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> That's not the crux of his argument whatsoever, it's just a random statement being held up as a straw man.

Let me rephrase: The quoted statement is the closest thing he comes to as an argument on point. The rest of it is falsities and random talking points with no relation to the question.

> Except it's capital gains, intentionally taxed at a lower rate than income.

It's taxed at a lower rate because it's double taxation. It's the political middle ground between not having double taxation and having it at the full ordinary income rate.

> The first tax is levied on corporate income, the second tax is capital gains which is taxed on the individual level.

They're the same tax. It's all income tax.

Consider what happens when both entities are corporations. When Ford makes income, they pay income tax on it. If the income was from selling cars they would have paid the ordinary income rate. If it was because Ford owns shares of Exxon and Exxon issued a dividend, it would be the dividend rate. In either case, when Ford issues what's left over after paying its income taxes as a dividend, its shareholders have to pay income taxes on it again. And it's the same tax (again) whether the shares in Ford are owned by Henry Ford or Apple, Inc.

> That's only true in the US. The majority of G20 countries that don't have capital gains + corporate income tax use a VAT to achieve the same ends.

VAT and sales tax are economically equivalent, VAT is just collected at different points in the supply chain (which makes tax evasion more difficult). VAT is only collected on the increase in value over the cost of the raw materials (the "value added"), i.e. the portion of the sale price that hasn't already been taxed.

> Look at effective tax rates for individuals and corporations based in the US. We're one if the lowest taxed countries in the 1st world.

What does that have anything to do with double taxation?

Note also that the reason effective tax rates in the US are so low is the massive amount of tax avoidance that occurs. The nominal rates that US corporations would pay if they didn't all hold their profits in foreign subsidiaries are some of the highest in the world -- which is highly discriminatory against smaller non-international US corporations that can't play the same tricks.
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From a desktop Linux perspective, you're totally right. However, if anything is evolving fast, it's the recognition that desktop Linux has never worked and will never work, and is in any case the extreme minority case in modern Unix systems (which, population-wise, are essentially all embedded systems, servers and phones).

From that perspective -- the perspective of systems which boot once, and boot again maybe next year if the UPS didn't keep them up when the power flickered, and the perspective of the systems where there are definitely not usb drives or random pieces of unknown crap plugged into user accessible ports, the idea of hotplug at all is the least of concerns, and the idea of boot time is laughable.

Essentially, it seems like systemd is chasing Windows of 16 years ago, where computers took 5 minutes to boot Windows, where device drivers and such were a mess, and things were constantly entering and leaving systems.
It's amazing what the government can do when they have all those corrupt bank accounts.
The issue is that GPS is not as accurate as a landline port assignment lookup. 20 years ago, if a toddler dialed 911, the 911 operator knew what building or floor a call came from.

That's just fundamental. It's not surveillance state stuff.

At one time, this problem was limited to a smaller population of cellphone users. Most people in one of these horrible car accident situations, etc didn't have access to a cellphone, so they just died.

Now, landlines are a thing of the past, so calls from office buildings, homes, etc are coming in without actionable information.
That's not all that bad, when you think about it. You get to work on a piece of software that is probably older than you and has been hardened over decades, your entire set of responsibilities is light maintenance. This should leave you enough time to also work on other projects, preferably open-source ones and hone your skills in preparation for the day that software gets replaced.
Yeah, in hindsight Facebook looks especially clever in terms of how they managed their initial roll-out. Going university by university meant that they got to gradually ramp things up infrastructure-wise, and created the I-want-it-because-I-can't-have-it effect that I think a lot of companies go for with phased roll-outs, invitations, etc., but because any given school would get it all at once, as soon as your school got it, most of your peer group would also get it at the same time, which avoided the chicken-and-egg problem Google+ experienced.
I wish I was smart enough to document things as thoroughly as she did while debugging this problem. The solution was simple and wouldn't really have been a very exciting read, but since she was smart enough to document the process she was able to produce a really meaningful post that shows off the fruits of great documentation and sleuth work.
I think maybe, just maybe there can be an option between only the rich can have it and none can have it, i.e. all can have it, some sooner than others.
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Thank you for your time.

I am a CS student in the early stages of my Senior Project. It is a web application based around resumes for undergraduate Computer Science and Software Engineering students. I am currently developing my idea and working on some preliminary design mockups.

I could really use the help of any professional tech recruiters or anyone who reviews resumes from students. Would anyone be willing to answer questions and/or provide feedback via email?

To clarify: This will not be resume advice for me or anyone else. It will be a conversation on my specific web app and student resumes/the recruitment process in general.
You are right that loose coupling carries a performance hit. Certainly, if your only goal is to increase the boot speed of a desktop Linux box, then systemd makes a lot of sense. That said, there are many other goals and many other kinds of boxes, which, among other reasons, is why the tide is turning against systemd.
Seriously?

Given a problem that will make your life less pleasant, your answer is "let people die. My comfort is more important than their lives"?

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/some-assembly-required/2...
I think it would also be reasonable to place some blame on telephone company monopolies/duopolies who are in a comfortable, profitable place and resistant to change.
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So much that I wrote this: http://scpike.com/uniqify/

(I know you can do filter => unique only => copy somewhere) but it's stupidly slow.
Not familiar with Datomic. Does it mean now you can reuse querying code on the server to real Datomic and on the client (in browser) to DatomicScript?

If so, it could lead to some features like latency compensation and stubs similar to Meteor's MongoDB and MiniMongo. That would be cool.
That is 100% true, but that isn't a fair comparison.

Peer review should be open, scientists shouldn't be allowed to choose who reviews/doesn't review their papers, and the process by which selection is done needs to be more rigorous.

My suggestion, open it up to everyone in the field and make sure that the reviewers are identified. Anonymous peer review has the same effect that anonymous posting on internet forums has, people become e-thugs or just say things that they shouldn't ever say because they know the reader doesn't know who they are.

This sounds like it doesn't happen, but you would be surprised that the stuff that happens behind closed doors. Scientists are people, people are flawed (which is fine), but that shouldn't hold back scientific discoveries.
I think the parent was making the more general point that, when people become increasingly skeptical of some form of government power (surveillance in this case), it is natural and expected for the government to highlight the useful aspects of that power while downplaying or hiding the negative aspects. People are busy and thinking about these things imposes a cognitive load, so many will not distinguish between 911 emergency location technology and the technology of bulk phone surveillance. Since we've already seen the latter part of the government's marketing strategy (downplay the bad stuff), it wouldn't be surprising if the government used articles like this to highlight the benefits.
That's a web-based version of https://lekensteyn.nl/apk-downloader/ , and according to that site it adds spyware. Considering that the site you linked has pop-up ads for dubious downloads, that seems likely.

In any case, both of those still require having the Android device registered with a Google account.
Andy Warhol Amiga Digital Art Discovered
What's interesting is the style of writing - very short sentences, words of few syllables. https://readability-score.com/ indicates it has a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level	of 7.9 - it read fast, and I thoroughly enjoyed the journey it took us on.
What about the suffering of the employee? They have bills to pay, rent or mortgage to pay, and food to buy. 2 weeks paid notice when you're fired means you have to scramble to get a job. The company have months of time to play for when to fire you, but you only get 2 weeks before you stop getting money? No way.
>they use signal arrival time and round-trip time

Do you have a source for this? As far as I know this is not true. They use signal strength and knowledge of cell tower antenna locations, but not time of flight of the radio signal, as GPS does.
The cryptocoin situation is an endless source of hilarity. It's so crazy. Just this wild west of speculation, massive fortunes rising and plummeting, millionaires minted overnight, all the shady characters, etc. What efforts are in progress to catalog and package these stories for posterity?
Can he take Google+ with him!?
That was the conclusion you came to on the basis of the OP's remarks? What about free access to birth control methods? Are you aware that fertility control is a huge political issue in the U.S., complete with the occasional murder and terrorist attacks on doctor's offices?

Unless, of course, you regard birth control as "killing".
Because any more time the person remains there is giving information to a potential competitor (and there's no point staying if you don't want to be there anymore)

I think Marissa Meyer gave Google a half hour notice.
I sent a package of branded stuff to someone once - stuff I bought out of my own pocket at the company store - and got upbraided for sending such shitty gifts. Won't make that mistake again.

I also worked for a startup where we had a handful of users that really went above and beyond reporting bugs. We sent them $25 amazon gift cards as thanks - the feedback was we were being cheap. One of those gift cards has yet to be spent, years later.
Please do not repost the same articles repeatedly. Please especially do not delete and repost. That's an abuse of deletion.

Stories are killed as dupes when they've had a significant discussion on HN in about the last year.
Elon Musk's opinion the concept( not this one in particular though ).

http://youtu.be/J_af0ow1__E?t=43m12s

Let me tell you one of my pet peeves: space solar power. Okay, the stupidest thing ever. If anyone should like space solar power, it should be me. I got a rocket company and a solar company. I should be really on it, ya know. But it's like, super obviously, not going to work because, ya know, if you have solar panels - first of all, it has to be better than having solar panels on Earth, so then you say, okay, solar panel is on-orbit, you get twice the solar energy - assuming that it is out of Earth's shadow - but you've gotta do a double conversion. You've gotta convert it from photon to electron to photon, back to electron. You've got to make this double conversion, so, okay, what's your conversion efficiency? Hmm. All in, you're going to have a real hard time even getting to 50%. [The solar cells are better.] It does not matter, put that cell on Earth then. See, that's the point I'm making. Take any given solar cell, is it better to have it on Earth, or is it better to have it on orbit? What do you get from being in orbit? You get twice as much sun - best case - but you've got to do a conversion. You've got to convert it the energy to photons - well, you have incoming photons that go to electrons, but you - you've gotta do two conversions that you don't have to do on Earth, which is you've got to turn those electrons into photons and turn those photons back into electrons on the ground, and that double conversion is going to get you back to where you started, basically. So why are you bothering sending them to bloody space. "I wish I could just stab that bloody thing through the heart." BTW - electron to photon converters are not free and nor is sending stuff to space. Then it obviously super doesn't work. Case closed. You'd think. You'd think case closed, but no. I guarantee it's gunna come up another ten times. I mean, for the love of God.
I thought GnuTLS would have been the alternative to OpenSSL but apparently it fell short.
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> It is a widely assumed belief that I have never seen backed up with hard facts.

‘Privacy’ or even ‘Data’ are not even remotely well defined enough for those statements to have a clear meaning. However, many people have felt betrayed when using Facebook.

Some of it — potentially the majority of cases — have to do with the fact that the service is new, and the lack of understanding led to many context collapses: there are many situations to consider, but all involve three people knowing each other, one having authority over a second, but not a third. Classic case involve a teenage child, a parent and a common friend or relative. The relative reveals inadvertently something. This is far more disempowering to non-users mentioned by friends, or whose photo was taken.

Facebook was openly careless about those cases, manu legitimate — Mark Zuckerberg went up to publicly justify his disregard by saying that people shouldn’t have things to hide to their friends, a callous statement if there is any.

There are many more problematic cases, where the person feeling betrayed was attentive and knowledgable, but Facebook changed the way they handle privacy without clear warning, and something that wasn’t became visible. This is the case of profile pictures, for instance. You have important social information there; some people assumed that their photo with their significant other would remain as private as their set it, but that changed, without recourses. There are many more similar issues, related to poor explanations of updates.

There is no way the wordings chose for most updates came form considerate product managers.

There are more examples, generally to the overall attitude: ‘better ask for foregiveness than permission’, rephrased as (and plastered all over their headquarter as essential values): “Move fast, break things”. When it comes to privacy, you can’t get the cat back in the bag.

Company motto, public statements by the Founder-CEO, presentation of privacy-impacting updates… that’s plenty of proof for who would take five minutes to care looking.

I know for a fact that people at Facebook care about those — just they haven’t cared enough, repeatedly; and those cases where well documented.
The comments on the Secret app[1] speculate that he might be joining Mozilla, Github or the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. What if he rejoins Microsoft instead?

[1] https://www.secret.ly/p/wxdnkdhjnsocjxwnizhdpacufc
I used impact.js for a while. Really solid framework for building web games.

I'm not sold on Ejecta though. I spent some time with it and found it debilitatingly difficult to debug issues, especially performance problems.
Yes, inheritance is obviously the easiest way to be very rich. However, it's not the most common way. Far from it, in fact. Only 30% of those on the Forbes 400 list, for example, grew up in wealthy families.
Agreed, I think the Linux foundation can fix this issue along with others by financially contributing to OpenSSH, OpenSSL, LibreSSL and other tools that we use (iptables, OpenSMTPD, Postfix, Dovecot, etc).
Correction: A Picture is Worth 84.1 Words
That's a shame really. Recording history shouldn't be motivated by politics and other peoples' sensibilities being offended. Regarding Aleister Crowley being 'The Wickedest Man on Earth', not even close. If you've ever read M. Scott Peck's 'People of the Lie', then you know what I mean.
I can't help but feel that this could also be written as "How secure are Ruby and Rails apps? About as secure as all other apps."

In my experience, vulnerabilities are pretty much endemic to software that has not been hardened by experts.
Can a low-res digital image really capture Warhol's unique gestural moves? I won't even go there but my personal opinion is Warhol was more a conceptual artist who just happened to be "on the scene" in NY around the time modern art was on the way out and post-modern (more conceptual) was on the way in.

I'm more passionate about modern art, which I think is more in line with the "refined aesthetic choices" you're talking about. I think Warhol was better known for his ideas, he just happened to know how to draw/paint to execute what was on his mind. I can't read your mind but your "random scribbles" comment caught my attention. Not speaking to you specifically, but I think with the right teacher anyone can see there's more to so-called random scribbles aka abstract art. Even the nutty Jackson Pollock who made his own rules, I got to respect he trained under Thomas Hart Benton, etc.

I think most American universities teaching drawing/painting (fine art) today, the professors are students of students of students of Hans Hoffman (directly or indirectly) who was himself a student of Picasso, Matisse and other undeniably talented giants. Personally, not a huge fan of Hoffman's work but if I had a time machine, I would want to be there in one of his classes. I don't think the secrets are closely guarded, it's more like esoteric nuance. If you read old graphic design books, you'll find some of the concepts underpinning great abstract paintings. If I find time, maybe I'll post YouTube videos explaining how to see abstract art through the eyes of an artist.

Warhol might have agreed with you. I believe he started out drawing ads. He was definitely thinking about commercial popularity throughout his career. I think
"popularity" was the subject of much of his art. Maybe because he felt so unpopular early in his life/career. I think most artists would tell you, the best art is not concerned with commercial popularity, but that's debatable I suppose. I believe the truly great "random scribbles" reach toward truths and concepts that can't be expressed well with words, or the words may not yet exist.
That's pretty amazing, thank you for posting this.
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https://twitter.com/richhickey/status/355394063165440000
Prejudice takes many forms, and those who forget their own personal responsibility for the destructive effects of judgement, incur the final injustice. The people we choose to 'hate' and 'despise' - for religious, political, industrial, or .. other .. reasons - end up being a part of the universe that we isolate ourselves from.

The universe is bigger than you. Get over it. Make friends. Prejudice against the lives of others is a little step closer to the grave.
Please send problems with accounts to hn@ycombinator.com.
There plans to rename the service Google- reflecting to the lack of interest of the public using the service even after forcing youtube users to have an account.
I could see a space solar power station being used to transfer power to ships traveling to the Moon or Mars. Using a laser (or whatever) for energy transfer would be much more efficient in space.
Wouldn't a structure this large be inevitably hit by debris, whether from our own junk or stuff from elsewhere in space?

They'd need a gundam squadron to protect it too.
He has a point though, Apple and other deep-pockets should in someway contribute and/or endorse software they use since ages and donate some $$ to Open/Net/Free BSDs.
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Yes, "he" built Google+ from nothing.
Google Glass is now available to everyone
It's neat (if not alarming) to see security metrics visualized like this. Nice work!
Wow. Ok I would have gone in person.
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It's still showing up on the URL that OP linked to.
Right. Or he could join Baby Gap, Toyota or the banking company Wells Fargo. I mean come on, those are pretty vastly different types of places ;)
Well, I hope at least that the privacy policy finally changes to comply with EU privacy laws.
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How Iran's Gadget Bloggers Became Victims of the Revolutionary Guard
The feds usually play on the god and country crap rather than actual cash.
When I tell people how important and how epically flawed the current system of academic journal publishing is I'm often met with blank stares. Can you imagine any other industry where the people doing most of the work aren't compensated financially and conglomerates make most of the profit.

You can try to make parallels to the record industry at its worse, but those people at least receive advances.

And with journal publishing, it's not some random niche. This is where "new knowledge" becomes validated. You're not hearing talking heads on television mentioning some new thing mentioned in a first year college textbook – instead you hear "a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine."

Scholars need to and are adopting ways to take scholarly communication into their own hands. A sociology journal called Sociological Science, with an editorial board out of Stanford and Cornell has recently made a buzz by taking the process into their own hands: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/group-sociologist...

(Full disclosure: this is a problem my startup works on)
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from my recent Human Genetics course, I learned quite a lot about what cancer actually is. It helped a great deal to understand why there's no "cure" and treatments are usually brute force and imprecise.

Cancer is basically a generic term for the loss of a cell's division control cycle - the cell starts to divide uncontrollably, forms tumors, metastasizes, causes neovascularization to feed itself, etc. This loss of control can happen for so many different reasons related to the quantities and ratios of proteins synthesized that each cancer is like a separate class of disease that needs its own treatment.

It's the same reason that there's no single fix for "car is broken". Except our understanding of this car is orders of magnitude more limited than one that we designed ourselves.
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Why are private universities subject to the FOIA? Or am I wrong in thinking that Oxford and Cambridge are private?
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If you have access to a rooted Android device with Play, you can pull the APKs out of the /data/app directory with adb. Not all apps are usable this way, they could be locked to a Play account, but I don't think many free apps bother with that.