skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but they don't have brains

Does not mean that they are not highly intelligent, especially in their home environment which we can only observe through a microscope. At the end of the day there is more of them in us than pretty much what is us... they have got lots of places to hide.

> We've shown time and again that we can invent in a day what takes evolution millions of years.

Some citation needed. Just because we extracted chemicals that have been used for millions of years and invented by yet other living organisms that had been battling them for millions of years does not mean we invented a damn thing. And we destroyed those discoveries in 10s of years.

> It's not unreasonable to expect we'll succeed

Succeed at what? Destroying all pathogenic bacteria all the time? We can't even do it some of the time currently. In the end the red queen will win... and this temporary war will lead to the same truce that's been going on since the dawn of life.
Compiling software is a somewhat meaningful metric across architectures (with caveats), but openssl speed is not really indicative of the CPU performance, rather it's benchmarking its own fast assembly routines. That only matters if your workload is crypto-bound.
You don't pay VAT on "essential goods", eg food, clothing, rent, etc.

Of course the rules are a bit fool about what is essential, and VAT is still a terribly regressive tax.
Apple sells a huge number of physical devices - phones and tablets. They created a new market, and now governments are able to collect VAT and sometimes customs tariffs on all those smartphones. Why not let Apple have what's left?
Why do you think PHP is still worthy in this mobile ages? I haven't been convinced myself to choose PHP despite did Laravel for some websites and PHP7 isn't a reason for me as well.
You forgot the VAT that Facebook's UK clients have to pay, the VAT Facebook have to pay on their expenses in the UK, the council tax that they have to pay on their offices, the pension and NI contributions they have to make, etc, etc.

At the end of the day, they aren't a UK corporation, so why should their corporation tax by high?

To be honest, it's hard for me to really form an opinion on this when the information provided by the media is so superficial. For that reason I tend to share mrkmcknz's sentiment. It all smells too much of the kind of trolling that's institutionalised in the media now.
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It's more likely that it will make the candidate look like an asshole.
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> 1 person making 100x more than an average person is going to pay less net taxes and will buy fewer things (even if it's more expensive stuff) than 100 people.

This just isn't true at all.

The top 1% of earners in the US pay more tax than the bottom 90% combined. Sometimes rich people pay a smaller percentage of their income than less-rich people but in absolute terms poor people and middle class constitute a minority of the tax base.
This is exactly what is happening in Europe and in the US. Successive euro norms (known as euro 4/5/6) are forcing cars to have cleaner emissions.
In betting exchanges you also bet against other people (with the house taking a cut, as with DFS), but those are banned under gambling regulation.
Neither the Isle of Man nor the Channel Islands are a part of the UK.
I'm a huge fan of ncdu. The treemap looks cool, but I don't really see the benefit over ncdu. :) (which can be installed via

brew install ncdu

on a mac.)
Do you know what's even better? The rich taking their business somewhere else

Then the unions can cry foul about how the big bad companies wouldn't put up with their crap anymore

I'm sure in an ideal world everybody would be a public servant with no productivity goals but that has problems as well
>Why not let Apple have what's left?

Because other businesses also create products that collect VAT and still pay their taxes. Why should Apple be any different?

To promote those that are big enough to avoid taxation to make them even bigger?
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When I started my UK Limited company I immediately registered for VAT, so I could claim VAT paid on purchased startup equipment, which was mostly computing goods. I could then obviously offset that against VAT collected in the first months of business.

I quickly discovered that quarterly VAT returns were a pain, and accountants aren't cheap (for some definition of cheap).

I am also just a one man band at the moment, and de-registered for VAT about a year ago. Unless there are significant savings to be made, or you're over the £82k per annum revenue threshold, factor in the cost of the effort to submit these returns. They really are just a distraction from the main focus of your startup business.
It depends. This is the first material I have heard of that would allow you to have structural elements lighter than air. Just an empty envelope is not very rigid.
This. It's not like being on Facebook is a UN-sanctioned human right.
Before Apple did iPhone, modern mass-market smartphones didn't exist and VAT from old-school smartphones was probably 10% of what it is today.

Before Apple did iPad, VAT from tablet sales was virtually zero.

I think you should tax what is easy and straightforward to tax; not aim for a "perfectly fair taxes".

Anyway, it shoud be good to you that you are paying taxes and not Apple. Next time Apple wants to ban phones with square screens, you tell them to back off because they don't pay taxes. You should get a voice here and you should to get your message straight. If you can't - blame your government and work towards digital democracy.
And it would be interesting to see how much of that it took from VMS.
Because we have quadriplegics who need 24 hour care so they don't die. Just to choose one random example of why we choose to have a government that levies taxes and provides services.
The public would go mental. VAT is seen as being most onerous on low earners.

Something like a very low "turnover tax" for businesses could potentially work though.

We take about £40bn in corporation tax each year. Total business revenue in the UK is around £3.2tn, so a 1.25% turnover tax would cover it.
I've never dealt with something like this before, but I have personally had to tackle recurrent depression. It wasn't until my late-20s did I finally notice what was going on and got the help that I needed. In the meantime, I nearly lost it all -- my family, job and life.

If you have the slightest inclination that something isn't right, I suggest seeing a doctor who cares. I waited way too long even after realizing that perhaps there is a problem (trying to avoid the stigma) and learned that mental health is no joke.
I believe everyone who starts a business is a bit broken
These losses are paper losses. These type of paper losses are far easier for big multinationals to make than smaller domestic businesses.
I tested scaleway C1 for compiling with GCC and doing some basic lores video converting with ffmpeg and they are terribly slow for this kind of tasks.
Generally, when we use the term "gender gap" in this context, it refers specifically to a wage gap and not other gaps. Sorry for not making that clear.
So, the Telecom companies created a time travel device went forward to 2015 and stole Microsoft's innovation :)
The corporate tax rate in the US is actually higher than in many EU countries. The reverse is actually true, US companies choosing to base their "head quarters" in Ireland and the Netherlands.
Here is a short CGP Grey video on Gerrymandering

https://youtu.be/Mky11UJb9AY
A secret of the egg drop is actually that the egg doesn't really need much cushion to spread the impact over time. If you can spread the pressure evenly and hold it still, you can get away with quite a small crumple zone.

Carve a perfectly egg-shaped hole into a pair of styrofoam bricks, then tape them together with the egg inside. You'll beat 99% of the other kids who were trying to protect their egg with soft materials.

Source: I tried using wet sponges and carpet underlay, but was soundly beaten by a kid who carved a hole in a pair of styrofoam bricks.
Timely podcast from Stuff You Should Know on lobbying in the USA:

http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/how-lobbying-work...
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Admiration and social standing as currency was used by Howard L. Myers in "All around the universe" 31 years earlier than Doctorow.

http://www.baenebooks.com/10.1125/Baen/0743436075/0743436075...
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We've launched our own mobile app agency, Brainattica
"""If you're too weak to excel in an environment filled with the world's top researchers"""
What kind of attitude is this? Seems pretty cruel and horribly antisocial. If you're too weak...what is this the animal kingdom?

And I'd think that it would be way more interesting if a Fields medalist would be freed up to teach more courses about his/her specialty instead of the intro to calculus stuff (or arguably not teach at all but I disagree with that position).
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UK election outcomes have nothing to do with gerrymandering and everything to do with being a multi-party democracy using a FPTP electoral system, which tends to boost the representation of leading parties at the expense of smaller parties. Indeed, you'd actually need gerrymandering for such a system to have any hope of returning seats broadly in proportion to vote share.

(the conspiracy theory about disenfranchisement advanced by the blog article is orthogonal to the tendency of the FPTP electoral system to distort shares of actual votes. It's also a little difficult to take seriously an argument which suggests that a short-lived poll tax abolished in 1991 would be a significant factor in the 2015 election. Especially when the party that enacted it spent 13 of the intervening years out of power, with the electoral system and distribution of voters heavily favouring their rivals at the time. The article is equally ludicrous in suggesting Labour would be disadvantaged by a fraction of voters in strongly Labour-supporting boroughs being under financial pressure to relocate)
Does the future of the web, look like the demise of innovation?
Could you develop? I am genuinely curious.
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The most stable airship would be with a floating foam. Even if some part of it is damaged - the rest will float.
To me it's a good example of one of those things for which the code would be easier to write (while not that easy) than the requirements for the code.
I think it's the opposite, modern day culture celebrates individuals and their achievements as though they created their success on their own, that luck had nothing to do with it. We put people like Zuckerberg on a pedestal when at least some (much?) of their success comes from the luck of having the right parents, being born at the right time, having an interest that happens to be financially valuable and so on.

The downside to this attitude is that we look down on people who weren't lucky, who had the misfortune to be born into an uneducated family, who weren't in the right place at the right time and so on through no fault of their own.
>You're completely missing the fact that I'm not talking about ethics here.

I can't see how this can be, since the core of what we are discussing is a supposed "Copenhagen interpretation of ETHICS".

>I'm talking about ethical positions, a meta-level up; and I'm saying that you subscribe to CIE while calling CIE a straw man.

Again, no logical contradiction there.

As I explained I subscribe to CIE+ (a superset).

This means that I can both subscribe to CIE (as it's contained in the superset CIE+) AND find it when discussed alone (without the extra additions) lacking/a strawman.

For a crude example of that, one can logically subscribe to S+ ("men are rapists sometimes") and still view S ("men are rapists") as a strawman.
Apparently been illegal for a long time (~2011) but this is coming up again in relation to "hoverboards".

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/12/hoverboard...
I wonder if we had the same guy, Russian, with his own formalism and his own textbook published online? I remember thinking it may well have had merit but since most of us in there were applying the subject matter in our respective fields which stuck to the traditional formalism. .. it was a challenge.

I think it was a special form of multi variable, forget what he called it. Lecture was in mining. Honestly I went to lecture too rarely to give fair judgement
I found this ex post facto-ing, so I dug up a relevant link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8496921.stm

The law in question is the Finance Act of 2008.
Enlightened despotism used to be a popular idea. I don't think it works because there is no guarantee they despot will optimize for country outcome rather than personal enjoyment.
> Does not mean that they are not highly intelligent, especially in their home environment which we can only observe through a microscope. At the end of the day there is more of them in us than pretty much what is us... they have got lots of places to hide.

[citation needed]. There's nothing suggesting individual bacteria are anything more than dumb machines that react to external stimuli - or that as a group they do anything more than gradient search through DNA space.

> Some citation needed. Just because we extracted chemicals that have been used for millions of years and invented by yet other living organisms that had been battling them for millions of years does not mean we invented a damn thing. And we destroyed those discoveries in 10s of years.

I'm not talking about extracting chemicals. I'm talking about flying, Moon landings and popcorn. Keep in mind we went from nothing to genetic engineering in few thousand years, and arguably all the time but last few centuries were essentially not relevant to those advancements.

> Succeed at what?

Succeed at staying on top of damage done by pathogens, eventually advancing to the point we won't have to keep actively pushing that technology forward. Sure, bacteria will try to gradient-search around whatever we throw at them, but we don't have to make it easy for them. "Nano particle drones" are definitely not out of the question in the future, given that bacteria themselves are nothing more than dumb "nano particle drones".
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Why not finance helping quadriplegics from increased VAT?

If it comes to that, why not finance helping quadriplegics from charity?
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Exactly, it makes little economic sense to tax corporations. It makes much more sense to tax the people who own corporations when they take the money out of them.

Though there might be some practical reasons to tax corporations a bit. It might be easier to prevent tax evasion when you take the money at the source and it might lessen the amount of personal purchases being passed as business expenses to avoid taxes.
Even new and shiny stuff uses client certificates. RE: Kubernetes (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/docs/ad...)

Loading this into the browser is often desirable for access to the proxy API.
That's not even wrong.

Ton of money - lol nope.
"To prove" rather than "to investigate" shows a PR-tainted lack of understanding the method.
And if you publish rubbish, it's your reputation that's shot down when the papers showing how bad it is come round.
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Or just tax dividends as normal income.
Apple pays VAT and all the taxes it is legally obliged to pay. Don't blame Apple. They will pay the least amount they have to pay. Fix the loopholes.
I've seem a number of comments about that 36.9% - I had a quick look and it is actually higher than the Labour win in 2005 (35.2%) which had a lower turnout as well.

http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/uktable.htm

[I'm not a Labour, Conservative or LibDem supporter so I have no particular axe to grind here].
Yes, VAT is payed 'by the consumer', and if people weren't buying Apple phones they would be buying something else, fair enough.

I just find it funny how the solution to lack of money is always wanting to squeeze more taxes from the companies and people instead of optimizing goverment spending (optimizing, not cutting)

Ah of course, living withing your means is now called 'austerity' and it's bad because?
It sounds like you've never been a part of a forum or similar a decade ago. It's usually much better with less people.

For the why: because a, monopoly is bad; b, Facebook is broken on too many levels.
A foam structure could yield lower release speed in case of puncture, and possibly prevent explosive fire propagation in hydrogen, thus allowing its safe use in airships (modern "cold air" airships use the rarer and more expensive helium instead)
A bicycle helmet made out of this material sounds perfect to me. Good protection, light weight, and great ventilation.
I don't understand what you're arguing for.

If Facebook shut down UK operations then, for starters, Facebook would be paying no tax at all in the UK and Ireland would gain the difference.

If the Facebook UK staff relocated to Dublin then the loss to the UK economy would be exponentially worse.
FB is playing the game that corporations play all over the world - global tax arbitrage. They shift operations, losses and profits to different countries based on tax policy.

The similar thing happens here in the US at the State level. It isn't uncommon for large companies to pack up and move their operations to lower tax States, or to actually bargain with individual States over who will give them the best deal. Here in Massachusetts, Fidelity packed up and left for North Carolina and Texas - they found it was cheaper to move employees than pay the taxes.

This will likely continue as long as different countries (and States) have different tax schemes - and that isn't going away anytime soon.

Soon we'll probably have a renewed call for a lower tax rate here in the US for companies to repatriate those revenues.
I suspect you aren't all that familiar with quantum mechanics - you seem to think that an object as complex as a brain could have a single quantum state (true) that cannot be decomposed into many orthogonal localized systems (extremely unlikely).

There isn't a theoretical way (yet) to measure and store the whole electrical state either - why bring quantum mechanics into it?
Is that because you believe you pay too much tax? Wouldn't it be better if the loopholes were fixed but there was a reduction in tax charged too?

Tax evasion ends up pushing up taxes for everyone else, it's not your government that you're short changing, it's your family, it's your friends, it's your neighbours. This may sound harsh, but it's just the reality of the situation. I hope you will give it a second thought next time.
Some online sports books used to operate betting markets where you'd essentially buy options on teams, with the price of the option being determined by the demand. The house would make money on the spread.

The fundamental difference between why that's illegal and betting on daily fantasy football is not, is simply that the anti-online gambling laws of the U.S. specifically allowed for betting on fantasy football and outlawed other types of gambling. When that law came about, I believe in 2007, daily fantasy football either didn't exist or was extremely niche. It really took a few years before big players like Draft Kings and Fan Duel got substantial traffic. When the law came about, there were a lot of small players who came and went.
I've read several times that the government doesn't think it can raise VAT much higher because it would start loosing money from an increase in excise fraud.
It is because architects need to deal directly with customers and their wishes might have huge impact in the overall design.

Also they mighty need to be explained the technical advantages and possible issues of the ongoing projects.
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Instead of corporate tax the employees are being charged individual tax. I think eventually the government gets the money.
His site doesn't appear to be able to handle the load. Google has it cached thought:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CAYvaWj...
For something this complex, you may have an easier time with C#. All of your enumerations get Intellisensed, for example.

I also recommend creating a standalone C# application, rather than trying to fit in the confines of a typical Solidworks Macro. Sure, you don't get a little button in the toolbar saying 'Export/Import', but instead you have the full flexibility of a console (or graphical diff potentially) application.

In the short term (I noticed your last commit was 7 months ago), you may/may not know about the Solidworks 'Compare' utility. In 2015, Tools->Compare. In the Solidworks Tutorials there is a small and trivial example of using it.

Interesting idea overall of trying to encapsulate a SLDPRT as a yaml. I imagine that assemblies are going to be a bear in this fashion.

Have you looked into trying to reverse the SLDPRT file format? It must be possible if other companies are offering the option to import a SLDPRT (I believe the last time I used Creo there was a MVP importer).
You could also be benchmarking the interface between openssl and crypto hardware, several ARM SoCs have crypto accelerators.
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That's easy to explain (although it might be tricky).

The marginal value of money decreases as the absolute value increases.

Getting a raise from $1k per month to $2k per month is more significant than from $2k to $3k

Meaning that if you earn more, you'll usually save more.

So now stuff is taxed at 50% (VAT or Sales tax), so everything will cost more, but it will be easier for the rich to afford it, because of no income tax, and harder for those with less income (their income tax was not high to begin with)
In the 90s, when they introduced the Advanced Higher they changed the Higher Grade to remove a lot of the deeper computer science components. Having been in one of the last years to sit it I then ended up studying a lot of the same information in my first year at university anyway. Unfortunately having a good school curriculum didn't automatically make the degree level education better.
That wouldn't be an option in the way it is to Facebook if the competitor was based wholly in the UK.
I think the parent is referring to contractors, who avoid PAYE but still have to pay dividend and corporation tax. The dividend tax rate is about to go up so the PAYE issue is about to become void.
I don't have any source besides myself.

I live in Iceland though so I'm wrong to assume that this is the norm everywhere else.
PHP is just another tool. If we're talking about backend, then its perfomance is good enough for small to middle sized applications. PHP borrowed a lot of language features from other languages in the last decade, it's a different language now, still there is a lot of old poor written code.

PHP 7 is great for those who are already used PHP for years, cause it uses half of CPU resources doing the same tasks as PHP 5.6. I don't think there is any good reason switching from Golang for example if you are aiming for writing scalable applications; still, every experienced PHP dev I know are still getting their things done and doesn't consider switching.
It would be better if they actually took down the billboards and not just the ads that were hung on them.