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For some companies, it is important to keep a good public image, and for some it's not. But it's always done to maximize their profits, not because of good intentions.

For example: Valve, Google and Facebook all try to be "good," since their target audience are often young, technology-oriented people who care about how good the company is.

But for some corporations, it doesn't matter what their users think. Majority of AT&T customers are average people, who know nothing about ISPs and slow Internet. They just want their "Skype-box" to work.
Routers route packets between networks, regardless of the address space being used.

Nothing about the use of a public addresses forces an extra hop in the way you suggest.
Does it mean Google will attempt to become a mobile provider as well? At least they could bring some sense into the market by providing a service with no caps.
It's correct. The numbers won't match your back-of-the-envelope calculations because it's a tad more involved than you're assuming. Among other factors, there's additional time for the plane to debark and for passengers to make it to baggage claim. You don't want to arrive at the airport just as the plane is landing. Plus, I'm not sure how Sean edited that video together when he did the screen capture.

Props for noticing tho ;)
Before reading the article, I thought it was going to be about keeping a TODO file in your revision control so that you can see when things are added/removed by reviewing the history.
I don't know if you could say the IRS will hardly care about coffee if they are considering caring about lunches. What is a lunch a day, $10? How much do a few "barista" coffees a day cost? I actually don't know, I'm not a coffee drinker, but I can see that easily topping $10/day.
Araxis Merge, problem solved?
"If the meals really do provide that value, the company can trivially pay the tax on behalf of the employees."

How exactly? You could estimate that meals were valued at $250 a month and then bump the salary of every employee by $250*(marginal federal + marginal state)taxrate so that when their W2 came they would owe tax but they would have the money. But what about people that withhold 10% for a 401k, so the money you bump up has 10% of it contributed to the 401k so you have to bump it an additional 10% to make sure the employee cost hit is neutral. So now you're providing funding to the 401k effectively. And then there are employees who bring their meals and then don't incur the cost but they get the paybump, do they file for a reduction in gross income because they didn't eat the meals, and then just pay marginal tax on the income bump? What about when their spouse came to visit and they ate a meal too, extra bump in income? extra tax? discount?

It isn't "trivially" possible to do anything except kill the benefit. That is "trivially" possible. And the people pushing for this aren't the IRS it's the companies that don't give their employees free food. I believe the free soda perk cancellation at Apple was before the web so it doesn't show up in archives but at one time all the soda machines on the Apple campus were free, and the IRS swooped in and told them to pay tax on them, and the soda was then "not free." I was at Sun (where food and soda was not free) but beer busts were, and thought that would help with our co-workers being poached. And it was part of the reason Sun killed the beer busts according to Crawford Beverage (no lie, that was his name!) who was the VP responsible.

Do you follow through and tax free laundry? sports equipment? medical visits? store discounts? swag at product launches? If you really wanted to nitpick it you could kill a lot of stuff at Google. You don't think some "not Google" company wouldn't prefer to level the playing field a bit?
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Yes. Per application (or domain, it'd be hard to make a technical distinction anyway) would make more sense I think for typical use cases.
Watson was demonstrated on live television, how is that not a possibility that they adapt that technology into a publicly available search engine?
(I am a co-author on the paper).

Your criticism of the title is valid.

But re: your line "the linked reference is supposed to be a scholarly work from a leading educational institution"

Note that the bad title belongs to an article written for the popular media (and written by non-experts). It is not the title of the "scholarly work" that the article describes. The scholarly work (http://stanford.edu/~ppd/papers/pnas-polarization.pdf) has a pretty dry title that no one in the popular media would use.

I am not condoning the mistake, just pointing that it is less egregious than what you seem to be implying.
I never liked Psychonauts. The humour was spot on, but it wasn't an adventure game at heart; it was basically a bunch of mini action games strung together where you run around in people's minds, and those mini games were awful. Really cheap-looking 3D, stupid goals (collect dream symbols and stuff), and just overall annoying.
When I'm a contractor and I go out to lunch with my clients I get to write that off as a business expense and it is effectively untaxed. Same for travel. However, the company paying for my meals or travel to and from work should be taxed? This argument goes well behind just a few large corporations.

The line for when something is business related and when it isn't is very blurry. I probably socialize a lot more with my coworkers because the company provides us free food and a place to socialize. Previously, when I worked at companies that did not provide meals I ate a significantly higher number of meals at home, alone, or with non-company friends. These meals have a business value to the company, so aren't they a cost of doing business? You could argue that the company also gives me a computer that is more powerful than strictly required to do my job and I can even use it for browsing HN during breaks. Should that be taxed as a perk then?
Thanks for the link, just watched it all the way through. I felt disturbed thousands of miles away - can't imagine what it's like to actually be there, so close to death and destruction every second of every day.
Hi David, sure, I'll try to contact you and I'll send you the config info.
Right. I prefer GitHub issues nowadays, but a TODO file is totally reasonable.
I have a 128GB SSD, and it's constantly almost full. My photographs and music collection takes about 30GiB, WoW takes 30-40 GiB, my dev projects and school work about 7 GiB, OS and software takes 34 GiB (8GiB of that is reserved for future use), and rest 20 GiB is various miscellanous things that add up. I need 10 GiB free space to download and watch a movie, too.
It's not. I founded a recruiting company around the idea that everyone should hear back. It was time consuming though. Before we automated some of the rejection functionality, it was many hours per week for an employee to reject applications one at a time.
This whole situation highlights another problem, you should never base a business around a third party API or service. Remember when Twitter changed their guidelines and API usage rules basically destroying companies that had built a product based around Twitter only for it to be deemed in violation of the new rules? This situation should be a warning to others thinking of putting their eggs in one basket, because if the service you've come to rely on has the final say in the end for how your product should function and if that understanding is based on loose interpretation of company rules, you are at the mercy of that reviewer.

I hope AppGratis sorts this all out, it's a heartbreaking story. I know from experience what it's like to spend months working on something only for it to be rejected.
I don't know it. But unless it's something that comes built into Git it's not useful. It needs to be something everyone has. That's the whole point.
Why not just use 'git notes'? This seems like exactly the sort of use case that feature is for.
Under what scenario would this increase stability in bitcoins?
UCSD Computer Scientists Develop Video Game that Teaches How to Program in Java
I know it is probably unrelated, but this made me think about the power Google has and could use to affect third party sw...cough...skype....cough...

Anyway, I have a Nexus 4, looks like a good suggestion never to rush with upgrades... if it works dont touch it?
you should treat any appstore business that way. seeing as how there's no consistency in apple's enforcement of the "rules", and they feel free to change them any time they please, dealing with the appstore on any level is basically a crapshoot.
I have heard that when Google negotiates salaries, they often chime in about the value of the perks, and that employees should be willing to take a lower base bay because of the perks.

Google tells the IRS it is non-compensation, but tells prospective employees to value it as compensation.
I've tried to write the above comment as un-biasedly as possible, just to give you the info and what the arguments are about.

For what its worth, I think that the 50% extra price to connect an extra 71% of homes directly to fibre is worth it. I like to use the analogy of the rail networks being built in the USA, or the interstate highways, or even the light rail in Calgary. Each is a massive project, which costs quite a bit of money, but in the long term, repays the investments many times over in the things they enable.

The opposition is guaranteeing that nobody will have less than 25mb/sec, and the government is touting a maximum speed of 100mb. But they seem to shy away from the fact that 100mb is just the speeds you will get with todays technology in the exchanges. I'm not too familiar with networking hardware, but it seems that increasing the speed of a FttH network is much easier than the FttN network, because it involves replacing hardware in the exchange. Whereas with FttN, you are fundamentally limited by the copper connections to the houses.

I heard the opposition communications spokesman yesterday on the radio, talking about "What will the average person possibly need with 100mb/sec?", but then you could ask the same thing for their 25mb/sec connection: "What will the average person possibly need with 25mb/sec?". I know right now, that my mum, sisters, brother, etc would not be able to utilise that bandwidth. I think that by conceding that 25mb is the minimum suitable bandwidth for the future, they are conceding that faster networks will be required in the future. So why limit it at the arbitrary value of 25mb and say "This is all we will need".
Once they have you they tend to aggressively hike their rates
For more reasons than you can shake a stick at, not the least of which include the fact that not every employee receives the same value from this "benefit", and the fact that valuing it is ridiculously subjective. Add in the deleterious effect it would have on companies (who would probably just scrap free lunches altogether if this goes through) and it's hard to see it as anything other than totally brain-dead stupid.
I do this with tdl and add the .tdldb file to my commits. Works great!
Ask HN: How to promote a Flippa auction?
I am selling a site on Flippa. The auction ends this Thursday evening. To promote the auction, I have emailed companies who operate in similar niches. What are other ways I could promote the auction off the site?
Trust of, and trust in collegues

An environment supportive of trying new things and accepting the inevitable failures

An environment measuring results in a week not a day, and delivery over months

It's cloudy to me, this perfect environment.
My initial reaction to this was: "Yep, glad to see one of those self-entitled students get called out for his disrespectful behaviour by a Professor." But then I started thinking about the way my Professors in college had behaved about this (I went to a university that's regularly ranked among the top ten in the States.)

At least in undergrad, specially in massive classes where there are sometimes 100+ students in attendace -- there was little or no backlash against 'dropping in' to a class late. The only condition stipulated by many of my professors was, "Don't ask for permission to come in and disturb the whole class." Even in grad school, the only downside to coming in late was that you would miss very important material.

Nevertheless, none of my professors have (thankfully) thrown me out of class for coming in later than they expected. Students, especially those in the hard sciences and engineering live a fairly stressful lifestyle, with little opportunity for recreation and a nutritious diet. They should be forgiven for slipping up once in a while, whatever the reason ("Shopping around" or just plain "I woke up late because I was up all night doing that assignment")
I think "savings" is probably the wrong word - "profit" might be better.

If I have a car to drive to work, then I should be able to claim some proportion of it as a deduction. Currently that's not allowed (at least in Australia, where I'm from).
I also find it very frustrating that Bootstrap encourages such markup. To be fair, the icons are by far the worst culprit; less-than-perfectly-semantic markup is a by-product of almost every grid framework out there, and much of the remaining markup is fairly clean, albeit a little verbose.

What would be super-awesome would be a version of Jetstrap that is framework-agnostic - i.e. one in which the available classes and their suggested structure is customisable. That sounds like a much harder problem to solve, but probably one that's worth someone doing.
that's all well and good from a user perspective. as a developer, why on earth would you trust apple to determine whether or not your app is crap?
User Schemas for the Real World
This is a function of of data connectivity issues, not iMessage downtime.
Or that AT&T already has a TON of fiber in the ground in Austin, from back in the 90s.
You could say the same thing about $10 - the value of a $10 note to (eg.) a millionaire is a lot less than it is to most people. If the employee is hungry, then they'll value lunch more.

For accounting purposes though, it's $10.
Every Nodejitsu app is down
It doesn't. The parent may be using GrooveIP or another GV-SIP gateway?
People should keep developing for iOS, they should just fully understand that point and have other markets and a contingency if it does happen.
> You likely lived in an MDU (multiple dwelling unit), i.e. an apartment.

Which is, like, nobody in new york city. Quit complaining everyone!
Meh... I was about to reply to this and just realized I let myself get drawn into another political debate. I enjoy this as much as anybody, but HN really isn't the place for it. Let's just say I have radically different ideas about the proper nature and scope of government than a lot of people.
Theodore Vail would be proud.
I'm reminded of the government's TP Pool Regulations [1] in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.

[1] http://soquoted.blogspot.com/2006/03/memo-from-fedland.html
I have looked at the code (and had looked at the code before leaving that comment). Please understand that the OT backend they are using is just something they got from someone else, so it isn't really interesting that the OT backend is open source. In essence, they just took an off-the-shelf open-source OT implementation and connected it to an off-the-shelf open-source HTML+JavaScript rich text editor.

The main thing that is difficult about building something similar to Firepad would be building the scalable distributed backend: there are no open source projects that I know of that provide that functionality. That is the value add of Firepad: the open source code is just some glue that you can find from other projects (including Etherpad, which is open source with both rich text and OT).

The thing that actually makes this interesting is the proprietary scalable synchronization backend from Firebase. That is interesting, no denial from me on that front: except for some issues with trusting the clients (pointed out in my other comment), this seems like a great and simple way for developers to rapidly get access to this collaborative text editing functionality for their applications. The open source parts, though, are not what is compelling.

To take some concrete examples: ShareJS is a strong implementation of OT (the guy is one of the people who had worked on Wave), but the backend they provide is less-than-stellar, based on fairly centralized storage into a small handful of backends, and no real attempt at supporting scalable front-end server endpoints (so, you have to have everyone connect to a single machine to act as the single-threaded mediator). Etherpad-lite is based on a similar architecture; you can shard these solutions on the document, but it just doesn't hold up in the same way Firebase does vertically.

Looking at this then from an alternative direction: one can imagine just taking the FirebaseAdapter from Firepad and wiring it into the backend of ShareJS. This isn't much work, and would probably be more useful than Firepad's current stack that is tied to the text editor: in addition to being able to use any of a number of text editors people have wired over ShareJS, ShareJS also supports arbitrary JSON document OT, allowing you to build systems that are closer in functionality to Wave (where people were using OT on the program state of things like chess games).
I think you got the idea confused and/or backwards.

You don't have to buy useless things in a deflationary economy. By not spending, you have more buying power for when you do decide to spend (holding all other variables constant, which isn't real-world truth). Thus, inaction is more profitable than "useless" actions/goods/services.

In an inflationary economy, you stick money into deposits (instead of under your mattress) because you lose less that way. These deposits are used by banks to fund loans. These deposits probably guarantee a very low but fixed interest rate (such as 0.1%), which makes a tiny dent in how much you lose due to inflation. They also make the bank lots of profit when they do well and are insured against you losing any money (except by inflation, of course) as long as your deposits total <$100k.
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The incentive is to cheat on the light timing. Yeah, there's a standard, but who's really checking?
One should never use the router given to you by your telco.
What bootstraps package manager?
This, this, this. Google has kc govt bending over backwards and att is using austin to make a point to any city thinking about doing this. Very smart business move. Att will get free incentives to upgrade.
It doesn't matter if you know programming even with 10 years' experience, since people with much less will get a job by selling and people with more will not get a job if they so much as look funny.

Study how to build a personal reality distortion field, that is the ability most in demand currently
[I think HN is throttling us; I had to wait a while before a reply button appeared. Feel free to email me (michael at firebase) if you want to continue the conversation.]

If the standard mitigation strategies (adding authentication, banning malicious users, etc.) aren't enough, and you're worried about people breaking the synchronization, I agree you'd need to move the checkpointing logic to node.js server code. Sounds like a good example app for me to write when I've caught up on sleep and have some free time. :-)

We're also looking to do a security v2 in the future to expand on our existing security rule capabilities and we've discussed going the "real code" route or else allowing tighter integration with your own server-side node.js/firebase code.
Well, maybe I'll hold off on buying one for a little while. Yikes.
In addition to the echo, background noise is really bad during VoIP calls. This comment has some interesting details:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=41626#c20
Wouldn't this, ironically, stabilize Bitcoin, if others try to take advantage of its growth and try to bring it down again?
Microsoft “scroogled” ad attacks Google Play data sharing with developers
Much like Firefox forced Microsoft's hand in regards to Internet Explorer it seems as though Google have forced one of the major players hands to innovate in the Internet and bandwidth space as well. Any outcome of this battle will only benefit the people in the end. More choice equals a better deal for everyone and I have no doubt this was never about money on Google's end in the first place, merely a wakeup call to companies like AT&T and Comcast who have stopped trying and let their networks deteriorate.

Considering Google have only spent $100 million on their impressive fibre network thus far, AT&T have a lot of catching up to do here to meet the same service offering Google is giving customers (no network caps, fast speeds, a new and reliable network).
Not only that, but the telcos were given massive federal subsidies which they were supposed to use to expand high speed internet connectivity and they never really followed through on their end of the deal.

EDIT:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_0026...
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> My I-live-in-SF argument is why isn't anyone doing this for us?

It is really really really expensive to do anything in SF, much less deploy fiber on a wide scale basis.

(I also live in SF. I <3 sonic but don't live in a place where they have fiber and even they can only do so much.)
Back in my Demon Internet days we went through every possible way of solving that last mile. One of the most innovative solutions, that actually got trailed before being "canned" was to backhaul fibre through the sewage system - it was pre existing tunnelling in every home, could be installed by any fool and had negligible effect on "flow"

For some reason it never caught on :-)
It exists all over the place. Small and medium businesses all over the country use old legacy systems that need to be upgraded and maintained. The hourly rates are insane for this kind of work, because it's work no one else wants to do. I had a friend who made an incredible living for himself just maintaining old programs written in COBOL, or re-writing small custom applications in Python or some other modern language so they could upgrade their OS.

Everyone wants the "cool" job building websites and consumer facing apps in Rails and Node, and so they all compete for those $120k developer jobs here in San Francisco. No one is competing to add a new input line to an old COBOL program at a factory outside of Detroit that actually makes something.

San Francisco and New York are where people to go to write software for the internet, and internet connected things, but most software running today that powers small industry and manufacturing, at least in the US, is old and disconnected. Maybe they manufacture soap or water bottles, who knows. Pretty much any small company that has "Since 19xx" anywhere near their logo is probably in need of help somewhere. I used to work in an industrial park with no less than two dozen of these kinds of companies. Not once did a software engineer, or firm, or anyone drop in, and yet I know that pretty much every business there had an aging system in need if upgrades or repair. Some move to turnkey solutions, but most need something a little custom because they have custom machinery somewhere in the building.
So the IRS wants Google to get taxed to buy the food and then the employees to get taxed for eating the food?