skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Online retailers will have to collect, at most, 53 different taxes, under 53 different tax codes, remitted to 53 different entities all with audit rights.

More than that, actually; I have no idea where you get 53 from; the relevant entities ("states" as defined in the MFA) include the 50 states, the District of Columbia, 5 named territories, and "any other territory or possession of the United States."

But its not just "online retailers", its any remote seller. Including anyone who does online and/or mail and/or phone sales, which includes lots of entities that are also brick and mortar outlets. But only if they choose to sell into each of those jurisdictions: you choose where you will accept orders from, and as a consequence of that choice you choose which tax laws you will deal with. Just like with a brick and mortar business, where you choose where you open outlets, and as a consequence of that choice you choose which tax laws you will deal with.

And each of those jurisdictions is required to provide free-of-charge software to calculate tax rates and hold retailers harmless for any errors due to the software.
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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5675330; you're talking about the number of households that admit to owning a gun, not the real number.

That's somewhere around the middle of the nationwide sweep of shall issue concealed carry regimes, now totalling 42 states and 2/3rds of the population. Such an astounding political development---there were 2-3 states when Florida opened the floodgates in 1987---wouldn't seem to correlate with lower ownership rates.

As for this so called research, would you be talking about the output of people like Dr. Mark Rosenberg, director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the CDC in 1994 when he said objective was to make people see firearms as “dirty, deadly—and banned.”

Any wonder the NRA and gun owners in general were able to get the Congress to ban such "research"? And aren't you a bit disturbed by the violations of the rule of law of Obama ignoring these laws?
I would say you are wrong because legal AR15s, even California legal AR15s with bullet buttons, have become popular among all types of gun owners. It's the #1 selling rifle. There are many variants and styles for hunting, such as the 6.8, 6.5 and .308 (also known as the AR10).
A little confusing:

> Connect to Dropbox or Box
>
> Allow us to store your photos or use your existing storage account. No pressure to decide. We make it as easy as clicking a few buttons to migrate between storage accounts. We support Dropbox, Box, Amazon S3, CX and DreamObjects.

But once I sign up, I checked under all the Settings I could find, and I don't seem to see any of these options for where to store things?
Sounds like common lisp (though I doubt it was the first to have a flexible number type).
Same here. I had over 50 at one point, some short, some clever... and just in the past couple of years turned off auto-renew for many of them...
I'd use and support BitMessage but I can't figure out how to get it to run on OS X.
That's good feedback. Definitely continuing to improve the message.
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Only if they've been involuntarily institutionalised, or you live in a state that does not respect the Second Amendment rights of its citizens (California or New York being the two relevant examples here).
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> correcthorsebatterystaple

In general, including the spaces is a better idea, because collisions.
Do you mean you prefer Linux over Windows?

If so, then watch this talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgmA48fILq8

Now you will prefer Solaris/BSD to Linux :)
I have a 13-year-old brother with ODD. And let me tell you, there is more to it than a healthy does of anti-authoritarianism.

We adopted my brother when he was 15 months old, and in his first year of life we suspect he was frequently neglected, leading to attachment issues. Basically, when an infant's needs are not met, they get distressed, and the more often this occurs, the more those neurological pathways become ingrained in their brains. Which means that people with a traumatic early childhood are much more sensitive to stimulus, feel threatened easily, and very quickly move into "survival mode". In survival mode, we will all lie, cheat or steal because our survival is at stake. Kids like my brother spent a disproportionate amount of their time in this state.

They also learn at that young age that their needs are not going to be met, and so they come to distrust authority and other people, focusing on looking out for themselves (since no one else is going to). They also tend to fail to internalize social norms and rules like being honest and the "golden rule". These sorts of tendencies can be considered anti-authoritarian, but it is a reactionary anti-authoritarianism, not a healthy, well-reasoned skepticism of prevailing authorities. The latter is healthy, the former is not.

So while it may be the case that anti-authoritarian individuals frequently are diagnosed a mentally ill, it is probably much more common that some kinds of mentally ill individuals happen to be anti-authoritarian. I.e. causation moves from certain types of mental illness to anti-authoritarianism. Basically, I'd like to say this is an interesting article, but please don't walk away thinking that the entire system is just a ploy by The Man to keep the Lisbeth Salanders of this world marginalized. It is much more complicated and difficult than that.

On a personal note, it can be very painful to love someone with issues like ODD. It requires loads of love, patience and restraint. It can also be very rewarding.
Love this service/idea, because i think (at least here in sweden) employee benefits lacks precisely this, cheap but qualitative benefits (which are not only discounts), like a great cup of coffee or a month of Spotify. Great job!
Mapping the products to those PTTs for each state requires up to ~50 inputs per product. You're saying they can be select boxes instead of text boxes; big deal. Those mappings have to be made by some person. That's not a config flag. I run an online store counterpart to a family-owned retail store; that's hundreds of SKUs I'll need to go through and figure out how they're classified in each separate state. Software can't do it for me.
Wow, looks neat :)
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I'm pretty sure the barometers are meant to be used for predicting height (i.e. as an altimeter) so that the phone can get a GPS lock more easily.
If I recall, the standard Bitcoin client doesn't work until the blockchain is synced. I've had to wait an hour to do a transaction I wanted to do because I hadn't opened it in a few months.
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Interesting. Along the vein of similarity to other services, your approach looks kind of similar to AnyPerk. From what I can sort of gather, you are going the approach of providing on demand perks, for individual recognition, and not an ongoing perk? Is that an accurate assessment?
This game was an MMO.
Fully automatic weapons are exceedingly rare. I know everyone thinks gang members are just flush with first-world armaments but most are using handguns. Easy to get a hold of (either stolen or straw purchases) and easy to conceal. Other than organized crime, street gangs have very few contacts for illicit imported weapons purchases.
use torchat. i was surprised how easy it is to use. and actually it have best IM user interface I've seen so far - contacts list, chat window on double click and send/receive file. That's it - nothing else.

on cons side - it take a while to connect to tor network, but once started it is quite fast.

i am not saying government should be allowed violate our rights, but it is much easier to assume that anything gtalk/facebook/gmail/etc is with in reach of government and do yourself a favor - use p2p encryption
Wait, I'm confused. Isn't the whole point of free MOOCs is that their content is open source, freely modifiable by other teachers, or anyone?

Or was I just under a rock when MOOCs were being popularized?
Don't dismiss the ground game
> So re-frame it as the removal of the exemption. Makes no difference how you spell that out, it adds up to an increase in taxes on goods sold / bought for American companies.

No, it doesn't. US buyers were already responsible for local use taxes for remote purchases. This just shifts who is responsible for the taxes to the retailer (if the taxing states opt-in, which requires them to adhere to certain tax streamlining provisions and other requirements that make the process simpler for retailers.)

This is a tax simplification and collection efficiency measure that doesn't change the amount of tax due on any sale.
That's an awesome domain name! Did you acquire it for this project, or did you already have it?
Kudos. Since this is a work related site it might be a good idea to use Linken Oauth.
I really like the idea for this company. Seems cools.

In the true spirit of "Show HN" though, how about sharing some code?
I love trying to find numbers for random claims. This one is a little bit tricky because none of the four numbers are readily available.

The closest numbers I can find so far are:

Number of murders committed with blunt objects, 2010: 600 [1]
Number of murders committed with 'rifles', 2011: 323 [2]
Number of 'assault-style' rifles: 3.75 million [3]
Number of baseball bats produced per year: > 1.6 million [4]

So we don't know what fraction of blunt object murders are bats, and we don't know what fraction of 'rifle' murders are 'assault-style' rifles. We also don't know for sure how many 'assault-style' rifles there, are just a random reporter's guess. We also don't know how many bats there are, just how many one company of many makes.

All this together makes me believe that no one has any basis to make any claims about the deadliness of guns versus bats, because no one knows anything about the deadliness of guns versus bats.

I certainly can't come to any conclusions either, but I can at least sketch out the bounds. If we assume that every blunt object murder is a bat and every rifle murder is an assault rifle, then there are twice as many bat murders as assault rifle murders. But the question is murder per bat versus murder per assault rifle. So how many bats are there? There are probably somewhere between 2 and 5 million bats sold each year, depending on how much of the market Hillerich & Bradsby have. If the average lifespan of a bat is 5 years and 2 million are sold per year, then we have around 10 million bats in the country. If the average lifespan is 10 years and 5 million are sold per year, then we have around 50 million bats in the US. This puts the bats : assault-rifles ratio at between 2.5 and 13.

So the way I see it, as long as no more than twice as many murders are committed by baseball bat than assault rifle, I feel comfortable saying that assault rifles are more deadly than baseball bats, using the metric of people killed / weapon. For me to feel comfortable saying that bats are more deadly than assault rifles, at least ten times as many people would need to be killed by baseball bat as are killed by assault rifles.

The numbers I could find would still allow for either conclusion -- there's just too much uncertainty in them -- but IMO it leans heavily towards the conclusion that assault rifles are deadlier.

[1] http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/baseballbats.asp
[2] http://blogs.marketwatch.com/election/2013/01/16/assault-rifles-are-not-involved-in-many-u-s-murders-a-look-at-the-data/
[3] http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2012/12/20/assault_rifle_stats_how_many_assault_rifles_are_there_in_america.html
[4] http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2136195
They seem to be making an assumption of 1.67 * 10^11 hashes per second. Based on decade-old ASIC processes, this is $100 worth of silicon if you're using MD5 as a key derivation function (using SHA1 or SHA256 or SHA512 would be no more than 2-3 times larger).

On the other hand, if you're using MD5 CRYPT, they're assuming $100,000 worth of ASICs. If you're using PBKDF2-SHA256 with standard "login credentials" parameters (100 ms of CPU time), it's $14,000,000 worth of ASICs. bcrypt, $100,000,000. scrypt, $4,000,000,000. And if you're using scrypt with typical file-encryption parameters (5 s of CPU time), $15,000,000,000,000 worth of ASICs.

Moral of the story: Whether your password is strong enough depends as much on how it's stored as it does on the password itself.
Turn on showdead in your profile and you'll see the omgubuntu links that you've submitted, marked as [dead].

It's a shame that your better link didn't get posted.
Is this sort of hyperinflation intentional? Or a sign of economic ignorance? I don't get it. Gold is as common as dirt, and players are pumping huge amounts of it into the economy on a constant basis.
Awesome. I did however expect a blog post covering how you learned to code, etc etc. Good luck.
I wonder how on earth people got through life before we had the government protecting us from misshapen banananas.
What do you mean "these folks"?

It could happen to any of us lawful gun owners with criteria this broad.
That's because 123456 is a common password, as is abcdefg, so they're assuming that they will be in dictionaries and rainbow files, so they count them as a single letter.

Your first password, they interpret as aa!
Your second, a!a
Your third, a1!23456
Your fourth, a!bcdefga
Not only that, but the trend is cemented by the fact that only Lawful people are allowed to diagnose in the first place, so there is no checks or balances. In D&D, a few rolls could take care of that, but in the real world you'll get some hefty jail time... and a diagnosis.
Indeed; my father started taking all of us out hunting at age 3, and if we wanted to go dove hunting at age 10 (it's a safe type where he could and would be right next to us in the beginning), started teaching me how to shoot ~ 1st grade, and I was allowed to use firearms without supervision before 18. Not a lot before 18, but such a proposed law ... well, it totally ignores rural realities, e.g. "Kill that cottonmouth NOW!"
How is clicking on monsters to get drops different from a slot machine or pachinko? - Those are illegal in many jurisdictions.
Since being acquired by Adobe, PhoneGap Build has consistently failed to build any of my projects. Attempts to contact the team, even by way of friends at Adobe, have failed. In short, the team is checked out.

Glad to see someone else moving into the space.
I'm honestly surprised that they haven't been so classified yet. The theory-wonks had made this connection as far back as 2005, and the IRS wasn't entirely blind to it. (Though when Dibbell published Play Money in 2007, they had no clue how to deal with it.)

I guess with all the hysteria about video game violence, no one has had time to actually look at what's going on.

ETA: I'm guessing that the fact that there's some skill involved makes it more okay. Like a fly-fishing tournament.
> I don't have time to read 50 states' tax codes, file 50 tax returns and potentially be audited 50 times a year. What small business does?

If, even with the streamlining and support required for states to opt-in to the provisions of the MFA, you can't do that, you can just choose not to sell into those states. Why should remote sellers be favored over local sellers by not being required to make that choice about where they are willing to do business?
By the way, great URL. I'm sure you paid a pretty penny for it:)
Good question! Since they have such a comprehensive archive I searched Debian, but it's not there.

http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keyw...
Anyone who thinks they're making sane hiring decisions based on conventional job interviews with developers is deluding themselves.

So for example Google, Facebook, Microsoft, are all deluding themselves? Would they be not any worse off if they replaced interviews with say rolling dice?
While this isn't surprising, it's not enough. Small cameras will continue to exist and improve with or without Google Glass. I'm not sure how, but casinos are going to have to do better than simply banning the most commercially popular cameras.
One of the original reasons I switched to a Mac back in 2008 was iPhoto. The automatic event splitting by date struck me as brilliant--it was exactly what I wanted most of the time. Multi-day events were easy to merge.

At the time, Apple also had a great online gallery that made it simple to share photos. Flickr was (and still is) overly complicated in comparison. That's been gone for years and is kinda sorta back as shared photo streams.

So your comment about how "un-Apple-like" Photo Streams is so damn true. C'mon Apple, figure this shit out.
I don't see a rational weighing of costs and benefits here.

In particular, you should examine the risk of other activities that you consider acceptable for children, like swimming or going on a car trip to visit relatives in another state.

And you should also consider how many lives would reasonably be saved by your law, which might not work out as perfectly as you think.
I'll throw in a recommendation for gPhoto; while old and pretty bare bones, it does sane storage structure (customizable, actually), not some silly database. The album export will create static albums you can then upload by hand (or just have them written out to an SSH mount on your web server).
I think it's along the lines of::

cut -d' ' -F 4

That said, I'd probably try this:

git ls-tree HEAD -r | sed 's/[[:space:]]\+/ /g' | cut -d' ' -f 4

Edit: Apparently there is a shorter way of that sed sequence, which brings us to:

git ls-tree HEAD -r | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f 4
The site and service look absolutely great, nice work.

One thing that caught my attention and raised a red flag though was the $5 per employee mention on the how it works page. Why not state that upfront elsewhere, maybe even having a pricing page?
That's not what the national crime survey says! And I think the police statistics as well (those can and are often fudged).
Neat Idea. Intrigued with motivating employees with recognition tailored specifically to them.
>> [dialup subscriptions] plus revenue associated with services like AIM, accounts for more than 100 percent of the company's profit

More than 100 percent of its profits? Can someone explain that to me?
If gun homicide is truly down 49% then why so much controversy over wether or not they should be allowed and what not. This will constantly be an ongoing battle for years to come over gun control. Why blame the gun for random acts of violence when violence is truly uncontrolable. Before there were guns people still committed horrendous crimes. It's the corrupted mind not the weapon.
Thank you! That's part of what we believe: "Discounts aren't effective. There's a difference between 'here's a discount' and offering something special."
Cool, thanks. To be honest I am more interest in that part than Uncover :)
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I'd like to share all info I've gathered while looking for a VPN with you. Would you be so nice and extend this list with one about Domain Registrars?

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For those who need more pre/post VPS order info:
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As long as we're throwing buzzwords around, why not [self post plug alert!] switch over to Analytics Syndication Services? I've envisioned it as a paradigm shift to align your core competencies. http://tech.theswamp.in/post/2013/04/01/analytics-syndicatio...
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Plenty of gun collecting is predominantly around modern, mass-produced, non-scarce guns.

Absolutely. Plenty of gun-owners are just flat-out "gearheads" in the same sense as guitar players (who often own dozens of guitars and amps) or whatever. If I had money to burn, I personally would own a few dozen guns, and most of my collection would fall into the "modern, mass produced, non-scarce" category. The exceptions would be a few older military rifles, like maybe an M1 .30 carbine, an M1 Garand rifle, or an old British Lee-Enfield 303 rifle.
I remember this scenario distinctly because it happened within a month of me joining the game, and not understanding what was going on :) The bug was discovered (or at least widely known) about a day after the patch went live, and rolled back two days later. Nearly every bug that users felt were somewhat punishing led to players hitting the VNBoards asking about possible rollbacks so they could stop playing until it was done. I'm actually not sure if they've ever performed one since.

Consider this completely anecdotal, but I think that around the time this bug actually occurred, Asheron's Call and Everquest were the only two 3D MMOs that were worth mentioning. I recall the delay in rollback having something to do with Microsoft bureaucracy at the time as well -- Turbine was plagued with MS as a publisher having some sort of veto power over their business and was frequently met with resistance.

(Full disclosure: I love Turbine unconditionally for creating such memorable adventuring experiences with Asheron's Call 1 and 2)
> "i like salt": 18 years

> "i like pepper": 9 hours

Well that's clearly because salted passwords are more secure.
Vagrant + Chef is great!

Vagrant + Chef + Berkshelf is better!

You can define the cookbook dependencies in the Berksfile and version it along with Vagrantfile. Berkshelf is like bundler for your cookbooks. It assembles cookbooks from a variety of sources and loads them into your Vagrant-managed vm. Check it out at http://berkshelf.com

To help get things going in that end, I've been working on Kamino (https://github.com/hosh/kamino). It's intended to generate a Vagrantfile+Berkshelf file for use in your project. Right now, it only supports a basic Rails stack.

Pull requests welcomed :-)
Greenland does have a lot of ice. Perhaps you are thinking of Iceland, which is significantly warmer.

Interestingly, Greenland was given its name essentially as a marketing ploy by Erik the Red: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1965/shouldnt-green...

Greenland: https://www.google.com/search?q=greenland+country+temperatur...

Iceland: https://www.google.com/search?q=iceland+country+temperature&...
Thanks, tannerc! We're going to put up a Pricing page. We wanted to release as quickly as possible, so a few pages didn't make the marketing site: Pricing, About, FAQ, Customer Stories, etc. They'll be there shortly, though.
Ah I see. So idempotency is determined by the resulting state (ie. the state of the manipulated resource at the end of the interaction), not the action taken (server removes the resource on the first DELETE, but not on the second). Thanks Ryan!