skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just federal capital gains tax. You also need to consider state taxes. In California you pay ordinary income tax rates on capital gains of up to 13.3% for people with incomes over a million dollars. So the total tax on a capital gain in California can be as high as 37.1%.
With Hackathons Taking Center Stage, The Coming Transformation
Some of them are pretty traditional rules as well, not some kind of new internet-driven surprise. Say that the year is 1935 and you're a Maytag refrigerator repairman based in eastern Iowa. A customer in western Illinois calls you out; you drive over the Mississippi River, service the customer's refrigerator on-site, and then drive back home. You have clearly engaged in a the sale of services in Illinois. You can't really argue this service call legally took place in Iowa, since neither the refrigerator nor the customer nor the physical location of the activity was in Iowa (not even if the customer mails you a check to your Iowa address rather than paying cash in Illinois). If Illinois has regulations on servicing refrigerators, or taxes related to this occupation, you're responsible for following them. If you want to follow only Iowa law, you need to service only refrigerators within Iowa's borders! That follows from the principle that Iowa has no authority to dictate the rules that govern servicing Illinois refrigerators.

Similarly, if you're a computer consultant who lives in Iowa and you drive to Illinois to service a customer's mainframe or install a software package on their workstations, or whatever else it is you do, you're engaged in the service business in Illinois. Some software consultants seem not to realize this.

One difference is that it's easier for a small-time consultant to do on-site business in more than 2 or 3 states nowadays, thanks to cheap flights, which would've taken a lot of driving in 1935 to pull off. One solution is to decide that there's so much cross-border commerce going on that the U.S. is basically a national market, and federalize/harmonize the tax and business-regulation laws. That'd simplify compliance for multi-state businesses by removing the legal distinction between doing business within your state vs. across state lines. On the other hand it'd remove some local choice which is fairly popular in the US. So far the piecemeal solution seems to be that the federal government has harmonized a few regulations, e.g. car-safety standards (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geier_v._American_Honda_Motor_...), to let a few industries avoid the complexities of balkanized 50-state regulations, but hasn't done anything general.
This article is utter horse shit and I hope nobody believes it. If you start a business in Texas you only pay sales taxes to customers in Texas. The same applies for any of the other 49 states of the union. Interstate taxes like described in this article are unconstitutional and have been held up in court:
http://taxfoundation.org/article/amazon-tax-unconstitutional...

Edit: This piece of trash article was written by a sack of shit with a stake in getting start-ups to spend money trying to be tax complaint. [1][2] Pandodaily would be wise to remove this article and revoke the authors posting privileges.

[1]http://pando.com/authors/jonathan-barsade/
[2]http://www.exactor.com/
It's helpful to distinguish between the country, its general population, and the actions of certain parts of its government in these kinds of discussions. The average citizen in the UK no more knew about, supported or condoned a lot of the recently disclosed intelligence-related activities than the average US citizen knew about, supported or condoned the recently disclosed behaviour of the NSA. If anything, I suspect there is a lot more latent resentment of these government behaviours in the UK, because we don't as a rule exhibit the same kind of patriotic fervour that significant parts of the US population do when it comes to military/intelligence matters.
Three years I don't miss a single week of workout: great that it creates long term benefits, but the short term ones are already incredible: I'm better at parenting (I can carry my daughter for hours without any side effect for example), more able to focus at work, sleep quality is better, stress level much lower, and I look better. All this for 40 minutes a day 5 days per week. The best deal of my life. My routine is monday,wednesday,friday: 15 min cardio + bench press and squat (using a power cage, high volume for both exercise). Tuesday,thursday: 20 min high intensity interval training + chinups or pullups or over the head press depending on the day. Hint: the time I use for the exercises is small compared to the amount of sets I try to do per session because I took the extreme way of an home office that has an included gym. Pic: http://antirez.com/misc/office.jpg Hint2: don't train to failure.
Most people won't tag you if you don't have an account, and I don't think you will show up in a search even if tagged, if you don't have an account.
A List of Favorites From a Man Who Knows His Apps
rsync.net is an example of a host that does something like this (with daily snapshots)

$> ssh rsyncnet ls .zfs/snapshot
daily_2014-02-09
daily_2014-02-10
daily_2014-02-11
daily_2014-02-12
daily_2014-02-13
daily_2014-02-14
daily_2014-02-15

They allow you to customise the length of time for which these snapshots are kept, too (IIRC) (at the cost to you of the incremental extra storage)
Great focus on doing one thing and doing it well. Excellent work!
If you love Vim you probably already have your own config so you don't need someone else's.

If you are new to Vim and don't want to set it up, well… just give up and use Sublime or whatever other editor instead.
Or he has an open honest relationship with his boss where both parties respect each other enough that honesty is rewarded.

Of course your interpretation is more likely.
I'm not even sure that's true. Fractals come to mind.
You miss what that sentence was actually leading to:

Comcast has carefully set up pricing to get you whether you watch shows the old-fashioned way, on a boob-tube fed with a cable, or whether you prefer to veg out with Netflix on your iPad

They aren't talking about "Oh it's only $10 more, so why not". They are talking about how you can't escape most of the Comcast Tax, even if you ditch cable. That's the whole theme of the article.
That IS the way it is as far as sales tax code is concerned. The article is completely wrong:

http://taxfoundation.org/article/amazon-tax-unconstitutional...
http://netchoice.org/library/sales-tax-collection-myth-vs-re...
http://salestaxguy.blogspot.com/2010/06/golden-rule-there-is...
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/interst...
> Because psychology's topic is the mind, and because the mind is not a physical entity,

That is a false statement, your mind is quite physical!

(and indeed you call upon neuroscience in your very next line!)
Wow that f6s applications thing is obnoxious. No, I will not sign in with linkedin or facebook, until I read what we will need to fill out on the application form. So get your popup out of my face... thanks.
Kickstarter Hacked
As a symbolic show of good faith, let's start by doing away with the cookie disclaimers.
But still, you could write "Our passwords are stored securely using the bcrypt algorithm; however, weak passwords..." and not compromise terms.
There are a few free alternatives that has this feature, for example MonoSnap and Skitch (I think).

I use MonoSnap myself.
> that feature could also allow for a fairly straightforward way to move data from a running instance to a new one

That's already relatively straightforward with PostgreSQL's existing replication. This has worked since 9.1:

http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2013/02/16/zero-to-postgr...

It involves bouncing the master, but it doesn't involve extended downtime. Or is that not what you meant?

However, the 'logical log streaming replication' that is being implemented looks even better. A small but useful thing is that it works at database granularity, rather than having to replicate the whole installation. The huge thing is that because it works with logical rather than physical representations of changes, it allows replication into a database which is also being updated locally - slaves can be read/write rather than read-only. That itself is not immediately exciting, but the logical consequence of this is that two databases can both accept changes and replicate to each other - 'bi-directional replication', or what in MySQL is called 'multi-master replication'. The holy grail of database clustering!
Go does not give you bare-metal control without GC and C++ does not give you safety. They do not give you "90%" of what you want, if you're in a domain that needs those features. If you need to write libraries to be used by Ruby, for example, Go does not give you 90% of that, it gives you 0%. If you need to write secure, memory-safe software, C++11 does not give you 90% of what you want, and anybody in the security field will tell you that.

It has taken time to stabilize Rust because it is doing something that no language in industry has done. Rust is not designed to be a Go that's 10% better or a C++ that's 10% better. It's designed to let you do things you can't do in those languages. Like writing libraries callable by C that are guaranteed not to segfault. Or writing games that can't afford GC.
You Win By Thinking Everyone Else Is Wrong
I subscribed and added a feed. I don't see how it reads the feed [1]. On adding a 2nd feed, it adds the feed and throws an 'Invalid feed' prompt.

Also, it is not clear if 'Copy to Clipboard' worked. You should have a notification saying so.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/wYMSxF0.png
MonoSnap/Skitch - true. I use that feature from skitch all the time.
Like here https://bluevm.com/cart.php?gid=42 search for '100 GB'
> Who the hell works 80 hours a week to make a measly $120k? You should be making 300k+ for that kind of productivity. Otherwise, you are only cheating yourself. There are tons of 120-160k jobs at 40 hours/week

Many video game developers work 80+hr weeks for well under 100k.

The (perceived?) prestige of being a video game developer makes up the difference.
NHS, not NIH.
Yeah. I'm the same way. I hate having a whole room arranged as if for worshiping a video altar.

My compromise is a projector on a white wall. Then my room isn't dominated by a giant TV. The A/V gear is all tucked away in a closet, and my speakers are small ones white ones that sit up close to the ceiling. I feed it from a media server.

I like this better. When I'm in a hotel room, I feel like the TV almost demands watching. It's almost menacing to me these days compared with an unobtrusive setup.
I was waiting for something like this, but I expected somebody to build a flappy bird playing robot :)

Do you know some good literature for machine learning 101? Where to start?
nice! I usually use Quicktime for this, but even some of my most technical friends don't realize its possible, I think this is a great idea!

Best of luck!
The contrast of PG saying, "Lots of people should try startups" and the fact that the vast majority of startups fail is kind of weird.

They're not logically distinct, however, if (like PG) you think that you're better off trying for success via the YC model.
D'oh. Sorry.
You probably mean the NHS?

I don't know of UK taxes specifically, but US taxes are a nightmare compared to every other tax regimes I am familiar with (a couple of European ones).

The 20% VAT you mentioned earlier seems onerous, but when you factor everything, taxes in the US are often as high or higher than other places, and provide significantly less:

e.g. suppose you are living in NYC and earning well. Then you pay %35 federal (or is it %39 yet), + 8% state + 5% city on income, for a total of %48 income taxes. If you are an employee, you have to add SS, employment tax, fica and whatnot on top of that, which easily gets you past the 50% mark. But that doesn't actually include any kind of health coverage, and when you go to university (or your kid does), you're going to pay 5-10 times as much. To an american, it seems reasonable to borrow $200K at age 20 against your future earnings to go to college, even though 40% don't get to the finish line (student loans, so not even dischargable by bankruptcy). It would be considered insanity, if it was even a possibility, everywhere else.

Oh, and you still have the 8.5% tax in NYC. not 20% VAT, but not that far - and the VAT is not as simple as it looks - if you run a business, it often doesn't affect you as much, because in many countries, only the "last mile" pays it.

Finally - US tax law regarding domestic finances might be comparable to the UK one (I would guess not, with the US federal code standing at >70,000 printed pages, and IIRC the UK code standing at <20,000). But if you have another nationality, or a significant investor of yours does, or you have anything resembling a bank account outside the US - then US tax laws become ten times more complex, and you are assumed guilty at any point of the way. (Failed to file your FBAR? Pay 50% of the highest amount in your account. Per year of missed reporting).
> I recommend 1Password as well

Tell us more? Should I switch from LastPass?
There's a great Machine Learning course up on Coursera from Stanford: https://www.coursera.org/course/ml
And likewise with income taxes. The paper cited I the source article accounts only for fed taxes. Cali income tax would toss another 8-10% on top of that 33.x% number.

Low tax America!

Well, I guess it is low tax it you're not rich, haha.
Sometimes I'll notice the ad because it hides the top pipe that I strangely think is free space.
> And it's not like that data needs micrometer precision ...

But maybe that's the point. Maybe it does need very high precision and that is the unappreciated point of the story.
Am I the only one who thinks this looks like Balsamiq?
http://balsamiq.com/products/mockups/
It's the usual minor version release spam. Not even worth figuring out whether it's blog-spam, karma whoring, or (unlikely) genuine news.
deserving of the guillotine
smerge-mode or use the emerge diff tool setting
> Evolution optimizes for procreation not for longevity.

Incorrect. Evolution optimises for propagation of genes. Procreation is one but not the element of that process.

Think about this way: if you are living by yourself in the forest and have octuplets, then you are very good at procreation; if you die immediately afterwards, then you are evolutionarily unfit despite your procreative abilities, because none of your young will survive to pass on their genes. For creatures like humans -- born with helpless young -- the person who has two children and lives long enough to ensure that they can pass on their own genes is more evolutionarily fit than the person who procreates like mad but lets all their children die.

In our evolutionary environment, post-procreative individuals played vital roles in ensuring the survival of the young: taking care of children while their parents were off hunting and gathering; preparing foodstuffs; passing on lore about which plants were dangerous to eat, etc. In this way, the presence of elders facilitated the propagation of genes -- right up to the point where the care and maintenance of said elders becomes such a drain on resources that it begins to diminish rather than enhance the survival and procreation prospects for the young. That's quite a long time, however, so generally speaking, genetic lines that produce long-lived healthy individuals who enhance the survival prospects of the young will be more successful than genetic lines which don't.
Very cool! It's remarkable that you can get a good score with effectively only two features: vertical distance from the lower pipe and horizontal distance from the next pair of pipes.

I suspect you could cut the training time by an order of magnitude with a different optimization algorithm, or just by varying alpha. For example, have you considered trying something like a line search?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_search
I can add Argentina as a good location, where there are many excellent doctors and very good clinics. If you are looking for international "karma" many of them publish in top journals.
>> Because psychology's topic is the mind, and because the mind is not a physical entity,

> That is a false statement, your mind is quite physical!

Citation needed. No responsible practitioner in the field of psychology argues that the mind is a biological organ or an empirical part of physical reality.

> and indeed you call upon neuroscience in your very next line!

Now I see what I'm up against. Neuroscience studies the brain and nervous system, not the mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience

Quote: "Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system."
Heh, there is absolutely no way that the Conservatives will let the UK leave the EU. This is an empty promise to try and stop their grassroots voting UKIP.

There will be a certain irony if the Conservatives lose out at the next general election because UKIP divides their vote and something between a Labour landslide and a Labour-Lib Dem coalition happens... because of the AV voting reforms that the Conservatives heavily opposed a couple of years ago.
Those services don't have a meaningful "bill" to consolidate. All of those services just show up as a line on a credit card statement, and don't send a paper bill. There's no bill to pay attention to unless the charge on the credit card statement looks wrong.
What's the difference in wallet security between bitcoind and this library? At some point, you HAVE to store some hot wallets on a server.

Is it easier to implement a dynamic cold storage system for wallets without bitcoind?
That was one of the "special cases" in the article I was referring to, but it strikes me as pretty white line. If you physically move to another state and do work, however temporary, you've obviously subjected yourself to that state's laws while you're there.

Now, if that created a nexus for all your business in that state, like sales tax on the entire thing installed---say you work for the Maytag dealer from whom the refrigerator was bought, across state lines---I'd call that a special case, but I'd expect it to come up when checking to see if service was covered.
http://offlinefirst.org/
If you start a startup in New York, you can forgo business taxes for 10 years.
I refused to join, I was on temp contract so no value for me. This was semi private scientific institution. Money were usually used to send HR/union people to bullshit trainings on nice location.

BTW there were 2 managers for every science bee.
My ISP charges me a $10/month fee for having non-bundled service (only paying for internet). Still better than the +$30 I'd be paying for the bundle...So I'm only getting fucked a little.

They'll try and manage to fuck customers no matter what as long as they maintain the power.
Also worth a read is 'A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction' if you're interested in an architectural look at how humans might live together better.
Exactly. And guess which of those groups is the larger one ?

I think the real problem with CEO positions is that of bad actors. A certain Nokia CEO would could be a good example. Took nokia from bad into disaster and then sold the company to the "real" people who hired him.

A CEO is something you must have and who is an enormous risk if he's a sellout. So one has to give them a lot of money to try to lessen that incentive. It's that simple. It's the same reason you don't underpay the people with their hands on the nuclear weapons triggers.

As Nokia demonstrated (and it's not the only one), even doing that does not yield guarantees.

The problem is the opposite. Coming from one of Europe's quasi-socialist states, rewarding the "deserving" doesn't work. Firstly because you don't know who is deserving and because government committees, well, are were the term "politics" got it's sour taste. All important positions in the EU, for example, are filled, just like congress, with very rich people. Having consulted from them I personally guarantee they are from the "born rich" variety. Coincidence ? No. And those are effectively the only 2 options.

It's far better to go with the option where (you try to make sure) the incentives for the CEO and the people that want to benefit of him are aligned.
Well, if the robots can produce ten times more then the amount needed to sustain everyone, then the government can tax the robots productivity at 10% to achieve the same thing.

You're going to say that that's theft at gunpoint probably, and I'm going to say I don't have any moral problem with that. Taxes have existed since human beings first banded together to form large groups and they aren't going away anytime soon.

So is this just going to turn into another stupid libertarian argument about how all taxes are evil? Because I'm pretty sure that debate has been settled in every single successful civilization since the dawn of time.. Taxes won.

Lastly, I think your viewpoint is pretty evil honestly. So there is a robotic surplus sufficient to feed the world multiple times over in this scenario and people still starve because fuck you I own the robots and I'm only going to help myself? If that's the world there will be a revolution and I'll be on the side of the dirty hippies.
That's why most authors have moved there like Rushdie and Hitchens claimed to have moved to the US because of the stifling UK slander laws where any politician could accuse a critic of slander and the onus was on the critic to prove they haven't slandered instead of the other way around.

Still, not like politicians in the US haven't tried to dismantle free speech protections under the phony excuse of "hate speech" remember the Obama administration pressuring youtube to censor that "innocence of muslims" video?

Meanwhile in my pathetic country, silly anti-bullying reactionary legislation has led to all sorts of censorship on written "bullying" prose, and of course politicians were the first to use the laws against each other and their critics.