skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd send hundreds of them, every one full of old socks or something. Make it very expensive/annoying for them.
a very heavy handed approach that will almost certainly fail in the real world would be to tax corporate revenue, not profit. This is VERY invasive and I would not recommend it at all but I don't see an approach that is simple enough like this that does not require international co-operation.

In my simple mind, the failure is in defining profits. How do we define profit? The devil is probably in the details. *

If Wally's world buys widgets for $6B and sells them for $10B but then turns around and spends $5B on long term infrastructure, did they make a profit? Do they owe any taxes?

Something closer to home: Once we get into the details, it is very easy to get lost in there. When they spend $100 per hour to hire a consultant (programmer), does that count as capital expenditure? How?

I am not a lawyer and I am definitely not an accountant. I would imagine loopholes can be closed but it requires technical expertise that I lack.

* Perhaps only allow cross-border expenses to countries that honor a certain level of agreement?

PS: I am not so sure about taxing income in other countries. None of what I say applies to expatriating money from overseas. It only applies to monies a company makes in our country and tries to ship overseas. If Apple sells $100B worth of iPhones in the UK, should they pay corporate income tax on it in the US? Why not pay corporate tax on that in the UK?
There are research universities and teaching universities. If you want to go to a college that focuses on teaching calculus 101 they exist though I don't know why as a budding mathematician you'd want to sprint full speed away from doing real mathematics.

The research has to be done somewhere. It's supposed to be subsidized by the public or private donations but funding is regularly and methodically cut so the only remaining reliable source of income is tuition which ends up having to pay for both.

Not an ideal situation but unless Americans start deciding research is worth paying money for (unlikely) it's what we have.
A blog is not a Show HN.
That might have been the rationale when it was originally introduced, but for the most part it has the opposite effect now, apart from a few very select "swing" states. Convince ~50k voters in Florida to switch allegiance and you win the state, and probably win the electoral college. Convince ~150k voters in Arkansas - a large proportion of that state's electorate - to switch allegiance and (i)it wouldn't affect who wins the state and (ii)it probably wouldn't affect who becomes President even if it turned blue.

Just because it means that local concerns in a couple of large states aren't going to be much of a factor in the presidency (Texas is more likely to freeze over than vote Democrat in the next election) doesn't mean that very many people in smaller states benefit from the electoral system.

There's the Senate to ensure that smaller states get their say in national politics.
I don't think is gonna be consistent among different fingers/people, sadly. but synaptic did pressure sensitivity on contact area long ago, wouldn't be surprised if they got some nice normalization heuristic already going.

edit this is funny coincidence: the dev guide for synaptic says 255 level but better badn in 7 levels at most

(2005) http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=352584

Edit: I know those are not really comparable teches, force touch for one is transparent
Really? I'm in an area where one of the seats was hotly contested. I, like thousands of others swapped votes on a website where we pledged to vote on behalf of other people.

My local candidate narrowly won (the one I voted for, not the one I chose) – had a number of us not swapped votes, maybe that wouldn't have happened. For me that's a bit of a win of tactical voting - at least people were able to have some influence.

Another thing to note is that party voting and candidate voting are all rolled together. I actually wanted my local guy to win, but I didn't want to vote for him because I wanted to vote for a different party.

That's all very suboptimal.
I kind of expected the article to at least mention the end Ordovician Extinction by gamma ray burst theory:

http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0899
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309415
http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7049
Why wouldn't they be allowed to fly over the Atlantic?
There's got to be Assange lookalikes that can muck with their surveillance.
Man Gets Bug Bounty for Glitch That Let Him Buy Google.com
I made a computer pretend to be a computer that’s pretending to be a human
> * Chartbeat * Doubleclick * Dynamic Yield * Facebook Connect * Facebook Custom Audience * Google Analytics * Moat * Netratings Site Census * New Relic * Optimizely * ScoreCard Research * WebTrends

In these cases, the NYT isn't getting private information about me from the third party. Facebook won't give the NYT a list of Facebook users who viewed an article on their website. Google Analytics won't tell me visitors' Gmail addresses.
What is the Japanese zoning system?
Wow, this blows my mind, but it doesn't surprise me.
I encountered similar frustrations while doing an excellent job in the Marine Corps.
I've come to believe that virtually any bureaucratic institution will be weighted this way.
> Once you believe those few things, it's easy to understand why politicians aren't evil, they're just vested in their group

So you judge politicians based not on their actions but on their supposed intentions?

> Maybe we could call it a constitutional republic?

Nice save. A constitutional republic is the true "a better government, one tweak at a time" since federalism is the laboratory of government.

No one even remembered that was the point of federalism here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10290172
You also used the clause, "if someone raped you", stated as if it were a fact and not an allegation. Or, at least, that's how it reads to me.

If you posed the question, "How much would you want society to spend if someone raped you?" it would have carried a different connotation. But by asking "whats the limit on how much society should spend..." implies society knows for a fact that you were raped by someone.

Sorry if it's not the meaning you intended, but you made it sound like we should all believe Assange is guilty. I don't believe that's a reasonable conclusion.
> I left the university, and mathematics, and have been much happier as a result

is the second bit true? why lump mathematics with your leaving of the university?

what does it mean to leave mathematics?

i stopped looking at the stars because i left the business that hires engineers to build commercial lenses?
The history of BART pretty much shows that's politically infeasible. Take a look at the original planned map for BART sometime if you want to get really depressed: http://www.jakecoolidgecartography.com/regional-rapid-transi...
Utah has one. I think they are more common when the non freeway road has very high levels of traffic.

An even more efficient interchange is the roundabout interchange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout_interchange

The only problems with the roundabout interchange are that you need two different bridges spaced a distance apart which can add construction costs and they require more area than a standard interchange, although about the same as a clover leaf.
The Myth of Safety: Why Can't Women Get a Ride Home Without Being Raped?
You can actually! It's just a bit harder than traditional debt. I just helped a friend walk away from ~$120K in student loan debt.
Define the poor, without creating loopholes, for a tax system.
How cute and naive, when DPF fails you simply CUT IT OUT (or hollow it out), problem solved.
There is a lot of pen-testing fun to be had here. At the least you'll annoy them and amuse you, and at the best you cause them to expose the holes in their security capabilities.
It's not hard to come up with other places that are vastly more tolerant of newcomers.

Consider, for example, Houston. Houston issued permits to build 64,000 new homes in 2014. SF issued permits for 3800, and California as a whole issued 83,000.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/03/hou...

http://www.sf-planning.org/ftp/files/publications_reports/20...

In fact, Texas issued more new housing permits than CA, NY, NJ and MA combined.

http://www.census.gov/construction/bps/txt/tb2u2014.txt

Or did you just mean abstract tolerance of certain socially approved groups as opposed to the real humans who want to move in?
Nah, that’s not much. Germany is closer to 40% tax in that bracket. Denmark and co, too.
Yes, I got quite a big contract out of it when an old customer from my previous job noticed that I had set up on my own. Essentially they liked my work but hated dealing with my employer, hence they had taken their business elsewhere over a year previous.

Other than keeping my profile up to date I'm a very passive LinkedIn user though - I don't use it to look people up. It's also a source of a huge amount of worthless recruiter spam.
A ‘Star Trek’ Dream, Spread from Upstate New York
We do choose. We vote in a government that provides services for those people.

Do you think that if there were a society of people where a majority were callous enough to deny those extremely disabled their medical care, that they wouldn't just vote out the bums who gave them that care, and the new generation of politicians wouldn't then rewrite the laws?
And how do I tax a shareholder living in US if I’m the UK government? I have no ability to do so.
What is a privileged tech worker and how is it not immigration if they change location?
Was going to type up a similar response. This is exactly how I feel. Stoicism looks like it's gaining in popularity because of people reacting to the oversensitivity running rampant in society today. You can hardly teach people today that feeling bad is OK.
If all you need to get onto the list is a request to the profile page URL, even a simple image link in a forum signature/profile image/etc. might be enough...
“Big4”, Bootcamps, Rants – Conversations from the Kids' Table
This is what "Globalization" looks like: use laws and captured regulatory agencies to segment the world into markets by ability to pay. Charge more where you can. At the same time, use cheap communications to hire the lowest-cost labor to develop and create the product.

Humbug. This kind of information puts a huge damper on the arguments about "Intellectual Property" and "piracy" and stuff, at least to me. Why not segment the labor market, too, and enforce that. High priced pharmaceuticals? They have to be developed and made by high-priced labor, thank you very much.
Its the revenue got in that country. If Apple gets $300 Mil in revenue to their bank account generated in Canada they pay $3Million tax to the Canadian government, as simple as that. Its tax on revenues that company got to their bank account in the country where they operate. If they want then move the money to US and US would have same rules, they would end up paying another 1%. Total of 2% tax for transferring money from Canada to US for example does not sound that bad, huh? Thats the amount of money PayPal would charge for 1 transaction. And this is all, no hidden tricks - this would result in huge increase in revenues country would get and almost completely wiping out black market as such a low taxes are not worth to avoid for small businesses.

Poland is one of the few countries that already have this tax, but it is high now (I think around 20%) and optional. There is a lot of public discussion to drop it to between 0,5-1% on all revenues for all foreign owned companies making more than €15Mil/year. This got really popular after information that Google is reporting constant losses and not paying taxes despite ridiculous high revenues from local market.
ITunes Connect Invitation Down?
Link from ITunes Connect seems to be down for a while. Anyone else seeing the same?

https://idmsauth-stable.corp.apple.com/appleauth/dist/web/jsapi/authService.js
Same here. I always flag those kinds of comments here, and when I see them on Reddit, I always report for vote manipulation.
It's like fuzzing, but with clones!
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I took the Jonathan Levi Superlearner course on Udemy about a year ago and the Loci method is a key part of this course.

I highly recommend it for anyone who is interested in this topic.

I can say that it's extremely useful for remembering lists of things, but I haven't had a lot of success in using it to retain or organize abstract information.
Rakuten Backs Spanish and Latin American Taxi App Cabify
The irony of this is that all of the "cloud providers" still buy gear from traditional IT vendors like Dell, EMC, HP, and Cisco for their own internal corporate IT. It's the dirty little secret that somehow always gets overlooked when everyone is espousing how we no longer need infrastructure when it can all just "Live in the cloud".
True, but my point is there aren't many languages are expressive yet succinct enough to parse themselves in so little code.
If you are a really visual person, perhaps. I would want all sorts of other senses in addition though. Being able to lay my hands on the brickwork and hear how sounds are affected by walls would be important parts for me.

On the other hand, a palace in VR has the benefit of not getting demolished, and being accessible even if you move to another country.

I understand that fictional locales were used as palaces for this reason. For instance, Dante's circles of hell.

Edit: corrected an inexplicable typo (had 'and' for 'hands')
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Someone put it best when they said "corporations may not have a heart, but they don't have a stomach either". Unlike people, corporations do not consume for the sake of consumption, instead they invest in assets. A tax on corporations is directly passed through to employees, customers, investors etc.

From what I understand, the actual proposed replacement for the corporate income tax is much simpler: eliminate it and replace it with a much more comprehensive capital gains tax. Then require companies to be much more forward with paying dividends.
Handmade mosaic tiles [video]
It is - in fact, the preexisting ideas of masculinity is a bias that makes men feel that they don't need to seek help when they really need it [1], which can lead to self medication and substance abuse.

That was the point - that these gender biases exist for both sexes and need to be addressed at the same time (not one before the other).

[1] http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun05/helping.aspx
1 ton of foam? Foam used in boating is usually in the 2-4lb range, which means 2-4lb per cubic foot. There's not much chance a 40' yacht has 1000 cubic ft of foam in it - far more likely it's got 20-30 cu ft, which is under 100lbs of foam. Not enough to move the needle a bit.

Plus, foam provides displacement in case of breaches as a matter of it's nature. This lattice wouldn't provide any displacement, so a small breach would mean you're 2" thick composite hull would fill with water, which would be bad.
A lot of people are afraid, from every walk of life and demographic around the Bay Area.

The poor and working class who are the lifeblood of the city are realistically worried about being priced out if they don't own already. New tech workers are completely unable to break in to even moderate land ownership to lock in cost-of-living, and experience the same. And forget about our critical social contributors like teachers, who are forced to depend on another income to fund their work.

I know several Googlers fleeing the bay out of fear. It doesn't matter how much money they have or don't have, they have come to the conclusion they can't and don't want to fight an infinitely growing market that absorbs every raise, bonus, or stock grant back into rent. Got a new RSU grant? Great, your landlord just raised the rent by $20,000 over the year. Got a big bonus? Sorry, that down payment now needs to be double what it was last year... try again next year!

What I sense is fear everywhere, that is driving greed. A runaway market means you can never have enough to overcome a future where you will be priced out. This feedback loop drives land owners and workers into and endless cycle of misery thats making the Bay a very undesirable place to live.

The tech buses are the most visible thing to blame, but ironically these are liking making commutes slightly more tolerable than they would be without them.
*in their clouds. They still use traditional networking and servers on campus.
Let me ask you then, do you think it's right that the tax burden is on those locally-run frozen yogurt places, over the extremely well-off multinationals like Apple? Is that the way you want to see the world run?
I think you're painting the humanities with an overly broad brush, and writing off an entire field of study because of some presupposed notion.

And that you specifically exempt STEM fields from your ire has you playing right into the worst stereotypes of STEM arrogance.
There is no math but recreational math. We should call activities that superficially resemble math but aren't fun for what they are, accounting.
This is neat stuff yet I am having trouble with the use of the term "material", somebody help me.

To me this isn't a new material any more than aluminum honeycomb is a new material. The material is aluminum or steel. They are then fabricated into honeycomb sheets or lattices.

I don't see it as discovering a new material but rather fabricating an existing material in a different way.

Other examples of this might be aluminum truss used in staging and the use of trussed steel in bridge building.

What is a material?
>But moooom! The poor started it!

We should have an open competition for ideas to fix the disconnect between all public transport;

Bart and Caltrain don't connect and don't schedule together.

Amtrak and Bart and Caltrain don't connect.

Muni and Bart connect physically but their schedules suck (muni schedules 6 consecutive inbound trains to all dump off and go off line at the same time in the peak of rush hour backing up people in the station)

Tickets between Bart and muni have no discount, so you may take muni for five minutes and lose your "85 remaining minutes of paid travel time"

Bike support on all systems is abhorrent - even on Caltrain the bike cars often fill up completely leaving many bikers awaiting another train, even though there is technically space on the full ones.

Bart has many stretches of track where they can only drive and very slow speeds, as does Caltrain, muni as well...

All agencies operate in a seemingly uncooperative manner, both with each other and their riders. (Bart employees are some of the rudest, least connected people I've encountered. Telling the Bart station agent about sanitary issues I. The elevator and escalators replies with "it's not my job")

The list goes on and on
I am glad you enjoyed my course, archmikhail. The last chapter of my text needs to be written. I will do that as soon as the department lets me teach H110 again. Birkhauser accepted it years ago, but we need a new contract. I could just sell it on amazon as an ebook, I suppose. I have gotten a flurry of emails asking for copies this morning. This is very encouraging, but I have to finish it before releasing it.
The date just made me think it would be about watch/clock movements... which is a somewhat closer guess.
Yep. I live in a county that openly opposed bart expansion.

The only way to get a big transit expansion is if the state or federal government forces it over local opposition.
How to be a Quant
You are absolutely correct.

I blame it on a temporary lapse of reason.

(I usually don't run with the herd, so this shouldn't be a surprise to me...)
I'm pretty sure pmlnr meant "the only way to peacefully/morally force companies is by spending your money somewhere else".

We all know violence and threat (what you suggest) works. Some of us are trying to decrease the amount of what you suggest in the world.

New legislation is a direct threat to companies, backed by the power of the government to fine and arrest those who disobey. Why go to such lengths when it's much easier just to stop going to Facebook? Only a perverse sadist would prefer legislation over ostracism.
Am I the only one who was reminded of the end of THX 1138 -- specifically when the droids stopped following due to exceeding budget -- while reading this article?
Scientists want to get inside your brain (and use how it works to ID you)
The point of exactly how profitable the "walking dead" are is vastly underrated. The decision is between making giant profits now with low-risk VS miniscule profits but potentially large future profits with high-risk.
Uh, no. For one example, see: http://www.opencompute.org/
I know, and it makes me sad. At one time I was on the short list of CTO replacements (of the internal candidates). It makes me wonder some times about where they would be now if they had gone a different way. My ego would like to believe they would be a power house today :-) but I the storage business has changed a lot since 2006. I can't honestly say I would have negotiated that change any better.
Dell and EMC make their mega-merger official
This sort of thing really depends on the application, and the nice feature provided with the new "force" property is that you can actually distinguish between a "whole finger pad" light touch, and a "thin, firm, almost just the finger nail" hard touch, and most things in betwee.
Zoning is set by Tokyo, very little or no local control.
The problem only happens when no one bothers to learn how something works. Look at all of those big iron systems out there that few people know how to program, there is reason Cobol and Fortran programmers still make good money.

Oh and refrigeration is simple, it is just an application of the ideal gas law PV=nRT, and a pump.
Refrigerant is compressed then cooled through use of a heat-sink then pumped into the refrigerator and allowed to expand where the refrigerant absorbs thermal energy and is pumped out and repeated.
This just isn't true. Small businesses can't afford to hire accountants and set up and manage global offices and tax codes. That means small companies are disproportionately taxed for their profits.

In addition, isn't the whole point of corporate taxes to provide money to the country in which that business is making a profit? We may live in a global economy, but we don't all live in a single country. Businesses should be taxed appropriately for their revenues in a country or not be taxed at all. Saying that it's okay to avoid paying taxes because you can afford to move money offshore is hardly a level playing field and gives money to countries based on their advantageous tax codes, not to the profits achieved in that country.