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Sweden has an exit tax rule where they will continue to tax any capital gains worldwide for 10 years after non-residency.

I agree and there will always be bias in news, intentional or not.

There is the argument that if people were equipped with the skills to identify bias in reporting themselves then these news sources would not be able to operate as effectively and with as much influence as they do today.

For example, in Swedish schools children are actively taught to identify and evaluate biases in news sources as a way to filter false reporting [1].

It we start giving children the toolbox required to live in our (real) world of imperfect reporting then the impact of biased news sources might be neutralized in a generation.

[1] http://nyhetsvarderaren.se/in-english/

Crytocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are legitimate stores of value and have been compared to the use of other finite stores of value such as precious metals.

The market capitalization of gold currently stands at 7.5 trillion USD. All cryptocurrencies combined currently stand at a market capitalization of 87.6 billion USD (1.14% of the market capitalization of gold).

Cryptocurrencies with a finite supply can supplant other finite stores of value and actually provide a number of benefits over existing finite stores of value (instant exchange to sterling currencies, improved transactional ability, traceability and general liquidity). It is likely we are just getting started.

Calling any legitimate store of value a Ponzi scheme is missing the point.

BBC interview with Craig Wright (video, 4m50s)

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36168863

What is difficult to argue against, and I'm surprised isn't mentioned in this article, is that Apple have completely eliminated market competition from happening around web standards on the iOS platform.

It is impossible to ship e.g. Chromium on iOS right now. We just collectively buy the arguments put forward by Apple to support that position without appreciating the ramifications of not allowing market forces to drive healthy, competitive development.

In that process we made Apple the gatekeeper of web standards development. They can ship whatever they want, when they want and there is no way to build or work around it (e.g. 'Download this alternative browser!').

All we can do is wait, hope or complain. Apple knows the power it wields. I figure Google understands that too hence their position wrt Pointer Events.

This is awesome.

Here is a link to the 3d web compass I built and submitted to Hacker News 3 years ago [1] (direct link to a demo @ [2]).

I also released a JavaScript library based on that research that may help others use web device orientation without needing to understand all the math involved [3]. That in turn is based on a primer I made for web developers @ [4].

I hope this helps others who want to use device orientation on the web to build web-based compasses, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality experiences!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4115768.

[2] https://richtr.github.io/Marine-Compass/

[3] https://github.com/richtr/Full-Tilt

[4] https://dev.opera.com/articles/w3c-device-orientation-usage/

Aereo tried this but the broadcasters objected and filed lawsuits.

See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/21/aereo-supreme-court....

Spoiler: we (the consumers) lost.

Please hook this (and Street View) up to https://github.com/richtr/threeVR.

How it works: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/w3c-device-orientation-us...

Live demo: http://richtr.github.io/threeVR/examples/vr_basic.html

Update: this has now been fixed.

Sorting out user agents is one of those 'hard problems' but I thought that was the _whole point_ of this site. This is an incredibly basic mistake.

Best viewed in Chrome/Opera/Firefox Beta for Android.

This inspired me to create a 'buycott' that people can join to show their dissatisfaction with these patent trolling tactics:

http://buycott.com/campaign/699/boycott-rockstar-s-weaponiza...

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6609496

Here's the 5 minute summary: http://www.wikisummaries.org/How_To_Be_Idle

Absolutely right. I was bringing to the attention of the HN community a series of Korean airline crashes that occurred in the 1990s that can be directly attributed to this factor [1].

For the record, there are a number of countries worldwide that exhibit the same restricted cultural legacy. For example, there is also a High Power Distance ratio in a number Latin American and African countries [2]. See, for example, details of the crash of Colombian Avianca Flight 52 [3].

Whether this is a factor _in this particular incident_ is of course for the authorities to decide. Considering the provenance of this airline as being from a high power distance ratio country I felt this information might be relevant or at least of interest to others.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_incidents_and_accid...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede's_cultural_dimensions...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avianca_Flight_52#Cause_and_in...

While we are looking at reasons why this crash happened it may be worthwhile to consider Malcolm Gladwell's suggestion in his book 'Outliers' that Korean cultural legacy, where the High Power Distance ratio between bosses (the pilot) and their underlings (such as the co-pilot) were responsible for a series of Korean Air crashes in the 1990s.

"In addition to weather and pilot fatigue, he blames those crashes on crew members whose cultural legacy made them too deferential to communicate clearly that the plane was about to crash"

http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/2008/12/04/malcolm-gladwell-...

Do you have any sources for this bizarre statement?

Today, any excessive US presence in Europe is most likely a symptom of over-reaching US Foreign Policy rather than something the EU requires.

Since we seem to be doing Google Trends here is a relevant one:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22chrome%20sucks%22...

How did that work out again?

Well, it's the only mainstream alternative Chromium-based browser for Windows and Mac at this point? Also, only half jokingly, it also comes non-NSA-approved (because it's Norwegian).

Considering this is the first version of a product seemingly built from scratch it features a LOT more than any other browser had on their first public releases. I expect a lot of innovation here in the coming months based on Opera's track record. It has the makings of being a great browser.

That is your interpretation of the law...

- NSA 2013

To notch up the paranoia a bit, the original court order document looks like it may contain some digital fingerprinting around the edges (either made by a certain class of printer or placed there prior to dissemination) that could lead authorities to the person(s) they originally distributed this specific copy of the court order to.

Of course, I hope that is not the case here but people should be aware these things exist.

While this is sound advice there is the problem that if you get very big/popular the government can knock at your door with sealed court orders to enable things like wiretapping.

Case in point: "Microsoft’s tweaks to Skype could facilitate wiretapping" http://www.extremetech.com/computing/132935-microsoft-tweaki...

If that has happened or not under the current system we will never know - which is the exact issue the OP was citing.

Since we are generally speculating here, is there any possibility the Hyperloop could be a suborbital craft to escape the atmosphere and thus reduce journey times dramatically.

That doesn't really work for "San Francisco to LA" but Richard Branson has mentioned this as an objective for Virgin Galactic "within the next 20 years". I'd be surprised if SpaceX, and hence Elon Musk, were not also looking in to this considering the technology they are creating.

Opera Next 15 is based on Chromium 28 which is the first stable release of Blink. So you're looking at Blink already.

It is pronounced 'Wilhite' not 'White'.

Works for me on my Macbook Pro with Chrome (v19.0.1084.56).

http://caniuse.com/#feat=deviceorientation