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I agree that key-value sets (hashmaps, associative arrays, whatever one calls them) are even more convenient for programming than lists are. A pet idea is to create a Lisp that takes the hashmap as its native representation. (My cofounder is working on it!) However, it would be beyond tedious to have to assign every code element an explicit key, so in practice one wants to generalize s-exprs into what one might call t-exprs ("table expressions") in a way analogous to how Lua lets tables have a special integer-indexed array portion. Semantically, everything is a table (hashmap); notationally, most forms look just like s-exprs. But now they can be augmented with arbitrary key-value pairs.

I don't feel future-proofing is as big a deal as you do, but I do think that certain programs and (especially) tools would be easier to write in a hashmap-based Lisp, where the programmer and/or tool could attach whatever metadata they wanted to any section of code. There are potentially some order-of-magnitude wins there, I think. Production Lisps usually tack on various kinds of magic metadata anyway (e.g. symbol-plists, docstrings, Common Lisp's declare, Clojure's metadata). The above idea would unify all of those by promoting the underlying generic construct to first-class status.
We have no feedback program at all. Works OK in our tiny little company.
I met Jennifer Granick as a result, and learned the "if you can possibly avoid it, never ever set foot inside federal court" rule, which has subsequently served me quite well.

Would you be able to elaborate on that any further?
Well I'd argue that the ethical difference is fundamentally the scale. How many lives could be changed if they paid taxes according to their social contract? Poverty, crappy healthcare and soaring incarceration are all problems that need money to alleviate.
Depends on the target demographic.

If you're trying to engage people who enjoy watching lolcat videos every day, a video is probably the best medium to use.

But I suspect that the majority of the people who are likely to be interested in this topic (programmers, mathematicians, engineers, internet freedom activists) prefer to access the most information possible in the shortest time possible, accompanied by the least possible amount of unnecessary bytes, and in a format that allows quick skimming. Ergo, text.
Perhaps because it isn't erratic at all? My wife and I have not had the problem where it stops working after the first day - my anecdotal evidence beats theirs!

They even mention that there's a support post about this, but not a lot of people complaining about it.

I fell for their link bait
Xero is one of a number of companies that are helping to modernize the backoffice for SMBs. While the article focuses on Xero's UI as a selling point, another key value proposition is their integration with other modern back-office software such as ZenPayroll for payroll and bill.com for billing. These sorts of things are providing a more integrated and seamless back office for businesses and accountants.
420 Dollars worth, according to the video.
Hardware Keylogger used by Card skimmers to steal Credit Cards
I did mean Idaho, Colville/Metaline Falls area. It's true once you get far enough the cost of living goes up in a way, but I've found those parts to still be fairly cheap cost of living (on the face of it), assuming you already own land.
That number is probably a lot smaller near Central Park.
A $249 Android-Linux hacker's tablet
I would be shocked if this is not some intricate PR gimmick blog. Not saying T-mobile is bad or AtnT is bad or good. Just the article is shallow and nothing interesting.
Look at OPOS for peripheral interfaces. If I remember correctly there is a java version as well.
At least give the author the benefit of the doubt. I've never lived anywhere near Washington D.C. but a quick search reveals the station is anything but "plebeian":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Enfant_Plaza_%28WMATA_stat...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Federal_Center,_Wash....

In other words: woosh.
I don't think the original post indicated a desire to keep one's children "racially and culturally pure" but rather to avoid sending one's children to schools with large number of non-Whites, for any number of reasons.
Are you referring to the 2012 NDAA? Because that specific provision (that denies habeas corpus under the AUMF) has yet to be tested in court, and is unlikely to pass Supreme Court review.
The money they saved isn't destroyed. They can use it for all kinds of good things now---like giving it back to their shareholders.
this might turn out to be a local setback - i can imagine font rendering capabilities improving to the point where devices can once more start rendering nastaliq with the same ease that they now render the more utilitarian scripts.
Its called return <on investment>, so yes it matters. Absolute returns are fine, but force lager returns from winners to compensate for zeros when measured on an ROI basis. And all VC's are marketed on ROI, not absolute returns (for obvious reasons).
Anarchist libertarians do have answers to all of those. Of course, I am not going to attempt to answer it all in one post here. If you genuinely want to learn, you could start with Block's excellent book on roads, free online here: http://mises.org/document/4084/

"But who will build the roads!?!?" is the question we typically make fun of statists for believing that monopoly provision is ideal.
Any new project? I just made a product for a client that had to fit inside a shoe and be as physically unobtrusive as possible while stealing power from another device.

It only needed one bit of input and one bit of output and the code fit into an 8-pin Tiny AVR and was probably just about a kilobyte of compiled C. The chip cost less than $1 in single units.

ARMs are nice and everything, but orders of magnitude overkill for the thousands of small devices like this.
An excellent point. I've always assumed that most people don't want to expend dollars and lives on wars but that doesn't necessarily hold true.

Personally I'm more interested in the nugget of insight than necessarily the exact methods he outlines.

For all the million little ways that the government involves itself in our daily lives there is huge asymmetry and thus plenty of opportunity for injustice.

For the really big things there is also huge asymmetry. If something is a really big deal and even 10% of the US population went to Washington to protest you'd probably see a swift reaction. That's a really good thing and it's one of the reasons that many systems of representative government do work.

The question in my mind is: What is the price for big freedoms in terms of little freedoms, and is this a good bargain? Personally I'd like to have my big freedoms AND my little ones too. So any kind of thought along those lines is interesting even if it's not ultimately good.

The thing I took away from the article most is that there probably are ways to give the people more freedom on the little things without necessarily compromising on the big ones. Not necessarily via Assassination Markets, but SOMEHOW.
Cyber warrior shortage hits anti-hacker fightback
Because nobody born before '95 ever used 'fuck' in casual conversation.

Right.
Corporate taxation is just double taxation anyway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_taxation. Why not just tax individuals?
Sir Richard Branson leaves Britain for island home
And get banned by the developers when they get around to fixing the problem. Getting stomped by the IRS when the close this loophole probably isn't high on Google's priority list...
And if you miss a day don't forget to say "serenity now!"
A Polar poll shows 23% of respondents complain of "too many fails." (http://www.polarb.com/131862) and certainly that has been my experience. I wonder whether more people are not overtly complaining about it because users feel that they are "doing it wrong," not that the software might have been too fiddly for release.
Not commenting about google specifically, but please observe that many companies donate to charity, and, extrapolating from this observation, resist the urge to trot out the "legally obligated to maximize profits" thing in the future.
Did you read the article? Is the smug tone some kind of joke that I'm not getting? Because based on my own reading the author really does judge the commuters for not stopping, and the use of "plebeian" was not in jest.

I think you're going out of your way to sound sophisticated by pretending you "get it".
Google by law has to take advantage of these "loop holes". They are a publicly traded and thus by law have the obligation to maximize their shareholder returns. So taking advantage of these tax loop holes they are fulfilling that duty. Doesn't excuse it but it does prevent Google from just saying no we won't do it.
A related approach is client-driven development (just made it up). Write client code (or controller) in the most thin, elegant, and obvious brain-dead simple way, then build an API (or model) to service it.
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The crazy underspray is uncharacteristic of Banksy. It looks like the artwork was intentionally made to look like ripoffs.
See comment above. This is a real story, not "link bait," but thanks for the vote of confidence!
Flying cars are now a reality - set to launch in 2015
Don't say "shit" in a professional context, even if it's "get shit done".

You gain nothing and to many it's unprofessional.
The people who donate to legislators campaigns. The senator from Disney is a pretty good example of doing whatever it takes to represent his funder's best interests.
May I recommend the book "Treasure Islands" by Nicholas Shaxson. http://treasureislands.org/

A brilliant read if one that might make you slightly angry about the system!
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Hmm I had heard that the $20/hour or so he made was significantly more than what the average street performer would have gotten though?

So even the commuters in a rush could tell that he was something.
To be fair, if it was only actually used for defense, it really would be only a few percent. And then to be extra fair, "old people and the poor should not die of starvation or easily preventable diseases just because they haven't saved," is also not very controversial, and takes up more than a few percentage points of our governments budget.
Freshbooks is great for small design/dev contracting. As 1 guy running a bunch of contractors for several clients, it fit my needs perfectly.

Quickbooks Online is mainly for very small businesses.
QuickBooks Windows can run a 20M a year business
QuickBooks Mac has basically be abandoned.

XERO has a killer API, but I never run into businesses on the platform. We see more people on AccountEdge (MYOB usa).
I believe the reason for the merger with MetroPCS was in order to spin it off. T-Mobile is now listed on the stock market, and Deutsche Telekom has an option to sell out - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile_US#Merger_with_MetroPC....
Eduardo Saverin moved to Singapore and renounced US citizenship before the Facebook IPO. Richard Branson, being British, doesn't have to resort to such measures to avoid worldwide taxation.

More from the FT:

"The entrepreneur, one of the most public advocates for British industry across the world, has not paid taxes on non-UK personal income since moving to Necker Island in 2007.

A report in The Sunday Times highlighted the lack of British tax being paid by Sir Richard, who is frequently pictured with Union Jacks and has been reported to talk disparagingly of tax exiles."

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/26c8fd60-33f9-11e3-af0f-00144feab7...
I wanna know how the author managed to write 30 pages of text in 1hr45mins (15 minutes each day for a week), the most I can manage in that time frame is most 7, 30 is incredible.
It's not different, but I am surprised your country doesn't enforce those taxes through a use tax. In California, we have nearby states with much lower auto taxes, but when you import the car you have to pay the difference in the purchase state's tax and California's the moment you register the car.
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i do hope you're kidding..
The Seinfeld productivity calendar works, at least it has helped me. So much so that I've created an Android app based on the idea.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mhillsyste...
Wtf? "Better Out Than In" is a stupid title. Please restore the original title, "Banksy sells original artwork for $60; valued at $750k". It's meaningful.

/me wishes mod edits were logged with their username so they can be held accountable for stupid title edits like this.
420 USD for a day's work is almost ten times more than I make. Should I go to NYC and put up a stand? :)

I'm glad for the buyers.
We work with businesses in QuickBooks very often. We can't even get them to switch out of the crazy processes they've created because they didn't understand the program when they set it up, much less to another platform.
In your position, you actually have a requirement to pay the correct sales tax to your state based on where you live. This is more complex than 'I wasn't charged it, so I don't owe it'

You are breaking the law if you do not pay what you owe.

Google is using the various laws of these countries, and treaty agreements, to avoid taxes in one place to pay them at a different (much lower) rate in another.

Google is not breaking the law.
Also note that Google's Blink project did the exact same
So immediate threats aren't OK but eventual ones are? I guess I can see how a person might think that way.

What if the US had a post-earning tax where the tax collector had to physically come to your house and demand the money that the government said you owed it. And he was armed. And he made the threat of violence personally rather than through a large bureaucracy? Would that change things? Why or why not? Again, not trolling but genuinely interested.

Agree 100% that people don't react well when they feel their rights are being violated. The loss of agency and personal sovereignty is a really big deal.

I'm with you on the loss of rights examples you give up to a point. I'm totally on board with situational loss of rights (I threaten you with a gun and you're in the right to shoot me) but I'm less in favor of doing that systematically. Mostly because of how safe things are these days (I think quite good) versus the potential for abuse (I think quite high).
As long as you don't break any laws while doin it, I don't see why.
This is patently false. Read Google's S-1 and Letter to Shareholders.
Recent evidence suggests that glucose depletion doesn't seem to affect the brain. For example, [1]. Moreover, the calorie consumption of the brain is basically constant regardless of what it is doing. I would hazard an untrained guess based off of these that the difference is in changes due to the body knowing of consumption of glucose versus any direct effect of the glucose itself. See also the study that athletes performed better after swishing a sweet drink in their mouth and spitting it out just as they did when actually drinking it.

[1] http://www.epjournal.net/wp-ontent/uploads/ep08244259.pdf
I was looking at Xero last year and ran into a firm brick wall, from [0]:

"There is a daily limit of 1000 API calls that a provider can make against a particular Xero organisation in a rolling 24 hour period."

That is an absurdly low limit for anything but the simplest of businesses or businesses that aren't actually looking for tight integration, but rather just something to push accounting data to at the end of a day.

[0] http://developer.xero.com/documentation/getting-started/xero...
You are the product. You get no say in your treatment here. Have a nice day and remember to Go+1 FaceLike ShareSpew us at every available opportunity.
Actually my parents sent me an email last week with links to Banksy's work :) (also, they are French, not American, so it's not a very useful test regardless)
3 people constitute a majority ownership of Google.
the "shareholder value theory" is a myth: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2012/06/26/the-sharehol...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/opinion/nocera-down-with-s...

there is no "law" that makes Google obligated to do this.
About half of these are paid and run by local or state governments. Concretely: roads, bridges, police, firefighters, even schools and hospitals. They're not supported by federal taxes.
Thanks. That blog post about 24 other app stores served the purpose.
The problems of the London (and UK) property market go back to the days of Margaret Thatcher. Selling council homes, abolishing rates and low interest rates and deposit requirements have stacked the cards in favour of the few. Effectively we are borrowing from the grandchildren with the property bubble.

The property bubble received a boost with the dot com crash as it was the only outlet for speculative capital. There have been some dips, however, house price inflation is never seen for what it is - inflation. In fact it is kept out of the headline inflation figure. You can have housing go up 10% a year and inflation be at 2% - notionally. When 25-33% of people's income is spent on housing you would expect that if that cost goes up 10% then the overall inflation would go up by at least 2.5% even if everything else, e.g. food and fuel was static.

In the UK we need to look at what our European neighbours do and borrow a few ideas from here and there. For instance in Switzerland foreign nationals need to live there for five years to buy a house and even then they have to actually live in it rather than rent it out. They also have a sizeable tax on owning a property equivalent to its rental value. Consequently the house price inflation in Switzerland is practically non existent and most Swiss people rent. They live like kings compared to most Londoners and don't have a bee in their bonnet about having to be 'on the housing ladder'.

In a world where not everyone has a roof over their head, homes should be homes rather than speculative investments for the work shy. Something has gone wrong with capitalism if it makes more sense to invest in property than to invest in the bank (low risk) or the stock market (some risk).
I find it distressing that in article after article the actual problem with the Affordable Care Act is never covered in plain language.

The Affordable care act will not lead to affordable care. Health costs will skyrocket because of mandated coverage.

As far back as I remember it has been illegal for me to buy simple catastrophic coverage. I must pay for things I don't want or forgo coverage altogether. With the ACA we are taking a big step in the wrong direction and costs can only go up due to the perverse financial incentives built into the law.
To me a controller is just another thin client and models provide an (internal) API. What breaks this and leads to fat clunking controllers is ActiveRecord and 'model as table row' mindset (particularly when a model doesn't handle collections).

The missing part here is turning that API into an external one, which requires a layer in any case to cover things like authorisation, caching, queuing, reporting, QoS, orchestration.
I think that's going to depend heavily on where you are. I was in Chicago last week for work and found out the hard way that VZW LTE is severely over capacity inside the Loop. I'm a postpaid customer and had to force my phone to CDMA data on a few occasions just to get a usable connection.

Knowing that I'm going to be travelling a fair amount in the near future on business, I'm not sure if it'd be worth gambling that the host network for my MVNO wouldn't be similarly over capacity elsewhere resulting in me getting lower priority.
> In 1971, a sociologist named Murray Davis published a groundbreaking paper that opened with these two lines:

> "It has long been thought that a theorist is considered great because his theories are true, but this is false. A theorist is considered great, not because his theories are true, but because they are interesting.”

The above aphorism only applies to sociology theorists, not scientific ones. It aptly exposes the central problem with sociology -- an indifference to science and evidence.

Malcolm Gladwell is certainly interesting. But 100 years from now, when Gladwell's name had been completely forgotten, people will still remember Einstein, Hawking and Higgs.
You can also add ?share=1 to the end of any Quora URL to remove the overlay.
They have a fiduciary duty to do this to make more money for their shareholders. They have no enforceable social contract to provide taxes more than what they can legally pay. They can be sued by their shareholders for not using these schemes

Not saying this is right, but this is the way the law works right now.
1) odd to find this on Hacker news
2) reads like a remix of David Byrne's recent article in the Guardian about NY [1].

Unfortunately, they both have a point.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/07/new-yor...
They already do. This debate is about the profits
From Sun? You mean Java, Solaris, DTrace, ZFS, etc?
The Post Office example isn't very good because most mail carriers don't serve more than a few thousand people (maybe a lot less in the 'burbs) so it would be very hard to get enough money together to make it worthwhile to kill any one individual. But the greater point, that people could act irrationally and cause entirely innocent people to be killed is still a possibility and tough to refute.
As so many hackers have found out, it doesn't matter where the money is. It matters where YOU are.
How could legislators in the UK impose higher taxes on Google without violating EU / WTO trade agreements? If there was an easy way to do it, then they would have already. That was my point.

Of course the legislators have the power to abandon all free trade agreements, leave the EU, and go Hugo Chavez and attempt to nationalize Google or something.
Local physical infraxture attacks on Arkansas power grid
I would say that wide screens should typically be for multiple windows, not a single wide window. Get out of the habit of reflexively maximising everything that we picked up while using 4:3 CRTs.
Not close enough for them to make the argument that the result is because "chewing disrupts the subconscious mouth movement that cements the brand name in your mind".
That was a great biography. Oppenheimer is fascinating in his own right.
How to Build Anticipation for A Product Launch
Some repos would be nice, especially on a site hosted on github.
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I'm curious what effect this will have on the prices of Banksy knockoff works.