skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's horrible advice. Tax decisions should never drive business decisions until the amount of tax actually becomes a material financial statement item. If you let tax effects drive your business decisions as a startup, you end up with a structure more complicated than the most efficient option, and most of the future tax "savings" disappear to lost opportunities or maintenance of your "optimized" structure.

Tax considerations should never be the sole driver of business decisions but that isn't a good justification for ignoring them. Founders, for instance, should know about 83(b) elections and Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS). Incidentally, California is one of the few states in which the exclusion of gains from the sale of QSBS is not allowed. I would venture a guess that close to 100% of tech startup founders today have no idea what QSBS is even though it can allow them to eliminate up to 50% of their capital gains tax when they sell their company.

Your comment seems to be based on the flawed assumption that legitimate tax planning involves complicated corporate structures. There's nothing complicated or expensive about choosing to reside in Nevada (because of the lower costs, business-friendly environment, etc.) and structuring your Nevada-based business as a Nevada corporation. That is far less complicated and expensive than, for instance, choosing to reside in California and structuring your California-based business as a Delaware corporation, which is something that a ton of California startups do based on the hopeful assumption that they're going to raise capital from investors who will require Delaware incorporation.

> Nevada hasn't turned out so well for the many startups who have moved there.

California isn't a panacea for startups either. For every Facebook, there are countless ventures that never took off. Startups fail at a very high rate. Wherever they're located.
Doesn't work in Nightly on Windows 8 either.
As long as there's a frequently occurring behavior you and your user would like to turn into a habit, I don't see why the Hook model would need to be modified. Same rules apply.
Good news for bitcoin though, all these hidden service seizures and the price has barely budged. It is actually up a bit since this morning.
Apple's been doing this as well. It's not anything new.
We should keep tightening up immigration, too. Send 'em back where they came from!

edit: So nobody sees an association between human trafficking and tightening of immigration policy? Good to know.
> I didn't call anyone an idiot.

I know; sorry I didn't write more clearly. I meant that them calling you "idiot" and you calling them "paranoid" is roughly equivalent.
Beats headphones are Instagram for music. They are not built to deliver high quality or fidelity, they are built to make music sound more cool.

Filters on Instagram are universally derided by serious photographers, but that hasn't hurt Instagram...in fact it's their competitive advantage. Just like the unique (but not accurate) sound of Beats is theirs.

Yes, this counts as innovation, at least in a consumer product sense. Serious professionals care so much about their own metrics of quality that they usually cannot see a different "worse is better" way of building consumer products. Instagram is the biggest photography product in the last 5 years at least, and it was not built by professional photographers.
Well SV is one of the only places where they have these wheelbarrows full of millions of dollars to throw at tech companies, so I would think that location is pretty important if you're interested in VC funding.
3D Printer from e-waste
I've spoken to a few recruiters in the past and it seems like requesting current salary is a trend I'm seeing more frequently. I find it frustrating, and a little unethical (to me). I was wondering how common it was, and/or what companies are known to do it?
Or maybe those subjective articles on misogyny in tech are flagged by users like me.
Some talks about the history of computing
Congrats, this is a nice idea and an awesome execution of it. :)
That sounds like the FBI had already infiltrated the Silk Road 1.0 community so they were invited into 2.0 at the beginning.
Maybe my point was unclear.

Anyone who elects to put their personal information in a public forum or any kind has willingly surrendered that information. They made a choice to make private information public.

How then, can they be concerned about privacy?
> All of this is made possible through the advanced, tightly integrated hardware and software in Snapdragon 800 processors.

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2013/02/20/snapdragon-wake...

cf. Stuxnet, BadUSB. There may not be a remote exploit for these chips yet, but I will bet my paycheck that intelligence agencies somewhere are working on doing so.
A normal, healthy behavior is to be aware of what the devices you own are capable of.

Insane paranoia is hearing "cloud-based audio processing device and service" and instantly jumping to "the NSA" absent a single damned fact to support that conclusion.

Downvotes don't make me wrong or you right.
How's this any different from Siri?
CloudScreener Helps You Decide Which Cloud to Use, Raises 600,000 Euros
Thanks, I didn't realize there were privacy implications. How did I miss that. I think I slept through the hundreds of Snowden posts to HN.

Now would it be possible not to turn every post like this into an NSA warning? I'll make my own choices from here.
Unfortunately, the EULA specifies that by agreeing to its terms you are choosing to use Alexa as your wake word... ;-)
Yeah but physical work is kind of invigorating in its own way. It can be said we evolved for that.

On the other hand stuff like computer programming can be very exhausting if we don't add at least a bit of physical activity to the mix.

And employers in white collar industries perceive such added physical activity as slacking off.
Didn't work for me in Chrome until I disabled (paused) Ghostery.
"Alexa, how many porn videos has Billy watched this month?"
Zynga Founder Launches New Startup Incubator
Cool. Are there any links to the project source for the LX branded zones work?
Well, unless you own a Moto X. The 2014 version lets you also choose a custom hotword.
Do you want to try www.jobbox.io? We work with referrals and only charge if exists a hire. You can give me feedback too!
Ok, this came across on the 3D Printing community. Building a 3D printer with mechanics from tossed out PC parts. The things that are pretty much 3D specific, the controller board and the extruder, are the standard RAMPS/Mk7 types but it was a clever hack and I could see building these things in high schools for fun.
They're not using Swift at the moment. But they might at some point in the future. Source: friend who works at Google.
Well, you can't really be a small cartel. Even if the other businesses are profitable, a cartel needs a certain size to pay for constant expenses like bribes, armed forces etc. Politicians and the police don't give you a discount because you're small and people still need to be just as intimidated even though you're doing less shit.

Just removing one illegal activity might knock the sum value of dangerous, illegal activities below the threshold where cartels can work.
Google's business model scalability
Are you not worried about twitter complaining of trademark infringement like they did with TwitPic?
That might have the most chilling effect on a 3.0.
YouTube could waive their safe harbor provisions on a case by case basis if they cared. If the takedown is egregiously false, YouTube can just say "fuck it, sue us if you still think it's infringement."
Andy Tanenbaum's Orange and Apple Orchard (2010)
I didnt mean I was impressed in a good way, only from an observational point of view. They are terrible, no doubt about that.
I don't see software going away anytime soon.

It's like expecting writing and/or books to go away three thousand years ago.
iOS vs. Android OS
It seems to me that as things develop the articles in the international press become more accurate about this subject. Another one published to day by Bloomberg [1].

If you find the article interesting you might also want to know the detail of the latest poll [2] on what Catalans would vote next Sunday (I'm not including here null votes, absentees, etc:

* "Do you want Catalonia to become a State?" - Yes: 64.2%; No: 19.7%
* "In case you answered yes, do you want this State to be independent?" - Yes: 76.9%; No: 19.6%

I would also like to highlight that the Yes wins in all age segments [3][4].

[1] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-05/spain-s-cor...

[2] http://ceo.gencat.cat/ceop/AppJava/loadFile;?fileId=22954&fi...

[3] http://images.ara.cat/societat/Grafic-vot-gent-gran_ARAIMA20...

[4] http://www.ara.cat/premium/politica/resistencia-al-canvi-gen...
A mesh of distributed web containers
Great question. The core crypto library in End-To-End has already supported ECDH on Curve25519 and Ed25519 since day one [1]. We're discussing with GnuPG team on extending RFC 6637 to include these algorithms in the OpenPGP standard.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/source/browse/javascrip....
"The algorithm used by the vast majority of preprocessors is very simple: the preprocessor has a hardcoded list of directories, which the user can add to, and the preprocessor will scan them in sequence until it finds the file it's looking for. In the case of include "file.h", it will also scan the directory containing the source file."

At least for gcc, that is not quite correct. It also has a list of user directories.

The user list starts as a list containing only the current directory, but can be extended with command-line options. See https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Search-Path.html
> Yes, transmission is triggered on-chip, but who verifies every chip fabrication is performed using the same imprints? You think governments don't have factory floor managers in their pockets?

If you're willing to accept changed chip silicon as a possible attack vector, then you need to start worrying about a rather large set of devices. Your laptop is internet connected and has a microphone. So is your phone. Your TV is probably internet connected, and if you're fiddling with the production line, why not add a tiny microphone? I could go on.

An attacker with a good budget, influence and capability like the NSA is always going to be able to snoop on an individual if the requirement is strong enough. Some hardware limitations probably set the bar high enough that you don't need to worry unless you're an international terrorist.
> I've been out of the loop for a few years, but no the votes aren't manipulated.

AHA! Let's just cancel out the double negative ("no" and "n't") and look what we uncover, in this former reddit admin's very own words: "the votes are manipulated"
Also you don't need an e-mail address to register, and some people don't care about karma, so some people like me just create a new account whenever my saved login info is lost for any reason. Not necessarily using throwaway accounts in the traditional sense, but not overly concerned about maintaining a single account either. I've probably made 6-7 Reddit accounts over a few years [and 2 HN accounts over a longer time frame].
Help a friend clean up their adware-infested Win7 laptop.

If you do this, then you become the "go to guy" whenever they have a problem - there is precious little appreciation of the amount of time and effort it takes to clean up a system.

I now claim "it's a specialization" and give out the contact info of local people who do this for a living. After the end-user has to drop a couple of bills every few months to get the dancing gorilla removed, they finally begin to pay attention - otherwise they treat the free advice you gave them as valued at what it cost.
Product cycles are much much longer. So, no.
That's a good idea in general, but there are times where you do need downcasting. Maybe your generic DB framework can throw a specific error on MySQL that you known how to recover from, but which is only available from cause() but not from the library's contract.
Can you share any of the source? I would really like to learn how you did this. Awesome job, I love it!
Chrome Dev Summit 2014 sessions
We want to know what people think about project
Ah yes, forgot about WASTE. His corporate disobedience with gnutella etc. made me respect him even more. TBH I think everyone saw the writing on the wall as soon as they bought Winamp... difficult to picture JF happily sitting in a cubicle all day and listening to weekly management stand ups o_O
OpenBazaar: The Decentralized Offspring of Ebay and Amazon
Has Google forwarded the original complainants' personal information to the FBI and DoD for follow-up?
If you're in San Francisco, how do you type the disk password into a server in Iceland? Through a BMC with clownshoes security?
And what's great is that your personal preference on these things takes absolutely nothing away from the device itself.

I don't think i'll buy one because I have Siri in my pocket at all times, but these privacy concerns aren't absolute truths. They only matter to you because you're sensitive to it.
Seems to me that, if anything happens to the author of the video, YouTube is likely to have some serious financial liability issues. That consideration may give some incentive to people like YouTube to be less trigger-happy when they receive a DCMA request.

It's a shame if someone has to die for people to learn that lesson, though...
>> "Providing electrical power, sewage lines, etc.. is not very difficult compared to handling Internet traffic."

There is no question that each of these things is difficult at scale. Furthermore I have never done either of them.

However, power systems EE is perhaps the most widely-known example of Big Boy Engineering except building rockets. In the power business, they have an distribution/cabling problem which is at best isomorphic to that found in the ISP business (though probably greater, because ISP's don't have millions of volts to worry about) wedded to far greater stationing/substationing/production problems, and they still have (as noted by someone else in this thread) far more 9's of uptime than Time Warner. As compensation for this, ISP's have a greater Signals and Systems flavored problem, but it doesn't seem like it balances out.

So basically I'm trying to say that "... not very difficult..." seems inaccurate.
Sad story. Transmitters though are generally easy to find (not perhaps to decode if encrypted but RF energy is easily localized). As a radio amateur we used to do transmitter 'hunts' where we could locate and disable a transmitter hidden in some area.
No no it's not in the same vein.
Just FYI you can control whether or not iTunes manages your music folder and there is some customization in Pref > Advanced.

I chose to let it manage the files but reduced some of the folder nesting. It doesn't obfuscate file names and you can elect for Artist > Album > [file] structure or whatever your heart desires.
I don't think so. I have an older MacBook Pro, and I'm running the latest OS X (and iOS). Comes up as 20$ each for Keynote / Numbers / Pages on OS X, 10$ each on iOS.
Components are available on the market now based on PCM, MRAM, and FRAM. I know that Intel has large productization, not research, teams working on a variant of SCM. Near means 2-3 years though. Research exit to market ready is always a 3-5 year cycle when process engineering is involved.
I think they're mechanically translating their Java code to Objective C:

https://github.com/google/j2objc
Continuous Static Analysis Using Pronto
I don't know about Beats headsets, but Dre and Iovine are innovators when it comes to music production. Dre for example is a perfectionist when it comes to music infact most artists that work with Dre on his Aftermath label never release an album, because its not perfect enough by Dre's standards. Sounds similar to Steve Jobs when it comes to product quality. At least as far as music production goes.
> I'm wondering why they would image the server.

For offline analysis and to be used as evidence, presumably.

> Did SR2 not use full disc encryption using LUKS? (...) longest private key ever

So the process for you would be slightly different: There would be a "power outage" in your rack, your encrypted disk would be imaged and (unencrypted) bootloader would be bugged.

Then they'd wait for you to see that your server had some issues, upon which time you'd have two choices:

-enter your private key to resume the service.

-abandon the server.

The correct choice would be (2), but you don't have enough information to make that call.
Portlandia Satirizes the Sharing EconomyWhat Does It Mean?
haproxy only got TLS support in 2012, whereas work on proxygen began quite before that. In addition, haproxy does not support SPDY natively (although it can forward it to something that does).

Apache Traffic Server only got SPDY support in a release about 45 days ago according to their release notes.

There are many other relatively basic features besides those, and similar considerations exist for the other projects that existed back then (and even now).
its an algorithm that's been popular in music programming the past several years. there are a bunch of implementations of it.

its a method for evenly distributing x pulses along a grid of y steps.

4 / 16 is house kick
5 / 16 is a dancehall beat

start by setting all steps to 16 (the grid size), offset to 0 and vary the pulse setting and you will hear how they are distributed along the steps.

good simple explanation with python implementation:

https://github.com/brianhouse/bjorklund

javascript:

http://blog.fader.co.uk/post/11519018856/bjorklund-algorithm...

I usually call it bjorklund.

I once used it to evenly distribute promoted content across slots on a website.
This is weird but this looks strikingly similar to this http://jasperproject.github.io/
Java 8 for Financial Services
Is the internet truly municipal or is only the fibre community owned? The distinction is important as a lot of private ISPs pay the local government a fee to use their existing infrastructure, while they provide the connectivity to the rest of the internet.

This arrangement also comes with the ISP's own flavor of EULA.
Looks similar to this http://jasperproject.github.io/
agreed and upvoted
Robots are our saviours, not the enemy – by Peter Thiel
Broadcasting on YouTube is very public. Someone needs to stand behind each piece of content. When it's not safe for an individual to do it, someone stronger needs to step in. This is why Edward Snowden needed The Guardian to publish his revelations, instead of posting them on YouTube or SlideShare himself.
There's a popular paper on the technique by Godfried Toussaint that explores it in depth: http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff.pdf
I'm glad we're now discussing our assumptions about what Echo can/does do.

You present a scenario that I certainly did not imply, namely that Echo must be performing voice recognition in the cloud. Also, you make it out as though that is the conceivable alternative possible to on-chip voice recognition, from a privacy point of view.

Let me present another scenario to you - Echo keeps "listening" to all our conversations - on-chip of course - but creates additional metadata that is stored locally and uploaded to Amazon servers periodically.

What might theis metadata be?

- Audio streams that were close enough to Echo's threshold for "Alexa", but not quite, thus got rejected (perhaps some of them were falsely rejected, so let's keep a copy to feed our algorithm).

- Data on how often Echo heard voices in the house, from which rooms and at which times. Perhaps Amazon would like to know when a household wakes up, when it likes to listen to music or when to order groceries. Why should Google Now have all the fun?

I could give many more scenarious why Echo might want to retain some data from ambient conversations, so as to make itself more "useful". It needn't store the entire audio stream in these cases, but just metadata or logs.

Such a scenario falls outside your 1 vs. 2 design options; is plausible; useful; and fairly easy to program too. I'm sure there will be many others like that.

My point is - don't implictly trust a closed-source device that is inside your house and always listening in all directions. If Amazon were so careful about the Echo user's privacy, wouldn't they have mentioned the word at least once in the entire page? So let's not rush to give them a free pass till we know they even want it, much less earn it.

P.S. My profile says I'm a "recovering" engineer, not a "recording" one :)
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/ if you're looking for an article on it.
I want one of these, but then the NSA may be listening to me. Plus, I don't have electricity. It started when I thought that the NSA had bugged my computer, so I got rid of my computer. Later on, I knew those shifty guys would bug my house, so I sold my house and moved to the forest. But in the forest, I knew they trained the squirrels to report in on my status to them.

Jokes on them, I have the squirrels trained as double agents and send them to do things like type in HN comment posts via a public library computer.
Something I can browse without allowing javascript. I am pleasantly surprised.
Canonical: Where we're going with LXD
Dependency Injection Containers – Magic
20% MoM growth is the gold standard - the longer and more consistent you hit high MoM growth, the better. Even a product an investor doesn’t fully understand - for example, an app that self-destructs the photos it shares - starts to look really good with high MoM growth.

This is part of why I find the (light tech) startup world to be scammy and light on substance. 20% monthly growth is 792% annual growth. Would you really be inclined to put money in a stock fund that said that it was targeting over 700 percent annual growth? Or would you think there was something funny and unsustainable going on?

Quality has gone out the window and it's all about blowing up bullshit metrics because that's all these short-attention-span man-child types can deal with. Rather than thinking about what the fuck we're growing it's just growth, growth, growth. Fuck that one-dimensional mindless noise. What are you building? Not all "growth" is desirable.

Technology can easily produce 20 to 40 percent annual growth on a large number of economic problems, and even 10-20% once they achieve scale (unlike "viral" phenomena that, unpredictably, phase-change into negative growth). This can be done with a low level of risk. So why isn't there any attention given to companies that, given a couple years of salaries for a few technically competent founders, could reliably and sustainably deliver 20-40% growth over the next couple of decades? Meaningful technological growth rarely comes out of get-big-or-die gambits. The moon landing wasn't powered by a "move fast and break things" attitude. It comes from the humbler 30% annual growth, one year after another after another. Things take time.