skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're still way off base. The only thing that matters is effective tax rate.

a) Income Taxes -- Here's the comparison of taxes on $100k in income: http://i.imgur.com/GR9czuF.png - USA has the 53rd highest effective rate. $100k too low? We actually move down to 55th if you look at the same chart for $300k in income: http://i.imgur.com/2hb7iuB.jpg

b) Corporate Taxes -- Some of the lowest effective rates in the OECD: http://i.imgur.com/ZdPCL9C.jpg

c) Estate Taxes -- "We pay 50%" -- No 'we' don't. The tax doesn't apply at all if you leave your money to a spouse, farms and other small businesses are exempt as assets, only assets over $5.3 million have any tax applied at all, and the rate is 40%. $5M estate when you die? Tax rate = 0%. $6M estate? Tax rate = 4.7%.

d) Tax enforcement is strict? Come on. The vast majority of tax cases ended up with the 'guilty' party settling and paying back taxes. A few end up with penalties on top (most penalties are negotiated away for prompt payment). The only people imprisoned are those willfully engaging in tax fraud.

2. High earner tax rates -- This is so wrong. High earner rates are at the same level they were in the 80's and 90's: http://i.imgur.com/fklDml0.png --- But most importantly, the '1%er' incomes have risen dramatically. If we were in a truly progressive tax system, shouldn't tax rates increase as incomes do?

3. Make sure you're comparing apples to apples.. the OECD and Heritage (who are no fan of taxes and would have every incentive to make the US look worse) show a completely different story than the one you're providing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenu...

They show the US at 26.9% of GDP for 2012, Canada at 32.2%, the UK at 39.0%, and France at 44.6%. If you've ever spent time in any of those countries, you'd surely see how absurd it sounds to indicate that we're taxed more than they are.

As for 'We're only 5 points lower than the UK'. Even if that was true, only 5 points would mean almost a trillion dollars in additional tax.
These aren't local-loop issues, it's core network.

Will they have issues with the local coax networks getting saturated in the coming years?

Sure -- they do anyway, which is why they are investing in DOCCIS 3 in all markets, and experimenting with coax/fiber hybrids in a few places. None of their equipment works forever, they refresh the networks in 5-10 year cycles.

The issue is that they are like an old-school bank or telephone company. They own infrastructure, and extract a fee for running it that doesn't fluctuate much. They want to be higher growth companies, but the only way to do that is to generate more revenue.

If you surrender and let them say "Netflix's bandwidth needs are soooo complicated, we must be compensated!", then tomorrow they'll say "VoIP and Gaming latency needs are soooo complicated, we need more $$$ for that too!"
Some great quotes, including "C is good for two things: being beautiful and creating catastrophic 0days"

I'm not really sure what the author's call to action is. Seems they have one in mind about demanding better software, but it's too vague to be actionable. Still a good read.
Indeed, my primary email address sits on a personal domain, is only used on 'respectable' websites, and historically has received very little spam.

The last few months have seen a substantial increase. Presumably linked to the eBay breach.
A Maintainable Style Guide
Interesting approach. I don't think I'll go down this route but thanks for the effort anyhow :)
Nest Recalls 440,000 Smoke Alarms
A factor that's usually forgotten is the developer's time. App Engine saves you A LOT of time compared to other solutions.

* Once you write your app the App Engine way, it scales automatically. You don't need to re-write periodically to accommodate growth, add replication, shard your data, ...etc.

* Data is replicated to several servers and data centers. You don't worry about losing data due to a hard drive crash.

* If an instance crashes, or a whole datacenter dies, your app keeps running.

Basically, measure how much time you send on non-code activities. App Engines saves you 90% of that.
Oh, I must have missed the breakdown by race. Did you have that handy?
I see you, Instapage CEO.
Also have a look at this one: http://www.football-data.co.uk/data.php
I believe it may have to do with a reverse bell-curve that seems to be prevalent in some areas. My High School was public and pretty good overall. However, we had basically 2 classes of people. The over-achievers and the under-achievers. The overs were on 3 varsity teams, had perfect grades, were on church youth group, Eagle scouts, etc all at once. The unders were high or drunk most classes. You pretty much were in AP classes or were getting D's; a reverse bell-curve. Now granted, this was a decade or more ago, but my little brother says its still the same mostly. But from this, I can understand the confusing narratives. You have some kids killing themselves [0](produced by one of the moms from the high school a hill over) and some kids with no future and they know it. Overs don't take classes with, play on teams with (due to GPA requirements), or hang out (if at all) with the Unders. Its tough to tease out a single statement because there are possibly 2 schools sandwiched on the same grounds.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_Nowhere
isn't this similar to weathersignal.com ?
Any chance the Netatmo weatherstation will be able to supply data in the future? Quite alot of them out there [1], and I would love to contribute.

[1]
http://www.netatmo.com/en-US/product/community/station#view2
If Nature Publishing group and the NIH were one thing
totally, at first the post mentions all the benefits that come from high paying top flight places like google, and those same benefits are actually designed to keep you working. Though instead of saying what they offer, they transition to the fundamentals of their business (structured communication and involvement with business practices)... so what sets this place apart from others?
Nest Recalls All 440K Protect Smoke Alarms
I think that zeroturnaround used to support Scala for free, and maybe they still do, so perhaps developers taking a zeroturnaround survey are not representative?

I was surprised by how well Scala did in the survey. Except for totally enjoying Martin Odersky's Scala course on Coursera, I personally don't use Scala very much. On the other hand I find Clojure, and to a lesser extent JRuby to be go-to tools for some projects.

I think Java 8 really is the elephant in the room. I started using Java 8 several months before the official release and it has brought some joy back to Java development.
Don't shelter websites usually have an up to date list of animals to adopt?
That seems like something that would need some kind of backend unless he's willing to update the list himself every week or whenever.
My guess would be "expected value," which is an entry-level topic in anything related to probability and randomness.
I built a template for hi that sets up stylish-haskell, a test suite, an executable, and much more. Check it out: http://taylor.fausak.me/2014/03/04/haskeleton-a-haskell-proj...
This is a pretty elementary observation that will only be a revelation to someone who learned things like Wordpress and Sass, let's say, last year. The more sophisticated tools exist to handle cases which are not covered by "just write some HTML and CSS". Maybe a client wants to update his own page in simple ways without writing markup?
While it's more pragmatic and covers broader ground, "Mind Performance Hacks" by Ron Hale-Evans has its first chapter on memory, and I can recommend it all around.
Spotify Hits 10 Million Paid Users. Now Can It Make Money?
We all understand that, but we all know that the boss is the face of his workers' shortcomings/winnings.
Firebase (YC S11) Is Hiring Mobile Developer Advocates in SF
While we don't have a spiffy logo, we made a tool for copying indexes around for testing/dev:

https://github.com/lytics/escp
I'm not trying to troll, though I have a response to your question.

There is a large percentage of decision makers who want to be able to update their own sites, despite barely being confident enough to use Microsoft Word. In actual practice, the odds that these decision makers will ever actually update their site is nearly 0%. However, despite this, they still want the capability. If I were to show them static HTML/CSS, I'd starve.

For me, Wordpress gives me an interface that I can show these people before they decide to hire a quack who uses Wordpress for everything.

I've sometimes thought of a business model where I'd do content updates within 24 hours, but that just seems insane.
This totally explains why everyone is moving to Oakland but, as you say, not a fair comparison.

Out of curiosity, how much would you estimate it costs to buy the house? Some quick math will let us figure out the rent vs. buy for your neighborhood.
I don't really understand the recall. As the quote below states, the problem can be solved via an update. I would wager a guess that the recall is to fix devices that people do not connect to Wifi/internet access (although this has to be a very tiny amount of purchases...who buys a Nest and doesn't connect it to the interwebs).

> "According to the CPSC, the issue can be repaired with an automatic update when the device is connected to a wireless network and linked to a Nest account."

Further, they "fixed" this issue by disabling Nest Wave. Now you have to hit the button to disable an alarm, just like any existing smoke detector.
Page doesn't load for me at all in mobile. Flagged.
I don't think I've ever seen an automatic firmware update referred to as a "recall" before.
Ah, good question. I should have been more clear. I meant futures/forwards on commodities and currencies, not stocks. Most investors don't use futures/forwards in the stock market unless they are hedging something. They just don't add value (if naked positions) compared to buying outright. Hopefully my comparison to poker is easier to see now.
You've watched the entire series, and you didn't like it?
> I don't understand your "build settings" comment. Why would there be any build settings originated from a library?

Your project might need to link against frameworks/libraries that the dependency requires. Your project might need certain search path. There are more, but I hope you understand what I mean now.

> As for "making too many assumptions", it sure would be nice if you could, say, explain yourself
> […]
> Your FAQ link doesn't explain anything

You hear “transitive dependencies” and you assume somebody is “doing something terribly wrong”. I’m saying that that’s not necessarily the case and in the FAQ item that I linked to I state that I’m against the scenario that you assumed.

The blog article that is linked to from that FAQ item goes into more detail about why it’s good to keep it to a bare minimum. (More on that below.)

> and that my wrongness upsets people

I wasn’t referring to you specifically, but rather to people on both sides (for/against) discussing this topic in general, which was the premise for me needing to ‘port’ that blog article. It was a side-node and I see how it could be taken the wrong way.

> To explain my side: third-party code tends to be of low quality and interact with other third-party code in interesting ways. When things go wrong, and they always do even with the best programmers and the best code, the more bad third-party code you have, the more you have to dig through to find and fix the fault. This objection largely goes away if you only use dependencies of extremely high quality

I already knew what you meant, this is not the first time I have this discussion :) But I should have been more explicit:

When we talk about dependencies that were created by a third-party, so _not_ dependencies per se, you are completely right and we are in full agreement. To quote from the blog post:

“Minimal dependency is not just about the number of libraries you use,
but also about the total amount of code you pull into your project.
Less code means less bugs.”

> but to be brutally honest, there aren't enough such projects out there to be able to make a mess from them

I doubt you checked all of them, but seeing as everyone makes mistakes in their own code, I think it’s fair to assume that there is a lot of code that could be improved.

Where we seem to differ, but tell me if I’m wrong, is that you in principle choose to not deal with any of them, probably because it wastes time (?). Whereas I prefer to choose a small one that does (almost) exactly what I need and (almost) is where I want it to be code-wise and then contribute to that project, instead of starting over.

To facilitate the mentality that I and many others have, it helps to have a tool and ecosystem that makes libs discoverable and ‘simple’ to build upon/together.
So if I want to stream Steam games to my TV, what sort of client hardware do I need on the TV end? Is there an inexpensive box I can buy and use for this purpose? The support articles are kind of vague on what the system requirements for clients are...
Thanks for the MWR reference. It's really great you've got people within that community so interested.

"...we've collected atmosphere data over a period of years, and we expect to find interesting climactic trends..."

Hmm, multi-year-scale trends in pressure data, as seen through a temporally-evolving sensor network subject to many kinds of extraneous variations (hardware changes, spatial sampling changes)? Color me skeptical on that one.

But that's typical HN "yes, but" skepticism. What you're doing sounds great and the case for weather is clear. Best wishes!
I wonder how much you can trust the software if its developer must choose a favorable jurisdiction? To my knowledge, developers of Git, PGP, GPG, Bittorrent, Tor, Bitcoin and Bitmessage live where they want because the software is designed to have no centralized links to anyone's private data. So there is no big company to go after.
Thanks for saying this!

It's worth pointing out the economic benefit to whoever invents the Next Big Thing -- if they make it compatible with existing conduit, it can just be pulled through replacing existing infrastructure.

It turns out the only irreplaceable part is the tubes.

Think datacenters, high density offices and apartments, Level 3's long haul links, etc. They will all be looking for a way to pull Next Big Thing like it was fiber.
Is this skill-based rule is why every game in a casino is so bad? The article is about how poker is starting to be considered a game of skill and so not under the restrictions of gambling, and thus legal generally. Is there a similar law that is the inverse of this that restricts casinos to games of non-skill instead of actually good games?

I mean, you'd never sit down with friends and play roulette or blackjack or any casino game just for fun, right? It's be incredibly boring because you have zero choices and without the thrill of money being on the line there is no reason to play them. I wouldn't even put them in the 'game' category. You may as well flip a coin over and over. Even card counting BlackJack is just game of not getting kicked out by the casino -- counting cards itself is simply memorizing a table and has no choices either.

I've always been mystified people can spend hours in a casino playing the least interesting games I could imagine.

Poker is the lone exception. Poker with friends for trivial stakes still good. I can think of plenty of games with similar variance so beginners would always do reasonably well against experts and they'd still be be a million times more interesting than everything else in the casino.

You'd think with all the money in the gambling industry that some effort would be put towards making the games themselves intrinsically better.

Could you open up a 'casino' anywhere that instead used games that were obviously skill based because it woudn't be considered gambling? Poker is one of the most popular casino games and it's also the only game of skill Why not more?

tldr: Why are Casino games so bad?
NET NEUTRALITY: what is it, and why we need it so very badly
by Bob Dorf
Finally, there’s a slight wisp of sanity in the FCC’s view on the proposal to create a high-priced “fast lane” on the Internet. Thursday’s New York Times reports, “Federal regulators appear to share one view about so-called net neutrality: It is a good thing.” While the battle is far from over, for sure, it’s perhaps the first positive sign that there’s hope for startups.<p>Why is net neutrality so important to startups? If CNN and Disney, Netflix and NBC can all pay Comcast and Verizon to “push” their content faster and ahead of companies without zillions, it puts any startup company at a severe, perhaps deadly disadvantage. It’s classic “big money runs big government,” and as undemocratic as life can get.<p>Roughly 60 days ago, on the World Wide Web’s 25th birthday(March 14 if you missed it) Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of “www,” cried out for “net neutrality,” without the prioritization that a recent Federal court case suggested was totally ok. p>Remember January 2011, when Egypt’s struggling government actually turned off the internet to stifle protests? Or China’s choking internet pipes to stifle free speech? Yes, founders, this is far more toxic than slowdowns of monthly users or page views!<p>To understand “net neutrality” just type “avc.com” into your browser, where Fred Wilson shows us exactly what happens.<p>We’re clearly not out of the woods yet. All that actually happened yesterday was the FCC’s agreeing to “open the debate.” This will bring big gun lobbying pressure that maims startups(not to mention oppressed folks striving to be heard. Their budgets are usually even smaller.) As the Times says, “before the plan becomes final, though, chairman Tom Wheeler, will need to convince his colleagues and an array of powerful lobbying groups that the plan follows the principle of net neutrality.”<p>
Write Hon. Thomas Wheeler, Chair, FCC, 445 12th Street SW, Washington DC, 20554.
The Lowly Thermostat, Now Minter of Megawatts
Although I'm a fan of not over complicating things; generally when you re-build something for someone and they see the potential of their new site then 1 of 2 things happens.

1, They let the site go stagnant again like their previous site.
2, They want to build more on top of their site.

I always build a site like a client is going to come back to me for more work. I never work on the expectation to build and forget.

In most cases, the client ends up coming back to me for more pages. I've generally built this in a CMS so I charge 1 hours work for something that takes me 30 minutes to sort out for them. There is a client service there where I am doing them a service. I make 30 minutes profit per page (at a min charge of 1 hours work at a time) and everyone is happy.

The beauty of this method is that I am not coming back to a site in a year and wondering how I built it. Did I put navigation on every page? Were there differences on some pages?

I say Yes to not over complicating, I say No to not over complicating at the expense of making it complicated again for yourself to modify in the future.

EDIT: Typo
The recall doesn't really make sense. They provided a software update (and instructions to the 1 or 2 people who don't connect to the internet) to fix the issue with Nest Wave. I assume any that are recalled will just be updated and resold. Yes, its about safety...but with the update you can disable the alarm on Nest the same way as any other smoke detector: press the button.
Best comparison I can make is that playing Dark Souls 2 on the PC over in-home streaming is comparable to playing it on a PS3.

Plus there is already some lag when playing online with friends and/or against an invader to begin with.

Any network lag you experience during multiplayer is going to far surpass any noticeable input lag IMO.
A prime example of some linkbait bullshit. They found a bug, they released a patch. This is not a recall.
How so? Would you use basic Unix utils like `cat` to build the final page? I guess you're essentially building a static site generator at that point. Albeit a very simple one with minimal dependencies.
The AP newswire article that various newspapers are picking up does indeed appear to be dated today, but it's not clear to me what the new part is. The firmware update in question was rolled out in early April; is this article belatedly about that, or is there something else?

edit: Oh, it seems the difference is that it's now officially a safety recall, rather than just a voluntary update, which makes a legal difference, e.g. it's illegal to resell unpatched units, and consumers can opt for a refund [2].

[1] Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7526682

[2] http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2014/Nest-Labs-Recalls-to-Rep...
Rembrandt Prints Online – The Morgan Library and Museum
Some shelters outsource that aspect of the site to something like http://www.petfinder.com
I did this exact same thing on a friend's small business website. There was some ASP code to put the business's contact info in several different places, but her new hosting didn't support ASP. The answer was to just copy and paste the contact info into the 5 pages that needed it. It's trivial to look at every page on the site and make sure they're all correct, so why bring a whole apparatus into the equation?
It's widely believed that Sen. Leahy saw no pressing need to move forward. That's because two recent Supreme Court decisions might well have solved 80% of the problem, by giving federal trial judges much more latitude in awarding attorneys' fees to prevailing parties in "exceptional" patent-infringement cases, as long permitted by the patent statute itself.

Ah, but what does "exceptional" mean? In that regard, the Federal Circuit had been interpreting the word very strictly, in a manner that essentially tied the hands of trial judges. The Supreme Court cut the fetters. Here's a crucial quote from one of the Supreme Court opinions, excerpted by law professor Dennis Crouch [1] (extra paragraphing and bullets added by me):

<excerpt>

[A]n “exceptional” case is simply one that stands out from the others with respect to[:]

+ the substantive strength of a party’s litigating position (considering both the governing law and the facts of the case) or

+ the unreasonable manner in which the case was litigated.

District courts may determine whether a case is “exceptional” in the case-by-case exercise of their discretion, considering the totality of the circumstances [and without any] precise rule or formula for making these determinations.

</excerpt>

Importantly, the Court also held that on appeal, the trial judge's determination of the exceptional-case issue is reviewable only for "abuse of discretion." That is, the appeals court is not permitted to substitute its judgment for that of the trial judge, just because the appellate judges might have decided the case the other way, unless the trial judge's action was clearly unreasonable.

[1] http://patentlyo.com/patent/2014/04/discretion-attorney-liti...
Show HN: A New Breadboard with no wires or jumpers
I'm guessing Sketch or some similar drawing tool and then copy/paste. It's a fairly simple graphic.

http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/
Also consider that software other than games is sold on Steam as well: http://store.steampowered.com/software/
Your comment seems to imply that you need the best developers to make a successful company. Or that I consider myself to be a great dev. ;)
http://www.bonkersworld.net/forgetting/
> I'm both a subscriber of HBO and of Prime, and I'll actually be using this. You see, I have a Roku...

I'm in a similar situation, but I use a Chromecast instead of a Roku. Why oh why Amazon doesn't implement Chromecast support baffles me so much. I would spend a good amount of money on their streaming content that way. Instead, my money goes into the Google Play store.