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In EU internet purchases were always taxed, and yet online-only competitors still manage to compete with brick-and-mortar stores very successfully. So this article is quite bollocks.
If possible I would like to ask one more question: let's say Larry Elision applied to YC with the bad idea.

Do you give it a shot?
Do you think the US government is unaware of this? I, for one, do not. I bet they will do SOMETHING (not sure what, but @jedmeyers gives a possibility) to ensure that US online retailers will not be defeated by foreign retailers that easily.
>>Did the job offer say "must attend morning meetings"? Some job offers specify work hours and most don't.

Well, the job offer also did not say "must wear a suit and tie everyday" or "must treat coworkers with courtesy" or any other implicit part of being a working professional in the corporate world.

I agree with your original post though.
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I think overall it is rather highly correlated, yes. In fact, I'd submit that the number one predictor of having a high net worth would be to also have (or have had) a high income.

The easiest formula to build wealth is to have positive result to the income -expenses equation. If you accept that, income and expenses should be the two strongest correlations to large amounts of wealth overall.

Considering expenses need to be something north of zero in the best case and income has no upper bound, I'd give income the edge over the two in terms of overall strongest factor.
Although to me the book is much more valuable, making $200k off of it is not bad.
The flip side is I'd rather be found by idle browsers in a database of everyone than a database of people considered (sometimes arbitrarily) as suspicious. Ultimately the thoroughness of auditing lookups and clarity about what is and isn't acceptable enquiry is more important than who is in the database and how many months of data is accessible.

Rogue cops might be able to misuse access to the system out of sheer curiosity but similarly rogue employees in certain positions at [mobile] telephone companies can abuse their position to tracking your whereabouts and call history, and financial organizations have access to your transaction history and card numbers - both far more sensitive than a few isolated datapoints from when your car passes police vehicles with their cameras switched on. I don't see the EFF campaigning against mobile telephony or credit cards.
Lifestyle Inflation
It's (mis)using off_t, which allows for negative offsets (for obvious reasons). You also don't need signed integers to have integer overflows.
No, that's not true. In the US, we've chosen to give you a time limited monopoly to commercially develop many types of art you express, but in no way is it naturally yours. We are allowed to copy the ever living hell out of it for a large number of reasons from the second it's made.
I don't know; Poe's Law makes it hard. When there are people that actually believe things that absurd, it becomes to discern intent without some side channels (that are mostly missing when communicating with text).
"put their money in?" are you seeking an instability-hedged value store or trying to maximize the utils for given items?

Water and fuel.
It's also just a fantastic movie. It's kind of like "A Christmas Carol", but instead of Ebenezer Scrooge being saved, it's the guy who's standing up to him. It's warm, it's funny, and it asks a lot of big questions. And it doesn't appeal to a single viewer. And it's not too heavy, either - Citizen Kane might be better, but it's not really a film you can get a 6 year old to watch.

There's very few movies which are so critically acclaimed (top 100), which can appeal to adults and kids alike. It's subject is both completely commonplace, and the most important thing there is.

Also, how many good Christmas movies are there? It's got to be in the top 5 Christmas films, at least.
Watch the intense first trailer for Ender's Game right now
That's where federal regulations on Bitcoin comes in. How would you like to live in a world where Bitcoin is a black market product?
Will this be updated to reflect changes to Meteor? So, when it hits 1.0, will the book be updated?
Will be pretty funny when we get a matching duty for their services thats twice as much as typical salestax. :)
Europe is already taxing all internet purchases made within it's borders. I was buying some shoes in UK and only after I assured the seller that Ukraine was outside of EU was the tax taken off the price.
On the flip side, it'll remove a major reason to start a business in Oregon or another state without a sales tax.
> The access that HTP obtained does not, full stop, lead to root on Linode instances without at least one shutdown job or change of root password job showing up in your Linode's history that you did not ask for. ... the access they obtained does not lead to root on the Linode host fleet itself

I wouldn't bet on that.

> There will always be targets but harboring SwiftIRC is probably a malicious-actor magnet.

Isn't that the same logic Everydns/Dyn Inc. used when they censored Wikileaks?

> All it takes is one zero-day, and you will all be hit by one in your career, so cut Linode a little slack.

True dat.
Recruiter caught red handed "Yes, this email literally said <name>. Umm, no thanks <company>."

- Nice!
How to guarantee your luggage won’t be lost or stolen next time you fly.
I think he's saying that individuals that sell online shouldn't be taxed by state legislators they didn't elect. Congress won't be setting the internet sales tax rates, nor administering the tax, nor conducting its audits -- the 50 individual states will be imposing their individual rules.
Haha yea you're right! Funny how my bias trickled through. I haven't done too much Flask customization and only use it for the one off simple project that just need a web interface.

Django is definitely more in the range of "we want you to write" this way but I've found it to be at least a bit more customizable than RoR. Flask is on the other extreme which lets you do whatever you want.. but you're the one who has to do it.
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Authors in Fitzgerald's time made their money off of short stories. He was apparently making $4,000 per story.

http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bmangum/fitzstories.html

I've also heard that all the 19th century novels were so long because originally they were serialized, and the author was basically paid per chapter.
I wonder how much happiness stems from aggregate "good" weather across the locations at whcih people are tweeting. I would wager that it correlates quite nicely.

Then I would, once again, question why the hell people live in gloomy places when most of them enjoy sunshine (and lollipops?)
I guess people aren't too happy that I dislike thinly veiled attempts at trolling for a job on HN, wherein the author has failed to plan properly for a four month vacation ("sabbatical") and thus requires validation from complete strangers. It's pretty clear here that OP wasn't affected at all by the recent recession if he's complaining about not being able to find a job after only a month and a half. OP clearly needs to burn off his baby fat, and it's likely that this situation might be just what he needs to grow up.
Chrome extension to allow permanent downloads of Spotify songs
There is a lot of value in having everyone in the office at the same hours. It ensures that communication occurs in a timely manner.

I work at a software company as a Sales Engineer, and part of my job is to answer questions clients may have. There is nothing more annoying than having to respond to the client's question with "I'm sorry, I was going to ask one of our developers but it seems they have gone home for the day." Note that this sometimes happens at 3pm, because the developer decided to come in at 5.30am and left at 2.30pm. Also note that similar things happened when I was working in tech support, and critical issues had to remain unresolved until the next day because the developer wanted to leave early and catch the swell for that day's surfing session.

Bottom line is that there are a lot of fields (especially customer-centric ones) where the turnaround time for inquiries has to be extremely low. There are two ways to do this:

1. Give everyone Blackberry's that they must answer at all times
2. Have everyone come in at the same time

It's one or the other. Pick one.
But that's because of the internal market, that isn't some specific internet tax, is it?
It's not a dichotomy - some people do make a living fishing and love their lives. Will you love everything all the time - no, but you'll still essentially be doing what you love.
By this definition, everything on Kickstarter is a lean startup. How does one draw the line? I'm having a hard time grasping how this is different than, say, Neal Stephenson raising money for a new scifi novel. Would that be a lean startup as well?
Well, you are the one who likened corporate bosses to rapists, so I cannot tell if you are trolling either.
The Term Hackathon Has Been Trademarked In Germany
If they pwned the server that accepted the HTTP(S) POST with the payment information, they were in a position to obtain at least some CC numbers. They were probably also in a position to obtain the keys by which the CCs were encrypted.
Yeah dude, I live there, the southeastern sketchy part, and I've been jumped off of my bike by random people for no other reason than they wanted to kick my ass. And I don't hang out on Valencia street at all. So thanks for being presumptuous, but you missed that one by a longshot.

You're still overstating the case. Yes, gang violence is prevalent, but its not like in Oakland where bystanders get shot for shit they had nothing to do with.
Awesome flash websites from the 90s
Not a comprehensive list, but I dug these up and wanted to share the nostalgia with anyone who remembers simpler times :-)

http://www.yesterstudios.com/picts/balthaser/main.swf

http://www.eye4u.com/home/

http://v3.2a-archive.com/flashindex.htm

http://www.thefwa.com/flash10/gabo.html
Right but then wouldn't you just go back to standard currency?
If we dropped you into the middle of Syria right now, would you rather have:
1. $10,000 in USD currency
2. $10,000 USD equiv in gold
3. $10,000 USD equiv in bitcoin

I'm pretty sure the only practical answer is (1). That pretty much answers your question (2).
My objection to Disney is that (as the article states) they built a large portion of their business by taking works in the public domain and creating derivative works.

They then slammed the door behind them by repeatedly lobbying for extended copyrights any time their 85 year old Mickey Mouse comes close to being out of copyright.

There's a reason why the copyright extension act is commonly referred to as The Mickey Mouse Protection Act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
But they aren't useful because they are very bad at predicting. There are other tools that are more suited to model the complex and emergent properties of individual actions leading a market place and what its conditions may be.
Attack hitting sites goes mainstream, hits Apache, nginx, and Lighttpd
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Not exhaustive testing, but as a child (before ever having a computer, and with very very limited television access) I would stay awake for hours in the dark, and be dragged out of bed in the morning well after the sun had come into my room.
Note that you'll want to be careful to cache the materials offline if you do this, especially if you plan on "catching up" after the formal end date for the class. Some of the courses (notably the Princeton algorithms ones) disable access to the materials once the official course ends.
>The problems you describe are problems for just about every currency right now. How much of your money do you have in cash, and how much is in the bank? Do you think you will still be able to use the bank in a situation like the one you describe?

I believe cyprus had to find out the hard way as well sans civil war. They had internet, but no access to bank accounts (still very limited to this day). And I doubt the the 25%+ in spain and greece are much better off…

Call me a nut but at this point, people who have the means should put their money in things they can live off of sustainably or at least partially (PV's, rain water catch, DIY small greenhouse) because things are not getting any better globally and we seriously can't expect the printing press to get us out of this.

Oh yeah, DOW closed above 15000. quelle chance.
In a case where the entire country is cut from the internet double spending will be insignificant - the coins cannot transfer out of the country, so it will be minor.
Is "nabs" really the right word here? It makes it sound like they sneakily grabbed $5M from someone's pocket.
The U.S. one isn't a specific internet tax either. The U.S. legislation is just trying to implement what the EU already has: purchases will have tax collected based on the destination jurisdiction.

The current situation in the EU is that if you order a book from the UK to Belgium, you pay Belgian VAT for the transaction. There is also an exception that sellers below a certain volume are exempt from dealing with the cross-border VAT. That is precisely what the new situation in the US will be, if this passes: cross-state purchases will be taxed based on the destination state's sales tax, with sellers below a certain volume exempt.
Patreon: Gittip like platform to empower artists and content creators.
This looks fantastic. I am considering a purchase. Just curious, why didn't you use meteor to make discovermeteor.com?
>limited life DVD

I remember well the original DIVX at Circuit City:

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

I honestly think that failure was a huge reason why Circuit City failed. They built up so much ill will from a technically literate audience.
Did you read the actual paper, or just Tyler Cowen's blurb? The paper is based on actual data, not just suppositions. It too might be wrong, but the arguments it makes are more compelling than anything in your comment.
Is paying too much for cellular service a symbol of status?
The New York Times article submitted here is a very good overview of the key issues, well reported with historical and policy context. As I've commented in other submissions on this issue, it's helpful to read the article hand in hand with the National Institute of Mental Health director's blog post "Transforming Diagnosis"

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

for the research background on why the DSM is an unsatisfactory framework for advancing psychiatric research. I am part of a local "journal club" of psychology researchers and graduate students in psychology at my alma mater university, and what several of those researchers are seeking are more reliable diagnostic criteria based on more scientifically replicable criteria than merely the gut reactions of a therapist.

By the way, the several previous Hacker News discussions of this issue over the last week have focused mostly on the issue of medical treatment of psychiatric disorders, with much decrying of "big pharma," but an even worse problem in diagnosis of psychiatric disorders is carry-over of prescientific ideas about human thought and emotion from, for example, Freudian or Jungian psychology. There are whole brands of talk therapy that are demonstrably ineffective, but still sought by some patients, and still paid for by some chump insurance companies. Medical treatment is far from perfect, and diagnosis is far from perfect whether preceding medical therapy or talk therapy, but the problem of needing to seek better, science-based standards of diagnosis and treatment is not confined to medical approaches to treatment.
The US government will just mandate that any online business doing business with US citizens has to collect that tax on behalf of the IRS.

Quarterly deposits will be acceptable.
Why you suck: social status
many people are using http://www.newsblur.com also
GHC haskell has precise ghc via the llvm and native code backends both.

That said, it doesn't (i think) use any of the llvm hooks. Instead the gc machinery is baked into the relevant primops. The hand written primops can be found here https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/rts/PrimOps.cmm#L51
(the low level primops that aren't compiler generated are written in cmm, a ghc specific dialect of c minus minus. )
>The difficulty level adjusts to the mining power.

But difficulty adjustments occur every 2016 blocks, not instantly. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty#How_often_does_the_dif...
And I should add, I live about a block from where that 19 year old football player got shot a few weeks ago. I saw the memorial, the posters up all around the block, the whole thing.

I think you should ask yourself what made you automatically assume I was the kind of person you're describing in your response to my original comment. Because this whole debate is constantly poisoned by idiotic assumptions on both sides.
How would the US government mandate a non-US business do anything? They can't prohibit US citizens from buying from these companies without violating their own free-trade agreements. That'd be a bad idea, since 41% of the country's exports go to countries we've signed those treaties with.
This sounds similar: https://github.com/jonobr1/two.js/issues/4
Totally! I didn't back Double Fine Adventure, but I go watch the Kickstarter video every few months because it is hilarious.

"Oh, sorry. I didn't see you there. You caught me indulging in one of my many impressive hobbies...I'm a man of many passions. Drumming. Skydiving. Like, charity or something?"
DIVX is a fascinating piece of history. One of the first "always on" DRM systems meant for common consumers, and it failed spectacularly.
I think you're right, unless nginx uses --fwrapv or it's equivalent on every compiler.
Since when is wearing a suit and tie an implicit part of being a working professional?
>What lawmakers fail to understand is that taxation specific to the internet, ostensibly to boost revenues into government coffers, in practice will probably diminish them as US businesses lose competitiveness against foreign companies.

And what you fail to understand is that if everything is sacrificed in the name of "competitiveness", then every country will be in a race for the bottom.

It already happens, with outsourcing, cheap foreign labour, tax heavens etc. A successful US company used to benefit American society at large (beyond merely paying some wages) -- and this is what made the US rich with a large middle class etc.

Now (with outsourcing, factories in China, money kept in foreign accounts that never make it back to the US, tax havens enabling the company to pay almost nothing in taxes etc) a company can be American in name, but of no more benefit to the US as a country than Toyota or Samsung.

And no, places that are strongholds of industry and innovation don't help much either. A 100 billion new innovative product out of Silicon Valley can be as lost a boon to the country as any innovation coming from Tokyo or Europe.

Hence, shrinking middle class, hence budget and trade deficits, hence trouble.

Of course, for those owing or running companies and benefiting from the whole thing, business hasn't been better. But those benefiting are increasingly fewer (and the few tend to benefit all the more, hence huge imbalances in inequality).

I'm not saying that amazingly successful companies cannot come out of this situation. I'm saying that this success trickles down to the overall country/society, far less than what it did in the past. Coming to a point where it will be possible to be the host of the worlds greatest companies AND having a population living like in a third world country.

The only reason everything has not collapsed already is because there are other advantages beyond "cheap" that keep companies throwing a bone to the US. The infrastructure, the engineering savvy, and of course the inherited middle class and large market, from better times. But those things are rooted in the past and are transient.

>To our American friends, easyDNS is a foreign company, so don't let us stop you.

And how about you aren't let to serve customers in the US unless you pay taxes too?

How would you feel about losing the rich US market then?

And how about people in Europe and other affluent societies conspired so that you cannot sell your crap without paying proper taxes to someone?

(I'm not even arguing in favor of the internet tax. Just against the arguments easyDNS used here against it. Heck, I'm not even American. I just know that those same issues affect my country too).
It is a gimmick, but if you're not a car person, your mental model of the place you live in is probably closer to a topological transit map, since you largely get around by hopping between nodes. It's easier to connect with data displayed that way. And it's also interesting to see what the areas are like near the nodes you pass by every day on your commute but don't get off at.
Syria 'disappears' from the Internet, security firm says
Okay, okay, don't loose you're temper.
Well yea, I wouldn't necessarily say Locke and Demosthenes was of critical importance to the story line. Though it did influence it in a small manner.
> I'll also point out that it's hard to write about the roaring '20s before the Copyright act of 1909.

Through Copyright, All Things Are Possible!

Hail Copyright!
I imagine the US government could just add said non-US business to an embargo list of some sort. Prevent them from doing any business whatsoever with US citizens.
Almost certainly never. I'd guess that most books go out of print (and stop making money) within a decade or two of being written. It's only a vanishingly small fraction of works that are so incredibly successful that they stay in print and continue making the author (or their estate) significant royalties beyond the author's lifetime.

Looking at it this way, I'm thinking that paid copyright renewals are the right way to go. Have the initial copyright last maybe 10 years, then require the rights holder to pay a small fee (something like $50, maybe?) to renew the copyright for another decade. If a work isn't making the author at least $5 a year, it probably belongs in the public domain.
No need to get defensive, lutorm was just pointing out that the assumption made by the OP is still supported. His comment was simply a productive, interesting addition to yours, unlike this complaint.
Google Glass is the new Segway
I've been wondering a lot recently how long it will be until the Tenderloin is completely gentrified. If SF expansion remains unchecked, it has to be just a short time, as it's literally become a pocket of poverty surrounded by yuppies
It's the person that's paying for the product being taxed, and the merchant is merely collecting that tax. At least, that would be my interpretation.
It seems to be like a gittip, but for artists and content creators. However, here you pledge an amount that will be awarded to whoever you support every time they upload new creations.
This is an interesting take on the correlation/causation between the impending expirations of the Mickey Mouse copyright and the subsequent extensions of the copyright duration over the past century:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090811/0123105835.shtml
I must have missed the memo. Why are we ranting and raving about collecting sales tax on internet purchases? Is there some other internet tax I'm not aware of?
The same way they mandate foreign law enforcement to do their bidding.
I guess there's the open question of forcing foreign agents to collect and report IRS-friendly numbers. But it's not like taxing of import items is a new idea or a controversial one. The US government has been collecting duties for as long as it has existed.
Everything was taxed, equally (with a few exceptions like food). No wasted time figuring out which tax to use, keeping up with tax changes, arguing why the brick & mortar store has a 5% rate while the online shop has 10%, etc.

Over the pond it's the same for everybody. Doesn't seem so in the US.