skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of course that only applies to the salary over one million.

Of course! So have a look at me: worked 8 years in IT and saved about 150,000 USD in that time period. I paid taxes on this, mind you. To save this amount I had to live on much lower standard of living that my peers. My wife and my kid too. I quit the job, I'm trying to run a startup. I have a child, a wife and expenses related to that. Instead of getting regular income as everybody else, I spend my savings (accumulated capital) to try create something of value for the public. I take risks. My family does too. We live on 40000 dollars a year or less. Because I'm putting everything into this business. 2 years and 80000 so far plus income I lost by not working in 8-5 job in these 2 years.

Let's say it works out. I sell the business after 3 years for 1,000,000 dollars. You are telling me that it is fine to take 750,000 from me and from my family? For all the risks I took? For all the hard work? For years of living below standard my family could have afforded but decided to take risk and save, and invest? So, you would like to see me with just 1/4 of this? And give 3/4 to people who didn't take any risks, didn't save, are living comfortably (better than me!)

I don't think you understand. France is history.
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So sorry about some French habits : many of bad comments are made by French...
In fact, some French guy like French bashing, in public international place, but it doesn't sounds good for business isn't it ?

We have also great entrepreneur with great exits or great companies. And some of us are business ready and don't complain all the time. Such a shame nobody ear of them...
This pretense permeates American culture and it's one of the things that really gets to me, because my personality is very somber by nature.

I talk to everybody as I would a close friend or neighbor, and this includes potential employers. I just can't seem to adopt default business lingo/customs, and this may ultimately be my downfall, but I'm not comfortable slapping on a fake persona.
but entrepreneur can do it :-)
Doing stuff like that is dangerous in my opinion. People may forget that they're actually doing something different from what they typed.

Explicit is better than implicit.
Unlikely to work as you probably don't see that as work therefore you're not fighting the link between work and failure.
Equally genuine counter: what costs do you see associated with redefining a year as e.g. a fixed number of seconds? To me none are obvious, surely they'd be small compared to what we've already lost from these software bugs.

Leap smear is a good solution, as is TA1; sadly the posix/unix standards do not permit it (which makes it difficult to use on e.g. government projects).
>Well, sure, but are you actually going to spend enough hours poring over the details in order to come to a reasonably well-informed personal opinion, compared with what a court will do? Courts are not perfect, but they're generally much better are sorting out the details than the media or random bloggers.

Not so sure. To continue the segregation example, for centuries (including today) courts have been shown time and again to be absolutely unfair in handing sentences to black people compared to white (even for the same exact crime). Or to rich people compared to poor (think O.J Simpson vs a homeless person accused of murder).

In this case of course we don't have that. But we do have another imbalance: the small guy versus a large company that can pay the best lawyers.

Plus, if one finds the very law someone is charged by unethical (e.g patent law), he doesn't even have to delve into the details of the matter to deem any sentencing unjust.
Whats so wrong with a merge? Git is made for it. Sometimes things are nonlinear. I prefer to roll-forward anyway instead of rollback.
>>For coders, I would posit that most burnout comes on the heels of failure that is not in the hands of the coder (management decisions, market realities, etc).

Maybe you missed that section of the quote; for me, it rings true. At times I have been in situations where I am sacrificing time for projects that are poorly managed, and it doesn't really matter that I'm doing everything right.
YES. Many times. It has allowed us not to mess up App Store builds.

I have worked on two UI-heavy iOS apps, and code reviews are very effective in comparison to the automated testing we have. github & bitbucket make it easy see a linear stream of commits and discuss individual lines.

This all falls apart when a programmer takes a day to implement a feature, and then pushes it along with a merge commit that can only be reviewed by manual diffing on the command line (and I have found regressions that way).
Sounds nice... i'm very well interested.. sent you an email
The scientist bringing the old fashioned teasmade back from the grave
Uhh, maybe you should try that in Chrome. The very first item on the drop down menu that comes up is the back button and no you don't need to release right click to click on it. Also, it's even faster than Opera, you can just right click and then release it over back and not have to left click at all.
To be fair to Udacity, I did the CS101 course to get a reasonable intro to CS concepts and found it really useful. Doing CS262 now, and it's all very applicable to understanding the deeper workings of the code.
Well, you could always write to 0xA000:0000 (yikes)
Herschel space telescope goes blind, ends mission
Pardon me, but this is fucking awesome!
Back when I was a lowly customer services rep for an online store I replied to a customer email with that spelling. She did not see the funny side..!
Were you by any chance spidering the site from the same IP?
Why Your Startup Is Failing (and How to Fix It)
I completely missed that paragraph, thank you! That solves my questions regarding COPPA.
Why I deleted my Twitter and Facebook app
It's often the other way around, the GPL disallows distributing the software under the very restrictive terms of those app stores.
>people needing help are in a stressful mental state. they don't act rational, some stay nice, some turn into monsters. first step is to calm down, then solve the problem. some need tough love, some need love.

If you solve the problem, the rest of it goes away. Yeah, if you exasterbate the emotional bullshit, you can make it harder to solve the problem, but my experience on the phone? Playing the autistic nerd works just fine. They called for help on a problem, if you just bring the conversation back to the problem, and, you know, fix it for them, they are usually pretty happy with it, even if you don't "build rapport" or whatever.

Of course, this assumes they are contacting you because they are trying to solve a technical problem. If you are sales or what have you, I'm sure the rules are completely different.
In Now app, go to Settings | My Stuff | Places | Work. You can edit the address in there.
Google declares Glass open to hackers, releases source code
LEDs would be much better suited for this.

In fact if I had the free time then I'd build a binary display for page hits using a series of LEDs on a Raspberry Pi (sadly I have a million other projects going on at the moment - such as finishing my website so I can get hits to begin with hehehe)
git checkout -b a-topic-branch
git checkout master

then you reset master to the remote master, there is a command to do it but I do this kind of things with gitk.
Nothing's stopping you (or a potential commercial user) from negotiating a commercial, non-GPL license, you know.
> I sell the business after 3 years for 1,000,000 dollars. [...]

I don't know about French taxation, but I don't think the sale of the business would be taxed as a million dollars of income.
Use the basic HTML interface and there will be no such problem. https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html
No. I can't think that I was doing anything like that at all. I even subscribe to the RSS feed from a different IP and read that over IMAP!
I'm not a fan of rebasing as it makes for a confusing git history when you are working with Gitflow. I find it much nicer to see the merge bubbles which indicate how features were introduced into a release. Flattening the history makes it tricky to get a clean overview and pick precisely when certain actions were performed.

-imo
I do the same thing really, because I'm lazy, it's easy, and it usually doesn't make much difference to how I'm using git. However, different strokes for different folks.
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They did clean their servers. The slashdot title/summary are a bit misleading. Perhaps they wanted new PCs already and simply estimated that it might be a good time to upgrade rather than clean them?

Still wish they would've donated the PCs instead of throwing them away.
The 75% tax only applies to salaries not if you sell your business and it's a marginal tax rate, if you earn 1,000,000 euros it doesn't apply to you.
Sometimes - why not? There are times when the client comes back with two dozen tiny feature requests. Fix one, push/pull, loop.
You so naughty
If you enjoy reading about applications of Neuroscience,
the following is also good.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5624573
The article seems highly relevant regardsless if people can stay on topic.
Great point - Unfortunately, it's endemic in European society that bankruptcy should be labelled as a permanent branding of failure for an entrepreneur. Until this year in Ireland, an adjudicated bankrupt could not apply for €630 credit without disclosing his status as a bankrupt (which could last for up to 12 years!)

I'd bet that the countries with the lowest barriers to exiting bankruptcy (eg 6 months in the US) also have the highest start-up success rates.

Bankruptcy laws are inversely proportionate to an innovative start-up ecosystem.

Getting rid of the '040' label is definitely a step in the right direction and I'm delighted to see that Hollande recognizes how important it is to remove this stigma.

On a side note, Liam Boogar, the editor of the Rude Baguette (source of this article) is an absolute gentleman who works tirelessly to better the fate of French start-ups. Keep up the great work!
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Dear Google, Why are the finance SERPs getting worse? (UK related)
I can't help but notice that around a lot of the main terms, the amount of spam in the index is increasing.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=loans

It was better for a while but now it seems to have came back even worse than before.

Is anyone seeing this in other verticals?
Why do people get out of their way to use some marginal browser when there better both proprietary and open source options available?

Why do people go out of their way to use a marginal operating system when there are better both proprietary and open source options available?
Just to add another completely incompatible platform for developers to target? Or do they really like the gimmicky extras (like genie-animated minimizations)?

(Note: Not making fun of the Mac, which I use everyday. Making for of the parent poster for his narrow-minded view point)
Sometimes a browser crash and subsequent restore with a lot of HN tabs open will trigger an IP ban.

HN is finicky, hard to know for sure what caused this.
Does HDI measure human rights? It seems to based on combining life expectancy at birth, years of schooling and GNI per capita:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
Why did anyone bother to press that ancient machine back into service? And why did they not just wipe the hard disk and put up a new copy of the OS on it, especially if there's malware on it?
I'm finding the piece submitted to be fairly sketchy, but there's some coverage elsewhere:

http://www.ibtimes.com/lear-capital-did-attempt-harvest-gold...
Unfortunately this tends to be the case more often than not. I don't think it's out of fear of litigation, I think it's simply laziness and pointless HR process.
The innovator who knew too much
What don't you understand in "over one million" ?

If you sell it for 1,000,001 the 75% rate only applies to the extra 1. Not the whole 1,000,001 just the 1 that is over the million.

That's what is called a marginal taxe rate. Each tax braket only applies to the money within the backet range.

If you make 1,000,001 the first 6,000 are not taxed and the last one is taxed at 75%. (Or will be if we ever get that).

--

Edit : There also seems to be a concensus about selling not being taxed like a salary. I wouldn't know. But there was also quite a debate on whether the taxes on selling companies was to high.
I'm still trying to pry my jaw off the floor. Really, it's a thing of beauty. A sick, sadistic, twisted, nostalgic, mental beauty, but beauty all the same.

And yes, I'm familiar with the xanalogtv screensaver. Among my faves.
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There was a PaaS posted last week I do believe but cannot track it down.

Basically, it allowed you to grant users access to various web services from one manageable control panel.

Any enlightenment would be great.
A bit higher percentage than I expected but such polls are often dependent upon participation of those who log in during the poll's time frame. Still though, far below a majority (as I write this) - the "Top 20" voting is 24.6% as of 5:30AM after 681 votes.
Ezekiel 47:9

And everything that liveth, which moveth, wheresoever the rivers shall come, shall live, and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be wholesome, and everything shall live whither the river cometh.
- 1599 Geneva Bible

...and the KJV has similar.

You didn't even check! :)
My girlfriend used to work in customer service of a hosting provider and this is funny because I feel like I've heard every single one of these stories before.

She wasn't that pessimistic though, I think she liked explaining stuff to other people.
This is (surprisingly) very cool! Some of these results could easily be hung on a wall.

I'd love it if you could add some sort of crude voting system, so that the good ones rise to the top.
I recommend links for text-mode browsing.
I'm curious. Do you also blame Apple and Microsoft and Facebook and Twitter for not doing the right thing when you don't see their full code base on github?
It's too expensive to make sure there's no recoverable data, that's why they generally don't. It's even too expensive to take them apart and parts are harder to donate as well (more work on the other end).

(On the other hand, if you're in IT there - very cheap computers! They usually trust their own personnel to be responsible and wipe everything properly/not look for anything before use. )

While it's sad I can understand where they're coming from.
What a sad affair to see people born into positions of power in this day and age. Ashamed to be Dutch today. Ik Willem Niet.
What about places like UAE? The Dubai "Internet City"- Free Trade Zone offers absence of corporate and personal income taxes or customs duties, as well as free repatriation of capital and profit in any currency. I'd say, if you don't want to pay taxes, go to Dubai.
This is utter balderdash.

A nation that executes thousands of its citizens yearly, while also arranging sham trials and allowing affluent perpetrators to have body doubles serve lengthy prison sentences, should be the last to point fingers at any judiciary, elsewhere.

At least, Middle Eastern states follow Shariah, a religious code (however harsh or barbaric) that dictates the severity of the punishment.

These Chinese wastrels have no such consistency nor do they have the moral rectitude to hold every one, high-born or low-born, to the same rigor of enforcement.

Muslim theocracies often get a bad rap for their macabre laws and punishments.

The Chinese are the true compassion-less brutes. No country comes close to the way in which China "cleanses" its lower classes using a medieval "correctional" apparatus.

So take that state rag and shove it up Wen Jiabao's rear.

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment#Global_distr...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19357107

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00pqhxk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_van

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEd17taOrmA
A leading researcher on human behavior genetics drew my attention to this Wall Street Journal Saturday Essay at the journal club where he meets with colleagues to discuss the latest research. He'd like to see some responses posted to this essay by other researchers, as he doesn't take this view of genetics of criminal behavior.
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Ah, that sounds like a distinct possibility! I almost permanently have boatloads of tab open.

Do you know what I can do about it? Is the ban temporary?
Speaking for seven billion people are you?

The first thing fascist or communist countries do is strictly control who has access to guns. Supporters of the regime, in the case of Nazi Germany, were allowed to keep their guns, but other people were stripped of their weapons.
Am I the only one here who's frustrated by this entire discussion? I've a very strong underbelly feeling that we should simply build tooling that make these entire discussions unnecessary.

I don't mean a non-sucky CLI for git. I mean something more fundamental, something that connects with common programming workflows so well that we can stop discussing the tool altogether.

I'm not sure what that would be, but I hope that one day someone smarter than me will invent it.
When merging a rebased feature branch, make sure to use merge --no-ff so that a merge commit is introduced even though fast forwarding could be done.
If you sold the business, this would not be a salary - this would be a capital gains transaction.
From the title I assumed someone had built a packet-switching network out of lego, which makes the actuality slightly disappointing.
Hook up a USB Flashing Police light to failed CI builds

http://www.amazon.com/Rhode-Island-Novelty-Police-Beacon/dp/...
Not to mention the complete lack of freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of religion, and almost completely non-existent property rights.

We're not talking marginal variances (in which case people reply by saying that the US isn't perfect on x y or z either), we're talking the wholesale lack of.

I can Google "gulf of tonkin" or look up the spraying of black communities with zinc cadmium sulfide by the military in St. Louis in the 1950s and 1960s. I can read all about the bad things our government has done. In China they have to hide everything via censorship. The US is a basketcase right now, compared to the past, but it's approximately a million times more transparent than the Chinese system of government.
git checkout master
git reset --hard origin/master
Not forgetting "if true" in the last paragraph.
This is an interesting point of view and that it’s not the first time I’ve heard it (especially from indian students who were wondering if they’ve made the good choice coming in the UK instead of France).

However the only trouble on those stories is they were describing France a bit too much like California.

That said many foreigners usually do see opportunities when locals are just blind.

So if there is any attractiveness to France seen by Indian people who believe they can leverage those opportunities, this should be welcomed and probably rewarded too.
If Chinese do human rights violations, this doesnt mean USA is not doing it.
If we are talking about violations dome by americans, lets stick to that. I am sure much positive can come from that discussion than finding faults with the messenger.
Growth metrics for 1,936 Australian startups.
> It's interesting to see the availability of firearms to citizens presented as a violation of human rights.

The U.S. is an outlier among liberal democracies in its constitutional insistence that access to firearms is a human right. It's also, significantly, an outlier in its rate of firearm-related deaths, with a rate of over 10 per 100,000, similar to Panama and the Philippines and three times higher than the next highest liberal democracy.

Canada, which has roughly the same culture and economy as the United States and shares the same continent, has a firearm death rate only one-fifth of the United States. Australia, which also has a similar culture, has a firearm death rate one-tenth of the United States. The United Kingdom's firearm death rate is one-fortieth that of the United States.

I get that many Americans believe their 2nd Amendment is what restrains the government from tyranny, but the evidence across all the stable liberal democracies manifestly discredits this hypothesis. What keeps a government from tyranny is not the threat of armed revolt but ongoing broad civic engagement in a dense, complex and mutually reinforcing fabric of democratic institutions, traditions, practices and civic values exercised in open, transparent and accountable ways at every level of resolution from the federal government to municipal affairs.

I would go so far as to argue that America's cultural hostility to the idea of government - the deep-seated belief that governments can never be trusted and will only behave (barely) under the constant threat of armed rebellion - is actually a major obstacle keeping the U.S. from becoming more functional and more accountable to its citizens.

It's a failed 18th century idea that is holding America back from joining the rest of the industrialized world's norms of civility, and it helps to explain why the U.S. is an outlier in so many varied measures of life, health and wellbeing.
When French entrepreneurs move to Berlin and London to work on their companies you know you have a problem.

France's capital gain taxes are a real issue, and even the new, changed and improved rates will not do much to counteract this.

And that's just one of the things working against French entrepreneurs, the various employment laws don't help a whole lot either.

It would be fair to class France as start-up hostile at the present date, but the situation is improving. Which gives me all the more respect for those French entrepreneurs that succeed.
The big problem I see is creating this 'underclass' of people who don't have the rights of a full citizen. I mean, it's normal to do this when someone immigrates; depending on visa, sometimes they can't even legally work. Or they can work, but they are put in a legal position, for instance, where they have to leave the country 15 days after they get fired.

But, to me? the really bad thing would be to make that hereditary. To say you don't have full citizenship because your dad didn't have full citizenship, even if you have never set foot outside of America.

"jus solis" means that whatever legal restrictions we place on immigrants will fade with time, as they die off.
> spain/poland/russia/uk/germany/france/italy/everywhere...

Television news in the UK is legally required to be independent, fair, and balanced.
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