skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SIPC already exists. I don't see why that wouldn't cover bitcoin investments at registered broker/dealers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_Investor_Protection_...
With these 'protectionist' measures and EU ruling on breaking up Google. Does it signify EU trying to muscle control and power when most of new world power is with US and Asia/China/India.
I don't know if "flawed" is the right word, but I do agree that the conclusion is probably a little too absolute. Even if resumes can't distinguish between good and bad engineers among those minimally qualified to apply for jobs, they still help you avoid people who are just completely obviously not qualified and who don't understand what the job even is.
> However, CAPTCHAs aren't going away just yet. In cases when the risk analysis engine can't confidently predict whether a user is a human or an abusive agent, it will prompt a CAPTCHA to elicit more cues, increasing the number of security checkpoints to confirm the user is valid.

Probably using a combination of G+ and GA to check your 'history' to see the activity is like a normal human. Visits a couple news sites each day, checks their gmail, searches for random crap randomly, GA registered a 'conversion' for some company = probably a human
Very cute video. I like the way the mouse pointers scares away the 'nasties'.
Keep in mind that sending out resumes is not the only way to get a good job. Some relevant previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8338859
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8532886
This is exactly what the previous implementation was as well. The "words" you had to recognize were either scanned from Google Books, or house numbers from StreetView, effectively enhancing their OCR training set.
Is that your actual secret? you might not want to reveal that/you should get a new one.
Yep. This is in Perth, Australia. At least one of the UberX drivers specifically said "See, I've just given you 5 stars, now you rate me" before I left the car. UberX has only been here a month though, so maybe drivers (and riders?) aren't sure how the system is meant to work. I've had 4 rides on UberX now.

No one's stopped me from leaving the car, and the rides were all okay so I'm not complaining about any drivers. But the implication I got was of reciprocal 5 stars.
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In the example of the hygiene rating, the government regulators at least have the possibility of being fair and using objective standards for evaluating and measuring a large number of restaurants against each other.

If it's left up to customers, it's completely subjective, all the time. It's not that customers are idiots, it's that the wisdom of the crowds is often wrong.
Good luck with that. There is no way short of global world government to force a company with subsidiaries and business all over the world to pay taxes everywhere.
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I experienced a lot of lags and delays between pages with no feedback as to whether or not the page is loading. The tokenized skills input list had empty tokens when I clicked Confirm. The UI looks and feels very good in my opinion but the UX is broken.
3) People are not "hopeless at assessing risk." That's a ludicrous assertion.

No, you are wrong. People over-estimate the probability of rare events and under estimate the probability of common events. There are a bunch of biases that make people really bad at assessing risk.

The examples you give - all of them needed extensive modification to help people assess the risk or to protect people from the risk. (Ebay introduced reputation systems and gives stern advice about not paying for goods with Western Union cash transfer; retaurants have to comply with hygiene laws backed up by inspection - how many people bother to ask to see the kitchen or the staff loos before eating somewhere?)
I think this is good news. Companies such as Google and others have been avoiding paying taxes for too long. They do this in ways which up until now were fraudulent but technically legal, by creating fictional companies or by laundering money via havens.
SO is as much about making yourself look as smart as possible while still needing help. I would bet half of the folks submitting questions over linq use resharper to "nerdify" their code before they submit it...
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I suppose one way to clamp down on any such activities would be to simply class all payments to subsidiaries in low-tax jurisdictions as qualifying for this extra tax. That would avoid any arguments over what exactly is a fair price for certain services or whether certain services/fees qualify.
About 2 years ago, the original macgap project stopped being maintained, so I'm happy to see that someone has forked it and maintaining it.
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It seems plausible that as more sites adopt this kind of technology, automated web access (e.g. scraping) the web will become harder -- for whatever purpose, good or ill. This has long been an "arms race" between hiding and detection. I can hope that reasonable uses of automation still remain feasible.
Wait! Who's telling who what?

I think you find you have it backwards. I don't hear anyone here telling you that you should be listening at 24/192. Go look at all the comments and count them up. All I hear is people saying that you should be listening at 16/44, because it sounds exactly the same, or even sounds better, and if you think otherwise you're obviously an idiot, stupid, audiophool who spends $5000 on a power cable.

I sure know who I think should shut up. It's all those arm-chair-experts who don't even own any decent hifi gear. Why would they? It's all crap and my second hand ipod headphones beat it all hands down anyway. Right?
Looks quite interesting. What did you create this with? I think you should have a better intro and maybe some video or something to outline what it is without people needing to log in
I wonder how long it will take for black-hat hackers to crack this. I imagine that it will be very difficult to crack, but it seems inevitable to me.
Who wants to place bets on the "potential robots" more likely to be those without Google cookies or a Google Account?
> As far as I can tell, they shift profits overseas by shifting extra, semi-fictional 'costs' to the UK subsidiary - for example, if the UK subsidiary of Starbucks makes $100m profit, but has to pay the Canary Isles subsidiary $100m in licensing costs, suddenly the UK subsidiary owes no tax.

Canary Isles?? The Canary Islands are Spanish jurisdiction and hardly a tax haven. I guess you mean the Caymans or maybe the Channel Islands?
not a python dev, but:

- python probably has a lib like underscore (reduce map filter etc), could help

- check out the quake source code, any version, its huge and the entire thing is not only readable but possibley a work of art.

- have you tried lambdas? to some its more readable.. ex:

nums = range(2,50)
for i in range(2, 8):
nums = filter(lambda x: x == i or x % i, nums)

personally when i have too complex process i like to go more functional, ex:

main:
prepare_data1()
prepare_data2()
do_long_stuff()
nextstep()

that allows me to focus on only on building one step and still have readable code.

many game-devs prefer breaking their project into many tiny files with a specific purpose instead of spaghetti, ex:

file.py
parser.py
display.py
function1.py
function2.py

its also a bit easier to nav around the project and make sense of it this way. you might want to check out rust or D or F or another lang also.
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I didn't mean by referencing dlls to imply this was a windows-only problem, just that using dynamically linked libraries shifts the burden of dealing with dependency conflicts to the runtime machine, and away from the developer at compile time.
>So all this money accumulates offshore and can't come back to the US unless some taxes are paid, which is why Tim Cook meets with Congress to try and lobby for a tax repatriation holiday.

Ironically a lot of this money would probably be repatriated tomorrow (with taxes fully paid) if Congress ruled out a tax holiday and committed itself to gradually raising rates.

It's just the tantalizing hope of a tax holiday that keeps it abroad.
AngularJS, Express, Socket.io & MongoDB. However, I'm considering switching over to Postgres.

Encryption wise, I'm using CryptoJS for AES256 and OpenPGP.js for PGP.

All messages get encrypted in AES256 with a randomly created passphrase. The passphrase is then distributed to the recipients using PGP.
Tax is included in receipts in Canada, especially since the tax usually isn't in the price listed on the shelf.
Is it keyboard friendly?
> Outside of the obvious issues with implementing crowd funded science in an academic setting (Who owns the IP? How does overhead work? How do you verify that the work is being done if there are no deliverables and a high failure rate? How much money can go to salary? etc). The two obvious problems I see with crowd funding science are lack of ROI and ignorant investors.

I guess we will just have to agree to disagree. I'm of the mindset that the market solves everything and will answer all the questions you pose. Academia/govt. is horribly inefficient and the money is running out there for several the reasons such as no deliverables. It academia/govt was forced to bail space exploration (SpaceX), it seems much easier to understand how this will happen in other sectors.
> why isn't it possible to create and execute a script without saving to a file first

It is certainly possible in Bash, at least:

CODE='echo Hello; echo World'
RESULT=$(bash -c "$CODE")
echo "$RESULT"

Very good article though! :-)
Pricing didn't screw Bob, being poor did.
So if I don't have a Google account or allow their cookies in other sites then I'm not a human anymore?
Definitely true, but if we just classify "self-replicating molecules" as life, they become just another coexisting organism in the mix of billions, perhaps scavenging some form of energy that's unsuitable to larger forms. We've only recently developed the ability to observe things at that scale, and it's still a very fiddly process as I understand it, so the idea that there is undiscovered molecule-scale life interacting with larger-scale life doesn't seem too far-fetched to me.

The most interesting answer that I hope comes out of this research is how sensitive the process is that leads to the creation of these molecules. If it's robust and simple, we can expect to find life scattered all over the universe. If it's extremely dependent on conditions found only in a narrow window of time on Earth, the picture is probably much more lonely.
> in the last week, more than 60% of WordPress’ traffic and more than 80% of Humble Bundle’s traffic on reCAPTCHA encountered the No CAPTCHA experience—users got to these sites faster.

Does this mean WordPress saw an 60% decrease in traffic from bots?
Evasion !== Avoidance

At least in the UK, these two words have entirely different meanings when applied to tax. Tax evasion is not paying tax which is due. Tax avoidance is arranging your activities to reduce or minimise the taxes which are due.
I could imagine that this system could still be tricked with a Markov chain and some dedication.
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Nothing as dramatic : if you don't have a strong Google footprint, it is less likely that the system will recognize you automatically as human, and you'll have to answer the picture question.
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That is 100% correct. It was a hard lesson to learn but we are now pretty savvy to the process. However I think that it is very hard to plan for a buffer margin. There are very few business plans that I have seen that plan for buffer margins.
I was thinking they may be looking at how long it takes for a user to click the "I'm not a robot" link. A robot would probably load the page and quickly, without delay, send the HTTP POST but I have to imagine they thought of this already and bots writers would quickly add a sleep() call in there at some point... Yea, I wonder about their internal logic too.
Security by obscurity is a perfectly valid security mechanism - to be used in conjunction with other security mechanisms.

There is no security silver bullet - a properly secured system is security by many strategies. One of those strategies may indeed be obscurity.
Given the dictionary (all possible words) and using the default settings (4 words, hyphen, 1 number).

If we did something simple like say SHA-256 the generated password. And compare this to the SHA-256 of a captured password.

It would take ~3 days, knowing the generation algorithm and dictionary to solve for a match.

:.:.:

Also nobody in their right mind would actually preform 1trillion HTTP post/get requests per second. They'd compare hashes locally within memory. Far faster.
I want to know how well it works with accessibility concerns of various and sundry natures.
Don't think it's about everywhere. What they are trying to stop is the profits made in the UK being offset against artificial debts from another division of the same company in a different more tax efficient country.
ICQ went down the same path most clients seem to go, ie. it got very bloated. At first it was very bare-bones, with some really pleasant file transfer capabilities.

Skype really is history repeating itself. The client is becoming less usable by the day, and for some reason I was selected for a beta test that introduced the "new" flat style, at a huge cost to layout efficiency. It's truly terrible.
> These things happen in private sector organizations too; the assumption that the private sector somehow will do it better needs to be supported.

The difference is that NASA will likely keep getting their money regardless of whether they can come up with a viable plan. In the private sector, investors are usually not interested in financing an enterprise if it can't produce a viable plan.

I don't think there's much difference between NASA and SpaceX in terms of professionalism of the teams. The big difference is the incentive of the two companies: SpaceX either has to turn a profit, or their owners have to be willing to provide capital without seeing a return. NASA has no such restrictions, and can keep operating without turning a profit.

It's a lot like nature, really. Zoo animals don't have to hunt for food, and can lie around all day and be fed. Wild animals have to hunt for food, or they die. So if a wild animal were to meet a zoo animal, and a battle ensues, who wins? The animal that is used to lying around all day, or the animal that has to fight to survive? The two animals are not different in quality (both may be lions, for example), but they operate with very different incentives.

It's not necessarily pretty, but it works. Wild animals grow strong because if they don't, they die. Private companies grow strong because if they don't, they go bankrupt.
It used to be that the major limitation in computing was hardware. Look at the creativity that it spawned. We are still living off of ideas three decades old.

Now what is the limitation? Is it programmer stupidity? Or maybe there is no limitation? Maybe that is the problem.

History shows hardware kept getting faster, but there has been no decrease in the amount of ever larger, slow, unreliable software. Where is all the lean, "instantaneous" software running in RAM, extracting every last bit of computing power, instead of mindlessly consuming it?

What exactly is the point of "programmmer productivity" and whatever problems some programmers think that this justifies?

Is the point to advance computing? The state of the art?

Or is the goal is to peddle their junk to those with very low expectations, not to mention those with zero expectations. (The later were not old enough, or even alive, to see how computing was done in the 80's and hence have nothing with which to compare.)

It is unfortunate that giving programmers what they wanted -- faster hardware -- has not resulted in software that is any more creative or powerful, and truly it is less so, than the software of the past. Only hardware has improved.

Given the history so far, I would argue that the only proven path to true creativity in computing is through limitation.

Perhaps present day computing's limitation is programmer stupidity, or to be more gentle, programmer ignorance.

Agree 100% with all points in the blog post, except perhaps the last one. Well done.
Great read, I think a lot of startup blogs skip the ...start bit and jump to "here's how we scaled!"

Glad to see an Irish company talking about this stuff too (though I wasn't sure if ye were Irish until I read that Darragh was your first hire :P). Good luck to ye!
I would argue that, theoretically, proprietary can be secure. A code base can be made secure by highly experienced engineers who are paid to make the code secure. You might never be able to see the code, but it could still be secure. The problem is that you can never actual verify how secure the proprietary solution is. So whether or not it is secure, you don't trust it. (there are even some interesting arguments to be made about the security of any solution that deals with some kind of user input. my previous boss stipulated that the only way to have a truly secure email client is to have some third-party, verified library that takes all the input, and spits out encrypted data to whatever program deals with email servers, without the program dealing with email servers ever seeing that input in plain text form because who knows what it might do with it)

On the other hand as well, open source most certainly does not mean secure. I don't even have to argue to make this point, I merely have to point out Heartbleed or Shellshock.
"Profit" is very easy to hide. Income, not so much.
The difference is 'net' vs 'gross'.

The horrid nature of current tax law is geared towards lawyers and accountants being creative. The system is geared to reward con-men and punish the honest.

A flat-rate tax system based on income might be more effective but the real danger is the tax-breaks that companies get. I see this all the time with Ford/Chrysler/GM. "We will build a factory in your city/state/county if you give us X-billion in tax breaks."

My thoughts: You want to sell your product don't you? 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.

Corporate welfare will always be a greater hindrance to tax-coffers then personal welfare will ever be.

Why are we paying companies so they have the privilege of taking our money?

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_Au...
Probably:

http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/12/lyft-uber-cancelled-rides...
http://www.businessinsider.com/an-uber-exec-brought-up-the-i...
https://medium.com/@petersimsie/can-we-trust-uber-c0e793deda...
don't know if this works only for me but here is a live example - https://www.google.com/cbk?cb_client=maps_sv.tactile&output=...
How long before you will have to answer a series of annoying and difficult questions if you don't allow tracking cookies and google to collect personal information (which I assume the far majority of users allow on a regular basis)? Not sure how I feel about this.
Thanks for sharing your journey! I really like your product and might try it for clients (saas companies) :-)

I was curious how come your product has been developed for so long and then I read your previous articles and how you pivoted from chatroulette-like conversations to better for online chat conversations for companies.

Good luck!
the end play is for non-us countries to be shafted off their tax receipts while US gets its cut.

I am very surprised that other countries have left this situation to get this far..

We have mining companies in Australia playing this game essentially depriving the Australian public of their tax receipts. Some day these tax receipts will be enjoyed by US public.
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What you are describing is called Transfer pricing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_pricing
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Not from Googles point of view, probably...
IMHO the documentation of backbone.js is fragmented. This is a good writeup for getting up and running.
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It's not a charity, it's a non-profit. The comparison with the Gates Foundation makes no sense, there's no expectation that it should have a charitable purpose, it's simply a legal entity that has other goals instead of having a fiduciary duty to shareholders.

In particular, it only receives tax benefits if it's classified an "Institution for General Benefit" (ANBI) by the Dutch IRS, which IKEA isn't.
A lot of ISPs for example in Germany reuse IP addresses and force a reconnect every 24 hours. I don't think showing me banners because the previous "owner" of the IP had a virus is going to improve the situation.

Other people share a network behind a NATed IP which is also a problem. They'd all receive a banner, check their computer and a test would come up negative.
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I'm going to assume that any significant off-shore charges from subsidiaries will be considered profit and the company will need to prove otherwise. Should cause a few cases to go through the law courts.
Starbucks is not a good example for several reasons. First, they really do have global recognition through the American culture (movies, etc).

Second, this is a fairly simple scheme where a subsidiary pays for using the brand. Sure, it's hard to price and the company will tend towards price that optimizes their taxes rather than the one in line with real benefit but it's not fictional, there's a rational reason for the licensee to license.

Finally, Starbuck's business model makes it really easy to just tax the transactions with VAT. They churn out coffee, not sophisticated financial products, not ephemeral ads. They physically have to be where they operate. And they mostly sell to regular customers, not other businesses. (Well, I'm guessing here.)

It's not like having a chain of companies across Europe and Bermuda. Not even like serving the entire EU from Luxembourg.
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It seems like they're using cursor tracking to validate human-ness. Assuming thats the case: Since the cursor is outside of javascript's control, it would force the attacker one level higher (to the browser/os, instead of the dom). Not impossible, but still a significant barrier.
I would donate but only if 100% of the money goes toward the projects and not social causes such as teaching x/y/z to code or an outreach program for demographic a/b/c (looking at Gnome Foundation and Mozilla here).
[citation needed]

Last I checked CloudFlare routinely handles[1] 10Gbps to 65Gbps attacks, and has successfully handled attacks as large as 300Gbps and 400Gbps. According to this report DNSSimple crumbled under 25Gbps.

[1]: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170216-H...
Taxes are often based on profits, not sales. Profits are reduced by costs. Costs can be marginal costs (eg. the money McDonalds spent buying the contents of your sandwich) but they can also be fixed costs (eg. the cost of constructing the building housing the McDonalds you're buying from). Whether you buy the sandwich or not, the fixed cost remains the same.

So because the taxes paid end up being based in part on the fixed costs, it isn't really possible to determine what amount of tax is based on the sandwich you just bought. It depends on how the cost of the building (for example) is apportioned amongst all the sandwiches they sold. Along with everything else they do that makes money.
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