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It's insanely different from having your money in banks. A bank is backed by the government. If a bank goes under, you still get your money. If Coinbase goes under, you get nothing or very little.

Funds from Coinbase should be evacuated to your own secure cold storage wallet immediately after you purchase them. You should never hold a balance higher than 0BTC for any length of time on Coinbase. Follow this advice and you'll have your money forever. Don't follow it and you'll lose your money the moment Coinbase suffers any serious theft, a technical disaster, a rogue employee, or the founder steals coins.

(I speak from experience, having lost a massive amount of money when Mt. Gox went under for one of the above reasons, which I probably won't get back.)
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Also, this story has nothing to do with Europe. This is the UK. Many in the English-speaking world assume that things in the UK are representative of what happens in Europe or the EU, but reality is that the UK is in many cases an odd outlier.

For instance, the freedom of the press is much weaker in the UK than in continental Europe, surveillance is _a lot_ more commonplace in the UK and the UK is not part of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. (Btw. the UK and Poland are the only EU countries that aren't a part of it.)
Generally, yes. Short term capital gains are taxed at a higher rate than long term capital gains.
Simple taxes is a justice issue. A simple tax code will always be more fair than an arcane one.

If we're worried about the cost of living of people with incomes below a certain level, the best solution to that problem is a solution to that problem, such as an earned income tax credit, a guaranteed income, food stamps, health insurance supplements, and the like.
Yes; for people participating in an employee stock purchase program, it is called a Disqualifying Disposition. It puts you in the short-term capital gains bracket (with about 15% higher tax).

However, it's still a VERY good idea to do if you plan on holding stock.

I know stories of several people who were exercised options on 7 figures of stock, only to see the price collapse before they were able to sell. The taxes they owed because of that eclipsed their net worth several times over.
> “The danger is the creation of an electronic black market, similar to the cash economy,” Joshua Blank, a tax law professor at New York University, said in a December interview. “That’s what the IRS wants to avoid.”

I think demanding over 40% tax on a trivially worldwide transferable, hard to track, easy to secretly manufacture commodity is exactly the best way to create black market.
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Thank you!

Edit: I can't find it. I see I can disable the cache completely, but that's not really what I want. Its nice to only disable it when the dev tools are open. I don't want to have to go to advance settings and clear it every time.
Coinbase is not FDIC insured.
Here's a mirror of the original MS-DOS version of the license: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TTs0lxz...
Who gets to define hate speech?

If you're interested in freedom of speech, the Popehat law blog makes excellent reading. Ken White had an insightful post about this very issue earlier this year:

"In Europe, Tom Perkins might face official sanctions for saying the wrong thing about the Holocaust; here, he faces late-night jokes and insulting cartoons and the contempt of many. I like our way better." [1]

[1] http://www.popehat.com/2014/01/30/your-criticism-of-my-holoc...
>TITAN Z is engineered for next-generation 5K and multi-monitor gaming

5K? "all the way to 11" or somebody just didn't proof-read the copy?
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I don't understand why Microsoft haven't created a special application servear for old IE versions. If an Enterprise could install a server which provided IE via a Remote Application window it would allow them to upgrade to the latest version of Windows.

Remote Application is already used to provide support for legacy apps, much in the same way that terminal emulators are used to access legacy mainframe systems.
Gag orders for fucking metrology? Does the NSA really, really want everybody to slightly underestimate how much things weigh? Is it part of a diabolical conspiracy to take over the world by the accumulation of tiny measurement errors?
seriously cool stuff
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of CommonLisp"
VC money will definitely flow forever. People get bored of the same old. New ideas and products will always have value.
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My broad point was comparing an age old institution with Young one is not fair and more or less 100 years from now, who knows where things would be are.

Its not comparing apples to apples but again, if dissing MSR for not being Bell Labs - great then.
They only reduced the prices for compute engine, bigquery, appengine, and cloud storage which are developer oriented cloud services and therefore unrelated to box. If google beefed up google drive, then it could be an attempt to throw a wrench in the gears of box.

I personally think google has more incentive to do the latter. Millions of people and thousands of companies already use gmail. It'd be pretty easy to convince people to take those files they already send/receive using gmail and push them to google drive. Convincing hardcore AWS users to move to google app engine might be a bit tougher.
April 1st also happens to be the start of Q2. I think it's kind of nifty that Google is unwilling to let a non-vacation holiday only celebrated by a handful of countries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day) disrupt its product planning.

(It's also shrewd business, if its competitors have "Start of Q2" stuff they'd like to announce that they put off until April 2nd).
Do you make stuff? How is it fair that I make something in my garage, and some assmonkey drags my ass to the Eastern District of Texas to claim he deserves 15% of my revenue because my app sends a message from a smartphone client, containing contact information, to a server, where it is stored in a database.

Sounds like a really complicated process ... if you are a non-technical person ... but any engineer is like that is fucking trivial.

And yet we have to settle lawsuits like this shit all the time. If we are lucky -- $50,000 a pop. If not, more.

You think this highway robbery is justice/fairness?

You know what would be fair? If people didn't die under cars when they are riding their bikes. Lets build a completely different highway system for bikes, parallel to the existing highway system, so cars can't touch them.

Don't we factor in costs when considering such utopian schemes to solve problems?

Shouldn't we factor in the costs to innocent bystanders when creating an incentive system for creators? Look at how many creators are DISINCENTIVIZED by the current system.

We don't make software to file patents. We never have. If you go to Meetups in SF, you'll never meet engineers that want to file patents either.

What entrepreneur wants to file patents? I've never met one. Maybe such entrepreneurs exist outside my circles.

For the most part, we are all fucking sick of these lawyers and this horseshit.
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I'm curious, what does this mean for someone interested in operating a Bitcoin ATM? Is a money transmitter license still a requirement?
Heavily modded skyrim.
Microsoft is against the current, the other story that run here at HN is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7467165

And that's why Microsoft is at a turning point in 2014.
It makes me wonder why Ms bothered tying the browser to the OS in this way. It's not as though the Justice Dept. is going to haul them back into court to explain their fibbing about how great it was to tightly couple the OS to a particular "strategic" executable that runs on it. Was that really a concern when they came out with Vista?
The market doesn't capture and represent all value created by labor. When I call a tow truck to jump start my car, that transaction is captured by the market, but when I call my friend with cables to do the same thing, it is not represented in the GDP. The same thing goes for a lot of "work" that is not done for compensation but adds a great deal of value to community. Basic income recognizes this fact that merely existing as part of a community you are providing some basic value even if you're not paid for that work. I think the critics are right that there are potential cultural problems around entitlement and an unwillingness to contribute in any form, but I'm more optimistic about human nature.
I've been working on AppScale (https://github.com/AppScale/appscale), the open source implementation of GAE, which implements the datastore API, along with most of the other GAE APIs. Your app is portable to any other hosting environment if the need ever comes.
I'd throw in a vote for cmd+k to clear
But the site isn't "Programming Language Patterns" -- it's "Game Programming Patterns".
Couldn't they pick any piece of code you write that happens to looks similar to some piece of code in MS-DOS and argue that it is in fact derived from their code, if it's known that you previously read the MS-DOS code?

Sort of like the "rangeCheck" portion of the Google v. Oracle case.

With patents it doesn't matter whether you read their code or not: you're screwed in any case. But with copyright the history of the code matters, so it could matter if you have seen their code before writings yours, I think.
"Obviously one can struggle to get around this assumption"
The blog is specifically about patterns used in game development not about game development per se. So it's about the journey, not about the destination.
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An iPhone is a good example. Real life example: my wife bought an iPhone, I was impressed and bought one, which led to me buying a MacBook to do dev work (and because "hey, they do make good machines"), which led to a whole house full of Macs and various Apple gear.

Because they made what I thought was a decent phone at the time, they sold some other gear as a result.
Note, the tax code changes every year and I'm not an accountant, just a victim :-)

Whenever I have exercised an option, my taxes have included an AMT calculation based on adding in the difference in value between exercise price, and market price, of those options as additional ordinary income. When the AMT tax calculation yields a 'tax owed' number that is larger than the non-AMT version (which it always did when exercising shares to make down payments) the IRS asked for the bigger number. Meaning that even if I had not sold the shares I exercised, the IRS wanted me to pretend that I had and pay tax on that money that I was pretending to have received. In exchange for doing that, the tax basis becomes the market price at the time of exercise.

If you don't actually sell the stock (because, for example, you are waiting for escrow to close), and the stock value goes down significantly, you can reach a point that the value of the stock drops below the tax liability you incurred by exercising the stock option in the first place. In some cases the stock can become worthless. (my best score has been $120/share stock going down to $0.52 share) If you realize this is going to happen before the tax year is over you can dump the stock take the loss and it all works out in the wash (loss cancels gain). If you cross over a tax year boundary then you owe the tax anyway (even though you don't have a way to pay it) and when you sell the stock in the following tax year you get a 'loss' but you don't have any gains to offset that against and you can't just take it out of the taxes owed. You can however write it off, $3,000 per year against your ordinary income.
We use Trello to manage all of our different tasks/projects.
You can even associate checklists for individual tasks.

It also has the ability to assign people or groups to tasks/projects.
You have the ability to label for categorization as well as a search function to find by keyword

Works like a champ.
Or why not inflationary tax? We already have it, but if it was made the sole tax, we could get rid of whole bureaucratic industries for processing tax. Inflation encourages spending which is good for the economy.
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I am warily a supporter of a national sales tax to replace the income tax, but there are a few problems with it:

- Making it non-regressive, let alone as close to progressive as our current system, is damned hard. FAIR Tax-style check-cutting probably isn't enough.

- The tax would have to be high enough that black market sales would be extremely tempting. It's comparatively easier to monitor and regulate ~150 million workers, each with a small number of "tax events" per year, vs. hundreds of billions of taxable transactions.

- A sales tax has the potential to be at least as complex and distorting as the income tax, and probably moreso. Politicians likely won't be able to resist the urge to make favored products cheaper (or cheaper for favored constituents), and the levers available will be much more direct, as you won't have to wait until April 15 to see, say, your electric car credit.
Cool, but one major advantage to airdrop is that it doesn't require a local network at all, so you can airdrop even without any wifi AP in range.
Pro video cameras record beyond 5K - eg. RED Dragon does 6K. Shortly (probably at NAB this year) we'll be seeing theater projectors and studio monitors at that resolution.
We're happy to consider international applicants who are willing to relocate to San Francisco!
> It seems there are hypothetical scenarios where your taxes could exceed your net worth.

That's trivially true for traditional income tax and pretty much any other tax, right?
Thank you so much for answering. Employees are the big point, but I have seen that fear even towards non-employees: dependent family members, partners…

As someone who’s been burned (hard) by asking that question and trusting the answer many times (Fool me once…), I see as a huge opportunity an audit company that could answer that question accurately, and reasonably well for early start-up: before and after hiring you and the all the profiles being considered.
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How many of those are typical medium to large size corporations?
What's the nightmare there? You need a single simple report (excel sheet?) from the mining pool and just total them up.

Hundreds or thousands of events is nothing special - if your income would come from selling stuff in a tiny shop, you'd likely have that many receipts to report.
I don't see how Box could possibly compete on pricing with Google storage, considering the high volume of hardware purchases Google is doing and high volume discounts it's getting.
I get the feeling that "crunching" is to blame for the bugs a lot more than the engine's newly-integrated scripting language.
I would not touch this with a 10-foot pole. A few weeks ago Larry Page was asked about "putting the user first" at TGIF. His solution to this problem is to go mobile only and dedicate 80% of the company's resources to mobile (at the expense of everything else)

Do you think Google is going to care about things like this with there new strategy? If you're business depends on any cloud provider do yourself a favor and go with AWS, you'll end up in a much better position then if you went with Google.

Disclaimer: I work for Google.
AFAIK You're taxed on receiving stock as if it were income. This is regardless of if you sell it today, tomorrow, or never.

After that you're only taxed on gains. If you sold on the day of reception, then your gains/losses are likely minimal. Eg, receive at 50 sell at 50 = 0 gains/losses. Sell at 51 and you have $1*N gains. Those gains are taxed at a higher rate until a year after the stock appeared in your account. I think the difference is ~10% (35 vs 25 or so).

So there are definite tradeoffs between holding for the year vs selling immediately. This part is no different than buying/selling on the stock market.

tldr; yes, but not exactly
@bcantrill is the SVP of Engineering at Joyent. I don't want to put words in his mouth, but I'm guessing he would say that Joyent is trustworthy. He would then tell you to use DTrace.
The trouble with a refund is maybe the person can't afford to pay (price of goods + taxes) in the first place. And it seems strange to collect sales tax, then redistribute the money as food stamps, to reduce the burden from the sales tax.
Wait, are both parties responsible for paying taxes in this case? In the normal case the party receiving payment for services rendered is the one that pays income taxes. Here both are providing and receiving a service at the same time.
Definitely something strange there. I'm using IBM RAD (Proprietary Eclipse with tons of custom plugins) at work and it's about 650-ish MB.
Here's the version hosted by the IRS:

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf

Linked from here:

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Virtual-Currency-Guidanc...

(@jstalin -- feel free to edit your post and I'll delete this one)
One of the axis is labelled "PDF" without an explanation for what that is. Did they just need a random graphic? Is this a Lisa Holst article?
Correct and one of the patterns is embedding a language. Maybe lua/js does not fit your criteria for whatever reason so it might be a good idea to know how to roll your own language.
Other notable facts that year : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(programming_language)...
So the U.S. government would fund itself just by printing money? If so, I don't think whoever had this idea has really thought it through.
I've only ever poked a little at Scala so my opinion isn't worth much, but what the OP says about operator overloading gels with my C++ coding experience. Everyone LOVES operator overloading when it's their own code doing the overloading. When you start dealing with other people's abuses of OOL, then it gets downright evil.
You mean catch up to where DevTools are right now, by the end of the year? Firefox's tools have been behind Chrome's for years, I really don't see how Chrome's will "fall behind". You know Chrome has people working on it too, right?
Yeah, I agree. Haskell has an almost unmatched capacity for abstraction and high-level thinking. This can be a double-edged sword, but it has made Haskell pretty much in a class of its own, and a very special language.
What about a hipster NoSQL DB called MongoDB?
True enough, but the article's main premise was that Google's products propelled Linux to the top of the OS heap. That only indirectly benefits FLOSS.
Wow. A member of the team addresses the longevity fears by assuring that a years notice would be given if the service were deprecated.

It's ... 12:55 PST ... do you still have a job ?
Books - any of the intro Clojure books, they're all good. I prefer the OReilly one but I think it's really a matter of preferred style.

Online - Clojure for the Brave and True, Clojure From the Ground Up are great series. Or try the ClojureBridge curriculum https://github.com/ClojureBridge/curriculum.

Practice problems - 4clojure, exercism.io, clojure koans

Editors - if you want to focus on Clojure not an editor, I'd suggest Nightcode or Light Table. If you like IDEs I'd recommend IntelliJ w/ Cursive or Eclipse Counterclockwise. If you already use Emacs, use CIDER. If you already use Vim, use Fireplace.
It's not reasoning per se, I've actually talked to both Google and Amazon about it. :)
To me, this isn't about useful code, it's about a terrifying journey back in time.
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Cry me a river. Try being a fan of Java on HN :o)
Call me cynical, but I tripped over this paragraph:

> For example, when Adora Cheung was starting Homejoy, she would work all day as a cleaner to learn the business, drive an hour back to Mountain View, stay up as late as she could coding, then drive back to San Francisco at ~3am to beat traffic, sleep in her car, and do it again. She also gave both her apartment and her car to early cleaners so that they could partner up with Homejoy. We don’t want to delude anyone about what running a startup is like—it’s a rational decision to decide you don’t want to start a startup.

What I read here is the idea that the only way to do a startup is no sleep (except a few hours in a car) and no life. 100% of your time is startup, startup, startup.

Who profits most from cultivating this image? The startup founder or the VC?

I seldomly see current founders / executives say that this is how they lead their lives, but somehow, VCs (like Altman) keep squeezing this image into their blog posts somehow.

I don't think it's some kind of evil plot, and I like the rest of the post: it's good to be reminded that everybody started somewhere and nobody's great from the start. But I just don't believe that you can't be a successful founder and still have a life/family/healthy lifestyle.
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Somebody in the Bitcoin ecosystem would get a lot of attention if they published an authoritative number for the average Bitcoin price in 2013, which would likely suffice for most taxpayers' needs for a reasonable and consistent valuation. (Ask a tax professional if you disbelieve that informal recommendation.)

This is one of the many equally valid options for e.g. calculating the yen/USD conversion if you happen to have many yen transactions which are approximately equally distributed throughout the year. (The Treasury Department has a handy web page listing yearly averages for reference, but you're allowed to use any number which is reasonable and consistent. One of the best reasons to keep good books is that you can try several reasonable methods and then consistently adopt the one which is most favorable to your interests. Welcome to taxes, if that being OK is counterintuitive.)
That's very rewarding to hear! Fortunately, we in computing seem to have a limitless supply of weird shit -- I still use DTrace every day, and I continue to be surprised (astounded, even!) by the weirdness. By the way, those in the unofficial church of DTrace may also be interested in mdb[1][2], our postmortem debugger -- and the other half of the dynamic duo for weird shit debugging.[3]

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Debugging-Production-Syst...

[2] http://illumos.org/books/mdb/

[3] http://dtrace.org/guide/chapter37.html
Either style would be fine as long as you check your preconditions.
We had a project mixing C++ CORBA servers with Perl ones, running on HP-UX. Not funny to debug.
It really depends. If Waze was large enough the founder may have been hands off from the engineering side at that point so he wouldn't have much value to Google at that point. Golden handcuffs are usually attached to the employees that have essential technical knowledge.
The most difficult thing in a startup is whatever your next big hurdle is.

Ultimately, yes, you need to build something people want - a lot.

But there are a series of hurdles along the way ranging from finding a co-founder/team, building the product, raising investment, acquiring users, monetization, etc.

I always used to think that future problems are good to have. It's true that they're good to have since it means you've crossed the previous hurdle. But they're just as difficult, if not more difficult, than prior hurdles.

This is why the mental model for startups is so important. You really do have to be relentless despite the numerous hurdles which will be placed in front of you.
Thanks! We have our work cut out for us in K-12 today, but hear frequently about the need in higher ed.
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