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> The IRS then told him his penalty exceeded $140,000.

His penalty did exceed $140,000 though, they didn't make this up to punish him. That's what happens when you just ignore federal laws.

After meeting with the IRS, the penalty was reduced to $25k.[1] A New Zealand savings account would have averaged ~4%/year over that time period, so subtracting the gains from his owed $20k leaves about $20k in penalties.

What's an appropriate amount to discourage tax cheats? They're called penalties for a reason... are we just supposed to trust everyone who, when caught, claim they 'didn't know' about the law?

[1] - http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/08/us-usa-taxes-forei...

Van Horn contacted the IRS's Taxpayer Advocate Service, which agreed to
work on his case. After a series of offers and counter-offers, he says,
the result was a single "non-willful" FBAR penalty of $5,000 per year,
or $25,000 total.
Let me get this straight.

Any investigative journalism that does not directly address what you believe to the most important topic (the legitimacy of the US government) is automatically not actual investigative journalism. Not only that, anything that does not address your favorite championed cause is automatically "small potatoes" that is in fact part of the conspiracy for journalists all over the country to fool everyone into believing real journalism is occurring.

Are you seriously leveling this claim?

In other news, all sci-fi TV shows are in fact not actual sci-fi TV shows because they aren't Firefly.
See if you can track down a copy of a small book called Sorry Meniscus by Iain Sinclair.

Sinclair expanded the column below to make the short book.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n10/iain-sinclair/all-change-this-t...
Enough to not want to do any more.
Wait, don't you remember Steve's original announcement about the great development opportunities on iPhone, where you could use HTML and Javascript?

You won't be able to use undocumented APIs because you won't be able to get to them.
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Probably, and it would likely cannibalise sales of their pricey 4G tariffs. Although apparently their official line on the N4 is that it 'failed EE's internal testing'.
Most people I interact with still don't want to use Office Apps in the web browser, so it doesn't seem like much has changed on that front.
Bull. Startups can't pay more because there's no investment capital.

Established and successful companies that pay well still can't get people. The shortage is real.
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You lost me at "Pay them to Code, not Think"

That is THE worse advice EVER.

You want a developer that can take your pseudo spec (and I say pseudo because if they are detailed enough, then you should be able to code them, since you are hiring a developer you don't know the devil that will be hidden in the details), interact with you, and give you what you asked OR BETTER.

Non-technical people need the counterweight. This advice is like telling the doctor "I don't pay you to think and figure out what I have, just to write the prescriptions, and is much cheaper"
He should send OMICS a box of chocolates and a thank you for the free publicity. It's good to be an American in America!
Awesome man, ha showed 'em! :)
This is great. It would have been hard to make an IDE with the polish of IntelliJ from scratch, but, without official support from Google for Android development plugins, layout editors, etc. I had been reluctant to make the jump.
The news is that they're switching from Eclipse to IntelliJ as the base for the Android tools. The demo didn't really show too much that was new, today's Eclipse tools can show multiple screen form factors and languages just like in the demo.
Why does anyone expect a specific answer to a non-specific question?

The more you can learn to help the client work through ambiguity, rather than expect the client to match your technical understanding and then be frustrated when they don't, the more successful you will be.
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Hitchens is the guy who claimed the Viet Cong/NLF never used car bombs, right? Saddam was working with AQ all along? And lots of other bullshit? No, he was a disgrace, and that rag's association with him does not reflect well on them.
Or just a flat rebate regardless of income, as in the FairTax.
But sometimes you don't need a doctor to give you a diagnosis. You literally only need a prescription.

Hiring a developer on the cheap to "just code" is the equivalent. It's a way to keep costs down while testing the market.
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Great post David, looking forward to hearing you speak at the Thiel Summit.
I can't understand how you trash religions institutions in one paragraph, then veer off into the utterly supernatural by talking about "innate" individual rights in the next.
Totally not relevant but I got a good laugh out of it. When I first read title of the link it made me think that developers were a communicable disease! Kind of like some terrible 80's high school health documentary lol!
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We're just still growing a lot (north of 30% a year) and hiring lots of people. Look at the Priceline quarterly/yearly reports (most of which is Booking.com). Also this graph: http://goo.gl/TW6TX

I work there as a Senior Developer, I'd be happy to answer any questions from interested parties in the contact E-Mail listed in my profile.
I bought the S4 this month for $629. I think $649 is reasonable. Compared to the iPhone, It's got a larger screen, replaceable/upgradeable battery, and better features. Worth it, in my opinion.
B/c few entities have the ability to do it. The public relies upon the press to act as a check against government power and corruption. This is why we have the 1st amendment.

The cozy relationship between the press and government rots away at the foundations of freedom and democracy. It is a moral duty of the press to expose corruption at all levels.

Notably, the NY Times (one of the few papers with the reach and scale to do meaningful investigation of US Government corruption) has written a variety of slander pieces about Julian Assange, strangely deciding to pick sides. The paper had the ability to act as a responsible intermediary between the leaked data and the public, but instead chose to flagrantly side with government power.

...This is a more subtle form of the same arrogant jingoism (and American flag pin wearing foolishness) of Fox News reporters.
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They finally fixed that in the most recent update (as of about a week ago?) They also added filtering, so you no longer have to just blindly scroll around to find a song.
A related anecdote: my alma mater, the College of William & Mary, was founded in 1693 (second only to Harvard, which was founded in 1636). As you'll generally find, the biggest indicator of endowment size is year of establishment: older schools, in the aggregate, have more alumni, more cachet, more everything.

W&M is a huge exception: despite our age, our endowment per student is only around $80.5K (compare this to Stanford's $342K or UVa's $239K).

Why is it so low? Because we took the side of the Confederacy in the American Civil War. We spent our entire endowment on confederate war bonds and the majority of the student body (being in Virginia) went to fight for the South. They converted the Wren Building -- the oldest academic building still in use in the U.S. -- to a barracks.

After the Civil War ended, Virginia was broke -- and W&M was even more so. They kept the college closed for eight more years until they had enough money simply to operate.
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> You want a developer that can take your pseudo spec (and I say pseudo because if they are detailed enough, then you should be able to code them, since you are hiring a developer you don't know the devil that will be hidden in the details), interact with you, and give you what you asked OR BETTER.

I think you missed his point. Yes, in an ideal world every developer would be able to think for you. In the real world, developers who can do this charge a huge premium.

His point was that if you don't want the full consulting package, you can get by with a less expensive developer—so long as you map out every step of the way for them.
I think it's less a specific shift to JS, but more a shift to HTML5 and CSS3. That would probably be a better reason to allow people to write JS apps.
Many of us game devs use C++ for performance and especially cross-platform support, so I am very interested in seeing how NDK support turns out in this. Debugging native code in particular has always been a pain point even for people who don't hate Eclipse.
I would be really surprised if the memory on EC2 is not ECC. 32GB of ECC only runs $399.00 on Crucial.
Is the Android version working for you? Gives me a failed link or something, like one of those "not available for your country" links, but it doesn't say anything about that this time.
Some people are insecure when they're not 100% sure of the rules for social interaction. They don't want to come off as an asshole who pays no mind to social niceties or as someone who has Aspbergers and doesn't recognize social cues.
Joe Celkos books http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Celko/e/B000ARBFVQ
I was working on software for the phone at the time, so, yeah.
I don't think that's the goal but I think sites like that perfectly faciliate a race to the bottom scenario. Why wouldn't someone bid less on a project in order to win a bid? While price isn't the only factor you have to be crazy to compete with those prices when your competitors' cost of living could be much less, which means you're almost sure to lose.
You seem to be operating from the assumption that the rules actually mean anything and somehow the vast majority of flights are done with all electronics following the rules. This is laughable. I'm sure that every flight with more than 100 people has at least a dozen bits of electronics still fully powered on and transmitting.

Why do I think it's safe? Because rules don't control reality, only people's behaviors do. In reality, we fly with our electronics on every single large flight, and they are not crashing or experiencing any particular problems. The only reason the rules are still there is that nobody wants to run the risk of being the one who gets blamed for some problem, because after some crash or something, somebody else who labors under the delusion that the rules actually mean something will pin the blame on the electronic devices, falsely, and by extension, the one who lifted the rules.

That's it. That's the only thing keeping this rule in place. It sure isn't physics. I don't have to be an EE or anything else, we've run this experiments hundreds of thousands or millions of times already.

That said, your little planes may have their own issues and this experience may not apply to your plane. But we're talking commercial flights here.
Don't forget the vouchers for traditional currencies that could be exchanged without any conversion into bitcoin. Those were often leveraged to get around the banking latency, but would just as easily been used as a (slow) way of paying for illicit goods or for obfuscating layering in an ML scheme.
That's a great idea. (I wish people on the internet were more supportive and less antagonistic in general. It's a tendency we should all be aware of.)
That's even less explicable.
> Pre-motion statements and the actions regarding maintenance of certain records they were obligated to destroy at the end of the prosecution

Could you give me a docket number or link?
Those things are indeed nice, but they can't defend against the other insanities that come in the box with them.
Nope. Even companies with a large sum of VC, let's say >5m€ don't pay fair salaries. Siemens, Allianz, younameit pay way more + have a lot of benfits, less stress more (real) job security and a development perspective (career path).

Same for freelancers.

Sometimes I see very large teams of mediocre developers. Why didn't they hire 2-3 (more expensive) experts instead of 10 juniors? Maybe because they doing this because of an aqui-hire exits or some ridiculous "hire 10 people" todo that their VC dictate.
Have you tried visual studio or jetbrains? Even VS2005 runs circles around Eclipse Juno(2013).

Eclipse is slow, you have to manually edit memory-settings in eclipse.ini just to get bearable performance(-Xmx384m wtf??), it's buggy, plugins are confusing and often conflicting , the ui is bloated, intellisense is more in the way than it is helping, keyboard focus is all over the place when switching between panels(for example going between code/project/search). It's simply frustrating to work with it once you're used to something that actually works smoothly.
> Act with confidence, and any potential awkwardness washes away...

Please, no. Not everyone wants to hug you, not everyone wants to kiss you, not everyone wants to have sex with you. Default to no physical contact unless it is very clear that both parties are happy with that contact. Acting with confidence is simply pressuring the other party into agreeing.
guess we have to wait for google to update their SDK page.

The GUI editor has been available in IntelliJ IDEA for a while you can get the community edition if you are eager to try it. Of course it doesn't come with all the bells and whistles Google added.

To be honest I'm surprised it took them this long to provide a decent IDE with a GUI designer.
They use paypal for the outgoing transfers. Otherwise it is one directional. So I suppose paypal does the heavy legal lifting here.
How much is your own time worth? If you're hiring developers who need lots of hand-holding, you're going to burn up much more of your own time. You're also taking on more risk of wasting a month or two on a failed project.
What I find really frustrating is the radio in the N4 does support LTE. It's apparently disabled in software. I suppose you could go SIM only - they have some reasonable* tariffs.

*It's all relative.
> Am I correct to think of this as a VBA for Google Apps?

It is kind of like that, except that its JavaScript and not Visual Basic, and you can use it for "standalone scripts" and "web apps" in addition to scripted functionality for Google Apps (Docs, Sheets, Forms, and Sites).
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Isn't that safer than typing it every time? A key logger could get it then. Has anyone ever extracted a password stored in a client like that?
I'm sorry you don't understand.
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It's not even available on the Play store yet, that or it isn't available for my modern top of the line device :(

EDIT: It's live now, it's a direct replacement for the talk app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
Here's the problem: Assume you were made CEO of a publisher tomorrow. Are you going to put your money where your mouth is and not take measures to mitigate freeloading? Remember, just the perception of risk can be bad. Shareholders will not be reassured by self-serving, unproven theories about how no one was going to pay for those copies anyways.
Wouldn't this be exempt from that limitation, with the JavaScript engine being distributed as part of iOS itself?
That's precisely the point though, it isn't a reasonable expectation. The odds of a postgresql expert just happening to follow them on twitter are poor. The odds of multiple postgresql experts being on the postgresql mailing list is quite high.
First of all, if comments lie, so do function names. So refactoring to replace all your comments with function-names is a waste of time. The same goes for variable names; the difference is that you were presumably going to have variables in your code anyway.

More constructive commenting advice:

If your comments are supposed to explain what the code does, give a few extra minutes to considering whether the code could be clearer (some tasks might require complicated code that merits comments, but most tasks can be accomplished with self-explanatory code).

On the other hand, sometimes there are external reasons, not enscapulated within your code, why you must do something surprising. This unequivocally merits comments. "I did this because of RFC #XYZ" or "Partner FooCorp needs this bizarre format, see /global/path/to/spec", or "our data has such-and-such a distribution, thus this surprising approach, which improves the 99th %ile latency".
eclipse is worse in every way outside of generally getting plugins/framework integration first.
and though i'm sure i could configure eclipse to behave the same way...out of the box intellij was very predictive for me. not just on obvious auto completes either. it seems to know what you want to do as you're typing. similar to the way BMWs communicate what's happening on the road to you and you begin to feel like you're one with the car. that level of interaction between me and the IDE makes it much easier to get code from brain to file imo
My first day as a Glasshole: How Google Glass looks from the inside
After revisiting the thread and viewing some of the other good finds, this is still the most astonishing one I've seen. The end state is very pretty, and the final evolution continues in what appears to be a perplexing nearly-stable chaotic pattern.
How about when you end up with a truncated last name? At this point I have to maintain a list with comments on what my last name actually ended up being in the system for each website. Especially when I have to enter my name in for password retrieval.
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How exactly is Javascript a promising alternative platform to the JVM or .NET? Javascript is a language. Which Javascript platform are you talking about, that provides alternative ways to do what JVM and .NET do?

The JVM is getting better and better, by the way. Java 8 will be a better language with lambdas and closures. Groovy, Scala, Clojure, Jython, JRuby, and other JVM language implementations are currently great options for developing both portable desktop apps and web apps.

Not sure where Go fits into this either, Go is more of a replacement for C++ by and for Googlers who got sick of C++'s pain points.
I know exactly what you mean.

I bet you also feel awkward when you do try to apply enough strength, but the other person has a stronger than average handshake, which makes you wonder if your two hands would implode if you apply the same or more strength as the other person does.
There's been several projects where external forces have practically forced me into Eclipse (Android development among them). I dislike it because it's huge and difficult. It won't let me work simply. It is slow to start and slow to use. If I want to import a project, I have to manually copy the .project file and manually edit it because Eclipse is too retarded to just import a simple folder from the filesystem in anything like a sane manner. I have to tweak a bunch of crap in the messy menus and dialogs before I get a functional debugger, different for each project context. The UI is slow, meaning it loads slowly, and switching from Debug->Code view lags horribly. Using the internal windowing and docking system for widgets is hard and sometimes I have to reset the whole thing to get it back to a manageable place.

Those are my main complaints. I haven't used IntelliJ so I don't know if it is much or any better. I kind of feel like Eclipse exhibits the primary pervasive cultural philosophy amongst Java developers; create something massive and unwieldy, embed some useful functionality somewhere beneath layers of tedious boilerplate, and bundle it all up and act confused when no one wants anything to do with it. This is further exhibited by Java's attachment to XML, its packaging mechanisms (wars and jars everywhere), and its general verbosity.

I appreciate the intention behind all of this, but I think it's totally non-functional from an outsider's perspective. I hope IntelliJ is better.
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There is a certain amount of schadenfreude involved in seeing someone hoisted by their own petard. This is true whether or not you agree with the reasons for said hoisting.
They're making it similar to developing Windows Phone applications, but in some ways even better!

The live preview of different layouts is FANTASTIC! I'm super excited!
If that page that's linking to the hidden service was served over SSL with an EV certificate, then I could be sure that the link isn't faked. Of course the New Yorker could still be compromised

The New Yorker or any CA capable of issuing EV certificates present in your browser. Do you trust all of them?
I assumed that they were rolling out an update to Google+ that will have hangouts as a component of it. They talked about it under the context of Google+ with the statement "adds another icon". They do rolling updates for things like that so I would expect to it sometime this evening.
To be honest this would turn me off and cheapen our relationship.

Its almost like you rubbed it in my face I could have charged more.

Better to throw in a bonus at the end like "if you complete by x then you get y".
The ascension of the lines: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#10,3,0,1,2,7,2,3,3,2,...

Wavy lines slowly move upwards, some disappear over time.
A great deal of being a good teacher is being able to excite and motivate students. This goes from kindergarten through at least undergrad. And it applies across the socioeconomic spectrum.
"If you don't want the full consulting package, you can get by with a less expensive developer—so long as you map out every step of the way for them."

Perfectly summarized. Thanks.
When he first took office, George W. Bush thinned the herd of the White House press core. He broke the tradition of seasoned reporters getting access and replaced it with selective access based on his personal like/dislike of individual reporters.

This has had a chilling effect on de-facto press freedom in DC. In the meantime we've seen utterly shocking things go largely unreported b/c topics are generally verboten and the press instead focuses on less consequential issues.

In comparison to the stuff that is not getting significant press, the smaller stuff is largely irrelevant to the lives of most Americans.

There are great reporters who write about everything from local sports to local corporate corruption, but the high quality of their work should not shield the major players from accountability for utterly failing in their major moral and professional duty.
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Do you care to back up your claim about religious institutions. I am not saying that you are wrong, but you have made a very serious claim sans any quantifiable evidence.
Wow sounds like a cool app! Keep me posted reyinc@hotmail.com
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