skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How relevant is the issue in practice though? It doesn't seem too likely that people are going to want to provide commercial forks of the whole project including the inux kernel. And it's pretty likely they could package their changes to the CoreOS code together with a stock kernel.

The claim on the site is that "Code produced by the CoreOS team is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. " - Which seems reasonable enough.
You bring up the part I'm always bothered by with the rich people complaining that the current tax code doesn't tax them their own fair share.

The Treasury Department is more than happy to accept above and beyond your current tax liabilities.

But it's not tax deductible.
We thought solar eclipses and new moons were signs of terrible uncontrollable forces, too, but we know better now.

AFAIK, we never thought that of solar maximums, so if plane crashes happened every three weeks, I doubt we would think them signs of terrible forces.

Also, I would know when not to book a flight, as would everybody else.
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If the tax code says that the location of your right big toe decides where your entire body pays tax, regardless of where other parts of that body is located (immediately adjacent to the toe or scattered across the world), then yes, where the big toe is, that's where you pay tax.

The analogy is more like that the location of you navel decides where you pay tax, and you discover that if you shift your weight around a little, your navel ends op on the other side of the line.

The problem is that the tax code fundamentally assumes that businesses are reasonably local and contained operations (analogous to a single body) and only deals with sprawling multinationals through monkey patching in an environment where policies appearing to benefit big businesses isn't exactly a big vote-grabber.
I'd write a reference implementation for a distributed ecommerce system I've been dreaming up.
Inverted companies still pay taxes on US income, it's just foreign income that is no longer taxed.
Were you able to get this to work in Visual Studio?
The EFF has a good write-up about this, too.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/white-house-website-in...

Big takeaway is to avoid AddThis.com, and that NoScript - along with other tools - is an effective defense.

It's also noteworthy how this is at odds with the White House's own policy on cookies.

The White House cookie policy notes that, “as of April 18, 2014, content or functionality from the following third parties may be present on some WhiteHouse.gov pages,” listing AddThis. While it does not identify which pages, we have yet to find one without AddThis, whether open or hidden.

On the same page that is loading the AddThis scripts, the White House third-party cookie policy makes a promise: “We do not knowingly use third-party tools that place a multi-session cookie prior to the user interacting with the tool.” There is no indication that the White House knew about this function before yesterday's report.

As usual, Bruce Schneier (and his commenters) has a useful thread on the topic:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/07/fingerprintin...
What the cloud means for the future of system admins
Their steps toward their vision of gender equality make it even more difficult for men who didn't attend a prestigious university to be accepted.
This is something I have been pondering for a bit now. As the chair of my church's outreach ministry, I struggle with church communications. The church is a unique community of groups, sub-groups, etc. And the activities are just as varied. There are many activities that need to be communicated and only so many channels available to do so. Not to mention making sure that everyone is connected and "plugged-in."

You touch on some good points on how to monetize and build a for profit company that is theologically sound. I have this idea that I'm considering for my next venture.

The idea is to build a self-funded startup with a mix of talented developers, designers, and product people. The company would not ever take outside investment so that the focus is never on dollars and return. Instead the focus is to build awesome software that makes a difference (inside and outside the church), grow our craft, and enjoy life. Nobody will earn millions, but we'll sure have fun making a living to support our families.
Ship anything, anywhere with one line of code
> Everybody needs to stop with this "white-male" nonsense, which is inherently racist. There is much cultural diversity among what is considered "white" and that is painfully obvious. The "black" American guy and "white" American gal might have more in common with each other than the "white" Italian working in the cubicle next door. This also applies to the vast spectrum of "Asians" whose cultures differ significantly.

Talking about white people or even generalizing about white people is not racist. There is no institutional and systemic power backing discrimination against white people based on their skin color. On the basis of being white, you do not suffer increased chances of incarceration, lack of access to education, worse job opportunities, and so on.

White identity is not the same as Asian identity and the issues facing Asian people do relate to racism. It is a false equivalence to compare whiteness to being Asian.

> Completely unnecessary and I think it would be healthier if people stop this self persecution. (Using the same logic, maybe I can say this with authority because I am an indigenous Australian =D)

There is nothing wrong with a little self awareness of being a member of the dominant social group in tech.
You can fix that by setting this:

(setq evil-esc-delay 0)
I have written a good amount of perl in both Vim and Emacs and can't recall noticing bad syntax highlighting in either. Do you have an example?
What's missing in your comment, though, is that many other developed countries offer those same benefits, and yet they don't tax foreign-earned income.
If you had $100 in corporate profits now, you'd keep $65 and pay the government $35. If you got to keep all $100 in profits, that's a (100/65 = ~54%) increase, not 35%. So the effect would be even greater. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinHash

I'm definitely not an expert in this area, but I know coworkers have used MinHash for similarity detection.
Every seller was matched by a buyer but not at the same price. If a stock starts selling at $100/share and after 1,000,000 transactions is selling at $50/share, then some money came out of the stock despite the number of shares not changing.
That clarifies that mystery :P. Thanks!
Yeah, I'm not sure how using a route table precludes having "an API". You can still have controllers and actions with fairly arbitrary names. More to the point, there is no reason why a DAL-style API can't do things like "activate this user". Just let them CREATE new UserActivation objects.
> I do not believe it unreasonable to demand evidence to the extend and nature of sexism in tech (as I have seen no formal study on it at all).

There have been so many studies, blog posts, and anecdotes about sexism in tech. Basic searching for this stuff will get you all the relevant info you need, nobody is obligated to walk you through it if you aren't aware.
I think the proper analogy would be cutting off your head and mailing it to the other state. But that would be a silly analogy wouldn't it?

An analogy that might work is to move over the county line to reduce property taxes but continue to travel back into the original county to work or shop. Even then, you would still be paying some form of taxes to the original county; much like a company moving countries is not going to eliminate ALL tax liabilities.

By the way, if it is deemed legal then it is not tax evasion.
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Esc? Not quite. C-c mostly. It differs sometimes from Esc, but rarely enough for me not to care.
Most but not all hackathons. I founded a hackathon and we made it a priority in our first planning meeting that women would be made to feel welcome.

I got up on stage at the event and said specifically what was acceptable and not acceptable behavior. I think if more hackathons did that there wouldn't be all the atrocities that I read about in Techcrunch.
I've been following the author (@caremjo) for a while now. She's got some really great insights on community that I think come very naturally.

She knows how to dissect and grow what your community needs. Definitely a resource people interested in this subject should follow and tap into.
Complete the invention of a new technology elemental
analysis technique.
True, but I don't want to do enterprise Java or PHP, so there isn't anything else left for me in my region :(
My other favorite "scalability" study is from WhatsApp:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c12cYAUTXXs

That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp

(that walk title was create before the acquisition and was mean to imply message count, after the acquisition it got a secondary meaning).

The one thing that is fascinating about it, is how small their team was compared to the volume and complexity of the operation.
I agree. The author sounds like a whiner. "OOOhhh my manager expects so much of me..." Boo fucking hoo.

I can't stand reading all these whiny diatribes. Ask all your fellow non-STEM friends and you'll see how much they'd rather be in your position.
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Right, because Algol had non-blocking sockets.

Some of these mistakes transcend the language. Unfamiliarity is one thing but I don't believe you can take someone who writes C code like this and they'll instantly do a stellar job in some other language.
It's extremely sad that this very well reasoned response stating widely accepted theories about racism has been down-voted. Now they're not widely as in UNIVERSALLY accepted, but the race-studies community at the very least would agree with the concepts behind this post, and that at the very least merits its inclusion in the discussion.
Jerkspace – Space monetization
Possible side question: What does hosting your app cost right now?
Great work! I've been watching from the sidelines, and I'm glad you finally had a big public launch! OneBody looks really good from the screenshots.

I started http://www.churchmint.com over 2 years ago, and I have not made any progress for a while now. Seeing your success and all these positive comments though has encouraged me quite a bit. There are still a lot of churches out there that are severely under-served by technology. Kudos to you for using your skills for the kingdom and donating your time to a good cause!
Vim works with colemak quite well with only a few rotated keybindings to get back home row navigation.
Funny you ask this here. In 2012, 1 in 4 Y combinator starts up broke apart due to founder disagreement. You can bet a large part of that was due to equity distribution issues. Equity issues can get really messy - and easily damage friendships.

Read the reviews for Slicing Pie. It's about maintaining a dynamic model that eventually vest into shares (if the company works out). I read it. It's great quick read. Ideal for your situation, I think. And it may preserve your friendship.

http://www.amazon.com/Slicing-Pie-Company-Without-Funds-eboo...
I believe you answered your own non-serious question.

If the foreign nation only taxes the company for profit inside the nation and the US taxes profit worldwide, then it isn't too hard to see the better deal even if the foreign nation's tax rate is higher.
Polos can go to hell. I usually wear nice jeans and a black t-shirt to work (but then, the CEO appears to be wearing bright orange shorts), but if somebody said tomorrow "jdpage, we need you to dress a little more professionally", then I will come in the next day with a full button-down shirt. I've never met a polo that's as comfortable as a decent button-down.
I would just like to say that I agree that this issue is much less a problem today than it use to be. Before it was such a problem that I started maintaining a list of comments/articles that kept being wrecked by ridiculous comments anytime a discussion around ethnicity or racism. I use to post the growing list in every thread that it occurred and I was generally upvoted so I guess most people agreed.

I have no idea how you folks did it, but you've somehow gotten rid of all those people. I've scanned all the comments here and, though I don't agree with all of them, none of them appear to contain ridiculously specious arguments.
> Researchers did the same experiment with kids,
> and kids under 6 failed every time.

How can this be??? If they didn't have the ability to keep track of which way was which, shouldn't they have failed 50% of the time, like the rats?
Rails is amazing. I wouldn't use anything else for prototyping my system. Baked-in best practices and easy-to-use, there hasn't been anything else that comes close imho.
Planet Money did a series on "policies economists would love and politicians would hate". One of their biggest suggestions was "eliminate the corporate tax rate and significantly raise income taxes on the high end". For exactly this reason, as well as what is said here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8087103

The more money a company has, the more money they can use to employ people and be productive. The general public usually gets upset at what they see as severe profits to a corporation, but in general those profits aren't being "wasted" on the rich until they draw them out in salaries or dividends. It makes more sense to simply tax them at that point (at least, according to NPR)
Funny you didn't quote Marshall's much more famous saying about corporations in Dartmouth College v. Woodward:

"A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it."
Broadly speaking, competition definitely creates sex-based selection-bias. Men self-select into competitions more than women, and are more motivated by them.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-wise/201210/when-c...

https://www3.nd.edu/~wevans1/fresh_honor_seminar/vesterland....

I am not saying men are more capable, just more likely to self-select into the competition. Read up on what professional coaches of womens vs mens teams say.
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I would even say that referring to it as a loophole is not fair.

"Obama presses to reform badly written corporate tax laws."
I couldn't agree more. She had a couple of great recommendations for us that were really helpful.
If fair minded legislators tried to write the law such that people in a situation like yours would pay $X and you are paying substantially less than $X, that is arguably "not paying your share". Of course, that characterization is not necessarily the reality.
I’m pretty sure that’s just Monaco.
The first of these two source suggests that with typical settings, due to a quirk with the way scrypt works, it's less secure than bcrypt.

The second criticizes an API design with the scrypt code.

Neither makes a case that password-based KDFs are "not for storing password hashes".

Using a good password KDF as a password authenticator is a fine decision.
In the case of Scala, it's not very high because you can just use Scala as a better OO Java.

Haskell would be a different story.
Let me get this straight: YCombinator is pledging to snub investors who conduct sexist and racist abuses toward founders? I know we'll face adversity, and I want our team to be able to stand up for our beliefs without getting fucked by the tight-night nature of the community.
> I completely do not understand how anyone can use Emacs’ default keybindings.

I completely do not understand how switching modes is a good idea in an editor. It just doesn't fit in my brain somehow. I start typing and randomly end up pasting and cutting. I want to paste and cut it randomly types my commands in insert mode.

Emacs cords are pretty intuitive to me. I don't know many: just moving, saving, creating 2 windows, search & replace, cutting and pasting. There are hundreds more, but you can get away with a few basic ones.

Save needing to rebind the Ctrl key to CapsLock, emacs key-bindings are optimized to not have to move the hands to the mouse or arrow keys, which I appreciate. Vim's are as well, but again I don't like modes, so there is that.
Here is a significantly better-written article on the same topic: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/how-the-other...
If you are interested in seeing a long list of monospace fonts ranked by votes with samples on one page, please check out http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~what-are-the-best-programming....
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While there are a number of federal sales tax proposals, there's only one Fair Tax proposal (they've even trademarked the name). While my short comment obviously does not encompass every detail, the basics are:

1) A flat federal sales tax.
2) A "prebate" to offset the regressiveness, which is a check sent by the federal government to every U.S. household every month.

http://www.fairtax.org/
Works fine with SLIME; I use evil/emacs/slime for my daily lisp dev.
The is essentially the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-texas-sharpshooter
There are a nice set of org-mode bindings for evil-mode in the prelude-evil.el module that helps quite a bit:

https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude/blob/master/modules/prelu...
We developed HuBoard[1] which is a similar product that now offers GitHub Enterprise support[2]

It is also free on GitHub[3] if you want to host it yourself.

[1] https://huboard.com
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[3] https://github.com/huboard/huboard
That's kinda the fucking idea.

If you have contract income you assign it to a corp and then pay yourself a wage so you can live and keep the rest in the corp to invest / pay dividends. (No you can't deduct everything, but the more frugally you live the less tax you pay)

The thing is most people don't like to live in the most frugal way possible and therefore end up paying some taxes on the things they like.
I don't believe that to be true. I'm a 1-man Corp. Corporations only there for liability limitations...
StreetScore scores a street view based on how safe it looks to a human
> ... the down arrow

Why? Isn't that more inefficient because you have to move your hand off to the side. I can type 3 C-n before moving my to the right to do a single down arrow. Maybe I am just used to it by now, and forgot how hard it was when I started, but it makes complete sense to me.
Wow, I'm now 38 and recall falling in love with Rails at the age of 28. I was battling with .NET WebForms at the time, Rails was a breath of fresh air. Martin Fowler got me into Ruby about 6 months before Rails popped up. I still write Ruby + Rails almost every day.

Oddly, I'm starting to think Java might be the future of everything if it can shed it's huge_config.xml + FactoryFactoryFactory obsession, which I believe is happening :)
Well, a huge fraction of animals also die young for preventable reasons.
We work in a deeply, irretrievably competitive industry. The ability to thrive in a competitive environment is a requirement at many, perhaps most, startups. Women perform in the industry just fine, but are victimized by the perception that their gender prevents them from being competitive.
Watch out, if a value with single quotes is passed into updateVal, you're screwed!

Why not do:

$(current).append(
$('<input class="editing" type="text"/>').val(value));
No, no, no. :)

Every seller is matched by a buyer at the same price!

I think you are making claims without thinking them all the way through. Let's go through an example:

Imagine there is a company with 1,000 shares. Alice buys a share from Bob for $100. This trade implicitly values the company at $100,000. Later, Carol buys a share from Dave for $50. This new trade implicitly values the company at $50,000.

The value of the company fluctuated by $50,000, but if you look at every trade, an equal number of dollars and shares were exchanged on each side. Alice lost $100 of money while Bob gained $100 of money. Carol lost $50 of money while Dave gained $50 of money.

No money "came out" of the stock.

The aggregate stock ownership stayed the same: 1,000 shares were owned both before and after.

The aggregate money supply stayed the same: $150 were in people's pockets both before and after.

The only thing that changed was the market consensus of the price of the company. The bottom line is that price changes of an asset class don't mean money is being soaked or released. Individual ownership can change, but aggregate ownership cannot.

Does that sound reasonable? I hope this conversation is helpful for people reading this comment thread.
I wonder where the term sidecar originated from and what is the precise definition? Is this something invented by the netflix OSS people or does it predate that?
Ah, welcome to a dilemna I've been wrestling for a couple of years. I actually have an idea/product that has started/stopped a few times that's geared for missionaries, pastors, evangelists, etc.

I just need to find someone smart like the OP here to help execute the vision.
Doesn't that make the valuation seem like a scam? If they thought it was worth as much or more they wouldn't be in such a rush to cash in.
> We’re encouraging our startups to get HR infrastructure in place earlier.

If there's one thing that a fast and nimble startup DOES NOT NEED, it's HR drones trying to assert themselves into the startup. This is great news for us that compete with YC companies because it means that you're going to be handcuffing yourselves and bogging yourselves down employees who are literally a negative to the bottom line.

> Specifically, we’d like the community to help by downvoting comments that make HN an unwelcoming place to anyone.

In other words, you want to address diversity by stamping out any ideas that are contrary to the modern politically correct BS that most people here are dulled into believing.
The resources they are consuming are for the ultimate goal of satisfying consumer demand in an efficient enough way to profit from it. Are you a consumer? If so, you're an direct and indirect consumer of those resources.
I find it interesting that he contrasts free software with open source as "ethical position vs. cost reduction", apparently without ever considering cost reduction as an ethical position. (Enabling people to do things for less cost seems (to me), to be at the heart of any non-zero-sum strategy for improving the world. Otherwise you're just re-shuffling the same cards that have already been dealt.)

I also thought it was curious that he's advocating for capturing 100% of the value you create, apparently not considering the value he gets from other people without paying them.

This didn't resonate with me. It made me a little curious, but left lots of "How did you get to that conclusion?" questions. Any recommendations on what his best writing is?
I don't get this idea that the tech world, or even just SV startups embrace FOSS as a core values, even in software itself. Since when have most startups released all their software under a free license? Most embrace it if and when it suits them - libraries, frameworks, etc. Everything else is proprietary, and usually follows a cathedral model. When was the last time someone submitted a patch for Dropbox, or most SaaS services out there?

Three are a few brave ones out there, but they're the exception.