skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used a parallel (exaggerated) to present my point of view.

You see for you it's already "something wrong with you" department. In Eastern Europe cynicism is just much more common.

The point is that American will feel as if everybody around them has ADHD when in Poland. And a Pole may (I did!) feel that people suffer from serious autism when visiting the USA ( office setting in particular). US office vs. Polish office is like autism vs. adhd to me at least and I have the right to express that opinion. I'm not saying everybody in the US is autistic and that everybody in Poland has ADHD. I'm saying people are closer to these psychological traits: in Poland ADHD, in the US autism.

Also Americans (and I'm one too!) are well known for over medicating their kids for trivial reasons. I think there are cultural reasons for that too.
I don't think this is necessarily a fair assessment.

In my brief reading the documents at the link referenced above, it appears that the author originally contacted the state of California, believing that he may be subject to the Money Transmission Act (MTA) based on his reading of the law. In his initial correspondence, he asks for clarification: is he actually engaged in operating a money transmission service, or is he an exempt payment processor?

That seems like a simple question but the bureaucrats he's dealing with don't provide an answer. Instead, they appear to latch on to his correspondence and treat it as a representation that he is engaged in money transmission and therefore subject to the MTA. That's not exactly surprising: if he is subject to the MTA, there's a license involved, which generates revenue for the state.

This leaves an interesting unanswered question: was the author ever subject to the law in the first place? Perhaps the competitors who you suggest are flouting the law brought the matter to their legal counsel, who concluded that they were exempt. That doesn't mean that they aren't, but the lack of prosecutions hints that this isn't an unreasonable possibility.

One final comment about breaking the law: financial services are highly regulated and given the number of laws and regulations at the federal and state levels, I don't think any company in this space can ever be certain that it is not breaking some law. One thing is for sure however: if you're running a financial services company and have questions about a law, allowing legal counsel to research the matter and handle any correspondence with regulators is the best approach.
With this reporting it was very easy to find the actual list, which is at ....
(Though "LOCKE-TECKEMEIER LORETTA ULLRICH" and "LOCKE-TECKMEIER LORETTA U." are
likely the same person, so the count won't be perfect.) With a bit of work, you
can easily verify if the number is increasing.

That's much of my point, I went looking at the source, to check for myself. But the best case scenario is aggregating a series of CSV files which you have to locate manually, something an actual news article would have done for themselves. Further analysis would be to move past the absolute number of citizens dropping citizenship and perhaps calculate the proportion of citizens doing so. We could even hope to run some simple tests to determine if the number of expats was statistically significant.

Instead we get none of that, just a vague, "Taxes are complicated, expats are increasing, trust me." It's very disappointing.
I had a PGP key available on my personal website and on the MIT key server from 1994 through 2008. I also had Mutt configured to handle PGP
essentially automatically.

I killed it because in all that time, I received no encrypted messages. The only value I received was that it verified the signatures on a few mailing list posts.

I love the idea of ubiquitous public key encryption, but I think it just has a few too many moving pieces to get traction in it's current incarnation.
Well, also you can't get another notice within 28 days.

And if I recall correctly, you have to get three notices within 9 months.

So basically if you manage to spend less than 1/3rd of your time "On Notice" you should be sweet as.

DISCLAIMER: IANAL

EDIT: Actually, fence-post error. The correct figure is ~2/9ths, as penalties trigger on the receipt of the third notice (so we can't count its period).
I'm guessing that those are a lot more based on the inconvenience of doing such things daily than their price.
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Ok interesting. So if this interpretation is correct, what happens if I'm in the US, but I log into a Canadian server and download the document remotely? I've initiated the act of copying in the US but the bits never enter the US (Or do they? What if the IP route goes through US internet backbones? And what if they get cached somewhere along the way, in the US? Is the ISP infringing?)

If that's ok, what if I then view the Canadian server's downloaded document on my local machine without explicitly downloading it (via remote desktop or even cat'ing a text file in an SSH session). I've not explicitly copied anything, but the very act of interacting with it remotely necessarily copies it to local memory.

What about the reverse situation, where a Canadian downloads Gatsby while logged into a US server?

(Note I'm not trying to heckle you or demean your answer. I actually very much appreciate the info, but I'm just trying to point out that even simple notions such as "copying a document" aren't necessarily coherent in a modern, digital context)
Ask HN: "advisor" or "adviser"
Which do you prefer? Do you consider one version wrong?

Is it a geographic preference?

I noticed the NY Times and other large publications use "adviser" and others strictly use "advisor".
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

There's always another bill someone's trying to force on us :/
They're also a broadband (ADSL) provider in the UK though, so a fair portion of those could be 'legitimate' current customers.
> In my limited understanding jurisdiction is generally determined based on where the act takes place. So if a US citizen kills another US citizen in New Zealand, New Zealand has jurisdiction.

We've seen the US happily grab jurisdiction for many things that have at best a tenuous connection to the US. (.com tld? That's US, even if nothing is hosted or served in the US or used by US citizens)

There are important exceptions for some sex crimes. If it's a crime in the US then it doesn't matter if a man commits that crime abroad, he'll be arrested and brought back to the US and tried as if he had committed that offence in the US.

(England has similar laws too.)
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Serious Wordpress, Joomla! or Drupal vulnerabilities and exploits can still get you a few thousand dollars. Quite a high ROI because the vulnerabilities are easier to find than in Chrome.
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What about giving it away? What about making personal backup copies?
I think it is hilarious that people still click on links in e-mails.

Just go to the website directly via a URL. Don't ever click on links in e-mails. Once you learn this, you're much safer.
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> ANd thanks for the cliche that poor = robber/criminal

Parent was pointing out that a reasonable government welfare program does a lot less to foster resentment than a free market "fend for yourself" approach.

> I am sure many honest poor people appreciate your point of view.

Honest people still have to eat. Poor people don't (usually) choose to be poor, and if you force them into a corner with no other alternative, they will either

a) Die

or

b) Resort to crime or some other undesirable activity to prevent themselves from dying.
Echo chamber, indeed. There are over 200 million cars in the USA vs fewer than 20 thousand Teslas. The Teslas are newer, so less likely to be kept in garages, but because of their range they also are less likely to be on the road for 10 hours a day.

So, I would expect that, on average, on the order of 1:10,000 cars on the road would be a Tesla.

If people say way more of them in California, there must be spots where people see fewer.
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Put this on iTunes so I can buy it :)
Walter Miller's "Crucifixus Etiam" is a rather good story about this; essentially terraforming Mars as the new frontier for migrant labor, with all the harshness that comes from those types of frontiers (including the fact that it is, largely, a one-way trip for the laborers, since their lungs atrophy due to the special breathing equipment they're attached to).
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Why would you ever click on an e-mail link?

No wonder! I was wondering what the problem was, and it appears to be PEBKAC.
Heck, it's legal to download "1984" by George Orwell in much of the world, and that was published in 1949.
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So sheep is stupid meat on 4 sticks :D
I hate to say it, but:

owned
By dialog do you mean getting accused of anti-semitism?
I've had a policy of paying folk I interview for a while. Not for any initial phone interview or brief (hour to half day interview) - but for any "work" style exercises we do (either design for UX folk, or coding for dev folk). Usually 50% of "normal" day rate.

Not everybody I've dealt with likes the idea (on the employer side I mean - had very few interviewees dislike it ;-) - but I've found it effective. For few reasons:

* If you actually look at the total cost of hiring, adding in paying folk isn't actually that much more money.

* Interviewees fucking love you for it. There's a real "You're taking me seriously, so I'm taking you seriously" moment.

* It shouldn't really make a difference to the employer side (because most of the costs are for your time - not the interviewees) but it gives you some real clarity on whether it's worth interviewing some candidates. It encourages you to make smarter decisions earlier in the interviewing process.

* You seem to get less hassle from folk you reject. I assume because the payment makes people see the process as taking them seriously.
DFW was a graduate student in philosophy for a time, even after he was a published writer. Reading this or watching the video about what is essentially his personal philosophy really enriches the reader's understanding of his prior work, including Infinite Jest.

And, of course, it also makes his eventual suicide even more tragic.
I translated this into Haskell just for fun.

match :: String -> String -> Bool
match ('^':rest) text = matchLocal rest text
match rex (c:rest) = matchLocal rex (c:rest) || match rex rest
match _ _ = False

matchLocal :: String -> String -> Bool
matchLocal [] _ = True
matchLocal "$" [] = True
matchLocal (c:'*':restR) (t:restT) = c == t && matchLocal restR (starSkip c (t:restT))
matchLocal (r:restR) (t:restT) = (r == '.' || r == t) && matchLocal restR restT
matchLocal _ _ = False

starSkip :: Char -> String -> String
starSkip c (t:rest) = if c == t then starSkip c rest else t:rest
starSkip _ [] = []
It would be very cool if a major software house set up or moved their development shop to NZ so as to be free to develop and test their products in a patent-free environment. Sort of like we have tax havens ... software development havens?

It would be even cooler if a few different countries did this and set up a sort of, software patent-free economic zone.
It's beautiful, and the animations on the mobile site look great. It's also one of the best-performing web apps I've used. Nice job.
In my country it's legal to download ANYTHING. It's only illegal to share and distribute copyrighted data. So if you torrent you can be persecuted because it's P2P and you distribute it, but if you download it without sharing you're OK.
So good to see you here. I agree that your app is the best HN app. But please make it remember list scroll position. This one major flaw downgrades an otherwise superb experience.
I don't buy into your narrative.

I greatly appreciate the fact that someone is trying to innovate in this space and I wish him success. I don't know or care if he self identifies as a victim like you describe. I just appreciate him for his actions and tenacity.
Every description of an HFT algo seems to fall into one of three categories:

* Acting on public information, milliseconds before anybody else - which helps everybody else about as much as insider trading does.

* Acting on trading information gleaned from "bid stuffing" (making and canceling orders really quickly) - which helps everybody else about as much as front running does.

* Detecting the presence of large trades about to go through or going through and capitalizing on the price movements they cause - i.e. imposing a tax others making large trades in the stock market.

In return, they flood the market with liquidity when it is least needed and withdraw it suddenly when it is (e.g. when prices are diving).

There's literally nothing to like about HFT.
Is this really that newsworthy? I thought the US was the only country in the world where patents apply to software.
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I believe minimax is responding to the article, which is quite clearly making the classic "it's too complicated" critique of HFT.
Linkedin is a Facebook for recruiter spam. The article raises some valid points, you can't advertise you're looking for a new job because your boss will see or if not, one of your colleagues will and they'll most likely report you to get brownie points with the boss or even take your job.

Half of my connections are recruiters, I get daily emails offering me Wordpress development and SEO services (even though I am a front-end developer and can do that stuff myself), people add me I've never met before who don't even live in the same country as me. Linkedin is a giant mess, it's kind of like the professional equivalent of Myspace circa 2007 when that scantily clad girl wanting to add you was some low-life in a basement trying to spam affiliate links at you, only that scantily clad girl is a guy in a suit trying to get a recruiting commission from spamming your inbox.

Don't get me started on the skill endorsements feature. I get tonnes of emails everyday saying "Joe X has endorsed you for Java" even though Joe knows nothing about Java nor do I. People are endorsing me for skills that I don't even posses or have, what a joke.

Want to network? Get someone's business card and their phone number, store it into your phone and don't rely on a website comprised of spam to build up a network.
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What, it's bad they're actively campaigning against smoking and unhealthy foods and for having regular exercise?

Are you kidding me?!
The page you link to at envirolaw.org is out of date by almost a decade. It is discussing the law as it was before Proposition 64. Proposition 64, which passed in 2004, among other things changed the part of section 17204 which said "any person acting for the interests of itself, its members or the general public" to "a person who has suffered injury in fact and has lost money or property as a result of the unfair competition".
That's it, keep walking, come to the Android side Peter.
Except for, y'know, AOL's AIM client.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aim-free-edition/id281704574...

(not that I've ever used it, mind you. Just wanted to make it clear that it existed)
My favorite Android app is Hacker News 2 - it has the best tablet support (my only Android is a Nexus 7) of any that I've used, and it lets me log in, vote, comment, view my profile, view threads, etc.

EDIT: This is the one whose creator commented below ("Have you tried out mine?"). Kudos.
how to join as a travel advisor??
There are plenty of people who CANNOT AFFORD insurance, because it is HIDEOUSLY expensive. And even if they can afford it, the companies can drop the policy or refuse payment for a huge amount of reasons.

What, do you think you'll be going bankrupt if your taxes contribute to the health of all people with a few cents, heck, even a few dollars?
Ahh thank you for clarifying that. My mistake.
You should also checkout http://www.meetup.com/ and try to swing by some meetups that happen around the city. Good way to meet people and see startups
Thank you for clarifying that. My mistake!

Round two!
Great execution on every level. Incredible work.
Thank you. Round 3 =]
I want to thank Ruchi for this testimony. Like Ruchi, I feel extremely fortunate to be able to work in US.

US will continue to be 'the' destination for engineers of all kind for many years to come. Right now, a sheer number of open engineering positions and superior pay alone are attracting qualified engineers around the world. But other countries around the world are closing the gap slowly. In order to continue the domination in attracting engineers, it would be in US's best interest to simplify immigration process for qualified engineers.
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advisOr of course, it it's meant to be English ;-)
I believe such a company could sue for unfair competition in California (but talk to an actual lawyer before acting on this belief--I am not a lawyer). The key is that it has to have actually been injured by the action of the competitors.
British smartphone users paying for just one in 10 apps
Yeah sure they are trying to play catch up now, as they underestimated how they would be used, but bare in mind first gen iPads did not have a camera.
Send us a quick email at contact [at] battletrip.co and tell us a bit about why you'd be great as a BattleTrip expert! :)
Does this send our HN credentials anywhere other than directly to the ycombinator site? I see a bunch of https and some http URLs in the code and could probably verify one way or another with an hour or two of work, but what can you tell me short of that?
That was a not very helpful response to a fairly obvious question. HFT is taking advantage of arbitrage over a very short period of time (seconds). What effect does it have on long-term prices? If you hold stock for longer than 0.01 seconds (or 1-2 days in the case of a fat-fingered-algorithm), why should you care?
Nordic countries are ridden with wellfare and are doing quite OK, I'd say. The problems Greeks and others are having are not related to wellfare.
Here is where you get into the tricky difference between what makes sense, and legal definitions. You may very well be right- I certainly feel you are. But that line of reasoning must be established by legal means.

It's like right now you have the idea, but haven't written the code.
Is joke, right?
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You're painting it like the mafia - like...exactly like the mafia...
This would actually put them head to head with Google on the street navigation front. One advantage of Waze is how the routes are dynamically updated by it's own users.
It's back up on Mashable. http://mashable.com/2013/05/07/craigslist-ad-bike/
So instead of giving directions to a hot hole-in-the-wall coffee shop it'll show me a Starbucks instead?
Eloquently thrashing a teacher for falling back on books and packets.
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I've never used LinkedIn and got along just fine. But if someone were to build a better alternative they could be the Facebook to MySpace's death.
I am probably too plain for this, but to me there is usually very little creativity involved in re-ordering a playlist. The rather massive replacement of radio DJs with automated systems is a testament to that.
The analysis is fair, but the conclusion is wrong. Nothing stops a phishing site from just luring you into granting it a lot of rights via OAuth. And if your OAuth server doesn't let your users use X or Y service, they will just sign up for it with a password anyway.

The solution is user education, not federated authentication (whether with two-factor authentication enabled or not.)
Acting on public information, milliseconds before anybody else - which helps everybody else about as much as insider trading does.

"They can do it faster, therefore it must be illegal."

Acting on trading information gleaned from "bid stuffing" (making and canceling orders really quickly) - which helps everybody else about as much as front running does.

The only people that notice this behavior are...other people capable of doing this behavior. Why should it matter to you, the long-term investor, the trading tactics computers employ at the millisecond scale?

Detecting the presence of large trades about to go through or going through and capitalizing on the price movements they cause - i.e. imposing a tax others making large trades in the stock market

This happens in any market at any timescale. Everyone capitalizes on trends.
http://newsroom.fb.com/News/198/Facebook-and-Think-Computer-...
Pick one and use it consistantly. If you're writing for someone else use their style guide.

(http://grammarist.com/spelling/adviser-advisor/)

> Adviser and advisor are both accepted spellings of the noun meaning one who advises or counsels. There is no difference between them. But adviser, the older version, is listed as the primary spelling in most dictionaries, and it is about five times as common as advisor in current news publications from throughout the English-speaking world.

> In the U.S. and Canada, advisor is commonly used in official job titles, but adviser is still generally preferred over advisor in North America, and advisor is only marginally more common in American and Canadian English than in other varieties of English.

Did you know that there's an "English Language and Usage" stack exchange site? This question seems like an excellent fit for them, although I understand that they often reject such questions as off topic for a variety of odd reasons.

(http://english.stackexchange.com/)
> was the author ever subject to the law in the first place? Perhaps the competitors who you suggest are flouting the law brought the matter to their legal counsel, who concluded that they were exempt.

You can read the law and decide for yourself. The text is actually fairly clear: if you receive money from one party for the purpose of transmitting it to another party then you need a license.
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Does anyone know how much power this would use while waiting for commands, considering it really needs to be running 24/7?
Ron Conway also shared this[1], and pointed to a great page where people can send a letter of support to Senators[2]

[1] https://twitter.com/RonConway/status/332334439084478464

[2] http://www.fwd.us/senate
Wow, that's a great idea. You're absolutely right, compared to the total cost of hiring, it's practically nothing. Throw in the fact that you're in about 100x as good a position to evaluate talent, and it seems like a no-brainer. Like scouting football players by watching them play football vs. measuring their broad jump.
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I saw that as well. A quick google search showed a 15x preference toward "advisor" based on the number of results for each.
What is the difference between inheriting money and inheriting copyrighted works? One is a lump sum payment and the other is an annuity. They're viewed vastly differently, but they're essentially both just winning the lottery.
I like this idea! I think that it makes sense for prospects that are either already contractors, or perhaps the unemployed.

If you already have a job, then I can see some challenges though - I'd imagine a candidate for Google would not be able to accept payment for doing work while being employed by Facebook, for example. Did you ever run into an issue like that?
Well, if we're going full Godwin; it might be good for you and all those of us who are US Citizens to reflect on the fact that our country is currently the one running the most notorious concentration camp on the planet and has admitted to running such camps in Iraq, Afghanistan and even Diego Garcia. When the histories of this era are written we probably won't be the good guys; if we ever were.
Thanks a lot - feels much better than any other iOS/Android HN reader app I've seen.
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