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Capital gains tax rates are roughly half income tax rates.

Currently, we say "double taxation" when we refer to being taxed at the corporate level, and then again at the shareholder level (either as long-term capital gains or as income). Shareholders don't directly feel the corporate tax (though they are still effected by it).

What I meant was that, if we eliminated the corporate tax but increased the capital gains tax to be equal to the income tax rate, the tax rate that shareholders pay on the gains would be twice what they are currently paying.

(The actual incidence (burden) of the tax is more complicated to calculate; I'm simply referring to the direct tax rates.)

This is all very rough, of course, since marginal tax rates vary widely.
Just to give me options what other frameworks would you recommend? Are there any you would say to keep clear of.
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Not quite.

Ember existed before backbone.js by about 2-3 years under the name sproutcore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ember.js#History

http://sproutcore.com/about/

Backbone.js's first release was in 2010.

http://backbonejs.org/#changelog
Our church also uses The City and I'd say it's fine but not great. There's a lot of room for another startup in this space - I've considered it more than once.

The problem for me, on a personal level, is that it's very hard to mix business and the church. On the one hand, the technology used in the church generally lags far behind what is available and there are real benefits to the church body by having tailored technology.

On the other hand, sometimes the new tech doesn't fit for cultural reasons. For example, it still feels unsavory to, say, pass a square credit card reader along with the offering plate.

Additionally, one has to be careful not to be in it merely for the money (which becomes harder as the organization scales). At the entrepreneur you're torn between fiduciary duty to your organization/employees/investors and the (greater) responsibility to God and his church.

It's really hard to keep that balance. Jesus did turn over the tables of the money changers, after all.

In an ideal world your employees/investors are aligned with your vision but in practice, it can get really cloudy. (And we haven't even talked about if you're willing to sell to other denominations yet which, presumably, are using your software as tool to spread an ideology you explicitly believe to be false.)

One model I think could work is for software engineers to found a non-profit and essentially raise funding/customer commitments from larger churches in order to build the software that they'll eventually use.

That said, it's hard enough to find engineers who are "good" in the industry at large, much less when you add in the qualification that they have to be so deeply ideologically in agreement with your vision.
> We have no way to tell if they're being flagged by users or setting off the automated system for detecting flamewars.

This is the fundamental problem. No matter how a story gets made invisible, once it gets in that state nobody knows how it got there and whether or not it was justified. Not to mention that no matter how those stories vanish, HN (by community or systems) is not facilitating discussion on diversity, sexism, racism, etc. in tech.
`Ubuntu Mono` is amazing.
I remember back in the Sam Palmisano days (mid to late 2000s) watching him present in an internal all hands meeting (I'm a past Software Group IBM employee). He spoke briefly about mainframe margins, he didn't state numbers, but boy he made it clear that the margins were significant and they were seeing growth.

So, I don't know about the last few years, but I think IBM can ride the mainframe money train for years to come. My point was simply that it's not going to drive any growth.
You're missing my point. He "made" his fortune by selling a company at a spectacular overvaluation. That's fine, but don't pretend that he turned a few million into a few billion through smart investing.

With regard to the moves he made after the ridiculous Broadcast.com sale, all he did was lock in his profits. That turned out to be the correct move, but that doesn't necessarily say anything about his investing skills. It just shows that he realized that he had hit the lottery and wanted to insure his win.

Warren Buffett made his money through smart investing. Mark Cuban did not, so I'd rather listen to Warren Buffett and others like him than an opinionated guy that got lucky.
Perhaps for the American case of buying a few dozen martinis, but what about the anecdote of a Japanese man taking 200 guests on a dinner cruise? With a premium of $3, per the article, that might not be a bad idea.
Most people prefer not to have parts of their body permanently modified by someone they don't know and can't identify to the police. "Gentle" persuasion is a lost art...
You caught me on a good day: I've been changing my twitter handle multiple times a day some days. It's a reference to ATP, p150:

> You never reach the Body without Organs, you can't reach it,
> you are forever attaining it, it is a limit.

Glad to see some other Deleuzians around too. :)
Wow, this solves _so many problems_ for me! I was dreading having to hack together some ugly CRUD solution for my own church's directory-management needs. Thank you so much for doing a wonderful job working on this over the years, and creating an open source solution to boot!
An Interview with Karen Sandler, Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy
The one thing that jumped out at me is that I find the parentheses too strongly curved, so much so it may be difficult to distinguish between '(' and 'C'.

It's hard to tell because there are no 'C's in the samples; more upper case and mixed case text would be helpful.
It's probably like that because mRSS was developed by Yahoo + mRSS community http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_RSS
Any fans of the Office?

http://youtu.be/FTOgm_EMgVI?t=12m8s

These statements always seem really empty to me.
I am not sure whether the people who set up off-the-shelf residential routers with default settings are going to follow standard best practices for network design... ;)
Wait, US corporations are moving to Europe for lower taxes? I thought taxes there had to be extraordinarily high to support their free healthcare systems, paid maternity/paternity leave, and lengthy vacations?!

On a serious note, I wish articles like this actually gave some mechanics about the actual 'tax evasion'. The issue is that the US taxes worldwide earnings at the US tax rate. Other countries, such as the UK[1] don't do this. So if you're a multinational with sizable non-US earnings, it makes a lot of sense not to be domiciled in the US.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
I did NOT have this problem until I updated to 10.9.4, now I do have this problem, you're not alone. 11" Air, mid-2014 (about a month old)
Counterpoint: in the Jim Crow South and in Apartheid South Africa black people were often employed by white people, but only for the most menial jobs (like cleaning and house keeping).

They very much do didn't like black people.
I think the colloquialism of "Ivy League" as a psuedo pedigree or class distinction has superseded the actual athletic conference definition.

I knew exactly what the OP was driving at even if the details were off, and only after you point out that Ivy League is an athletic conference did it occur to me that that would be where the current colloquialism came from.
This is an awful article. Not only does the author not understand the difference between "your" and "you're", the whole thing is written from a very negative point of view. I'd recommend for the author to get into another industry if he feels it's "so hard".
Again, as if a dissenting judge's reasoning has no merit.

I'll take note that in the future one has to provide numerous quotes to avoid being labeled as selective quoting. Even though you provided one quote to counter his one "selective" quote. I don't necessarily disagree with what you state in that context, I simply disagree with the selective quoting label.

I was trying to point out that the majority opinion was not really relevant to the point because it was not decided on morality, but on not following the law. Therefore, a quote from the dissenting judge that was relevant to the topic at hand, i.e. whether it is moral or not to reduce one's tax liabilities, was fair. Using the majority opinion to counter the poster's point is not fair because the opinion is not relevant to the point.

I shall attempt to provide an example. Let's say there's a court case about the legalities of puppy mills. The majority opinion is that they are illegal. In the dissent there's a statement concerning the desire for a certain breed and that's why the defendants ran a puppy mill. I quote the dissenting judge about people's desire of that certain breed, not mentioning puppy mills. You state my use of the quote is not valid because the majority decided that puppy mills are illegal. That's all I'm saying.

Finally, I know that the law should have nothing to do with morals. Morals are subjective and attempts to legislate morals almost always results in unintended consequences. I simply disagree with judging a company by moral standards based on their actions under the law. As for other posters, I think there the opinions all over the board about what people feel on moral/legal activities in their own worldview. Which is why I think that judging morality on legal matters is not always a good idea.
Hehe, thanks. I do often think about how my posts here are perceived. It's weird being an anti-capitaist, hanging out on message boards that are, in many ways, at a center of capitalism.
Yes, "dollars" should be added after "billion"; "here" should read "hear", and "higher" should read "hire". I think you're exaggerating a bit; those were the only errors I noticed, and other than that the article was easily comprehensible.

The errors seem like the result of either poor text-to-speech software or mild dyslexia. They don't really detract from the content.
I recommend PragmataPro. Once I found it, I knew I didn't have to look for another programming font again.
The difference between "your" and "you're" has nothing to do with how insightful the content is.
When they are first shown the room, they would think to themselves "the food is north of the blue wall". After being spun around they might not know which way is north, but they'll figure it out as soon as they spot the blue wall.
I don't know if it's good or bad. I suppose it could be bad for competing startups. I don't know, I wasn't saying it was bad though.
It would be really awesome if you(or your friend) had a blog to keep us up-to-date on how this turns out. I can't imagine what 15 years(plus penalties?) in back taxes looks like. I would consider just disappearing.

Assuming she/he is willing to share that personal info.
Well, I'd rather be treated with respect than to have a ping pong table in the reception and a mini fridge for beers in the office (I mean, open office plan) if I'd have to choose.
More discussion (156 comments) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8079110
I wish you had made a stronger distinction between freedom and zero-price.
It's true that the free software movement isn't dead, but the open source movement has taken the fore as being socially significant. Furthermore, in many programming communities, preferring the GPL over BSD is something that will get you a _lot_ of hate.
I'm not sure how this is releveant; how can YCombinator influence this? The disparity in education has already taken full effect by the time people apply to YC.

It's great that YC has taken steps towards gender equality, but I don't think they have much of a say when it comes to inequality in education.
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Just make sure you don't run into https://github.com/coreos/docs/issues/219 !
There's no news like bad news.

It sells better. [1]

[1]: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201012/why...
All great points. You have highlighted exactly what I was getting at: the tech world has some of these D&I principles in place already, but is failing to live up to, or--as you aptly point out--even critically reflect on them.
In the front-end world Sproutcore never made a huge splash and was not used by many companies outside of Apple. Sproutcore was frequenly blogged about and critically popular, but not used by a large amount of developers and companies in any way Backbone/Angular/Ember are... or even the way early versions of Rails were used.

Backbone.js was the starting point of the huge JS MVC community that exists today. Primarily due to it's simplicity and Rails-esque nature, where as Sproutcore was unwieldily and enterprise-software-esque until work on Ember started.

Rails had many early predecessors as well but Rails was the one that did it right, and spurred that style of framework's popularity.
I first thought that perhaps spin wasn't the right word maybe it is (I just looked this up).

From this;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_%28public_relations%29

I see this:

"Bernays was able to help tobacco and alcohol companies use techniques to make certain behaviors more socially acceptable in the 20th-century United States. "

I don't think that the fact that it was said at the start makes that much of a difference. I think you can spin in advance as well as in retrospect.

In a sense he has been able to manage expectations the same way a high school student (who also plays football) might tell Dad "ok I will try out for the team like you want me to but I play sports keep in mind that my grades may suffer". Then when he gets mediocre grades he reminds his parents that he warned them. Or band or any extracurricular activity.
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Beautifully done. Thanks for selflessly putting all the code online as an excellent use of RoR.
At least one moderator here (with the username "dang") has blocked discussion of the fact that white men are actually underrepresented in tech.

For example, take a look at this thread from about three months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7662013

He labeled the submission itself a "troll" (and locked it) because it generated what he called "high-indignation, low-information" responses. Read the responses and decide for yourself. It's pretty clear that "high-indignation, low-information" just means "doesn't support my ideology".

> it would be healthier if people stop this self persecution

If only it were self-persecution.

It's actually persecuting other (infinitely less powerful) white men and boys by implying "You—as a member of the group who will be most negatively affected by the policies we are discussing—are not allowed to object."
Thanks for your reply, that's some useful information.

I'm writing as a self-taught programmer who has spent years trying to get a handle on the maths of game development and computer graphics; for the most part that means calculus, linear algebra and geometry.

I went to high school in the UK where I was not taught calculus, or for that matter even told that I could go to university. My experiences did lead, I must admit, to some hostility towards the educational establishment and a strong desire to succeed without their help!

I first learned of calculus when I was about 18 and I bought a book on computer graphics programming. I was all geared up to start doing some cool 3d stuff, when all of a sudden I saw this strange elongated "S" symbol, which of course was not explained in the text. This confused me, when the book had a mathematical appendix describing the simplest vector operations (which I did learn in high school) in some detail. And that was the beginning of my frustration!

There just seems to be such an enormous gulf between high school, "everyday" mathematics and anything coming after. I would like to think that in a world where programming is now so popular, that the border between everyday mathematics and the higher reaches of academia would shift a little and a kind of intermediate area would open up.
> Let's say I have a magic wand which will make all -isms go away in one waving. I waved, -isms went away and now what? Where do I hire skilled black female CoffeeScript developers?

This is a bit strange to say. If there were less barriers for people in tech, there would be more of different kinds of people in tech. Indeed, combating sexism and racism in tech should, in time, lead to more participation from people who currently are not in or leave tech quickly.

> So it's not just her, there's a solid group of (mostly white though) girls interested in math and other similar topics. Where these girls disappear later?

There are a variety of reasons why women do not pursue STEM that may happen at various times of their lives. If you want to know why that happens, you'd best look for the written experiences of woman and the reasons why they left. There's been quite a lot of blogging by some of those women on the subject.

> I understand that I'll learn this in a hard way later, but if there're valid theories out there, may be I'd be able to prevent her from losing interest in math, special video effects, photography, optics, etc.

Being supportive is great, but keep in mind you won't have the same experience as your child, esp. considering they are living in a different time and with a different gender. There ultimately may be, in fact, nothing you can do. But in this case your best bet is to read about the experience women have faced in STEM and share those resources.

> Something tells me it's not just our (white tech male population) sexism, it's a problem rooted deeper.

Sexism is both interpersonal and institutional, the deeper roots of the problem is still sexism and misogyny, among other things.
Then you simply tax the service. But on the other hand, higher taxes don't always result in higher revenues.

In fact, you might see an uptick in revenues. If people see they might save money with that method then more people might be likely to buy the item they, otherwise, may not have.

It all depends on how the taxes are structured.

Of course, we then slide into complicated tax code like we have now.
I don't see it as freedom vs. price, I see it as ethical position vs. cost reduction. That said, you're right that I could have gone into it further, but this was a spoken interview over lunch, so it's not as tight as it could be, and this magazine is also not for programmers, so it's a little harder to dig into the details.
This point is not brought up enough. It is often buried or left out entirely in these discussions.

Corporations that invert will not stop paying US taxes. They will stop paying it on foreign-earned income.
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Great question! Our customers think of it in terms of how many employees they'd have to hire to get the same functionality. They say we replace at least one engineer and at least one compliance manager. So $42k/yr for that is a good deal, according to them. We are adding a customer page soon so you can meet the companies using Aptible and hear how they made those decisions.

The other thing I'll add is that there are no hidden costs and no gotcha fees. A Prod account gets you all of the help, training, and extra time from us you need to be successful. We don't consult and we never bill for our time.
I'm using Yosemite on Mac and I'm loving the Osaka font.

Screenshot: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/sh/3a95a8a8-978a-4371-8411...
This looks promising, and is definitely addressing a real problem. Even our relatively simple product is spread across dozens of private GitHub repos (lots of micro services, shared libraries and infrastructure-as-code repos).

Tracking issues that span repositories is enough of a problem that we had an intern take a stab at building a digraph of issues, with edges being references between issues (e.g., "requires #45"). We open-sourced the work in progress called issue-graph[1]. It has a long way to go before it's useful on it's own, but perhaps OP or others here would find it a useful jumping off point. We're very happy to take feedback.

I'm really looking forward to trying Codetree when it's ready. Derrick, feel free to email me (address in my profile) if you'd like some thoughts on the pain points I see. I would LOVE to pay for a product that addressed them.

[1] https://github.com/markitx/issue-graph
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I appreciate that this post takes the time to acknowledge a few specific problems along with suggestions for actions.

I haven't seen much of the former in diversity releases - just 'diversity' on its own as if the word alone represents both every possible problem and validates the proposed solutions.

It's hard to put into few words, but as I think of it, diversity is neutral - it's just a measure and the goal shouldn't be dragging it one way or another just reducing friction.

EDIT: To be clear, when I refer to friction I mean any barriers beyond individual control which prevent people, whoever, wherever from entering and/or excelling in the field.
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Will 2.1 actually be usable? It seems like 2.0 has missed that mark in every single release.
Don't stress it. You probably have the time to actually enjoy things in life... workaholism isn't inherently positive.
None of these examples were worst case scenario. How well does the ocean absorbs the ionizing radiation from a meltdown or some other extreme event? Would part of the ocean's water become radioactive and spread through currents? Are the oceans so voluminous that the effect would be only a minor increase in radiation levels?
That does not follow. Complaints about double taxation on dividend income are based on the existence of corporate taxes.
even without it being related to the athletic conference, and refering only to those schools, that is for the most part a completely different set of schools than the ones whose alumni are involved in the startup/VC game.

Words mean things.
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You need to either work with the urls or scrape the target page; this makes it sound like you want to scrape the page. The problem with the latter is that it's a lot of work to get rid of all the cruft (header, footer, nav, ads, js) around the actual content and the python libs that claim to do this for you do an utter shit job. I've used boilerpipe and it's not helpful. diffbot claims to do this but I've never tried them.

What do you mean by blogspam?

If you had pure article text, you can do a pretty good job. An obvious technique is to build a histogram over 1,2,3 grams then do something like cos_sim. This sounds very slow but you don't have that much content and can be easily sped up via lsh. That doesn't solve your containment problem, but it helps w/ dups. Containment could potentially be done via windowing.

edit -- i'm sure you've reached out, but there's a yc founder with a lot of experience doing both of these.

edit2 -- of the two challenges: 1 - turning url into extracted text, and 2 - fingerprint matching, #1 strikes me as much harder

edit3 -- I'm going to suggest the plagiarism detection is probably misleading because they're working with already clean text, eg word or txt representations. If you want fingerprinting to work, you need to test it with all the page cruft or your best attempt at quickly cleaning page cruft. Again, I think you'll find this harder.
Such naked ad hominem. Your argument would be much more compelling if you were capable of addressing Mark Cuban's arguments directly.