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In that case I'd certainly use the law to obtain redress, but to use the law as the basis of why something is wrong is completely backwards. We codify right and wrong into law, not the other way around.
Thanks for the suggestion! Will keep it in mind ;)
Call me a dick if you like, but I'd love the web to contain a little middleground between mindless listicles and sentences like...

And I'd love the web if people could provide criticism without overwhelming amounts of sarcasm and put downs. We can't always get what we want.

You're post easily could have said something along the lines of Interesting subject matter, but I would appreciate the article more if it either contained more technical details on the issue, or provided more context around the issue itself and it's implications.
I don't disagree that a lot of people would stop pirating if there was a legal alternative. However, in my experience, most adults will simply chose an alternative rather than resort to piracy (which is probably watching a different show, but it could also be simply not watching TV).

I'm in that camp, now. I'll just pick another show which is available on Hulu/Netflix/Amazon, or I'll play my Xbox, or I'll take a walk. Not a big deal.
It may be a bit of hyperbole, but they are basically abandoning their EU users. It's a lot more arduous for individual content creators to track down and store VAT information for hundreds of $5 purchases than it is for the marketplace enabling those purchases to do so.

Why not just cut-off EU users?
This is true, but in many cases people are trying to avoid tax by placing money in a secret account. It's not like regular banks in the UK throw information out to the newspapers as a matter of course, but they would respond to requests from the tax authorities or from a court in the case of a commercial or divorce dispute. Many people with Swiss bank accounts have them not so much because they wish to live in Switzerland but because of the secrecy, ie they wish to conceal things from people who would otherwise legitimately have access.

Now this is not true in all cases, of course. People who lead international lifestyles often find a Swiss account useful because everyone has heard of Swiss banks, and their association with international transfers long predates the SWIFT system. So it makes sense people King Abdullah of Jordan (who has zero tax liability as a monarch, but who is heavily engaged in diplomacy and power-brokerage), or the late Helmut Newton, a famous fashion photographer (who never had very much in his Swiss bank account - a few tens of thousands - but who worked all over the world).

So I don't think that having a Swiss bank account is dispositive of anything by itself, but at the same time it would be disingenuous to ignore the fact that they have often been used to obscure taxable income.
> Do you think when FB cratered after the IPO Mark Zuckerberg was smiling because he got a great price for the shares he sold?

Yes, as a matter of fact, that's exactly what I think, and I don't blame him a bit or even think that's a bad thing at all.

You're framing it as the alternative being that the stock price is the same on the first day and doesn't crater. The actual alternative is that Mark sells his shares for the depressed price.
Take a look at swarm.js for a fantastic way to keep stores in sync - even works in offline. Matrix.io could also be an interesting option for this, but focuses more on communication than shared data.
Can anyone explain to me why I should give a site like buzzfeed the time of day when discussing a serious topic?

I don't even care if they're right. Buzzfeed has never, ever been a credible source for information of any kind.
I didn't bring up EME. I just want a video tag with mandated support for at least one totally unencumbered audio and video codec. The suggested codecs aren't unencumbered, and currently there isn't any mandated codec wrt <video>.
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Hey now, that gun was awesome in Quake.
Huh... Not sure I will ever understand the idealogical debate of different OSS software licenses.

Ultimately, different licenses work well for different projects. More permissive OSS licenses (BSD/MIT and other) seem to be the best choice for libraries and other bits of code that can be freely shared and used without worrying about modification restrictions, linking, etc etc.

GPL on the other hand has really found its niche in larger projects for complete software packages that often are primarily developed by a single entity but made open to allow contributions and customizations.

Both types fit a use case, both types are useful and we have seen success using both models. Why isn't that good enough?
I think people whine because they can't legally use these awesome open source software without releasing the software they are making as open source, but that is exactly why GPL exists.

Sure, you could update the library you use and release those changes as open source while you make closed source software. But people pay you for your software, why shouldn't you pay for the libraries you use?

GPL is a free license.
So a crowdsourcing platform that knew it had security holes, but decided to risk it anyway... got trolled.

Interesting, and a good story, but it hardly invalidates the concept of crowdsourcing.
Nothing is being lost with regards to SPDY. Old versions were never supported; if you wanted to use SPDY you had to commit to keeping the server updated.

So effectively they have just announced a long term support edition of SPDY. What an odd time to complain about the lack of long term support.
Did you read the whole article?

The studies cited point to this being the case in a lot more than just one instance.

Even 'successful' crowdsourced efforts like Wikipedia are scarcely without their problems.
Interesting points. I think any form of "underdog from the bottom to the top" stories captivate humans. With Steve Jobs you have a real-life example of it. I don't know to what extent it affects people, but I think it's impossible to completely discredit it. I wouldn't say (when they're at the Apple Store) kid goes to mom and says "Mom I want one". Mom says no. Then kid says "but mom... Steve Jobs' story"... Mom changes her mind...

I'm thinking more along the lines of: Human, at one point or another, before ever purchasing their first iWhatever, learns or hears about the Steve Jobs' story, which symbolizes something bigger than themselves. An idea they want to, in some small way, be a part of.

Also, I wouldn't say the story necessarily captivates people in the US as much because we are "living the dream" so to speak being here. But for most of the world it is only an idea that is at least an ocean away.

I don't think it's correct to say that just because alot of a certain product has been purchased that means it can't be a status symbol. Regardless, 500M is still only about 15% of the world population, and I think it would be an oversight to think that 500M number represents completely unique individuals.
The "What happens" that precedes the "when gifted children grow up" is about what happens to the individuals who were gifted as children. The book doesn't appear to focus on some burden they impose on the rest of society as the result of growing up or how that growing up makes the author feel badly about theirself.

It is the stories of twenty gifted people, not our story about encountering them.
Can't download it on my oneplus one, says it's not compatible. Do you know why that might be?
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Because that's what EU law, and its member states, have decreed. For example, here is the guidance from HMRC in the UK.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-supplying-dig...

Per this law, the third party marketplace/gateway is responsible for compliance and liability. That is how everyone in the EU affected by the law views it, and it is why most marketplaces and platforms are slowly but surely coming into compliance.

This particular marketplace, on the other hand, hired a consultancy firm whose raison d'etre is tax avoidance http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31147276, who proceeded to give them what they paid for. That tax advice was so incredibly wrong it was almost laughable; it misrepresented the "place of supply", the fundamental piece of information behind the entire continental tax change.
https://idea15.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/vatmoss-place-of-ser...

This issue is not a question of extraterritorial sovereignty or individual responsibility. It's about dodgy tax advisors giving dodgy advice to a company which paid good money for it.
I watched the video with the slow motion shot of the projectile coming out with a large ball of fire behind it. It then goes on while the casing falls away.

But I don't understand, why is there a fireball if it's all electromagnetic?
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Shameless plug, but we use strong static typing to implement PEPS:

https://github.com/MLstate/PEPS

(will be open source AGPLv3, release this month)
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Right to the point, that's one of the reasons we choose the countries we did, as they make it OKish to work for a non-local (!!!) company. The Chiang Mai raid a few weeks ago was good example and scared a lot of people, but overall the risk is manageable.
Was not speaking about OwnCloud, but PEPS which is going to be AGPLv3 in a few days.
Yeah, I didn't understand why they would compare cost of living between different cities. You could compare San Francisco with some random Midwest city and get even higher savings. I would like to see how the price of this setup compares to other options in those cities like typical apartments, private hostel rooms, etc.
Interesting article; thanks for posting it. I don't know that much about Germany's apprenticeship system except that it's a much more well established and accepted concept than in the U.S.

Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, has an internship program where engineering undergrads spend a semester working at a real company. The companies benefit from free labor, and the students benefit from real world experience and resume building. It's amazing to me that this system isn't more widely adopted. Some people claim the students should be paid a "fair salary" or some such arguments.

Anyway, the Germans must be doing something right. Germany is still the #3 or #4 industrial producer in the world (China has surpassed them in recent years) and their products are still very high quality. Apart from the obvious example of top notch automobiles, I'm mostly familiar with German stage equipment -- microphone stands, wireless systems, instrument cases, etc.--and I've found them to be just really good quality, designed to last, and very usable.
> It would be the right thing for Google to remove SPDY at this point

It's going away, just maybe not soon enough for everyone's tastes. From the blog:

> We plan to remove support for SPDY in early 2016
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This technology has potential applications from physics to space travel. Military research isn't entirely bad.
I live in Pennsylvania, and the Autism care is wonderful here (which is why we moved from Canada, which has incredibly bad autism "care"). The support we've received has been great. I believe we also have assistance for long-term care as well. Will have to look into that more carefully.
It's an interesting idea, but it's also pretty obvious this is a for-profit venture by OP. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but I'd like to see something similar in more of a cooperative legal structure.
This is terrible work from whoever's made this page. Many important advances have taken place due to software being licensed under the GPL.

For example, Objective C wouldn't be supported by GCC unless Steve Jobs hadn't been forced to license the Objective C frontend under the GPL. c.f. Apple not making the source to the Swift compiler available, since LLVM is more permissively licensed. Now it is very difficult for people to create extensions, or submit bug fixes etc to Swift.

There's a case of a Lisp compiler being made open source simply because the developer wanted to use readline.

Licensing your software under the GPL can precipitate more software being licensed under the GPL. It leads to improvements and bugfixes being made public, and ensures that the developer can receive something back from those who use the software.

On the other hand, it's clearly not for everyone. If you as a developer wish to see your code being used on as many computers as possible, then you'll be cutting off some of your potential market by licensing your non-standalone tool as GPL.

The odd thing is that this site seems to suggest a false dichotomy of GPL vs permissive. It's perfectly possible to (say) dual license software as GPL or commercial - any company that sees value from your software could have the choice of paying $100 for a license.

If your software holds enough value to them that it saves them a day or two of their developer time, then everyone comes out on top.
I actually recently moved to SF and was looking for a co-op in the area, but couldn't find much. I'm also a robotics engineer (software mostly) and couldn't find much interesting work going on in the Bay Area with regards to robotics. So I'm very interested in learning more if you're actually planning on moving forward with this proposition.
A railgun is a direct-fire weapon with no explosives -- it won't be used to carpet-bomb civilian targets or wage drone-like terror campaigns. It's pretty much "a way for a warship to blow up another warship."

That's not to necessarily say we should celebrate any weapons technology, but as far as weapons technology goes, this is one that fits pretty solidly in the role of "militaries fighting other militaries." Sure, I guess that the US Navy could use it to blow up an unarmed civilian vessel, but honestly the US Navy could do that anyway.
Google tried exactly that, letting people bid for as few as 5 shares. It didn't work.

A company like GrubHub, with much less name recognition than Google, is much more reliant on a bank helping to market their IPO, and in a worse position to try an auction.
The fact that arrays and dictionaries are classes rather than structs is a major problem with this. That's a massive semantic difference between their implementation and Apple's, and it's one that won't show up as a compile-time error. Taking code written for Apple's implementation and using it on Silver is likely to result in a nightmare of crazy debugging trying to track down all the cases where you're now sharing arrays/dictionaries rather than copying them. This really needs to be fixed, and if it's truly impossible, IMO it's bad enough that the thing should be scrapped.
I forgot to include the part where every EU creator will also be obliged to register as a data controller with their national data protection authority, to ensure proper reportage and archiving of the VAT invoices which must be kept in a retrievable format for 10 years.

Compliant marketplaces take care of that for you so that the individual seller/creator does not have to register as a data controller.
There's a lot of other stuff in there as well, and we really try to make it perfect for a particular group that wouldn't just move to Bali themselves.

The assumption is that there's a reason why WeWork wasn't the first Coworking space, but won the market with a great product.
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I would suggest that any time you try to cut out significant profit out of an established system, you've got the whole system working against you.

Sure, it can be done. But everything will be more difficult. And you'll have to do a lot more of that work yourself. And potentially mess it up. And potentially be sued when things go bad. The $ savings just turn into $ risk.
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Yeah, unfortunately there's a persistent problem with the One where playing more than a few audio streams simultaneously results in stuttering or crashes. I've looked into it but never found a reliable workaround. Every few months I take another look, but no luck so far. It's the only modern device that I've had to list as incompatible, but it's a real shame because it's a great phone.
Thanks for this. I know every child is different, but it's still good to hear these stories. I'd do anything to ensure his life is a happy life.
Apple only just today released an update to the compiler that enabled incremental builds. Before that it had to recompile everything every time. That alone will probably make a big difference.
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True, but where did I use the law in my response to you? You wanted an argument for why it is wrong. I gave it to you. Anyway, I agree with you, but if this doesnt go two ways, it means there are laws that don't codify right or wrong. And even worse, laws that codify the opposite of our belief. Should we ignore those laws?
Even their own tax page (linked to below) says that donations are considered earned income. HMRC does not care where it comes from or what it's called. It's income.
"Game theorists have found that systems where individuals can build up a good reputation, are (probably) not as prone to devastating attacks from within.

But wily humans are good at finding their way around even the most secure digital systems."

/me eyes HN's karma system suspiciously...
Patreon is the U.S. and not subject to European laws.

Patreon is also really just a distributor of money, they don't provide the person with a service.

Why is a person with a web design business looking to use a site used to help artists who have trouble connecting art and normal business income?

Finally she tweeted about how many people saw that blog post and said she should have included a tip jar. It really seems like she cares more about what she can get out of a situation than anything else.
> You've probably already thought about this, but you might want to make sure clients understand the legal side of things.

I doubt that for $1600 a month this includes all the legal paperwork in order to work in Portugal, Mexico and Indonesia.

It's another abuse of the visa-free status many Westerners are given by countries that wish to attract tourists.

This is the second one I've seen today. First is here - http://drrn.net/why-did-i-move-to-thailand-to-bootstrap-my-s...

Edit: I'm not aware of any new Thai visas being announced. It definitely would have been mentioned on ThaiVisa.com. Please post a link.
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Other places to check: Üskudar, Kadiköy, Maltepe, and Kartal...pretty much anywhere along Bağdat street will still have a lively atmosphere, good access to transportation, and lower rents. The Asian side is actually growing faster than the European side, so while Beyoğlu is still the focus of social life in Istanbul, Bağdat Cadessi is pretty active. Also, Sabiha Gökçen Airport (on the Asian side) has a growing number of very cheap connections to destinations in the area.
30k is at the top of the range once you exclude finance jobs...
there are more companies now that I can see in the custom computer cases and parts than I remember in 2000 when I built my first system. plenty of room to play in the space. 3D printing is not a viable business at this point for a radio shack.
Banks are a collection of loosely related business that are only tied together by their participation in the capital markets. The equities derivatives desk has little to do with the mortgage desk which has little to do with the health care investment banking group.

As such, front office Wall Street bonuses are primarily based on personal and desk performance. In 2008 a handful of desks 'blew up' which took down the entire firm. Meanwhile equity and govie desks had a banner year. Does every desk deserve to get shafted? Do the back-office developers deserve to get shafted? I'm not here to defend the banks, but I can understand both sides of the argument. The Government should have just nationalized the banks if they wanted to control this.
They did PCs fine for a little while. Tandy 1000s were popular back in the day.
I guess the difficulty will depend a lot on how helpful the local tax agency are. They should publish that kind of information to help their countries business's.
Regardless of application, science is still cool.
Show HN: I made a website recorder webapp you can use to create screencasts
Just something I put together quickly:

https://webcast.browserprotect.me/

I made this in one day, now I'm wondering if It's interesting enough to make it a real product (Add new features like setting the size, zoom, annotations, fix bugs, export, voice-over, etc..)

Here is an example screencast I just did: https://webcast.browserprotect.me/view/2764aa94dcd855959819fd91881f0882baa61a0e-44646

Do you consider this a viable product? I'm thinking about offering it for free and then add some premium features.
Take a look at the BeagleBone Black. It has pretty decent I/O. The big gaping missing piece, of course, is better video output, but that's sort of in the same bucket as open source GPUs: missing in action.
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I'm pretty sure that's the air exploding as the round pushes it out of the way
Things are changing very fast atm, as most countries realize that it's a good group of people to have.

Eg Thailands new 6 months Visa explicitly includes remote work.
No thank you. My licenses are my choice.

For my open source libraries, I use the Unlicense, because I want to minimize licensing friction. But if I'm distributing (say) a complete end-user application that represents programmer-years of work, I'm likely to use the GPL, because I may not want somebody to fork it and make it proprietary. It's my code and my decision.

If you want to use my GPLed code in your proprietary product, you can find my email address and pay my company an appropriate license fee. And if you think this is somehow unfair, my wisest course of action is probably to avoid doing any business with you: You're raising all kinds of "horrible customer" warning flags.