skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're so against things that can kill, let's see you call for the complete prohibition of alcohol. Many people die from alcohol-fueled murders, as well as drunk driving, and alcohol is still legal. Alcohol is not NEEDED BY ANYONE. I am making the devil's advocate case. At least with guns, the primary purpose by the majority is for self defense against criminals. It is reprehensible to see the inconsistency of your gun-grabbing position. Even more so in light of your support of women being allowed to murder their unborn children. Like I said above, at least the Gosnell case is opening the eyes of more people to the reality of the abortion agenda.
I didn't know that massive amounts of death and/or rape threats didn't count as hate crime. Thanks for the enlightenment.
It's impossible for an organization or event to ever act in a way that disadvantages men?
When you fix the loopholes, you create other ones that are maybe harder to see and more expensive to achieve. So over time fixing loopholes makes the tax system more and more complicated, and hence more expensive to run. And loopholes will continue to be found, but perhaps only be reachable by richer and richer entities.
This - it's a dynamic contacts book for the extended group of people I know, don't speak to on a regular basis but might want to at some point.
You're a leftist, so of course you disagree with the Pauls. What's your point again?
No: you abuse a vote when you vote not led by reason but by opinion. Downvotes are not for differences of opinion but for lack of interest, etc...

Downvoting affects directly the visibility of a message and this should not be based on opinion.
AFAIK, he is giving lots of money away and lives relatively modestly. But even he didn't, I'm not convinced that it would imply hypocrisy.
Is the quantum computer salesman in a superimposition of truth-states?
That's just because "fair share" is just an abstract concept that means next to nothing. If society wants to determine what "fair share" means they can do so through the tax laws. If a company follows the law then they are in effect paying their "fair share" as defined by society. When society thinks someone is not paying what they should then they have the means to resolve the matter. Whining about it is just grandstanding and accomplishes nothing.
I'm the creator :) I'm so glad if it was useful for you.
Can someone please compare it to other fingerprinting approaches http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_fingerprint ?
You have to take that argument to polymatter, not me; it was him/her who said "Your fair share of tax is what is detailed in the tax code."
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It does what you think it does :)

http://coffeescript.org/#try:return%20unless%20x%20is%205
It might be that they just have the most mature developers.
homosexual "marriage" eh?
I guess you like being a useful idiot.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/homosexual-activist-says-ga...

"It’s a no-brainer that (homosexual activists) should have the right to marry, but I also think equally that it’s a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist. …(F)ighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there — because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie."
I would say naive, rather than incredibly stupid. One might expect companies that pride themselves on ethics and corporate citizenship to go along with the spirit of the law rather than the letter.

But I agree it's the government's responsibility to fix this.

--edit-- Two more things. Firstly avoiding does not really imply illegal. Evasion tends to be the illegal one.

Secondly, where google are concerned, there does seem to be some doubt over which country various sales activities could actually be said to have happened in, so there may be grounds for an investigation and they may be found to have been in contravention of the law.
I think humility is even more important in a startup than a big co, since being a stubborn arrogant fool doesn't help you respond to reality.

While I'd agree with your logic on its own, the reality of (east coast) startups does not seem to match, at least based on the articles and accounts we most often see here. Humility, a very valuable trait, seems almost totally absent -- unless the bulk of those doing the actual work are so humble as to cower under their viciously self-promoting cofounders. Which I suppose is entirely possible.
Professor Moshe Vardi says robots will put humans out of work by 2045
yeah. It gets worse. Not ordinary - boring beyond belief!
The leftists think stuff like that works.
Google's "Love Letter" to Developers
How happy are you with C++ on embedded devices? If possible, could you specify what platform you are working on and what compiler support is like?

I hear its popular among the Arduino crowd, but I've so far preferred C kernel style code for embedded.
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Disclaimer: I work at Transifex.

The perl script written by the user in the article is about 100 lines of code. Doesn't seem like a lot of glue...

Another nice thing that Transifex provides which is not described in the blog is the Transifex client[1]. I wonder why he didn't use it.

[1]http://support.transifex.com/customer/portal/articles/960804...
Android should have a good window manager, not just something like MultiView. MW causes problems with one of my apps and I don't have plan to fix it, my apps target Android, not Android customizations like TouchWiz.
The way it reads is the way it works, which is why it is a nice syntax. Although,it is actually: if (!(x==5)) return;
Ability to legally exploit complex loopholes is concentrated among larger, richer entities. Hence you end up with a system that gives an advantage to those that are already large and powerful. Which then tends towards concentration of power and monopoly rather than a fair market.
Of course, IMAP and SMTP might be replaced by better protocols in the future (as POP3 was). However, my point was that the fact that the search trend for a protocol is downhill does not mean it is no longer used and should be scrapped. I argue that XMPP is in wider use than it has ever been. And that RSS has not been replaced by anything yet. Hence stopping their support in favour of a locked proprietary platform is bad and explaining this move by google trends is absurd.
Until they get stuck with defending someone who is bad PR for newegg.
Facebook says minimum sign up age is 13, but in drop down it shows 2013 as well
Sanctimonious douche calls someone a "whining child" because he had the courage to speak honestly about an unpleasant work experience.
Countries like Bermuda intentionally write their tax codes to be very attractive to large businesses who are concerned about taxes. If the countries who are missing out on their taxes had a way of preventing companies from doing all their business in Bermuda, they would... unless... large corporations had a strong influence on policy... hmm..
it's refreshing seeing someone defend a position because he believes in it, and not because his job depends on it

You might be want to be careful with that line. Rand Paul is not stupid.

He knows how critical the "internet generation" was to his father's success. You only had to look at how Ron Paul's supporters cleverly involved themselves in the mechanics of the primary process to know that this was a group that punched above its weight. Given that Rand is clearly positioning himself for 2016 every decision he makes is not necessarily altruistic.
You're aware you can configure your PATH trivially from fish, right? The preferred way to do that would be something like

if status --is-interactive
set PATH ~/.local/bin /opt/local/bin $PATH
end

in your ~/.config/fish/config.fish file. Your other shells have the paths you want either because you configured them that way at some point, or because their global configs (e.g. /etc/bashrc) have broader paths. There's nothing magic going on here.
This is very neat and useful. Thanks for creating and sharing! Good to see new works coming from Tehran. IIRC, it was itro.js. Keep it up!
Thanks for taking out your time and replying here.

Fresh out of college, I joined a BIG company. Didn't like the work/culture there, so joining such company is out of question. I can be happy here, and will try conveying to company owners what I've been feeling lately. I'm very bad at this, but I've to give it a shot. :)
Or just use a database instead of creating problems for no reason.
In the article he explicitly states that he read the patent and implemented based on it. Which is not illegal.

And he never did publish the source code beyond the excepts in that blog post.
Smutticus, if I were to ask you if you think parents should be allowed to kill their one-month-old child, and you responded, "no," under your and ebbv's logic, you are "against the right to choose."

You show you give the issues no real thought, or more likely, choose to coldly ignore the harsh realities.
"you just have to try a lot of designs"

That's exactly what Wernher von Braun did with his early rocket designs. He (intelligently and quickly) iterated, keeping the parts that worked and getting rid of the parts that didn't.
I couldn't agree more. There's a saying in Hebrew: "There are no bad kids, there are only kids who feel bad."
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If reports are true then they did look into this. There are just too many complications in buying these services. The popularity of these apps are regional, some have deals with carriers and they'll still have to integrate it with their own services which they're attempting to do already with their own offerings.

They'll still be faced with the same problem of enticing users to switch to their service. I think Google took the reasonable path.
>Given that Rand is clearly positioning himself for 2016 every decision he makes is not necessarily altruistic.

I don't care what his motivations are he's still got my vote by a long shot. And that sentiment gets stronger with every mention Rand gets in the media.
Rand does play politics a lot. Personally I'm hoping his beliefs line up more closely with his fathers than with his own rhetoric. I would probably vote form just based on that hope, although I won't be too surprised if I end up disappointed.
I think when this hits GMail in earnest there's going to be another huge outcry.

Judging by my contact list and the lists of others I see, statuses and presence are a really big deal: people use red-dot to mean "I'm here but interrupt me only if it's crucial" and green-dot to say "fire at will!".

Hangouts supports none of this, only a very simplistic "I'm actively on a device". There's no way to append "... and I'm working, so please don't interrupt unless you have to". You can mute notifications, for a preset amount of time, but that's not the same either -- it's turning off your phone rather than setting it to silent.

I guess they see this as "advanced" functionality, but judging by the people I know it isn't. They may have just copied Facebook, but Facebook messenger isn't something people leave on all day, and it also allows you to selectively block groups of chatty people until you're ready for them.
My problem is not specific to EDITOR variable. E.g. sometimes I need to set PYTHONPATH per specific command. What irritates me is that the syntax to do that.

I am not asking for a way to make a variable universal, I am looking for a way to specify variable per command.
When the tax law has reached that point, it's time to gut it and start over with a simpler system with fewer or no exceptions based on strange criteria. Then you put in requirements that makes it incredibly difficult to add in exclusions, exceptions, deductions, and the like to the system.

But of course politicians won't do that. How else would they get on TV grandstanding about the evil corporations in our midst? Politicians use the tax loopholes the same as corporations do, just for different reasons.
Google's position seems to be that no matter how much of their business is conducted in the UK, as long as they send any money received through a tax haven, they are not liable for tax for their activities there. That is an absurd interpretation of the tax rules, and the logical endpoint of this thinking would be that no country in the world would receive any corporation tax save one, since all sales could be instantly sent through the lowest tax country, regardless of where they are actually processed, booked, or who they are sold to.

So the debate is whether what Google is doing is legal, or whether they are misrepresenting their position in saying that they don't conduct this business in the UK. Having watched the exchange, I'm inclined to say that Google are dissembling and trying to hide the truth about their activities in the UK in an attempt to pay no tax. Here is the head of Google's North European sales, based in Britain of course, claiming that Google's sales are dealt with in Ireland:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/16/google-told...

I do think the UK should clarify the tax laws to deal with this and make it clear that where a sale was booked and who deals with the clients is more important than which offshore shell corporation it was shuffled through. At present Google seem to be saying that doesn't matter.

Something similar happend over VAT evasion by Amazon recently, and they have been obliged to start paying VAT, so it's perfectly possible for them to do this and these interviews are part of a long investigation by HMRC. Shell companies are a serious problem for all tax regimes, and it's only going to get worse as globalisation spreads and moving companies becomes easier.

As to your comment on whether governments spend intelligently, there's no discount on taxes (and rightly so) depending on whether you agree with the current government or their spending decisions. Spending priorities is a debate which should be had separately from whether corporations should pay tax at all.
I don't care how common a slogan is. They don't stand on their own as "well considered reasons," as ebbv purported. Even more so with this particular slogan, which leaves out the most important part of the thought - the right to kill the unborn. The slogan would have you believe that choice goes without saying.
Design the Whole
Maybe I wasn't clear enough, but what I tried to indicate was a philosophy of punishment and negative reinforcement. They can coexist with love, but they're detrimental to it.

My mom studies animal behavior in dogs (read: she's a really good dog trainer) and the science behind positive reinforcement methods is overwhelming. Yet, people still use negative methods and get burned for it... more agressive behavior, less predictable behavior, conditioning that doesn't stick, and long-term trust issues with their dog. Positive methods are self-reinforcing, while negative methods require constant reinforcement to remain effective; at the same time, positive methods build your relationship with the dog and create a happier, healthier animal, while negative reinforcement causes extreme unintentional side-effects in both the long and short-term.

It's the same with kids; we're just animals in the end and the behavioral science applies nearly exactly the same. It's a no-brainer and proven by science, but for some reason people still think you need to whip a kid with a belt to teach them to behave.

Merely "not spoiling your child" is just a minor parenting choice; and surely you can't always be positive when there have to be negative consequences. But I'm talking about far worse negativity and lack of nurturing that's far worse and really is a core belief of a good portion of society.
Worse than companies who avoid taxes are the people who see it as admirable that they can get away with it.

It's a problem that needs to be fixed in the culture and governance of a people, not in Google itself, since attempting to assign any civic duty to a multinational is probably laughable. Singling out Google probably doesn't do too much good, except maybe to make people think of "favorite company X"'s role in society.

Worst of all are the "all taxation is theft" Libertarians. Multinational corporations at least don't live in the society they espouse trashing. Ben Franklin also hated the "all taxation is theft" crowd, and believed that failure to pay taxes due is theft from the rest of society:

"The Remissness of our People in Paying Taxes is highly blameable; the Unwillingness to pay them is still more so. I see, in some Resolutions of Town Meetings, a Remonstrance against giving Congress a Power to take, as they call it, the People's Money out of their Pockets, tho' only to pay the Interest and Principal of Debts duly contracted. They seem to mistake the Point. Money, justly due from the People, is their Creditors' Money, and no longer the Money of the People, who, if they withold it, should be compell'd to pay by some Law.

"All Property, indeed, except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
Experiences vary. Responses to certain things depend on what's happened to you in the past. Some people's sexual harassment is someone else's harmless flirting, an entirely innocent joke may be an unintended racial slur. The same incident viewed by different people may be interpreted entirely differently.

So yeah, it's great that there are women who feel safe in open source communities. It's wonderful that they've felt welcomed and unharassed. It would be entirely inappropriate to say that their experience is false or to suggest that they should object to behaviour that they feel is perfectly acceptable. But it's also entirely inappropriate to suggest that the experience of women who don't feel safe is somehow false or unwarranted. Changing the culture of our communities isn't a zero sum game. Making them more accessible shouldn't come at the cost of alienating women who are happy with how things are, but nor should those who are happy with how things are resist efforts to improve the happiness of others.
>> If society wants to determine what "fair share" means they can do so through the tax laws.

Well yes, and it turns out that the societal expectation of 'fair share' and the side-effects of the current tax laws are out of whack here.

>>If a company follows the law then they are in effect paying their "fair share" as defined by society.

Well no, they're paying the legal minimum they can get away with under the tax code and international trade agreements as written, not necessarily paying what the society they operate within intended when the laws were drawn up. Paying your 'fair share' would mean playing by the intended rules and the spirit of the laws, not seeing what you can get away with.

>> Whining about it is just grandstanding and accomplishes nothing.

I agree, and the politicians ought to be doing something about this in order to make the current concept of 'fair share' and the implementation more in line. Particularly when it's clear that many actors in society are not really acting in good faith. However in the case of Google here there has been some suggestion that they may not have worked within the law in their sales practices, so an investigation may be needed.
That's great. Good for you Dalton. Congrats!
Containers have been more important for globalisation than freer trade
Does Rackspace provide no Node support? That's very surprising.
Yeah I didn't take any offense to your comments, I found them to be very reasonable and I think it's important that we have an honest discussion about these issues. :-)
How long til you guys found a new company, that creates y-combinators?
In my case my "startup" is a side project which doesn't cost me much to run. I started when my day job was rather soul-sucking. The day job has since improved, but I still work on the side gig from time to time.

I'd say my strategy now, if I have one, is to build in some natural virality so that I don't have to exert too much effort to attract new users. Presently if I market I'll get a good number of users for a week or so, then traffic drops back to nil. Once I get a regular user base I'll look at monetizing.
Kinda.

By playing all sorts of cross-border tricks, one gets the feeling that these companies are doing their best to avoid playing by the regular tax code.
Uhm... but why would you have globals with constructors in a code where de/initialization order matters?
i believe this apparent abuse of the spam ‘flagging’ feature on HN is seriously detrimental to the community.

Like DanBC said, flagging is just for spam. And really - "abuse" is just hyperbole, isn't it? And while we're talking about hyperbole, your whole title is just flag-worthy for the dramatics alone.

If, for example, a post gets 447 upvotes, how many flags constitute "flagging abuse" in your mind? For something to get 447 upvotes means that (a) a large portion of the community saw the headline, and (b) a large portion of the community read the article (or at least part). What makes you think that it is "abuse" if a portion of said Group B decided to flag it as "off topic" or "bad journalism" (or whatever - I didn't flag it but, like others have said, I can see how and why some people would)?

You're acting as though flagging should have no weight on ranking. Why not make your case and put up a poll in a new thread? I'd suggest leaving out a fair bit of the dramatics you've created this post with though...
its still odd behaviour.. look at any similar post (in terms of age/activity) and you can clearly see that one stands-out as odd. here's one that looks to follow a more typical progression - http://hnrankings.info/5719667/

also from making it near the top [rank 3 / 22:30-22:45] it rapidly fell close to the bottom of the front page [rank 22 / 23:10].. that's a pretty quick decline.
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I used to conduct interviews at my previous company. We asked a programming question that nobody was able to fully answer in the first go, so seeing how far a candidate got and how well they explained their thought process was a gauge of their ability. My suspicion is that someone well versed in SICP's exercises would do very well on that exercise, as it involved parsing text into an appropriate data structure and subsequently performing operations on that data structure.

SICP will serve you well in interviewing, and don't worry so much about OSS projects, most people aren't involved with OS S when they are just out of school (I think older programmers make the best OSS contributors, but that is a personal opinion).