skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally agree with Ben Franklin here, that taxes are not theft, rather the opposite, failure to pay taxes due is theft from the rest of society. He hated the "all taxation is theft" libertarians of his own day:

"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.

That being said I think 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.
I'm not privy to the AutoCAD roadmap but I would expect them to integrate with the consumer apps first.
How do you know it was his decision?

Also, devil's advocate, why is it a bad thing for non-technical users not to be able to disable javascript? Do you know of any non-technical users who disable javascript?
It could be as simple as the plastics in the router enclosure giving off fumes :-)

(No reason to get your panties in a bunch before the results can be reproduced and a cause has been isolated)
Light table!
I accidentally developed a new kind of polymer when I was in the 7th class. It becomes thin as skin when wet and hard as hard-plastic when dry plus it smelled like menthol.

The interesting part was that I didn't use oil or something else, but only minerals available in a cheap chemistry-kit.
My chemistry teacher was excited to find that out, showed it to my class, but didn't understand how it worked.
Not for me. It actually keeps me on my toes a bit regarding differences in distros, especially since I have done well taking on project where server (mis)configuration was an issue as well other devs were struggling with.
Totally. Fix the bad grammar, and flesh out what cc/sa means for those unfamiliar with it.
My last stop was XMonad, an year ago. Since then I have not changed my wm.
Circa 2011, in a low population area, I had to call 4 or 5 plumbers to find one that thought dealing with a clogged toilet was worthwhile. One was busy, another thought it was too far a drive (~30 miles!), another said it didn't sound like a job he wanted and the fourth didn't get back to me before I had found someone else. Who knows if I got burned, but it was $350 when I did get it done, so maybe worth that extra 5 miles of driving.

(roots had (probably) grown into the line to the septic tank)
Yes, the FUD is gathered from personal experience of several non-City branches of Pret and Caffe Nero, in particular.
Use Cinnamon.
I hate to turn this into finance 101, but there seems to be some confusion here.

Owner a has 50 shares. Owner B has 50 shares. Total is 100 shares. They decide they want to give Jim Bob some shares for his birthday. They issue 50 more shares to do so. Owners A and B have been diluted and the value of their shares has decreased. That is dilution.

You cannot increase the number of shares in a company without decreasing the value of the shares. This is a hard, mathematical relationship.

Dilution is not financing. Dilution does not change the value of a company. Dilution is bad. When someone way up this thread quipped "yeah, it's great except for the dilution" (paraphrased), that is what he meant (I think - forgive me if I misread). In other words, "Yawn. Tesla is still in business".

Everyone seems to be confusing the definition of dilution with the reasons someone might choose to be diluted.
I use CentOS a ton. Also whatever the amazon official AMIs are.
What it's like running CentOS on the desktop?
Autodesk engineering will take over all Tinkercad development. We are working on transitioning everything over, Autodesk has built a very strong and dedicated team to support Tinkercad.

Airstone development will continue as before.
Yeah, I burst out in laughter when I read that and had to do a second glance at the picture of him with the comb over and subtle smile. LMFAO!

It's bias journalism. Let me portray the evil company and the saint of a christian, sounds like a scorned employee.
Can an expert comment as to why this is too good to be true?
Nintendo is slowly opening up to indies especially on the EShop with games like this: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/WQaA7w-yvWTrSVOJ9x5w-I...

They generally only take more famous titles IIRC, but saying they hate indies is not true at all, especially with their presence at that conference recently.
I worry that you're still using Nautilus 3.6, which was definitely an interim version of Nautilus. If you check out 3.8, you'll see that type-ahead search is very much there, and better than ever — especially if you happen to have Tracker installed :)

The key difference is it's effectively a file search that is easy to back out of, so it only shows files that match your input. Personally, I find that makes it a lot easier to flip between a bunch of files with similar names, and it's making me really like search — which I had never really used before. It'll search recursively, but the files from the current folder are listed first, so it's harder to get lost among them than it sounds. (And I think there might be something on the roadmap to list files from the current folder and from elsewhere under a separate heading, but I could be mixing that up with something else).
Most importantly, hackable in haskell :)
Thanks for the comments and votes. By the way if anybody is interested this was presented as part of the mining challenge at MSR2013 http://2013.msrconf.org/challenge.php and here is the paper http://thechiselgroup.org/2013/03/27/a-study-of-innovation-d...
Because this locks up the 3DS in what should be a sandboxed environment, this may have implications in the field of reverse engineering the 3DS's anti priacy systems and getting working game backups running.

There has to be some kind of memory leak or memory protection error for this to happen.
Some people may claim all $500, but not everyone will.
Debian has been my home for 5+ years. It was the only distro I ever tried where the package manager didn't eventually (or immediately) fail on me and require me to fix either the package or my whole system manually.

I have tried my share of distros in the past [0], but haven't felt much need to go outside of Debian recently. Perhaps things have changed, but now I'm happy here :)

[0] http://www.linuxtoday.com/author/Preston+ST.+Pierre/
Is there a way to play with the service without signing up?
I am mostly an xmonad/Unity user, but why is Enlightenment not on the list?
There is Xubuntu or Linux Mint (or of course tons of other Debian-based distros)

If you want to stick with Ubuntu and just remove unity, here are instructions for replacing it with Linux Mint's desktop interface (Cinnamon) and file manager (Nemo): http://askubuntu.com/questions/292394/how-to-completely-remo...
Debian for me. Debian on everything.

I have a debian wheezy server running a bunch of disks with zfs (from an ubuntu zfs-on-linux PPA), a jessie/sid desktop that is just awesome, a NAS (Western Digital Sharespace) running debian I installed via debbootstrap and a kernel I hacked together for it. There's also a debian netbook which is mostly retired now, and I have ubuntu on my chromebook, mostly because I'm not sure there's a debian release for it yet.

--edit-- I also use ubuntu at work at the moment. Regardless of the platform I like the XFCE environment, and ubuntu has made that quite pretty lately. Thankfully with a bit of theme downloading through apt, XFCE on debian can be made to look the same.
Part of that article is behind a paywall.. :(
There's nothing wrong with being ambitious and only having 5k startup capital, it's just that these don't seem enough to serve the target market you're aiming at.

I would describe 'Big data' to mean the size at which traditional database technology stops being useful in your project. It's usually when the volume of the data is large.

I recently worked on a low end big data project. They had 4 very large, traditional database servers and the workload wasn't suited to that kind of server. They rearchitected, spent a bunch of money and moved to a 20 node hadoop cluster (each node was small - perhaps a few $k each). Because the workload suited hadoop they are now able to scale up easily and to great advantage.

Note that I describe that project as low end. 20 nodes is small in the big data world.

So when you say "I think it's possible to get a foot in the door with 5k", I think that perhaps you don't know enough about your market to make that statement.

Don't do anything further on this project until you've fully validated your business plan. There are some good ideas on how to do that in the other comments here.
What's new is that the British government has decided to care.

See [1], search news for 'google tax', etc.

Edit: The Irish take is interesting [2]. The Cypriot crisis and Apple's decision to take out a huge loan rather than on-shore some offshore cash both provide further spice to the present arrangement.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/18/eric-schmid...

[2] http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/no-wonder-the-nei...
No, the details are a little bit different on this one.
A paywall mysteriously went up so I can't go re-read the article. But IIRC the article accused Google of avoidance, not evasion. Avoidance is legal and evasion is not. So the article seems to be saying that closing deals in Ireland to avoid taxes is legal, or at least likely to be legal.
Not at the moment, but you can login in one click ... It is on my todolist :)
It has a sweet spot that doesn't really fit for some. For example it is less productive than Gnome 2 if you have large monitors, lots of windows, and have multiple windows from the same app. For single tasking a handful of maximized windows Gnome shell works great, especially if using lower resolution smaller screens, and possibly fingers.

The secondary problem is they keep removing functionality and configurability, and this isn't done in public. I'm the first to admit that I actually like less configurability - I'd rather the developers made good choices in the first place, rather than just throwing lots of options over the wall and making it the user's problem. But some really annoys people - for example Nautilus just lost the status bar so finding out the amount of free disk space went from moving your eyeballs to clicking in the background, making a menu selection, having a dialog appear, reading and dismissing the dialog. I insist on using focus follows mouse, so if that ever got removed I'd be up in arms too.

The theory from the developers has been that Gnome 3 has a powerful extensions mechanism so you make it do anything you want. While that satisfies some, it is annoying to the rest of us. We don't want to extensively program our desktops - we just want them to be productive, and prior ones like Gnome 2 were productive.
Actually, for me it was the other way around. It was only natural to use Debian for my servers when I used it already at home :)
Show HN: This is what Rosetta Stone would look like if it were crowd-sourced
You can break it down ad infinitum, but if the real reason you can't do something is that you are afraid to, or you don't actually believe it's possible, then no amount of Nike slogans will make a difference. And furthermore, the implication is that, if they don't get up off their ass, it's their fault, and not something in their environment (including their internal one) that can be changed, and is what they should be actually focusing on.
I use Arch. I've used all the major distributions. I don't have any specific reasons to use Arch, other than it's the one i'm using at the moment.

It's fine.
I'm quite tired of the populist rhetoric of "morality" vis-à-vis tax that the UK media and politicos seemingly wheel out every other day. The bottom line is that taxation is a legal issue, not a moral issue.

Lord Clyde said in Ayrshire Pullman Motor Services v Inland Revenue "No man in the country is under the smallest obligation, moral or other, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest possible shovel in his stores. The Inland Revenue is not slow, and quite rightly, to take every advantage which is open to it under the Taxing Statutes for the purposes of depleting the taxpayer's pocket. And the taxpayer is in like manner entitled to be astute to prevent, so far as he honestly can, the depletion of his means by the Inland Revenue".

That is the law of the land to this day.

There is a moral obligation to obey the law, but not to pay a penny more in tax than the law demands. If there is a problem with the law then legislate to ameliorate the issue, but please spare me this talk of "morality".
EDIT: People keep saying that it's fine if they're obeying the law. There's a chance that they might not be obeying the law. While they're not evading tax (not using clearly illegal means) they're not just tax planning. Indeed, the schemes used by these companies are pushing a language change. Tax avoidance used to mean normal tax planning.

The tactics of Google, Amazon, Vodafone, Starbucks, etc etc etc mean that "Tax avoidance" now means complex schemes which are probably legal, but that might not be. The schemes are complex, and require believing odd things to be true. For example, Starbucks makes no profit in the UK[1], something that people will find baffling if they've ever bought a £4 coffee.

Any one of the big four accountancy firms has more staff that the HMRC. There's big money to be made in avoiding tax. When firms are caught they negotiate deals to repay some, but not nearly all tax.[2]

But the final slap in the face is that underfunded, understaffed HMRC gets "help" from the big four accountancy firms. What's the catch? What could possibly go wrong with allowing the poacher to play at gamekeeper? They lend staff to HMRC to draft tax law; they then use their knowledge of those laws (that they helped to create) to exploit loopholes.[3]

People really don't mind if you plan your taxes to reduce the bill. But they do get angry when they see people "taking the piss", especially when the country is going through austerity measures and when the NHS is being crunched. All these companies make use of UK infrastructure (police; education; health; roads, etc etc) - they should pay their tax.

[1] (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/starbucks-is-...)

[2] (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/dec/20/inland-revenu...)

[3a] (http://www.ion.icaew.com/TaxFaculty/26745)

[3b] (http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/apr/26/accountancy-f...)
I'm not exactly sure if that's different from current academia :)
Learn EMACS in Ten Years
I use Ubuntu because I'm too lazy to switch to Arch. I've stripped out everything Ubuntu about it and replaced the DE with awesome. New computers always use Arch and new servers always use Debian.
I know pacman doesn't do everything that apt/dpkg does, but for a personal machine I highly prefer it to any other. What exactly don't you like about it?
I often buy books directly from amazon.com (even used ones) and get the seller to ship them to 1$scan. By creating an account you get a personal ID and as long that is visible on the address label the book is filed under your account.
A FORMER Google executive has blown the whistle on a massive and “immoral” tax avoidance scheme that has “cheated” British taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of pounds over the past decade.

Barney Jones, 34, who worked for the internet search giant between 2002 and 2006, has lifted the lid on an elaborate structure which diverts British profits through Ireland to the Bermuda tax haven.

Although Google’s London sales staff would negotiate and sign contracts with British customers, and cash was paid into a UK bank account, deals were technically booked through its Dublin office to minimise its liabilities here. Jones, a devout Christian and father of four, is ready to hand over a cache of more than 100,000 emails and documents to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), detailing the “concocted scheme”.

He has already provided testimony to the Commons public accounts committee (PAC) which led to the combative questioning.. [paywall]
Cinnamon looks legit! I'll give that a shot. Thanks :D
> $500 deductions for drycleaning without receipts, people are going to claim all $500.

This is illegal if you didn't have any drycleaning. You can go to prison(In theory) if caught.
Thanks, missed that one, will fix.
I don't have any questions per se but I was genuinely sorry when I heard TinkerCAD was shutting down. Very glad to know you guys have revived the project.
This didn't look half bad until I saw the 5 rss feed limit. I don't even mind looking at ads half the time, but a limit on my feeds is not good. Maybe something closer to a 30-50 feed limit I could deal with. maybe.

Some screen shots to look at the UI wouldn't be half bad either.
Kubuntu at work — Ubuntu because it's the done thing where I am, and K- because it's the only ‘desktop’ I'm aware of that lets me avoid the Windows practice of overloading the Control key for menu shortcuts and stealing it from ASCII and editing.
How is that an indie title? It's published by sega and is being produced by Double Fine, a well established developer that has 50+ employees.
How would you disrupt the pest control industry?
I have been in the pest control business for a long time. Twice I have grown a company and sold to Terminix. This go around I'm keeping the business forever. Any clever ideas of what it would take to have an Orkin or Terminix worried about what we are doing?
As I'm sure most of you know- nothing has changed much is pest control in the last 20 years.
Any crazy or fun ideas would be great.
So I ought not mention 'big data' until I can be running the ScaleMP phase. In the meantime I'm just a run-of-the-mill dedicated server vendor.
When I see comments like these, I feel like there must be two different KDEs. Every time I've tried to use it, I've had the exact opposite experience: it runs really slow and provides a complete nonsense UI.
Thanks for the suggestion. I have to add some screen shots.

The 5 rss feed limit is part of our business model. Feeds consume resources and resources cost money. So we have to cover our expenses to ensure a reliable and durable service.
HN hellbanning is just infuriating, no upsides.
How come arch is winning but the comments reflect otherwise?
There was some research in Visualizing WiFi with Light.
Here are the results:
http://www.openculture.com/2011/03/visualizing_wifi_signals_...
This is my first iOS app. It's a bit of an experiment in crowd sourcing. Right now there's lots of content in Cantonese and English. If you want to play around with the app I suggest trying one of those languages first. And then switch over to whatever language it is that you want to learn.
The only winning move is not to play here. Economists and policy wonks across the world, of all political persuasions, are constantly suggesting better ways to tax than corporate income. Corporate taxes are lower, more even, and less of an issue outside the U.S. and U.K., but over here "corporate profits" is a dirty word and so you win votes by taxing them, the seeming logic being that if you tax a behavior that makes the behavior less evil.
This is news now because there is a UK parliamentary committee hearing (analogous though not identical to a US congressional hearing) into corporate tax avoidance schemes, and Google is being accused of having misled the parliamentary committee in previous testimony before it:

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

I obviously have no knowledge of the specific matter, but in general it is a bad thing if MPs start accusing you of having lied to them, and it is not unusual for whistleblowers to come forward when stuff like that starts to hit the news.
One of the stupidest criticism I have read. Tax evasion and Tax planning are two different things. And "morality" and "taxation" can not be spelled in same sentence.
Yes. CentOS minimal for servers, Fedora for desktop
Point about the wind power industry is entirely correct - my goal was simply to put it in context. Many companies (including GE as you mention) are only so profitable by taking advantage of a multitude of tax credits/subsidies and the like.

Reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/economy/25tax.htm...

Several of GE's businesses are propped up by government subsidies. All I'm saying is that GE is not really different - Tesla simply happens to be in a sector that's particularly high profile and politically charged, and its claiming of those things are out in the open.
Yes. For this particular case, we don't care about what's under the hood (BSD or any Linux distro), but about the hood itself, which doesn't depend on the OS as long as it is Linux or a BSD.
I wouldn't know where to begin to find the right customers to interview right now. At the moment I'm having second thoughts as to whether I can rightfully market myself to big data customers with just 1 server, no matter how fast it is. Apparently I need at least 20 servers to run small big data workloads, I have a bit to learn obviously.

I could try a Google AdWords campaign to ask some questions in a poll maybe, but that's all that comes to mind when I think of getting customer opinions- I'm really at a loss in that respect.
In the UK you can use GoCardless. They can set up a direct debit instruction for a bank account.
Switched from Mint to ElementaryOs Luna. It's a breath of fresh air after having used so many distros with ugly interfaces.
I though companies 'are not people' so I don't see why the word immoral should be applied to such things. Can't really have it both ways.
Hear, hear! I can (and do) run Crunchbang on tiny embedded devices all the way up through those netbooks. For all of those smaller (capability) devices, you really can't go wrong with #!.
$_ is pronounced "it" and should only be used in small blocks of code. This is in much the same way that in a paragraph of text "it" should only be used for transitory sentences on the same topic as the previous one.
Taxes are theft, you can twist it anyway you want.

Say that to workers who have to pay 40-50% of their tax & mandatory pension saving only to see it being swiped out by the government on the next recession.