skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't understand your argument here.

As per definition of vulnerability, this is something that many Linux systems have ran into in the past. When you get outside of mainline distributed programs you see vendor issues like this all the time. 777 is a thing in Linux and people/vendors do dumb crap with it all the time. Privilege escalation to root via bad file permissions is not an uncommon problem in Linux either.

The patch for this problem is easy enough too.

Right click > security > remove full access.

If this application is widely distributed enough Microsoft may very well push a fix for it. What we don't know here is how many computers are affected by this, it could be a very large number, or it could be a few from a limited distribution with a bad setting.
Any amount of taxes is too high for these businesses.

Lowering taxes, because of taxation arbitrage is a quick race to the bottom.
All these videos are from @adjy_leak. Just cross-posting for convenience.
reduce corporate tax by half and introduce revenue tax of 0.5% ?
And as many speculate the removal of lead in the gasoline.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27067615
If the USA adopted Ireland's tax code then companies would have to pay 12.5% on trading income. The reason Ireland is a good place for American companies is because of a loophole called the Double Irish. Basically Irish based companies pay tax where they are originally registered and in Delaware the code stipulates that taxes get paid where the revenue was generated. That means the US expects the companies to pay the tax in Ireland and the Irish expect the companies to pay the tax in the US. Therefore the potential tax payment ends up in no-mans land and never gets paid whilst remaining all perfectly legal.
Why not do it yourself? I think that fostering a particular topic by the parents should be a first step.
It's pretty nuts. I used to eat the same kinds of things I eat now, except I would eat three plates of it, instead of one. Along with around a gallon of whole milk a day...

I was just playing soccer and basketball, not trying extra hard to bulk up for football or anything.
But corporate US taxes are on profits, so if the US only taxed inside the country, you can lower your US taxes by engineering your organization such that you can claim US operations pay your business unit that resides in a different country amounts that are similar to your US profits.

So imagine a company that sell 500m of a product in the US and today has costs of $400, with $100m in profit. If they have to pay the business unit in Ireland $90m for their voodoo design expertise, then the company still has 100m in profit, but now only 10m will be taxed in the US.

It's not as if consumption taxes lack loopholes themselves: In my own case, I spend about 20% of my earnings, with the rest going to taxes and savings (I am aiming for early retirement). So why would I spend my retirement years at a place wth a high consumption tax? The one way around that would be to start taxing money transfers across borders, and we all know that isn't happening.
After feeling very down, so much that I didn't felt like myself, I started to experiment with herbal supplements. Valerian to sleep, but my problem wasn't lack of sleep. St John's Wort for mood, but I didn't feel moody.

I tried 5-htp, which from my understanding is a precursor to the biosynthesis of Serotonin. The effect was immediate. I felt light headed, buzzed even. I felt as if I had suddenly woken up in a bright new world. I went groceries shopping could barely keep myself from gaping at all the colours, products and people. The next day, those effects were gone but I felt fine. Simply fine. I tried to take more 5-htp, but those strong effects are gone. I am no brain scientist, but to me this is anecdotal evidence that I was very much lacking in Serotonin and that this herbal supplement boosted me right back up.

It's not magical, I still feel anxious about deadlines and stressed about hard to deal with clients. However, some kind of dark blurry veil has been lifted from my perception of life.

Edit: Since then, I increased my weekly physical activities and improved my overall eating habits. I can't say if it's directly linked with my increase (or rather closer to normal) Serotonin but my instinct says yes.
We follow the law not because the law is good, but because people hate cheaters. If it's a crappy law, following it hurts less when everyone is equally exposed to its crappiness. What we hate most of all is when someone blatantly, obviously cheats and gets away with it.

It isn't about the law being the law, but everyone being equal before it.

Besides that, a bad law can be changed to be better (in theory). We can do that via the sanctioned legislative process, or through mass civil disobedience.

These companies that are cheating various provisions of immigration law aren't doing it as a protest, but as a means to make a quick buck from a bunch of people who can't effectively seek redress.
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My mother semi-retired in her fifties to care for her grandchildren (providing free childcare so that my sister could continue her career). Perhaps this is a factor.
I like your crystal ball. Maybe I should use it to gamble in the stock market.

As for the rest of us, you can't possibly see or guess the future that will affect that business. Maybe they'll get sued out of existence by then? Maybe the owners will run it into the ground? We hope it will continue to exist, but we can't possibly know until then.
I am going to try to ask this in the least inflammatory way--

Why are you with the Republicans on financial matters?

I am a partisan Democrats and enjoy scoring points on the internet as much as the next fellow, but I'm also genuinely curious. From my perspective, the Republicans are extraordinarily financially irresponsible, all reputation and no substance. (It's like the old saying -- you get a reputation as an early riser and you can sleep in til noon.) They want to cut taxes, yes, but their proposals to do so all involve drastically unbalancing the Federal budget to do so. At their most serious, they include unspecified $XYZ billion spending cuts and then never specify what they would actually cut to close the gap.

Obama's deficit, meanwhile, has largely been the result of automatic spending increases from pre-existing legislation in response to the Great Recession; his stimulus bill from the first year of his Presidency was a small fraction of the increased spending on Medicaid and Welfare and SNAP as millions of people lost their jobs, on Social Security as people retired early, and Medicare as people deferred medical treatment until they qualified.

The ACA was funded, is costing less than projected, and is in fact controlling medical costs, which makes long term financial projections much rosier than they were ten years ago. There is no plan to replace it, and repealing it, as Republicans keep trying to do, would be bad for our short term and long term financial health.

Obama has significantly reduced the size of the Federal workforce (I am actually unhappy about that, since it probably slowed down the recovery).

So why do you consider the Republicans fiscally conservative?
> Or not to tax them at all.

Agreed. I challenge anyone who complained that Congress should not have 'default' back in 2013 (in other words, continue to issue debt forever) to explain why the tax rate ought to be nonzero? I mean, if people continue to purchase Federal bonds, why tax corporations (or anyone)?

If you want to tax people and corporations to 'reduce inequality', consider your position on fairness...
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Here are some helper commands I use to resolve JavaScript modules within emacs.

The basic idea is to extract the string inside the require or import call, then ask a node subprocess to locate that file (using require.resolve), and use emacs to open that file.

I'm sure someone more experienced with elisp can take it to the next level.

See the interactive commands section towards the end of the file.

https://github.com/ustun/emacs-helpers-for-js/blob/master/uo...
I thought I'd never hear of a country with sane incarceration policy - by golly, don't imprison people past the point where they are dangerous, because then you are just spending money on pointless incarceration. Go Denmark!
Removing restrictions on immigration aren't a silver bullet. The opening of labor markets in the EU has caused much lower social mobility than previously expected (ie. many Greeks stayed in Greece even though they could get much better jobs in Germany).
VS Code has become the editor I find myself using most often because it usually does things that I do with a little more elegance and ease than other editors. One thing I see people complain about, as I used to, is that it doesn't have a file tab interface and it only puts files you have changed in the "working files" area, meaning if you open a file to view it you can lose track of it. However, I discovered clicking on the file name of the open file reveals a drop down of most recent files. After using it for awhile, I no longer miss having multiple files open in tabs.
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I did this myself just a few weeks ago. The complaints was that search results would often come back fast enough that the user may not understand anything was done if the results happen to be the same.
I'm persistently impressed (and happy) at the reslience of Emacs.

(Nice article too :)
While that's true, holding everyone by force is the most primitive and inefficient (in terms of common good) solution I can think of. For example, the safety net is in fact an early stage investment so it would be logical if the government providing the safety net would take equity in exchange. In fact that's one of the reasons why safety nets aren't such a good idea. The government essentially becomes an angel fund that funds every single idea no matter how dumb. Can't imagine this bringing about an optimal outcome.
Retribution serves you, it does not serve the community.

There is also a quote of Gandhi I cannot find. So I'll paraphrase: If you are angry at someone, and he did not intend to hurt you, you should not be angry. If he did intend to hurt you, he is not as wise/it's in his nature, and you should not be angry.
Double Irish is virtually finished -- your information is outdated. Only a select number of companies can avail of it that had already done so and it's being phased out and will be completely gone by 2020.
I'm not sure that SSRI's make me happy, but I have never believed the "chemical imbalance" story about them.

I have always been kindof anxious, maybe with a touch of GAD or even social anxiety, and I when I knew the rug was about to get pulled out from under me, I started taking an SSRI to increase my resilience.

Under the SSRI I am definitely much less anxious, perhaps even to a fault -- the big benefit I see it that I don't get upset about little things, like I don't get upset about being stuck in traffic.
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My opinion: What they got right is what Rob e.g. concurrency, better C, etc., had figured out (so it was version n). Other stuff he apparently doesn't understand at the same level (e.g. [type systems, versioning,] hard coding repo locations in package imports <head smack>) ...

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This is possible in emacs to a certain extent, with the help of node itself. See my comment above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10973687
Projectile-grep is awesome. I use it too. Although I swapped out grep for platinum-searcher for freaky fast results (at the loss of certain regex features)
I see what you're getting at, however the scene is rather simple and is actually rendered on the the phone.
Yea, if someone at a nation state level manage to fake a cert and redirect BGP, I'm sure they could affect a huge number of systems pretty quickly. Do git clients even do a good job of SSL verification?
Definitely a possibility, especially since two incomes are becoming so necessary.
Not convinced monopolies are the problem. Broadband infrastructure strikes me as a natural monopoly[1], and I think this is the point the BT guy is making in the article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
I'd imagine a security release will be cut as soon as a diff is available.
Keyboards are here to stay, most likely. They're hilariously good at their job, especially when mix-and-match use of language is present or a made-up word is involved.
Actually many large American tech companies employ significant amount of people in Ireland, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft each employ thousands of people.
Yet individuals with a US passport living in another country and not doing any commerce in the US are required to file and pay taxes in the US. The US is the only country (there may be one other small African nation) that taxes it's citizens abroad.

Giving up your citizenship is also no simple. The cost has gone form $300 to over $2400 and you need to pay taxes that are due 10 years back. The reason for giving up citizenship may also not be because of taxes.
I stated elsewhere that I introduced a delay for those very reasons. In that case the search functionality was reported as broken for the second search. Because the first and second test searches happened to have the same results in that particular case, but the fast response prevented an understanding that something was in fact done.
> They country has a population of 6.3mil!

The population of Ireland is about 4.5 million. If you include Northern Ireland it's about the 6 million.
You could have one macro per time and you had to type it in like this

:maappend chars to end of line( * )Jf:D

Then ^N to execute it, I think.

( * ) I don't remember how we quoted ESC

When I saw that emacs could record macros while I was typing that immediately sold me the editor. Multibuffer and multifile were nice features too.
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That issue does not affect the correctness of CICO, which is more or less thermodynamics. This issue just means that the CI for two people given the exact same portion of food is not necessarily the same.
Sort of, these companies generally have not been bringing cash back to the US any way, so they haven't been paying US taxes on their non-US money anyway.

What moving to Ireland will allow Pfizer to do is pay dividends out of their non-US cash without paying US taxes.
Take this as constructive criticism, rather than a complaint. But the "pinterest" layout is exhausting at this point. Too many sites use it, and it's the opposite of a good user experience in my opinion. With that said, good for you for working on new projects!
Humanity as such absolutely loves pointless repetition, and abhors thinking about something hard, which involves focusing intensely on one subject in which where no repeatable progression of simple successes is taking place, leading to a mounting sense of discomfort.

Just look at various cultural traditions, popular (and even serious) music, crafts, sports, ... sneeze ligion. Mindless repetition is everywhere.

The same kid that hates doing arithmetic will play the same video game for hours in which a small variation on the same set of events happens over and over again.

The kids you're describing are the smart minority, of whom a portion will go on into STEM type fields. They too will hit their mathematics ceilings. Most will go as far as a couple of third year undergrad math courses and that's where it ends.
Increasingly it isn't Ireland, but China or some other big economy where the money is made with their own incompatible taxation systems (you can deduct "foreign taxes paid" but not necessarily other cost of doing business fees that exist in lieu of taxes).

Effective double taxation is definitely possible when one tries to tax worldwide income, leading to a competitive disadvantage for American companies compared to their non-American competitors (e.g. IBM vs. SAP). So the US government introduces these loopholes to even the playing field, which are easily gamed and lead to abuses.
Same here, I use vim for editing a single file (often scripts or configs), always in a terminal.

For editing multiple files (mostly code) or a project folder, I use emacs with X11.
By the way, triptans (drugs that increase serotonin level) can be very effective in fighting against migraines. Switching from a splitting head-ache to nothing in 20 minutes, when instead classic analgesics would do nothing, is a step towards happiness.

Edit: SSRI -> triptans
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From the article, Johnson Controls is now a foreign-owned company, and consequently:
1. Cannot lobby the US government any more
2. Is not eligible for future bailouts
3. Could rightly be slapped with $150M/year of import duties to make a statement.

I have no problem with countries rewarding corporations for having substantive physical presence within their borders, and for putting external competitors at a financial disadvantage.

The US is a big place with an expensive military and social welfare program, and millions upon millions of sweet, delicious consumers. The US already runs a deficit, meaning there is insufficient tax revenue.

Corporations can make their own choices about whether the cost of doing business is worth it or not, but nobody who is transacting money should be exempt from making tax contributions to society, and certainly not at the scale corporations are.
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MDMA does not form a physical dependence. In fact, if you keep taking it, it will stop working altogether eventually, regardless of an increased dose.

There have been many bullshit studies with predetermined agendas and bad methodologies which have claimed that MDMA is neurotoxic. Whenever more responsible, un-biased studies are done, they usually show it is actually less "toxic" than alcohol.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband...
I'll agree with you on the weather part but it seems that it's not a deal breaker for many people. Ireland has a huge amount of highly skilled people ready and willing to work. People come and go all the time. The Irish government invested heavily in STEM education for 2nd and 3rd level students in the 90's and 00's. Emigration and immigration are as big a part of Irish history as the potato. Also many foreigners come to work in Ireland all the time. During the boom years hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world came to work in Ireland and seemed to like it. Added to that, in most places in the world people don't have the entitled mentality to work that is rife in SV where it seems to be a sellers market for jobs.
My understanding was that they do pay tax in the country that the profits are earned (unless of course the country has a 0% corporate tax rate), but that they don't pay tax in the parent company until they repatriate.

If that is the case then I'm fine with it. I'm obviously not fine with tax holidays / amnesties; but I consider that a different matter.
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I found the Big Nerd Ranch iOS Development book to be invaluable when I first started. The book will dig really deep at times and show you how things work under the covers to some degree.

Another decent resource for getting up to speed was the Stanford iOS course videos.
You mean close the economy to foreign companies ala North Korea? I'm not sure that is a nice way to go, definitely not WTO friendly.
The cartels in Mexico murder lots of people. They're so difficult to stop because they have money.

The solution to gridlock is to enforce fewer laws. I'm not out to increase the number of arbitrary laws. I'm out to eliminate the tyranny of the wealthy: they manipulate our politics and buy their way out of justice.
It isn't a race to the bottom. The U.S. can have a 0% business tax rate and still have plenty of tax receipts.
Even this is an understatement. I would really have loved to read it in paragraph format. As a numbered list it got tiring.
AFAIK and contrary to what others have said, there's no plan to enable this in a release version of Firefox anytime soon. There are too many affected sites and most average users would probably just start ignoring the crossed out lock or get scared and use some other browser.
From my limited understanding, the update would be pushed through the security.debian.org repository ASAP, which should be configured by default.

I wonder what the 0.9.8 EOL means for squeeze-lts. Does the Debian LTS team just backport all applicable 1.0.1 patches? Isn't this a little risky? They might not have an intimate understanding of the opaque codebase.

What about Wheezy and Jessie after support for 1.0.1 ends on 31 December?
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To be fair, if you use his crystal ball, it wouldn't really be "gambling", right?
You already pay taxes for profits in the US market. What they're wrangling over is paying US taxes for income generated in other markets.

I'm not sure why any corporation would want to be headquartered in the US.
I find the UX approach a little weird in VS Code. I like tabs. I've had tabs in my editors/ IDE's since I started out.

To make me switch to this 'working files' area really puts me off their product.
With all this talk about self-driving cars, it's really depressing (and tragic!) to see so little progress on self-driving trains (Positive Train Control).

Think about how much easier self-driving trains are to implement! There's already no expectation that a train can swerve to avoid the unexpected obstacle, there's already digital switching to make sure the train goes in the right direction and instruct the engineer to stop, and the retrofit problem is much easier, since all locomotives are part of a fleet (as opposed to privately-owned cars).
The speculation is clearly indicated, and is no discredit to the paper. In fact, it is to their credit that they admit ignorance of the causes of the effects that they observe.
So, with its grain of salt, the Wikipedia article on MDMA begins the discussion with this statement:

> MDMA acts primarily as a presynaptic releasing agent of serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine, which arises from its activity at trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) and vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2).

It goes on to state that MDMA acts as an inhibitor of VMAT2, which correlates to an increase of the neurotransmitters in the space near that receptor's neuron.

I think this means that it does operate on the brain by encouraging the release of more serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA#Pharmacodynamics
The U.S. is no longer so important that it can have uncompetitive policies and still come out on top.

We should be the tax haven.
WebStorm has support for .d.ts definitions for some time now.

See JavaScript > Libraries > Download... and make sure to choose TypeScript community stubs. You can also add your own manually.
After reading this, the motivation behind his Gervais Principle series makes more sense.
I think both the left wing and the right wing are generally wrong. Left wing for downplaying the effect culture and rightwing for overplaying it.

However I agree the biggest problem right now in Europe is the left wing not actually recognizing the problem expect in a few countries (Denmark being one of them)

Only then will it be possible to look at the problem and come up with alternatives to what the far right is proposing (which is basically we are just going to send them all home)