skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how is VAT then distributed to tax collecting entity?

The same way it is with any other payment system, by having the vendor pay the tax collecting authority. Again, the payment system is totally irrelevant here.

Seeing your clarification in the other response:

As for the issue of the exchange rate and convertibility on taxes, I can only speak from the local law here, but the defining section of VAT regulations says that if the sale "contract" specifies the exchange rate between the used currency and EUR, that is the rate to be used for the calculation of VAT due. If you wouldn't mention the current Bitcoin/EUR rate on the invoice, you move into undefined territory.
I don't disagree with you, and partly I have always wanted to write a game or two (I've published many other non-game apps, also w/o much financial success), but I wanted to learn about the market... and I did!
Our banks have reviewed our model. Banks can always change their mind which is why we work with multiple banks.
She's an engineer actually fixing recruiting... What more could you want for a talent acquisition thought leader.hopefully she can bring about more evangelism to recruiting.
Only if they are bad communicators. And then you either lose any record of what was discussed or you have to write notes, which will have to be clear without human interaction anyway, so why not just write that email and draw those diagrams and save everyone the trouble from the start?

I firmly believe meetings are a waste of time.
I'm guessing you don't have kids and do work in downtown Seattle? And rarely visit Lake City or West Seattle or anywhere south of Seattle? Or anywhere requiring a transfer outside of commuting hours?

Because those are all significantly (hours more) to take mass transit than to drive.
Thanks for the detailed reply. I had some trouble building the whoke thing under Debian stable (with a 3.14 kernel from backports, trying to force everything to work under my user id in $HOME/opt. Not too surprising. Meteor serms to be part of the problem (got it working with its self-contained binary install) - as well as the apparent need for a newer libfuse and some c++ headers I couldn't quite figure out. Although I was building with clang-3.5). I'll have a go at getting the vagrant box up, and then trying again in a Debian testing vm/chroot. If that fails, I'll have to go with an ubuntu vm/chroot :-)

At any rate, sounds like my 4 core gbuplink hetzner box with 16gb ram should have no problem working with this (obviously overkill for a personal playpen, but its good to know I have lots of headroom...).

Are you planning to stay with meteor going forward? The other components seem much less complicated to get up and running, and more sys.adm. friendly. An example being the need (?) for node/npm and meteor's bundled node/npm...
I know this seems like a good move, but I live in a part of Louisiana that wasn't directly affected by Katrina or Rita that the victims of both retreated to. I've gotta say I'd never do it, the amount of problems that resulted from that was too high. Just imagine anything and everything trashed or vandalized.
Will be very interesting to see what impact a successful model here would have on the trade-in/re-sell revenue of brick and mortar. I believe these numbers have been hovering in the 25% range for the past few years.
Not ads - Sponsored listings. A good example is the YouTube video feed; the first video is usually a Sponsored video. I wouldn't care so much except they're usually link bait videos with hot girls or people getting hurt in "funny" ways. Don't want.

EasyList and other filter sets work on most AdBlock versions. I also use the social filters to speed up page load since most pages are waiting on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, etc auth & cookies before they can finish displaying.
I thought the medallions were issued by the government agency?
>"Of all the materials that one might use in an anode, lithium has the greatest potential. Some call it the Holy Grail," said Yi Cui, a Stanford professor of materials science and engineering and leader of the research team. "It is very lightweight and it has the highest energy density. You get more power per volume and weight, leading to lighter, smaller batteries with more power."

while it is theoretically true, the lithium is only part of the whole weight. The metals of the same group - potassium or sodium (though sodium seems to have more issues than potassium) anode looks order of magnitude easier (on the order of Al anodes while still being rechargeable) and provide almost the close to lithium perf/weight when whole battery is considered.
> Visit this site with "Acceptable Ads" enabled and disabled and you will see the difference

Nowwhere did I say pages with the x-adblock-key were not respecting the "Acceptable ads" setting.

I said that there are more whitelisted sites than just what is presented as the only list in the section titled "How can I see what you are allowing?" on ABP's reference page regarding "acceptable ads" [1].

[1] https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads#list
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As a developer with a fairly interesting background, I've been getting messages from recruiters for years. As Aline's post elucidates, most of the messages are completely impersonal. I had been ignoring these e-mails for years. I then got a message from a recruiter that was really well written and completely geared towards me. I was shocked that someone took the time to actually read my resume. That recruiter got a response from me. He then lined me up with a gig. His approach also got four other people hired at the job he lined me up with.
To be fair: Adblock Plus does not simply block ads on some specific domains, EasyList and other filter lists are pretty extensive. I do not like the business model either but how else could they make the necessary profits?

Adblock Plus (and similar add-ons) were not created because of such a business model but because of annoying and sometimes even dangerous ads.
I've lived car-free in Chicago for 4 years. The only thing it'd be nice (for me, a child-free 20 something) would be to visit Michigan, which I just take Amtrak.

Instacart does my groceries and it's only about an hour or so going from the North side to the West side on the "L". Pretty great.
You didn't even work at said company let alone interview there, so what makes you claim they can "hijack an iPhone remotely by only knowing a person's phone number"?
You're thinking wrong. You're thinking like you're going to only use one language ever in your career. You're not (unless you have a very stunted career).

Learn what you're doing, independent of language. Then also learn what you're doing within the language.
Wrong. NaN% of your friends are male... NEXT
The goal is to wipe out the used games market.

They've determined that it's more profitable to suck $30 out of people every year and pummel them with DLC and kill the used market.

Uh, yeah, if I wanted any confirmation that this console generation should die, this is it.
Thank you! That means a lot :)
I couldn't find 'letters' by searching on 'letters' in the app store... too many other things came up first. By search for your other games, then going to letters I was able to try it.

Pretty fun, would be nice if it had some of the 'hip' words used these days, "Selfie" etc

(edit, had some stuff in here about would be nice if there was an undo)
So what if this guy wanted to improve quality/tech in his cabs, make them connected like ubers, he could give uber a crazy run for their money in this market. Taxis are notorious for ripping people off in BsAs (I've been 7 times I know).

Would be an interesting experiment to see large capital groups coming in to big cities in LatAm and overhauling taxi fleets etc.
Or before, apparently. Knowing what the game market wants (and then designing that) is surprisingly hard.
It's easier for apps since you can build in failover support based on multiple servers pretty easily (I just implemented this in our 'live' installers recently on Windows). It's a bit harder at the website level for an average user, though. I know far too many people that have a single point of failure website on a super-cheap VPS that's just down whenever the VPS is down. Most of them would have no idea how to implement a load balancer and failover support. Though I could probably get them into something like CloudFare or similar.
.....no?

http://nypost.com/2014/02/26/taxi-medallion-auctioned-for-re...

http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/05/05/munis-taxi-meda...

They are normally sold by the city directly to a cab driver or cab company.

Some cities then collects taxes [e.g. trip taxes] and use the taxi medallion ownership and related legal records to track who is operating a cab that should be paying tax.

http://www.tax.ny.gov/bus/mctmt/taxi.htm

I'm pretty sure Argentina does the same.

e.g. Buenos Aires sells them

http://www.entedelaciudad.gov.ar/sites/ente.zonageo.com.ar/e...
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What are the best (usability- and design-wise) Open Source SPAs? What Frameworks (Design, front-end, back-end) do they use?
its working now , atleast for me .
I think EA's continued popularity is a damning indictment of consumers. They complain incessently about DLC, DRM, 0-day patches, unimaginative games, yet line up, year after year, to plunk down $60 for the next Madden.
Just a random statistic: in 2013 there were 216 homicides in Houston and 188 traffic deaths. It's easy to move away from crime, but in exurban America you cannot not have a car.
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Not sure I understand; the main variable for initial response is salary yet in none of the examples of initial emails salary is mentioned (that's my experience as well)
Thank you.

This explains thoroughly what is wrong with design patterns ala GOF. It's not that particular frequent patterns in particular languages or enumerating them in academic fashion is wrong. It becomes wrong when sophistry of these band-aids to language flaws are raised as somehow being really important, when actually they are just reactions to accidental complexity. It often creates unnecessary complexity to description of systems and cargocult overengineering.

I would claim that it's much more beneficial for budging engineers to program something they have not programmed before (like a space invaders clone or a scheme interpreter) than to remember each GOF pattern.

And, since these band-aids are unnecessary in several languages, it would be much more fruitful to learn one of these languages rather than memorize some band-aid.

The reason the patterns are common is that they are pretty much obvious after you understand the low-level language and you are familiar with some higher level language.

It's nice to be able to give things names, but, being able to name a bird does not mean you know anything about it's important characteristics. Or, to misquote Feynman, "GOF design patterns are pretty much as important to software engineering as ornithology is to birds".

Also, if you read Christopher Alexander's work, I would claim that GOF patterns are not patterns in the sense Alexander uses.

I've seen quite a bit of damage done by GOF patterns. Simple code bases become more complex due to an implementation of some GOF pattern because that's "the modern way to do it by the book".

I would claim that it's important to first figure out a most simple way to do something, and if it fits into some GOF category then fine, you can identify it and move on.
It might not be in there yet. The app was released about an hour ago.
> Practically and legally, everything Congress does is jammed through Article I Section 8 of the Constitution, which grants it the authority to "regulate" interstate commerce.

Actually, virtually all of Congress' enumerated powers are in Article I, Sec. 8. The interstate commerce clause, specifically, is unlikely to be cited in a defense of the NSA -- more likely, the Necessary Proper Clause of Art. I, Sec. 8, along the military powers in the same section (and the obligation to protect the states against invasion in Art IV, Sec. 4) would be more likely -- those who view the designation of the President as Commander-in-Chief of the military in Article II as a power of that office might be inclined to cite that "power" along with the Necessary and Proper Clause of Art. I, Sec. 8, instead.
Except, of course, everybody on the deep web.
Linode can't silo resources on a per VPS basis and constantly will harass you for over-utilizing your share of arbitrarily enforced limits. Just a heads up if you actually utilize your instances.
Thanks for writing this up, it is always interesting and saddening to getting a deeper look at indie development on the app store.

It seems like more simplistic puzzle games like these have potential to completely blow up, but the market is also completely flooded with them. And I have found that it can be difficult to find quality in the genre. I would imagine that games that have heavier focus on art and polish can make a world of difference. It seems it gets attention from blogs/review sites and more probable for Apple to feature them.

Regardless, it is frustrating that your hard work that goes into these games didn't get the attention they may have deserved. Keep up the great work and hopefully we hear back from you soon about a monetarily successful game, whether that be in the app store or elsewhere.
I was unclear. I meant that copying a cup would not be copyright infringement. That's what I meant by patents being a different issue.
I'm back up as of 2:59pm EDT, so I was down for about 1:35. This is the only outtage longer than a few minutes I've had with DO thusfar.
I wonder what would happen if app games were run like desktop MMORPGs, where there is a monthly fee. That fee could even be paid via a site, also freeing the app of Apple's cut.
I agree with you in general. But learning the design patterns superficially, and applying them where they don't really fit, can in fact make someone a worse programmer. Hopefully they'll grow out of it, so the "damage" is part of the student phase, but some probably do get stuck there and never progress.
Maybe, although blasting the secondary market can have effects on the primary market by directly and tangibly increasing their lifetime cost. I'd hazard to guess that the most valuable consumers don't hang onto their games until they reach $0 residual value.
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I suspect this depends on where you're talking about. The actual residential streets are probably fine, it'll be the 'major' roads once you move from there where there's heavy traffic/people in a hurry where you might have more problems.

One of my friends has been shouted at several times cycling down a mile-road (i.e. 12-mile), that he should get out of the road.
Well, EA is quite dumb, sitting on many games and not letting anyone to re-release them or to create sequels (Neverhood for example). Rarely they have sober moments and release some games DRM-free, but that's about it.
> Flight Rules are the hard-earned body of knowledge recorded in manuals that list, step-by-step, what to do if X occurs, and why. Essentially, they are extremely detailed, scenario-specific standard operating procedures.

“Checklist” is the word for this. Checklists are widely used in aviation (they seem to have one for every case). I don't hear this term often in software engineering context, though Wikipedia says QA practices make use of checklists, too.
Subset? Isn't it more like a super set? IE6 (and above) has no files array that can be read with a FileReader and it only supports the types "Text" and "URL", no support for proper mime types.
yeah, i was on the verge about median age or average age...
about the age error, i dont know why that happens. i calculate your age by year but that should still return 30 and validate to "right".
This is not blackmailing but a mafia-like protection racket scheme: They create a problem (ads not showing up) that they offer the solution for themselves as well (white-labeling).
I'd recommend against this strategy, in general, why would some core functionality of a website depend on the ability to contact ad servers? Sounds like a way to pressure people into not using ad blockers, and the threat needs to be responded to (and can be responded to) by that ad block.

It's a really shitty game they are playing, because content providers can't win, but they can make the internet much worse.
The overall idea behind being "forced" to hire subs is that it helps promote smaller, local businesses. In the past this worked out very well, because the subs brought in some very knowledgeable people. I believe the old number was 25% of the people, and you could pull from anywhere. If you had a 20 person team, you could have 15 LM, 2 from Company X, and 3 from Company Y.

On DCPS, the problem is that LM is forced to hire 45% (FORTY-FIVE) of the subs through one specific subcontractor. That company had a previous contract with SSA, and SSA liked them. Since the sub essentially lost their work with SSA to LM, and they know LM was contractually obligated to hire through them, they stuffed us with a ton of below average folks.

On the face of it, I agree with the idea of a large contractor having to sub out some of the work to the smaller players; it's just that LM overplayed their hand trying to get this contract, and got screwed for it. But that's another story on how LM management is trying to make revenue numbers for bonuses...
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> I care about (not) being near crime

I would rather be around more crime, but victim to less of it. Your analysis trades the potential for being a victim more often to be around less total crime, which is why I think it's somewhat suspect. Perhaps that really is a trade you're willing to make, but I'm dubious.

> crime doesn't randomly sample across the set of all people, but makes me have to avoid certain times, places, and activities

Again, per capita measure is more important for figuring out if you should avoid an area than the crimes per area metric. (Also left out of this discussion is the distribution of offenses committed, which is paramount I'd argue.)

An example from where I live: there's higher crime per unit area at 9pm (it varies by time) at the mall downtown than the gas station/bowling alley/billiards room complex where the gang members loiter in the south end of town. (I looked up police numbers, because you made me curious.) But I know which one I'd rather be at based on the distribution of types of crimes and the per capita numbers. Hint: it's not the gas station.

This is a good example of higher numbers of people hiding a lower rate of victimization per person: there are literally hundreds of times more people downtown than at the gas station, so a marginally higher crime per area rate means I'm actually less likely to be involved in a crime. (Given how little of the mall you can see at once, I likely wouldn't even know it happened.)

So let me ask you: what is it you think that the crime per area figure gives you that crime per capita doesn't?
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"but twice in a row clients have a hard time swallowing."

May I ask what your clients are paying?

Maybe the answer is to charge them more instead of giving them a low price (an assumption on my part of course which is why I ask what you are getting for this) and some implicit guarantee of uptime.

For example we had some customers some time ago who were pooled on a shared IP address for sending SMTP service. Occasionally they would experience problems with mail reputation on that shared IP. If they complained about that would simply explain that that was the drawback of a shared IP and that they could always upgrade to a service level where they got a unique IP and could establish their own reputation.
first thing i learned today: i should have built logic that prevents you from starting before all fb data is fetched.

HN users seem to be much faster than my siblings...
> I'm guessing that the games will only be available for a limited period of time, then if you still want to play them you'll have to purchase them, which would be very different from Netflix.

Actually that'd be exactly the same as Netflix. Netflix takes content down all the time. I have quite a few movies in my queue that are no longer available for streaming.
Really great, this will change the way stakeholders reach actionable agreement around a store of economic value like a decentralized asset, in both a public and secure way. Great work!
Good links, one more:
http://www.wired.com/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-hide-is-t...
I'm more pissed off by her inane tweets than by the meeting itself.
I agree!

http://cohousing.org is the movement of people looking for exactly what you are looking for.
> But again if you want to get technical, the Constitution restricts Congress's authority to provide for the common defense to having an army or a navy, but not an Air Force

It allows Congress to raise "Armies" (plural) and a Navy, and it allows Congress to choose how to equip and train the Armies it raises. I don't see that it prevents it from choosing to a equip one of the armies primarily with fixed-wing aircraft, training it in doctrine for employment of such equipment, and give it the name "Air Force" to distinguish it from other armies that are differently equipped and trained.
Apparently they're not that secretive, since you know about their internal tech, and you didn't work there and didn't even have an interview.

Pardon me for saying so, but your original comment and your responses to various requests for substantiation don't pass the bullshit test.

I'm not saying you are wrong, but I am saying you haven't remotely proven your claims to this audience.
The "enterprise-y" garbage you note has almost nothing to do with the mathematical competence of programmers who implement it.

You write as though programming is an exercise in mathematics. It's not, in general. There are specific problems where mathematics is actually a component of the problem/solution space, e.g. mathematical research, scientific computing, in which programming is the form of the solution to the math problem (analogous to, e.g. "express your answer using set notation", except in this case it's "express your answer in the form of a computer program"). Mathematics may underpin some of programming, and most often in some areas of computer science, but the vast majority of software development has very little to do with math.
The problem was that SQL is a giant standard that nobody implements really correctly and it would blow up the HTML5 standard enormously. Also I don't think there is anything wrong with an async-only API that does potentially do disk access.
On the other hand, I don't really see the need for stores to be unique. I go to stores to buy things. If they have what I need, that works for me. I think it's easy to associate big box stores with the ones that people tend to dislike, but there are also high quality places like Wegmans that are still big box, suburb-y stores.

It seems that much of the suburb vs. city debate comes down to culture and personal preference.