skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not dual taxation. The IRS deducts the foreign tax paid. So if the foreign country has a higher tax rate, you will never pay US tax. I'm not saying it's a great policy, but it isn't as bad as it sounds. You can always renounce your US citizenship - think of it as a maintenance fee. Yes, draconian.
Google Cache https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.sh...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.sha...
Thanks!

I know. But I couldn't think of another way to start small.

If usage grows hopefully artists will actively promote their desired 'fund receiving' email address.

The next step would of course be that artists can signup and the whole email address finding step would be dropped
It's about the environment and the people that surround you.
It's not all about learning. It never was.
"too much" being $80k last I checked, where you have to pay US taxes on any amount exceeding the $80k. (or wait, it might be that you pay the difference between your US tax rate and the foreign tax rate...)
This is essentially how Magnatune works. You pay $15 per month, can download and stream any amount of music from the Magnatune catalog and 50% of your monthly fee gets paid to artists in proportion to how much of their music you downloaded and streamed.
Chiclet Keyboard - what's that
J Edgar Hoover looked so hot prancing around in his "Throw Me Down And Fuck Me" Big Red Pumps.
Thanks! Would be great if you'd try the app for a while. Let me know what you think!
Blackmailing would be far too transparent for the military.

"Information Superiority (IS) is defined by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) as the 'degree of dominance in the information domain that permits the conduct of operations without effective opposition'."

http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/defense/97_jwstp/jw4a...
Looks interesting. Please send me an invite too if any more are available. Email in profile. Thanks.
CopperEgg – Acquired by Idera
The US IT sector is heavily subsidized. Giving Apple, Google, Facebook etc. billion dollar subsidies at home would spur trade wars. So instead the US uses its never failing ability to play European countries against eachother and its influence over smaller jurisdictions like Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Guernsey, Jersey, Bahamas, Isle of Man, British Virgin Islands etc to make sure that large US corporations' foreign income - which wouldn't be taxed in the US anyways - can be kept untaxed.
and when these US based companies eventually bring back those profits to the US (whether it be at the full current rate - unlikely - or some negotiated one time discount rate), the lower the foreign tax burden the greater the US government gains.
That reminds me of Putin a little bit. Even if you think some leader is an asshole, sometimes you need an asshole to stand up to an even bigger bully. I just imagine someone like former president Medvedev (and with no Putin in sight) would've offered Snowden to US government on a silver platter, just like France, Spain, Portugal and Italy tried to do (fortunately unsuccessfully). I remember I was very much against Putin when he fought the US' anti-rocket shield, but over the past few years I've started to understand why he would do that. No country should own the whole world.
That can't be right. Otherwise you might as well just churn out billions of proofs like "Proof that 34634+7684=42318". Surely the only value in a proof is whether or not it helps you understand something?
This sounds to me like journalistic license from Greenwald, who probably does not fully understand the technology involved. I'm guessing it's a little more nuanced: one could learn about known exploits and compromised services to stay on "safe" communication methods, or use some of the exploits themselves.
Creating full-stack installers in Ruby
I realise this is sacrilege but the impression I get from a PG essay is that you could make the same points in 1/3 the length.
I wonder how much pressure the NSA can and does exert on corporations that refuse to coöperate in this manner. And whether those on the list really had an actual choice in that manner. I guess a large government organisation has plenty of leverage if need be.
I've been with OVH for the past 3 years, I can't say I am not satisfied with the performance and stability but this price is too tempting. Anyone here jumped from OVH to Hetzner can tell me about their experiences?
Minion drawn entirely using CSS
What If Snowden Was on Board the Bolivian President's Jet?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/violeta-ayala/what-if-snowden-...

"I would like people to know that today the U.S. hosts some of Bolivia's largest criminals. One such person is the former president, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, and two of his ministers who are wanted in Bolivia, not for information leaks, but to face charges for the killing of 60 people who were protesting against his government's policies to sell Bolivia's resources to U.S. corporations. Sanchez de Lozada escaped Bolivia in a jet in 2003 and to this day the U.S. refuses to accept Bolivia's extradition request for him."

Glenn Greenwald covered this almost a year ago:

America's refusal to extradite Bolivia's ex-president to face genocide charges: Obama justice officials have all but granted asylum to Sánchez de Lozada – a puppet who payrolled key Democratic advisers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/09/america-...

How prescient of Greenwald: "Relatedly, we find the prevailing sentiment that asylum is something that is only to be granted by the US and its western allies against unfriendly governments. The notion that one may need asylum from the US or the west – or that small Latin American countries unfavorable to the US can grant it rather than have it granted against them – is offensive and perverse to all good and decent western citizens, who know that political persecution is something that happens only far away from them." -Glenn Greenwald, 9 September 2012.
A search engine of manual, user guide or any other docs
Why Does a Country With Few Roads Have a Growing Airline Industry?
Dvorak's article is a regurgitation of previous HN discussions on this topic.

I have said in the previous HN post and I will say it again here: don't pile on Microsoft alone. These spying policies make every US-based services company untrustworthy to whomever privacy is important. Come to think of it, I'm not sure whether you can rely on European services either because it seems that gov't surveillance is widespread.

On the other hand, maybe if we do pile on Microsoft, and stop using their products for this reason alone (even though Google, Apple and others are in the same boat), it will force them and their lobbyists to influence their gov't shills to put a stop to these programs.
If you have any more I would love one, email in profile.
Linux for all the things! That's the only viable solution
Glenn Greenwald has been showing us this stuff for years, we just haven't been paying attention. Now all of a sudden he's sitting on thousands of documents that prove he was right all along, and events are unfolding just as he predicted. See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6044406
A couple of years ago at a Linux conference in Germany I had a discussion with a Microsoft employee at their booth. At that time I was a 'hardcore' linux user with no trust in Microsoft at all. The discussion with the employee went like this:

Me: "Hello. Could you tell me what Microsoft is doing at this Linux conference? I honestly want to know that."
Him: "We are here to show how our products can work well together with Linux related products."
Me: "Why would I as a Linux user use Windows or any other product from you? We all know that you spy on me - at least indirectly."
Him: "Oh no. You are misinformed. We have a lot of business customers with very sensitive data. Can you imagine what would happen to us if they found out that we spy on them? Business users are very sensitive in that area. We were screwed. And we do not spy on regular users as well. You may also know that this would be totally illegal according to German law."
Me: "So you are saying that you do not spy on businesses or other kind of users of your products?"
Him: "Yes! We were screwed otherwise!" *giggle*

He had a smile on his face for the whole discussion. Maybe because he had this discussion with those paranoid Linux users for the last couple of days of the conference. Paranoid!

Microsoft is so screwed guys.

Edit: I was not rude to this guy. We had a beer together later that day. I am sure he did not know anything about PRISM and was just doing his job.
And you can make out that (parts of( the US Declaration of Independence was also ignored: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.". Just ask any slave living under that constitution!

Isn't history fun! And nuanced! And grey!
I think he was just passing marketing to sleaze as an argument.
Yea, remember that PRISM is designed to target foreign communications, so if you are an American, you might be actually safer.
How to Access Computer When Forgot Windows XP Password?
Another nitpick:

> Inheritance caused it (in the way Bill Gates became the wealthiest man in the world by virtue of his parents already being wealthy, that combined with a brilliant intellect and probably well instructed business sense available only to the already prosperous was able to create Microsoft - so if you are born genius with rich parents, you have a much better shot at becoming the richest man in the world, though I won't argue there aren't outliers).

Keep in mind that Linus Torvalds became a multi-millionaire due to Linux [1].

[1] http://www.linfo.org/linus.html

Personally, I think the man should also get a pile of Google&Samsung stock, that would make him even richer.
Don't mistake a former KGB guy's taunting for a principled stance. Here's how Putin deals with whistleblowers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko_poisoning
Glenn Greenwald said a year ago that "Relatedly, we find the prevailing sentiment that asylum is something that is only to be granted by the US and its western allies against unfriendly governments. The notion that one may need asylum from the US or the west – or that small Latin American countries unfavorable to the US can grant it rather than have it granted against them – is offensive and perverse to all good and decent western citizens, who know that political persecution is something that happens only far away from them." -Glenn Greenwald, 9 September 2012.

Back then, we had to take his word on it. Now the US Government has strong-armed European countries to force the plane of the president of Bolivian down, because they thought he might give Snowden asylum. Now we have absolute incontrovertible proof, above and beyond any of the documents that Snowden leaked, in the tangible form of the US Government's illegal actions in spite of international law, that prove what Greenwald said was 100% right. What more could you ask for???

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6044406
A "horrible" idea? Explain plz...
Guilin Shopping, Shopping in Guilin, Where & What to Buy in Guilin
Guilin shopping offers you the information about Guilin local products and exquisite souvenirs and the shopping street, shopping mall and supermarket, etc.
/me reads article.

/me checks byline.

Holy crap. Yeah, I remember when Dvorak was quite the Microsoft fanboi.

My how times change.
I think the FISA court order on Yahoo is a known example.
Someone following you around is likely to get their teeth knocked out.
I think he wrote about the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco, including the unethical "Microsoft Munchkins" attacks.
This was clearly a talk you were supposed to watch, not attempt to read the slide deck through later. Many of my talks are like that, and to avoid people complaining online "your slides suck" even though the people at the talk usually were in agreement that "that was an amazing talk", I always go out of my way to use presentation technologies that are as random and esoteric as possible to make certain that when I am asked "can we have a copy of your slides" the answer is "I guess, but it will be really hard and of no use to you".
Continuous Development and Deployment of CodeIgniter using Git
To me seems you were just kinda rude to some guy that was getting paid to do his job.
One wonders how tainted Linux is, if one considers systems including SELinux. Yes, I realise the point of SELinux is to make it more secure, but the association with the NSA (they created it) makes it very difficult to trust.
The i7-920 is almost five years old at this point and only clocks a 5k on passmark. Very strange offering.

That being said, I'm sure the 4770 is great for Minecraft or as a testing server (lack of ECC ram makes them a bad idea for serious use).
Nicholas Zakas is a famous JS dev that worked at Yahoo. And the slides have nothing to do with a rant against JS , if it is why you hate them.That's the context.
Medvedev was and is Putin's pawn, he acts the way Putin tells him.
Fixing American laws is a step in the right direction, but it doesn't make me as a non-American feel any more confident about using US-based internet services.
Not germane to this topic, but I'm sure there are quite a few GLBT people that might have an opinion on just how much of an asshole Putin is.
Any serious discussion of moving US businesses off Microsoft stalls when it reaches the "non technical" departments.

I put "non technical" in quotes because many of the people in HR, Accounting, Marketing, etc. are very tech-savvy. Marketing folks, for example, would love an all-Mac office setup, but they generally have to have Windows PCs for Powerpoint, Visio, and CRMs, to name a few. HR needs their IE6 in-house apps. Accounting can't even hire anybody who wants to try getting their work done on a Mac.

I realize I'm not even talking about Linux here; I think that just underscores my point.

Does anyone have a counterexample? Because I would pay top dollar for a Linux solution to these problems, but haven't seen anything worth buying.
To his job.. and lie?
Uh, I might sound like a clichy old grumper but is this really any news since the 90's which is when Microsoft found the internet?

It's practically been the operative description of Microsoft for decades that they're interested in profits (and potential profits in certain circles disjoint from the end users), not the privacy or security of their users.
It would help if it said what it does before signing up for it.
> "With that said, do you really want to buy a Microsoft product? Do you want to buy anything that gives easy access to snoops poking around at their leisure?

You know... Up until this whole NSA/PRISM thing got uncovered, Microsoft had actually rather successfully started to rebuild the perception and image of its cloud-service Azure.

It had shown the world that in less than a year, it was well on its way to catch up with Amazon Web Services. It was going from an experiment to serious business. Something the company invested in. Even more so than the traditional parts of the business.

As someone who once looked at Azure and laughed it off, I was coming around, actually considering it. I don't have any inside info on this, but I would guess/assume Azure was just about to take off. All those investments, finally about to pay off.

Then the whole NSA/PRISM thing came about. Now there's no chance in hell I'm going there. Not that I expect AWS to be any better in that regard either. I'm currently pulling out my data from Google. I trust them even less.

Hell, at this point, the only viable option privacy-vice seems to be open-source software, deployed by me, to an account I control, hosted on a service-provider outside the US's reach.

It may not be immune to unauthorized, illegal snooping, but it will be off the main grid, take a bit more effort and it wont be done automatically 24/7.

If I become paranoid enough to put in the effort, I'll just get a VPS instead and encrypt the shit out of it.

(Disclaimer: Not a US citizen.)
I must admit, I'm no Apple fanboy but in this case, I can easily picture a NSA rep threatening Steve Jobs and Steve Jobs telling him to f* off.
Be prepared to incredibly unreliable disks. Or better, ask for new disks for your box, even if this will require some additional cost.

Clarification: I had bad experiences with disk reliability, I told different friends, that in turn had very bad experiences including multiple disks in RAID breaking in the same time range.
Erlang & Maintenance
That is some impressive pricing. 32 GB ram, 20 TB Traffic at 49€ / month is cheap.

Is there any way of getting VMware or Xen on thus? I have a project ( http://www.opentestsearch.com/ ) that currently uses 9 small virtual machines, running some different operating systems and software that can't easily run on the same server. Currently colo has been the only viable option. Cloud servers would be too expensive and no cheap dedicated host I know about support virtualizations systems like VMware or Xen.
I know that, I just meant "someone like him" (weak personality that does what others tell him to do, even if he's head of a state).
It's essentially just a rant at OS fanboys who post knee-jerk reactions without stopping to think about the context of the post they're irritated by.

I feel for the author, I really do. He posted some rather obvious satire about Windows vs Linux and then faced the wrath of the brain-dead as numerous zealots took to site -and e-mail- to send profanities. But what the author misses is that this tribal behavior happens with all OSs and has been the case for many years. Sadly this is nothing new nor unique to his incident.

While it's easier said than done, sometimes it's better to just ignore the hate and silently moderate the worst comments (or better yet, close the comments on that article and let the haters have their flamewars somewhere else)
well as far as he knew he was telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help him Steve Ballmer.
Did you take a look at the way gittip does this ? You basically donate to a twitter handle and its owner can 'claim' the account whenever they want. No money is actually transferred until the account is claimed. I don't know if it can be applied to artists/bands though.

I was also wondering: is there no transfer fees with paypal ? Don't they make small amounts transfer useless ?

And one last thing: is it not weird for bands/artists to suddenly receive money from people without being informed about the site and all that ?
> Why We Can No Longer Trust Microsoft

LOL. Who was dumb enough to have ever trusted them?
A random Joe employee isn't going to know the details of a government backdoor (at least I'd hope so)
I don't follow US news - is that what they're telling the voters?
Slide 19 seems broken for me.

I remember from last time someone posted this that slide 19 was like slide 18 but with all of the features over in the JS box. In this version, both slides are identical.
I'm not sure, but isn't the 920 also a lot more power hungry? That could explain the higher price.

Or they just quickly whipped up some consumer-grade Haswell servers to offer while working on more reliable offerings of the higher end segments.

Hetzner usually discards their old servers on their server bidding robot [1], I'm surprised these 920's haven't been moved there yet.

[1] https://robot.your-server.de/order/market
Yeah that was the message. Not really sure if you got it, or missing the point though.
Care to buy some of my tiger repellent? It's been 100% effective so far!
I think it is documented even in the leaked slides.
You get these kind of cranks for anything. Unless he's compared with a control article where he's equally dumb about a different subject I wouldn't read anything into it.
Not sure about Xen or VMWare, but I use their auto-installer for getting Ubuntu on their servers, after which you can just install KVM.
Though I would like to see the talk in its fullness, and I am a full-on Javascript fanboy, I have to agree with the core thesis. In 99% of cases, there's no reason to do all rendering client-side, especially on content-centric sites. And devs do sometimes get too dependent on kitchen-sink libraries, rather than rolling their own native JS to address their own specific need.
Why should I be trusted? That's the point. Seems you missed it?
That's kind of the same argument for European businesses and governments to not use Microsoft/American products. At least if they did it within EU, they would be accountable, and the laws prohibit most of it. But the US spying is unaccountable to Europeans, so they can do whatever they want.

The only proper answer to that is to stop using American products (at least until the US government can prove with extreme oversight from Europeans and Latin Americans and others, that they aren't abusing their spying power anymore).
What makes you say this? I've been running on Hetzner for about half a year now, no issues so far.
You're right, sorry I should have read your comment more carefully.
Or they don't have to go to those lengths to intercept national communications ;)
They don't make a difference. With bootstrap, it's trivial to change the design.
Okay first of all, the word science really only refers to performing experiments to determine the truth of falsifiable hypotheses.

For example, climate change studies are not based on falsifiable science because you cannot do experiments with the entire earth, but nevertheless many of us believe we need do something about carbon emissions anyway. So moral absolutism based on science cannot tell us what to do about climate change. It's tricky.

But second of all, let's assume you really can answer everything with a scientific experiment. We might come up with an experiment to find a way to maximize productivity. The problem here is, how do you determine what the word productivity means? It might be possible to do this, but this is not a word that can be given meaning by a scientific experiment. The same goes for other measures of well-being such as happiness and justice. How do you do a scientific experiment to find out if it's ethical to conduct a scientific experiment? You can't!

So the point is you can use science, but you need something outside of science too. Science is not a complete replacement for religion; atheists still need to get at least some of their values from somewhere else.

In my experience, introspection and reflection on my own life and a willingness to ask questions about everything despite what the popular ideas are has led to the development of my morals. But some of my morals came about simply because I tried things out, because I spoke to people with different morals from my own.

I hope you see what I mean. Science can certainly be valuable. But it cannot be absolute. Science cannot tell you how to make a difficult choice, because difficult choices do not have right answers. Science cannot tell me that I should respond to you - it might be a waste of my time and your time, there is no way to know. But you are reasonable and polite and I am here so there you go, and it doesn't conflict with my own morality.
I think the line of thought was and remains only half-baked in my own mind, it was more a ponderance than a well reasoned argument and I hadn't expected such a scientific style interpretation in readers. My bad.
Unfortunately I also need some Windows servers :( But running the Linux ones on one server, and the two Windows ones somewhere else is of course an option.