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We use Sphere ( https://www.getsphere.com ), and it’s the only good solution I know of for international VAT that handles everything end-to-end (registration, calculation, filing, and remittance).

We use Stripe Billing, and we actually use Anrok for US sales tax compliance. They’re solid domestically, but they don’t do international registration, filing, and remittance; they only do calculation.

There are also firms like VAT IT (vatcompliance.com) that can do this if you want to work with a more traditional service provider.

Yes – United used to be owned by Boeing. The Air Mail Act banned common ownership of manufacturers & airlines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_Airlines

I totally agree with the request for a lightweight DB out of box..

There is https://easydb.io which is nice and works OK with Retool but is NoSQL.. an equivalent for a relational DB would be great.

Hi – yeah, it's a very early beta, but it's fully functional, and you should be able to use it on your site.

If you'd like, I'm happy to set some time to help you get it set up and test. My email is ben.stein@getjensen.com.

Hi HN, we love the Superhuman mail client and in particular think that their command+k feature is really helpful to new and power users alike.

So we built Actionbar to let any website add that feature in 3 lines of code :)

My guess is they forced password resets on those users whose passwords were compromised.

The 20 days bit is standard in termination for cause. You need to give the employee a chance to cure the damages before you terminate them for cause.

Uninformed speculation: maybe because the places where it's windy are not necessarily the places where it's sunny (and vice versa).

I'm so confused by the endgame. Why did white move its queen to F4? How did the last sequence of moves end in a stalemate?

He's saying that while it may be more difficult to change strategic direction of a $50B company (Ford/Gm/etc.), once you do, you have a huge company and giant production line behind you.

FWIW, a lot of companies have non-solications in place to try and prevent this kind of behavior. They're far from fool-proof, and there is nothing stopping an employee from leaving of their own volition, but I would guess both of them have some sort of agreement in place not to poach talent directly.

A company is worth the percentage it captures of the value it creates. You alluded to it in your comment--Snap has a much lower headcount and an order of magnitude less operating costs, so if anything it kind of makes sense that they'd be valued at a relative premium.

Also, you may not like Snapchat, but to say it deserves to die when it both a) employs real people and b) clearly serves a market need is such a terrible thing to wish for.

FWIW, this is taxable by law. Gifts above a certain amount (I believe $10k) are taxed as normal income.

You can turn that off.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141009022529-27827108-how-t...

If you check the website, you'll see they have lights built around the lens to "show friends your snapping." I imagine this was specifically built to assuage that concern.

The nuance you're missing here is that the author is always inserting at the front of the arraylist. So even though the list grows dynamically, it still needs to move every value one spot over.

e.g. arraylist: [0][1][2][3][ ]

Even though there is space left in the array, we still need to move all the values one index to the right to be able to insert at the front, which takes O(n) time. In contrast, inserting at the front of a linked list is simply a matter of moving pointers and therefore constant time.

Well you're actually right, the minimum is just $0.01. It's I who stand corrected!

Even Paypal, who ostensibly should be doing this, charges $0.30 for payments for goods and services.

PayPal is doing this. At least, via their subsidiary Venmo. The first thing I thought of when you said "try sending $.001 to someone once" was "huh, I do that all the time on Venmo. Couldn't be simpler."

Agreed. This king/serf analogy works for any supplier/buyer relationship.

King: here's some steel for you to use. ...

Why not just get protein powder?

EDIT: Alternatively, you could go on http://blendrunner.com/ which gives a comparison of the various meal-replacement drinks out there.

For what it's worth, that slide comes from a presentation by a university on how to communicate with Millenials/Gen Z.

http://www.slideshare.net/Ologie/engaging-and-cultivating-mi...

Whenever I see an article like this, I think of Michael Crichton's "Why Speculate." [1] It's a fantastic read, and really helps put speculative pieces like this in perspective.

[1] http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/

Disclaimer: I agree with the author on the encryption debate.

However, it's a slippery slope to say that encryption can't be illegal because in is math, and math can't be illegal.

It's equivalent to say that making bombs is chemistry, and chemistry can't be illegal. It's an oversimplification.

Presenting the practical consequences of a backdoor produces a far more sound argument.

So poor communities--where crime is naturally higher in the first place--should be less well-equipped to incarcerate their own bad actors? I don't think that logic holds.

$7/user/month for team of $50/user/month for enterprise (extra admin support and training). https://open.blockspring.com/organization/setup

I'm on Safari, so I don't know if that changes anything, but the UI is broken to the point of being unusable. I can't seem to click through any of my results to actual articles, and the scrolling is VERY broken.

One thing I haven't seen anyone mention in these comments yet is that Evan Spiegal and Bobby Murphy did the EXACT same thing after Snapchat's B round [1]. They each took out $10 million. It didn't demotivate them, nor did it misalign their incentives. That $10 million would now be worth upwards of $100 million in equity at their current valuation. Just like Secret, it's a deal that both sides agreed to; sometimes it works out better for the founders, sometimes for the VCs.

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/snapchat-founders-reportedly-pocket...

FWIW, all of the conversion is done in-browser, and it's open source (https://github.com/konklone/json/tree/gh-pages/assets).

Copying my answer from the website, but this can be done by extremely nontechnical people:

1) Copy all of the JSON data.

2) Paste it into this link: http://konklone.io/json/ (I don't know if this is cheating)

3) Download the file.

3a) If it opens in a new page, just manually save the source as a .csv

4) Open it in excel.

5) Click the column of credit cards.

6) Click the button to sort in descending order.

7) Scroll down to the point where you run out of credit cards.

8) Delete everything after that.

fuckbitchesgetpopcorn.com ... I got drunk one time eating popcorn.