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Skype Killer... No Windows client.

Oh Hacker News, you do realize that very few people actually use Macs in the business world, right?
> The tax incidence of profit taxes falls pretty much entirely on the shareholders. The consumer is unaffected.

Well, only if you believe profits aren't used for anything except dividends. The "consumer" can be affected when they don't get new products, or existing products are worse, or when they fail to be hired as an employee, etc.
Think of it as "remember my login on this computer". If you check the box, you sacrifice security and privacy for convenience. If you don't want to be tracked, you need to perform extra steps.
How do you write joins? I find them readable with the SQL-esque way, but I haven't found a nice way to write them with the 'code' way.
It worked for me, though Google thought I was a robot at first.
Depends what version you are running and the applications running ontop. The AS/400 box at my company runs a load of RPG language code, which is interpreted at runtime.
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This works because under Irish tax law (until 2015) it is possible for a company to be incorporated in Ireland but tax-resident in Bermuda.

An example of how this might work:
A US tech company A, wants to sell to customers in the UK.
They transfer the rights to their patents to a Bermuda "headquartered" but Irish incorporated company B.
They set up a sales company in Ireland C (this one is Irish tax resident).
They set up an IP company D in the Netherlands which has favourable tax treatment for income from intellectual property - the same reason that U2 transferred the rights to their music catalogue to a holding company there.
They (may) set up a company E in the UK for doing support.

Now if you're in the UK and spend £1000 to buy a product from the company:
1) You buy from C which records revenue of £1000
2) C pays £990 in IP licensing fees to D in the Netherlands.
2b) After covering its sales costs from the remaining £10, C makes barely any profit so pays little tax at Ireland's low 12.5% corporate tax rate.
3) D transfers the money to B after paying a very small amount in Dutch taxes
4) B is incorporated in Ireland but tax resident in Bermuda. Since the money has come in as a transfer from a group company within the EU, there is no withholding tax to be paid.
5) Money is safely in Bermuda.

Of course if A ever wants to bring money back from B it will then have to pay US corporate income tax on it.
This is a FAQ. Oddly enough, the "FAQ" link at the bottom of the page takes you to the FAQ, in which it says:

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What kind of formatting can you use in comments?

http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

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Was that what you were looking for?
And curiously, Microsoft is replacing "Lync" with "Skype for Business".... although I'm not sure if that is a simple renaming of the existing client.
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That and what about those who fill their form with tab navigation ? No mouse involved here. It is just showing off ...
Correct, no Google account or cookies = not human :-)
Not really. McDonalds can't charge a price that is much higher than local companies (i.e. companies that are both based in and operate in e.g. the UK). If they both operate with equivalent efficiency, they should both have the same profit margins. The difference is then only the fact that McDonald's shareholders are not charged for the tax on corporate profits, while the local company's shareholders are.
Think of Captcha as the first battle in humanity's fight against AI. Over the long term this problem has no solution.
Tangential: From a philosophical perspective, I wonder if notion of asking human beings if they are robots, will soon escape the space we consider virtual? In sci-fi (which more or less informs the masses not involved in such fields and have more sway over public opinion than say HN or LW), the premise focused on is that people seemed more concerned with asking robots/automata if they are human. I'm starting to wonder if such questions will become moot.

Though, I wonder if you can start to defeat such systems by slurping up headers sent on public networks (like coffee shops, public wi-fi in large cities, airports, etc) and with techniques like ssl striping, to obtain local-storage info being sent in the body.
> When hiring, you are not really concerned about letting a good candidate go.

With that attitude, I hope you aren't complaining about how hard it is to find talent.

> It is far more dangerous to let a poor candidate in.

This gets parroted a lot around here, but with no supporting evidence other than highly improbable hypotheticals or black swan events. On the other hand, I know plenty of companies that have had to deal with poor candidates, from a Fortune 500 with 70000+ worldwide employees down to a small 12-person shop, and none have suffered serious consequences from these poor choices. Considering the lack of hard evidence supporting your statement, I believe these companies I am familiar with are the typical case and not "lucky".
Maybe some sort of exchange site for Magic the Gathering cards?
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It still shows a CAPTCHA if it's not sure that you're a human or a bot.
Google collects all your data and applies machine learning to predict a probability value that you are human. If it is below a certain threshold you have to enter a CAPTCHA.
I'd assume that where cursor tracking is unavailable, this experiences just degrades to a standard CAPTCHA as depicted in the post.
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Taxing profit is silly because you care about the "pointer management" that companies do, which requires things like costing QA done in another country. It is far easier to just tax property, sales, dividends, personal income, and capital gains than it is profit. Roughly in that order too.
Anyone know where the documentation for the "old" recaptcha has gone?

How long can we continue to use the "old" way?

Seems like google want everyone to use this "new" method, which i am not so sure about yet
Thanks for the kind words. Feel free to get in touch with me directly re. using the product for clients. More than happy to help with anything like that.
Yes our journey has been a longish one but we have a great team and supportive investors who have helped us a lot.
The problem is profits aren't made in the UK at all. For big tech companies usually they have a subsidiary in a given country, and that subsidiary charges the parent company for access to its work/innovations/whatever. The subsidiary does not itself receive payment for the global companies operations in that country, despite how unintuitive it is.

This is why the UK arms of these companies don't make any profit - they charge the parent companies more or less at cost. Meanwhile people who want to buy their services sign a deal with the Irish subsidiary. But legally these are different companies.

Additionally it's impossible to say how much profit is being made in a particular country. You can count income quite easily, but then what percentage of the cost of developing Facebook can be accounted to servicing the UK market? It wouldn't make sense to allocate ALL the cost of creating Facebook to the US market and treat every other country as pure profit, as obviously there are costs involved with being international.

I'm not convinces Osborne has any real clue about the morass he's wading in to here. It gets worse when you think about the possible future impact. Imagine Google and Facebook didn't have any UK presence at the moment but were looking to hire people there, because of an abundance of skilled people in, say, London. But entering the UK suddenly means a 25% tax on their UK sourced income. Why would they ever hire the first employee? If they stay out entirely, they aren't in UK jurisdiction so there'd be no reason for them to pay any tax there.
Probably just their settings. I installed on a Nexus 5 with Lollipop just fine.
Except by answering captchas, you're helping the machines (first words for books, then numbers for street view, now pictures for classification).
"I have found very little written about the journey to $10k and the struggles it brings".

I agree.

First mention of customers: "We were seeing some interest and already had some nice early sign-ups (approximately 250 sites)".

What about the story of those first 250 customers then? Because I have found very little written about the journey to the first 250 customers and the struggles it brings.
Irish founders... english company. Shhhhh

Myself and my co founder are from Kildare and Wicklow respectively.
I love it because, in a world of fake pop musicians, this guy comes off as such a genuine goof. I can't help but like the guy, I'm very happy for him for this level of success on YouTube. And the song is super catchy. He's one of the very few pop musicians I appreciate (though so far, this is probably the only song of his I care for). The political satire makes it all the more compelling. I love the horse riding on top of a sky scraper.
Python has a built-in map. Reduce is in functools. Filter is in itertools.

Between builtins, itertools, and functools, you pretty much have it covered.
It's definitely not mouse based. I tried it in an incognito tab and it showed me the old form when I clicked the checkbox.
You could do pointer arithmetic in Turbo Pascal, but I agree with your overall description.

That is why I eventually moved to C++ back then, it might have some warts, but feels way better than C in terms of safety and modular programming support.

Nowadays I spend most of my time in JVM and .NET worlds.
I just tried the one ins0 linked above, and tabbing through, using space to select the checkbox, worked fine.
You can try it out here: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo

If you are a recognized as human you could perhaps try it via Tor.
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Captcha isn't the first battle in humanity's fight against AI, its a recent battle in humanity's fight against abusive humans.
The Prags' deal and commitment to actually, you know, helping their authors is unfortunately a beautiful unique snowflake amongst publishers. I've been involved with projects with all the major tech publishers in some form or another, and they're all horrible terms (usually 12-15% of proceeds [i.e., post-costs] or less).

Even worse, they do almost no work for you these days. The editors they find are 99% completely non-technical and on contract, so they're just trying to squeeze hours out of reviewing something they know zilch about. The publisher will stick your book on a website and put it in bookstores, but outside of that, don't count on any marketing or sales help. PROTIP: They don't want big reputation authors because they're better writers. They want them so they can do minimal work and ride off the authors' social media and conference speaking coattails to sell copies with next to no investment. Then they'll sell your work to places like Safari for a pittance (on the order of the cost of about 100 print copies if I recall correctly) and give you as small of a piece of the pie as humanly possible. I understand they're a business trying to survive these days, but seriously, the whole thing needs to be re-evaluated.

As GP or someone said, self-publishing is way more profitable if you can find a niche that's not being served. I've made about 10x more money off my self-published works as I have my "published" works, and that's a very sad statistic given how big the book industry really is. Not saying all publishers will end up with figures like that, but the industry as a whole is wrapped up in an author-hostile business model and a crappy, slow process.
That should be right. I'm doing the same thing with CloudFlare. However, it appears that DNSimple won't keep your secondary name servers in the order entered. They are showing for me sorted alphabetically. Apparently, they are working on providing this (http://blog.dnsimple.com/2014/12/incident-report-ddos/) for failover in case of an event like this again.
You couldn't do that for payments between companies within the EU because of existing treaty obligations.

Not to mention, how do you determine what counts as low tax? The UK a has substantially lower headline corporate tax rate than the US. That doesn't reflect the effective rate though.
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how is this a Skype killer? Not for nothing, but for $2.99 a month I can anywhere with Skype. There is no information on the site about pricing, coverage or restrictions.

Maybe I'm not the majority of Skype users, but I use Skype as a replacement for a second phone in my office. I'm not using it as a messager, picture/video uploader or whatever else this thing does, again, I'm using it as a low cost phone line.

From what I see on the website, I can see this competing with SnapChat, Instagram or whatever other messaging client, but not Skype.
This blog post discusses it a bit. http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2013/03/07/enterprisey/

It wouldn't shock me if it also gets used as code for things like "hasn't worked at a startup before" or, frankly, "too old."
http://phantomjs.org/ makes this easy enough to do.
Or the much more common case of touch screens. I'm assuming it's fine - the fine pointer movements are just one aspect of it, and tapping/clicking with a pen are likely to produce small movements anyway (whether or not those movements are suppressed by the driver of whatever device you're using is another matter).
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I attempted tabbing to the checkbox and pressing spacebar (not moving the mouse at all) and it worked just fine. Impressive. But I guess the tell-all is how secure it is against bots. not how easy it is for humans to get through. For all we know it could just be letting everyone through :P
If it was a credit card transaction, it'd be 2,406,506.
I'm pretty sure you can just harvest mouse movement information and train a computer to mimic that.
It was an audiophile who'd spent a small fortune decking out his "listening room". I imagine that he knew what he was doing.

I humored him by teasing out which one was which without him noticing, and then saying the lossless one sounded better. Didn't want to hurt his feelings. And really, the sound system as a whole sounded awesome. I just couldn't tell the difference between the formats.
>>"how much the end consumer is actually paying in tax"

>None?

You misspelled "all."
On what page did you tested the new system?
If you don't have advertising cookies set then you're either a robot or a potentially unprofitable human user from Google's point of view. Both would be best avoided.

As others have noted here, that's not the goal here and the captcha will degrade to the current ones in this case, but it highlights an interesting way for internet properties to maximize their revenue per user by only allowing users whose existing advertising footprint suggests they will contribute meaningful value to use the service in the first place.

Detecting bots is the first step to this, but detecting potentially unprofitable humans would be a natural extension.
It gives me the new version as well, but it seems google is convinced that I am a bot. Getting a regular captcha after clicking the button and I have to say that this is a lot worse of an experience than regular old captchas. Now I have to wait for a few seconds after clicking a button, then still solve a captcha.

Hopefully it gets better with time.
I can't think of many better uses for the menagerie of different tracking methods that they have planted on me, to be honest.
Or to work remotely. Or to start his own business. Or find work in another industry. Or do one of a million other things.
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Yes, the semantics quickly starts to get in the way.

I suppose you can look at viruses as replicator molecules that have adapted to a (relatively) cell heavy environment.
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Yes, you're completely right. The 5€ fee is for transfers to accounts outside of the eu area.
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This sentence on the App Store page needs fixing: "Wire works on iOS and OS X, it is inspired by and developed for the latest in hardware."
It beats Safari and Chrome by CPU time and packets sent by orders of magnitude. Of course Chrome and Safari processes are separated nowadays, but still they do have some central stuff.
Just a random, unhelpful ping into this conversation to point out that the economics of billing out a programmer for "3x" (I assume you mean "3x the fully-loaded cost of the programmer as an FTE for the consultancy, broken out by hour") is a lot more complicated than this thread makes it sound.

Companies aren't simply using those "3x" contractors as a shortcut to avoid finding and hiring full-timers. A big chunk of that "x" is business value created by the consultancy and sold to the client; the biggest chunk of that involves risk management.
Nice read.

Somethings i would have liked to have read/seen though are, the hardware specs, database dimensions (nr of entries in tables etc) and query times.

Just my penny. Hope you can spend it still somewhere :)
I have - dude asked for a five-star rating.

There is no criteria for a five-star rating. Did he get me where I needed to go at the expected price? Pretty much - that seems at best to rate average.

I don't even know what a five-star rating would be.

I gave him one because I really didn't feel the need to spend the time figuring out exactly what I should give him.

However, the problem I have, in retrospect, is this:

DON'T FRICKIN' ASK FOR A FIVE-STAR RATING WITHOUT A GOOD REASON.
> In Canada we had a law called "The AutoPact" [1] which basically said that for every 3 cars that you sell in Canada, 1 must be built here.

In our world of online services, how do you that? For every three subscriptions I sell to somebody in Canada, what should I do exactly?
Probably because lots of users are currently visiting the link.
If it were a credit card transaction, money would have changed hands.
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The question was more about on how the new captcha works, I guess.
At that point, the performance of his benchmark depends of DRAM access. In modern system, DRAM is very parallel -- a single access is glacially slow but you can have a lot of accesses in flight. It would appear that a single thread of his benchmark cannot provide enough access parallelism to saturate his DRAM interfaces.
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I suddenly became extremely conscious of how I was moving my mouse for the duration of that article.
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Ya, a little good luck to he, but not so much...

I have seen video-games bots that does that unbelievably well. Some powerbot.org scripts are sincerely more human than myself.
I wish these google pages wouldn't automatically assume you speak some language based on your IP address - I get mine in German without any option to switch. Aren't there standards for setting language in web browsers?
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Git != Github.

I have always used git, privately (eg: Bitbucket). And if I want to run an open source project, I can very well do that with Bitbucket too. I don't know why employers ask to see a Github profile.
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The activities that giant multinational corps take part in it is effectively the same thing.
I'd rather see profits in the workers pockets than the UK government's coffers. If we keep ramping up taxes on large corporations, they're just going to move abroad.

Take Starbucks for example, they're not even turning over a profit in the UK... yet they created thousands and thousands of jobs.

We'll keep ramping up taxes, they'll close down stores, move abroad and then wonder why youth unemployment keeps rising.
Who has $82M in Bitcoins?
Probably not, it would have likely been netted between the banks without requirement a settlement.
I've been blocking third-party cookies for a while, and I noticed that I only get the old, hard to read, captchas, instead of the easier version with numbers.

Too bad this new version won't work for me either.
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Lots of early adopters (used to) have thousands of btc.
I agree.

My daughter didn't play too much with real dolls, but she liked the games in barbie.com and the dressing flash games. She also saw Disney princess movies and magazines. She also had many cloths for her penguin in Club Penguin.

We also bough her many interesting scientific games, like the games you described. I'll like to add a microscope and SnapCircuits (with a warning, the electricity from the wall is much bigger than the electricity from the battery).

Now she can program a little (she also program alone small script for Minecraft blocks), can do simple calculus including straightforward differential equations. But yesterday I was tacking with her about the 9 and 11 division rules and she didn't know the proof, so I think we have to talk more about modulo arithmetic after she finish her school exams.

Let her play with dolls, but also give her interesting scientific activities.
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Not really, you would just need to reverse the js code, look at what data they actually send to google and randomly generate appropriate data like mouse movements.
More threads can probably queue up memory requests a bit faster than one thread which is doing some processing between requests.

I can't explain the precise convergence at the 8MiB mark, though.
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No video and no win32/64. Skype wins by default.
Exactly what I was thinking. Even if Google got smart enough to detect that the distorted path speed was too mechanical, you could record 100's of macros of yourself moving the mouse towards a target. When it's time to submit a captcha, select one of the macros at random and play it back with some slight randomness added. Voilà!
To be fair -- taxing profit does encourage companies to spend their money.

Also, taxable personal income and capital gains are taxes on profit -- I don't understand how that's easier. Any money spent on personal needs is taxable (see "The Situation" who tried to say tanning was a company expense) regardless of whether a person or company spends it. You're also able to write off business expenses whether you're a company or a person just the same too. Income tax is really a tax on profit, not total income. It just happens that people tend to have mostly profit (since they save their money or spend it on personal needs) and for most close to 100% of their income is taxable so they assume big bad corporations are getting some advantage they aren't entitled to which isn't really true at all.
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Using my iPhone, it thought I was a bot.
That's the question he answered. It's machine learning based on browser variables and mouse movements.
It was good enough for 4chan, a site that used to recieve countless spam from probably dozens of botters before they got recaptcha. And the botters probably kept trying to spam afterwards without much success.
Agreed. Put 8.1.1 on iPad 2 last night. It's quite snappy. I'm not sure where this legend comes from?
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