV are anywhere near as disruptive as the original iPhone was and b) they can't divide and conquer with the cable companies the way the could with the cell providers -- they're still fundamentally regional monopolies, and so a big part of Apple's advantage in the phone world just won't exist. That seems like a loser to me.
Actually, I came away confused, because he never stated "This is exactly what Ubuntu does, and here are my reasons for why it is okay."

I disagree with your point - in fact, I think you are wrong. But we can still have a civilized discussion. My reasoning is that when facts and disagreements are not clearly stated ("here are the facts; the other party came to conclusion X, but I come to conclusion Y for these reasons"), it's easy to get bogged down in points that are not central.
The implication being that the police aren't doing a very good job of contacting people about warrants. The first they're hearing about it is by seeing themselves on Pinterest. Imagine the number of increased arrests if the police started using email.
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In my personal opinion, the money does more good in Google's hands than in the government's hands.

Ok then: in my opinion my money is better in my hands, but I have a hard time convincing the IRS. My wife and my family agree with me too, by the way. Who is going to pay for the roads and the military and the......