skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not expressly the job of a business to make, "the most money possible at all costs." There's a component of to what degree, and priority. Apple, for instance, could probably make even more money than they do, using cheaper, lower quality parts/builds, or with lower manufacturing standards, but they don't do that because of the priorities they have, driven by their corporate values. It's a trade off.

Mr. Cuban, as an investor and citizen of the US, is willing to make a personal and professional trade off investing in companies that have a lower P/E multiple (earnings) at the expense of staying in country and keeping jobs there. This is based on his values.

I bring Apple up intentionally because they're an example of a company that uses international tax law & vehicles to basically have no U.S. liability. So, they don't share the same values as Mr. Cuban, but they do make other trade offs in their business that come at the expense of the absolute maximization of profit, because of different ones.
A corporation has a duty to do right by it's shareholders, in this case a shareholder is making a judgement about what he considers right.
We developed ZenHub.io [1] with a similar vision - to centralize all our company workflows into GitHub. It's free and already in use by hundreds of happy teams.

[1] https://www.zenhub.io/
This is certainly true of the average 7-10 year old kid raised in suburbia by ordinary parents and educated and public school, but childhood and helplessness have been vastly prolonged artificially.

Maybe not a 10 year old, but a 12 year old in the Industrial Revolution would have been earning enough to cover his costs and contribute to the family. A 14 year old could also be doing just fine as a mother. It's not as if teenagers' poor life-skills are functions of their age, we just choose not to let them have the requisite experience until they are "old enough." Children are technically capable of much more than we give them credit for, we just would rather they spend time gaining the education to be knowledge workers instead of replaceable cogs in factories.

You couldn't just throw an average modern 10-year-old on the streets and expect him to be fine, but it's historical fact that it is possible for children not to be so helpless.
I had the same thing, until I found Source Code Pro from Adobe. https://github.com/adobe/source-code-pro

Yes, that's right. An open source font by Adobe. It's absolutely gorgeous!
In order for this to work, everyone would have to hold the same set of ethics, which is not only untrue, but grossly untrue as you span the globe.

Otherwise, the varying ethics among people will more or less wash out, even if everyone did act based on a set of ethics in their investing.

Voting with your feet/dollars works because it stays inside the realm of utility, and is therefore much more "standard" across the population.

A car is useful almost everywhere, for example, but how that car is made might rub different people different ways.
At Twilio, managing the Twilio.org program, I get inquires from churches looking to do just this - sms notifications for events, youth groups, etc.

This is a stellar app Tim, congrats!
Very sorry if I've broken any HN rules. I didn't know those posts weren't HN-appropriate (or even that I had been flagged!).

I don't mind being called out when I'm out of order, because I see it as an opportunity to become a better community citizen. But it's hard to become a better community citizen without some corrective advice.

Would you please point me to the code of conduct (and ideally to the specific rules I've broken), so I can be better in the future?
> When it comes time to take money out, you pay a fat dividend with 15% dividend tax rate, instead of 35% income tax rate.

If we were to eliminate the corporate tax we'd need to simultaneously eliminate the preferred tax status of qualified dividends and long term capital gains. We'd also need to crack down on wage substitutes (aka fringe benefits).

Still think it'd be a worthwhile tradeoff.
I think the companies would argue (not necessarily myself, for the record) that they do contribute to society via high-paying jobs, collecting payroll & sales taxes and income taxes. According to [1], Apple paid roughly $14.2b in 2012 income taxes, and according to [2], they paid $1 out of every $40 collected (using Apple numbers, although I'd imagine other companies are similar).

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2013/03/...

[2] http://www.imore.com/apple-already-pays-1-out-every-40-tax-d...
Thanks for the mention! I'm part of the Tutum team, and we actually made an open source project called Boatyard.io

It's basically a web UI that builds images from tarballs, dockerfiles, and github repos. We use it internally all the time and we thought we'd contribute back.

You can find our post about it here:

http://blog.tutum.co/2014/05/26/introducing-boatyard/

Great job on octohost.io!
>which implies to the researcher we use language to connect different disparate parts of the brain

I've always felt this was the case in my own mind. Language is the serialization format for abstract concepts.

This is why I'm very interested in constructed languages. I think it might help human cognition if we had a more efficient serialization format for internal concept transport.
That would not actually help small and mid-size businesses, most of whom are organized as pass-through entities and are therefore not subject to the corporate tax rate.
My six week old daughter recently started to smile at me. Even knowing it's just mirroring my face, and there's not much in the way of consciousness there, I could have died happy...
I ll stick with Consolas.
What do startups use to track leads?
My SaaS startup needs a CRM system.

Looking form something that integrates with Gmail, ideally.

What do fellow HNers use and why?
U.S. could probably address this issue if they moved to a territorial tax regime. It would bring a lot of offshore cash back to the United States (especially in tech) that can later be redistributed back to investors and the economy via buybacks, dividends, and domestic M&A.

The United States currently has a "worldwide" tax system and taxes U.S. companies on income earned both domestically and abroad in foreign countries. The tax on foreign earnings usually isn't assessed until the company brings it back to the United States (you'll hear companies talk about getting hit with a repatriation tax if they bring their "trapped" offshore cash back onshore to the U.S.). Most U.S. companies will try to avoid paying repatriation tax and keep substantial portions of their foreign cash earnings overseas to "reinvest" indefinitely.

At this point, the United States is one of the few advanced economies that still taxes its companies on their active foreign earnings (I believe only 8 of the 34 OECD countries use worldwide tax system) and also has one of the highest tax rates. Most OECD countries use a territorial tax systems that largely exempts active foreign earnings from domestic taxation.
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> "minimizes their contributions back to the society they're benefiting greatly from"

Or it could be that society is greatly benefiting from them: the people and companies that make the goods and services.
"There is in university level maths books what looks like an almost wilful disregard for how people are actually taught mathematics at high school."

The way the lower level courses are taught IS similar to high school math. Low level calculus in my undergrad institution is almost the same as AP calculus in my high school. If not, then the course picked the wrong textbook.

Anything above calculus, it is fair for textbook writers to assume mathematical maturity.

"How do students going from school to university cope? is there some secret occult ritual where all this knowledge is transmitted?"

To be able to self-teach mathematics, one would have to learn w/e mathematicians do by oneself. This is however, not impossible but difficult.
Here are some disadvantages:
1. It's hard to assert one's own mathematical ability.
2. No one can give you feedback(unless, you have someone with enough mathematical maturity and also have enough time to read and correct your proofs). Programming is so much easier because you can get partial feedback from compiler/interpreter and output. In fact, anything where you can see something happens is much easier. Mathematicians need to prove what we see happen is really true and it's not a wrong intuition.
3. Math books does not try to hold hands. They leave out many details to be filled in by the reader(the notorious "The proof is left as an exercise to the reader"). Sometimes, readers without enough background could gain a wrong intuition, which will screw up everything further down. It is not easy, and it be really nice to have some professor to talk to.

Now, about this "secret occult ritual". It is basically the undergraduate mathematics scene beginning at the first introductory proof class. (depend on departments, this might be as late as the beginning of the 3rd year of study)

In UIUC, there is MATH 347.
In Stony Brook there is MAT 200. Around 2/3 of the students have to retake it. Imaging this. This is a set of math majors learning these things full time, with study groups, WITH FEEDBACK and 2/3 of the students didn't get C. It's not a inherently easy thing to learn. The entire class to teach people to fight one's own intuition and mental short cuts we humans make everyday.

Once this is done, the students can further take a higher level topic(a intro to analysis or abstract algebra) to get a feel of how to apply these techniques in the intro proof class. It's a long process and there is no easy way. See this book, Counterexamples in analysis. http://www.amazon.com/Counterexamples-Analysis-Dover-Books-M... Half of the things I would believe to be true from intuitive argument turns out to be completely wrong.

Finally, one might question why one have to become a half mathematician in order to use some of the tools in mathematics. Because most math books are written for people with enough mathematical maturity that can only be gained from grinding over mathematics, and without enough maturity it doesn't make sense to learn certain things anyway.
Google X’s “Baseline Study” applies big data techniques to healthcare
Move? Vote? Write your Congressman?
Color combination in a line reminds me of Colossotron a bit:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.halfbrick....
This sounds like a tragedy of the commons. Is it feasible to excise tax corporations who move overseas like a tariff?
What about two individuals, or 40?
I really love the "users first" stipulation. We're deliberately building a business that builds what we call respectful software.

I wrote something about those principles last year: http://benwerd.com/2013/05/24/respectful-software/

Known is either SaaS or a self-hosted software application, depending on your needs. As such, we're offering:

* SaaS subscriptions

* Support subscriptions for self-hosted users

* Enterprise support

* Software and support for deploying Known across organizations

* Customizations (eg integrations with learning management systems / enterprise software, etc)

In the future, we will offer:

* Direct sales of content to readers (think Bandcamp)

Right now we're not considering advertising or any kind of tracking-based model.
Congrats Chas and Frank!

I'm Travis, one of the co-founders of Catalyze - https://catalyze.io. We also offer a HIPAA-compliant platform-as-a-service (PaaS). Our compliant PaaS starts at $500/mo and includes dedicated, encrypted logging, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and encryption (at rest and in-transit). We've been through 3 3rd party audits + penetration testing (most recent audit we were 100% in compliance). We're very transparent about HIPAA and open our audits up to customers to use as part of their sales collateral. You can see how we interpret and address HIPAA requirements here - https://catalyze.io/hipaa/ - and you can see our policies here - https://catalyze.io/policy/ (we're open sourcing these in the next couple weeks).

We don't provide policies or risk assessments as a service, but Accountable (http://accountablehq.com/) does a great job with those. Using Catalyze + Accountable starts at $600/mo, about 1/6th of the starting price on the Aptible site; we also offer 60 days to terminate so don't lock you into annual contracts to get that pricing.

We've got some great production customers, with testimonials and use cases on our site, that love our service and support, and have moved over from hosting providers like AWS, Firehost, and Blue Box. I'm happy to answer questions about Catalyze and the compliant cloud space in general.
> A third approach is find somebody you want to learn from and work with them. Any project you pick will never be as important as what you learn from the project.

Finding a good teacher for whatever skills or traits you want to develop is incredibly hard but easily one of the most rewarding things you can do for yourself
Do people who routinely flag stories about diversity in tech have their flagging privileges revoked?
The Dots game just solved the color blind problem, http://blog.weplaydots.com/post/92736184749/whats-new-in-two.... Although I am not colorblind so can't speak from experience.
At the same time Rails came about there was also Nitro, another Ruby Web framework. It too used this form of MVC.

I much preferred Nitro to Rails for being more lightweight as well as more amenable to evolving from bare-bones PHP-style single-file Web apps to to large, robust sites. (It also had a notion of pipeline transformation of content that was quite slick.)

George Moschovitis, who created Nitro, ended up moving over to JavaScript. (https://github.com/gmosx/nitro)

The Ruby Nitro framework more or less morphed into Ramaze.

(For those curious about Ruby Web framework archaeology dig up a 2nd edition copy of Hal Fulton’s The Ruby Way (2006) and read the Web dev section. Caveat: I wrote the non-Rails parts of that section.)
That's not true at all. The computers can do control corrections much faster than humans. A human could not fly a quadrotor drone by controlling the current to the individual motors: computers fly them just fine. Very often we know how to control things but humans can't do the computation fast enough.
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>Debating how to fix it is important, but debating whether or not sexism actually exists trivializes the problem in a toxic way

You are walking into an extremely dangerous territory here. If reasonable people can disagree with you on the points you are not willing to debate (such as the widespread existence of sexism in tech[1]) or (worse) that you find morally wrong to debate then those reasonable people will not consider you reasonable - not only do you then lose any chance of changing their perspective, you will also create a schism in the community. This is what has happened in the US over guns, to the point where there is now no hope of reconciliation.

For example I could counter the few well published incident by pointing out that the media cherrypick a few stories and them run with them - what you see in the media is not an unbiased sample. A few stories from a large enough group does not mean that the group is especially sexist, it just means that it has a few assholes in it. We don't know whether the asshole procentage is higher or lower than in the general population and we don't know that if it is higher, whether there is some third-party variable (such as a general disregard for rules) common to both tech people and sexist assholes or whether the causality runs the other way (ie assholes are more likely to be tech guys because they don't work well with people).

Before we bring out the big guns and tear this community (which I highly value) apart, can we please have some independent, unbiased, studies - both as to the extend and effect of sexism and what causes it? Armed with this knowledge, we will be in a much better position to find out how, if at all, we should address this issue.

[1]: There is sexism in any sufficiently large group of people, independent of the field you gather the group from. What is more interesting is how large a percentage of the group is sexist.
source code pro and Bitstream Vera Sans are my favourite

screenshot
https://mediacru.sh/ce42e42abe27
Many people deal with both gender and race issues simultaneously. Non-white women in the U.S. are 18%+ of the population (over 1/3 of the U.S. female population). It's easy to think of gender/race as an either or, but for many of us it's a both/and.

I've written a book on the subject (diverse women/women of color), and have done a good bit of research in this area which is why I am familiar with the numbers and the issues.

Feel free to reach out if you'd like additional information.

Edit: This isn't meant to discourage; the post is a good start. Just wanted to provide some information for next time.
Confusing case of Birthdays
Being new to US, I have seen that in US, people take you out for your birthdays but in India..its the opposite. You take your friends out for birthdays. How common is this is other countries ?
Fair Tax is the worst of all worlds.

On its face, a sales tax is highly regressive, so it disproportionately harms poor and middle class citizens.

So the Fair Tax answer is for the government to refund to everyone a stipend for the basic costs of living. This creates a collection of personal data the same size as the IRS (they need to know where to send the check), AND a government entitlement program larger than Medicare and Social Security put together.
You're conflating "permitted" and "encouraged". Both of those rulings said that people may arrange their affairs so as to minimize their tax burdens. In no way is that saying one should.
I had 6 months and tried to do this. That was 7 years ago and I just finished my PhD. Careful what you wish for. Now I have another 6 months...
Amazon Rolls Out A YouTube-Like “Video Shorts” Section On Instant Video
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Anonymity is not the hard part---the challenge lies in verifying that an account from which a vote was cast is legitimate. But it is possible.
How do you handle persistent storage in a fault-tolerant way?

You could technically pin your MySQL container to one host, but that seems to defeat the point of fleet. I considered trying to mount an iSCSI target to run the database from, but CoreOS doesn't have a working iSCSI initiator.

I guess I could just run all the persistent stuff on a more traditional OS, but then why mess with CoreOS at all?
Or Chrome (at least the interactive example did not).
The premise seems false. The insurance is against the cost, as is usual.
it's really hard to address everything in one post, and i think the issues around gender and race in tech are pretty different.

Sure, but you clearly didn't call the piece "Gender and Startups" or "Sexism and Startups." Presumably the broader title was chosen deliberately.

For instance, I'd push back on an essay called "YC and Startups" if it only mentioned one company in one batch, but with a quick token sentence about other batches.

i don't think we're playing this on "easy mode", but i'm sorry you feel that way.

What can I say? It's a piece that scores points for "addressing diversity" but only substantively discusses the less controversial, more tractable subtopic of sexism.

Excited to read the upcoming, more inclusive posts though.
The conceptual analogy here is an admin who gets an automated alert when there’s a problem with a server. Except the “server” is a monitored person and the “admin” is a pseudo peer-to-peer network of friends.
This is a great way to stealth tweet at work, especially when combined with a 2nd monitor and a 4-way terminal split :)
I unofficially studied ideas pretty similar to this in college. For a brief stint (~2/3 years), I was very interested in the intersection of communication, technology, activism, and public policy.

I've heard this argument referred to as the "Bowling Alone Hypothesis" [1]. Basically the idea that first radio, then television, and now the internet, etc. are socially isolating us from one another and we're stuck "Amusing Ourselves to Death" [2]. There is also likely an anthropological / evolutionary biology argument to be made about the development of small group communication.

Some simply dismiss these arguments as ludditism, but I think a much more nuanced response casts the internet as a great medium for communication [3], social engagement [4], and activism [5].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
[3] http://bigideas.tvo.org/episode/141052/clay-shirky-on-cognit...
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU
[5] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1086939
I'd be in favor of this zero rate, if, at the same time, all "corporate welfare" ended also: no coddling of corporations by the state. Also, no protective measures such as tariffs.
Have you written up this in a blog post anywhere? Would be an interesting read and very valuable for dev/test scenarios in addition to production ones.
Way to miss the point. Courts enforce laws, not morals. Just because something is legal does not make it moral.
Look closely at the trademark for "XYZ Software" and its specifications.

Does it specify XYZ alone as being part of the trademark or does it apply only when used together with Software?
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What's Apple Worth? A Dollar a Day
Saving everyone else the time, these are all redeemed. 0.99c, though; not sweating the cost.
you must be close to 32 years old
Have you, perchance, read "Voyage From Yesteryear"?

The "economy" described is rather interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_from_Yesteryear
It can be like that in tech or any industry too though, you can get fired after being late, if you have a schedule.
FYI: the infographic shows the delimiter as "--" instead of "-- "
The VOD traffic runs on a different VLAN tho. It has it's own network.
And starred, thank you! I really would love to be able to think in trig like some of these guys can (looking at you iq)
Yup, their solution was our first thought as well. The biggest problem is half our game is about ordering colors based on the color wheel. So Red Orange Yellow.

That doesn't pose the same challenge if that run corresponds to Square, Circle, Triangle. Trying to remember a sequence based on random shapes seems too unrelated. We'll need to do some tests with color saturation most likely.
Temple University Researchers Successfully Eliminate HIV Virus In Human Cells
...he says while sipping a glass of nationally funded water, on his computer which arrived via nationally funded sea ports, which sends data over nationally funded computer networks, using a protocol developed with national funding.
Menlo is my favorite too. :)

Tried others (including this one), but keep coming back to it. I have it set to 14pt in Sublime Text.
Funny I had the impression CUDA is winning hands down on HPC.
We're actively working on fixing the fleet state management problems. It's been a pain for us, too.

https://github.com/coreos/fleet/pull/638
we shared the stats on founders born outside the US. it's not a perfect map to race, but it's not a bad one either--there are people of all colors in this YC batch.

do you really think we are trying to "score points for 'addressing diversity'"?

i had an early draft titled "sexism and startups", but many people pointed out the last 7 paragraphs apply to racial minorities just as much as women.
That's a good point. The first sentence of the Wikipedia article says "Hypercomputation or super-Turing computation refers to models of computation that go beyond, or are incomparable to, Turing computability." The "incomparable to" part is sufficiently vague to shoehorn in asymptotic improvements if we want to. :)

Of course, an Zeno machine, or a machine that can solve the halting problem, could also certainly solve problems a TM can solve but asymptotically faster.