skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably on a Visa transaction the payment provider takes a cut and Visa takes a cut. There's competition between payment providers to keep their cut down, but you can't charge Visa cards without Visa's help, meaning there's no competition on their cut. Unless a merchant is bold/foolhardy enough to decline Visa.

In the UK a lot of stores don't accept American Express due to their higher processing fees [1].

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/money/2009/nov/29/american-expres...
It's not legalized bribery, it's mandatory bribery. You can't win an election without campaign funds.

We have a system that literally mandates bribery. It's nuts. First step: campaign finance reform. There was a nifty proposal that got posted to HN a while ago, but it fell off the front page in minutes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6461076

http://anticorruptionact.org/

The idea is to give partial public funding to campaigns through $100 tax rebates to individual donors. The bill appears to be the usual "campaign finance refrom + next year's loophole" junk, but it's teeth sink in (loopholes slam shut) when campaigns want to take advantage of individual rebated contributions. It's actual reform dressed in fake PR-reform's clothing, trying to fly in under the radar. I'd love to see it get a chance.
> Therefore EME is by nature incompatible neither with any open systems and browsers, nor with the open Web.

If you were right, millions of people would not be able to use Flash/Silverlight daily. I might not like that but I'm not willing to pretend most users have accepted that deal.
>- Julian Assange <del>might be</del> is portrayed by the media as an egotistical narcissist.

FTFY. You have to be careful with such subjective characterizations of people you've only seen in the media and never actually met in real life, they're almost always inaccurate. Modern media is full of bias and fallacies.
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Not really thought provoking at all. Just opens legal issues as anyone can construe anything as evil. It's not like moral relativism is anything special or novel or needed to be brought into a software license.

As others have pointed out, this is just the license on one implementation, not the spec, so it's not really as big a deal.
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As a consumer I could go buy a bike that spec wise would embarrass a pro bike. I'd promptly be embarrassed riding it against a pro.

Just because UCI forbids it from races, doesn't mean you can't buy an ultralight bike with disc brakes and have a go. Cycling should have a restriction on what's allowed as it forces a level of competition based around human capability. With F1 the tech plays a very big role, and it skews the field somewhat, but the restrictions have ended up favouring the team with the bank account who can afford a team of people finding work arounds.
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It isn't given to the government by me, though. It's given by the people who extract the resources out of the land.
Yeah, Google was pushing Reader on every opportunity they could and still was a wasteland.
First, you need to decide if the taxes on the salary are paid by the company or by the employee (I believe it's by the employee, since (s)he is a priori the one who do the work creating this wealth), you can't count them twice as you are doing here, it is dishonest reasoning.

Your computation is wrong, because if you make 2000€/month, your taxes on income are closer to 10% than to 30%. Also, I (and many other people), don't see the "charges" (taxes taken on the salary before it is paid to the employee) as a taxes such as the one on incomes because it pays for good and free public school, good and free universities, good and free hospitals, retirement and unemployment systems… If you take all that into account in the computation, it's actually a big win for everyone. Maybe it is not the case for a few exceptions of very rich people who would be even richer, but what's the point of that?

Sorry for being rude, I read your first post as quite rude and was reacting in the heat of the moment.

This government doesn't have anwser to everything, and their answer is not generally "more tax". On the contrary I find that a lot a gifts are made to companies in "crédit d'impôt".

No the doctor is not paid 21€ and 7.5€, that is the point, actually. What I told is not an anecdotal evidence, it is the general rule. If you say the opposite you are either lying or you don't know what you are talking about. The only thing that are not well reimbursed by the Sécurité Sociale is optical and dental, but mutuelles (semi-private or private insurance) are quite good for this.

Also, the website you link about the Sécurité Sociale is pure propaganda.

We agree on one thing here: we are totally disagreeing on what are your rights as a company owner.

Your analogy with god, clergé, tiers-états, etc. is wrong. "the clergé is the public workers that pay no taxes and get to retire early with big salaries". Really? Have you looked at the salary of professor and researcher in France compared to those of engineer in the industry? Do you really live in France?

Concerning the richests:

LVMH: the company is still based in France. Bernard Arnault (who is the 10th worldwide richest man) is still French.

Lacoste: the company is still based in France. José Luis Duran is still French, René Lacoste was too until his death.

Peugeot: the company is still based in France. Philippe Varin is still French. I'm not sure about Thierry Peugeot, maybe you are right and he left.

Other than that, Iliad, Auchan, Dassault, L'Oréal, Hermes, Bollore, Pernod Ricard… I don't see any movements in the French top 30 richest people/company in the past decade.

Now, it's true that they cheat with their taxes, but it's not right and maybe if those big companies, rich person participated fairly to the society effort there would be less taxes on smaller companies…
I would love to attend but geographically can't make it.

I bet a lot of HN'ers are in the same boat.

How 'bout a couple of rewards catered towards remote beyond postcard?

EG - $50 limited edition t-shirt, $20 live stream attendance, $30 for a DVD, ?
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Yeah, people trying to comply with laws are just hilarious. Sigh.
> It simplifies generating JSON, since you don't need a special case for the last item

In which language can't you do array.join(",")? You can even do that in Java with one of the myriad of string libraries. I haven't hand-coded joins since (at least) six or seven years.
Looks like an opt-IN link for me... Does that mean I'm already opted out somehow?
I agree with you that the increasing G+ integration into YouTube has been pretty annoying. I also gave up a while ago on writing anonymous reviews on Google without having to create a fake account (not saying it's not possible, but I couldn't figure it out and just gave up).
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Mark Zuckerberg's dedication to his own personal privacy is truly admirable.
I think you're missing the point. Every hack ever created is allowed by the software itself. The software logic allows the "loophole" which the hacker is able to exploit. The issue about tax laws is exactly analogous.
Spec not Found? ;-)
Morals and ethics have no say in determining whether to pay taxes -- if you pay too much then the government complains, if you don't pay enough then the government complains. Where exactly does right and wrong fit into this equation?

There are no mental gymnastics in determining how much taxes you have to pay, the only thing that matters is how much you pay.
The way I like to think of it is that a "systems langauge" is something you could use to implement a "real"[0] GC. Does this ring true to anyone else?

[0] You know what I mean.
Oh, and there are some simple guides to forming a new political party out there on the Internet such as this one.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_start_a_new_political_p...

Just don't go into it with a big head, delusions of grandeur, and a goal of winning. This will not work unless thousands of people form small local parties, then negotiate with other small parties to find common ground and merge into fewer larger parties. In the process, everything will change, and the people involved will exercise their compromise and negotiating muscles so much, that they are unlikely to hold the same opinions that they started out with. But that is how political movements are formed and that is how a real democratic party works.

Charismatic leaders are an interesting short cut, but historically that route seems to always lead to tears in the end.

P.S. also read some of Saul Alinsky's books.
To clarify, TorSearch isn't accessible from clearnet (from my understanding) so he can't monitor->correlate individuals activity. Such as a nefarious search.
Just another functional programming will be bug free and wash your car article.
It's too vague. Some of it sounds cool, some of it does not. So I opted out.

I would have made a series of focused opt-in pages that popup in stages over months (less annoying, less confusing) and sell each recommendation function as a cool feature with real benefits, like increased SEO authority, traffic to your Google Plus page, etc.

That said this makes me not want to comment, thumbs-up, plus one anything.
Just make sure there is no check in the box.
Awesome, now let's get JSON Schema standardized so I can use it in production.
I think that a lot of confusion has been caused by Go using the term "systems language," because (as I understand it) Go doesn't mean it in the same way that C++ and D do. The Go folks seem to be thinking systems in the sense of large networks of computers and the like (the kind of stuff that Google typically does), whereas the C++ and D folks are thinking systems in terms of stuff like operating systems. What Go is trying to do does not necessarily require low-level primitives (though it can benefit from them), whereas what C++ and D are trying to do does require such primitives.
At least you can inspect the document you got with normal tools. Not so if you include comments.

And this may even encourage people into separating the data payload from the metadata, who knows?
> but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future

Again, though, that statement contains huge assumptions about the nature of the dynamical system and how approximate a future prediction we need to call it "accurately predicted". Errors accumulate, but we can get arbitrarily close by more accurately measuring where we are in phase space (which is what the OP was talking about) and by more accurately modeling the system. There will always be errors -- dynamics are hard -- but we can certainly reduce them for some distance into the future. That's why we can successfully put things into orbit around Mars, for instance, in spite of the many interacting bodies in our solar system.

Assuming an increase in accuracy even somewhat proportional to the increase in sensors will almost definitely turn out to be wrong, though, which may be more the point you're trying to make and I'm missing.
also long and short vowels
This a million times. I feel like I've been trying desperately hard to NOT let me youtube account 'merge' with a new 'channel' or with my main Google account. NO. NO. NO. I don't want to use my real name. I don't want a google+ account for my youtube name. I don't even want a channel. I just want to watch videos, and maybe [pseudo-]anonymously comment once in a blue moon. Am I really a minority user?
Stop telling me what to do.

This is like telling Chefs they should not use pointed and sharp knives as they are dangerous in the wrong hands.

We use Haskell when we need it. Useful for some works, totally inappropriate for others.
What you have described sir, is an anecdote.
I love it when someone's attempt at insulting you and complementing themselves results in the opposite of their intent. But is it more satisfying when they realize it or are unaware?
If a "g" is voiceless, then it's the same as a "k". If we are going by IPA notation, the only distinction between the sound represented by "g" and the sound represented by "k" is voicing.

What taejo is saying is that native Korean speakers will hear [g] and [k] as the same (they are allophones in Korean), however the sound [kʰ] (aspirated voiceless velar stop) will sound distinct to them compared to [g] or [k].

Aspiration is a large cue for English speakers as well in distinguishing between voiced and voiceless consonant pairs ([pʰ] and [b], [tʰ] and [d], [kʰ] and [g]), hence why partial or even full devoicing can occur in word-initial voiced stops like the /g/ in "game" (as yongjik mentioned), or why English speakers have such trouble replicating voiced and voiceless pairs in languages like Spanish that do not rely on aspiration.
The redactions Assange objected to were those that implicated corporations and political figures. The Guardian claimed that they made the redactions from fear of libel lawsuits.

Only after Leigh published the password for the cables, effectively making them public, did Wikileaks post them to its website.

If you have evidence that Assange systematically published cables of informant names before the password was published by Leigh please share it.
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The "several friends" I contact through Google+ are actual friends that I actually contact routinely, unlike the vast majority of the 200 or so friends I have on Facebook. Maybe I'm just unpopular, but I don't have more than a dozen actual close friends that I communicate with routinely.
>You absolutely don't give people more money who live in more expensive areas
I seem to recall them raising money on Wefunder. In fact, a number of S13 companies appear to be[1]. Unfortunately, it looks like most of the companies are having trouble raising even small sums of money.

I wonder if some investors might take the $ currently raised as a proxy for interest. Investors already follow a herd mentality. I wonder if this open + crowdfunding model might actually make it even harder to raise money.

[1] https://ycombinator.wefunder.com/
I've moved our Open Source Community to a Google+ Community, I've personally found it's the best way to communicate and share content, news and announcements which ended up being much more engaging, interactive, visible and functional than everything else I've tried.

It encourages a better community feeling than the 140 chars allows for on Twitter, the content posted ends up being a lot more interesting, richer and more positive than the constant dump o' hate I see in my Tweet stream. Personally I'd prefer more ex-bloggers start posting on G+ than micro blogging their opinions on Twitter
None of these languages are like the others.
Does a ticket to the event mean you get to participate with the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club?
People are slowly leaving Facebook as they seek out more privacy control. Obviously Facebook still dominates the world of social networks, but there's a lot of friction involved in this aspect of it.

So what does Google decide to do? They decide to follow in the footsteps of Facebook and replicate all the same privacy problems, so not only are people going to leave G+ due to changes like this, but people aren't even going to be compelled to sign up unless more or less forced to do so.

This is not innovation. It's repeating the mistakes of others in exchange for a quick short-term profit.
Here in Québec, we have "social help" where the government gives you money if you cannot work, etc.

A lot of people I know abuse of this. Pay the rent with the social help, then get money "under the table". A lot of people abuse of it, but I still think it's worth it. I work hard, but I know that if all else fail, I won't be stuck in the street.

It's also not a perfect solution. There are still homeless people (who are often too ill to be able to ask for the social help, or don't have a permanent address to sent it to). You can't live very well in Montreal with it alone, but you can manage to get somewhere to live, especially if you have "sidejob". Otherwise, there are HLM (French for "housing at moderated rents") where the rent is actually based on your income. You can live for $350 - $900 / month in a three room apartment in those. Especially if you live around the island on Montreal and not on it.

People who use this service are frowned upon. They call them "BS" (Guess you would call them SH in english, for "Social help"). The stereotype is that they all abuse the system, take your hard earned money and live in a big appartment with the latest computer, drink all day (no work!) and do drugs. People fail to see that computers are not as expensive as they were before.

I actually grew up in that world. The abusers were a minority. A large, noisy minority, but a minority nonetheless.
Thanks.

By the way, I can't get the https version to work when not using .onion.to (it's not important then, but still I prefer to report this to you).
Unfortunately this page will probably not even hit the most gullible folks who signed in their gmail and are using Google+ unknowingly. Hope there is a broader communication from Google to allow people to disable this. Can't imagine this was made an automatic opt in.
From the article:

"These new endorsements will only be visible to the people who you originally shared that activity with though; most content will therefore be restricted to a specific circle from Google+, although ratings and reviews posted on Google Play or Google+ Local will be visible to the wider public."

Reviews are public, like they're meant to be. +1's are restricted to whomever you shared the +1 with in the first place. Does this not entirely mean that this data is shared with the relevant people already? The only difference is that this is being merged with AdSense.

Again, if you didn't want people to see your +1, why would you have shared that +1 with these people in the first place?
Yes, yes. And we could also have everything as binary. Now, UNIX people decided long ago to use plain text to communicate between processes, mostly because it's infinitely easier to read - and makes it possible to edit by hand if you need to. Have to interface with a REST API which consumes JSON and you want to do some testing? Open your text editor anywhere curl is installed, and you're done. That's pretty damn convenient.
Great post. Pre-Square, every taxi I was in complained about taking your credit card. Now, every taxi driver happily pulls out their Square to take your credit card. Ridiculously seamless. Plus, people at farmer's markets, etc. can easily sell more because they don't just have to take cash. Square also pushed big players like PayPal into the market to create poorer/more clunky products that just shed to light the possibilities and are helping market their market.
Not adding anything to this discussion but by the looks of it, the Icelandic government was trying to imitate this stunt but misunderstood the "Start Trek" in "Star Trek" economics.

Here's a picture of the Icelandic prime minister and the Icelandic minister of finance as Kirk and Spock (this is a real thing they did as part of an auction for cancer awareness):

http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/upload/images/new...
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Note: I work at @ Balanced payments and specialize in Customer Success. I've never started my own CF platform but work with several donation and crowdfunding platforms.

I have little to no understanding of the Nepali payments infrastructure but here's my non technical perspective on this question:

>We are totally confused about whether limiting our service within Nepal or try to extend globally.

My recommendation would be to allow for global donations but limit your platform to Nepali causes. This will give your platform a differentiation factor but more importantly, allow you to dig into the nuanced needs of a specific culture.

You can increase global awareness as well as harness global charity. Limiting to Nepali donations would be restrictive since charitable culture tends to exist more heavily outside of that region.

There is a general fascination with Nepali culture (thank you, Himmalayas!), and crowdfunding efforts to help as well as document (i.e. financing photographers and amateur sociologists who wish to capture the life and time of Nepal) would be very effective.

Good Luck!
Thanks for this very clear explanation. I think maybe you just blew my mind.

Also, a question occurs to me. Would this scheme still function at a rate other than 50%? If the billionaires would only allow the scheme with the rate set at 45%, it would change the "zero" point, but maybe not much else?
Having D used in production in a big company like Facebook is a big deal. No, it doesn't mean that D has taken over the programming world or anything like that, but it shows that the language is maturing and that real companies are now willing to use it in the real world - and it's a pretty major company at that.

So, this is just one step forward, but it's a big one and exciting to the folks who are fans of D - especially those who have put a lot of time and effort into it.
I actually enjoyed going to my boss at TIM Group (financial services software, in the City of London) and asking him whether he was comfortable asserting in our open-source audit that we did Good rather than Evil. He thought for a moment - and knowing him, he really did think about it - and then opined that he was, indeed, comfortable that we were doing Good. We proceeded to use JSON happily for years.
nah they've been very helpful ;-)
Hypotheses mostly based on my own internal biases regarding some of the languages I have experience with:

haskell upvotes = theoretical mathematicians

javascript upvotes = web developers

ruby - javascript = functional programmers who aren't also theoretical mathematicians

python upvotes = everyone who doesn't fall into the previous category
fair enough; JS introduced me to closures, so I'm a bit biased.
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One of my favorite things about Balanced is that all their communication re: APIs, possible new features, the dashboard... everything is on GitHub.

I've dialogued with each of the founders in one way or another through GH. It's been a completely unique experience and I'm thankful for Balanced and their commitment to building an open company.
I learned to read and write in korean letter in a lazy afternoon - it really is miles ahead of roman alphabet. Extremely simple!
p.s. Facebook have this for years.

this is how to opt out:

https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads&section=social&vie...

(select "Pair my social actions with ads for - No one")

Article about it:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/01/21/faceboo...

There were several HN posts on this as well will update once I find them...