skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a non-accountant, what's the permanent solution to these types of race-to-the-bottom tax-shelter problems? I mean, other than all countries everywhere agreeing on taxes?

Increased sales tax paid where the consumer is located?
If you have the free time but don't have the money (connections aren't really that useful unless maybe you are a scientist), a few people have learned how to sail in order to go back there on their own (like Antarctica, people often become obsessed with the place once they have stayed there for a while)... that would be quite an adventure. (The mooring tax is cheap and a visa or authorization can't be refused once there).

I'd like to go back there this way, one day.
It doesn't look anything like Google, unless they're split-testing screenshots.
In Rebol:

Rebol []

files: map-each n system/options/args [to-file n]
write/lines files/2 sort read/lines files/1
Dudes pay $20 to Motorboat women, donate $2000 to charity
I'm pretty sure he knew this, but wanted to get the stamps in his actual passport:

after a pint of Guinness in Ireland to celebrate landing his final passport stamp this week

After that trip I don't think anyone would suggest he was wrong to make sure he had it stamped.
Does anyone still write drivers for BeOS?
The World Wants to Break Up with America's Internet
Not a bad guess. The literacy rate at the end of the Chinese civil war (1949) was only about 11% or so. That can't possibly have been good.
> For example, see the reviews of the book mentioned in the article on amazon

He got lots of bad reviews because he pissed off some right-wing folks who showed up in droves to write bad reviews about the book out of spite, not because they'd actually read it or thought about it:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/andrew-breitbart-fa...

Discussions of the propriety of his comments are probably best left to other web sites, and kept off of this one.
Most bikes I see in cities in Europe have hub gears in the rear wheel's axle.
I think this won't work with these because if you put that wheel in, you loose the hub gear?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hub_gear
The porting process is slow but sure, fortunately. Some parts already work. It'd be cool if we stopped hitting broken stdlib functions. (Turns out that sometimes regular quotes did actually mean bytestrings.)
Yes, after all Haiku is pretty much alive,

https://www.haiku-os.org/
Not to keep banging the same old drum but Starbucks weren't evading any tax at all - they were paying exactly what they were legally obliged to pay.
You're talking about today.

Tomorrow AWS is a $10 billion sales business, with offerings that are 10 times more powerful at 1/3rd the cost that they are now. And that is what Bezos has his eye on.

You're not Reddit? The value proposition will continue to skyrocket for smaller entities too, and it will swamp most of the market. That is the Amazon model, and they're clearly going to stick to it. At scale (AWS is probably only 5% to 10% the scale it'll be in just five years), very few will stand a chance at keeping up.
> In my opinion, however, as I could gather from the writings of mr. Armstrong, (one of) the fundamental problem with JVM is that it lacks a process isolation, and when it crashes, everything crashes completely. He explicitly pointed out this in his thesis - JVM cannot provide fault-tolerance due to being a mere user-level multi-thread process.

This is true in general, but not entirely accurate. When a Java thread crashes it doesn't bring down the whole JVM any more than when an Erlang process does. Just the one thread dies. With Quasar you get the same isolation for fibers.

It is true, however, that one thread in Java could negatively impact the performance of another by triggering a GC, while in Erlang each process has its own private heap. The Erlang approach (or the BEAM approach, rather, as its a feature of the VM - not the language) provides this isolation because Erlang was designed for systems where fault-tolerance is the number one concern. But it has its cost, too. The lack of a global heap makes it impossible to implement useful shared data structures, so Erlang provides some simple shared data-structures (like ETS) implemented in C, but those aren't garbage collected.

Also, the JVM has a big performance advantage over BEAM. That's why quite a few Erlang projects need to code some performance critical functions in C. But once you do that, you lose Erlang's isolation guarantees: a failed C function could bring down the entire application, and one that's stuck in an infinite loop will affect the performance of other processes.

> I am also not quite sure about any superior concurrency constructs which aren't based on OS primitives, but I am not Java guy.

You can start by looking here: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurren...

None of these classes uses kernel mutexes or other synchronization mechanisms.
Can you have hub gears in the pedal section?
Probably, it was natural design choice. Yandex has all the capabilities to invent and design without copying competitors. For example, they started selling contextual ads and launched maps project earlier than Google.
you need a prescription from a doctor to buy that ;)
Hahaha. You should try it and come back apologize for your ignorance.

Installing Linux with all the customized hardware inside, just get an X screen/GUI is non-trivial, even on old Macs. Check out the Bumblebee Project to get an idea of how painful it is to just leverage the two graphics cards properly. This is not to mention even on Debian Wheezy (stable), you will load without the proper HW-interfacing components to spin up the fan. You can see how that is dangerous for an amateur, and you will know three hours later while configuring when your thighs turn bright red. Not that it happened to me though.

This is just one small thing, go to any Linux distro wiki, how about Debian for example[1] if you cannot tell my bias, and read the MacBook page, then read all the personal blog posts, for old and new Macs and see the pain it takes. Even though it is annoying, I will give them credit as properly the only laptop popular enough to force even barely useable UEFI support. But Macs also half-ass that too.

Seriously, if you are a Mac fan, but like Linux, you will end up in the end saying fuck Apple for all the unintentional pain they inflict on you. But hey, at least they invented cups, so how much can I complain?

[0] https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple/
17.5 times?!

Comes with living abroad and away from the family, sure, but grim. I should visit them more often than once a year.
I fully agree, thats why I don't like Scala. Readability and simplicity above everything.

That doesn't mean that you shouldn't be familiar with the basic concepts of the programming language that you use, and I feel the silicon valley bubble is sometimes unaware that not all programmers are startup hot shots.

You actually support my argument, introducing the concept of futures is just an added layer of unnecessary "cleverness" that could be avoided with quasar/pulsar.
I think major reason is housing price. If you want to leave local safety net of relatives and friends, you must be able to survive on your own. You must also have savings for first couple of months. Not possible if housing is too expensive compared to salary.
Should you go to jail for posting video of a real murder?
This article seemed strange to me. It started out talking about how mobile people in the U.S. were for moving to where jobs are and then moved to making a case that people don't move to places with high housing costs.

The U.S. is a big place and locations with crazy housing costs are not the norm. I would think that most people moving for a job would already have a job available. I suppose there are plenty of cases where people might move without a job offer in advance because anything would be an improvement.

Maybe today people don't move as often simply because EVERYTHING is getting more expensive while the jobs people could land are staying the same or getting worse. Moving is quite expensive, especially when you don't have a job and especially when you don't have a job lined up at the place you are moving to. Gas is expensive for moving long distances. Getting into a house or an apartment is expensive. How many jobless people have the savings to withstand all this?

It would also be interesting to see more statistics. For example, where were people moving to and from when the rates were the highest? What industries were supporting the places these people moved to? Maybe the decline of jobs that could take just about anyone, in large numbers and paid well (manufacturing) contributed to the decline in mobility. There really isn't anything which could take the place of engineering.

Though people may be less mobile today, the options for that mobility will always be great. The U.S. is a huge nation with a lot of diversity. You can't really compare mobility in a nation like the U.S. with 50 states to a small country like that of Denmark or Sweden.
That is more to do with Eclipse's design than the language being used.

Eclipse suffers from the typical Enterprise Architecture design.
No, that's trusted C and C++ code - they've given it permission to break their security.
Novice developers should not be writing drivers in any language. If you don't have a C background, you're not going to be able to contribute much code to any OS. Besides config files and scripts, NetBSD is nearly 100% C.

If you really want to get into OS programming, I recommend you start with "Computer Architecture" by Hennessy & Patterson along with a course in C programming.

[1] http://www.ohloh.net/p/netbsd
You don't seem to actually understand Amazon's business.

First of all, there isn't even a remote threat to their retail empire. Everybody else is a drastically distant joke. They're already the size of Target, and they're still growing rapidly. Nobody stands a chance at catching them. Walmart.com continues to just flail in the wind. That means they're going to end up with a monster position that can't be assaulted in the next decade. A simple extrapolation reveals that in a matter of seconds. Just toss a mere 5 years onto their growth and they'll do nothing but pad their crazy lead over the competition.

They paid off billions in debt post dotcom bubble. How do you suppose they dug themselves out of that hole without generating tons of cash?

Where'd they get the $11.3b in cash they ended fiscal '12 with? How'd they pay for all those warehouses?

Answer: they produce plenty of cash courtesy of a very healthy business model
Fucked up design, Sun's refusal to put any resources into fixing it.
Thanks, an erudite contrarian view like this is always stimulating.

I had heard about but did not know very much about Mittelstand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand

We have lessons to learn from European paradigms as you point out. However I think you are a little harsh on founders, the pursuit of fame may be an issue for a small minority but is hardly a universal issue.
Certainly not. I was just responding to dxbydt , who was questioning the statement that futures and promises are unfamiliar to many programmers, and I think they are, because I've seen some corporate IT departments from the inside, and its just a different environment.

In no way do I endorse the use of futures or whatnot, nor are they my "favourite programming paradigm".

I am simply advocating the simplest solution that works, and avoiding constructs like promises/futures seems like a good idea in that regard.
Whats wrong with buying an Apple laptop and sticking Windows on it?
That would indeed suck! I can see why they didn't incorporate a cassette body (and the chain clearance issues that would entail: basically everything they have on the right side now would have to be moved to the left side) but it does make the final product seem less like a bicycle. (I know, this is sacrilege to the fixie folks. Meh.)
Why climate change is good for the world
Neither link disproves his point, which is about pre-modern life.

His claim is what I've always understood too, admittedly without questioning it. But in my university studies of art history, it is common to read about Renaissance masters in their 60s and 70s. It's so common that no contemporaneous authors remark on it, which I imagine they would do otherwise.
I'd say quite the opposite, now they can detain more developers for 'using cocaine' and then blame it on misunderstanding after the fact.
I use f.lux all the time (on OS X). The only thing that frustrates me about it, is that "disable for an hour" actually means "use daytime settings for an hour". I reduced the daytime temperature to 4500K, but when I need to do graphical work, I want flux to disable completely. And yes, I know, I can simply quit the app, but then I forget to re-enable it.
Facebook advertisers see 1,790% higher returns on iOS than Android
I may be wrong, but I thought Satoshi had been working on Bitcoin for 2 years before releasing anything. Granted he worked on the concepts and the white paper alongside the code.
Among other things, the lack of a touchscreen. It's something you think is silly until you have it.
I'd be much more interested in WolframAlpha merging data about StarCraft II.

There is a lot of computing going on there, DPS (Damage Per Second) possibly modified by upgrades and enemy type, etc. This data could be genuinely useful to the SC community.
It's not clear there's enough of a market for a Mac Mini clone unless - like Apple - you can control the entire market to make sure there are no competing desktop machines, SFF or otherwise.
Starbucks were paying what their accountants said they were legally obliged to pay.

But we don't know if that's actually what they're legally obliged to pay, because it's weird and borderline and hasn't been tested by courts.

Vodafone didn't think they were evading tax, but ended up making a deal with UK tax authorities to avoid court.

(http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/aug/18/vodafone-tax...)
Well right now that sounds a lot like the old Yahoo that blew massive amounts of shareholder value on terrible acquisitions that never panned out.

Tumblr will pay for itself? Not a chance they're going to earn a billion dollars off of that, much less turn a healthy profit. As such, at it seems like all Mayer is doing is burning value on a spend $3 get $1 back exchange. Works great in a stock market bubble of course.
...where cars where [sic] in 18th century.

Where was that? I'm not aware of any vaguely car-like device developed between 1700 and 1801.
The subject of his competence came up (not by me) and as someone familiar with his writings I attempt to contribute both my own view (based on a good understanding of his work and not one sided) and a link to others views. I'm not sure what in this is wrong.... I can see you like the guy - perhaps you'd like to explain why?
Sorry it was just an assumption I made. Over the years all the stuff I have read point towards bad code from the Government. I guess the NSA would be of higher caliber though, similar to NASA embedded code.
Finding conventions in Ruby code and handling display of dangerous data
Will this be open source, too?
I just pointed out that the bad reviews were not there because a lot of people disliked his book after reading it and considering what he had to say, but because a lot of people were angry at him and found that writing nasty reviews was a good way of venting their rage.
Home-schooling and sending all ten kids to college by age 12
China's Dropbox,2048GB.
...really change the pricing.

By about $60: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9533
Regarding your point about MySQL:

We used haproxy to do close to zero downtime migration of our postgres servers (and other stuff) from one data centre to another recently when we moved out of our old data centre: Set up a slave in the new dc, set up haproxy with the slave as backup, point all the clients to haproxy. Shut down the master, and as soon as the master stopped responding, haproxy would shove clients to the slave in the new data centre instead. Then touch the trigger file to make the slave recover and switch to master mode.

It meant we were in read-only mode because requests where going to the slaves for about 2-3 seconds (and unlike MySQL Postgres does not allow writes to a slave until it's been promoted) before the slave started handling updates - other than that everything just chugged along.
Yeah, I just spotted something odd last night.

LinkedIn has just suggested I know my father through an email address I setup and tested once or twice several years ago using my Gmail account.

The address is used as the contact point for an enquiries button on a charity Web site - the actual address is obfuscated on the site and so the only way it could have leaked out is from my Gmail testing.

My father never uses the email account directly to send email and he's not on LinkedIn.
Desktops are neglected as well. My i2600K@5GHz is still best CPU I can put into desktop. Other components are stagnating, some are even increasing their value.

I will have to buy server hardware on my next upgrade.
Or, if you're on Windows, download/install/update software like the Java run-time using Ninite (www.ninite.com).
I'm aware of Haiku. Does anyone actually still write drivers for it though?
I didn't even dare to put my details in. I'm a constant worrier and have always had existential issues, so this website doesn't do me any good. We are all different.
A GSM/GPRS & GPS Expansion Shield for Raspberry Pi | Open Electronics
"Thermal power" is a rather misleading term. It refers to power generation by steam turbines, but doesn't describe the heat source. Nuclear power plants and solar thermal electric plants are "thermal power", but don't emit CO2 in large quantities.
> monopolies

http://it.bing.com/search?q=monopoly&go=&qs=n&form=QBLH&filt...

http://www.powells.com/s?kw=Monopoly+economics&class=

Maybe not?

> And few seem concerned with inequality.

Companies are for making money. If the people they make money for are concerned about that, they can vote - or distribute their own money - accordingly.
>There was virtually no possibility of default. It was theater...

Agreed. The debt ceiling has been raised 74 times since March 1962. Of course it will be raised.
Did you consider using the doctape api for hosting and converting the audio files in the background? ;-)
No, the gear is in the axle. My bike has this too. I'd love to have something like the FlyKly but as it is, it won't work.
The website of the family (linked in the article): http://shop.littlemonalisa.com/main.sc
I wouldn't draw to many conclusions from what is happening now with 'dev bootcamps'.

They are a new segment of the education industry and many players are fighting for their share of a market that is under-exploited.

Strategies such as charging students only when they get a job should be regarded as short-term moves to establish the reputation of the provider.

What will probably happen as the 'dev bootcamp' sector matures is that it will become more like that of other education providers.

Providers will inevitably have a trade-off between maintaining the quality of developers that they produce and the amount of profit that they earn.
I've just started using floobits, I work remotely with people all over the place(and they all use sublime) so it's a fantastic product for me. One thing I haven't got my head around is the workflow involving git. Have you guys put any thoughts down about this?
Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:of5dj13...
Here's a couple of interesting Perl alternatives:

my @files = map { IO::File->new($_->[0], $_->[1]) || die $! }
([shift, 'r'], [shift, 'w']);
$files[1]->print( sort $files[0]->getlines );
$_->close for @files;

And...

use autodie;
open my $out, '>', $ARGV[1];
print {$out} sort do {open my $in, '<', $ARGV[0]; <$in>};
considering the Mirra costs £500-£600 I would expect it to be at least £800
I think so too. I'm located in Germany, but I think this situation applies to most all of the word except the west coast of the U.S.
Installing Apache Cassandra
Tech is the new finance industry.

That would be a good thing, right?
FriendFlop is a Chrome extension that scrambles Twitter and Facebook data
I dont use and dont have flash on my system so how can I see your clip in browser? Please convert it into mozilla-compatible format.
I don't do anything heavy enough to need load balancing, but I've always found HAProxy to be ideal for situations where I'm limited by IPs but I want to run a variety of HTTP oriented services on the same machine.

It's so easy to filter by hostname and send requests off to different internal daemons and HAProxy is solid as a rock unlike other mechanisms I've tried.
> Companies are for making money

Smart companies realize that their profits do not exist in a vacuum. In Germany it's a long standing view that capitalism must be balanced and that companies have a social function in society and must act accordingly. This is one of the secret powers of what we call "Mittelstand" which employs the majority of people in Germany and produces a huge share of the social product. Those companies are often family owned and pride themselves in taking good care of their workforce - a trait that often pays off when times are turning worse since the employees reward good treatment with loyalty. It's not uncommon for a complete workforce to accept pay cuts across the board instead of firing people which in turn allows the company to keep well trained and educated workers on the payroll until things get better. Both sides profit here.

So yes, companies are for making money, but smart companies think further than next years profit statement.
I purchased a Mirra 5 years ago and it is quite comfortable. Sturdy and never had a single problem with it, not even a loose bolt.

The Mirra has recently been commandeered by my SO, so I bought a used Aeron for $200 to replace it. Not nearly as good for my frame. Ill probably replace the Aeron with a Mirra 2.

Anybody know the pricing yet?
Show HN: Our demo day pitch from PIEpdx
I did watch the video, and no, I am not 22. I certainly would be more prone to agree that he's trying his best to make a documentary film. Simply 'dropping everything' to work on something doesn't automatically imply you're doing your best or even attempting to do so.
Why Your Business Should Have A Mobile App?
Online privacy is dead
Actually, Google search results are more and more cryptic with each year pass. Now you don't get organic web results too often, instead you are awash with images and captions with weird padding.
As the author states the tech sector does not directly employ Berlin's currently unemployed and has to import talent from outside (disclaimer: I'm such an imported talent into Berlin), it still creates demand for services and increases employment in other sectors as it grows, and gives an option for the city's youth to consider the tech sector for their future.

However as the author states, the sustainability of the tech sector is very critical, but this not specific for Berlin. Even in the silicon valley there is a trend towards more sustainable growth models as the hundreds of SaaS startups here on HN would testify.

Being a really open and relaxed city with a high quality of life, Berlin stands a good chance of attracting talent, allowing them to try out their ideas and hopefully create an IPO or two in the next ten years. I can't see why the author categorically dismisses that option.
"I do find astrology really interesting as a kind of primitive or naive version of psychology, really."

There you have it. I don't think this makes Catton look stupid at all, and I'm not sure what Mr. McMenamin's point is.
> So yes, companies are for making money, but smart companies think further than next years profit statement.

I won't disagree with that - I think it's sensible - but what you have written is different from "concerned about inequality".