skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We all know the answer. Because all governments feel they should spend that money instead of Apple. And they can take it, so they should.

And the more left-leaning part of the aisle has this idea that they will get to decide what that money will be spent on. So they support this. (I'm not rightist, in fact I'm probably extreme left by American standards, but I just don't believe the government is on the people's side anymore)

Of course there's a million different ways to say this, many are more polite, but it all boils down to this. They want money, they have the ability to take it.
For a museum or a plaza with statuary? Sure :) I think his real point was that architecture is linked to nearly every other human activity from caves to cathedrals and everything in between.
That is exactly why I tried to admonish people in a top post to avoid doing this. Maybe it is just me being naive, but it seemed an "in memoriam" article would not be the place for this, and was hoping people would instead choose to share something positive about his life. But you know, internet happens...
+1 for referencing the "Functional Programming in Scala" book. It is, as you rightly state, one of the best books out there regarding FP concepts and written in a very approachable style IMHO.
> though most people are well served by laptops with integrated-only video

You're right and it's amazing. I use Linux exclusively on my laptops and had stuck with dedicated GPUs running Nvidia binary drivers since 2009. But this summer I bit the bullet and got a new Broadwell laptop, and I honestly do not miss a single thing about the Nvidia graphics. My Intel 5500 can push well over 10 million pixels across three displays, 3D-accelerated, drawing minimal power.
Just found this nice counterpoint.

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/10/richard-dawkins-...
Yes, Windows doesn't come with a walled app repository. That's one of the benefits -- I don't have to ask Ubuntu and Debian and RedHat and god knows who else, "mother may I" before I write a program. I just do it. Though I do know people who now do get most of their apps from Microsoft's package manager these days.
Ah, I get you. There's an HAProxy at the front of each data center "pod". If all servers within the pod go down, the proxy routes traffic to servers in another pod. If HAProxy itself goes down, a Route 53 health check just takes it out of the A Record rotation.
OK, I think there are some unspsoken givens that I need to spell out to make my point clearer.

Typically people resolve the issues that directly cause them pain pretty quickly if it is in their control. Further "control" requires understanding how the levers a party influences impact the obstacles that cause the pain.

WTF level issues typically occur when the above conditions aren't met, usually that means the 'pain' doesn't impact the party that has the control to end the pain. next most common is the party that has the control doesn't understand how its levers affect its obstacles.

just fixing what they can is not going to resolve WTF level issues...
You can not win war without winning the people over to your side.
You can not win people over to your side using drones.
Soldiers are more than just a device able to handle a weapon.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10811747
fascinating article but already posted today

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10811747
Ian Murdock died in mysterious circumstances
No, not at all! http://areyouwatchingthis.com is almost 10 years old at this point, and the architecture in its current form wasn't solidified until last year. As a one-man shop, redundancy and failover are my best friends.
If you don't feel that the training and culture of LEO has some real problems then I'm not sure we have enough common ground to discuss a solution, to be honest.

I do agree that ratings can be gamed and are not a silver bullet though, that is true. It's difficult to get right.
A Requiem for Ian Murdock
Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock dead at 42
This is a much better version of the original article. Here's solutions to situations that arise when you have access to information that you feel should be acted upon that doesn't have broad organizational support already.
> Imagine someone walking away with $2T away from US.

Not so hard to imagine:

https://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/want-cut-govern...

Moldova's $1 billion probably got "lost" in a similar way - corruption that doesn't appear in the books.
Journalists should be educated on effects of false positives even at low proba (which is not even the case here) on random investigations.

Actually, police and justice should be, but when they are not at least we should hope that journalists are.

So maybe technically the original title about the SWATing because you drink tea was not 10000% accurate. Does not matter. They were swatted because they drank tea and grow hydroponic stuff -- no need to invoke "insight"; this is just a fact; and this suffice largely in itself to illustrate there is a big problem in how police do their work.
The HiDPI point is pretty critical - many higher end laptops these days have HiDPI screens, and HiDPI desktop monitors are getting affordable. I think with GNOME you only get integer scale factors: way too tiny or way too big on most HiDPI screens.
The Internet didn't only come out of military research and spending. A lot of the technology, thinking, and origination came out of the private sector and universities as well. Not to mention the actual early days of the Internet were overwhelmingly private + university based, and not military. Nearly all of the advances that the Web was actually built upon, were not military. The deployment of Google occurred on top of an almost entirely private infrastructure circa the late 1990s. The specific technology stack that made Google possible at the time was almost entirely not military.
> To do otherwise would be to admit that we can change nothing.

HN allows you to post and create new topics. Maybe leave avenging and figuring out the details in a separate discussion?

How about remembering something nice about him or about Debian or other stuff that's not about the exact details how he died (which it seems nobody here is 100% sure of and just goes by twitter posts, and Reddit discussions).
Is all that money actually made outside the US? Or is it made outside of the US in the same spirit as how Hollywood movies never make a profit?[1][2]

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

[2]
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/how-holl...
Some companies will provide the product "for free" but then -- and here's the kicker -- require the product to be returned or they'll charge you for it. I can realistically see an unbiased review coming from that process, but not one where the reviewer gets to keep the product for free.
I used to have some old (tube-based) test equipment that included instructions on exploding it with a grenade in the event that it had to be left behind. The grenade was not built in, however.
Considering that tweet it's totally possible:
https://twitter.com/fail0verflow

Xorg changes not really required because AMD GPUs work just fine on top of modesetting driver.
I don't think anyone would disagree about the clear-cut cases

That's where the problem lies. It's very easy to get agreement on such things based on fear rather than probability. You're so worried about giving the government power to make someone wear a monitoring bracelet that you're willing to trade lifelong incarceration on a smaller number of people against the possibility.

I would be more comfortable if a committee of trained medical professionals put people on lists or GPS trackers, vs. judges or DAs.

What do you think that court-ordered psychiatric evaluations are for, if not to get the input of trained medical professionals for use in the deliberations of trained legal professionals?
Yes. Thanks for posting this. I've edited my original post to add your information.
Good for them -- BS reviews are poisoning one of Amazon's most valuable datasets: the gigabytes of human-created product reviews.
Since you asked, I'd say you're probably being downvoted because the fact that the creator is Jewish is irrelevant to the comment you replied to. OP was having a balanced discussion about the ethics of providing review products whereas your comment declares the creator a scammer without any explanation or supporting evidence.

IMO I don't think religion, even if its "super-duper" is really on topic in a discussion about the quality and ethics of Amazon reviews. I hope this doesn't come off as critical, I'm just trying to explain where your donvoters may be coming from.
The achievement I was referring to was putting Linux on the PS4 so quickly after the console was jail broken.

The emulator itself was a great visual demonstration of "the full linux desktop experience" as opposed to listing "Can emulate video games" as a bullet point.
Samsung Gets Wacky with a Belt Called WELT and Other Oddities
Your Phone Number is Doomed
It wouldn't matter anyway, we'd still have states. In the US, state to state regulations vary just as much.

One world government would be just as screwed up.
I was surprised by Fedora 23 when it asked me to reboot in order to apply patches. And these were not kernels that were updates. Huge step backwards.
> That's a pretty bad MVP then. Usually it takes a lot shorter than that, even for a fairly complex MVP.

My math would be:

completion-time = complexity-factor / workers

Your conclusion seems to only account for completion time and complexity.
Say sayonara to AT&T's two-year phone plan
I like the idea of the explain/debug flag.

Wonder if the author is aware of Carthage and Cocoapods.
Analyzing log files, I presume.
Given the extreme zeal for liberty and freedom espoused by the tech crowd in the early 90's its more than sad, no a complete tragedy that there is just one Snowden today and hundreds of thousands of others who 'toil' away silently actively building this.

Here was your turn to do your bit, something meaningful and what we get instead is a complete co-option into the system. No activism, no protest, very few whistle blowers, especially since you of all other groups would be alert to the possibilities, where is the movement? There has been real sacrifice and sustained, persistent struggle to get here, values have a cost to the individual, if one balks if there is a cost then its just empty words and mass delusion.

And thus there is no shame, no movement, no activism, no code of conduct, no moral pressure to dissociate with these kind of activities or to call out all these people in any technology fora, even today when its out in the open.

And it's just not their failing. Modern populations seem to be completely unequal to any kind of meaningful activism and change. There is such a debilitating focus on individualism, and the completely irrelevance of wider community and other interests that the only real thing left is self interest and self interest has no 'values' or value, beyond expediency and survival.
Samsung is securing its smart TVs before they control your house
As consoles get more and more powerful and introduce abstractions between the game developer and the hardware (kernels, syscalls, platform runtime libraries), I've figured it would only be a matter of time before we stop trying to emulate the way that console works, and instead begin to virtualize the console by writing API-compatible wrapper libraries.

Presuming developers just treat the PS4 as somewhat like we treat PCs: a generic processor that can do "math stuff", and some black-box libraries for {threading, graphics, audio, HID support, networking, ...}, then it becomes far easier to statically recompile a PS4 binary into a native PC binary: just recompile the "math stuff" for your target architecture, and then replace the linkages to libraries provided by the PS4 SDK, to libraries provided by your virtualization wrapper.

In other words, basically do the equivalent of what Emscripten does to C programs that expect to use OpenGL: compile the C to asm.js, and compile the calls OpenGL into calls to WebGL.
Yea, I'm with you, but don't expect the United States to fight/do anything for that money/employees if we have some calamity.

Basically, if someone decides to take that money overseas--don't throw up you hands, and expect U.S. Soldiers to save the day.

So we live in this new world economy. Fine. If things go haywire; your company is on its own. Don't use our military. Don't use our government, and courts. Don't complain. You're on your own.

The problem , I see, is even if these companies didn't expect any favors from the United States in times of crisis; the United States would still try to rectify the problem. Tim Cook knows his money is safe anywhere. Why not pay close to nothing on profits? I wish we weren't the ambasitors of right/wrong, or the world's police.
Honestly, the only thing you can do is vote for the non standard parties, and get your friends to do the same. We need to remove the current incumbents.

If your friends questions you why they should do this, then ask them this:

> Can I see a list of the porn you like to watch?

No, really mate! The British government believes that it should know that you have a penchant for large heavily endowed older ladies servicing three men at a time. The British government isn't being very specific about who can actually access that lust list of yours either. And funnily enough you can't get a list of the Home Secretary, Theresa May's internet history, because "people might use it against her". Someone already tried an FOI request and got denied!

Once I start quietly loading ISIS websites in hidden iframes on my blog, you'll all be on the list of people who'll be getting a knock knock dawn raid.
* except that's not really true

For it to be this simple, you're declaring that every company paying less than 35% tax is in breach of the law. Which is obviously not the case in the eyes of the IRS -- there is totally legitimate foreign income, deductions, etc etc.

Whether you think those things are a GOOD idea doesn't matter, there are plenty of companies paying way less than 35% which are not going to get prosecuted, and the IRS would declare in the clear.
What happened to his linkedin profile as well?
Hmm, that's a tricky one ^.^ I can see how you'd need to know a fair amount about the legal system to understand the requirements when designing a courthouse, but down to particular aspects of common law probably not. I may have to see if this one stumps him. I guess it hinges on how you define an area of study: are their lawyers who specialize in this area? How much can they change an hour? (Can they afford the corinthian marble I'm specifying for their new office? :P )
Why this thread is #3?
edit: why downvoting without commenting?
Obviously is "why this thread is ONLY #3".
SF is not the rest of the world.
How I got a man to do women's work and became the envy of my female coworkers
The ultimate test for a monopoly is if the monopolist could raise prices significantly and not lose significant business to competitors. I don't think Uber could pass that test.
...that, statistically speaking, nobody really cares about yet.
Apple Agrees to Pay Italy Nearly $350M in Tax Deal
Since the PS4 OS is based on FreeBSD, you could conceivably match up parts of the compiled PS4 kernel with FreeBSD source code. However, I bet there's some sort of obfuscation that their compiler performs to make it difficult to decompile.
So how do you induce the incentives to create such open systems? Why does Roku exist to connect any TV to nearly any service, but not the same thing for IoT? Is it the insistence on making money through services rather than the lower-margin hardware? (Noting that Roku also makes money through channel placement and probably affiliate fees.)

I'm afraid that the only way it's going to happen is if the government wades in. But first enough people have to give a shit about these systems, and that'll require them actually being useful to a majority of consumers.
Windows 7 N exists because of the 2004 European Commission decision. That decision being a 497 million Euro fine. The fine was stupid when it was issued and it's ramifications were stupid when they forced Windows 7 N into existence.

If you view the fine as a tax it all makes far more sense. The fine is merely a tax that is the cost of doing business in Europe. Microsoft is willing to pay it because they still net profit in Europe. And Europe certainly has no issue demanding money from an American corporation.

Nation states demanding unreasonable things from foreign companies is nothing new. There's many a ruling that would have gone another way were the defendant a local entity.
Been in the same boat and will try to help so sent you a mail.

What helped for me was intensive real-life networking; it changed my life. You cannot imagine what is there to pick from in this world if you speak to enough people.
Really rich people are suddenly paying quite a bit more in taxes
I don't have a project, but I wish the best of luck and hope things turn out better for you!
Because we don't know the details. It doesn't seem anyone does. It seems from the previous day something unpleasant thing happened based on his twitter account posts. It seems there was police involved, he used some slurs some found uncharacteristic him, he threatened to kill himself, and that might be a cause of his death.

His family asked for privacy probably because they are trying to deal with this and don't want anyone online or real life to start speculating / discussing or making insinuations (he was already called "unhinged", there is a call to start arresting some cops etc).

Maybe I am being silly wanted to turn this into people trying to say something positive about his life, or his contribution, maybe someone knew him. Everyone probably used or touched Debian in one form or another etc.

But oh well, people want to gawk, speculate, call names, seek revenge without knowing what happened, can't stop it, I tried.
But for how long? The market itself that the leading firms are competing in is dynamic and can change over time.
What does energy generation have to do with the monopoly power of the folks who own the wires, buy from the bulk electricity market, and sell to consumers?
Very few corporations in the US can dance around jurisdictions to avoid high tax rates like Apple & Co can. To be fair, most American corporations pay very high tax rates compared to the rest of the world, and almost none of them as a percentage are able to avoid paying those high rates.

The median corporate income tax rate, is higher than the median individual income tax rate.
The OP discusses Product Management, which usually falls in the Marketing Dept. (at most corporations I've been and heard of), while you are suggesting project management and engineering management books. I'm not sure that makes sense; and, being at a startup I'm not sure certification of any kind would be worth the time.
I got 1.5.2 as well but I can access forbes. (no message at all)
Can you be more specific about what actions one would take as part of "monitor your children's electronics" to prevent these problems?
For those of you who didn't dig through the pastebin of tweets, consider this single tweet before you say "let's respect the wishes of the family"

7h7 hours ago
Ian Murdock ‏@imurdock
Maybe my suicide at this, you now, a successful business man, not a NIGGER, will finally bring some attention to this very serious issue.

[ I blanch at the word "nigger" but feel one has to keep the tweet intact. Sorry about that. And, we have to believe this tweetstream is not 100% accurate, that's to be investigated. ]

To those who say "must have a mental health issue to kill themselves" - we also say someone must have a mental health issue to be a suicide "terrorist". Yet, these kinds of acts are often by sane people who are very, very certain of the rightness of their actions. They may even be very generous people - a generous person who would give his or her life to expose a deep, deep injustice.

I don't know Ian and never new Ian, but if he was as generous and thoughtful as everyone says, he may have had no mental health issue. He may have been fighting something - a real thing - in the biggest and boldest way possible. If I was his friend, I would be getting to the bottom of this post-haste. Now. Not 36 hours from now. And, excuse me, his birth family is only one voice - the family of people he worked with and shared so much of his life with counts, too.
It's not somehow patriotic to pay more in taxes than you legally owe.
> A simple way to solve the problem is to levy an internet sales tax, which is the same percentage as the corporation tax that these companies should have paid if they were operating solely in that country in the first place.

Ah, but how does something like Google work, then? They don't sell a product to people all over the world (where tax can be collected); people all over the world are the product, and they sell that product to advertisers mostly from the US. Google uses the population of a country to make money without actually receiving any money from anyone in that country.
Is this really more interesting than Ian Murdock death?
Three contrarian m-commerce predictions for 2016
Sanders's and Clinton's Fake Middle Class
Yeah - that's mentioned about 3 times in the article.
It seems good, but it's not for Windows or Linux.
Reminds me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10811822
I figured "chat" was gravel or something from the context, but had never heard the term before. Maybe I'm the lone idiot, but in case anyone else is confused:

"Chat is a term for fragments of siliceous rock, limestone, and dolomite waste rejected in the lead-zinc milling operations that accompanied lead-zinc mining in the first half of the 20th century. [...] Although poisonous, chat can be used to improve traction on snow-covered roads; as gravel; and as construction aggregate, principally for railroad ballast, highway construction, and concrete production."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat_%28mining%29
This is like phase 1 in the IT cycle. There's a second phase where because nothing gets done due to cost/value conclusions the IT management gets ousted. New management then goes back to letting these things happen in a effort to become more client considerate. It's a decade long cycle that regularly happens.
If a phone's components are made in Korea, Japan and China, assembled in China, then sent on Greek owned ships to Europe where they are sold for Euros by European stores to European citizens and paying European sales taxes, how much tax is due in America?
Thank you. Maybe the problem is I replied in this specific thread after reading the other threads were the religion is discussed. And also where the scamminess of Amazon reviews is discussed.
So basically Apple was evading taxes while benefitting from all the infrastructure that said taxes help pay for. And when they got caught, they got to negotiate what percentage of what they actually owed they would pay in the end. That'll teach them :-/