skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should brush up on the status of the Channel Islands, Canary Islands and other various EU country administered islands used as havens. (Here's a starter from a simple google search : http://www.lowtax.net/information/spain/spain-canary-islands...)

It has become so complex that no-one can really keep on top of it other than the obvious fact that big companies seem to be able to avoid tax and suck whopping pay packets for their elites (again without any inconveniences such as tax).
I absolutely did not regret backing it. Although admittedly I'll watch pretty much anything Kristen Bell is in.
Even folks who use an ORM still need to go outside the ORM for some operations -- especially reporting (like the example in the article). I find ORM's very helpful for basic CRUD operations, especially when one conceptual entity of data maps to one or two database tables directly. But there are just some things that can be expressed in SQL more efficiently than you could in OOP programming (and vice-versa).
Optimizing Go: from 3K requests/sec to 480K requests/sec
Thanks. I'll fix it :-)
20 ways PlayStation changed gaming
> Aren't there standards for setting language in web browsers?

Yes, the Accept-Language HTTP header.
Fair enough. I should have included some links.

Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8229081

Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8622003

Uber rival accuses car service of dirty tactics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7115177
Wow, that's odd. I checked it out on mobile and they confirmed me human without giving me the images set similarity question.

I don't think they can predict this from the way I touch the screen >.<
https://www.rocket-internet.com/
From the article:

"What emerges is an outfit that ingeniously exploits the quirks of different jurisdictions to create a charity, dedicated to a somewhat banal cause, that is not only the world's richest foundation, but is at the moment also one of its least generous. The overall set-up of IKEA minimises tax and disclosure, handsomely rewards the founding Kamprad family and makes IKEA immune to a takeover."
Designing a Firefox Experience for iOS
I don't really see anything you've pointed out that doesn't apply equally to profit / non-profit. Given your second paragraph, I'm not sure you have a lot of hope that public schools are doing the right thing.

"they profess an interest in education itself, not education as a means of extracting money from people."

I'm sure counter-examples exist, but the best businesses are not about "means of extracting money from people", that is just a natural consequence of a decently provided service. Governments and Institutions also think in terms of "extracting money from people" although they are less honest about it (why yes, I've worked with both).
Are flash animations outdated?
I agree 100%, and yes, this is a proof of concept. I want to get a desktop version completed asap & app for iOS/Android/Windows.

It will speed up the whole encryption/decryption progress too.
Firefox Could Soon Come to iOS
So to protect myself I have to give out ALL my credentials to this new app? No thanks.
9054162 GOOGLE NINJAS LIMITED
8533581 GOOGLE PIZZA LTD.

OK. Had to highlight these two.
The cursor movement story seems to be a smokescreen to dilute the fact they're actually running an internet wide monitoring network, tracking users from site to site and building profiles on them.
It's only used to generate a confidence level.

"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"

So if you have cookies disabled, you'll probably just get a regular captcha
https://github.com/jvdl/CorrectHorseBatteryStaple/pull/2

Done :)
I don't see that Skype get a license to the content, only that you should have the rights to distribute it (http://www.skype.com/en/legal/tou-usa/#5), and that they have the right to "take it down" if they feel like it.
Sensors That Test Our Stress Could Revolutionize Product Design
Two things of interest:

- They use Scala on Android[1]

- They plan on a full-browser version[2]; I assume it'll rely on WebRTC. The fact that they don't indicate plans on a specific browser makes me happy.

[1]: http://jobdb.softgarden.de/jobdb/public/jobdb/posting/126982...

[2]: https://www.wire.com/download/
One could make the argument that Americans deserve American jobs more than foreigners because the vast majority of Americans have been contributing to American society their entire lives through their work and taxes and will most likely continue to until their death.

Foreigners come to the US having never been part of the society that made the job possible.
Looking at this demo makes me wonder if we could compare it to a black hole. Specifically that the vortexes are connected, that it creates a shadow (there is no light in a black hole), and is a black hole pushing light out or away (in another dimension or?)
Perl 5 has evolved quite nicely lately, and I don't wait for Perl 6 (the biggest problem with Perl 6 is that "6" is bigger than "5").

While I haven't read this book (only skimmed parts), this book is not affected by the language evolution. Of course, it doesn't follow 'modern Perl' practices, but mostly it wouldn't need to.

It is more concerned about concepts that can be applied regardless of language.
HP to offer Xeon and Itanium based Superdome servers
SWIFT transactions are pretty easy and establishing a network of professional resellers should not be hard.
I don't know the situation with your wife's email... but if she had a poor enough password that it was easy enough to hack OR if she didn't update her password after heartbleed etc., then why do you think she will be proactive enough to use LogDog?

(Obviously she will, because she's your wife, but the question is if people aren't proactive to keep their accounts safe, will they be proactive enough to use your service?)
That's an interesting thought that every time we introduce novel classification schemes to resolve humans from computers we feed a large training set for them.

I never understood how that works, though. If I get a captcha street address wrong then that means they already had the answer, so how am I contributing?
Twitter's success wasn't due to "enforced terseness", it was due to the fact that it supported posting to it from SMS messages back when the majority of the population still had dumbphones. Once smartphones became ubiquitous, Twitter kept riding that wave due to network effects. In fact, the entire reason for the 140-character limit was so that it could interoperate with SMS cleanly.

I do somewhat agree with your overall point though. And it's worth noting that sometimes that "new feature" can be things like "my parents don't use it yet", in the case of teenagers and the like.
HubSpot's Startup Mafia: An Overlooked Result
LogDog is not open source. It works by polling services periodically for information about user activity, establishing a baseline profile and then looking for usage anomalies.
I never said Git == GitHub.

I meant that they don't even know Git, let alone GitHub.
I think this is a non-issue since you're not even able to make such small value transations with traditional banking tools.
I think because of the design of bitcoin $0.04 transactions are something they want to actively discourage. From what I understand of Bitcoin, the future will hold only large-scale transactions like this one, and as little sub-dollar transactions as possible. (because the network load of the system scales with the transaction quantity)
I was already considering donating a meaningful amount, but now I will donate double to compensate for the effect your absurd statement might had on HN readers.
The official Python tutorial is also a good example of this. Is all Monthy Python references.
Imagine a scenario where McDonalds corp has both company owned stores and franchisee-owned stores and that both are charged the same, substantial amount for the use of McDs trademarks.

Should the McDs owned store be wildly more profitable in the eyes of the tax authorities?

Suppose that the franchisee and the company store both use the McDs supply chain to buy ingredients. Are those costs "real enough to count"? If not, why not? If so, why aren't the trademarks "real enough"?

If the trademarks don't count intra-group, what if the trademarks are only licensed (for $1) subject to the use of the company supply chain for ingredients? This serves a legitimate purpose of protecting the trademark and giving the customers a uniform experience at all stores, or it serves as an underhanded tax dodge, depending on which reporter is writing the article...

I'm merely suggesting that trying to author precise legislation around this area is inherently a slippery slope and "intra group IP licenses are barred" isn't going to be perfectly effective. Lawmakers have a legitimately hard problem to solve and their "attackers" have a lot at stake to find/exploit intended or unintended loopholes.
Is that why it is being reposted? Cause macgap is really old. There are much much better solutions now and days.
I thought you said the US is as bad as Russia, which is pretty wrong.
Your bitcoin plea breaks the back button. Not cool.
It really pains me to be critical of what is a good thing, but I do wish that they would hire a designer for their website.

There seems to be a rejection of design in OSS (less so these days, I admit). I really like the idea of judging software solely on how it stands alone, but people don't do that, and to many this will just come across as amateur.
Show HN: I love counting cards so I made an app to train with
Oh no doubt the Bay Area has a ton of pickers, but pedal steel players are in short supply.

The main scenes tend to be related to the Grateful Dead and other jam bands. There's been a big rise in bluegrass and country inspired jam bands as of late although they're mostly living in the foothills or Tahoe.

Sweetwater in Mill Valley, Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, and Ashkenaz in Berkeley have a healthy amount of traditional American string players but I'm telling you, almost no one plays pedal steel. There's a few guys like Dan Lebowitz who are just phenomenal but they've all got their plates full.

San Francisco's got Amnesia and Veracocha and a few other smaller venues but I'd gotta say that Phil Lesh's Terrapin Crossroads is what the scene revolves around in the Bay Area.

I have no problem finding fiddle, banjo, or mandolin players! Just pedal steel!
I couldn't find any other apps that were purely focused on counting cards and simulating a real game so I created this. Feature set is pretty limited, but I found it's a great way to practice. If nothing else, I hope it teaches you to play better Blackjack, even if you don't learn to count cards. I included a few free tokens andI would love to hear any feedback.

http://tokn.co/gqabb6sp
http://tokn.co/5nhzxkck
http://tokn.co/uj6gnxyj
> And poor candidates tend to be poor due to cultural and subject matter issues more than basic technical chops.

I wish this were true, but the amount of seemingly experienced/employable people I've interviewed in the tech industry who don't understand basic concepts related to their areas of experience/expertise is astounding. As an example I recently interviewed a person to join our operations team managing our VMware stack, who had worked at VMware as an engineer of all places, but could not tell me the difference between paravirtualization and full virtualization or the difference between a virtual machine and a container.

More than anything, it seems many people in the tech industry these days lack understanding of the fundamentals. It's great that you've written a RoR app that makes use of APIs, but if you don't know how HTTP works at least at a high level, how can you troubleshoot that API if you encounter an issue? How can you make intelligent decisions about building out the datastore for your system if you don't understand the CAP Theorem, the trade-offs associated with various data storage engines, and the relation between available memory and available IOPS capability and the TPS capabilities of your datastore.

People seem to have forgotten the mantra "learn to walk before you run" and have gone straight from being dudebros in high school to being full stack engineers or ops engineers without any time spent actually learning how a computer works. Many of the candidates that we end up interviewing have at least 10 years of experience, and still many fail to understand fundamentals.
This is great. I've come across a few articles lately about caches and their effects on performance. It's really interesting stuff. If this interested you, then you might find this article[1] by Dan Luu on improving performance by misaligning data interesting as well.

[1]: http://danluu.com/3c-conflict/
I tried the demo in two different browsers that I use regularly. On the one that stays logged into my google account, I was not challenged with a captcha. On the other browser, which I use quite a lot but not with my google account, the captcha appears.

I'd think that having a long-standing google account with a normal history of activity would be a good indication that one might be a human. If google is weighting that heavily for this test, that may create a new incentive for spammers and scammers to hijack people's google accounts.
It's a race to the bottom. Corporate tax in Ireland is a mere 10% which is what you'd pay if you did a "single Irish", but these companies still find it worthwhile to avoid even that much tax through a more complicated scheme. I'll wager the only "low enough" would be zero.
okay, that's reasonable.
How come that doesn't correlate with this graph showing the dollar value of transactions:

https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-...
> 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.

The government funds basic science specifically because the market WON'T do it. A classic example is the work done on early cancer research. This breakthrough work along with several blockbuster drugs came entirely out of government sponsored research and work in academia. Pharmaceutical companies weren't interested in performing the basic research because they didn't forsee a good ROI. It was only after basic research was done and the market developed that pharmaceutical companies became interested in what is now one of the most lucrative drug categories.

http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/68/21/8643.long
Thanks for adding the detailed breakdown. I was concentrating on my side of the deal so I probably misremembered their side.

> Almost everybody I know who has gone the self-publishing route has ended up with the high-hundreds and single-digit-thousands.

A technical book should be selling for about $50, more if you bundle correctly like the Rails Tutorial (https://www.railstutorial.org/). 1'000 copies sold is income of about $40K (accounting for processing fees) if you self publish and don't bundle. About $100K if you bundle and have an average sale price of ~$100. I was told a typical advance is ~$5K. To earn that you'd need sales of just over 100 copies, which seems very achievable.
That's the thing... It's easier for people to download an app than to keep up-to-date on security events and proactively update to higher entropy passwords.
I think Firefox Dev Tools may have reached parity with Firebug. Up until recently (~3 months), Firebug was superior in network, more informative in console when using console.log for objects, resizing, etc. Still, Firebug does have add-ons
My $50,000 Bet: How to Plan for (and Justify) a Site Redesign
I got an interview with Google without having "JavaScript" in my resume, and with tons of AngularJS on it. I did link to my GitHub though, where it shows contributions to Angular, various Angular plugins, and other random libraries.

I ended up turning down the interview after accepting another offer though.
And what about people with motor-neural conditions?
The old system presented you a challenge-response test no matter what.
Paypal detects that I'm in Brazil and gives me the brazilian version of the website, in which the link is 'Not Found'.

There is no locale on url whatsoever. I have to manually change my country to United States in their menu and then I'm able to access the url. So annoying.

Why not showing the page with a simple warning such as "Sorry, we don't have this content in your language, here's the original:"...
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I'm fairly certain that it doesn't require you to change anything, it will just start working. You must be a bot.
Publish-subscribe messaging tutorial
Peter Thiel on building startups: short summary
Correct link: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/security/reporting-sec...
This will greatly help them with bettering their CV classification algorithms. The kitty picture matching question is a great example.
I wonder if it'd be possible to sign the JS a site serves you, so you know it's unchanged from when you originally got it?
Tox is not a Skype replacement. For example:

- Skype is "everywhere" (Windows, Windows RT, Windows Phone, OS X, iOS, Android, Linux, FreeBSD, Blackberry, XBox One) and opposed to a handful of places (Windows, Linux, OS X, Android, iOS, FreeBSD, OpenIndiana). Plus Outlook.com's Skype implementation supports most platforms with a HTML5 browser.

- Landline/cellular phone calling. Text message sending.

- Caller ID, Voicemail, etc.

- Skype Numbers (i.e. buy a landline phone number people can call your Skype via, which is insanely useful for SMBs and individuals alike).

- Tox's feature list is largely a myth. Most clients are missing major Skype features and none support all of them, see this: https://wiki.tox.im/Clients#Features

People who think Tox is a Skype replacement aren't Skype's core demographic. The landline/cellular/etc functionality is heavily used by many and nothing that claims to be a replacement can be taken seriously if it lacks that.
For the street address ones you generally have to answer two questions, one that they know and one that they don't know. You're only 'tested' on one of them, but you don't know which. Once enough people have gotten the known one right and given the same answer to the unknown image they move the unknown image to the known pile.
That and a lack of consumer choice :p for example, my google searches didn't find mention of a Canadian Tesla factory.
How exactly do you plan on the US staying solvent charging companies a corporate tax rate of 0%? Because that's what their cost is doing the double-irish.
Why? Probably because the "blog spam" or "only submit the original source" comments will show up and submissions get flagged. Happens enough that I would imagine the submitter probably followed all the links in response to prior submissions.
This is great news! I really really really hate the normal Captcha's.

It has a nice property: To combat spam, Google can tweak this as often as they like without bothering the users of a website or the devs running it.
1. Tested on my normal chrome where I didn't delete any cookies and logged in to my google accounts, and no adblocker running. So plenty of evidence I'm human, with all those cookies from big G.

2. Tested in incognito mode: BAAM: I'm a bot, had to fill out the old captcha!
Eh, you never know. Attitudes toward certain improprieties have moderated in recent years...
Because thats not how the world operates. The financial system is structured such that it rewards year-over-year profits and punishes anything less. A for-profit institution is going to be beholden to investors. Incentives are a strong predictor of outcome.
It's far, far more likely that she was phished or that she used the same password on a site that was compromised than that her email password was guessed or sniffed. (edit: of course, this is a general comment rather than any comment specific to OP's wife!)
I've always thought this was a good idea, glad to see someone doing it.
LogDog monitors multiple parameters and will not send you alerts just because your VPN changes IPs. We establish a usage profile and only alert on significant anomalies.
Due to the way slow-start works the throughput of a TCP connection increases with use (assuming no packet loss) as the congestion window grows.

The HTTP test has images that are ~5KB so after the first round trip for an image the congestion window grows but none of the subsequent requests grow it further, where as in a real world example many of the files would be larger than 5KB the window would grow further an the number of round trips would be reduced.

The SPDY example can make use of the ever growing congestion window because the multiplexing will fill it i.e. we'll get the data from more than one image in a single round trip.

It's not that the test isn't 'technically real-world' it's that it has (I don't think intentionally) a design that highlights an area where HTTP performs really poorly due to the latency penalty i.e. many very small requests.

A more real world test case would mirror a typical page construction with varying file sizes - HTTP Archive can give you some clues here.

Have a watch of John Rauser's "TCP and the lower bound of web performance" for more detail on slow start - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6ah2cq4LFY
Or add the mouse tracking checks to a button that is naturally part of the website, such as "Post Comment" on a WordPress blog.
I use a number of plugins in firebug like YSlow and FireLogger that unfortunately don't work with the default Firefox developer tools.

I honestly wish they did since there are very few features I would miss from Firebug itself but the plugins add very useful features.
H1B's are better at solving/finding a workaround for dead-end projects.
> Income tax is really a tax on profit, not total income.

If you run a business, that's largely true, as your sole-proprietor income tax is calculated very similarly to how business profits is calculated. But individuals who earn their income via employment (which is most of them) more often pay a tax on their income rather than profits. Some expenses are deductible, but many of the most common ones are not. For example, commute expenses are typically not deductible [1], even though they are probably the most frequent cost incurred solely as part of earning income. Work clothes are also often not deductible: they are only deductible if they are both formally required by the company, and of a kind that is dissimilar from non-work clothing. So e.g. buying a suit for interviews and/or meetings is not deductible, even if you only bought it for and only wear it for income-earning purposes (I have personally never worn my suit in a non-work context). It's also difficult to deduct the cost of a computer, even if your field is computing and you use it mainly for work and skills development (though it's possible in some cases, if the employer formally requires you to have one at home and doesn't provide it).

[1] "You cannot deduct commuting expenses (the cost of transportation between your home and your main or regular place of work)." http://www.irs.gov/publications/p17/ch28.html
What are some of the other solutions?

(This isn't an area i'm familiar with.)
So which platform can one use to deploy docker cloud? We already have a set of CoreOS servers running docker containers... with rocket replacing docker and automagic updates in coreOS this seems kinda dangerous.
I know what the article says. I'm saying it's wrong. It's trying to apply the US concept of "foundation" to the Dutch concept, which is invalid.