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The issue is that performing business activities in a country, under current intentional tax conventions, gives that country jurisdiction to tax the income arising from that activity. So yes, under international tax law as it currently stands, your app's income does become foreign income based on where you wrote the code.

In practice, most countries require a certain "level" of activity to subject a foreign enterprise to taxation (i.e., the US and all EU nations). And at any rate, we have treaties with most countries worth visiting which generally define the type and extent of activities that could give rise to taxation in the foreign country (see, e.g., "permanent establishment"). Thus, it is unlikely that simply writing some code for your app in the EU would result in an EU nation trying to tax your app's income.

However, not all nations require a substantial threshold before they try to tax business activity. Such countries will tax income arising from any activities performed in that nation by a foreign entity. (For example, Peru and Venezuela have both generated headlines about this recently.) Worse, these countries will frequently try to lay claim to all of the income that arises from the activity, even if only a minor portion of it can be "sourced" to activities performed in that country. This isn't usually a problem for a US resident/company--U.S. courts won't enforce such foreign tax levies--however, many nations are willing to enforce the tax levies of other countries. Netherlands, in particular, is a danger on this front. The Netherlands has friendly relations with a good many countries which the US is not friendly with, and a Dutch judgment enforcing a foreign tax lien stands a good chance of being enforced by other member nations of the EU.

As for your second point: say you blog about how you traveled while coding the app...or you give an interview to that effect. All it takes is one person in that country's tax authority to stumble upon the blog post/interview, and they'll try to go after you. (This doesn't mean they'll go as far as seeking a judgment, or that such a judgment would succeed, but foreign legal difficulties aren't something you'll ever want to deal with if you plan on letting your app get acquired.
This is likely the meta-est thing Gruber has written - except perhaps writing the Markdown manual in Markdown.

Apple event happens, random sites write various things about the announcements, Gruber waits for the noise to settle and writes a piece mostly in favour of Apple.

And you know what? It works! (No sarcasm)
You say I'm being exploited; I say you have adopted a viewpoint designed to create maximum unhappiness in the reality I live in.

Potato; potato.
It doesn't matter if the facts are about reality or fiction. If I say 'There are 1234 notes in that Beatles song, and C-F-G-C chords are often seen there' then it doesn't matter that the song is product of a human's creative work, the facts are not that creative work.

If I say 'hobbits in Tolkien's work have hairy feet' then again, Tolkien made that fact up, it didn't exist before his writing, but it's still not copyrighted or 'copyrightable'.

Copyright is about copying the actual prose or drawings from Pokemon, but stating the facts about that prose or drawings is allowed.
> Not to mention that ssh's key model is a bit broken since there's not built-in way to distribute the keys/check the keys against an authority like with SSL.

I think the recent NSA news indicate that the SSL authority model is broken. Any 3rd party authority can be subverted by legal (e.g. NSL) means.

SSH's model leaves that only semi-solved. you CAN distribute your own "known_hosts" file, thereby avoiding the need for either an SSL-style authority, or remembering every host's key. Alternatively, you can use something like SSHFP+DNSSEC/DNSCurve or Monkeysphere if you like the underlying trust models.

ssh's key model is NOT broken. SSL's models IS practically broken. ssh just leaves a little less specified.
I've implemented most those features in your description, Please refer to http://www.golater.me , GoLater integrated with Evernote , You could create note then add a GeoTag for place , You will see this note's map location in your iPhone after sync to GoLater iOS App. So With GoLater , Evernote become your Places content management system, The places content is fully controlled by yourself.

The most cool thing is GoLater's note could be search by Map region, Drag your map and see your interesting places collection, Especially GoLater's map function also implement 'filter by Notebook', you could collect places related to US Civil war history in a Notebook named "US Civil war", Open the map in GoLater then switch to "US Civil war", Drag the map region and all information related with "US Civil war" will show up around map region

GoLater also implement Places Sharing by way of Evernote share notebook , Your places is private list in your notebook, but you could share your places notebook to your family , Your family could pick up which place is interesting then save to their own map
I'm in a 3bd apartment on Manhattan that costs less than $2000/month. Articles always cherrypick luxury apartments in the most expensive areas.
No, no. In fact, last time I checked, the lein docs warn about using brew because the versions may be out of date.
Don't feel guilty. Though if you haven't had kids yet and both of you want them, I hope you spoke to her oncologist about how to deal. If not, young survival coalition has some information on fertility and BC

http://www.youngsurvival.org/
How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002)
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That's up to you. There's a well established contract market here in the uk that does not work that way.
The pace at which the USA destroys the remainders of its credibility is astonishing.
I too fear the China-style internet as a response. However there are alternative responses which may be beneficial if we take a constructive approach. I see no better time than now for many countries to get behind the ideas of Eben Moglen and actively fund open source work in the basic hardware and software than all countries need. Some 21 countries are getting together to challenge the US at the UN. I would love it if these same 21 countries put money where their mouth is and actively funded the thousands of excellent independent open source developers who would love to actively create fully free and open-source basic software and hardware full time. These individuals are not hard to identify and support. Give them the money to quit their day jobs and build FOSS full time.
I tried making my parents use *nix. It didn't go over well. My worthless anecdote counters yours.
Most tech startups work in English, specially the ones with international/remote workers. Besides that, the "working language" is Catalan, because Barcelona is a city in Catalunya.
Well, he needs to see which way the wind is blowing before he can offer "insightful" apologia.

Ack, I'm being too hard. It's a decent summary piece just like the 20 or 30 others I've seen on the event, just a little more cheerleadery.
But it appears that almost all user passwords (99.8%) appear in the top 10,000 list [1]. So even a brute-force attack on a slow hash like bcrypt is pretty cheap in the vast majority of cases. So switching from md5 to bcrypt doesn't improve your security much.

[1] http://xato.net/passwords/more-top-worst-passwords/
Automated ski trail reporting:

http://skitrails.info/

Using GPS trackers to watch where grooming equipment goes, then update the "what's been groomed" report automatically and (where there's sufficient connectivity) in near realtime.
Jack Dorsey at Startup School 2013
Even if there's an innocuous explanation for this, the government has totally blown through the trust of communities like this one, the critical journalism community, and more.
"Buffer- A platform famous around the globe for its performance and trust. Every company and business use buffer for their work."

Uhm, I've never even heard of "buffer" until the hack, and I still don't know anything about it.
Sending large amount of emails takes time, I guess you'll receive it later.
Yes, us. People on Hacker News are either professionals in some technical industry or enthusiasts, for the most part (I'd imagine). On the other hand, if someone who isn't tech savvy can use it over another system that they've been trained to use for many years, then that's significant.
"I was pretty much floored."

Indeed, because old people are all idiots.
Honestly, for the basic tasks, the major OS's are as easy as each other these days.
It seems like the Solicitor General made his case to the Supreme Court, claiming defendants would be notified. Fast forward to recently, Dianne Feinstein goes and tells a reporter that yes, we've used evidence from a warrantless wiretap in this particular case. That guy's lawyer responds with the legal version of "wait, what?", the Solicitor General realizes that he (unknowingly?) lied to the Supreme Court, throws a fit (because you don't lie to the Supreme Court), Justice orders prosecutors to start revealing when such evidence is used, and now guy is mounting a legal challenge and ACLU/EFF/EPIC are going after the original case, wherein the Solicitor General (knowingly?) lied to the Supreme Court.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130716/01513323814/

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131017/18381624923/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/when-will-government-o...
I have the same feeling (and appreciation)– it inspired me to try learning both Haskell and Scheme. Still not sure if I'm an idiot or just insatiable.
If I were a surveillance apparatus listening in on foreign internets, tighter local control is exactly what I'd want. I'd only have to hack into the national firewall to listen in on data rather than thousands or millions of individual networks.
Sorry there seems to only have been one directed at the Chancellory [1]

Would you really equate unconfirmed word document files (which were denied by the government) with explicit phone tapping (which was all but admitted to by the government)?

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/espionage-report-m...
I'm going to geek out here for a minute at the fact that Facebook made a screenshot diffing tool for testing. I've been wanting to build that very thing for a long time, but every developer I've talked to about it looks at me like I'm crazy.

So, am I still crazy for thinking screenshot diffing might be an effective way to verify builds?
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at least a few weeks. Then try stopping again. You
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a lot of hysteria, and drama. It's almost like a negative
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Your brother is 25 and has shit to do. I'm sure that once he's old and retired he'll be glad to have learning a new system to take up his time.
> Ten percent a day. Doctors won't tell you this because of the small chance you die--liability.

Why taper that fast? What's the rush? Most people seem to assume that if a drug has a shorter half life it means you can taper off it faster, but I've never seen any evidence (albeit I'm not an expert) that the speed at which your neural chemistry can reset itself is at all correlated with the half life of the drug.
I actually like this future more and more as it implies the opportunity to rebuild a new internet on top of the old internet with all the lessons learned from the first internet. It's not that the first will cease to exist. There are too many vested commercial interests for that to happen. The second internet will have the opportunity to develop separate from these commercial and government interests and will hopefully be better designed to protect against the shortcomings that left the first internet vulnerable to government meddling. Even if it takes us 10-20 years to get there, it will be worth it.
Firebase (YC S11) is hiring core developers in SF
At Firebase, we're completely reinventing the database. Every database to date has been built using a request / response paradigm, and it has been intended for use only between servers on a local network. Firebase is different. It's built to be accessed directly from client devices, and it uses a real-time synchronization approach that makes building modern applications radically easier. Firebase-powered apps can be written in a fraction of the time, require only client-side code, update in real-time out-of-the-box, and scale automatically.

Over 500,000 devices are connected to Firebase's servers at any given time, and 10s of millions of users use a Firebase-powered app every day.

Our team is serious about computer science as a discipline -- we have folks hailing from Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, HP, Adobe, Akamai, and Adroll -- but WE NEED YOU to take Firebase to the next level. We tackle some of the hardest problems in computer science every day: large distributed systems, data merging and conflict resolution, data security, language design, high performance networking, index generation, etc.

If you've previously worked on the internals of databases, spent time optimizing network stacks, or if you feel you're an especially strong algorithms programmer, please drop us an email at jobs@firebase.com.

You can see more about our open positions here: https://www.firebase.com/jobs.html
The steps you will need to take to comply with HIPAA when using TrueVault will vary based on your implementation.

If you use our JavaScript widgets so that you never actually touch PHI, then you may be able to avoid the Administrative Safeguards. But, if you handle PHI and then send it to TrueVault you will need to comply with the Administrative components of HIPAA.

The HIPAA Security Rule requires appropriate Administrative, Physical, and Technical Safeguards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and security of electronic protected health information.

HIPAA compliant hosting handles the Physical Safeguards, a set of rules and guidelines that focus on the physical access to protected health information (PHI).

TrueVault handles both the Physical and Technical Safeguards (Encryption and Decryption, Key Management, Key Rotation, Access Control, Unique User Identification, Emergency Access, Automatic Logoff, Audit Controls, Mechanism to Authenticate Electronic PHI, Person or Entity Authentication, Transmission Security, and Integrity Controls). This is all stuff that you would have to build yourself if you use AWS, FireHost, or Rackspace.

You’re right; Administrative Safeguards should not be ignored. The administrative components are really important when implementing a HIPAA compliance program; you are required to assign a Privacy Officer, complete a risk assessment, implement employee training, review policies and procedures, and execute Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) with partners you share protected health information (PHI) with. I think that Accountable does a great job with the Administrative Safeguards. Accountable offers HIPAA compliance management tools that keep your business legal. Checkout -- http://www.accountablehq.com/
That's extremely misleading and generally over exaggerated by anti-drug advocates. The cravings get weaker as the weeks progress and by a full year or so, they're completely gone. What remains is the nostalgia. You think back on the time you were doing them and remember how good you felt (while conveniently forgetting all the bad times) and you crave it like you crave something from a memory.

For me, (8 years clean) it's like remembering Christmas morning when you were a child. Now that I think about it, it's almost exactly like that. I don't crave it like a cigarette (You don't have an "urge"), instead it's like recalling a happy memory and feeling nostalgic. Why it's misleading is because the same could be said about virtually anything you can feel nostalgic about.
The continuous erosion of our protections is alarming. How can it be stopped and reversed? Is it even possible? IMANAL, but hasn't there been a SCOTUS case or two on this very thing?
HTML5 is not effective at the moment, but as phones become more powerful. I think it will take over. The same way the web app took over from desktop apps when personal PCs and network bandwidth improved.
> It still hurts, as the average non-caring citizen's knowledge is stunted. But not as badly.

"As long as it's not me that's hurt, that's okay."
That's an admirable sentiment, but I personally find the section confusing. Perhaps the loose paragraphs that talk about non-white, non-straight and female could be condensed down to something that didn't seem quite as condescending and actuallly was a little more clear -- and put after a paragraph or two that talk about what you are expected to know to benefit from the text?

I don't really mind "being left out" as a straight white male that's been into hard sciences and computers since I was six (before then it was all dolls, if I am to judge by our family albums) -- but it does strike me as a little strange to read an entire page about "who's this for" and still not getting any real information other than that if I were slightly gay, I'd be more in the target audience? What does that even mean?

As a side note, I've never heard the tech/science community nor higher education was discriminating on sexual preference -- race and gender (as largely a function of wealth and old bias) -- yes -- but there's a gay issue as well? If true that's sad, and I'm glad to be made aware of it -- but I still think the entire about-page could do with a rewrite.
Yup. Russia is extremely candid about its realpolitik approach to geopolitics.
I find that the subjective choppiness goes away when I speed it up. For me the sweet spot is about 500 words per minute, with up to 3 words at a time (I say 'up to' because sentences are chopped up based on punctuation marks, and then smoothed out to leave about an equal number of words in every segment. This is a rough description). The sweet spot also depends on the sort of book being read.

I guess it's like watching a movie on a suboptimal screen, or at an suboptimal angle, etc. After a while you're mindful only of the movie, not of the viewing experience.
Apple, Twitter and Tech’s Middle-Aged White Guy Problem
The key point from my post is that there is really no biking infrastructure in most of the US, so riding a nice bike to the office in fact becomes a statement. Because riding a bike in let's say Phoenix is just plain dangerous. You don't do it there, period. It's just not convenient to the point where it looks like you are making a left-wing centered statement. It's like driving Hummer H1 in Brussels city centre. One could argue all day long they do it for the passengers safety but the reality is that a strong political statement would be sent (i.e. I have money and don't care about the green craze).
The bizarre thing is the actual warrant - searching for firearms-related items & documents in their house, because her husband had a 1980s-vintage resisting arrest conviction which precludes him from owning firearms. I don't have PACER access, but I would love for someone to dig up that warrant application when it becomes available and see how bald-facedly pretextual it is.
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I don't know that I'd call CT or NJ safer or more liveable. Especially not to the point where it would justify such a long commute.
The Great Firewall does a lot more than that. It blocks new IPs by default (some are later re-enabled after being 'assessed' in some way).

It does some kind of automated crawling and blocking.

It has manual (as in human) blockers, who read content on Weibo and remove it.

It's still horribly crude, and fairly straight forward to route around but it's more complex than a simple static dns blacklist.
I don't think you understand what double taxation means. Double taxation refers to a specific item of income.

You own a company, X. It earns income of 100 doing whatever. That income is taxed. This is the first level of taxation. The company then distributes that income as a dividend to its shareholder, you. That dividend is income to you. Thus, it is subject to tax again. This is the second level of taxation. If you had performed the income-generating activity directly (i.e., not through the company), it would not be subject to this second level of tax. However, at the same time, the use of the corporate entity provides significant legal and tax benefits. Thus, the double taxation is mitigated but not eliminated.

Another example: Company X, based in the U.S., does some business in France. France taxes that income. That is the first level of taxation. The U.S. also taxes that income, due to its worldwide taxation system. That is the second level of tax on the same income. In this particular instance, we have a treaty with tax to eliminate the double taxation of that same income. (This is not true of all countries, for example, we don't have a tax treaty with Taiwan.)

In your example, you ignore the basic system of US and EU capital gains taxation. When you sell a business, you are generally taxed based on the difference between [sale price] subtract [your "cost basis"] in the business. (Cost basis generally means the amount you paid to acquire the shares, or which you contributed to the business.) It is irrelevant that your business was worth $100k before it made another $100k--the tax code doesn't look at intermediary valuations, and it doesn't care about earnings when determining the tax on the sale of a capital asset. What matters is whether you have a "cost basis" in your shares of the business. If you acquired your shares for $0 (for example, you contributed your labor to earn those shares), then upon selling the business in your example you would recognize capital gains of $165k, not $65k. Usually, capital gain from the sale of a business relates to "goodwill" (i.e., brand value) rather than cash from earnings (and for property or other capital assets, capital gains are usually due to simple appreciation.) Double taxation is not usually a problem with capital assets, so the capital gains rate does not reflect a discount to remedy double taxation. Rather, capital gains rates are discounted to encourage investment in capital assets.
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No. Cash earned by a corporation does not affect the basis of its shareholders. If such cash earnings were distributed as a dividend, it would not affect the basis of its shareholders but would be taxable as income to the shareholders.

(Cash distributed by a corporation but which is not earned, i.e.,if the corporation has negative earnings at the time of the distribution, would reduce the shareholder's basis.)

If you were dealing with a partnership/LLC, the $65k would generally increase its partners' basis in the partnership/LLC. However, in such case you wouldn't be dealing with double taxation in the first place.
Man, I hope so.(speaking as someone who worked at msft for 2 years)
I thought the german government immediately asked for the US government to "clarify" it's intelligence gathering in germany.

That's about as 'outraged' as they can get isn't it?

Personal phone calls make sense, when the spying is personal.
FYI: I just merged a pull request that adds gradle support. Would love for somebody to send a pull request to add maven as well.