skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buzzfeed is having a pretty rough time transitioning to an actual journalist enterprise though. They've had a few editors lately fired for outright plagiarizing a majority of their listicles, including ripping directly from Yahoo answers of all places. To combat this they've also recently culled a significant number of old listicles from their 'media-lab' era. I forget the exact number but I want to say it was on the order of 4,000+ articles that were disappeared? I get that they're trying to improve their image but at the same time quote-unquote "actual journalists" wouldn't white-wash their past and would explicitly own up to the mistakes they've made.

tl;dr Original content is the new aggregation growth-hack but can't replace a lack of ethics.
My wife and I see ads for "Tim Horton's Cafe and Bake Shop" during NFL games on the US stations and it seems bizarre to us that they apparently felt Americans needed to have an explanation added to the name of the business.
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I often run sublime text next to my browser window. Obviously this depends on how you like to work. For me, this was a nice hack.
There's a tiny TH in Times Sq NYC, but it's horrible. It's basically a small counter top in a KFC or something. The donuts aren't made on premises.
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Here's the link: http://freakonomics.com/2014/04/04/bring-your-think-like-a-f.... They also mentioned it recently in their podcast.
They updated it last year: "Starting December 2013, boarding card reissue fees will be cut from €70 or £70 to €15 or £15."

You can see their fee schedule at: http://www.ryanair.com/en/fees/ — yes, they charge a fee to even assign you a seat.

(Anecdote: I had a printed boarding pass all crumpled up at the bottom of my bag (they let you check in weeks before your flight, so it had to survive for a while) and my poorly kept pass was basically unreadable by their scanners. The baggage check rep printed a new boarding pass for free (without even asking, since she couldn't exactly scan my home printed and crumpled paper)).
TIL there's a thing called "Dark Patterns".
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The Nationwide Building Society is still a mutual.
Hmmm, I'm not sure that has a similar effect. But use whatever works, I guess.
From the pics the light looks like something on fire. I'd speculate what he observed was a flaming oil slick on the water surface after the detonation.

Also if that's true it means that they lied about it being "in the range complex" - looks like it almost made its way to Russia.. explains why they detonated it.. nice little engineer/QA conspiracy theory
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I feel really bad about the fact that this is a thing. Apparently there are a lot of "entrepreneurs" that will always choose to annoy and damage others for a little currency. Why do these things have to be made illegal? They were immoral to begin with, that alone should stop people from doing it. Shame on you, people who sneak insurance into shopping carts and Ask-Toolbars into Java installers.
And it looks like he's going right back in.
And start putting together every piece of data you can that will help your case - emails, IM message logs, source code etc.
Yes, a good piece of regulation, but who believes in no regulation? To me, no regulation means no law, which means anarchy. And the only people who want anarchy are the same types of people who would be dead the first day it broke out.

But much of the regulation in the US is regulatory capture. We need regulation for the people, not for the companies. Moving in the right direction is a challenge and we need to break down the illusion that half the population is for good (those on our voting team) and the other half for bad.
Perhaps I'm ignorant, but this seems like and insane corporate tax burden compared to what many (most?) large organizations are reported to be paying. Can anyone explain if my assumption is wrong or why they pay so much?
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I've been pushing that idea of "[Establishment] In A Box" on anyone who would listen, too. Could you imagine, in the distant future, entire small towns turning migratory?
> When designing Go, we decided to avoid this minefield by mandating that there is no mixing of numeric types

Except when these values are constant, in which case you can mix at will.

Quite a weird design decision.
Idunno, I think there's room for admitting you have eclectic tastes and throwing in some compromises and making a game that isn't exactly your perfect fantasy but is something that includes elements you love in a way that's accessible to everybody else.
Experimental US hypersonic weapon explodes four seconds after launch in Alaska
This issue is just an instance of a big problem: there is not such thing as a data democracy, only a theory. It's not about Scraperwiki only, the SLA for the free Twitter API is very restrictive (i.e: number of calls per hour).

Twitter (and others) works like a cartel, imagine that you want to pay to increase the number of API calls per hour, you don't have a straightforward way to do it. Twitter has a lot to learn from what Google did almost a decade ago: make it easy to pay and work with your service instantly (AdWords).
Russian car accident images being ubiquitously dumped to unsuspecting Internet users via a common resource as Google Image Search absolutely _reaks_ of 4chan. Tossing in Durant just somehow seems to shore it up. I'd be very surprised if this were just a bug.
I wouldn't name and shame here on HN, because when you file a lawsuit they'll counterclaim for defamation. No point in muddying things. You're also susceptible to the defense that the PayPal dispute was a negotiation and settlement of the purchase price.

Disclaimer: I'm not your lawyer, this isn't legal advice. Do get your own lawyer to advise you on this, one familiar with licensing disputes.
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What, a centralized service is not good for democracy? Who would have guessed!
What I meant is, it's probably a bug, not a major hack or paranormal magic (as oposed to normal magic) like some have claimed.
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Find a lawyer. Dont comment any further on the matter in public.
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Personally, I find the CoreData API unpleasant to use ... I think SwiftData offers simplicity and the familiarity of SQL to developers.

But CoreData is a great option if you have time to learn it!
I guess it depends on taste. I prefer Tim Horton's coffee to Starbucks if there both black.
> Let's hope a form of this law spreads throughout Europe

Ummm... this is a EU wide law. The UK, as a member state of the EU, had to implement it into UK law (that's how EU laws work).

This is already the law of the land in all EU countries. Nearly all good consumer rights laws are done at the EU level.
Those are not really goals of US prisons. We're more into both institutionalizing revenge in order to prevent vigilantism and family feuds, and also protecting upper middle class neighborhoods and tourist areas from robberies and property crimes. Also locking up racial minorities for victimless crimes is a priority.
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I've only been to Canada a handful of times, but there is a massive quality and culture difference between TH and Dunkin. I actually enjoy going to TH and always dread walking into a Dunkin. I think if TH comes to town it'll hurt Dunkin in a serious way. All of the Dunkins near me are trashy little dumps or, ironically, semi-clean ones built into gas stations. I'd pay a higher price for better food. I can taste the dollar or so I'm saving at Dunkin and would rather just spend more for a better product.
The most important bit missed here is - what exactly are you doing?

I started as a physical worker, and when I switched to computers, coming back to physical work felt like taking a holiday.

Now when I'm actively managing people and finances, having a 3-day code crunch is my definition of a walk in the sunshine. Sometimes I literally can't stop smiling during that period, it's such a relief.
> Can anyone explain why the provider would be penalized further ?

Because nearly always the trader/seller has more power than the little guy. It's good to 'encourage' them to not break the law in the first place.

It's like punitive damages.
You're right, but that comes later.
I don't get Tim Hortons. Maybe because I'm an American but I feel like other Americans don't really get Tim Hortons as much as Canada does.
Edit their names out of this post, this will definitely be used in court, get a lawyer.
Well, I do wonder if there's any benefit to the TSA for finding drugs? Perhaps I should trawl theough the reports to see if the TSA uses drug-finds as part of their results to support their work?
We actually had a Tim Hortons in a container on the "boardwalk" at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. (It might have gotten replaced with a 12x40' trailer instead of a container at some point, though.)
Screw that, name and shame away. The nasty gits deserve it!
My understanding is that the TH in Camada have donuts shipped to them from. Central location rather than baking those on premises. Could be out of date info though, I don't know. I've wanted to try Tim Hortons just because it's a central Canadian think in a webcomic I once read (Avalon) but I have never succumbed to the idea of an insane weekend road trip to canada to try a donut. I do hope they come to the US near me.
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I feel you. I wish there was a better way. However, the application is currently using only 7MB or RAM and 0% CPU, according to the activity monitor (MBA ~ 2012). A small price to pay if reducing distractions is important to you.
Hey AirBnB. I hope you're listening. Sneaking in service charges and "cleaning fees" is no bueno. I know it's not you doing the later but I hate it when I find an apartment at an appropriate price then good hoodwinked for additional services I don't particularly care for.
oh cool, and they're taking this opportunity to cash in on vulnerable and disenfranchised populations. real winners here.
Hello,

Is there already a built-in package manager in Swift? Maybe CocoaPods will have support for Swift but, as a completely new environnement, I'm hoping that Apple will add a dependency manager for Swift.
I know this isn't Reddit or 4Chan, but I've never felt more compelled to post the following:

http://i.imgur.com/agJIP.gif
Ryanair switched "credit card fee" to "booking fee" ages ago.
Don't forget hair, nails, makeup, massage, personal training, personal stylists, personal assistants, interior design, restaurants, drivers, and prostitution.
Cool project, but if you want the same cinematic smoothing without the time lapse effect, I highly recommend Steady[1].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8048413

Edit: Hyperlapse can do this too. Thank you Wang.
If his book is half as good as hig blog, this will be a worthwhile read. Gabe Weinberg is one of the smartest and most thoughtful people on the Internet.
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I use Networx( http://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/manual/?lang=Eng...) , they have SNMP & UPnP for monitoring routers. No idea how they actually do it, I'm afraid.
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4chan was as clueless as everyone else, this time.
A lot of extras are sold on the plane or at checkin (like 60EUR for a boarding pass)

That's not an extra, that a "you should have printed the PDF at home" charge.
I've been intern, employed, freelance, self-employed, founder, consultant, and I haven't had any problem marketing myself. In fact, I had an online profile in one of those job seeking sites, and I had to take it off cos recruiters and headhunters were continuously calling me with job offers (but I was happily self-employed as stated in the CV!).

I think it is more about your achieved goals, projects and skills, and less about who have you been working for. If I were you, I'd just concentrate my efforts in building projects where you show off your skills (blog/portfolio, github, etc...). IMO this can be more powerful than a CV.
Someone's going to have to define "successful expansion" before this recurring point/counterpoint turns ugly.
Not all of them were. Many white lights, many red lights, some yellow and one green.

Them all being red at first could just be a color code for 'Oh shit, something unexpected has occurred with the immensely dangerous thing that we are downrange of'.
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They tried to expand down into New England a few years ago in 2010, but closed all those shops after a short time. Could not compete with the ubiquitous Dunkin Donuts (which has also kept Starbucks to a minimal presence.)
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I don't know what Tim Horton's is like south of the border, but I can't believe you're saying TH donuts are better than KK donuts.

TH donuts in Canada are made in a factory somewhere, frozen, and then heated to expand at the franchise. The KK I went to had a little automated assembly line, making them fresh.
1. Stop talking about it publicly.

2. Hire a lawyer.
Maybe?

First, we're trusting one person's word over another on HN; this is one of the wonderful reasons courts exist. And let's say hypothetically the person who just posted this loses in court, this nice little shaming comes back and bites them as a defamatory attack.
They might legitimately have no idea they "stole" the software. They probably didn't read the contract carefully, and they might assume that they did "pay" for it, albeit at a reduced price.

That said, they have every incentive to burn the $2m fighting this claim, because otherwise they have nothing. The best result for OP would be a negotiated sale of the software for some $$, or perhaps equity in the business if they can stomach the risk. Nobody wins if the legal dispute eats up all the money and sours the business.
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> they are not a lean startup

"Lean" in this context doesn't mean "cheap." http://steveblank.com/2009/11/02/lean-startups-aren%E2%80%99...

The key point from the article: "If you confuse Lean with Cheap when you do find a repeatable and scalable sales model, you will starve your company for resources needed to scale."
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Sure, because a race to the bottom (the best tax rate from a companys perspective? 0%) is exactly what the world needs. I've never understood why companies should only be liable to taxes in the country they are incorporated in. You do business here? Then you pay tax here.

Should be easy to fix. Somehow it isn't.
Personally I would not be posting things like this one the internet. The reason being if you sue them and in fact they aren't in the wrong they might decide to sue you back. Your making some very big claims.

You could be sued for liable or malicious falsehood.
Right, I don't think that's the only motivation, but it seems like it's at least part of it. If I read that article correctly, almost half of Burger King's locations are outside the US and Canada, and the revenue all of those locations, as well as the Canadian ones (however many of those there are) should see a reduction in tax liability; further, that slice of the pie is growing, as Burger King's US presence is shrinking while its foreign presence is growing.
Paper, Bolt, Slingshot and now Hyperlapse? Not to mention Facebook proper, Messenger and Instagram.

As much as I enjoy using Bolt, and I'm eager to give Hyperlapse a try, I do wonder what's with Facebook's new found fascination for these 'microapps'? How long will they maintain them for?
It may seen silly but the article could use a brief description of what's "crunch mode" since it was a new term to me.

Google: define:crunch mode
> "Crunch mode", also referred to as "crunch time," is the term used by those in the software development industry to describe working extra hours for extended periods of time in order to finish a project or meet a deadline.
> I'd pay a higher price for better food.

I just can't believe my eyes. Tim Horton's is where you go to get "I just need caffeine in coffee form I don't care how it tastes" in Canada. They are quite literally on most street corners, and while clean and efficient, I wouldn't say they offer anything superior to the DDs and KKs I've been to in the States.
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That was my guess as to where enforcement takes place. But this is already a great way to "reeducate" terrible retailers since there are often expensive chargeback fees even if the vendor wins the dispute ($15-25 in the US)
This is why it should be a progressive VAT. Essential goods have no to little tax (the same goods that say, food stamps would cover), consumer goods a higher tax and luxury goods the highest tax. Second-hand goods would have no VAT tax at at all, which is what low income earners should be purchasing in many cases.

Also, no tax system will solve inequality; the cause stems from other places (culture, education, government structure).
It has been almost 200 years since you won the War of 1812. Maybe this the first salvo in Tim's conquering the US market.
Downsides are the same as always. The higher the regulation burden, the fewer new companies and products we will see. This is how we ended up relying on Americans for almost every service online, computers, phones...

Even with all the upside, I don't that's the right trade-off. But once you start piling up exemptions, and industry-specific rules, you forgo most of the benefit you could have achieved with uniform regulation.

This was the whole point behind letting EU set up the regulatory regime: to create a single EU-wide market. It's self-defeating to unify it across countries and then break up into hundreds of industries.
Currently, I'm not aware of one.

However, once Swift comes out of beta (and with some time) I think the best practices to distribute libraries will become evident.

It would be great if Apple released a dependency manager for Swift, though!
They have tried to expand Tim Hortons to the US. There are still a couple around but it was a failure. In a large part because Tim Hortons is no better than any other fast food doughnut place.

The coffee sucks.
The doughnuts are made in Toronto, partly cooked, frozen and then shipped out to the retail stores. Yummy.

I will never understand the love for Tim Hortons.
I attribute Tim Hortons success in part because of patriotism. People go there because it is Canadian and also because it is cheap. If you drink your coffee "double double", it's fine coffee. As for the food it isn't expensive and has the impression of being fresh. They actually don't bake the donut in store anymore, but un-freeze them.

Personally, I'm more of a Starbucks fan since I drink my drip black.

My hope is that they close some Timmies down to open some Burger Kings. Burger Kings has the best poutine in my opinion. Burger Kings are rare these days in Canada.
I don't think I made a value judgment there. I have no objection to Burger King pursuing this strategy. I just think that motivation is part of the story -- it's not just about selling donuts in Canada, and the business aspects are worth reporting on, if for no other reason than to increase awareness about exactly the US tax law deficiencies you describe.
A Tim Hortons is about $2.10 a Starbucks grande is about $2.30 but it has more (50ml?) in it compared to a medium Tim's.

And if you buy with a Starbucks card and drink inside you get a free refill so it's now almost half the cost of a TH medium.

There are a lot of customers at Tim Hortons who sit inside most of the day, so complaining that Starbucks is more expensive while they pay double for less, well I guess they are as bitter as the coffee.

By the way in case anyone is curious Tim Hortons is spelled that way without the apostrophe. It was to appease the french language police in Quebec actually make that Québec, they like their apostrophes in different places I guess.
I'm Canadian, and I don't get it either. Everyone has their own preferences, I guess.
> there aren't many countries where corporation tax is above 35%... Japan comes to mind

Japan's is only slightly higher, at 35.64%:

http://www.kpmg.com/global/en/services/tax/tax-tools-and-res...

but that will actually be cut below 30% in the near future:

http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/24/news/economy/japan-abenomics...
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Tim Horton's is a Canadian cultural distinction from the US donut stores. The basic saying is that "Americans go to donut stores for donuts. Canadians go to donut stores for coffee."

The saying shows a basic difference in how TH emphasizes where they place their quality. TH places the top importance on the coffee (the coffee to be honest is average, but always fresh, and is a good price vs Starbucks). While Krispy Kreme places the emphasis on Donuts.

I remember when KK moved into Canada, everyone was raving about how delicious the donuts were, but that the coffee was $4!7.

EDIT: Krispy Kreme not Dunkin Donuts
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Excellent find
Shouldn't the Paypal dispute be separate from the actual IP? OP said that in the event of non-payment the "property" stays with OP. Couldn't you argue that the chargeback dispute was Paypal and not the Pigeonly guys?

Or, couldn't you argue that the Pigeonly guys charging back themselves is an admission that they shouldn't have the IP?
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You read a whole article full of evidence to the contrary, and you think you can wave it away by just ignoring it?
Because you only hear about the outliers that have gigantic losses that they carry forward to reduce their tax burden in future years (like GE). Most corporations don't avoid taxation to the extent that the popular consciousness seems to think.

Even gigantic, evil Exxon Mobil paid a lot of taxes. In 2013 they paid $24 billion in taxes on $57 billion in pre-tax income.

http://cdn.exxonmobil.com/en/shareholder-archive/~/media/Rep...
So the actual equivalent is locking the phone?
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It would be strange that they charged-back and thought it was still completely justified to use the deliverables.
Oh dear, airing dirty laundry in public. Maybe there were reasons why Fredrick and Alfonzo didn't pay you? We wouldn't know as hacker news and you are unlikely to tell us. I would suggest letting a judge decide and hiring good legal council.

However, I would say that your judgement in maybe panicking and posting so publicly is far from the mark. You should remove this post if you can as soon as possible. Only bad things can come of this!
>It's even more weird that the WIRED writer didn't mention this. It was major news all over the place two weeks ago. Good PR folks at Instagram / FB

This article seems like an exclusive that Wired got, probably been in the works for ages and timed for the release date.

Fine line between this kind of thing and just letting the company write the article themselves (aka "native advertising".)
Sounds like we need an update to the Stored Communications Act. But the article never comes back to the government's justification that the SCA applies outside of US territory - i'd like to hear that reasoning.