skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even Bible notes at some point that you have no guarantee that the son of the enlightened despot will be as good as his father. Still, the effectiveness of that type of rule is very appealing, especially comparing to the impotence of democracy and the fact that we have serious global problems that need to be solved right fucking now.
I utterly reject this argument

> 362 Facebook staff on an average salary of say £65,000 will contribute at least £7,230,696.60 in taxes and NI to HMRC. Let's also not pretend that £65,000 is the average salary at Facebook UK, it's likely much higher.

First of all, that's Facebook employees paying tax. Not Facebook. That's their money that they are taxed on and they pay it.

Secondly, no one is asking for Facebook to pay tax on nothing. They should pay it on profits. It was tax payers money that built the Great British Telecommunications Infrastructure that Facebook 100% depends on for it's operations here.

> If I had a choice between Facebook paying £4,327 in corporation tax but employing over 350 highly skilled individuals in the UK, or relocating to somewhere like Dublin due to aggressive taxation policies. I know what I would pick.

No one is going to give up all the money they can earn in a country that has one of the lowest corporation tax rates in the world. Facebook is not going to convince it's key employees to leave Britain, uproot their families and go live in the desert or china. Any threat by a company to leave one of the strongest economies in the world is a pathetic bluff.
The name for the associate professional step between Apprentice and Degree level engineers is Technician and has been for the last 50+ years.
>I assume all those twitter supporter accounts are law enforcement trying to entrap and bait 'fence sitters'.

I dunno about Europe but in 'merica that's pretty much textbook entrapment. It would also be counterproductive because it creates the illusion of actual support.
Steve Jobs: Memories and Legacy
Good video. Thanks!
I thought WebCrypto let you make non-extractable keys.

But in any case, I'm not sure I understand the threat model of that. The <keygen> service will already sign any public key that gets to it past authentication, so if you're worried about client attacks, that's already a problem. There's no distinction between compromising an existing private key and getting a new, unauthorized private key signed. You're already requiring that the site be secure against these attacks.

Obviously you don't store this in storage accessible to every relying website; you just store it in the origin of the authentication service itself, and have it generate signed messages (either client-side or server-side) that get passed to the relying websites.
Yes, it's to grab your attention with the broad subject, and then tell you something interesting about it. This ensures that you click on the headline.

In your version of the headline "Signs of Insiders' Edge in Fantasy Sports", your typical American reader has already lost interest by "Signs of Insiders' Edge" which is kind of an obscure metaphor.

Whereas the paper one grabs the attention with "Fantasy Sports". You like fantasy sports, you play fantasy football at your cubicle job every day. "Insiders' Edge"? Oh shit, there must be something wrong with it. Better click on the headline and check that out.

Boom, NYTimes serves you 200 ad impressions (or sells a paper copy).
You don't choose anything (apart from some semblance of choice through voting). Stop using voluntary language for something that is compulsory. This isn't an argument against gov, but your reasoning about choice is after the fact.
Urgh. This is part of the problem. They're Crown Dependencies. They're neither fully independent countries nor part of the UK. They're accountable to their own local electorates but host a lot of firms doing business that's really in other countries. They're ideal tax havens.

I am fond of the constitutional tweeness of Man, Sark, etc, but their situation really does need to be regularised.
Google's ads are practically its content. That's a significantly different situation, because Google doesn't really give you ads for things you didn't ask for ads for.
Volantio is hiring full stack developers
We (Volantio, the B2B arm of Adioso) are looking for full stack developers with great communication skills who can help make some of the world’s biggest travel sites suck a bunch less, by providing tech to airlines and other travel companies (and drag them kicking and screaming into the 21st century).

We’re a close-knit team and have a variety of challenging work on our plates.
This role is not just your typical coding-at-a-desk-in-perpetuity type position. One day you might be knee-deep in stack traces, the next you could be flying to Bangkok to meet an airline, but then the next you’d probably be battling CSS animation issues.

Skills/etc:

- Have built non-trivial applications in small teams

- Totally comfortable in Python/Django (or something similar)

- Equally comfortable in JS/Coffeescript

- We like Postgres and redis, so it’s probably good if you do too

- Used to working in a fast & iterative continuous delivery environment with plenty of testing

- Happiest working in a cross-functional team with a very shared codebase (being small, we avoid specialization where possible)

- Excellent organizer & communicator: We’re somewhat distributed by nature, so communication is critical

- Excited by/love of travel

- Patience: Sometimes our customers don’t move as fast as we’d like

- Curious, humble, and willing to learn

Bonus experience:

- Graphing & visualization

- Analytics tech

- Machine learning

- Crufty old APIs (SOAP, etc)

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If this sounds interesting, we would love to hear from you. Please include whatever info you believe is relevant: resume, GitHub profile, code samples, links to personal projects, etc.

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> On the other hand, you know what else corrupts research? Wondering where the funding for your soft money lab is going to come from. How you're going to pay your grad students, technicians, etc.

What do you mean by 'corrupts' here? It's obvious not having funding will make research difficult (or impossible), is that all you mean by 'corrupts'?

Or do you think that kind of funding insecurity effects outcomes, other than in the ways suggested by the OP in the first place?
Mediatoolkit – first BI tool for SMEs
Really? Venture firms in the past invested into projects described on napkins? Is there any data to support this assertion ?
That is just bullshit. Why books or "revenues from artistic works" has 10% but oil 50% VAT? Most people need heating oil more than paintings.
100% Right fix the laws. This is horrible and the Rich pay round 10% tax rate (They argue they pay so much? They pay a ton in taxes but in terms of percentage they pay less than most people)

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>Let's turn it around. How would you go about taxing a corporation that didn't make much profit last year

From the article:

"[T]he firm also paid its 362 UK staff a total of £35.4m in share bonuses."

That says to me that it'd be worth trying to figure out how to reconcile that against "a pre-tax loss of £28.5m."
>Is that because you believe you pay too much tax?

If I pay more than I'm required to by law then I pay too much by definition.

>Wouldn't it be better if the loopholes were fixed but there was a reduction in tax charged too?

Of course this would be better and ideal. But it's a curious things with politicians. New taxes come easily. But they seldom leave voluntarily.

We're still having an extra tax on sparkling wine here in Germany. It was introduced in 1901 to finance the German Imperial Navy to rival the British Empire [1] ...

>Tax evasion ends up pushing up taxes for everyone else, it's not your government that you're short changing

Yes, but I'm not talking about evasion. Evasion would be illegally saying "I earned nothing" and hiding the money. Tax optimizaton by out-smarting the system is legal though.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaumweinsteuer (German)
The basic problem here is that business is now global whereas taxation is still at the nation state level. Countries have to compete for business and smaller states with limited resources can bring in money by becomming tax havens. I don't really know of any solution to this.

I think it's worth pointing out that even from the perspective of most businesses this situation sucks. Smaller companies or startups lack the resources to benefit from tax avoidance schemes so are at a disadvantage to their larger competitors.

And if you do start a company that is growing large you don't really have much choice but to start doing it too. You won't be able to compete if you are paying 20% and the competition is paying 2%. You have to do it because everyone else is doing it.
What about suspending the egg in a jar of water?
Because they are human beings, and if we are doing something culturally insensitive or repressive to them we should stop?
Investing 101 – Responsibilities as a Landlord
We don't know that 50% of the brainpower relevant to computer science is female. Male and female brains differ, and it is quite possible that they choose to specialize in different areas.
So you should not be entitled to bonuses when you work in the UK office because the UK office does not have enough revenue to make up for the cost of the workforce, but the same people in the SFO office should?
Right now, it's mainly enthusiasts who use it.
Industry still uses Python 2, as do most distros that ship.
AWS Lambda has just added Python, picking 2 over 3.

While the Python Wall of Shame/Superpowers is the greenest it's ever been, the red panels are disproportionately used, even though you could argue many are dead, abandoned modules, they still end up presenting upgrade pain that many would rather avoid.

https://python3wos.appspot.com/
>As the company chooses their own costs and license fees, they can effectively control in which entity they make a profit and which they don't.

I've only seen one really effective way around that suggested, but it's not without it's drawbacks. If a country taxes each sale of a service or product, then it's no longer possible to funnel money out of the country. It effectively eliminates companies that operate in a country for years with a fake lose.

The drawback is that it will potentially cost jobs and close business that could be profitable in the long term.
John Markoff's new book "Machines of Loving Grace" is a great one about this AI vs IA topic. http://www.amazon.com/Machines-Loving-Grace-Common-Between/d...
No of course not must have sent the machine back pre ww2 and nicked a lot of TI's (technical instructions) from the GPO / Bell
Why not remove everything and go for vacuum spheres...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Lana_de_Terzi#Airshi...
I think Kasey is right.
As to the question of larger spreads. I worked for Knight before they got into trouble. Robinhood does only stock trading and there is not much spread payments coming form it these days. Its so small these days, its not worth a lot. No matter what its not enough to give away trades.
And these firms pay somewhat the same to all companies.

Robinhood is a fascinating scheme of some sorts in my opinion. They will have to raise money from new VC investors to make commission payments. They need to be raising more money. This app will continue as long as they raise money and the VC money feed continues. For the sake of its employees, I hope the feed continues.

"so I am "out". ( Shark Tank :))
How to Get Tenure at a Major Research University – Sean Carroll
Well, they're hitting your web server because you don't want a hard-required client certificate. (I've administered a server relying on a larger deployment of client certs than OP's; browser compatibility is a mess, and `SSLVerifyClient require` is a mistake.)

Yes, you can set things up on the server side so that it hits a static page instead of your web application. But you can do that with the JS-based solution too: have it send you to a login page with a signed query-parameter or similar, and verify that query parameter in the web server configuration. If it fails / doesn't exist, deliver a static site that includes the necessary JS to do the login.

Your web server will need to verify a signature or MAC there, but this is way less attack surface than the usual client-cert processing code in SSL stacks (which processes untrusted keys and signatures). Removing that code will be an equal or greater security win.

Basically, if there is interest in engineering a good application-level solution instead of relying on the transport-level one, it can absolutely be done. (I do freely admit there isn't anything that can be used out-of-the-box today, to my knowledge.)
I thought the canonical solution was also the cone-onical solution har har har.

https://youtu.be/wm2xC-EYBrc
> as honestly as possible

Nobody has suggested that Facebook is violating tax law are they?
... Is this like a "Why do people get mad you have to sit at the back of the bus, it is the law after all?" kind of argument?
>If the Facebook UK staff relocated to Dublin then the loss to the UK economy would be exponentially worse.

Can anyone say that for certain?

How do you know, for example, that the same staff they'd employ wouldn't end up working for a company that does pay a large amount of corporation tax, leaving the UK's tax coffers substantially better off than they'd be otherwise?
Sorry, I was more thinking of the executives, whose large salaries would skew the average, and would have a complicated compensation package, and can afford accountants to do creative accounting. I do not know if there are executives included in that 362 employee figure.
Do network stations not care about being relevant
I'm a little surprised that the article doesn't mention cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). It is easily one of the "hottest" forms of psychotherapy in recent years, and is heavily inspired by Stoic ideas. Mindfulness more generally is also having a big moment in clinical psychology.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Mental Health
>So you should not be entitled to bonuses when you work in the UK office because the UK office does not have enough revenue to make up for the cost of the workforce, but the same people in the SFO office should?

1. I didn't say that.

2. What's to stop the SFO office issuing the bonuses?
Reading About the Financial Crisis: A 21-Book Review (2012) [pdf]
Well, the primary thing being deprecated right now is <keygen>, not certificate auth as a whole, so if you have a CAC you don't care about <keygen>.

But also -- why does it make sense that any website on the public internet can potentially find your US-government-signed identity? That's not even a thing the government wants. You can just do logins against a single government-run service and limit authentication to that one origin, and have it produce signed, encrypted statements that you can pass to other authorized servers. And then you also get auditing, revocation, etc. through that single service.
Actually, I've found that there's more MBAs and law students that have been pinched by the student loan bug (myself included as a compsci major). So I don't know why they focus on media-based degrees when there's other people with different majors they could compare against. I think I read somewhere last year was the first year where a certain percentage of graduating law students couldn't find any sort of work in their field (even just doing paralegal stuff). So, there's more interesting stories than those of the young reporter/journalist to be sure.
The problem with this is that the shareholders may be outside your country. It is pointer management. You can't trace it down 100% of the time. If you want an easier tax policy focusing on things that can't be hidden like land, highway use, pollution, etc is much easier.
"[...] good notation is worth a whopping increment in IQ points. Except that the really good ones allow one to have thoughts that are impossible without."

I posit this post tangentially explains the nagging feeling that many parents[1] experience when their children struggle with mathematics. The benefits of basic language literacy are clear, but follow-on analogies such as the above emphasize a point of view concluding that an inability to attain mathematical fluency excludes the next generation from any implied augmented intelligence benefits.

The extrapolated message would be that mathematically disinclined adults will then be completely unable to comprehend certain important thoughts in [insert arcane, highly-specialized technical field].

Regarding the question posed by the title and last sentence in the blog post, I'm not sure why the thrust is framed as an XOR, and not as an AND. It's not like we can't focus on both IA and AI at the same time.

[1] Anecdata warning: I am a parent. I have this nagging feeling.
> 2. What's to stop the SFO office issuing the bonuses?

That's basically what is happening? The company made a loss, so that money came from somewhere else to pay for it.
I have some resources on my personal webpage, hope you may find these useful:

http://pa-mar.net/Main/Lifestyle/Stoicism.html

(and will probably update it in a few hours adding stuff from this thread ;)
> For how do you know they are not telling you your car is being towed, or your kid is being taken away, or you dropped your wallet.

You don't generally start conversations like that with "hope I'm not interrupting". "Someone's taking your kid!" would be the starting point, most likely.

> If it were Obama who walked to them would they have stopped for 15 seconds? If yes, then what is the difference?

They're not Obama?
Then don't charge the poor for VAT.
The bonuses were taxed at personal tax rates, rather than coroporate. Furthermore, the personal tax rate is higher than the corporate, so why is this a bad thing again?
Dell, EMC, HP, Cisco are the walking dead
But Apple are paying their taxes.
Not really. Monopolies are mostly created by the state. Either with crony capitalism, intellectual property laws or directly state controlled production. Besides, Laissez-faire capitalism can create large scale infrastructure, why do you claim otherwise?
s/Mechanical Turk/Mechanical Human/
Why not charity? Because then the people donating to charity will (at least try to) impose conditions. So only quadriplegics or a certain faith or with a certain set of circumstances with receive help. (See e.g. the concepts of the deserving/undeserving poor and moral judgements with charities helping the poor in the UK pre-1945.)
This is how Adobe's Context-Aware Scaling works:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/content-aware-scalin...

They also utilise it for context-aware fill.
Or just go straight to cremation
hows she gonna say her material would crush the egg drop challenge and then not actually do it? Wasn't that the whole point of it in school?

Also the perpetual winner for egg drop challenge is jello with uncooked rice mixed.
Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985)
FPTP is heavily biased though - you end up in a situation where there's little point voting the way you want, because it won't be effective.

Take the Greens, 3.8% of the vote with 0.15% of the final representation. And I bet that 3.8% would actually have been higher if people had felt like they wouldn't be throwing away their vote.

I understand your sentiment, but I think "bit meh" is maybe a little uncharitable. Half of my voting life has been in NZ (mixed member proportional) and the other half in the UK (FPTP) – so I have a reasonable understanding of the drawbacks of the systems.
This makes no thermodynamic sense. CO2 is about the worst "fuel" possible, because it is the end product of combustion.

Then, the call it a "capture project", with the goal of burning what they create.

It can be carbon capture, or it can create fuel, but not both.
Yes I found that some time afterwards, so I decided not to continue with it ;) I did gather about 1.4M certificates in the process though.
If they reduce their profit to zero by paying out to the employees this means they don't have to pay any corporate tax, and the employee has to pay income tax. The personal income tax rate is generally higher than corporate, so why is this a bad thing?
LinkedIn sets X-Frame-Options: sameorigin on requests, so this is likely to only work on old browsers (IE7 and lower, basically).
For those people they would clearly stop drawing dividends as there would be no tax advantage to doing so. I'm not sure how you could say it is onerous (other than the fact they may have to pay more tax than they would have).
That enforces my belief that the influx of new programming languages will continue for some more years and it will only get better.
"Proofs are more important than memorizing a formula and forgetting it after a couple of month."

I didn't go to Berkeley, but I had exams like this - you could pass them without actually understanding the material by memorising everything in sight. Quoting a proof doesn't show that you have any in-depth grasp of the concepts, that you can actually apply them to a problem you haven't seen before.
I do apologize. It was never my intention to insult anybody.
The Java (JVM) Advent Calendar is looking for contributors to the 2015 edition
Am I the only one annoyed by videos with very short cuts that barely let you see the properties of the material?
I went one step further and actually implemented an MCMC model and ran it for a while. It did turn a slight profit on low stakes games for the 3 months that I ran it. I stopped and did not move on to higher stakes games because I live in Germany and there appears to be no simple way for me to legally participate in these games and then withdraw my money. I am keeping the scripts ready for when the fad invades Germany, though!

I agree on the stats part. Scraping them from various sources was definitely the most painful and limiting part of the project, and I was only able to obtain a limited amount of data even then. If I could get a complete and large dataset to work with, I would be tempted to give it another shot, just to see how far more data takes me.
> Isn't that a tax paid by the employee, not employer

I don't know why people still fall for this. The government may say whatever it wants, but the value of the paycheck is market determined which means taxes are taken from both sides. Unequally, of course, depending on how (in)elastic work supply and demand are.
I'd argue it's also corrupting the education system, as (definitely in the UK) Universities only really want to employ people who can 'assist' in being awarded research grants.

Employ people who will research the correct topics in the correct way to provide the largest amounts of funding to... continue the cycle.
That's one more reason to use extensions like Ublock and Ghostery.
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Here's your problem: You think that historically, the injustice is that men oppress women.

In reality, the injustice is that a small group of very powerful men oppress all women and nearly all men.
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Dell to acquire EMC for $67B in largest technology deal ever