skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually fairly common in decisions striking down agency interpretations. Sometimes a court will order a specific remedy, but other times they only rule that the existing regulation was illegal but leave open multiple ways of curing it. In the case where the problem was that a regulation impermissibly distinguished between groups that the law didn't allow distinguishing between, there are two ways to fix it: put everyone into bucket A, or put everyone into bucket B. And in fact in either case you have to do it retroactively, to fix the ruled-invalid error of treating the two groups differently.
I think it might be something more about the fact that New York's interpretation of the 2nd amendment differs so greatly from mine that I am fearful for what they might do in regards to other constitutional amendments.

As a side note, I cannot move to most cities in Colorado because I happen to have two dogs who are banned by their breed. The point is, there is way more to the conversation than just taxes alone.
A better alternative would be for google not to publish this shit on their store but still allow useful background notifications and allow third party manual installation.
No it was there, I just don't tend to pay much attention to my scroll bar. It is way over there on the right.

The designer of this page went to a lot of effort to make the blue bar at the bottom fill the entire page, without letting any of the "below the fold" content show. If you resize the window, it grows.

I don't scroll pages unless there is a visual indication that something is there. I have a nice big screen, so many pages fit fine.

Maybe I'm just an idiot who can't operate a browser properly, but I think this is a case of designer seeking elegance over usability.
I'm glad to see the 6502 getting so much attention on HN. I like the article title Unwind used here, so I've changed the article's original title to match. (Note to self: try to come up with better titles.)

I've seen that story before that the 6502 worked perfectly the first time, but I think there's some mythologizing going on. The ROR instruction was totally broken on the first release of the 6502 and wasn't fixed until months later. [1]

The quote above says that the 6502 has 3510 transistors, and this number appears many other places. It turns out that the 6502 has 3510 enhancement transistors and 1018 depletion transistors, for a total of 4528 transistors, according to the visual6502 analysis.

And if you're interested in the inner workings of the 6502, you should definitely check out the huge transistor-level schematic at: http://www.downloads.reactivemicro.com/Public/Electronics/CP...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6502#Bugs_and_quirks and details at http://www.pagetable.com/?p=406
This actually happens all of the time, see the copies of Shakespeare and Beethoven on sale at your local bookstore. The content is being repackaged and sold, but that doesn't negate the fact that the works are still available for free somewhere else because they are public domain.
The repeal of the exclusion actually seems like okay policy (at least sans the 80% requirement).

The retroactivity, not so much.
Is accessing MIT's network and downloading millions of documents worse than illegally re-playing a copyrighted NFL game to your buddies?

No, people in the tech community can't make sense of what happened because they viscerally understand what he actually did, just like everybody understands how to record and replay TV. Aaron plugged into an ethernet port to get a faster connection, something people do every day. Aaron continued downloading files after he was told to stop. Should he have faced some penalty for continuing after being told to stop? Sure. Should it have been decades in prison for asserting his right to a jury trial? Of fucking course not.
Regarding culture: I once had an interview where one of the co-founders slash CEO (who had the last word on my hire) decided to interview me and showed me some code on part of their - at the time - current production systems. I wanted to test their so called culture, so my answer was basically "This is retarded. I'd like to meet whomever wrote this and give him/her a kick in the teeth for such an ugly implementation of X and Y. I would have done Z..." The CEO answered in turn "That would be me and you're hired. I don't like people that suck up to me, and I want to be told when I'm being an idiot. And I will do the same. Can you live with that?" -"I'm sold!"
After not being able to find the phone number for a large audio visual company, an admin I worked with searched for the company name using Google Maps and found both the 800 and local phone numbers.
I hope there would be a Linux distribution which focuses on applications.
As compared to California?
Close; I was taking my son to school. We're investigating this now.
Could you define, even loosely, what "fairly-priced" means?
Anonymous release appears: 33 GB of Aaron Swartz's JSTOR files
Some things about the US still surprise me. In "socialist Sweden" (as it's sometimes called) retroactive taxation is unconstitutional.

On the other hand capital gains is 20-30%, and most entrepreneurs actually have their gains taxed as income. That means you're lucky if you get to keep 13%. ;) I'm exaggerating a bit, but not much.
That will work until one of the Microsofts of the world decides it's more cost effective to move everyone 2 hours drive north to Vancouver than it is to pay this giant bill.

The US is quickly going to learn that there is a rather modern country to the north that isn't in the same financial distress as Europe or most states are.

I'd imagine given that, this line of thinking would probably play itself out pdq.
I get a 404 everytime I try to update my hostname entries. "Oh no! It seems the page you were looking for has been eaten by Sammy."
Canadian government investing $400MM in VC funds over next 10 years
Things to be prepared for/random advice for when you become a boss:

- People will treat you differently because you’re their boss.

- Yes, you can still be friends with people who work for you. But the work relationship will always have to be taken into account.

- You will have to delegate things that you would prefer to do yourself. It sucks, but you have to do it.

- You will have to delegate things that no one wants to do. It sucks, but you have to do it.

- You will have to put a dollar value on the efforts of other people. Some people will get more, and others will get less. Sorry!

- You will be tempted to tell them about things that you hope will happen (e.g. “I think we’re going to be able to get you a nice raise this year”) Don’t do it. Either it won’t come through and they’ll be disappointed, or it will come through and they will have gotten their hopes up for even more.

- You will be tempted to “give the squeaky wheel the grease”. Keep in mind that everyone wants things, but not everyone will speak up.

- If someone just isn’t working out, you have to let them go. Remember that you’re not doing it for yourself, you’re doing it for everyone else on the team. They deserve a great team that works well together.

- People who work for you want to check in on you to see how they’re doing. Some will say it, some won’t. They need to get feedback from you either way.

- The second person who works for you is going to have different needs from the first person who works for you.

- People who work for you need to know that you have their back. Sometimes this means fighting for proposals that you know will fail.

- The happiness and career success of another human being are now your personal responsibility. You probably have more power than you immediately realize. Don't try to pretend it's not there. Use it responsibly, for the benefit of both the company and the individual.

Just my experience, YMMV, etc, etc. Yes, there are probably some rare people who don't need management . . . but true cases of that are probably extremely rare. This is based on experience managing a small team in a large company. I'm sure being "the boss" rather than just "a boss" is probably even more extreme.
There's isn't even a cancel button! Hopefully at least the top right X cancels the installation rather than just respawning the popup and requiring manual killing from task manager.
Yeah, I can't figure out how to use the internet.

In NYC, including city tax, it's $5,203 versus $5,289 in California. If you live in NJ or Westchester, it's $5,495.

That being said you can live in New York City and get much better public services than say living in Silicon Valley. $100 per month for a MTA pass versus $100 a month for car insurance alone, etc.
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"You'll see more attractive people in your match results."

Reading this email actually disturbed me. A computer program is telling you that you're attractive, and that it's going to hustle "more of the attractive people" to you.

"the attractive people"

I'm only 20 years old and still have plenty to learn about ladies and relationships, but I know I can do better than have a server cluster tell me who is "in my league" and who are "the attractive people." Holy shit.
Looking at the Brazilian startup challenge sponsors, there are a few that can help you as well:

http://www.anjosdobrasil.net/

Brazilian angel investors, and

http://startups.ig.com.br/

That's a source about Brazilian startups, maybe they can direct you to a mentor.

Edit: 500 startups did a Brazil round as well, so there's an Y Combinator alternative for you.

Edit2: where do you live? If you live in the south, and there really aren't any startup hotspots (which I find hard to believe), you can always come to Montevideo :) there's a decent startup scene over here.

I know there are tech hubs in Porto Alegre and São Paulo and Rio.

If you're in the north, well yes, that's a bit tougher and I can't advise you much :) the internet is your best bet I guess.
Of course, the original "house of correction" is where they put "undeserving" poor peope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_correction
I'm not sure what paper you're reading either.

Page 210:
"Plea bargaining has been documented in Eng-
land where crime rates are closer to German than to American
levels; the constant factor in both England and the United States is, of course, adversary criminal procedure."

All that's talked about on page 215 is that "in contemporary [1979] England, official ideology has been until lately loath to acknowledge the existence of plea bargaining," but that it is in fact well-documented (as an example showing that, if there were an unofficial plea bargaining system in Germany, it would be easy to discover by interviews of legal counsel).

I agree that the US is indeed a more extreme case (especially in not limiting plea bargaining to certain types of cases and openly accepting plea bargaining in principle), but this author clearly believes that the causative factor in both cases is the complexity of common law trial procedure (which, again, seems to have reached extremes in the US that are unmatched in the UK).
To other child post: FUD. What the heck does NY have to do with the federal constitution? It takes 3/4 of states to pass a new amendment, so it's not like NY can do it on it's own. The second amendment limits the federal government from passing certain kinds of laws.
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Link bait.
I recall many were predicting Apple would have a tablet computer, running a touch-enabled version of their desktop OS, not the iPad.

What you call a tablet these days is not what we were looking for as a 'tablet' in 2010. At least, the pricing guesses at the time were based on the idea of a touchscreen netbook of some shape or form.
Are the servers really in NYC or are they in NJ like most providers who claim to be in NYC?
I should be more clear: XML isn't a good fit for all databases, but it should be understood that if you're mainly storing and querying XML, an XML database ought to be a better choice.
not anymore..
Depends on the industry. Though Facebook/LinkedIn are very valuable tools to make that first warm contact. But don't depend on them. The key is to use a combination of online and offline tools. So, introduce yourself on LinkedIn, have a nice email chat, then meet on a Skype/phone call. When you are done, send them a nice card through regular mail.
How has everyone's experience so far been upgrading? Any speed improvements?
Come to Mexico, beautiful beaches, good weather, what else do you want?
Since the algorithm is based on percentiles, if all women uniformly rate men lower than men rate women, how would it have any effect?
There days we have kilobytes of RAM on Arduino and other AVR boards.
very good point. it seems like it would hinge on whether the act was defensive (MIT asking for help) or in reaction to an FBI request.
Seriously, I've been throw into the gulags and tortured at least 5 times while living in NY. It's awful - just awful. Don't come here, whatever you do.

Don't say I didn't warn you!
But I thought their financials would be in ruin, what with giving out all of that free healthcare?
At this point, mentioning gun legislation is almost an extension of Godwin's law.
I have a simple account and the simple app on my Android phone. It's top notch. And while I've run into an issue with them refusing to work with my paypal account (because the paypal account shows a business name and my simple bank account is a personal account) -- the tech support was at least friendly about it. So far I like what they are doing.
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It's a red state and thus they stay out of your business and it costs less.
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To me this is a symptom of the twisted politics around taxation in the US. You have one very powerful group that is continually fighting to lower or eliminate taxes and another somewhat less powerful group that wants to bring in enough tax money to fund government services. One side cuts taxes or refuses to raise them and the other side finds new things to tax or other taxes to raise.

Normally such a tug of war is not an issue and is basically a natural consequence of a functioning democracy but in the US it has gone to the extreme.

Personally I blame the anti tax group. They seem to have no use for logic or evidence and only demand more cuts regardless of the previous ones or the consequences. They are refusing to provide the funds necessary to run a modern government.
In Göttingen she was at first not tolerated by her peers, but she was strongly supported by Hilbert. In fact she used to announce her lectures under his name, because she was not allowed to give them officially.
If we exclude stuff like OLAP and spatial databases, there are only 3 types of database: relational, pointer and logical.

Relational means something that accepts Codd's constraints, more-or-less. Pointer is something that doesn't, and which therefore easily allows hierarchies.

Logical is like relational, expanded to allow recursive queries, prolog-style, which is a high level way to have hierarchies and Codd's constraints, but you pay for in terms of query performance.

The thing is, pointer databases have been reinvented again and again: First as the mainframe cobol databases of the 70s, then as the filesystem, then as the windows registry, then as OODBMSs, then as XML databases, and now as NoSQL.

The other thing is, Postgres is designed to cater for all 3, relational, pointer and logical.
Life requires a non-zero amount of effort. Avoiding crapware just requires sound practice and by definition less effort than dealing with crapware.

As a point of comparison, the iTunes store contains loads of crap. This is not a reasonable basis for condemning iOS.
Don't get me wrong, we will eventually get to the spot Europe is in if we don't make changes to our health care services of one type or another.

We have however shown a remarkable ability to vote for people that tell us we can't afford things we can't afford. We took drastic austerity measures in the 90's and we actually voted for it - twice.

I'm not too worried about our finances, once people get the numbers in front of them, they tend to be convinced.
Apps are downloaded from the publishers. We validate files with SHA-1 hashes and digital signatures (where available) before using them.
You're acting like Ninite can be used to install and remove any crapware from any installation under the sun. In reality Ninite only works with a select handful of applications. In other words, Ninite does not solve the problem that companies like InstallMonetizer create.
You can't just throw away all context to make it seem like he did something everyone does every day. If I plug into the Ethernet network in my closet to get a faster connection, that's one thing. If I go into the network closet at Lockheed-Martin and do the same thing, it's a big fucking deal.

MIT is a key piece of the defense industrial complex. It might be a hotbed of internet intellectualism, but it's also at various points been one of the top non-profit defense contractors. I can guarantee you that when the police found someone was attached to the network switch, before they figured out the identity of the person, they ran through the scenarios of whether the downloading was a cover for accessing classified information, etc. They wouldn't be doing their jobs otherwise.

Once you've created that kind of suspicion in people, they're not as eager to give you the benefit of the doubt as people on Hacker News who see the story in full hindsight and with sympathy towards his motivations.
Come to (western) Michigan. We have new corporate tax reforms that dramatically reduced liabilities (6% rate for C-Corps, flow-through taxation for LLCs and S-Corps, personal income tax rate of 4.3%), we have a 6% sales tax, low property taxes, very cheap housing (compared to much of the nation), well-educated workforce, and liberal gun laws (for the guy who wouldn't move to NY). Our 4.3% income tax rate is still lower than CA's QSB credit rate.

EDIT: Michigan's new corporate income tax also has an alternative rate of 1.8% for Qualified Small Businesses... those with net income under $1.3 million. If your corporation operates outside of Michigan and has no activity in Michigan itself, there is no corporate income tax.
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A lack of institutionalized corruption and organized crime?
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You forgot a pre-filled contracts. The time spent filling out contracts can make people uneasy. Pre-fill them with your data and just have them sign it.
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Nonsense about the Health Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation
Gracenote merges their lyrics business with LyricFind
Also see the opening scroll and artwork in "The Forbidden Planet" (1956) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BogNQ__nOeI
> with no chance of getting out in 20-30 years.

Those sentenced under forvaring can apply for parole after 10 years, and after 21 years the case is reviewed every 5 years (to decide whether the inmate is still dangerous to society) and parole can be applied for every year.

There is very much a chance of getting out in the timeframe, if the inmate reforms.
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Probably Texas, or some Midwestern state
For me, not being able to try the library in my app is a deal-breaker. I'm not willing to shell out $199 on faith alone.
Definitely legit :]

We are working on building the alpha right now.
The problem with these countless articles telling you the "super-über-top-secrets" how to a "hacker/guru" is that the small companies who would heed such advice have much better ways of finding great people available to them - while the (big) companies desperately needing this type of advice are far from being able to implement it any way because they have way too much process to struggle with.

How to hire a "hacker" or at least a great fit for your team? Make sure you offer a great place to work, make sure your people are happy and pay and treat them well - word of mouth from "hacker" to "hacker" will be ten times more valuable than anything some nameless derp wrote on their blog and it will ultimately work very well towards building a team that fits and sticks together.
> applicability only to criminal cases

Where do you get that? The Constitution says simply:

"No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."

Period, end of story. Just because someone on the Internet says this applies only to criminal law doesn't make it so.
it would be extremely difficult to sift through, by yourself, the collective output of 300 of your facebook friends. Imagine having to sift through all of the status updates, the pictures, the check ins, the timeline contents, the photo tags, etc etc.
Its true that its not about increasing tax revenues, but it doesn't seem to be a "petty overreaction" either, its the FTB applying the Court of Appeals determination that California's QSB benefit statute violated the Constitution (the exact words from the holding regarding the statue are that "The statute is discriminatory on its face and cannot stand under the commerce clause.")

The FTB doesn't have the power to arbitrarily rewrite unconstitutional laws to remove the parts that have been found to make them unconsitutional -- either the court (by explicitly severing the unconstitutional provision) or the legislature would have to do that.

The court of appeals case is at http://www.leagle.com/xmlresult.aspx?xmldoc=In%20CACO%202012... and the FTB's description of its application of the decision is at https://www.ftb.ca.gov/law/notices/2012/2012_03.pdf and the FTB's FAQ on its action is at https://www.ftb.ca.gov/law/Qualified_Small_Business_Stock_an...
I met my co-founder at the very first Ruby on Rails user group meeting I attended. His previous partner had left him high and dry with a customer and no product, so he was at the meeting looking for a technical co-founder. I didn't know RoR then, but I figured it would be a perfect chance to learn.

We were both wary enough not to agree to anything long term up front. It started with a simple quid pro quo 2 week contract after which we decided to test the waters further by continuing to work together unofficially. After about a month we negotiated a reverse vested stock agreement with a short cliff (already passed) that satisfied us both.

Version one of our product (voltagecrm.com) is nearing the end of the beta cycle and will soon be available for purchase. In the meantime we've been bootstrapping the product using a custom theme on top of an open source CRM to start building a customer base and stay profitable.

I think the partner I found by complete luck was better than I would have found if I'd gone searching. His skills complement mine in every way. He is a salesman, a people-person, who is willing to talk to clients, lawyers, mentors, etc. He has the proper "better to spend $10 than waste 3 hours of your time" attitude that I can't seem to manage. He goes out to ask current and potential customers what features they need and what problems they have with our current system. In short, he makes sure that all I have to do is write software.

Perhaps most importantly of all, I actually like my partner. We can sit and have lunch and talk about things besides the company without feeling uncomfortable.

From reading about the experiences of others, I'd say I got very lucky indeed.
In my experience Simple's main product is customer service (and delight). They're great at leveraging technology to accomplish this, but I'd say they're far from being a technology company.

In an ideal world I'm sure they would have created their app in-house, but it looks like outsourcing the development left them with a quality final product. Seems like a smart enough choice to me.