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Like your idea about combining excel and Ipython a lot. So many people start with excel because it makes it easy to enter data and put up a couple plots, but by the time you want to do something more serious, you have multiple worksheets and cross references everywhere that are difficult to replicate into MATLAB or Ipython or a similar environment. Definitely see a market for that.
We use Amazon RDS and S3. Only applications are run in the cluster.
A huge fraction of those historical self-sufficient kids also died young for preventable reasons.
This discussion thread started with:
>I don't understand the whole "If you behave logically as a business we hate you" sentiment.

Yes, companies can legally and rationally reduce their taxes to the absolute minimum. Viewing as immoral the act of taking from society while maneuvering to give nothing back seems completely reasonable. Disliking someone you see acting immorally should be perfectly understandable.

HOLY SELECTIVE QUOTING BATMAN!

The Supreme Court decided exactly opposite of what you try to covey with your quotes (from the dissenting judge of a lower court):

In these circumstances, the facts speak for themselves and are susceptible of but one interpretation. The whole undertaking, though conducted according to the terms of subdivision (B), was in fact an elaborate and devious form of conveyance masquerading as a corporate reorganization, and nothing else. The rule which excludes from consideration the motive of tax avoidance is not pertinent to the situation, because the transaction upon its face lies outside the plain intent of the statute. To hold otherwise would be to exalt artifice above reality and to deprive the statutory provision in question of all serious purpose. GREGORY v. HELVERING, 293 U.S. 465 (1935)
These things look the same even when there is an actual chance of it happening.
The corporate tax is the only disincentive to use corporations. There must be one, or the corporate veil will start to be used for trivial things. We see this already, even with corporate taxes, in e.g. patent trolls or Hollywood films.

Small businesses are mostly proprietorships, partnerships, and LLCs anyway, which don't generally need to pay corporate taxes. Mid-sized businesses might be hurt by the corporate tax, though.
What's the evidence that sexism is a more tractable problem than racism? Just curious...
debating the extent of the problem of sexism is in tech relative to other fields is very different from saying "there is no sexism in tech at all"
Flynn itself costs $3,000/year at the most basic service level, before you even start covering infrastructure. Why shouldn't I just write what I need in a few hundred dollars worth of hours?
Love the idea of your company finally someone sticking up for the people
He's not trying to guilt companies into paying more taxes. Fairly certain he knows that would be a colossal waste of time.

He's trying to stir up support for closing the loopholes.
As long as the US has existed, there has been corporate personhood. The Supreme Court has argued it in terms of corporations being essentially groups of people acting together for a common cause, and noted that working together should not invalidate the rights to free speech, religious practice, entering contracts, etc. Chief Justice Marshall said it this way in 1830: "The great object of an incorporation is to bestow the character and properties of individuality on a collective and changing body of men."

Key cases (you can find them all at http://supreme.justia.com/ ):
Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. 518 (1819)
Providence Bank v. Billings, 29 U.S. 514 (1830)
Santa Clara County v Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 118 U.S. 394 (1886)
United States v. United Auto Workers, 352 U.S. 567 (1957)
I think you're completely right. For me, maps is absolutely the most important feature of my phone, followed by texting, then web, then voice. Bing isn't a bad runner-up to Google in a lot of ways, but it is clearly still a runner up. That last quality hurdle requires a lot of foot soldiers on the ground collecting data. Google has such a small army. Microsoft doesn't--at least not at the scale Google does. Apple's release was a facepalm for several reasons, not least of which was their omission of public transit routing. As an urban planner, I was incensed enough to drop IOS as my last phone upgrade in favor of Android.

Moreover, I would have liked for Apple to double down on open map data by creating the software and supporting infrastructure to collect geospatial data from all those portable, network-connected sensors they keep selling. I'd have put up with an inferior Apple map product if I could rationalize it in terms of them helping build OSM up.
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Isn't Helm, sucessor of Anything, much more than CtrlP could ever be?
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Thanks for sharing this. I am going to ask my church if they would be interested in using it. I could easily spin this up on a PaaS and get it up and running. Really neat and original software, kudos man.
Same here. I'm waiting for clean and nie solution to utilize all spare hardware, I have in my company. It would be great to have simple PaaS running on one machine, it would be awesome to utilize them all. If someone could give me step-by-step instructions / solution how to do this, I would really pay for that (or support open source, if that's the case).
the scientific method includes independent confirmation of results, so duplicating others' work is actually learning and understanding the scientific process. publication on the other hand...
So how would you envision that the Emacs OS should be structured/used?
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But is that because they were treated like adults, or because healthcare was primitive and unevenly distributed?
This looks more like a gimmick to cash in on overconfident people, who want to have some extra bragging rights on the course, than an insurance. Who gets insured for something that costs you $650 at max and is totally avoidable?
One of the ways that people slow down progress, in startups or in society, is by resisting unreasonably at every step in a series of steps in an argument.

If you want to debate that, that's fine, just do it somewhere else. It appears that Y Combinator has accepted the ample evidence of the presence of sexism in tech, and is focusing discussion away from existence, and towards the next necessary steps. Rehashing the evidence of the previous step may be an OK exercise, but it's not the most fruitful step right now.

HN doesn't have to be everything to everybody, it gets to be what it wants to be.
I agree with you, but I really don't like the term "race to the bottom" - it's is just a fear-mongering term for competition and the inconvenience and sometimes embarrassment that comes with the realization that something you thought you were good at can actually be done cheaper and better.

"The bottom" is the best service/price tradeoff (with the desired service level delivered as efficiently as possible, ie. at the lowest price).

Ireland luring businesses with a low tax rate and Americans and other higher tax countries complaining about a "race to the bottom" is much more similar to the creative destruction that takes place when say Postgres and MongoDB displace an expensive Oracle DB (and the reactions of both Oracle and high-tax advocates are pretty similar).
> Can we stick to arguments not based on nationalist fervor?

We can, perhaps. The POTUS generally has a harder time winning arguments by doing so.
> I don't understand the whole "If you behave logically as a business we hate you" sentiment.

FWIG, Cuban's attitude sounds like "what is good for the business isn't always good for the investor". In a less twitter-friendly format, filing offshore creates a tax-shortfall that will be borne by your stakeholders. While this cost might not be felt by Mr. Cuban, in this case he would be acting logically (in a sense).

> It is the job of a business to make money, the most money possible, at all costs.

First time I've heard that one. Here I thought the purpose of a business was to create value for its stakeholders. Mind you, value can be products for your consumers, jobs for your employees, or capital for your owners. Usually this means money, but not always.
Is anybody besides me still having the problem with Emacs on Mavericks where the OS X distnoted process gradually eats up gigabytes of RAM? It seems to have to do with running multiple instances of Emacs.
There is a culture in africa for which the concept of relative direction doesn't exist. How would they perform at this test?
fleet definitely does not provide a nice integration with docker, and we're definitely trying to decide how we can provide a better integration story. And yes, systemd is complex, but with that complexity comes great power.
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do you really think we are trying to "score points for 'addressing diversity'"?

That's the net effect; it's not my place to impute a motive.

All I'm saying is that you wrote a piece about sexism and titled it as if it were about a broader topic. And I know that you're usually a sharp, precise writer.

I do recognize that none of this is easy and I think it's admirable that you've addressed this (very thorny) topic. You've said that you plan to address the other aspects of diversity as it relates to YC and I'm looking forward to reading about it.
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So, you ignore the bits of the Swartz case which were about his access of a network by spoofing MAC address and user agent?

You also ignore all the "piggybacking" cases?

Here are a few: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_piggybacking#Unite...

Here's the Met Police saying that they intend to prosecute all such behaviour: http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/08/22/us-britain-wireles...

Still: I'm not sure how you conclude that it is not fraud just because no-one has been to court yet.
Woa there. So judges define what's moral and what's not now?

I believe judges quite specifically help define what's legal. Whether they include a little addendum about morality in their verdicts or not is completely besides the point: This whole thread is about that ethics and law aren't the same.
There's a huge difference between not paying the intended amount of taxes, and executing Herculanean acrobatics through (probably lobbying-induced) loopholes.

Also, these (implicit) appeals to the authority of judges always confuse me. Judges have political opinions, just like anyone else, and land on both sides.
It may be a tough problem for the current state of AI, but one day I want to see to life a consequence engine for real-life decisions. For example, when a new law is proposed, the engine interprets every stipulation, relates it to economic principles, legal decisions, historic analogies, etc, and produces probabilities of second, third and fourth orders of consequences that might result from the law as structured. There are many bad ideas and decisions made in government and elsewhere that could be avoided if something objectively evaluates the consequences of said politically or pork-motivated moves.
Is it a regional thing? I have never seen any retailer offer a cash discount or a credit card fee. Some businesses are cash-only, but I've never seen anyone actually exercise this right.

And cash is actually free, whereas BTC they're still paying small transaction fees and Coinbase's cut when converting back to USD.
Dude, you shouldn't shill on someones product launch especially since you're not providing meaningful feedback on how your product differentiates itself from Aptible.
That's totally going to convince companies to stop doing that.
There could be ten thousand other companies or just individuals who bring significant benefits to society, but who are forced to pay more in tax to make up the deficit from big corps avoiding it. It doesn't add up - you can't measure the benefit a corp has to society.

Of course there's the counter argument that corps can be a drag on society - for example, it's pretty clear that pesticides are causing significant problems for bee populations, yet the costs aren't paid by the big corps producing those (cough Monsanto). The big corps don't pay for their drag on society unless they're doing something illegal or due to negligence, in which case they usually pay a fine, which is a pittance, and still won't cover the overall losses society has. Banks are another example - does society really gain shit by bailing them out? Shouldn't they in fact, be paying way more - the same tax gambling establishments pay.
Businesses are fungible. What's the difference between "I'm moving my business overseas" vs "I'm closing down my American business and starting an overseas business?"

Trying to catch this is nailing jelly to a tree.
Not yet. I will shortly.
Is there a case in history where rules against gambling have worked?
What missing here is any reference to time. Amazon is taking a short term loss on profit to maximize their long term ability to make as much money as possible. That's what maximizing market share is about.
Actually it's more like raid0 than separate partitions, because anything upstream of memory controller does not have to care about this in any way. The amount of complexity between modern CPU and memory is quite fascinating (and huge amount of essentially invisible and relatively complex stuff is there at least since i486, i.e. with anything that does not care, in the works/does not work sense, about how you combine memory modules).
Great job, Tim. Looks really solid. I really think you should team up with someone to offer hosted versions of this to churches (take the WordPress model).

My church uses The City [0] which charges anywhere from $20 to hundreds of dollars a month. It works well but I definitely think there's room for others. Also, Zondervan acquired The City from the developer/Mars Hill (he was an Amazon engineer too IIRC).

I also think it would be huge to let churches connect a Stripe account and add giving via cc.

Anyway, I think this is awesome and I respect your passion. If you ever need help with anything, drop me a line.

[0] http://www.onthecity.org/pricing/
If you're looking for someone that provides the database component with the ability to upgrade to moving your entire stack to the cloud, Catalyze has both BaaS and PaaS offerings.

I think HIPAA-BaaS are great products to get storing PHI (Protected Health Information) immediately. I'm working with companies in health tech right now that are working with hospitals, but not storing patient data. BaaS, from startups like Catalyze/TrueVault/Medable, provide a quick and easy way to get started on that path and determine if it's a good long-term strategy for your company. But, once you're dealing with enough patient data crunching, the rest of your application stack will really need to be secure. That's where PaaS products like Catalyze/Aptible come in.

(Disclaimer: I work for Catalyze)

EDIT: Medable, not Medible.
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> Language is the serialization format for abstract concepts.

Woa nice! Good analogy. Will steal.
> he's signaling that the equity has lost value.

But it hasn't. If anything, such announcements are followed by a stock value increase since the savings that will result from this move will add up to the bottom line, and the market responds positively to this kind of news.

Lay offs are another of these things that tend to drive stocks up.
Read what I wrote more carefully.

I said that the same reasons why there has not been a court case are the reasons why the above commenter can safely write what he has written without fear of prosecution.
Yesterday in Toronto, a plane made an emergency landing. The news ignored it as just an usual everyday thing, because you know, it happens everyday... Just kidding, they actually called it a "multiplication" of aviation incidents.
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My very non-scientific response: I want me or my wife, or a trusted caregiver involved in every feeding. When you feed your young baby, you're also checking them for all kinds of things - no choking, no vomit that needs to be cleaned up, is their sleep area still safe, etc.

I'm all for automating and using technology to make difficult situations better, but this is really something where you do want human interaction every time.
I would say it slightly differently: if your company is willing to spend time and resources on the move for tax reasons and if taxes is such a big part of the future expected bottom line, that it's likely the company is not seeing huge opportunities going forward - and that is a negative signal for the stock.
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I would definitelly go for SaaS app for more comprehensive team / company management. I'm building something now (http://teamlens.io), but I do not have full year to commit. It would be really awesome to work stress-free on something. Anything that could profit in future, but without everyday stress (I run software house and hire > 10 people - it tends to generate abnormal amounts of stress from time to time).
Why not a progressive sales tax based on the pricing of the individual item?

As for the data collection, for most people the government already has all that info anyway.

The stipend would open the door for the possibility of the guaranteed basic income some people have been going on about lately. People would already be accustomed to the government sending them a monthly check for essentially being alive.
They're certainly entitled to optimize their tax structure. It's the age old tension of capitalism where optimizing for the individual can harm the greater good. Joe Smith at the top of the river dams it not realizing/caring that it'll impact 100 farmers down the river. Cuban's just calling them out saying "Your actions will dry up the taxation pool resulting in me being squeezed elsewhere and forever so I don't want to encourage that behavior as it's not in my long term economic interests"
Yeah, this seems to be common.

CoreOS seems to do a decent job as the application layer for something operating in a larger cloud that provides database and file storage as services, like Amazon or OpenStack. However, I think Docker has the potential to eliminate the need for infrastructure-level "clouds" to be so complex. The basic unit can be the container instead of the instance, so you don't need fancy automated instance management and all that. It'd be nice if you could also obviate the need for the other external services, and just run everything in containers on metal.

I was really excited by CoreOS as a way to do this, but it seems to fighting me at every turn. It seems much easer to just wire together the REST APIs of several Ubuntu/CentOS nodes running Docker.
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> via high-paying jobs, collecting payroll & sales taxes and income taxes.

In other words, doing what's absolutely necessary and expedient in order to make profit and not flagrantly disregarding certain portions of tax law?

And in the case of tech companies such as Apple, the "high paying jobs" bit comes with an extra bit of irony since they were doing the exact opposite to a criminal extent.

Color me unimpressed.
Sample images should be the first thing you show when talking about a font. Instead it's just text?
> Vatican City the 18th wealthiest nation in the world per capita.

Per capita stats for the State of Vatican City really don't tell much even about the wealth of the Catholic Church as a church. Its kind of live judging the wealth of the United States by dividing the assets of the federal treasury by the number of people who live in the White House and the US Naval Observatory.
He's saying their economic behavior will hurt his overall wealth in the long run so he wants to discourage their behavior. Both are acting as rational economic actors.
Flynn co-founder here. Flynn is free open source software and always will be.

Our managed service is for users who want to outsource the management of the cluster to us. There's no secret extra technology (it's just Flynn underneath), what you pay for is a professional ops team to manage your cluster. The service is also freemium (and free for the vast majority of users).
{That link returns a "no such item" for me. EDIT: Thanks Minmaxir; not sure why I missed something so obvious}

I used to flag a lot of these stories as soon as I saw them. I stopped doing that and now I wait until the discussion turns toxic - which it almost always does - before I flag them.

I'm not sure that waiting for the conversations to turn awful is a useful tactic.

Also, it would be great to know if there was vote-ring style detection on some of these threads. It feels pretty clear that there is infiltration from RedPill like posters who vote and post in groups, but I am aware that this is strongly playing to my biases and perhaps it's just people who happen to agree with each other.
Bad headline. The "trick" is not a trick, it is allowed under the current law. Should read, had the headline been written by an objective journalist, "Obama presses to close corporate tax loophole."
What about ageism?
It's really strange to attach morality to a corporate headquarters location. I am not sure it's any more moral for a corporation to be headquartered in the US than in Ireland. Congress is free to prohibit corporate inversions.
How is it leveling the playing field, if it equally harms people how religiously pay for all their software and music and don't block ads?
Beta's coming soon and we're still on target to ship a production-grade stable version of the major features in a few months.
A ship like the Savannah serves as a demonstrator. It wouldn't matter if the nuclear powerplant was used to ship people, cargo or both - the point is that it could fit inside a large container ship just as well as it would fit on a passenger ship or anything in between.

As I see, the biggest reason not to have a nuclear ship is not to risk giving a fully fueled nuclear reactor to pirates.
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I'm disagreeing with viewing as immoral legally reducing your tax burden. I picked a few quotes for that.

The IRS goes after (and the courts have supported doing so) those attempting to use loopholes to reduce their tax burden. If the IRS isn't going after the money of corporations doing this, then it likely is within the bounds of the tax code.
Is it wise to specify how much insurance to the public?
I'm sure it's not intentional, but you don't actually give a source.

I'm not sure why I find the missing citation so funny (probably because the claim is pretty surprising), but I laughed really hard and up-voted you in case it was a joke and not a mistake.
The url is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8083596 ; Markdown does not like it when you put punctuation next to a URL.

I don't think I've ever flagged a thread based on the comments (down votes are sufficient), but that's not a bad idea.
That's weird that you sort of put your foot in the water here and are more right than 8 or so of these replies. A business, that Cuban's referencing, job is to optimize shareholder value. There might be rare occasions where that means paying higher costs or having lower revenues than is possible but for the most part the best way to do that is to make as much money (profit) as possible within the law.
I was just talking to someone about this today. Also, augmented audio.