skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time and money are fungible. When you "guarantee" workers 4-5 weeks of vacation, who's to say your comp isn't being adjusted downwards to compensate? What's the apples-apples comparison you could do between, say, Germany and the US to demonstrate how much better a deal the Germans are getting on this?

Meanwhile, if you're making near minimum wage, aren't you more likely to be fighting for additional hours rather than looking for reasons to give them up?
Or maybe not all politicians are in favor of the loopholes.
>But I also understand that for the Deutsche Bahn this means substantial damage and costs.

In what sense?

If the don't want repaint damages, then don't fucking repaint them.

People like them fine as they are. Young people at least. As for the older people, they will give their place to younger people sooner or later.
Aren't CD cases slightly heavier on one side? There's a pivot mechanism on one side and not the other; the CD isn't placed at the exact center of the case; and the paper insert (as well as any staples it contains) can also affect the balance. So you might be able to extend the tower a few millimeters more than what mathematical algorithms allow, by aligning the heavier side toward the desk.
Just to correct you a little, its nowhere near half of the your income. Marginal tax rate is 39.6% for a single filer for income in excess of $400k. Of course the majority of states have sales tax, and there's other taxes (state, property, petrol, etc) down the line as well. For some people, it may approach a total of 50% taxation, but that is a tiny tiny minority. And its not like most people making over $400k actually pay that tax rate on all their income, given that we have exceedingly generous deductions and other classes of tax (capital gains, which is a favorite of the rich) that are significantly lower than the marginal rate on standard income.

I'd like to know more about regulations preventing people from working (especially those in the top tax bracket).

I, for one, enjoy our decent roads, overall stability, and "social good" programs. I pay a pretty decent amount in taxes, but its really never bothered me one bit.
> I see a lot of talk about "tax loopholes" but not any specifics about exactly what those loopholes are.

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

The "cheating" accusation comes because you have to be very large to be able to make use of this. If everyone could use this tax arrangement people wouldn't complain. (Well, they would complain that it exists, but not that people use it.)
Yes, most were related to my startup.
Hi, author here. I would have liked to have made useful suggestions, but having made so many errors with cryptography in the past, I don't really feel qualified to do so.

I do however recommend getting in touch with tptacek and co and doing the crypto challenges. I mentioned this at the bottom of the post.

Edit: re: timing attacks, it helps if you're in the same data centre. I've never personally implemented a timing attack, so I'm hesitant to make any assertions further than that either way.
one of the major points made in the documentary is that the guy making bombs in the afternoon is one of the bad guys, but calling him out one way or the other is a terrible idea for your average village.
the reason they aren't pointing out the bad guy is because as you say, that robot truck is going to leave that evening. you don't want the bad guy's friends to find out, and you don't want the robot truck to start firing.
Money is insurance against future unhappiness. Bad things happen for no reason, and you might need money later.
Happy to elaborate? What would you like to know?

As for finding an SEO/SEM expert, typically best to go by referral. Most SEO/SEM experts that you'll find on google/forums will run you through templated best practices.

Best to work with someone who has been vouched for.
Indeed. As explained on the page I was using Debian's stable release. The new release, Wheezy, contains a package for hakyll. I will retest in the future, once I've upgraded my host(s).
Bijenpollen of propolis geven extra energie, vitaliteit en gezondheid
Whatever the mess US is in, its a mess that produces high number of entrepreneurs and innovation. Try duplicating Silicon Valley, Europe.
You could probably get there in NYC, which has both a high state tax and a city tax.
Because the water is too polluted to explore via swimming.
Having used a handful of sites like freelancer.com and elance.com with varying results, I'd say the best results I've seen were from postings I put up on freelanceswitch.com job board (jobs.freelanceswitch.com/jobs)
Google's g_editable HTML attribute
Why didn't you just make a link instead of a text submission?

BTW made a HN room: https://www.tesla.im/home#1369674621421890119 EDIT: Doesn't work. See comment below this.
The article actually goes on to address this specific point:

Of course, in practice, richer workers are able to negotiate for both paid vacation and paid holidays. It’s poorer workers who can’t take any time off. This table shows how it actually works out across the economy.

While the top wage earners seem to be able to negotiate comparable number of vacation days as most other nations, it's the bottom wage earners that seem to have absolutely no negotiating powers.
I sincerely believe that there is a better way to have discussions like this than to resort to name-calling ("leftists," "starry-eyed school girl"). The fact remains that the United States' economy does currently have the $guaranteed_paid_vacation flag set to "false." Making snide comments and throwing ad hominem labels around does nothing to advance the discussion regarding whether or not this is a right/proper/just/correct state of existence.
I think my main confusion was that there are a few things that appear to be full-time jobs but only list $250 - $500
Hit me up on irc, i'm trying to get a wintersmith irc channel started. #wintersmith on freenode. i'm jn
Woh! thats our bad. Thanks very much.
Assuming the $20,000 claim has some basis, it's borderline not---actually probably not---worth pursuing. Bigger than a "small claim" and legal fees will cost you more than that to actually get in front of a judge.
"It has already happened" means it was discovered. Since DRM is by definition obscured, we don't know what wasn't found. Insecurity and malicious code is to be expected from it. Their attempt to legalize it only reveals their original intentions.
If emailonacid's explanation is correct, they were "inspired" and wrote their own HTML and CSS. They could have easily designed the same image.

Given the pixel dimensions of a triangle, and the same software, should we expect the antialiasing or JPEG compression to be unequal? I'd be interesting in knowing which part of, say, Photoshop, adds randomness to such a deterministic process.

Now if there's EXIF data with timestamps or names, sure, good evidence. But this post seems like they're really stretching the "evidence". It's still very plausible that the other company looked at things, perhaps took some pixel measurements, and "recreated" it.

Edit: Also, check out where that triangle is used. The three images beneath it are very differently aligned. By their level of evidence, this disproves their point.

I'm surprised how HN is so uncritical in evaluating evidence and alternative explanations.
Is there a repository or central location of the established and well tested solutions for developers to use? Where does one start?
Slightly off topic. Not sure your affiliation or if someone from the project will read comments.

On the front page, if the designer could line the letters up with the bezels, I think it would look a little better. Only have Paint on this machine but:
http://imgur.com/uYYV8Qt
Avoiding “= null” statements in Java?
Wikipedia perhaps?
So, sure. I'll admit that I'm bad at cryptography.
You win!

But the problem is, the world needs more, not less, crypto.
We need to integrate crypto into more places, not run and hide and declare it too hard every time we come across it.

Is it easy to screw up? Sure. So is manually allocating memory. But we use higher level languages to help protect us from ourselves.

So too can we use higher-level libraries to help protect us from some mistakes we can make with crypto.

I'm working on an app which uses crypto heavily- In initial versions, I used manual RSA keys, but I recognize that no matter how smart I think I am (not very), it's easy to mess stuff up.

I can screw up the padding, I can screw up the implementation. Other clients which interop with me can screw up...

So Instead, I've swapped to using GPG keys. Is it perfect? Heck no! But it reduces the code that I have to get right. It outsources the parts that are most likely to be screwed up to a place where they're more likely to be reviewed, more likely to be written by non-fuckups.

There are lots of higher level libs, gpg is just one of them. keyczar, etc are also ways to solve this problem.

But we shouldn't run in fear everytime someone mentions the word Crypto, just because we have a chance of messing up.
Facial recognition, emotion tracking, heartbeat tracking, all while you watch ads. That's like a neuromarketer's dream.
Are you kidding me?

We're not talking painting the Guggenheim or the Parthenon here. Have you even seen the kind of buildings that get painted?

Clean wall:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sIjqDD2mNLA/TUaraGIrWsI/AAAAAAAACi...

Graffiti:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5509/979/1600/graffiti_po...

http://cdn4.vtourist.com/4/4851534-Graffiti_Building_Amsterd...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NC_JoI7fecY/S4EFOrE4ISI/AAAAAAAABY...

http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.11426410.1185/flat,550x550,07...
Hey Vinay -- I just wanted to remark that supportfu.com looks great. Even though I'm not in a business where I'd need such a thing, I found your copy compelling enough to imagine myself running such a biz and how to provide the best possible support, and concluded that I'd want something very much like what you offer. Best of luck.
you've censored me too many times for me to
contribute to any endeavor that you control,
dave, so i'd pass on your listserve anyway...

but such a listserve is largely unnecessary.
it's easy enough to find such writing-tools,
just by googling with the appropriate terms.

(or, if you wanna just go immediately to the
most versatile: https://www.textdropapp.com;
but fair warning, the yearly cost is $32+.)

besides, dropbox support was big _last_year_.
this year, something better is now available.
i'll leave you to your own devices to find it,
dave, and continue to wish you the best of luck,
even if i feel you haven't treated me so nicely.

and i certainly won't let your animosity color my
view of your software, and the potential it has.

although, to be honest, i think your earlier take
-- that an outlining tool and a writing tool are
two different types of tools, and need to retain
their separate focus in order to be their best --
was the correct one, and your new hope that you
can leverage fargo into a general writing tool is
one that will ultimately flop. but hey, that's
just my opinion, and i'd love to see your users
prove me wrong, and do amazing stuff with fargo.

-bowerbird
Austria have 35 days off guaranteed (almost 2 months if you throw a few days off because of sickness) while the us have 16 on average and the GDP per capita of the two countries is almost the same.

Ample amounts of rest does not seem to increase productivity in the rest of the time.

Fun fact - in Boleslaw Prus Pharaoh one of the main economic measures what the pharaoh declaring every seventh day a rest one instead of every tenth for the peasants with the argumentation that they will work better the rest of the times.
Divide — Start Procfile processes in different Terminal/iTerm tabs
He is not saying "income tax rate is 50%". Please pay attention.
The half of the income comes from the estimates of how much you pay taxes in total. Including property, sales tax, various fees and tariffs, and, most importantly, portion of corporate and other taxes that the consumer pays as part of the prices of goods and services.
Firstly, if google sees its only responsibilities as "maximize shareholder value" and "obey the letter of the law" then perhaps they should officially give up on the "don't be evil" thing.

Secondly, it's disingenuous of them to ask the taxpayer to "just change the rules" if we don't like their avoidance, when they're funding the very regulatory capture which makes it hard for us to do that, via their investment in these schemes.
Couldn't the graffiti artists just wear ski masks to avoid being identified? (Which reminds me of this story which appears on HN from time to time: http://cs.txstate.edu/~br02/cs1428/ShortStoryForEngineers.ht... )
Even if you get the same amount, there is no guarantee management will approve it.
Did you even read the source http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/no-vacation-updat..., or did FoxNews send you over to troll this site?

Everyone on this site can guarantee it because we are highly skilled workers or entrepreneurs and most of us make a very decent living. In fact, the higher I've climbed the more vacation I have received.

There are many in this country cannot guarantee it.
>They are battle tested with good track record

If by "battle" you mean one-sided murder attack, and "good track record" you mean "including killing tens of kids in weddings and such".
What I mean is that I think you're going to see a significant drop-off in signups by having the Twitter button there in lieu of a standard email/password form. I'd recommend having users link their Twitter account later on.
I think it is safe to assume that for any skill you can think of, like negotiating holidays, there will be a group of people who are (in your words) incompetent.

The question is, what should happen to that group of people?
Can you clarify exactly when you reported this XSS as a personal friend of mine reported it (exact same bug with a slightly different XSS vector) and was told it had already been found a reasonable while back.

(From memory, he also took a few photos of it also).

Would be interested to hear your response as it might give this another angle entirely, haha.

My personal experience with PayPal isn't particularly great,
I'm a security researcher who's just turned 18, and even when I was underage I never actually disclosed that but regardless I had the following knocked back;

(Whole heap of non-critical XSS's, and two critical stored ones, The ability to edit titles on some PayPal subdomains (without giving too much information out) - This vulnerability still exists but I was told it was quote "not serious" even though the title field was vulnerable to stored XSS.

Full path disclosures, open administrative panels, whole variety of cookie/SSL/TSL based issues which I was told did not warrant a bounty.

Also had a personal friend (the same guy who found the XSS you've posted here) find a couple SQLi's on a few PayPal domains (post-auth) and he still hasn't heard back from them.

I'm not going to be the guy to accuse PayPal of not playing fair here, but my friend has also reported vulnerabilities I had previously reported and gotten paid for them. (Might be because he reports them from his security company email, whereas I was reporting them as an individual).

Anyway,
Sad to hear you didn't get a bounty!

Also, if you don't have it here's a pretty good bug bounty list;
http://bugcrowd.com/list-of-bug-bounty-programs/
They have a responsibility to accurately report their activities to tax authorities.

In a previous hearing, Google told parliament that they do engineering only in California.

That claim doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
I could see this as a product that open source projects could use as a user-friendly replacement for IRC.
"The United States is the only advanced economy in the world that..."

The United States, like the past, is a different country. We do things differently here.
OP - I'd be willing to do lessons if we can work it out properly. Check out http://css-tricks.com/category/beginner/
How could lambdas make sense in C? Keeping closures around means having to keep free variables around. C doesn't have garbage collection, so it would be quite awkward to establish conventions about who gets to free the variables that each closure references.
Hi, as a startup no amount of feedback would be enough.
I promise, no more direct posts until we have something new to tell you/HN.
I think the issue is that it changes the "feel" of the place and therefor the type of people likely to be attracted it.

It kind of says "we are for the sort of people who will jump through hoops to get a free article of clothing"
Hi, author here, I'm glad you found it useful!

> I didnt know for example that you can basically extend an MD5ed string and keep the original MD5 value

Thank tptacek for that knowledge, I think I picked it that up in a talk he did that's somewhere on Vimeo (will link to it).

> Then again, I know that MD5 isn't a secure cryptographic hash function so I wouldn't have used it from the start. Nice to know why thats the case.

Nope! I was going to mention in this in the post but removed it to keep things simple: This particular vulnerability is not due to MD5 collisions or MD5 being cryptographically insecure. It's because of the internal mechanism (a "Merkel Damgard Construction") intrinsic to hash functions like MD5, SHA1, SHA256 and friends. Even if MD5 were cryptographically secure, this vulnerability would still present itself if used in the way I described.

Don't mean to nitpick, but with crypto small misunderstandings lead to big vulnerabilities. Hope that makes sense :)
If you consider graffiti to be freedom of expression, you missed that boat when it was made illegal in the first place. Arguing we shouldn't enforce the laws we have generally won't get you very far.
They're not completely. Try negotiating more vacation and less pay. This is very difficult in practice. The employer will be concerned about other employees seeing you're getting more vacation (they can't see your pay).
China hasn't got free speech either. What is your point?
You are being completely ignorant.

My girlfriend, who has a college degree, works for Delta as a flight attendant. After the North West merger, her colleagues collectively voted against a union because of perceived corruption and expectedly high union dues. In the year since the failed vote, there have been substantial adverse changes to vacation and sick leave rules, increased abuse of duty days by crew scheduling, and decreased medical benefits.

That's 20,000 people who thought they had guarantees on paid vacation who suddenly need to spend more of their own money to get a doctors note on holiday weekends. By the way, if you need a doctors note at 4am before going to work: You need to go to the ER... which is expensive. Meanwhile, they are being forced to work longer and longer hours for depreciating pay.

The ~9,000 people who knew to vote for collective bargaining power should not be punished by the ~11,000 short sighted ones. Furthermore, government exists to provide for the common welfare. That's its role. Those 20,000 people already pay their taxes, why should they also have to pay union dues to get basic protections for their working conditions and compensation?

This story happens over and over again in many industries.

These people aren't incompetent, yet you're suggesting that they'd have to be in order for someone to believe that they need government to protect them. In the common case, they are hardworking, educated, friendly people who are being screwed by people like you. Wether you and our elected officials are ignorant or malicious, I don't know. But what you are saying is bullshit.
Teach her to pinch zoom. Double tap-zoom is a power user gesture.
In the 21st century, the U.S. isn't a First World country. That's not a dig. It's just the new reality.

20th century defintions:

First World: liberal, capitalistic democracies
Second World: totalitarian leftism (Soviet bloc)
Third World: poorer countries "in play" (Afghanistan, Korea, Vietnam).

This isn't very useful anymore. S. Korea is not "third world" and totalitarian leftism died.

21st century definitions:

First World: Nations with established social democracies (welfare states).
Second World: Nations sacrificing well-being for other motives.
Third World: Poor countries that don't get to choose.

Most people would think of the BRIC countries as "Second World", then. These countries are sacrificing equity and, in many cases, democracy in order to have rapid economic growth. The Arab petrostates are also Second World: rich, but through social and political sacrifice. But the U.S. is doing the same thing; it's just that the U.S. isn't seeking rapid growth (difficult when already in the lead) but the maintenance of military supremacy (hence the gigantic war budget).

It's not all bad news. Second World countries tend to make it a lot easier to get individually rich.
"U.S. is the only developed country not poisoned by socialism"

fixed
You bet. Its free (ad-free) too.
While the top wage earners seem to be able to negotiate comparable number of vacation days as most other nations, it's the bottom wage earners that seem to have absolutely no negotiating powers.

So when McDonald's offers you a job, you can't ask them about vacation time?
I'm not sure what line you're attempting to draw. An accountant's job isn't just to make sure you file the right paperwork, it's to identify courses of action that could have a significant effect on the bottom line. You seem to be suggesting that a business would be doing something unreasonable by moving any of its operations into a jurisdiction with lower taxes, since that would be making an investment in order to pay less taxes.
No, the "fair share to society" is determined by the prevailing morals of society. You can make laws all day, if society doesn't agree with them, you run into problems (ask some leaders in the middle east).

Imagine a town at a lake. There is a law that all citizens can only take so much water out of the lake. Now there is a guy taking a lot of water out of the lake - to the point where he steps over the law. But wait! He is actually registered as the citizen of a different town! Phew. Law abiding citizen after all.

What happens is that some corporations extract more value from society than is healthy for that society. That they have so much money that they can bend the tax code to their will without breaking it is completely besides the point. The result is the same: They have a net negative effect on society. That's not fair.

The lake of the town is being sucked dry. Just look at how much money those Double Irish corporations have in their accounts while a lot of of countries struggle to pay their public employees and have to make drastic cuts that directly affect pretty much only the middle and lower classes. That's not fair at all.

Well, at least they can keep buying those iPads on credit that will ruin the rest of their lives.
I like that this only covers left outer joins as opposed to left and right outer joins.

The difference between the two is sometimes confusing for people, so I've always suggested that people learn one and stick with it, since you can accomplish the exact same thing with either.
But that's doesn't make things any clearer. Google might do the sales process in the UK, but how much should that count when the ads are shown internationally and the platform that brings in the eyeballs is developed outside the UK? Clearly they should pay some taxes in the UK, but how to divvy it up? And how to achieve that process when there is nobody with overarching jurisdiction over the whole entity?
> And when you are lucky enough to get paid vacation

Luck has nothing to do with it. Learn how to demonstrate the value you bring to the table, then negotiate for the salary/vacation combination you want.

Believe me, it's a lot more empowering than waiting around for Big Brother to beat up the mean old corporations for you.
Heh, they really did date it 2012.