skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. You read about money sitting in the Caribbean because the US tax system is broken and tries to tax money made anywhere in the world (this makes no sense, and no other country does this).

BUT .... that doesn't mean they avoid the US taxes! For Google the money ends up sitting in Bermuda: not a place noted for its abundance of cheap colo space or computer scientists. Obviously it isn't going to stay there because there's nothing to spend it on. Instead the money sits offshore until something more useful is found.

What US companies want to happen is that the US Govt puts in place a "tax holiday" in which they temporarily stop being idiots and use the same tax rules as the rest of the world, thus allowing those companies to move the money earned abroad back into the USA without it being taxed twice (once by the country where it was earned and once by Uncle Sam). This has happened before so they think maybe it'll happen again. Then they can spend it on building fancy offices and hiring splurges, all of which yields taxable income inside the USA.

What actually tends to happen is that politicians, even the ones that acknowledge the sense of this, don't like being seen to give big companies a tax break. So they prevaricate and eventually the money gets spent abroad in places like Europe or Asia, where double taxation treaties work properly. At that point the money gets taxed via payroll taxes, employee income taxes, VAT etc. Own goal for America.

Still ... the money doesn't sit there because they want to avoid US taxes. They generally want to avoid double taxation, and then spend the money saved inside the USA.
The TSA released a statement about it today

http://www.tsa.gov/press/releases/2014/07/06/enhanced-securi...
Sorry for the late reply.

> The ASA is an industry body -- it's not a government regulator.

I was surprised by this. I thought they were a stronger regulator. But a simple bit of reading of their website shows that while they have some teeth for broadcast adverts (because they cooperate with OFCOM and various Trading Standards organisations) they lack teeth for anything else, even though they claim to cover online ads. Thus, they have a list of non-compliant websites who continue to make misleading claims.

Thank you for pointing that out!
I wonder how accurate is a fitbit in measuring distances.
I recall PG wrote somewhere that Perl looks like a cartoon character swearing.
Why isn't Perl listed?
I guess the news is, a. don't forget your chargers! b. don't forget your power adaptors! c. remember to charge! d. make sure your device doesn't break in some repairable-but-for-the-moment-powerless way!

Otherwise, that Macbook Air is going to have to go in the bin along with the bottle of water and the toothpaste sonny jim, and there's nowt you can do about it.

(Wonder how long that will last - possibly until some celeb has their over-worked iPhone taken off them, and causes a social media stink).
Funny that within two posts we've gone from "Why isn't GV more transparent" to "Why is GV so transparent".

I agree that from a UX standpoint it isn't great, but I think it achieves two things:

1. gives a hint at what you receive when you're a GV-funded company. Something for potential companies to think about.
2. stops any conspiracy theories about the "Secret Training Videos Google Won't Let You See".
Is it so hard to agree with the idea that you do in fact live in a different reality? You and I are naturally blind to what women experience. Doing deductive reasoning is impossible -- the best tool in developing a holistic understanding of sex-based systems of inequality is: listening to what women have to say. And doing inducive reasoning based on that data that you didn't have before. This is the case generally, not just in software engineering.
Wouldn't this be in relation to scanning/reading data on the devices rather than explosives? Having to charge a phone or laptop would increase time taken for processing as you'll need to charge the item momentarily whilst you interface with it.. I highly doubt they open up phones/laptops to connect directly to the HDD..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28185149

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-restricts-uncharged-electronic-d...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/06/tsa-cellphones-...

http://news.sky.com/story/1296197/us-restricts-electronic-de...

http://www.tsa.gov/press/releases/2014/07/06/enhanced-securi...

http://www.dhs.gov/news/2014/07/02/statement-secretary-johns...
> I just want to mention that beat is talking about phase alignment between identical signals, which our perceptual network is incredibly sensitive to.

I wouldn't go that far. If you have two signals emitting from physically separate location and they are out of phase, you just get comb filtering. Is it audible? It can be, but its not the phase you're hearing, it's the drastic frequency notching in amplitude. More importantly, you're going to get comb filtering no matter what you do with a multi-speaker setup. Just move your head a couple inches out of the ideal sweet spot equidistance from each speaker and you'll have created an effective phase shift and get the same type of comb filtering. In other words even with a theoretically perfect pair of time aligned speakers with perfect cross-overs, you'll still get comb filtering if you take various measurements around the listening area. Just moving the mic 4 inches can have drastic effects on the measured response. Incidentally if you've ever seen someone taking a measurement with a sound meter and rhythmically moving the mic around in a strange fashion, they are doing that to try to even the effects of comb filtering.

> This is a critical aspect of crossovers- since they contain the same signal, any phase differences between the intersecting components are easy to pick up by the ear and very difficult to measure since it won't show up as a frequency or amplitude differential.

If you're taking a measurement in the crossover region and there is a phase shift between the drivers you most certainly will see an effect in amplitude as you'll have at least partial wave cancellation. You can certainly take measurements in locations what won't show this, but that is always true. You can take measurements of a perfectly time aligned speaker that make it look like it has phase issues too, if you put the mic in the right spot.

Likely the largest improvement you get from time alignment of the drivers in a multi-way speaker is the ability to control vertical lobe tilting, but you can 'fix' that issue with MTM layouts without time aligning the drivers as well.
In my opinion the best arguments against inheritance were written by Richard Gabriel in his book Patterns of Software:
http://dreamsongs.net/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf
He is a sysadmin...
Or if you're even a wee bit sophisticated, get a smaller battery pack that'll last for 15 minutes and pack your explosives into the remaining 90% of battery space? How does the TSA not think of these blindingly obvious things?
Distributed big balls of mud
Yes, they compete for the entertainment budget of households. The links below might help:

http://www.thesimpledollar.com/how-the-average-american-fami...

http://airlockalpha.com/node/9860/how-americans-spend-their-...
Simple news feed with Redis
Thank you for your reply! I found it well thought and I'll surely memorize some bullet points for my later career.

I've been very humble with my pricing so far because people don't really take me seriously if I try to pull that kind of wages. You see, I have neither a degree or the age which would do the trick. Past work is kind of there, but instead of URLs the clients I've met in person just want to know whether their software can be done. Peers my age are working in labor jobs for the normal 9to5 and some even brag how they can pull out 17 hours of work in 24 hours. I've noticed that people treat software development with the very same idea, where the young have the endurance to pull out sick work hours and where more hours equals more work done. People seem to be afraid of hiring someone who says their hourly wage is starting from 40€, especially when the person can't, thanks to their lack of experience, say how many hours they'll eventually need. Therefore, for the sake of getting any clients in my first steps of lone entrepreneur, I've decided to stick with the lump sum.

It really is a pity that I can't get around keeping the work hours as my own business, but so far I've found it easier than introducing them completely new way of working, where part of the time is spent on thinking instead of doing work. Until the latest incident, I had never even crossed the idea that the client may think they are getting screwed, thinking that the work they asked was really just that easy to do (because I was left with so little hours).

But about the price negotiation, yes, I agree with you and I'll not let them do that. Our negotiations had no agreement on the hours I should spend, so they have no reason to drive the price down because of that.

I'm going to be honest with you and tell you that I haven't made a single black-on-white agreement on what defines "done". Instead, the idea has been that I'll remain as the lone owner of the software, with the exclusive rights to re-sell it. I'm currently looking for the chance of turning the software into a SaaS, in which the original client has agreed on helping me by referring businesses from the same field to use it. So basically, I'm charging the original client one year worth of the subscription I've been planning on selling it for. By so, I'm basically securing at least one customer for the service for one year. At the same time, I'll basically launch a service which has proven to have at least some kind of demand. Plus I get free marketing from the original client on the same run.

You see, if they would be able to refer even two customers, I'd be glad, as that's the turning point where it's financially sane for me to get a LLC for my programming work (that's a huge thing for me in a country where you lose most of welfare state's benefits by starting one). Everything above that is really just a bonus. But should I get 20 recurring sales, I'd already make enough money that I could live (in theory) the rest of my life with the money I make from the product per month. You could say it's a risky shot, but as long as I can do the thing I like and get paid for it, I'll keep choosing the risk.
"perhaps we should assume that belief in God is inborn?"

Why wouldn't we? If humans had zero inborn aptitude for religious (mystical, rithualistic) feelings, how could religions arise?

Assuming humans are inborn with christianity is baseless; but assuming humans are inborn with religious drive is logical.
1. 115kg Bench press (5 sets x 5 reps)

2. 150kg Squat (5 sets x 5 reps)

3. 40km bike ride at avg pace of 30km/h

4. 15% body fat (currently 21-24%)

Been following beginner strength routine from www.stronglifts.com (3 days a week) and reading/looking to implement Lyle Mcdonald's booklet on Flexible Dieting (may give RFL a try for a boost).
Thanks! I agree that just building something is a great way to get familiar with this stuff. I'm not looking for someone to say "this is how you build SOA" (which is probably why I found the rails book lacking) but rather "here is some complex challenge which I solved in this way, and here are the things we would have done differently in a re-write". Getting started with microservices is easy - there's probably more code to write in the deployment / testing / monitoring / logging plumbing than there is in your entire first service - but I'm sure there are subtle patterns that others have found that'd be good to know.
Ask HN: 20k In Debt from company collapse, what are my options
Long story short the company that I was a founder in collapsed and after it was all said in done I am in debt ~20k to other companies for contracts and such. When we signed up for these products with other companies I just used my name and address when signing up just for simplicity sake. But, and here is the big but I think. On all of the contracts when they ask for the "Company" I always put the company that I was working for. But now that the company has collapsed it seems I am liable for the amount due as the companies are threatening legal action against me. What are my options? The last thing I want to happen is to be sent to collections and destroy my credit. I currently do not have the 20k to pay them out. I am looking at getting a second job and then make monthly payments until the contract is paid off. Any other possible options?
I want to achieve a BMI within a healthy range, as I am slightly overweight. I'm not sure if I can stabilize that within 3 months, but right now I'm modifying my diet and bicycling as transportation whenever it's applicable, I'm starting to think that this may be inadequate.

I'm not sure if I'm doing it correctly though, and it's tough to find people to help when so many of them are just quacks and amateurs. You often get "nutritionists" when you're looking for dietitians.
I'm actually much closer to novice with those than my OHP/BP, which are very far behind.

I think that's normal... At least I'd like to think so as I'm on the same boat. (and for me it's that squatting and deadlifting are FAR ahead).
Hit elite as a 114 and 148 lb powerlifter (already have elite totals for 123 and 132). Also did a 60km erg piece years ago and I'm forever bitter I never did the century, so getting back into endurance as well.
My method:

1. Take a section of their C.V.

2. Ask about their strongest points in that section.

3. Then go deep on their strongest point.

4. Note their ability to follow your deep dive

5. Repeat this multiple times

6. Review notes:

- The more sections they have where they can dive deep to a reasonable level the more senior they are.

- The deeper they can go, the more difficult an actual problem in the prospective job can be that you can throw at them.

So far, this gave me a very accurate picture of their skill set.
You can calibrate them (by measuring your stride length) to be fairly accurate for walking. After a 5k run mine is usually out by about 10-20% compared to GPS, but I put that down to my running stride being longer.
Not that it matters (since none of these "security" measures pass anything even close to a cost-benefit analysis anyway), but you could imagine that phones or laptops would make particularly good bomb hiding places for a certain kind of bomb, because they're already packed with electronics, so it would be easy enough to replace the battery with plastic explosives and hide a detonator among the rest of the electronics there.

Of course, as people have pointed out, you could rig the battery itself to explode, or if you just need to turn the thing on, you could replace 95% of the battery with explosives and just leave enough power to turn it on and off. Like I said, it doesn't make any real sense, but there's a superficial argument for doing it this way.
Your comments that "women at the mall seem to like jewelry" eminates the implicit assumption that this is a natural trend that will persist deterministically (as in, women who don't like jewelry are natural outliers). I am merely inquiring what that assumption is actually based on.
Ithaca is full of hippies, it doesn't count.

/s (GREETINGS, MY ITHACAN BROTHER)
Great life goal! Tons of respect for ya!

I'm 24 so I don't know what's coming, but what's physically different about being 40 than 30? Did you exercise when you were younger with faster/more results? Just curious to understand how people progress at different stages in their lives.
Nowhere in there does it say that "true and verifiable information" is exempt.
I pratice http://leangains.com by Martin Berkhan. I found it was a little complicated at first, so I made it into an app --> http://leanguideapp.com . I follow it pretty regularly and have gotten great results. It's a combination of carb cycling, max lifts and small reps, and an eight hour eating window.
But that's arbitrary.

If the Luxembourg company opens up a sales office in Sweden, but it has only 4 employees and there are 500 in Luxembourg, does that suddenly mean all those companies sales to Sweden get taxed twice? If so why would they ever open up an office there? Why not just insist customers fly to Luxembourg and visit their office instead?

Governments are whipping up a mob over this issue and aren't thinking it through. Does Google really need an office in London? No. One exists there because, in the absence of other factors, it makes sense to hire internationally so you can access good employees who might not want to live in America (or vice versa). But if the first Google employee who started work in the UK suddenly meant ALL money coming from UK based customers got taxed twice, that first employee would never make financial sense. Companies just wouldn't do it. They'd insist the employees moved to them instead of them moving to the employees.

This outcome makes no sense, but in their desperate quest to squeeze ever more blood out of the stone, maybe that's where governments are going to take us ...
>because I read AWS docs over and over when I work out at the gym

Now that's... dedication. How does the "working out" part go though? There is no way I could see myself reading AWS docs repeatedly while lifting, it actually sounds kindof dangerous. Edit: you and I have the same alma mater and have probably worked out in the same gym! Go Big Red.
Yes. Somehow "I am less motivated to work hard and learn new things in my 40s" turns into "Everyone is less motivated to work hard and learn new things in their 40s."

The author sounds a bit bored. His mind is telling him, "After 15 years of LAMP development, I'm bored, let's do something different!"

What should he do? Maybe he should take some time off, learn something new and exciting, or maybe move to the countryside and become an organic farmer. Only he can know.
> A laptop with a fully charged battery can cause a lot more havoc over the Atlantic ocean than one with the drained battery. Presumably you could bring in a couple of extra batteries as well, because it's going to be a long flight.

I have an external battery for my X220 which I use on long flights. Just out of curiosity I calculated the equivalent energy in TNT which the batteries hold. It was about 220g. And Li-ion are known for their explosive discharge.
Floor webframework: serving static files just landed
> In any quality legal system there's no such thing as "stretching the boundaries of legality".

Of course there is. Law is what's on the statute books and also how the courts interpret that. Some tax schemes seem to follow the letter of the law, but not the system, and the courts may well rule against them.

> Who is to say what Starbucks beans are worth?

There are a bunch of methods. You could use naive measures such as cost of beans + cost of roasting + transport and labour costs + X%; or you could compare market costs of other roasted beans; but it's probably a good idea to have a look at the effect of the expense of those beans on the company that they are sold to. And the beans are so expensive that the company make no profit, and thus avoids tax.
Yes, but for certain extreme instances of bullet time indoors, I suspect the difference in intensity would be significant to the action. It would be like navigating a room at night with just one dim red LED providing light. Or else, people with that superpower would have to set off a flash-bang grenade when using their power.
Nice progress! Once I go through a couple deloads I may move to SL since there is more volume. GSLP is basically starting strength so just 3x5.

We definitely started with a different base level of strength if you are intermediate already! Have you been following the 5/2.5 increase strictly?
If your laptop's too old to hold a charge, is there really a reason to bring it on the plane with you? Just check it in and hope they don't wreck it.
amazon.com is pretty traditional web application and they've been doing SOA for ages.
I did not intend to be pedantic at all. The difference between little correlation and none is small on a number line but very large in meaning. If there was no correlation whatsoever, that would imply that pretty much every software company is behaving irrationally by wasting their time interviewing people - that is, simply hiring at random would be better. This obviously isn't the case.
Mass outrage is one of the few remaining tools useful for keeping the powerful in check. I say, more anger please. If you are not angry you are not paying attention.
Do you add a few other exercises in the rotation? OHP/BP would benefit from some extra triceps attention. Try dips?

I have the opposite problem. My squats/deadlifts are way behind my OHP/BP, but its largely because I'm afraid to lift heavy. I'm squatting less than half as much as I used to 5 years ago, but for more reps.
People are naturally concerned with interpreting and putting into practice the will of God, a concern which is re-inforced and exaggerated by established religion. This also makes us tend to do relatively useless things like go to weekly church services, to make us feel "closer to God". Atheists mock us, for they are merely in denial of their true urge to believe.

(Toddlers buy their own toys? What country do you live in?)
You've just made a case for censoring all comedic works based on any real-life events. Was that your intention?
Do you exercise?

I ask because, the time you exercise is time you don't end up spending with family but you do it because 1. you know its good for your body 2. you know that exercising each day will allow you to spend more time with your family, in the long run 3. its accepted by society because it keeps you healthy.

Similarly, while its not yet as accepted by society, exercising your mind should be a priority. You don't have to be learning new tech trends necessarily, but do keep learning. If you can just keep your neuroplasticity high, ie make sure, no matter your age, when you try to learn something that it comes naturally. 1. It will allow you to comprehend more of the time you spend with your family, in the long run. 2. I would argue, it might even allow you to better bond with them if you're more willing to learn the things they like. 3. If and when you need to learn the current tech trend, this "muscle" you've kept healthy should lend you to being able to do so relatively easily.

For good reason society/family/yourself have put so many negative connotations on "working too much", but what most people don't get is this isn't working, its learning. This is staying healthy. Everyone understands staying healthy.

Long story short, if you're already dedicating time to your health, don't neglect your brain.
GSM was not created by European governments though. It was created by ETSI which is independent. And newer standards are international collaborations: as is so often the case as technology gets more complicated, it ends up being a creation of humanity rather than one geographical region vs another.
Ah, I am not in the Apple ecosystem, so I think I was mixing up the different types of connectors. Good to know that they make this sort of thing a priority, though.