skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Finland is one country that has 24% VAT (most are lower.) They have very low property taxes but very high income taxes (up to 30% federal + 20% local.)
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Why is nobody talking about utf-256? that has to be, by far, the best feature in this language.
You can't compare VAT to income tax, they are very different beasts. And yes, although I can't speak for the GP, in Finland (and other Nordic countries) other taxes are high as well. Not that I'm necessarily complaining, although VAT as a concept certainly has its problems.
Your car analogy is poor. Better would be to consider a scenario where Ford owned 95% of the car market, and offered for free, Ford branded stereos in each model whereas previously there was no stereo and you had to buy one separate.

Other stereo manufacturers, who sell stereos got mad, and basically convinced the government that Ford has a monopoly and should be forced to offer consumers a choice in stereo.

Microsoft never warned people that using another browser would "cause damage" or void warranty. They simply gave away something for free, that was previously a paid product. Their dominant market position gave them leverage to essentially wipe out the competition. This, depending on your market philosophy was either the right move to protect consumers, or an example of special interests influencing government to effect markets (IMHO it was probably both).
It's called taxes, and don't worry, you are already a BIG donor.
Sure! Pay your taxes.
I wonder if the push to proxy images in emails was triggered by wanting to enable CSP on Gmail.
For your rails apps you can use 'wysihtml5-rails' gem.

https://github.com/narkoz/wysihtml5-rails

Author plans to update it to use wysihtml as a drop-in replacement.
... And with that comment being upvoted, HN became reddit
It's still a scientific study, we just shouldn't rely on something which was 'proven'/observed by only a single study.
>Are there also high property and income taxes?

Yes - this is on top of (high) income tax/capital gains tax, etc.
No, it's not like that. Microsoft didn't tell people installing other browsers would break their computer, people were just not aware of the option.
Hopefully live streams will also pop up :)
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So if I download copyrighted material but never listen to it, I'm not infringing?
I think parent is referring to the classic "VAT advance": in most countries, after a business registers for VAT, after 12 to 24 months the State will calculate your "expected VAT turnout" for the following 1 or 2 years, and demand advance payment. This is because some 80% of businesses don't survive the first 24 months anyway, so the State tries to collect every penny before they go bust. Ironically, that advance payment (which is invariably too high) is often a nail in the coffin...
I find the past of Venus probably the most interesting thing in the Solar System. Why this planet is so different? The slow spin, in the wrong direction. Was that from the beginning or something really heavy slammed it hard.
Best news I've heard all week. Awesome. Time to update my servers :D
How do the judges know that you are supporting the EFF and not the other way around? Does it have to be a suit or could you wear a t-shirt to indicate which side you are on?
You're comparing income tax with sales tax.

In the UK, on a salary of £40k (i.e. professional mid-career engineer), before you touch the money, the government takes about 25% for income tax and national insurance. Then, they take 20% of everything else that you spend unless it's non-luxurious foodstuffs, children's clothes or paper books. And, of course, if what you're buying is fuel, they actually take 85% of the price.

In addition, you'll pay approximately 2% of the purchase price of a house to the government, and you'll pay approx. one day a month in after-tax income to the local council as a property tax.

US has a 30% tax burden, UK has a 40% tax burden. France and Germany have >50% tax burdens. The last three have some form of nationalised healthcare though, which the US does not.
I was going to do 10 recurring but just hit 25 to help those who can't do the 10 :)
Indexing with floats means you need to do rounding. May I suggest a modified version of Banker's Rounding?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Round_half_to_even
So, that Rosneft $40bn affair [1] is not a big deal then?

[1] http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/15eb42e6-852e-11e4-ab4e-00144...
Some insects are delicious. Tarantulas taste like shrimp or lobster, without all the shell [1]. Ants taste great with flour [2]. You can't tell the difference after cooking and spicing.

[1] http://www.thedailymeal.com/deep-fried-tarantula

[2] http://flavorsofbrazil.blogspot.com.br/2011/11/recipe-ica-fa...
EFF launches an iconic case and PG 9.4 on the same day? This is probably the best day in the year and its not even christmas yet.
VAT is essentially a sales tax. Sales taxes in the US are usually 5-10%.
Yeah, especially because the Korean link was probably what started the "The Interview" saga. Not really a contradiction.
This is how the system is supposed to work. You create an experiment, you perform it, if there are interesting results you publish them. Then since it's public, other people can try to reproduce the results. If they do, the results are stronger. If not, there must have been a mistake.

The fact that the press tends to report on the initial experimental results as INFALLIBLE SCIENTIFIC TRUTH is not the fault of the scientists.
It can apply classes too as you wish. You can use formatInline or formatBlock command to add inline or block elements with needed classes. An example how its done internally https://github.com/Voog/wysihtml/blob/master/src/commands/fo...
Yep, buy heroin and cocaine. They have a nice little sideline with the CIA.
URLs Are UI: Elegant Permalinks in Rails
Actually there is a new gem for Rails called "wysihtml-rails" (https://github.com/Voog/wysihtml-rails) that is synced with this library.
I wrote it up as best as I could in the imgur description, but I'll see if I can summarize it here.

Basically, I was without any modern resources for quite some time. I had a 486, QBASIC and EDIT.com to play with; the rest of the DOS exes etc I didn't want to touch out of fear of buggering up my system as I wasn't very computer literate.

My library had two 1970s books on BASIC which I loaned out (Basic BASIC and Advanced BASIC by James S Coan) and with nothing else to do in the hours after school, I decided to try my hand at it. I played around with it for a bit and built a really primitive "DOS Clone", which relied on a simple series of INPUT's, PRINT's, IF / THEN statements and GOTO. I then also began experimenting with the ASCII Character map which was included in the QBASIC help file, and realized that if I used the correct ASCII codes, I was able to form visualizations on the screen, simple GUIs etc. I combined the two and began adding more and more functionality to it until I eventually named it "OSCI" ("Aussie"). That's pretty much all there was to it.

How: An old 486, QBASIC, and lots of free time

Why: Boredom, curiosity.
I say Earl when I speak of U.R.L.s. And I'm not ashamed of it.
Yeah I can't take this article seriously. It reads as though written by some nutrition/health food fanatic who distorts reality to suit their conclusions. There's just something not quite sane in the writing.

The vast bulk of humanity would survive, eventually.

I mean this is nitpicky, but what?
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Sure, when you file your taxes you are able to pay more than your required amount. It won't go directly to the NSA, but it will surely help out.
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Has Uber lost people's trust?
I can't think of a company that gets this much bad press (unless they are involved in an industry like Oil/Finance etc...)

Seems like Uber's antics are beginning to alienate customers.
> Russian military mobilization

The military mobilization on Ukraine's borders did happen.

> conspiracy theories about who shot down the airliner

It was likely the rebels with Russian technology.

> how much Putin hates gays

He did that to himself.

> how horrible living conditions were at the Sochi olympic village

I don't think that is a major factor.

> nazism on Russia's borders

Please explain.

> outrageous corruption and duplicity of the players responsible for the ouster of Yanukovych

Please explain.

> the ethnic and political divisions between the Crimea and Ukraine proper

I am aware of that. But doing an invasion first and then asking for permission or doing a referendum is not usually how these things are done in the modern era. That was an aggressive move. Usually there is an independence movement and votes are held and permission is sought, it is a long process but a doable one if it is peaceful.
http://waltherpragerandphilosophy1.blogspot.ro/2013/02/food-...
3D printed wristband that pauses and records live TV when you fall asleep
That's said rather often, but I'm not at all certain that it's true.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100194407/out...
Having been in a few not-great and weird situations after making purchases on Amazon, they've come through for me with a stellar performance every time. Better than any other company I've dealt with, though AMEX is almost on-par.

Really, their (buyer-side) customer service is fantastic and same with AWS. I'm not sure I'd want to be selling through Amazon though.
I object to you both throwing all Russians into the same bucket and using 'we' as you're expressing your particular opinion, not necessarily shared by a wider group of westerners.

As you can tell from Putin's elaborate use of propaganda, regular Russians would probably not agree with chauvinist and aggressive policies (otherwise the propaganda wouldn't be necessary). I don't believe many Russians perceive themselves as supporting a government that pursues an aggressive policy. It's easy to see how that propaganda can work - compare the US' post-9/11 invasion of Iraq, backed by a public opinion that was mostly manufactured.

Don't get me wrong - Putin's actions are definitely wrong and unacceptable, and the West has to take proper action to deter him from further escalation. But we have to be cognizant of what will work, and what will only deepen the conflict. This is international politics - don't act on anger, disappointment, or other feelings, it'll most likely make things worse.
Is Google Cardboard the Android of VR?
VAT varies from 10% to 25% in most countries of the world [1]. There is an income tax in _addition_ to it. I've calculated a total of net income/turnover rate as low as 34% in my country (France), albeit including all mandatory spending and not only taxes, and the detail is in my blog post [2].

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax

[2] http://adrien-ragot.me/why-i-say-70-percent-tax-in-france/
How to Triple Your Startup’s Organic Traffic with Zero Link Building
NAT as become a pillar of internet security in spite of itself. So with IPv6 as to come improvement in security. As you said the generalization of SSL/TLS as well as ND and IPSec that comes with IPv6 but we also need the generalization of stateful firewalls to emulate what NAT was doing for us. Ironic...
Is the guy drinking a beer?
Thanks for pointing these issues out. Some of them are known to us and rewriting the handling of inline tags is actually in the todo queue already.
Like every year before, the Postgres team has blessed us with an early christmas present. And like every release post before, I'd like to use this opportunity to say thanks to the team for the awesome job they are doing year after year.

It's not just the database itself (and that's awesome on its own right), but it's also all the peripheral stuff: The documentation is seriously amazing and very complete, the tools that come with the database are really good too (like psql which I still prefer to the various UIs out there).

Code-wise, I would recommend anybody to have a look at their git repo and the way how they write commit-messages: They are a pleasure to read and really explain what's going on. If everybody wrote commit messages like this, we'd be in a much better place what code-archeology is concerned.

Patches from the community are always patiently reviewed and, contrary to many other projects, even new contributors are not really required to have a thick skin nor flame retardant suits. The only thing required is a lot of patience as the level of quality required for a patch to go in is very, very high.

Finally, there's #postgresql on Freenode where core developers spend their time patiently helping people in need of support. Some questions could be solved by spending 30 seconds in the (as I said: excellent) manual and some of them point to really obscure issues, but no matter what time it is: Somebody in #postgresql is there to help you.

I think there's no other free software project out there that just gets everything right: Very friendly community, awesome documentation, awesome tools, and of course and awesome product offering to begin with.

Huge thanks to everybody involved.

Also: Huge YAY for jsonb - I have many, many things in mind I can use that for and I have been looking forward to this for a year now.
Show HN: I've made a music [remix] to help me concentrate while programming
In the deeply twisted world of lawyers, anyone not wearing business clothes isn't a real person.
I am from Slovakia and I do not hate Russia. I am afraid.
Sloppy security hygiene made Sony Pictures ripe for hacking
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The government only has lawyers, so pretty much everyone in the audience (save for the occasional law student) is by default in support of the EFF. All we need you to do is show up 30 minutes before, wear a suit, be quiet, and watch.
Make it clear you intend to move there.

You can certainly get a local - area code 415 - phone number. If you want to keep your current NYC number, you could get a second phone, or alternatively use something like Google Voice for a 415 number.

Do you know anyone in San Francisco? Perhaps they would be willing to receive mail for you. Alternatively you could get a post office box. After getting the box, immediately file a USPS change of address form. It's good for I think 90 days.

However if someone wants you to interview without much advance notice, you'll have to cop to the fact that you're in New York.

There are some companies that are willing to pay relocation. Careers 2.0 at http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ indicates that.

The job market in SF is very hot right now, so I expect lots of employers, even if they cannot pay relocation, would be happy with non-local candidates.
What are the chances that automation will doom most IT jobs?
Yeah agree with this, FB model is old school.
"Under the government's legal theory, it can copy virtually all Internet communications and then search them from top to bottom for specific "identifiers"—all without a warrant or individualized suspicion—as long as it does so quickly using only automated processes."

Love it. I hadn't thought of it like that before. Just because your search is fast doesn't mean it's not a search.
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I'm curious whether you decoded the binary protocol/blob or have just been poking at the API (where just about everything is pretty convenient JSON). I've done the latter but haven't broken out my Ubertooth yet for the former.

Re: DMCA - there's a reverse engineering carve-out for interoperability. While I guess MS could abuse either CFAA/DMCA to slap down RE, it seems like it'd be a pretty bad PR move.
This totally smells like a new USS Maine sinking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_%28ACR-1%29#False_fla...

Expect new laws and regulations. Expect the public opinion to be against "hackers", "encryption", "privacy" and all that shit, etc
Yeah pretty much the only way for Sony to salvage the situation is to release this p.o.s. as a torrent..
They're all really minor issues, but they're also fairly easy to trigger in the initial "I'll play with this to see how it works" phase, which is fairly critical for persuading people to actually decide to use it for their project. :)
I have a theory that even the movies and shows which don't have rather obvious nationalistic, patriotic, or propaganda agendas have essentially deranged most Americans' minds to a point where they / we make decisions and support things based on a false, delusional set of parameters. Junk in, junk out.
My favorite weird language is SNOBOL. It is a dynamic language with utterly alien syntax. In some ways, the syntax is even more minimal than that of Lisp. It has very unusual control flow: each statement can succeed or fail, and at the end of a line you may specify a label to goto on success, on failure, both, or neither.

Embedded within this language is an incredibly powerful string pattern matching facility, which predated regex popularity. I think regex is probably as expressive, but I find SNOBOL more comprehensible.

One of my favorite books from the late 70s/early 80s was the SNOBOL book by Griswold, Poage and Polonsky: http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/snobol-4-programming-language-a.... Short, clear, and a great user guide and reference to this bizarre language. I rank it with K&R as one of the great programming language books. (Or maybe nostalgia is getting the better of me.)

I took two compiler courses from R. B. K. Dewar, who was on the team that built the SPITBOL implementation of SNOBOL for IBM mainframes, a really fantastic set of courses from a great teacher. He talked about implementing SPITBOL, in the days when you could get maybe one run a day from the mainframe. By being exceedingly thoughtful and careful, they got the compiler implemented and running in twenty compile/debug cycles.
thanks for this! You mentioned Selenium, automated tester?
Guys, this was sarcasm. It was funny. Relax.
I know someone who used to work at an algorithm trading firm and did electronic market making. He said they used to go to great lengths to program their algorithms to try to spot this sort of manipulation, but it's a hard problem because you're fighting against a cloud of bad traders who are coordinating their efforts across multiple market centers.

I have to say, the regulatory dept. at the exchange I work for does an excellent job of monitoring for any funny business. They have some nifty real-time tools that are scriptable and can replay the state of the market at any point. It's really cool stuff!
> when you have a overwhelming control in one market, you can't use that to push your way to the top of another market, ... stifling the competition

Microsoft not only used its OS monopoly to stifle competition, in many cases, it used it to kill many competing products and services. Steve Balmer once boasted that he'll stop at nothing to kill Netscape.

If you were around during the Clinton years when the US filed an anti-trust case against MS, you'd have been surprised at the tactics that Bill Gates and Co used to kill competition.

Those guys were despicable.
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They re-made Red Dawn, didn't they?

The film and television industry is in the business of suspending disbelief. And they are no more immune to believing their own BS than any other industry.

I have no trouble believing that studios and theater chains think themselves to be so important that nations would go to war over them. As a whole, they are the least closely connected to reality of any business sector that I know about.

If Best Korea didn't retaliate over Team America: World Police, I think The Interview is probably safe.
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> Are there also high property and income taxes?

Isn't that usually the case? High VAT, high income taxes.
So where are the alternative valuations? Where are the alternative business models that don't emphasise stock ownership and stock value? Where is free public access to the freshest financial data and hyper-speed trading platforms?

Why do you never see anyone arguing that a bank balance is just a bit pattern, and if you copy a bit pattern from one place to another you're not actually stealing anything?

You regularly see this argument from opponents of DRM who are justifying the copying of artistic work. Why do they never apply it to finance?

What gives money a special pass on this?

If you can't answer that question without thinking it through - i.e. without just responding emotionally with an 'OMG the world would end if everyone did that' - then you can't make a statement like 'most modes of unfairness are almost fully compensated for' and expect to get free pass on it either.

>If you're trading a major stock like Apple you can be sure you'll trade for a value near the market's best estimate of what the true long-term value of that stock.

There is no such thing as a market. There are only people, and politics, and political relationships.

Finance and 'markets' are just quantified politics, which - like all political systems - happen to privilege one particular set of actors.

>he can be sure he won't be ripped off and can sell for no more or no less than the value of his goods; he can choose to sell at any time, he'll be able to do so instantly.

If you knew anything about farming you'd know that this is exactly what doesn't happen. What actually happens - in the UK at least - is that buyers form cartels and dictate prices to sellers.

Smarter countries like Canada regulate prices to keep farms working. (Forcing a farm to close because of one bad financial year is dangerously stupid if you want to keep feeding your population.)

But manipulation couldn't happen in the pure world of finance, surely?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forex_scandal

But that couldn't happen to stock prices, could it?

https://ideas.repec.org/a/tpr/restat/v73y1991i2p309-17.html
On top of what Michael O'Church is saying, which I agree with entirely, there's a huge different in the types of traders and types of trading firms there are.

At small, purely algo shops (ala Jane Street), the traders are your nerds. They're programmers, engineers, mathmeticians, physicists, but they just happen to trade.

The incredibly aggressive people that you're talking about is mostly floor traders, brokers, etc, because they need to be that way, and they're generally on their way out, as algos will be smarter and faster.

I've worked in a variety of industries (in software development), and am currently at an HFT shop, and I've found this to be the first place I feel actually values my abilities.
Basically, if you work for a desk, you will be ok - you are working on interesting short term and long term deliverables that have very visible effect on PnL, and your bonus will come from the desk pot.
Now, if you work for IT, then you are way down in the pecking order. You work for a cost centre. With brain dead management that will introduce paperwork process and shit to make life he'll. Deliveries to the business will be slow and painful. They will hate you. You will get tiny bonuses. If you work at JP or Boa or GS you will most likely work on their proprietary platform like Athena, Quartz or SecDB. They suck and blow at the same time. Offshore colleagues will deliver the worst code that fails all testing and you will be stuck fixing (rewriting) you colleagues work. Salaries will sound good, until you consider the long hours and do the math and realise your hourly rate is approaching that of working in Pizza Express.