skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're talking about static files, right? If you're trying to scale those should be nowhere near your application server. They get served from a CDN and the size is completely irrelevant to technical scaling issues.
But OP isn't referring to insider trading. The comment was in regards to the timing of the information. The only time that I believe executives are restricted is during/after an IPO.

Another issue is making sure that material information is disclosed properly. Elon was essentially hinting that they were going to have a really good quarter. That kind of information is material and would likely need to be disclosed properly to all investors at once. However, I believe disclosing that information has nothing to do with the timing of earnings release. A company can disclose any information it would like at anytime, so long as it does so properly.

If I'm wrong, please let me know in reply. I'm very curious about whether I am making a mistake.
Yep, I've seen this exact text come through other Meetup groups many times here in the DC area. This wording has been in use for months. My email archive has this email sent to 6 different meetup groups going back to 2/14/2013.
I believe users can also suggest them? I've got a couple on my LinkedIn profile that I didn't add, and weren't there earlier but I got a notification I was endorsed for that skill anyway.
The people choosing who to patronize aren't the people paying, so where's the incentive to compete on price?
Either way, the email reads like "I'm vouching for FounderDating."
They would still need a warrant to enter the server. Discovering the password gives them nothing. If they want your server, they can subpoena for the password.
I'm saying that I trust my CPA to do the right thing. For one, it looks like I didn't even get the year right. I paid those taxes two years ago, not last year. Last year's US tax bill (when I cleared $100K) was $0. It was two years ago when I had to pay $2000. Those records are more difficult to get access to than I care to do, and I don't recall the reason.

> You do not have to pay payroll taxes if you are employed abroad

Correct. But as I started off, I'm self-employed.

Quoting from elsewhere: "If you are self-employed and you live overseas, you may still be required to pay self-employment taxes in the US, including Social Security. This would need to be paid before the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion so it is an actual out-of-pocket expense, not something that would be offset on your expat tax return."

The exceptions are those countries which have a totalization agreement with the US. "This covers Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea (South), Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom."

> It really isn't that big of a deal

If you focus just on that number then I agree. As that's what this linked-to page discusses, then yes you're right.

I think there's a more interesting numbers lurking. From the article, "I.R.S. data for 2012 shows just over two million tax returns filed in 2012 by overseas Americans, compared with an estimated six million Americans living or working abroad."

Now, a tax return can cover multiple people and some of the Americans living abroad are children. I'll be generous and say that some one million people aren't following the law, compared to a few hundred people who are doing what the law says in order to avoid the extra hassle.

Has that reporting rate gone up or down? How much revenue has the US gotten from its ex-pats because of the heightened reporting requirements? How much has it cost those Americans? I pay about $600/year for my CPA, for me and my wife, so assuming $100/return gives an unfunded mandate, as it were, of $200 million.

Before I moved here, I visited often for work. I would rent a business apartment for a month or two. Most work on P.O.s and the giro/SWIFT system, not by credit card or cash. I also had difficulty purchasing some things online because sites wanted a Nordic bank card. I figured that opening a local account would make things easier for me. Had I been any nationality other than US, I could have done so. But US banking laws prohibited me from doing so.

Again, not a big deal. But little deals * 6 million become large.

> what are the other choices?

You could not file your income tax. It seems that over 1 million people don't do so. It would help if you never wanted to return to the US. (A friend of mine lives in Shanghai, and has for almost 10 years. I'm pretty sure she's not paid US taxes during that time.)
Those ManagingDirectors [sic] are not employees. I'm familiar with two of them. They are folks in the startup space, likely operating in an advisory role, probably brought on to lend credibility to the company. Or maybe they were brought on for access to their contacts.

This is as misleading as the stunt they pulled with spamming that poor guy's LinkedIn contacts. Where there is smoke, there is fire.
Yes, the mods should probably edit the title lest people mistakenly think it's part of his lawsuit.
In case if you are wondering what honest "opt-in" option looks like, I recommend looking at Louis CK's site - http://i.imgur.com/jJDuTeQ.gif - it actually made me want to check yes

edit: Louis not Louie
Lots of different cards! Blue ones, red ones, green ones, silver ones, ones with kittens on them, ones with a picture of my choosing. None of them have much in the way of material differences though.
However, brushing after meals with fluoridated toothpaste solves the problem.

Again, the (local) government(s) choose(s) to legislate rather than educate.

Shouldn't one be allowed the freedom to choose whether he/she wants fluoridated water or not? Why not install a fluoridation pump per household rather than at the mains?

Offer people a choice.
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You hit the nail on the head right here.

Assuming the account is completely true though, I would say they succeeded in showing off. It's pretty impressive that they took over name.com and discovered a CF 0-day just to get into Linode, all just to fuck with one IRC network no one cares about.
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The bulk of charitable spending is on programs and fundraising, usually in that order. The SSA doesn't have to worry about fundraising, hence the disparity in admin expenses.
I wish I could just use my Kobo E-Ink reader to browse my file server and read files from there. To me that would be the perfect E-Ink reader.
Of course it's hard to predict what will happen. But right now, nobody has an incentive to even check, so obviously it doesn't happen.

Some people will live 10 minutes from one ER and 45 from the next. But some will live 25 from one and 30 from another. Or have three within 15 minutes (ie. short enough that they're equidistant for "the baby has colic"). Some will have more time than money and drive 45 minutes if it means saving $20.

But there's another factor in free markets you're not accounting for: new entrants. If an ER charges high rates because they're the only player in the area, someone could set up a competing ER and charge less.
The government was forcing him to shut down his company, I would turn to litigation if this happened to me.
What a ridiculous statement. Most of the charities' overhead is money spent on fundraising. The SSA doesn't have to fund raise since it's illegal to not pay into it.
Not necessarily. Robert Lucas, for instance.
This happens to me weekly. One problem in my case is I have three Google accounts (1 work, 1 Personal Gmail, 1 Youtube).

Some of the accounts don't work in every context, i.e. the pre-Google YouTube account doesn't seem to work for displaying public Google docs embedded PDFs. Sadly the accounts can be linked but not merged[1] which means I'm stuck.

[1]http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...
It's fairly well-coded too, which makes it even stranger.
Indeed. Downloading the app. A one-time cost. No, I'm not imagining anything - are you?
Does it--in any way--feel creepy or unethical to be able to see those kind of connections? As though you're a spectator able to traverse anyone's real life in far more detail than others.
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The way you see the world
I don't trust them with my data.

This stems back from a few years ago when they automatically created an account for me based on information that a 3rd party had provided. I don't know if they still do that, but it told me all I needed to know about them.
It’s like a classic John Siracusa criticism, but without the eloquence. Can’t disagree.
How does this effect Barnes and Noble?
It's still there, but I think the flow has changed a little bit. You can either Accept or Ignore an invite. If you press Ignore, you're messaged with, "Invitation ignored and archived. More options: I Don't Know [name] or Report as Spam."
I'm getting a standard http "authentication required" dialog from bugherd.com when visiting your site.

I'm guessing this is because I have httpsEverywhere installed (a firefox extension that tries to use https wherever possible). Visiting bugherd.com gives me the same error, so it appears it's a problem on their end. Still, it leaves a bad impression. You might want to disable whatever you are using from them.
Switzerland is likely first in the world. Japan's number is bogus, it's artificially inflated by rampant benefits fraud.
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Looks fantastic! I find myself wishing the message boxes under the 'Reason ##" were clickable to a new tab, especially the first time I saw them because I wasn't sure whether they were social media sharing icons or clients
The GUI for OSX are quite good really.
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Not in the world of startups it's not.
I genuinely don't get this line of thinking. I understand that the US prides itself on individualism, but I can't understand the utter lack of empathy.

I know you're disputing the 'paid $0' part of the OP's comment, however your response comes across as quite glib and seems to imply that the OP genuinely thinks that nobody paid for his care.

Yes people in countries with 'socialised' health care pay for health care that benefits others. Yes this is a good thing.

Let's use Australia as an example of a more empathic way to approach this issue.

Recently there has been a federal budget shortfall. There isn't enough money to pay for a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) [1]. Our two major parties both agree that funding should come from a ($350/year) levy.

I'm not disabled. I don't know anyone that is disabled. I'm not rich so $350/year is not pocket change. All considered, I'm still more than happy to pay my share to make disabled people's life easier.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-05/gillard-says-ndis-levy...
"We not only state (in white writing) on black backgroud)..."

Yes. In a SMALL font. INTENTIONALLY far away from the Agree button. You know damn well what you're trying to do. If you really wanted to give them the option to see the email sent out, you would have designed that to be transparent.

But you didn't. Intentionally.
My guess is that E-ink readers will get cheap enough that everyone will have one. If I remember correctly, we've even had a wink and a nod from Bezos that their intention is to give them away. Get a free E-Ink reader with your Amazon Prime subscription, or something of that sort.
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This gets problematic with some words, like "herb" where aspiration varies by location.
Providers, dammit, not insurers. Makes sense now. Sorry.

Good question, I don't actually know. Surely the insurers will make them compete, but that should also happen in the US, and obviously not fixing the problem.
You don't seem clear on what "cognitive bias" means. At all.
I think the idea was that the fact that the defendants were active on their Facebook accounts was sufficient to prove that they had in fact seen the Postings including the court service.
The president that will get credit for landing a man on Mars is the president 20 years later, not the president that initiates the program in the first place.

Are you sure? I don't think many people give Nixon credit for the moon landings.
I did not know about Catatumbo, thanks for posting. Very interesting.
Interesting idea, but doesn't fit with "I think we could actually make it self-powering if you put solar panels on it" part
Only the government can take care of poor people?
To me, the scarier thought is a new conflict between hospitals and pharma.

Currently, drug companies market directly to consumers. consumers ask for drugs from doctors, and get prescriptions health care companies have to pay for. Doctors have no reason to deny patients what they want (and the sexy pharma rep keeps encouraging them too).

In the new system, the same "entity" writing the prescription is paying for it, as well as "paying" for the cost of not taking it.

I imagine doctors will have an incentive to examine the cost/efficacy of a drug, but pharma will hate that. To get around it, pharma will probably launch marketing saying "if your doctor doesn't give you this drug, shes killing you".

ACO's fighting drug companies, using the human psyche as the battleground.
I see them as exactly that, dedicated reading devices. Tablets are great for some folks, but others like ereaders because:

-E-ink can be stared at for long periods and in bright light; staring at a tablet screen for long periods gives many (including me) eye strain.

-Tablets usually include many other apps and internet access, which is a huge distraction when you just want to focus on reading a book. When I'm reading, I prefer to just read.

-Good tablets are much more expensive, so people might hesitate to drag them all over the place like they would a paperback.

The technology is already pretty cheap to produce, and I imagine big players like Amazon, BN, Kobo, etc. will eventually just sell them for a token few bucks and make up the remainder in walled-garden sales.

In the end their usefulness depends on what kind of reader you are. If you read for just 30 minutes a day, then a tablet will probably be fine for you. If you spend hours with a book, a dedicated reader is nice just for the e-ink.
>>> If these laws are violated, the state authorities have the power to take legal actions to enforce them. Nowhere is there any express private right of action that gives any private citizen the right to file suit complaining about alleged violations of these laws.

What? Why is this the case? Is this the same reason why citizens/competitors/the Sierra Club can not sue BP or Massey Energy for pollution or workplace safety violations? (If 50% of the damages came out of the EPA/OSHA chief regulator's salary I would get behind these suits.) Is there a distinction here between suing the violators than suing the government? Civil suits are for more than contract enforcement, right? What are the general legal terms I should be searching with to learn more?
I would just be happy if clicking any link in an email just popped up dialog first with "Do you want to go to the following URL" with the real URL. I always copy URLs from emails and paste into the browser to be sure I'm getting the URL I think I am, and this is basically just giving me the same preview. For less qualified users, maybe it could bold/highlight the domain name (stripping the subdomains where all the phishing magic happens) and ask "are you sure you want to go to phishingdomain.com".
First, those numbers were US exclusively as that was the situation you referred to.

Second, while many of the donations were to religious organizations, many food banks, shelters, etc are run by the same institutions. Assuming those categories are mutually exclusive is risky at best.
Aaron's concern over the law has been dismissed out-of-hand over and over again on forums like HN. It must be maddening to build a successful business, then have a new law come up that regulates your business out of its market, and then see other people build businesses that should be subject to the same regulation but aren't because the law isn't being enforced fairly.

I'd expect that his position at this point is that he wants other people to care about this as much as he does, and if they won't, then he'll do his level best to force them to care about it.

I'm concerned about Aaron though. I like the guy, inasmuch as I can like anyone I've never met, and I worry that he's going to put himself into an unrecoverable position fighting this fight -- that it will ruin him financially, or worse still, harm his mental or physical health.

It's a terrible damn situation. It unfortunately is probably also unwinnable. That's totally unfair to Aaron, but sometimes life's like that. You have to know when to fight and when to fall back. In his place, if I could, I'd probably give everybody the finger and move to another country and restart operations there.
I can see the logic here, but for something that's a one-and-done "click this link and type in your credentials," I honestly think good spelling would add to the legitimacy. So in The Onion's case I think it's just a matter of the attackers not being good at English; if they were, I feel their success would increase a bit.
Or startups could just hire him as their lawyer. Parse did and they are happy customers.
Anatomy of a Cosplayer
It all depends on where E-ink technology goes. Can they master color? Can they do better on refresh?

I haven't heard anything new lately on how e-ink technology is continuing to advance, so I'm wondering if they've hit some kind of snag where they just aren't advancing fast enough to be very relevant outside of the ebook niche.
They do it because it works. And will continue to do so until it stops working.
I'm not sure exactly what you have in mind, but a rooted Nook Simple Touch might have the functionality you are describing. See, for example, this Lifehacker post: http://lifehacker.com/5926798/turn-your-rooted-nook-into-the...
HSAs are not deductions. HSAs are pre-tax money which is essentially tax exempt when saved/invested (including gains) or when spent on a medical purchase. So you can still use one fully even if you take the standard deduction.
This video reminds me of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA

This response is humor, and not technical. So, don't follow if you don't feel like laughing.
Like most things, we simply hold the rich and the powerful to a different standard. Steve Cohen can rob the American economy blind and even if the multiple teams of FBI agents surveiling him actually catch him and prosecute him, he will be in jail for a few years at most, only to slink back to his billions of dollars in wealth right after that will enrich his family for generations. Meanwhile the homeless guy who did some crack on the corner? 15 years.

I really wonder sometimes if it is actually possible to fail in some of these situations. If you don't have to follow the same laws as everyone else and know there won't be consequences, you're going to crush your competition of not rich people who actually applied for permits and stuff. Because your competition knew if they didn't get them, they would pretty much be shut down, while these other companies basically said "lol laws" and like most companies who do, reaped massive rewards.
Travel agents are also licensed in California (and other states). They also have to post a bond to cover any money they're holding on behalf of customers, just like a money transmitter.
It's too bad this basically means the death of the e-ink Nook. It was really a much better reader than Kindle for a long time, but BN couldn't stay a step ahead and Kindle ended up running circles around them.

If Nook had just cleaned up its dictionary, bumped up the resolution on the screen, improved its frontlight (as it was the frontlight "glaze" or whatever washed out the display significantly), and kept polishing the software, they might have stood a better chance. The epub capability is a huge win too.

Oh, and they should have chopped off the tablet arm long ago. How a bookseller thought they could compete with the likes of Apple, Samsung, and MS boggles the mind.

Edit: Musing out loud here, Nook could also have seen better success by selling a hacker-friendly Nook, maybe for a much higher price. In a world of walled-garden devices, the already-strong hackability of Nook was a huge win for them and, I think, kept them relevant for longer than they would have been otherwise.
I find it interesting that some things are visible if the trajectories are turned off that I would never see with them turned on.

For example, if the last example (10 on an octagram) is viewed with trajectories off, I see two rotating intersecting pentagons, and I missed this completely with traj on.

Similarly, with 8 on a (9/4) enneagram, I see two non-intersecting rotating squares.

Nice.
Pay me some money and I'll waste time helping you by answering your question.
I'm not in SV either (AU mech. engineer). My industry (rail) is pretty insular however, so there's usually a lot of crossflow between the various parties involved in it.

I agree with you that the inability to customise who your updates go to is pretty bad. That's a pretty basic feature and I'd expect to be more integral to LinkedIn than, say, Facebook.
When you begin to wonder whether it's tiredness or burnout, it's burnout.

And it's already too late.
It's YOUR responsibility to make sure the user is well aware of the ramifications of what's about to happen.

Not reading the terms and conditions of Reddit when all you do is browse and read and never even log in: not too important.

Not FULLY understanding that you are going to send an email to my contacts, using wording that YOU wrote to make it appear as if I wrote it: pretty damn important.
No, that's not what I mean. What I mean are things like the Chinese government hacking Google and the New York Times, not HTP hacking some IRC provider for revenge.
Sounds like a lesser version of Stockholm syndrome :(

I can't say I personally get it, but I respect you and your family for their empathy and compassion.
Where did he get a million bucks?
To get more customers from 'the other guy?' If they all cost the same, then no one will switch, but if Insurance Company A is cheaper, then maybe someone will switch from Insurance Company B.

[ I'm assuming that you mean 'insurance providers' and not 'medical care providers.' ]
I don't see mandatory bicycle helmets as a good example of 'government overreach.'
Most of that "charity" is for religious brainwashing. Sending kids on thousand dollar flights to work on a cinder block indoctrination center and also get a beach vacation out of it.

Don't remember where I read it, but someone had a good line about youth pastors essentially playing the role of cruise ship activities coordinators.
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"but only one of them is being a total ass in this thread"

lol. And the winner is: jmalter.
If you reach the end of your list of questions (50, where you need to score 40 -- NJ anyway), ad you still don't have enough points to pass, the system will simply loop and start asking again the questions that you skipped before. You don't get fresh new questions until passing :)
Will be interesting to see the direction that Microsoft takes the team. I ran the mobile apps division at BN/Nook for a few years and there are a lot of talented engineers there. It is interesting to see that the focus on hardware is being shifted more to apps on third party devices. I fought many long and hard battles arguing for investment in that direction.
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... presuming you're in the US.