skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corporations don't actually pay taxes even when they do; it's the consumers who pay for them in the form of increased prices.

This assumes that prices are directly linked to cost of goods sold, and that firms have no pricing power whatsoever. Now, if every firm sold commodities, perhaps that would be true..

But firms do have some pricing power through vendor lock-in, the degree to which their product is differentiated from competitors, etc.

In Microsoft's case (for Windows, Office, and other products) there are no alternatives consumers are willing to switch to, and the price is not based on COGS, so a decrease in corporate taxes would only pad Microsoft's bank accounts.

Edit: shortened for clarity
Blockly Games Introduce to Kids
well technically any browser-based editor is going to be multi-platform. i'm just being picky.
> If only the state of Oregon had asked me first...

The main skill of enterprise sales teams sometimes seems to bein making sure no-one who can ask pointed questions is in the rooms where decisions are made.
I'd be so hesitant to use the sun compiler unless I had the source code in hand or sun was under contractual obligation to fix bugs. Does it come with its own source?

Perhaps I've simply been scarred by the nineties, but back in the day /opt/SUNWspro was an extremely rich source of mysterious WTFs and much profanity.
I couldn't find how I could get this. I got a txt from the USGS but that was after the event and because I set up twitter to txt me that account, does anyone know how to get these early warnings?

I woke up, but in SF it wasn't much of a big deal.
if its going to be bigger than 10", lets have them run x86 processors instead of arm stuff, since we have battery?
You can get under a table in 5 seconds. That's a change between life and death by having your fridge or large shelf fall on you.
I think the page layout is very good. I felt nicely oriented and I quickly understood what your product does.

Pricing on subscriptions seems like the wrong approach. If someone wants to sign up, you're making them do a math problem. They'll have to leave your page to check reddit to see how many subscriptions they have exactly. Sending people to reddit is probably a bad step to have in any purchase funnel.

I think it does solve a problem. In my experience, reddit does a mediocre job at sampling Front Page stories from my subscriptions.

The $0.99 per 5 subscriptions pricing is meh, though. I think a free 5 subscriptions plan with an unlimited plan for $XX/year would sit better.

Good luck with this!
> The only product they've ever built was their flagship RDBMS

Which relied on cloning IBM's SQL implementation back in the day. Odd to see them now arguing APIs should be proprietary...

> still fills a niche no one else can really compete with.

Not really true. DB2 will do everything Oracle DB does, and more (12c is only now adding the multitenant capabilities that DB2 has had for a long time). IBM don't do as good a job of marketing it, though.
Sorry, s/evasion/minimization/.
Yes, but the comment I replied to claimed he was "ultimately concerned with the total human condition." I'm saying he isn't, or is at minimum a hypocrite.
> It was "earned" overseas.

I work for Microsoft in Beijing doing R&D; I disagree and am kind of offended by your assessment.
how is this different from cloud9?
You need both, as this creates more loopholes.

var tax = 0.2

Company A has $100
Company A spends $50 building a product they sell for $100
Company A sells product for $100, now worth $133

Company B has $100
Company B spends $50 building a product they sell for $100
Company B sells product for $1 to company C in Belize, now worth $50.83
Company C sells product for $100, then moves cash back to Company B, now worth $150.83

Company B is worth more now in this case as Company B wouldn't be paying tax on bringing the cash on-shore. Company B will strike deals with other trade partners to lessen tax for everyone involved, especially when there is millions worth of savings to be had.
Devil's advocate: perhaps Google is taking a loss on the $35 device in exchange for user lock-in? I doubt the immense R&D behind building it would have been worth it otherwise.

I'm not arguing against unlimited freedom - just arguing against the expectation of unlimited freedom when all things are considered.
Bear in mind that Oracle have tiers of partners. Many of their top-end products have very tight requirements around who can be accredited to work on them and still get support from Oracle for problems. Those partners pay a considerable amount of money to Oracle for the partner program and certification. They are not on your side.
An example of a robot which gives people orders, in the sense of generating stimuli to which correct responses are required, is a video game, and those are shown to be addictive.

The next Tetris block that is about to fall is essentially a robot's order: when you're done with that one, place this one somewhere!
I have this completely unsupported personal hypothesis that role models and peer groups are critical in shaping the path of children. Certainly much more critical than toys.

Of course, how to provide such nurturing environments for all but the most fortunate in circumstance is the question :(
Firstly, this website is 90% there. My 10-odd year experience says you can tweak a bit more conversion but it's going to be minimal and I would spend time on distribution & marketing. Otherwise from my look-over;

First thing I noticed is no Google Analytics. Are you running some web analytics? If not this should be your first (and easy) update so you can monitor what is happening on-site.

Second I'd look to simplifying messaging. For example - you say 'Cosy bedding packs for students'. Why have 'for students'? There are lots of copy points like this that can be stripped and focused. Have a read through and see what you can remove.

Store/FAQ/Contact US - you can probably get rid of the headers saying what the page is. It just pushes content down with little benefit.

I tried the order process (York St John University) and it got stuck at 'order with paypal'. Should this be working? I tested from Australia so that may have an effect.

And take anything I said here with a grain of salt. A/B test changes. Opinion is never fact.
How to decide when to use Node.js?
So earliest Release date is sometime in February then. Not that bad of a delay at least.

Thanks for the update.
Within reason. They can elect a board who will tell the CEO to tell the CFO to make it so. This would probably require some sort of Icahn style activist investor shakeup to take place.
My first app: Emailr, a simple way to send automated emails to friends
The Facebook Experience Without a Like Button
This should work:

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How the Napa Earthquake Affected Bay Area Sleepers
If you can determine how to subscribe to the push notifications Google and Apple send for their devices specifically for these events, you could have a daemon monitor for the alert and park your spinning disk drive heads.

Apps already have access to the data [http://quakeapp.com/].
> It is nonsense for a customer to walk openly onto an aircraft carrying a rifle.

I'm not sure that I agree. Prior to metal detectors and airport security here in the US plenty of guns were carried on planes and very few bad outcomes were the result. I've heard of planes getting hijacked and going to Cuba but nothing in the way of mass murders on airplanes.

I wish that instead of just stating this as a fact that you had argued it in some way. For point 1 you gave reasoning. For point 2 you just said "this is true" and stopped.

If you had said something like "air is necessary for life" yeah sure, I won't belabor that point. It's scientifically verifiable at least for humans.

But when the parent was posting "I wish people could just carry rifles and it not be a big deal" it's clear that your position is more of an opinion than a fact. You might consider it a fact, but you're replying to glenra who quite obviously doesn't agree.
iirc there was also something called the Dutch Sandwich that was recently made unavailable.
If the argument is that much of the value is created in the states, then that is already captured mostly in USA income taxes (after all, labor is a dominate cost for R&D).
> Swift- the new programming language from Apple shares a lot with Groovy, a JVM language

I dispute this claim. According to the top comment at "Swift is a lot like Scala" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8218578 which was submitted an hour before yours here: "Scala, modern C#, Kotlin, Xtend, Nemerle, Ceylon, Dart and Swift have a lot in common. They're all compiled languages with pretty high performance characteristics."

Most of those are JVM languages (Scala, Kotlin, Xtend, Nemerle, Ceylon) which Swift shares a lot with, but Groovy less so I'd say.
> Also - that PDF is incredible - things like "they lied about how flexible and suitable it was for us". Aaaaargh! Can you really sue for "we did not do our homework?!"

So what you seem to be saying, in essence, is that the minimum requirement for government (or perhaps customers in general) is to be perfect, but the acceptable practise for vendors is to be psycopathically dishonest?
It is difficult to describe faces because we don't have a familiar vocabulary for them. It's not necessary for us day to day to describe exactly what faces look like. Sure, we have chiseled jaws and high cheekbones, but there isn't a word for the many different styles of noses and shapes of lips. And we don't have a point of reference for the words that would be associated with the faces of our friends.

I suspect that if verbal descriptions of faces were a constant part of society, that our ability to imagine faces based on authors' descriptions (using that shared vocabulary) would be much better. I also wonder what experience police sketch artists, like the one who drew Anna Karenina, have when reading books, as they probably think about this sort of thing much more frequently.

As a sidenote, it may seem like I'm appealing to the now somewhat discredited Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, but I'm only saying that our lack of vocabulary constrains what we express, not that it constrains our cognition.

Personally, when I read I do visualize things, but I don't have strong visualizations for people's faces, much like mcjiggerlog elsewhere commented.
Student Data, Privacy, Ideology, and Context-less-ness
Hackers attack Sony PlayStation Network
It's an interesting exercise to spend a day or two trying to be aware of what would be the most likely dangers where you are at the moment if you were caught in a good sizes quake right then.

I think that most will find that there are many times each day where a few seconds warning would make a difference. Some common situations:

• Carrying a heavy item that would hurt you if you dropped it on your foot, or fell down and it landed on you.

• Sitting near a shelf with something heavy on it (surround speaker, for example).

• Many things in the kitchen: carrying hot liquid; hot liquid on the stove; using a knife.

• Using power tools: soldering; drilling; sawing.

• Juggling torches.

Just a couple seconds warning can give you time to put down a heavy object, move from where your speaker will fall on you or prepare to deflect it, get out of the way of potential spills in the kitchen, put down the knife, stop your power tools, and stop juggling.
Unfortunately when governments get "big business is better" religion things tend to go pear-shaped. In my neck of the woods a change of government led to a change in procurement policies for IT. "We won't engage with any company without experience running $100 million+ projects for any government contract and they need offices in at least three countries."

This is a great way of making sure only EDS (sorry, HP), IBM, and the other usual suspects are the only ones who can do work. Not the best use of my tax dollars.
For sale: Systems that can track where cellphone users go around the globe
I don't think there were ever any "slow updates" to Javascript, except maybe in the period of IE5/6 dominance to Firefox 1.0. In the Browser Wars, Microsoft and Netscape competed to add features as fast as possible. Firefox still has many additional features in its JS engine that aren't in ECMAScript (for each, coroutines).

I'm more concerned about adding features without fully considering the consequences. When you add a feature to Javascript, it's there forever. Rushed feature dumps are how we end up with things like the Web Audio API.
This is awesome and great for the future of humanity, but I was honestly totally fascinated by the link[1] in the article referring to the partial growth of human brains from 2013.

I don't know how I missed that when it happened last year, but I'm glad TFA linked to it.

1. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-23863544
I think they mean because they have an iphone/ipad/android and other platforms supported. Not just browser.
> Speaking of Solaris, I'd love if dbx was available on linux.

From the dbx wikipedia page:

DBX is included as part of the Oracle Solaris Studio product from Oracle Corporation, and is supported on both Solaris and Linux. It supports programs compiled with the Oracle Solaris Studio compilers and GCC.

The only reason I haven't played with this to satisfy my curiosity is that they are pretty specific about what distributions they support, and they don't support mine.
Much of this is a consequence of the silly high corporate tax rates in the US, which are among the highest (by a huge margin) in the developed world.

In my opinion you could solve a lot of silliness by just harmonizing the corporate taxes/income taxes/capital gains taxes.
In tornado country, there are loud outdoor sirens that go off when a tornado is sighted. The sirens are audible to anyone indoors or out, and they are tested at a given time once a month.
The point is they're still avoiding paying tax they should be paying. I don't think the stance that one company should pay tax on their widgets while another company doesn't. Tax avoidance is robbing everyone.
I've got to say that my experience with Amber Alerts is strongly negative.

For a while they were triggering various alerts (including EBS interruptions on radio and TV), with a frequency that lead me to strongly discount such warnings.

Emergencies should be reserved for circumstances in which the recipient of a message can and should take immediate action. An alert is just that: an advisory. Run these was an item in normal newscasts, or in advisory systems (including if you absolutely must, highway signage). But not distracting people.

The fact that, at least in my recollection, a huge number of Amber Alerts appear to involve immediate family / partner situations (boyfriend/girlfriend, other parent, husband/wife, modulo estrangement). Most seem to resolve reasonably well. And I'm not sure that a full-on aggressive response benefits the situation. Again, that's a recollection and personal perception. But overall, I'm underimpressed by the system.

This seems to have improved somewhat in more recent years.
TLDR; "computer says no" all over again.
Thanks for posting this, I plan to try it out.
"TSA has not audited these devices for even the most basic security issues"

This to me is the most troublesome aspect of this an entire ordeal. Any security pen-testing firm with their wits about them could have discovered these backdoors in a few simple audits.

The fact that he was able to find all of these is very worrisome to me. I can only imagine what other bugs/backdoors are built in to these systems.

Does any of this security matter with the fact that you can build weapons using airport giftshop items?

http://www.wired.com/2013/12/terminal-cornucopia/
Japan, Mexico City, and other seismically active places, have such systems in place and have had them for years. Amazing that California, the epicenter of tech, is just getting on board with this.
Excellent point. It could, for example, switch off gas lines at various checkpoints. I wonder how that might that affect appliances? For example, if a hot water heater is heating and the flame goes out, but then the gas comes back on is the heater smart enough to re-ignite the gas (or shut it off)?
The first and the last video are quite impressive. It is really an amazing warning system saving real lives. Thanks for posting.
You choose the colors you want to use, but in all reality you will likely never use this esoteric dev environment. As a side, I have seen numerous close-hand disasters in Java and C too. The problem is usually between the keyboard and chair.
Relying on the exceptionally thin cover that an action is technically not illegal because it's in conformance with the laws you've paid to have written and passed with the wealth you're hoarding by way of those very laws is not a very intelligent line of reasoning to pursue.

The art of legal and financial manipulation to socialize losses, privatize profits, to artificially move transactions to jurisdictions with favorable tax laws, and then lobby for eventual tax holidays to allow for tax-free repatriation of those funds may fall within the techncial gloss of "legal". It's not moral, ethical, fair, nor economically or democratically defensible.
"Won't someone think of the children?" comes to the HTTP standard.

Seriously though, this seems totally reasonable although "safe" does seem like an odd word choice. Maybe "modest" instead?
This may be superficially true, but the long-term health of the institution and the educational system are not served. Hiring underpaid adjuncts as teaching labor may allow for some good classes--either through the adjuncts' idealism or their hunger to keep their job--but it's only a sort of local maximum. Those good adjuncts came up through a system which valued teaching & knowledge. It's not clear the succeeding adjunct-taught generations will maintain this faith in their fields.

See the case study of Schlitz in the 70s (e.g. http://www.beerbusinessunplugged.com/?p=130 for a short version): desperate businesspeople go for short term gains by cannibalizing their traditional ways of making things.
Cynical me thought the same thing. Lots of fodder here for IBM/Oracle/etc to spin from.
Very informative comment. Thank you!

Can you provide a link to the article in question? I've done a bit of Googling but am hitting false positives.
I think the idea isn't so much a porn filter as it is a "treat this user as a child" request. So, for example, social networking sites might work in restricted mode.

I do agree "prefer safe" is a very poor way of expressing that desire, though. Maybe "child-safe", but not just "safe", which implies a related but different idea.
Spinning disk drive heads? Okay, GRANDPA!
So, this is a replacement for PNG. I assume it's intended to be lossless. The additional features seem to be:

1. Embedded image maps. Presumably functionally equivalent to HTML image maps? There don't seem to be accessibility features.

2. Multiple images which are overlaid on each other to produce the final image. These overlays can be true color, bitmapped, or palette based, kind of like DjVu.

The image layers kind of remind me of MPEG-4's Video Object Planes. That's a bad thing. No one ever figured out a reasonably fast method to segment video into overlaid objects without manual intervention. It's cool that your image format has this feature, but if the encoder can't make use of it, what's the point?

3. Multi-resolution encoding
PNG and JPEG already have interlaced encoding. I can't tell how yours is different, aside from being less efficient.

4. Images with holes
.... how is this an improvement over alpha layers?

5. Manual compression with a C# gui
If you're going to do this, why not redraw your image as SVG instead?

In summary, it's an interesting set of features, but I really can't tell the use case you are targeting. In addition, it seems that many of your features already exist in other formats. Maybe you should retarget this as being a simple scene graph builder for Javascript instead of an image format?
Is there a soup-to-nuts extension too?
```The methane is emanating from at least 570 locations, called seeps, from near Cape Hatteras, N.C., to the Georges Bank southeast of Nantucket, Mass. While the seepage is widespread, the researchers estimated that the amount of gas was tiny compared with the amount released from all sources each year.
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Somewhat sensationalist given the source. I really hope articles like these do not distract from the larger climate change problem.
Off-topic: Does anyone know a decent equity attorney? I was issued options, and I'm looking for an hour or two of an attorney's time to go over it with me (<20 pages).
The retro cult around Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
> A few seconds warning seems like it might be kind of useless for humans

Ten seconds is plenty for me to drop under my work desk, or at least be well on the way. Similarly my daughter's school class. That can make a big difference to survivial rates.
At least they're smoking pot instead of drinking beer.
Wayland tries to be a simpler and smaller system than X11. For it to specify equivalents to ICCCM and EWMH would be way beyond its scope. But there's nothing preventing such equivalents from being standardized; it just won't be part of Wayland, since Wayland also wants to target use cases where such things would be inapplicable. If there ends up being a proliferation of wayland implementations that support pluggable components, I think we'll definitely see some quick standardization of the necessary interfaces. But at the moment people are still working on successfully using one desktop environment at a time, so good support for the mashups will have to wait.
It has many other uses, IMO.

- Disable signup/require COPPA form to be mailed & signed

- Filter out explicit content from user-generated content

- Disable vulgar sections from a blog

- Prohibit downloading software

etc
It's true that some people jump out of tiny planes like a cessna but I was thinking of the larger ones like this:

http://www.skydivephiladelphia.com/wp-content/themes/asc/ima...

Even less than fully fueled that thing could put a pretty big hole in a building and the cockpit doesn't even HAVE a door separating it from the main cabin. Yes, it might prove tricky to take over a flight full of instructors and students in the air, but given that legitimate customers have easy access to the airfield at ground level before and after a jump and there's no real security there it's not hard to imagine ways a sufficiently motivated and unscrupulous person could take over such a plane at relatively minimal risk to themselves and weaponize it.

But yeah, that's just one of a zillion possible threats anybody with half a brain can come up with. The current airport security model assumes the existence of terrorists who have a really weird set of characteristics such that they are simultaneously:

(1) sufficiently driven and resourceful to successfully bring down a plane via a bomb or weapons if there were no security (this is pretty hard)

(2) NOT sufficiently driven and resourceful to find a way AROUND the current security measures (even though this is easy)

(3) also NOT sufficiently driven and resourceful as to find some OTHER way of causing a similar amount of terror and damage, such as blowing up 5 busses or funding a half-dozen "DC snipers" around the country or blowing up the security line itself.