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This is england. We have strict libel / slander / defamation laws.

Saying that Google is avoiding tax is fine. Saying that Google is evading tax is not fine unless I can prove that they are.

Note that "tax avoidance" used to mean normal "tax planning" - using purely legal means to reduce your tax bill. Now it feels a bit different. Now it feels a bit sleazy, a bit of a grey area, a bit borderline. When people say "tax avoidance" it feels as if the steps taken are right on the borderline, or are loopholes that just haven't been closed yet.
ASCII via frequency analysis! Dude, you are awesome!
The thing about sales figures is they're facts, not opinions. Finding Nintendo "more credible" than EA is an opinion that doesn't change the fact that Nintendo's platform isn't selling very well.

Furthermore, you seem to be conflating two different topics. I'm not a fan of EA's DRM schemes any more than you are, but that's just not relevant in this discussion.
Thanks!

Looks like I was way off the mark with my preceding comment.
I seriously wonder about the credibility of this story. It seems that this is the only news source that's carrying this.
"Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands."

Aside from this being false (not everyone arranges his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible), Hand's observation is rather strikingly like another, more famous about equality before the law: "The law in its infinite majesty forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread".

It's true that the law itself is pretty nuts, but things would be a lot better if people (natural as well as merely legal) didn't regard taxes as a punitive burden to be lessened by any means. Functioning and funded governments are good!
Right, but how do you come to an objective definition of morality? (IOW what is missing in my definition?)

If morality is subjective, how can we demand/expect others to live by our rules?
It's immoral that governments take poeples money and use it for intents orthogonal to those original people intents, e.g. war, subsidies to monopolies such as the oil industry, corruption, etc.

Google on the other hand provides a great services for free and acessible to everyone. I would prefer my taxes to go to google; and if they would become government they would be much more efficient than any government out there.

By the way google if you want a toy country to try stuff, try Portugal. This goverment could use some help and they are some nice people who support the private initiative.
You might want to have a look at:

* Taxodus, http://taxodus.net (tax avoidance game)

* Tax Free Tour, http://youtu.be/d4o13isDdfY (tax avoidance documentary by VPRO, a Dutch public broadcasting organisation)
I'm actually a bit surprised to see Mint with so few users here. I expected Ubuntu to have less of a grip on the HN community than, say, Reddit or something. There's definitely a large Arch and Debian community, which is what I expected, but I certainly did not expect to see so many people using an OS that technical people pretty universally complain about. Mint Cinnamon == Ubuntu without some bloat and minus Unity (and plus a great UI called Cinnamon). That's very interesting to me.

I wondered about VPS/cloud server distros people are using, but there's a great comment here with several good answers. Looks like quite a few are using some kind of VPS out there.
The whistle blower left Google in 2006.

The whistle blower claims to have many thousands of emails to hand over.

What the heck Google? How did he get to keep these emails?

> Barney Jones, 34, who worked for the internet search giant between 2002 and 2006, [...]

> [...] is ready to hand over a cache of more than 100,000 emails and documents to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), detailing the “concocted scheme”.
Oops, didn't see your post. Deleting mine :)
That's how I buy a lot of my books currently (estate sales, library clearance, etc) but regarding the sliced pages: I have a very large personal library that can't be damaged or marked up for a variety of reasons. It just so happens that I have three uses for well-sliced pages of (preferably) interesting books: for sculpture, for rebinding practice (what better source for testing out different glue mixtures or techniques), and lastly to spiral bind a few into markable workbooks (I used to do this with tattered textbooks and then give them away). I can't really go into it from my phone, but suffice to say I have a soft spot for recycling old books and see it as a possible opportunity to find a non-standard selection.

Edit: Also, if someone is just throwing them out that saves me money and therefor time trying to decide what to take.
Well, yes. However, emacs isn't a text editor in the sense you're probably used to. Or at least, it kinda is but that's not the main selling point. Teaching people to cut and copy and so on in emacs is a bit of a waste of time if that's all you're going to show them - there are plenty of tools out there to do that which you don't have to learn. No-one cares if control n moves you down a line when they have arrow keys that do that perfectly well in every other program. That's not a good reason for moving to emacs over notepad++ or the like.

The big selling point of emacs, really, is that it's command driven - and you can go write the commands yourself. All the boring little tasks that you do while writing normally? Changing variable names in multiple places, if you have largely formal constructs you use a lot-

if (dah de dum de dah)
{

} - that sort of thing. You can even insert a formal construct and then have parts of your typing mirrored out in it.

You can give yourself multiple cursors with their own buffers so that you can work on multiple lines with similar constructions if you're making pattern type alterations to things.

Any problem that's structured to follow the same sort of pattern, you can probably make the text editor do them for you.

That's more along the lines of why people might want to use emacs. There's a lot of dead-time involved in typing things out that can be automated if you've the tools.
Relevance? You, plants and animals don't live in a Faraday cage, so this would distort the results. But I agree that if they were not school children, but grown up, then they should do the same test but additionally try it again using a faraday cage.
It's also sobering to ask the buyer at Half Price books how many of the books they actually plan to keep after they give you an estimate. A lot of them get recycled.
Releveant to the issue at hand: in the state of nature, pasty nerds like Zuck and Brin and Page don't rule the world. Their lot in life is to be subservient to the physically strong, or else be the victim of their strength. Its society, acting through a government that makes possible the kind of orderly world in which Google or Facebook are possible.

There are practical reasons to tax more or less. But no moral ones. Without ordered civilization real wealth creation, beyond the savage subsistance level Franklin points out, is not possible and by virtue of that fact there are no moral limits on taxation.
That's certainly not the way it works in the US. Our politicians routinely lambast people to score easy political points.
Php on AppEngine - from Google with love
We shouldn't have increased college attendance as the goal.

We should have increased education as the goal.

The more informed and knowledgable we can make the average citizen the more we can do to improve quality of life.
Mr. Campos, if you're interested, I'm available for discussing this offline. Best regards.
> For those of you that use linux

I use FreeBSD. Do I get to participate in this poll?
(Her actually.) It's M+ 1mn Light (M+ fonts, Type 1, monospace). I think the whole family is attractive & readable and for programming on OS X I wanted something with a lighter font weight (it's got 5) to compensate for OS X's overly heavy rendering of light text on dark backgrounds. For Linux/BSD terms I tend to use either the medium weight or use monofur.

Samples: http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/mplus-outline-fonts/design...
Design: http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/mplus-outline-fonts/index-...
Bitmap font which I havent used: http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/mplus-bitmap-fonts/design/...
This is smart, I usually use the precompile with upload to S3 via asset_sync gem. Since Heroku will precompile by default, what do you do to disable it. Just turning on config.serve_static_assets = true is likely not enough.
But the player isn't passing the ball back.
The problem is that the structural reforms are the one thing that actually would make a difference, and they're also the one thing that not only hasn't happened but hasn't even seen a plan put forward.

'Abenomics' is forced inflation (which is drawing more and more concern from the G8 since it's going to become a problem for the rest of the world soon) accompanied by massive public works spending (which was a failed previous LDP platform that they can't seem to get past) that provide absolutely no change, and only work in the short-term, if you can even consider this "working," as it's creating no lasting change.
I was re-introduced to Linux desktop 4 months ago. Fedora 18 with KDE at first, now I moved to Xfce and am quite happy with it.
They're comparing the $50K model, which is the most spartan Model S.
I don't have it up and it's scattered through different parts of my config, but I'm happy to extract those bits and toss it up as a gist in an hour or so when coffee kicks in.
New Linux convert here. Been an Ubuntu user since early April. Chose Ubuntu since it's what I defaulted to for my Linode instance (which I've also only had since January) upon referencing some guides, and since it seemed to have strong guides and references I could look to if I got stuck on something.

Happy to be off the MSFT train after 17 years!
I use CentOS 6.x almost exclusively, since I work with several different low-end VPS for my businesses. I found it's much, much easier to have adopted a sort of "let it fail" philosophy and replicate across many (then worry about the failure when I have time) instead of paying dearly for a single high-end VPS that does occasionally have downtime. I'm also "sort of" in the business of CDN-type services, so geographical/latency distance is important to me, which is another reason this "let it fail" across many replicated servers around the world works best for my situation.

For hardware firewall/security appliance, I use pfSense (a FreeBSD "distro").
Not yet, but there is a bill pending in the legislature.
Perhaps the conviction of seeing it plastered all over the UK headlines in the past few weeks was too much for him? I'm not sure what being Christian has to do with it, why you're reacting to that, or why the journo even bothered mentioning it
This is ridiculous. Any company that expects to turn a profit can't have employees spending significant amounts of time playing video games when they're supposed to be working.

This is why the "hey, come work here, we have XBoxes and Playstations" model is crap: You don't get a job to play video games, and people don't hire you do play video games (unless you're a playtester, then you'll play them til you hate them, if you can really call that playing).
Kevin Rose interviewing Kevin Systrom [video]
I'll have a look. Here is what I need:

CDN that support Range Requests correctly. I want to use S3 as the origin. I need an edge location in Australia. Also, there can be no 301/302 HTTP redirects, thus I have eliminated Google as a potential offering. My current spend is around $1000 a month, so it is a tiny account.
The thing about sales figures is they're facts

Maybe... if they are 3rd party verified. And even then you can skew numbers in whatever direction you like just by allocating promotional budgets.
ffs ... why don't you just go get cancer or something?
Fun with Javascript and function tracing.
I came to ask "Which type is Haskell?"
No, the heat of your laptop affects your sperm-count only when there is heat applied to your sack.

If you're male and put it in your lap, then this would reduce your sperm-count temporarily, because of the heat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semen_quality

I don't know if the signal can affect your DNA, your cells or anything else in any way or not. This or the opposite has to be shown in studies. I think the study with cress is just the beginning.
Put all your choices in a hat and pick one. Your time runs out even faster when you lay there immobilized by choice.
No. Taxes are a service fee paid as agreed to in your social contract (which you signed by participating in said society). If you disagree with this contract, you're free to move elsewhere that is a. Devoid of taxes (good luck) or b. Devoid of society.

Society functions by and large by public services which, whether you like it or not, need money; not magic. Every functional society has had tax collection in some form or another as a result.

There are communities that don't charge taxes for things, and they're heavily de-regulated as a result. They also heavily favor self-reliance and don't feature luxuries such as Police or Firefighters.
I like it here a lot, but I'm noticing that fewer submissions are interesting to me, and that the overall zeitgeist is moving away from one that I enjoy. But discussion here still tends to bubble up really good stuff and I still enjoy reading HN.

That I'm not as interested in the technical submissions any longer, and the non-technical ones continue to leave me cold is more about me and my preferences than the HN community.
> I don't use Linux, I use FreeBSD.

Ditto. For me, however, the performance benefits of going fairly minimal are kinda secondary to the productivity benefits of choosing tools that stay the hell out of my way.

While there's a lot to like about dwm (I rather like its tag concept as a replacement for workspaces, for instance), I find it a bit limiting for my purposes. Spectrwm is another good one, and it gets too little attention. Xmonad is pretty good. For floating rather than tiling window managers, I think AHWM is pretty awesome, though it has been abandoned for years; it could stand to be picked up by a new maintainer.

I ended up with i3, though; it's tiling with decent functionality, including its native support for tabbing windows. It used to be better, actually, in that it was easier to mix and match different window arrangement styles within a single workspace, but even after making that marginally less usable it still does more in that regard than other WMs I've tried out.
Is there any reason you'd use Ubuntu over an Ubuntu-like distro such as Linux Mint? I'm just curious, because I feel like not many people know about Mint here, and the general feeling is that people don't want to use Ubuntu, but like apt and the Ubuntu repos (which Mint uses, without so much of the bloat of Ubuntu, and with a different UI like Cinnamon, which is fantastic).
Using the word "immoral" in this context is just silly. Google is a corporation, and legally avoiding taxes is the fiduciary responsibility of any corporation to its shareholders.

Corporate taxes are ridiculous to begin with, because the cost is paid by either employees or shareholders. Only people can pay taxes.
Lamborghini has officially lost its mind
You have to compile quite a lot just to keep up on Gentoo. If you don't, your system will fall out of sync with the packages that are in portage, and trying to install new software and keeping your system running will be painful at best.

In my opinion, this is Gentoo's greatest weakness. I don't really see a way around it, however, short of the Gentoo team somehow getting the resources to mirror every version of every package in portage.
I'd be interested in seeing what happens when you bucket citations by domain instead of URL. Google Analytics counts over a thousand unique referring SO pages to Cocoa Controls (http://www.cocoacontrols.com) this year alone. But, of course, most of the links back to my site are long tail.
If I am correctly understanding you, the physically strong are paying for a system designed to keep them under. If Zuck and Brin and Page deserve to pay protection, my high school prom king deserves recompense.
At the risk of insulting a project someone has worked hard at, I'm a bit worried about this trend.

There's been no fewer than 2-3 "Show HN: I made a Google Reader replacement!" posts a week over the past two months.

They all miss an important point, though: the problem was never a lack of RSS readers (there were already a ton). The problem is a lack of a canonical, fully featured RSS reader that's supported by a large company with lots of money and resources. If Google can't properly afford to operate an RSS feeder, why would someone be able to as a side project?

Plus, having a canonical RSS reader is good for the technology. ThePirateBay does it for torrents, GitHub for git, Reader for RSS, etc -- a central place that pushes the technology forward and provides a model for everyone else, rather than a fractured user base spaced out over dozens of sites made as side projects.

Anyway, sorry @meister -- this comment has nothing to do with Pikareader and all your hard work, and more to do with RSS in general.
Great idea, will try and look at that next.
Have you tried Mint instead of Ubuntu? It's like Ubuntu's hot, skinnier, younger sister.
I have some workspaces that are tabbed (that's typically the case where I'm using a browser), some that are tiled, and some that use both -- usually involving a tab group in one tile and one or more other tiles on the same workspace.

I guess the ability to mix tabs with tiles (in whatever arrangements I want) is what keeps me using i3 instead of others. I'd love to get dwm's tags with i3's tabs and tile management.
I had to stop using Linux on the desktop, but I've tried out a few of the bigones (Debian/Gentoo/Ubuntu/CentOS/RH) and they were all mostly ok. For day to day desktop work I use FreeBSD, but I also use OSX, since both require me to do very little work to maintain them and I can focus on doing actual work. In terms of the OS I have to spend the most time fixing (for customers/friends), hands down its Ubuntu, Debian/RH/CentOS require some time but not nearly as much. I attribute that mostly to popularity and frequency of updates, but I also kinda think that could be controlled with a heavier QA process. enh :)
Or, biceps and support for redistribution are both correlated to something else, the far more likely and simpler explanation.
Wasn't this a profile piece about the so called "whistleblower" whose "evidence" Google already was confronted with by PM this week?
It's not a matter of expertise and attention to detail. It certainly isn't impossible to make a native-feeling web application, but I do think that the level of effort is comparable to just doing the app natively, and the web counterpart will still fall a bit short. For what it's worth, WinJS apps still feel clunky to me when compared to their native equivalent.

I think summarizing responsive design as adding media queries oversimplifies things a bit. The test overhead for PhoneGap is enormous; deploying fixes to an app is much more difficult than deploying fixes to a site, and individual devices can exhibit bugs that other devices won't within the same Android version. Adding different levels of responsive layouts multiplies that effort. By the end of one particular PhoneGap project, I literally had a dozen different devices on my desk to assert reasonably small changes.

The browser as a leaky abstraction thing also continues to be a pain point. One particular difficulty I had with PhoneGap was Android 2.3.x, in which div overflow scrolling isn't implemented (also, ironically enough, not implemented in WP8 IE10 when used in conjunction with the -ms-viewport CSS rule), requiring a design that either doesn't use scrolling elements, or emulates it with JavaScript. In either case, the native experience wins out.

Hitting several platforms with a good-enough experience may be an overriding priority, and you could certainly pick worse than PhoneGap to make that happen. For my own tastes, though, I'll be leaning on Mono for cross-platform efforts.
Used to run Arch until recently, but moved to Ubuntu when 13.04 came out.

Currently using Ubuntu with MATE (haven't bothered with Unity in quite a while, considering my experience with it in previous Ubuntu versions was quite underwhelming - might try it again someday) and - surprisingly - not missing Arch that much.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/05/22/153316565/the-pric...

The sticker price has gone way up (no surprise). But, because the value of grants and scholarships has also grown, average net price has grown much more slowly. In fact, in the past five years, average net price at private colleges has actually fallen.
I regret to say that this poll should have an option for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (pronounced, appropriately, "Arr Hell").
By the way I stood in line and bought my $2 ticket today!
Kavanaugh Liquors has had several millionaires born. No relation to myself.
>Could This Be A Business?

Without a doubt. In fact, if a prominent hacker in a non-english speaking country set up something similar, it will definitely become influential.

Hatena Bookmark of Japan used to be like the old reddit with predominantly hacker subject articles, but it grew and became mainstream, kind of like new reddit. Now the hacker community there is yearning for something like hacker news; something that is for them.
I used WindowMaker with some GNUstep stuff years ago, but I ended up moving from there to Sawfish, then to AHWM, and eventually to i3. WindowMaker is nice for what it is; the (other) GNUstep stuff was kind of ho-hum at the time.
Journalists really like substituting 'correlated with' with 'predict'...
Our biggest difficulties are:

* The difficulty of eliminating interruptions and isolation

* Inability to work as fast as we would like

* Choosing the right tool for each job while reducing technical debt

* Finding ways to delight internal ande external customers while delighting ourselves, and finding slack to implement them.
I think it would be holding a lot of people back from buying. Maybe it is great once you start playing, from images online though it looks weird and awkward to use.
Awesome, thank you! Spent 30 minutes this morning running through Identifont with no luck :)

Think I prefer prefer the look of the regular weight on high DPI though:

Regular: http://cl.ly/image/0r3B1M3C2a0I
Light: http://cl.ly/image/2Q1s0m1a0z3R
Indeed, like Samsung:

http://www.asymco.com/2012/11/29/the-cost-of-selling-galaxie...
I tried that back when I was learning Clojure. I ended up ditching Emacs to use a more immediately familiar environment (Eclipse w/CounterClockwise plugin).

I wouldn't say never learn two things at once, but I'd be aware of the extra mental load you're creating for yourself. It definitely makes things more challenging.
These nerds have never thrown a punch if they think bicep size is responsible for fighting ability.
How is an intermediate correlating effect far more simple than not having one?
> I haven't seen a lot of people mad because they disagree with his message -- because he's speaking the truth. Nintendo's platforms are disappointing and underwhelming.

There was nothing factual about any of Bob's comments. Had I been ignorant of his resume I would have assumed that series of tweets came from a teenager; pissed off because he can't play Mario on a machine he and his circle of friends deem sufficiently "adult".

I wish somebody would explain to me what technical sin Nintendo has committed for WiiU to be regarded so poorly by western developers. As far as I can see the machine is more capable than what the competition has available right now.
Trying out a tiling window manager was the "last straw" that pulled me off OSX and back onto Linux. It started with Xmonad, but I've settled on i3 for the same reasons as you.