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I'm confused.

As I understand it, HN is a news forum associated with ycombinator, which I understand is all about startups, VCs, and business building. "Hacking" has little to do with that at all, except the programmers who make the bones of these internet businesses may well consider themselves "Hackers". But what about the rest of the team? Sales, marketing, accounts, admin etc. None of them are considered hackers. But even then I don't quite get it. Such programmers "create" primarily. They are not hacking, unless they want to admit to using other's work and hacking it to re-purpose it (which I have no problem with). But they aren't really hacking as such at all. They are building and creating.

Having read the definition of a "hacker", Im even more confused. To me, hacking is not about intimate knowledge, depth, deep interest, or even computer systems. Hacking to me is about knowing enough about something to fix or re-tasking it, even create something new from it. In the case of a media or Hollywood hacker, such a person is not a deep in-depth knowledge person, they are some one who knows the part of the system well enough to attack. That does not mean they know the whole system. Tech wise, I think of something like installing Linux on a PSP, or non IT, the way people in the third world use everything and anything to keep cars going. You don't need in depth knowledge at all. You just need enough knowledge to get the part fixed, or shoe horned in. The modification and re-tasking of open source software is also hacking. Or even something like scrapheap challenge is hacking. Surely all this comes from writing, where a poor journalist or writer is known as a "hack". Not suggesting my definition is universal, its just how I personally see it.

Then, as per the article's 3 bullet points, I dont see how providing flexibility is servicing hackers. All that is doing providing more flexibility as a part of the service or website. So, using such functions is just using the site as designed and intended. Not hacking. Hacking would be getting round problems with such a site, or using the site for something it wasn't originally intended. Although, such tool provided would allow fixing or re-tasking. I accept a fine line there, but I hope one sees the point.

So, to me sites like hackaday and instructables are actual hacking sites, where as this site is a great niche news aggregation site, with a great user base for decent, intelligent discussion, about anything of interest to it's users. HN is certainly not my first point of call for "hacking" at all. Its my first port of call for interesting news and discussion.

Cant help thinking that half the problem here is that this YC news site is called "Hacker News". I think that confuses people.
> Negative comments on blogs? Perhaps not a surprise [1]

It's up to the blog owner to foster a polite and interesting atmosphere. If he's approving the cranks, idiots, and ranters, then he only has himself to blame.
If your customers are in Europe and you want everything to be fast.
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Or it means even NSA knew that Apple has mostly sucked in data and web services.
I was being brief. The average HN user is easily smart enough to get the point. And at least it addressed the point at issue, which made it more of a contribution than your content-free response.

By the way, you're also ignoring the original context. Anybody trying to offer helpful criticism surely wouldn't have done that, would they?
Google was possibly a poor example as they aren't just using the brand fees but claiming they don't actually "sell" anything in the UK at all. Despite having lots of people in their London officer with sales type titles on LinkedIn...

I think the issue is that companies are currently able to get away with murder in terms of structuring debt and those brand type fees to funnel profits away. Some kind of "reasonableness" test certainly wouldn't go amiss when it comes to judging measures taken by companies. There's already a movement against measures taken solely for the purpose of tax avoidance.
Would a bill to explicitly define the 4th to include data storage have sufficient force of law? Or would that violate separation of powers and get thrown out by SCOTUS?

At any rate, given the tepid reaction of Congress, I don't see an amendment happening anytime soon. Hell, at this point the ideological tribalism is so bad, I'm not sure they could agree on an amendment outlawing the kicking of puppies.
Your post is a tirade against taxation in general, it's not pertinent to the point at hand.

Obviously (most) governments want to avoid a situation where a foreign entity is strong enough to destroy any local competitor and on top of that, contribute nothing back to the economy in terms of tax revenue. It's completely ridiculous.

If you deliver goods and services in a country, you should expect to pay the appropriate taxes in that country. It is completely unjust that Google et al can do this kind of thing, it puts local companies at a massive disadvantage.
If you're feeling adventurous, there are quadrocopter kits now that are quite reasonably priced and not too difficult to build and maneuver.

With a bit of tinkering, I'm sure someone will find a way to create a web based interface with CSS/HTML5 and JSON postback to control one live ;)
I am thinking about defining foreign spying powers of the government.
three thing you need to always expect when dealing with a provider who hosts your stuff:

1) offsite backups

2) potential that things go sideways during maintenance

3) offsite backups

Them external backups are always worth the cost!
rely on Microsoft Office with any confidence

This seems to imply using Office, like in Word/Excel?, somehow poses a privacy risk. Is that true? And how exactly?
I wouldn't say education is that hard on any fundamental level. It is, however, quite heavily constrained by factors that have nothing to do with actual education.

Imagine someone told you to build a robot out of wood and brass and whatever you could dig out of the ground, as a one-man effort, in a workshop. You might come up with steampunk and completely impress "someone", but more likely you'd just fail utterly because "someone" has given you loads and loads of extraneous constraints that have nothing to do with "build a robot" and everything to do with "I've dropped you into the late 19th century".

That is how education gets constrained.
I wonder if there'll ever be an alternative to Javascript. I'm not talking about those things that eventually get translated to Javascript, I'm talking about a native platform well thought-through and based on a typed language that isn't a mess. Yeah, I know: it's not Javascript that's broken, it's the DOM. I'd argue that both should be replaced by something else, otherwise the future will be 90% native mobile apps, which isn't a bad prospect if you can afford to develop and iterate for two different leading platforms.
I successfully ran ESXi on it, without any issues. I had burn the image and insert it into the server, had to pay a small fee for that, but nothing noteworthy. I think I had to get a different NIC as well, an Intel one, costed like 30 eur or something like that.
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You assume a definitive definition of "abusive".
Sanskrit isn't verbose. I haven't seen any English translation that is very much lesser in size compared to original sanskrit text. I have to agree with author's comparison to lisp, very powerful ,very systematic (in fact the alphabets are arranged in the order in which tongue and palate interact to make that sound http://www.sanskritsounds.com/about-sanskrit/46/index.html) but lacks adoption of masses.
That's not true. In Switzerland there's a two year line of people waiting to renounce their US citizenships, because they get double taxed.
Good work!

I think it's a great demonstration of css and it's capabilities (as well as the devs skills).

This is one of my own downfalls, I'll spend hours (sometimes days) on css UI when there is always a faster and easier method to implement.
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It's conjecture, but it's likely. Apple as a company has put a high value on user privacy, which was heavily influenced by Steve. He was also known for maintaining a high degree of personal privacy for such a public figure (for instance, refusing to put plates on his car).
We have a lot of servers running there and they indeed do fail once in a while. We designed it, so that we can recover very fast, by having a standby server ready. Its usually faster to order a new server, than HD swap.
You need to discover some new music :-p
For those who know Formula 1, I think Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley are the sort of examples that might work. Of course, some would say they are and were the bullies that needed standing up to. Heh, I suppose that gets us to the terrorist / freedom fighter type debate!!!
Pity Hetzner's policy on user submitted content is really strict. A single malicious user can get all of your servers take offline for 'breach of terms'.
I think they could certainly raise their prices in the US. Unless I'm mistaken it's cheaper there than anywhere else. e.g. In the UK it costs £9.99 which is just over $15.

They could also differentiate their plans better and add in higher end ones. I think they would make more money and not impact consumers too badly if they charged for use. e.g. $5 per month for 20 songs per day. $10 per month for 40 songs per day. $20 per month unlimited.
Steve Jobs went through a background check for a top-level security check in the 80s. I wonder if he ever received it?

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/steve-jobs-security...

I find it hard to believe that the NSA didn't see one of the most valuable and popular companies in the world as a priority until 2012. I bet they were salivating as soon as the first iPhone launched.
You're not missing anything. Spotify is horrible for artists.

I usually discover new music through SoundCloud and niche web sites. I buy music directly through services like Bandcamp. I make a conscious effort to find musicians and producers that I like and which have a low play count.

I started making electronic music 15 to 20 years ago. There's no way in hell I'd ever want to do this as a full time job and risk my livelihood on it. I know how time consuming the creation of a song or track can be. That's why I want to support people who have the guts to invest their very hearts and souls into such an endeavor, I'm way too big of a coward to ever do that.

People have such a strong sense of entitlement when it comes to music. They are too unimaginative to fill their own empty lives with meaning and require the imagination of other people to fill this void with 'content', and it better be free. Society is very ungrateful to most of the artists out there.
I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about, however mobile phones have awful bandwidth and awful browsers with not enough memory to cache everything they can.

In the context of websites, you also want the experience of new users to be the best it can be.

Basically, caching is nice, but it only works efficiently for applications that users visit often and that don't rely on links going viral, such as GMail. However, if you rely on caching for providing an acceptable user experience in cases where you rely on links going viral (such as Twitter), then you're screwed. Twitter has a mobile optimized web page that's much, much lighter than their desktop version and they did it for a good reason ;-)
Besides the mentioned issues with reusing disks, they also had used and maybe still use some faulty series of Seagate drives e. g.:

http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Barracuda-XT-Barracuda-Barracud...

So beware of having those installed, under high I/O they will fail at a random instant.
No longer? Like if there were not enough reasons not to trust them (or any other proprietary software vendor) before.
That is a good answer, I made it 'cause I can! haha
No, now seriously... It was something I made, like he said, for advertising. I though that maybe was a good idea show something unusual to my clients trying to catch their attention and that's it. And today i woke up and i saw all these people talking about it. Unbelievable.

Thanks you guys for your opinion. I appreciate it.
Absolutely. Write in whatever language you like, compile to asm.js - that way you're running in the browser, at about half native speed.
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Wow. Nice! CSS has become a lot more flexible over the years.
I agree, something like this needs to be done. It will take a lot of work. I think the free software/ open-source movement is robust enough that we can turn our attention to this. Copyleft and free software licenses are social hacks that work in tandem with the free software model. We perhaps need a social hack to underpin this federated data model.
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This example seems just plain wrong:

for($_i = 0; $contat > count($contacts); $contat++) {
$contat = $contacts[$_i];
echo($contacts);
}
I'm no fan of the overreach of the US government that includes, but is not limited to:

- requiring all citizens and non-citizens to declare all foreign bank accounts (FBAR) including signatory authorities on trusts and companies;

- unclear rules on the aforementioned. Do you have to declare retirement accounts? Are they taxed? Nobody really knows. It's clear the only value in FBAR is in non-compliance if the government decides to prosecute you;

- requiring non-resident citizens and residents to file tax returns and pay taxes if their income is sufficiently high and either the income is in a country that has no double taxation treaty with the US or it does and its tax rate is simply lower, even for those who haven't stepped foot in the US in 20+ years. I actually know many US citizens who don't do this and it could be a real problem for them at some point.

All of this while allowing the systematic avoidance of tax by US companies on a massive scale. US companies need to report their foreign income. An individual would have to pay US taxes on foreign income. Why shouldn't a company do the same? Why can't it pay the difference between US taxes and whatever taxes they've already paid as is standard in all double taxation treaty cases?

But the move here by the French is blatantly political and narrowly targeted at US companies. You'll note the language is around the "digital economy". Well, why should such reform be limited to only Internet companies, which--surprise, surprise--are primarily US companies?

That's actually what the US (rightfully IMHO) is objecting to.

All of this is simply window dressing however. The real problem with the system is complexity. Think of tax loopholes as bugs. The more complex software, the more bugs there are and the harder it is to eradicate them. Tax law is no different.

Unfortunately there is no political appetite for true reform as every complicated exception is the result of shoring up some constituency or pork barreling or other "corruption" so as much as we need to stop, say, poring money into corn subsidies, it just won't happen for the foreseeable future.

Borders are disappearing. We already see the nonsensical effects of this such as attempts to limit content distribution to geographical regions. At some point we're simply going to have a global tax regime and, dare I say it, world government, scary as that will probably be.
There are also different treatments of capital gains, and phantom gains which arise only from shifts in exchange rates. For anyone of any means beyond their salary alone these both can lead to paying more combined tax to both countries than either would require individually. Thats dual taxation in my book.

Phantom gains have been particularly bad in the last decade with the falling US dollar. In Australia, house prices in my area about doubled between 2002 and 2012, but with the change in exchange rates, the IRS calculates the gain as if the price had more than quadrupled!
You're accidentally mixing PRISM with the most recent leaks that say Microsoft has given the NSA ways to bypass encryption methods and so forth.
I think you need to follow a few more blogs.
Once you change the constitution it can't be thrown out be the SCOTUS by definition. They can interpret constitutional law or declare law unconstitutional, they can't blatantly ignore the constitution (well, in theory...).

In short, the facility to reverse supreme court decisions is a constitutional amendment.
The thing here is not about "more taxes" or "less taxes". It is about WHO pays the taxes, however high or low they are. Giving a big competitive advantage to these (mostly US) corporations isn't going to lower your taxes in France; on the contrary, you don't just have to pay more taxes (or create more debt).
This reminds me of Ken Thompson's famous Turing Award paper from 1984. In that paper, he described a malicious compiler that added security holes to properly written C programs.

The real question isn't about whether you can trust Microsoft. It's can you even trust Intel?

"The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. In demonstrating the possibility of this kind of attack, I picked on the C compiler. I could have picked on any program-handling program such as an assembler, a loader, or even hardware microcode. As the level of program gets lower, these bugs will be harder and harder to detect. A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect."

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
It could be interesting if the code wasn't hand-coded and was auto-generated from an image editing tool
Yep. If someone represents company X at a conference, then consider yourself lucky if they are actually an employee - never mind an informed employee with a high standing in the organisation.
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ECC RAM by itself might be cheap, but it goes with Xeon motherboards (1.5-2x more expensive) and Xeons (2-5x more expensive)
NSA does not need a ludicrously inefficient RNG design to backdoor your crypto.
What can you possibly mean? It's open source i.e. code is available to anyone's inspection.
The more interesting discussion for me would be around which large IT players we actually can trust?
I don't know, but I wouldn't be too impressed with the security of the existing iMessage: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/can-apple-read-your-...
The way I read your pseudo-transcript, I assumed the kind of spying you were talking about was MS spying on other businesses to the advantage of MS. I would imagine that's the kind of corporate espionage type spying the MS rep was talking about. PRISM is MS handing over data to external agencies, not MS spying on people themselves.
Of course in this case most of the development is not happening in Ireland

I'd say that very little (probably zero) development is done in Ireland, but I get the impression you think that development is the taxable activity (I don't know if it is or not). However, there are 1,700 people doing something in Ireland (from http://www.idaireland.com/google/index.xml, 1/2 way down):

A site reliability/engineering team supporting Google’s European hosting and search activities; Multilingual customer support for Google’s AdWords advertising product; On-line relevancy testing and Google product support; Shared Services to support Google’s EMEA operations.

As an Irish person, I'm getting a little weary of the constant references on HN implying that Ireland is little more than a tax haven. There is a significant number of jobs attached to the US multinational presence here, viz:

- Apple: 4000 employees (http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/22/ireland-were-no-tax-haven-...)

- eBay: 3000 (http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/retail-and-servic...)

- Google: 1700 (see above)

- Facebook: 500 (http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/facebo...)

I could go on, but I have stuff to do, and I feel like I've already done more research than most journalists commenting on this area. For those interested, there's a list of foreign ICT companies operating in Ireland at http://www.idaireland.com/business-in-ireland/information-co...

Edit: Removed woe-is-me comment following a trigger-happy downvoter.
Odd. I am thrashing the disk of my two hetzner servers with with massive amount of writes and reads for http://searchcode.com without any issues over 2 years. One takes care of HTTP/DB and the other the search index.

The DB server has pumped over 10 TiB of data in the last 80 days (mostly non cached) and the index is rebuilt constantly and well over 1.5 TiB in size.

Anecdotal I know but another data point to consider.
I don't want to disappoint you but it was hand-coded in the same Codepen.io editor :P

Regards!
Only France could make Brussel look like Galt's Gulch to the people who have a lot of money.

http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/1876/french-elite...
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It's not tirade against taxes in general, it's a tirade against spending. Don't you understand that states have clearly refused to cut their spending and that their only answer is more taxes? We're already at 60 to 70% taxes here in France and they always need more because they refuse to cut spending, not only do they refuse to cut them but they make them bigger each year. First they're coming for Google and Amazon but you don't care because they're not you, then they'll come for your money. Here in France even if you earn around €40k, you're close to a 50% tax already when you sum they all up. They are so desperate that they even went after Nutella to tax the palm oil they use pretending it was dangerous even though scientist said there was nothing special about it [1].

The second article of the Déclaration des droits de l'Homme clearly states that private and individual properties ought to be protected. Where is the respect for private property when 50% of your property is taken by force by the State every year. Our whole revolution was about fighting unfair taxation, privileges for the few and insane State spending... and now we're back to square 1.

1: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/12/france-nutella-a...
If you have any left, I'd appreciate an invite as well. Email in profile.
You copy-pasted it without a newline.

This is how it should look http://lpaste.net/90921
Thanks for doing this. My email is in my profile.
Remember, it's people who pull out credit cards to buy your product, not borgs.

People have hundreds of things they want from you and/or your company. Your product is just one of those things. That leaves 99 other things you could provide that have the potential to absolutely delight them.

In other words, what are the 99 ways BESIDES your product that you could delight your customers or make them more awesome?

Paul is right - consulting doesn't scale if you're paid to do it. But man does it make people happy if you share your time and creativity generously.

Happy people are more likely to have a higher customer lifetime value. And you can take that straight to the bank.
This is brilliant. I've been thinking about making this for a while. If I add a band's email address, would that then be available to other people who listen to the same artist? How would you stop wrongly donating to artists with the same name?
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Which may well the right trade off for many apps.
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Currently, 700 vs 700 nodes need 1min, depending on your data.
Very apt comparison considering I have the same problem with Lisp (and Erlang) as Sanskrit

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