skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other countries and foreign companies can't and don't take advantage of legal global tax dodging jurisdictions and schemes?

I wasn't aware it was exclusive to the US. I also wasn't aware German / French / British etc. IT firms don't dodge global taxes at every opportunity.
For those who'd like to know more about Tax Havens, how corporations use them and the effect they have, I can thoroughly recommend Nicholas Shaxon's book, Treasure Islands [1]. For example, I never really considered why all my Amazon purchases mention Luxembourg.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Islands-Uncovering-Offshore-B...

(Disclaimer: That's an affiliate link via my college library. Feel free to strip it if you don't like such things)
IMHO Sanskrit is both harder and more complicated than Latin, which I spent years on before coming to a dalliance with Sanskrit and Pali. Then again, other than Latin (which I aced), I've never had much success with Indo-Europeans (except basic French, through drink).
No one is doubting the authenticity of the Prism Powerpoint, however only a handful of slides have been released.

There are clearly more than a few powerpoint slides, one of the very first stories was a warrant for Verizon, and many different docs have been released, FISA court documents, bulk warrants, overviews of several programs from several internal presentations, not just one (what you dismiss as 'powerpoint slides'), NSA inspector general report, GCHQ docs on bugging the G20, GCHQ docs on Tempora etc. What a bizarre assertion. The first hand accounts have been backed up by ex-NSA workers including Binney, Drake and others. How much more evidence do you need before you'd like to debate the real issues instead of talking about how trustworthy Greenwald is?

I'm genuinely curious which news sources you've been using, as apparently you have been completely mislead.
What is Deep Copy and Shallow Copy in Java
Dale - I've been really interested in this project since I work with CouchbaseLite. Hope you get good feedback. I'm particularly interested in setting this up with Sync_gateway. https://github.com/couchbaselabs/sync_gateway
Breaks the back button when watching a video. Make sure you open in new window.
If you don't change a password sent to you by email immediately, that's YOUR failing.
Sanskrit isn't verbose. I haven't seen any English translation...

Sure! Long multi-phoneme words with all the tense built in... the wordcount will be low. I meant semantically verbose, roughly: "average minimum unit of well-formed expressible information". In this facet, I found Sanskrit far worse than even Latin.
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Of course, I accept that a recommended textbook counts as sufficient written material.

But, it's not always the case that recommended textbooks cover the complete syllabus of a course - in which case, they don't count.
You certainly have a court decision or at least an official accusation to support your claim? Just asking.
Wait a minute. When you said $800/day I assumed you must be talking contracting [1]. Freelancing would be more like $300/HOUR, not $800/day. That would be an utterly insane rate for consulting.

[1] Consulting would be more like 9/10 billable or even more. Some contractors take the absolute minimum required time off since they're paid by the day (I've heard of guys who haven't had a consistent week off for years), which would put them at 11+/10 relatively.
The problem is not that they cut off your (possibly rooted) server. Thats good practice and I don't blame them for that.

The problem is that relevant persons assisting you in resolving the problem (e.g. giving access using a secure connection) are not reachable over the weekend and take their time. That is a problem of the provider.
> Even though their activities directly increase your own tax bill. You have an odd way of thinking.

The French State creates € 12 billions in debt each month [1]. If you think them paying any more taxes would decrease my tax bill in any way, then you have an odd way of doing math.

1: http://www.planetoscope.com/comptes-publics/315-compteur-de-...

> Of course it would, their tax avoidance games mean nobody else can compete.

Are you seriously saying that the reason Google has no competition in France is because they pay less taxes? Even Microsoft, the multi-billion dollar company failed to do so with Bing but if only Google paid its full taxes then French companies would be able to take over is what you're saying? I very much doubt that.

> I really don't see how you can argue for the perpetuation of special exemptions for those that can afford it

As long as there is no low flat-tax but unfair and complicated tax system. People will always try to avoid it. Get rid of your insane tax system and you'll get rid of these special exemptions. Just like getting rid of alcohol prohibition got rid of the bootlegging problems.
So there are several things in this article that are flat out wrong:

(1) "No wonder so many languages are derived from it."

Not sure what he is referring to exactly, but Sanskrit itself is a descendent of proto Indo-European, from which many other Western languages were derived. So it is a near cousin to the original language of the Indo-European people, but not the direct ancestor of Western languages (this was a misconception of the 19th century linguists that "discovered" Sanskrit).

(2) "It is more expressive"

I assume by this he means you can do more with less. To a certain extent this is true.

(3) Very systematic

This is only true to a certain degree. Classical Sanskrit is itself not the original language, and probably the largest single pain point is the "sandhi" rules, in which words are combined together. Although someone eventually wrote down a large number of rules that shows how these changed together, they are more the product of slurring of speech over time, rather than "design" per se.

(4) "Excellent grammar"

Is a lot of grammar "excellent grammar" ? In Sanskrit, it does allow certain structures that are not available elsewhere (like the existence of a dual case), which presumably facilitate density, and, consequently, presumably also facilitates efficiency. If so, one could argue that the grammar of Attic Greek is more "excellent" than that of English. However, to me "excellence" is something that depends more on the specific use case -- a language that someone can speak and use is better than one that one cannot.
This just seems incredibly reckless and selfish. The odds of these documents, which everyone appears to agree will harm legitimate US interests, being accidentally released seems dangerously high. I really hope his Dead Man Switch encryption system is better than the one that allowed wikileaks to accidentally leak unredacted and unvetted cables.
If by solidarity you mean the state slavery of collectivism, then you're absolutely right, Americans are often very individualistic.

If you by solidarity you mean there's no sense of nation, then you're just making it all up as you go along.

However, trying to pigeonhole the most diverse country in world history on such a simplistic basis, is impossible. Only someone that has never spent much time in the countless cultures of America, would make such a statement.
Just moved my startup to hetzner. Used my win 2012 iso image, installed everything without any problem. So far so good. Previously i was on ec2 and azure vm, but those cloud operators have really slow hdd and cpu for twice as much $ (expectable of course). But, because of Hetzner commodity hardware (no ecc, asus/msi motherboards, onboard lan, software raid,...) i had to add special backup procedures, if anything goes wrong, and I'm keeping one Azure VM on standby.
Bigger than x86? I doubt it. It's fine for things to evolve: so long as the complexity is compartmentalised we can forget about it and move on with our lives.
You post a load of conjecture that is purely hypothetical and then ask questions from this non-existent world.

You do not comprehend the reality you are discussing. Screaming 'GOD HATES FAGS' at someone's funeral is not political protest. It is disgusting psychological abuse.
They want to be called agent, but "pimp" or "head hunter" is closer to what they do. The parallel with a Hollywood/sports agent doesn't really exist, and to be fair we wouldn't realistically want to pay enough to justify such a model.

They are just CV movers but they often know key individuals within different companies and even provide kick backs. As slimy as they can be at times they have connections that a sterile CV in a pile of sterile CVs just can't have.
Reference guide to cell phone standards by country
Wade Not in Unknown C++ Waters. Part Four.
> For one, what if that specific group makes life worse for the others, so it's rightly villified? Then it would be important that their complaint is known.

Sorry what? That's like saying we should listen to the KKK because after all they do make life worse for others!
What's wrong is what the DOM is and what it isn't. The DOM is the Document Object Model data structure along with the parametrized routines that operate on that data structure. It exposes every way in which the apparent simplicity of XML is far from the reality. Then the operations that it provides do little to manage the complexity. They are only relatively "primitive" operations, like getters and setters for the data structure, plus a few things like "getElementsByTagName". That gets a set of elements from which you then should or must exclude what you don't want. If you want a convenient wrapper for the DOM API, you have to find or build one.
Thanks for the webcached version :)
Black Hat Changes Wi-Fi Vendors - The Network Will Still be HOSTILE
Is this really a blog with no rss? I've never come across that before, it makes me sad. (Or am I just not finding it?)
Were it not for their name, "Cookies" would not be generally accepted. We should have named them "Roaches", then no one would say, well it's just a roach.
Wrong. Jailbreaking phones may be a DMCA exception but if you copy any memory of any sort then it becomes copyright infringement offences. See WOW Botnet case.
>naive notion

But aren't they?
Credit cards and their coverage
I know both Classical Chinese and Sanskrit and have no idea what you are talking about.

"It's rare in both languages to stumble across a word that is just a black box, whose etymology you can't pull apart so as to guess what it means."

Err, yeah I guess you can guess from the morpheme of a Chinese character that a particular character is a type of tree or has something to do with trees, but that's about it. Similarly with Sanskrit, because of sandhi rules often times you can't even figure out what the word is in advance, and I'm not sure how you are suppose to "guess" the meaning absent looking it up in Monier Williams (unless you are guessing backwards from other Indo-European languages, in which case your potential guessable vocabulary will be quite small).
One of my favourite ancient artefacts in that area is the Tap o' Noth - a large vitrified fort - the rocks making up the huge walls apparently having been intentionally melted:

http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/17169/details/tap+o+not...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tap_o%27_Noth

The Tap formed my own mental image of Tolkien's Weathertop :-)
> If you are an indie following your heart, your passion and your dreams, then a world of individual sovereignty, collaboration and interdependence becomes possible.

> or will we use the technology to set ourselves free?

> a universe of possibilities when we each come from a place of We instead of I.

I've always thought of psychedelics use as a trade of Seeing for loss of self identification. Unless you can alternate between those states freely - it's pointless and you are shackled either way.

If everyone tells to "think outside the box", ironically - that's what box becomes to. A virtual reality - distorted picture of real thing and source of Terence`s 'Alien love'.
> WHO ranks the French health care system as the best in the world, and the expenditure per capita is less than Switzerland (at least in 2007), so I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers from.

http://www.securite-sociale.info/

http://reachfinancialindependence.com/french-healthcare/

FYI: it's forbidden by law to leave social security in France and to encourage others to do so. Best system ever indeed, once you get it you never leave it unless you're ok with jail time.
> "The problem with preventing the use of 'tax havens' is that there's no non-arbitrary way to decide if a company is truly using another country as a tax haven..."

It doesn't matter whether a specific company uses tax havens or not. The problem is that tax havens exist (and there are reasonably good definitions of how to recognise one).

Companies, who's role is to maximise shareholder value/profits etc, will use them within the extent of the law. That means it's the laws that need to change.
That's not really a C++ construct, as much as it is a hold-over from C, kept around to retain compatibility with existing code.

If you're writing new C++ code, you're in no way forced to use it. You can use constants or inline functions to achieve the same result in almost all cases.
I especially like PouchDB-Server as a mini CouchDB replacement ( https://github.com/nick-thompson/pouchdb-server ). Congrats for implementing LevelDB into PouchDB so we can use it in Node.
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What amazes me is that among those corporations with revenues in the tens of billions of dollars, not one of them challenged the constitutionality of the decision in court. Not one, not once.

Not that it would be necessary in an obvious case like this, but each one of Microsoft/Skype, Google/Youtube, Apple and Facebook could easily have hired the nation's best and brightest one thousand lawyers at $1,000 an hour, full time for 10 years to defend privacy. It would have been well within their means. Yet, each of them chose to back down. Each of them chose to fail their users' trust.

I don't think its due to cowardice. If these organisations cared the slightest bit they would have acted to protect their users. Not in the wildest scenario would the US government have jailed the leaders of Apple, Google or Microsoft. My best guess is they got something in return.
Right back at you: a lot of smart people have realized what you propose is not very likely. What are the changes that they are all wrong? What are the chances it is just you who is wrong?
I found this after searching the source: http://www.oculusvr.com/blog/feed/
Rebuilding thousands of families, one contribution at a time.
You probably believe it's all about leveraging deep consumer insights in the creation of Unique Selling Propositions?
This is great news but will it really force certain agencies and powerful circles to stop what they've been doing all this time in secret? And if not, what could?
Any existing tools to help author NLM XML?
Awesome job... I don't share many pens on FB, but I definitely shared this one when I saw it.

Lol @ the comments about it being the wrong use of css... That's obviously not the point. I love creating css art... because I can, and it's fun.
Show HN : Fyrebox helps you create quizzes playable on Facebook newsfeed
Seems like "Think Different" was more real than "Don't be Evil". Even with all the Apple's closed ecosystem.

This reminds everyone to look at different angles when we criticize people/companies and understand that, even now, an individual makes a lot of difference.
I believe it is a StormFront initiative, because all racist comments in a targeted thread will be flooded with upvotes, and all comments in any way critical will receive an equal number of downvotes. I did a little research and did find some StormFront threads discussing YouTube comment initiatives, /r/politics initiatives, etc. so I don't think this scenario is at all unlikely. The clear patterns set it apart from the "ugly people speaking their minds" hypothesis. In general I have observed this pattern in specific, seemingly targeted Disqus comment threads, etc. since ~2010. Notably, the comments usually intersect with criticisms of Obama.
Media sites are painful to visit with so many libraries and embedded widgets. Those pages load much faster after using Noscript to selectively load JS. Wish there was a built in repository where people could share whitelists.
hehe, so true.
They also helped in the "Battle of the beams" beforehand, as well.
> Not sure what he is referring to exactly, but Sanskrit itself is a descendent of proto Indo-European, from which many other Western languages were derived. So it is a near cousin to the original language of the Indo-European people, but not the direct ancestor of Western languages (this was a misconception of the 19th century linguists that "discovered" Sanskrit).

OP never says Western Languages descended from Sanskrit, you are making that part up. The fact is that many Indian languages descended from it (or rather from the natural form, Prakrit, as opposed to the classical form). This is similar to how Romance languages (Spanish, French, Italian and Portugese) evolved from Vulgar Latin.
You may go to the TSE website and check every ballot's vote count and check against the printed voting report.

Voters and political parties have access to the printed copies of each ballot's report, printed before the ballot leaves the voting room. I used to work at the elections and I know they do, indeed, request these reports even before the ballot even leaves the room.

If you want to check a posteriori, the reports signed by everyone who worked at the voting room, plus the political parties representatives, are available at the electoral courts for anyone to check them.

As no one, specially no losing political party or this very guy who claims to have tampered the vote count, has ever came with an inconsistent ballot report, I can say that apparently, this is not a kind fraud that happens.

As I said, there are many problems with the current e-voting system in Brasil. The machines are closed-source, and there are no way to check the vote during the voting process.

But once the reports are printed, they are as good as any paper ballot, as this report works as well as a traditional manual voting counting report. Actually, better, as we can print several copies of the report in a distributed way.
Here is a seemingly innocuous little question for you all:

Now that PRISM's cover has been "blown" - what sort of personality type do you think will be most attracted by the prospect of getting a job at the NSA?

Might I suggest that a career with the NSA has suddenly become a compelling and attractive alternative for all those creeps that find idea of power without responsibility positively intoxicating.

Indeed, I suspect that the recruiters and security screening personnel are (as we speak) busy filtering out anybody who might leak - i.e. all those candidates who actually posses a conscience - making it much more likely that over time the NSA & it's sister organizations will become increasingly sadistic and power-hungry in their institutional cultures.

Regretfully, this seems like a foregone conclusion, given that the present public attention to the issue is not making a jot of difference to how the security services operate. Indeed, they are as clearly unmoved by public opinion as their operations are (effectively) beyond the reach of the law.

As a result, we should not only consider the consequences of this untrammeled power-grab by the security services as a potential worst-case threat:- We should positively expect this threat to materialize.

In addition to this expectation of malicious intent, we should also expect the technological advantage that the security services have over the general population to increase over time. The "internet of things" is coming, and it will not be too long before disposable "smart" sensors can be mass produced, making the surveillance state truly ubiquitous.

The tele-screens of Orwell's 1984 already seem quaint in comparison to the surveillance capabilities enabled by the ubiquitous smart-phone. How much more in thrall to the authorities will we be when sub-millimeter scale sensors can be purchased by the thousands-to-the-dollar, and scattered almost invisibly across the urban environment; maybe even in the food supply - certainly embedded in fitness and health-insurance tracking applications.

Orwell had his vision of a "boot stamping down on a human face - forever" - my fear is based on a vision that is a little different - given our increasingly intimate relationship with technology - a vision of the latex-clad hands of the state -- violently engaged in the mass rectal exam of the human race -- forever."

Remember - if Nixon got into power under the full glare of public scrutiny - just think of the personality types that proliferate in the shadows.
An issue with Dart is it does not support IE 8. IE 8 still ships with Windows 7 and it is quite popular.

It's not reasonable to throw away all IE 8 traffic just to get Dart's features.
Ballmer: Microsoft Has 1 Million Servers
This could really benefit from a transcript with photos. I bet I could make it take up a lot less of my life than waiting for this narrator to slowly talk over a slideshow.
Does anyone want to summarize this novel?
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The reason is obvious in China. Google is blocked by GFW, but Bing is not. So, there must be some dirty business between Microsoft and government of China. If Microsoft can do this in China, they can do this anywhere, even in USA.
Be that as it may, I cannot change your government. I can, however, stop relying on any of the companies who are complicit in spying on me.

The problem here is the divide between national government and international corporations, where the corporations' actions influence far more people than the direct actions of the national government.

I cannot exert any influence over a government that isn't mine, but I can decide which companies I support and entrust with my data and business. Your dichotomy of government vs company is therefore not correct. I can (and should) be upset about both.
Glad my post survived the glance of a pro! (PS. Saw your evr.gr: please send me an email, I am working on ~LETS stuff tangentially and would like to share info.)
What's nasty about Obj-C?
The reason why Sanskrit seems so interesting for programmers is that it was first language to have formal rules for grammar over 2400 years ago.

Panini defined Sanskrit grammar using Bakus-Naur rules and meta rules.

http://mathomathis.blogspot.in/2010/08/backus-naur-form-pani...
You might find some of what you're looking for on the wikipedia page I linked to. But courts are only very rarely the place where accusations against heads of states are examined, especially when it comes to superpowers.
I think you are missing the point of this. Similar happened when coffeescript was created, people didn't understand what is use-case. This is not to say this will do the same thing as cs.
Ava 7 vs Groovy 2.1 performance comparison
I rather use those 5 MB for my application.
The congratulations goes to https://twitter.com/chesles who implemented most of the levelDB adapter and Nick Thompson for the router + server implementation.

The server is really exciting, we mostly built it so we can reuse CouchDBs test suite however with it being so easy to install its becoming pretty invaluable
Scaling a DataFrame in Javascript
Why is the mobile web slow?