skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been recently charged a 4% worse FX rate than the going rate in an 5-figure international wire transfer, a world where the current financial transaction system is torn apart cannot come fast enough!
For a second I was terrified at the thought that you're being serious.

That comment is just perfect.
I don't know much about this particular tax issue in the UK, but if you think that lawyers are going to draft a bill which other lawyers will then sign into law that criminalizes the typical day-to-day activities of lawyers - well, I'm sorry to say that you are going to be disappointed.
I'd like to send email messages to people without them being routinely read, stored and indexed by my govt, other govts, the hosting company, etc. Naively, this sounds simple enough to do, and you'd imagine that everyone would want&use such a system.

How to I persuade other non-technical people to use something that is moderately secure? Tutanota seems like something I might be able to persuade people to use - 'hey, sign up for this, it is free, it is just like your current webmail plus if we both use it, our mail is encrypted.' That is an improvement on what they currently use, no?

Do you know of any 'good' (or just 'good enough' (or even just 'better')) options?
Hmmmm. Nice move Google. But I also remember that a machine passed the Turing test. And I don't like the sound of these two news together. Not because I'm worried about you, but because I'm worried about the websites I run as a dev.

Moreover, I'm not sure if most people know this, but reCaptcha was supposed to be converting ancient text to digital text[I read that once on quora, I'm not really sure if it's entirely true, but I guess it is]. So now, I can be less proud of not contributing to conversion of ancient texts to digital books.

And, I'd love you if you make the thing open-source, Google...
Thank you for the link, it was very informative.

The two main points in the blog stated that an "enterprisey" developer may not be a good fit in a startup (change in development pace, responsibilities, etc.) and that they may use languages unpopular in a startup environment (Java and .Net are called out in the post).

I'm interested to see if there are other posts that echo this sentiment, aside from the OP, because now I have a fear of being "too enterprisey."
What people don't quite understand because it has been hammered into the minds of the minds of the middle class for decades now by the ruling elite is that immigration to the USA is bad for everyone involved all around, with exception of the ruling elite. Sure, on an individual basis someone immigrating from central Asia or Central America will be far better off coming to the USA, but fact of the matter is that not only are they sabotaging the local population but they are also being played and harming the source country they come from, which is the even greater damage. The brain, brawn, and bravado drain caused on source countries by the USA sucking up talent is the largest factor of mid to long term problems and failures in source countries, all while also sabotaging and manipulating the market in the destination (USA) country. I don't care what bleeding heart liberals whine and cry about, they are causing more damage than they appear to have the capacity to grasp. It's a process not unlike the damage cause by all the development "assistance" of the past century.

Additionally, what the wealthy are doing in the USA (and other places) by supporting immigration (Pro tip: republicans only dislike immigrants and illegal immigrants when they lie to the faces of their voters) is undermining challenges and competition by the middle class and even the most modest improvement for the more challenged classes. What they are doing with immigration of any kind is sabotaging market factors that would require them to pay fair wages and appropriate costs.

Sure, some will make the argument that blather, blather global market blather captialism * blather* but the fact of the matter is that the wealthy only want everything to flow one direction. They don't want global or even domestic competition and transparency for CEOs, they don't want competition at all. What they want is to rig the game, they want to change the rules as it benefits them at every single step of the way. They are nothing different than the little shit you played with in childhood, who used to change the rules as he started losing at the game or wasn't totally dominating you. What the wealthy do ... what they are ... are the people who sabotage success, they snipe progress in order to keep anyone else from competing with them; because what the wealthy hate even more than the middle class is true competition. They love fake, rigged, and manipulated competition though that means they will win with as little effort as possible.
Yeah but this is an artificial construction which only exists on paper, in reality, Google is indeed making profit in the UK, that's the point.
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Other more "obscure" options also come to mind: Emacs Lisp, Smalltalk, etc. Wasn't there also something in Plan 9's GUI like this? The whole saving to a file first thing is just a convention, and one that got me thinking: it's a convention for a reason (reproducibility), and this argument ("why can't I just run it without saving first?"), seems kind of contrary to the whole point of the post. Disks are fast! Saving a file first is ridiculously fast in this day and age. Just bind a keystroke to save and run in one button press. It speaks more to lousy development environments than anything else if you can't make this a one button press operation.
You could track other things like window scrolling or the focusing of other form inputs.
I don't have to imagine what a programmer doing this jump would do, I can look to my father, who started out writing programs on punch cards in high school to be sent to the university, and maybe a week later he'd get results back (if his program worked at all). He retired from his day job writing Java a few years back, and is still hacking on websites using Tomcat, etc, and he's never looked back.
It's not that transactions "incur" a fee. You pay the fee you want, and miners prioritize transactions accordingly. Because transactions take up space in the block chain (and everyone's hard drives), small transactions are given less priority. Large transactions usually don't need to pay fees to be mined, small transactions may take a long time to be mined (or in the case of "dust" not be mined at all) unless you pay the recommended fee.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees
So what's the direct effect of that Law ? Expensive cars?
Or if they just made taxes low enough that it's not profitable to do crazy things like the double-Irish. If we had a permanent lowish tax rate on corporations, they wouldn't save money doing the weird stuff, the money would move to the USA, it would be more liquid (not being tied up in the Cayman islands etc), and the government would get more tax revenue.
Flouridation [sic] became widely used in the US in the 1960s.

Yes but many communities only fluoridated in the 1980s (I know because my father was the concerned citizen who eventually got this done in several nearby towns), and the smallest water districts still don't have it.
New Bluetooth 4.2 spec brings IPv6, better privacy, and increased speed
Yeah, it sounds like this is specifically geared around a disincentive for moving jobs out of the country. I couldn't see anything like this being applied in the digital world, since it's not as easy to move your offices out of Toronto of Vancouver to Mexico or China as it is to move your factory.
It drives enough traffic to kill a general web app. If you've just launched and have something like Rails / Django running on a single app server, it really doesn't that much to overload it. Wordpress seems to not handle it well either (unless you're caching).
Apparently not:

"HMRC can prosecute tax advisers if they try to hide schemes, but has no sanction against those that create and sell artificial trading arrangements designed solely to dodge taxes."

That's what she wants to change.
A single EU VAT rate would be very harmful because no gov would be able to boost consumption by reducing VAT rate, it would also force small business to collect VAT as soon as they sell their first product.
Generally the very large transactions are even cheaper because transactions are prioritiezed based off of (BTC * time spent sitting)/bytes.

It's a very regressive system, but is entirely about ensuring that 'dust' doesn't clog up the blockchain.
Unfortunately, taxing gross income instead of profits simply won't work for corporate taxes. The cost of doing business varies wildly between industry, or even between different business models in the same industry. You'd end up putting low-margin industries out of business, and taxing (e.g.) software companies almost nothing.

It's a hard problem that doesn't lend itself to simple solutions.

See: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-16/we-don-t-ne...
It says that they do take mouse movement into account but the cookie part makes me feel a little uneasy:

> IP addresses and cookies provide evidence that the user is the same friendly human Google remembers from elsewhere on the Web.

If this becomes a trend then major commercial websites will become unusable for people who are not accepting (third-party) cookies. "Because those damn bots" is a straw man argument to make people trackable by assuming that there are no other useability improving methods that don't track the user (which I think is highly unlikely).
In quoting Einstein's definition of stupidity, the analogy is to ineffectively chopping at a tree without managing to fell it, and then proceeding to ineffectively do the same to N other trees.
10 things we believe after 1000 days of building our startup
#1 Don’t Let Inexperience Hold You Back
#2 Be Tenacious and Creative
#3 Being a Startup Founder is not for the Faint-Hearted
#4 Be Like a Cockroach, but don’t eat them (thanks PG)
#5 Build a Company you Wouldn’t Ever Want to Sell
#6 Let Your Community Share Your Mission
#7 Lean Into Uncertainty
#8 Do Things the Long Hard Stupid Way
#9 Give Back and Expect Nothing in Return
#10 Life Should be One Hell of a Story

*Here’s the full story of our nomadic startup (mis)adventures to provide context: https://medium.com/founder-stories/ten-things-we-believe-2c85c462d508

Anything that do you agree/disagree with in the above list?
Netflix accused of creating fast lanes “at the expense of competitors”
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'In some cases' is the key bit. In the 80s, it was much closer to 'all cases'. Nowadays, by all means, turn on the optimizing stuff if you need it, but you are adding risk (especially since you are probably using something like C if you're that concerned about performance, and with so many undefined behaviors)...but unlike the 80s, there's a decent chance you may not need it to achieve the performance goals you need.
Kudos for successfully launching such an ambitious project, I've been following the project on Assembly.
I think the implication is actually that the person sending this transaction was also the recipient.
This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Just so I have this straight:

- ISP's refuse to increase peering to solve congestion issues

- ISP's further slow down Netflix traffic while in talks to have Netflix pay for faster lanes

- Netflix caves and pays the ISP's to fix issues for consumers

- Netflix is made out to be the bad guy "paying for fast lanes to beat out the competition"

This whole thing stinks and the republican sounds like he doesn't know shit. So now we need to go after shop owners who pay protection money because by paying protection money and installing bullet proof windows (Open Connect) they are hurting the other store owners who don't have bullet proof windows and haven't paid out to the mob????

What fucked up logic do you have to use to get to this point?
Recently I was making a case to coworkers that the typeclass pattern in Scala (and presumably typeclasses in Haskell, I'm not personally familiar) was a completely OOP construct in the vein of CLOS/Dylan. I was met with raised eyebrows all around, and some of the people in the room were pretty far beyond "those industry programmers" so the problem isn't just one of naiveté
We may properly guess that the handedness of the helical copper coil determines the direction the train takes? (left hand rule and whatnot) Connect two loops of opposite handedness and perhaps the train will alternate direction? nahh, probably just get stuck at the transition point.
No, it would cause a pretty big swing. Large sums like this are unlikely to be put on an exchange, though - they'd be done through a private sale.
One advantage is that there are plugins, like YSlow from Yahoo, that are available for Firebug. Though the article notes that plugins don't currently work with the Firebug 3 alpha.

YSlow is pretty useful, both as a developer and when attempting to demonstrate potential problems with a site's performance to others in an objective way.

Besides: a plugin with its own plugins is just cool.
It's definitely not only relying on cursor movements. A simple $('iframe').contents().find('.recaptcha-checkbox-checkmark').click() proved that I'm not a robot, without me touching the mouse.
No. It depends on the local standards, but generally we have a choice of different sciences we can pursue. When I was in highschool I took Earth Science, Chemistry I, Chemistry II, Biology, Bio-lab I, Bio-lab II. I could have swapped out Earth Science for Physics and one of the labs for a Physics lab if I had wanted, but at the time my maths were poor enough that I decided to stay in the less "mathy" sciences and more lab work.
What about something like this?

http://substack.net/offline_decentralized_single_sign_on_in_...

Edit: This article describes a solution that uses an appcache manifest with a far-future max-age that stops the browser from refetching the application code. It then uses an alternative mechanism to load updates presumably with a future option capable of verifying the legitimacy of the code with some sort of public key infrastructure ala Microsoft's Authenticode.
Neil Young is an enigma, and has never been very consistent. (I say this as a HUGE fan of his -- one of my favorite musicians who has ever lived).

For example, he just released an album that was recorded in what is basically a phone booth. http://www.clashmusic.com/news/neil-young-makes-entire-album...
"Web development" isn't a programming language. I'd imagine most decent books on reasonably mature languages from 10 years ago would be pretty usable today.
1. This is not true. It was actually blocked on purpose with head of federal agency speaking about it and posting funny picture.

2. (some) Content in question is work of satire about censorship agency and ridiculous laws written and hosted on github in Feb 2013

3. (some) of the links in question are not even posted by Russian citizens or residents, not even speaking about political activists
I work in energy investing and we're seeing a lot of growth in emerging market solar paired with LEDs that's bringing electricity to formerly off-grid areas. It's great news generally but bad for light pollution specifically, which is sad. It'd be great if there were a way to get these companies to sell only fully shielded lights.
For those here who are wondering if bitcoin use is growing, here is a graph of transactions over time:

https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions?timespan=all
How it might go:

"That web programming thing sounds pretty fun!"

(glances across bookshelf)

"So if you'll give me a copy of the spec, I can get started."
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Disgusting revisionist history. The Open Connect appliances were an option given to the ISPs complaining they couldn't handle the bandwith load, their main reason for throttling Netflix content, right?
I wrote the piece you linked, and I do see still see that feedback on some candidates almost two years later. I think your interpretation of this as code for other things is fairly accurate, although not as much for the 'too old' piece. I've heard it for even the 7-10 years of experience range (though perhaps that could be construed as too old for some).
I've only been exposed to Scala through a Coursera course, but it was a very enjoyable experience. I find myself using things I learned from that course in almost every program I've written since.
Hm, what is the advantage to using node-webkit that works on several other operating systems as well as OS X?
There is no reason for a company like Starbucks to move its retail locations to avoid taxes. They might move other facilities such as corporate offices or manufacturing, but the stores themselves are either profitable or not and it can only serve the local area anyway. They can't sell cappuccinos to London commuters from a store in the Netherlands. They only leave if they can't make money at all. Although taxes may dissuade them from expanding, if the capital can have better return elsewhere.
>Are these just bandwagoning in protest or am I missing something?

Some are. Some other just host blogs or something with funny satiric poetry.
Only if we pretend that individuals don't do the same thing.

When I check the box to count my daughter as a dependent, I am "avoiding" taxes. When a multi-national corporation inverts their company to Canada, they are "avoiding" taxes. So long as all of the above are within the rules, neither act is immoral.
Which is why tax law should be a judgement call by authorities rather than a mathematical operation. As long as you follow the spirit of the law you pay the mathematical tax. If you are found to evade tax by any scheme such as expensive international inter-company loans or excessive license fees, then the authorities step in and simply tax you for the amount you would have paid withiut using those schemes.
If you want to donate to a project (e.g. twisted, wine, whatever), 90% goes to the project and 10% goes to the SFC. The 10% is mostly covering operational costs as the SFC is incredibly helpful.

We (PyPy) are working with them for quite a bit and we spend the 90% either earmarked for the specific proposals or on sprint accomodation/travel/etc. if you don't wish to specify the proposal.
I always liked the captcha's that asked simple questions or told you what to type. Sites that used what is 1+3 or type the number four into the box below.

Is there really a system once employed that coders won't overcome in days? Do we need a trusted user system, where the machine registered at a central site and that can be queried by the commerce site? Recognition of the consumer machine through combination of mac/ip range/provider
Well, I wouldn't expect someone to try cashing out such a large sum at once. I assume they'd just cash out a few thousand here and there as needed.
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Paypal's Bug Bounty program, for the curious: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/security/reporting-securi...
I may be reading too much into your question, but it sounds like your existing customer base is too small to support your development activities.

Have you thought about seeking out a trade association and selling them the rights for their members to use your software? You may be able to grow your customer base while reducing your transaction costs.

My field of expertise is software pricing, so feel free to contact me!
Now bots will have to up their game and really become human level agents. #evolution
I wonder if they've taken into account people with movement disabilities such as multiple sclerosis or parkinsonism. Then again, the previous recaptcha techniques would be somewhat discriminatory against those with visual or auditory difficulties as well so they've had to think of this already
Your browser sends an "Accept-Language" header with the list of languages and order of preference you have configured.
That was what my point was supposed to be. Just like saying that "foo.sorted()" is more declarative than looking at the implementation of quicksort. However, the implementation of quicksort (that is actually fast) is much easier to understand in most imperative implementations than it is otherwise.

Regardless, I do apologize for the noise.
How low would the tax rate have to be for that to work?
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I can not find any documentation about how to put in the new reCAPTCHA if you already using their older version...
Based on the address I would guess its only a mailbox anyway.
Here's a list of all the companies registered in the UK with the string 'Google' in them, that aren't listed as 'dissolved' (there are a lot of those), and aren't obviously registered by morons[0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] who think they can infringe on the trademark.

BR017040 GOOGLE COMMERCE LIMITED UK ESTABLISHMENT
FC031970 GOOGLE COMMERCE LIMITED UK ESTABLISHMENT
5903713 GOOGLE PAYMENT LIMITED
3977902 GOOGLE UK LIMITED
9183796 GOOGLE VENTURES UK MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED

I believe the first two are part of their Double Irish tax dodge: http://vimeo.com/68581263 so those should disappear soon.

[0] http://www.endole.co.uk/company/09054162/google-ninjas-limit...
[1] http://www.endole.co.uk/company/08533581/google-pizza-ltd
[3] http://www.endole.co.uk/company/08770094/google-it-ltd
[4] http://www.endole.co.uk/company/09263100/google-internationa...
[5] http://www.endole.co.uk/company/08537202/google-ads-ltd
[6] http://www.endole.co.uk/company/08497535/google-analytics-li...
[7] http://www.endole.co.uk/company/08615290/google-logistics-lt...
[8] http://www.endole.co.uk/company/09042316/google-property-lim...
[9] http://www.endole.co.uk/company/08573677/google-recruitment-...
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This is shit. Few weeks ago I looks to the situation with "black list" afar. I absolutely wasn't involved and don't believe that this "initiative" will "touch" me someday. Yesterday it happened. Important website that I use everyday was blocked. And now its seriously. I cant access it. My internet provider said that it's a law and he can't help me. Now I need to setup VPN for commit to github. And I already understand that it's temporary solution and the government can forbid VPN too in future.

I really don't now what to do and how to affect the situation. The most fun thing - that 85% of persons in this country now think that "it's just some another porn site was blocked, Putin care us and our children's". Sad reality.
I have a law degree, and I live in Los Angeles. I still don't think it's too common though - I haven't met anyone else.
Is it open source?
How does it work?

This info is kind of important if you are posting on HN!
As far as I knew, several serious parties affiliated with archive.org offered, contacted them directly, and made plenty of waves to try and buy this capacity.

So twitpic might be different, but I agree with the general point: if you care so much and you are making money with it, pay, otherwise go build it yourself.
Could you elaborate a bit on some of the things you're checking for as signs of "suspicious activity"?

I ask because I receive warning emails on occasion from Gmail ever since I started routing all of my data through a rotating-server VPN. I imagine LogDog might send similar emails, which is not necessarily a bad thing--I'm just curious exactly what else you're monitoring other than suspicious IP/geolocation.
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Well, those practices for manufacturing have carried over into tech datacenters with all the kickbacks FB/Goog et. al. are getting from States like Iowa (iirc).
Genuine question: Is there any evidence that Starbucks 'created' more jobs than it 'destroyed' through competition? I.e. It's not as if there weren't thousands of people working for coffee/tea shops before Starbucks came along.