skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, the "as long as it's legal" is the interesting part. For instance, what if you have two entities, one of which is a "for profit" which pays full taxes, and then another that is somehow placed in a different preferential tax bracket. By shifting/transferring all of the costs to the higher tax bracket entity, and having it further reduce profits by charging low fees, and moving all of the resulting "profit" that then accrues to the lower-taxed entity.

How, and when you can engage in such activity I'll lead to tax attorneys, but it's not a no-brainer "You should always be able to charge lower fees and transfer profits away from one entity to another." There is some nuance.
If there is a too big to fail chart, DB will be at the very top of it.
And the only alternative seems to be to swich the guys who get the money funnel. Or some other guys who get the money funnel. Or some other guys...

Yup. Feeling pessimist now.
Ubuntu shipped a spyware package with a few releases. I assume they had a source release with the same package configuration, in which case they were doing exactly that.
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check out MS Orleans, it's similar to Erlang.
https://github.com/dotnet/orleans
That just means malware sites like download.com will tell users to add the download.com repository.

Without curation package managers/app stores don't offer any additional security, but curation inevitably involves trusting somebody to make those decisions. Do you trust Microsoft to do that for most users?
As an Irish person living in Germany (partially as a result of an extremely ill-advised bank bailout), it's quite amusing to watch. I've watched this exact scenario happen in my own country, except with retail "pillar" banks instead of investment banks. I compare bankers to the monarchy of old, they are completely unelected and hold a huge amount of power.

You can be sure that if the shit really hits the fan, Deutsche will be bailed out, no matter the cost. I would bet anything on this happening.
https://ninite.com/ is pretty nice (if they have the software you want to install)
Just got an email from my bank: interest is reduced from 0.95% to 0.85%.

So I'm paying the tax man 1.15% APR on my savings.

It's almost enough to make me move back to the UK: tax there is much lower and the wages are 50% higher in my niche.
Nice. Never heard of it. Its always great to know how technology was perceived in 90s and what we have evolved into.

PS: while searching for "the trigger effect burke" in Google, stumbled upon http://www.dominoprinciple.com/2015/02/15/connections-trigge...
I think also one of the biggest mistakes is making over estimates, or playing too safe. Especially when working with big teams and multiple projects (with a lot of dependencies).
How ironic. I just get it via apt-get in debian.
Perhaps this:
Steve Maguire: Debugging the Development Process: Practical Strategies for Staying Focused, Hitting Ship Dates, and Building Solid Teams (1994)

http://www.amazon.com/Debugging-Development-Process-Practica...

edit:
Or maybe it was Steve McConnell's you recommend?:

Software Project Survival Guide (Microsoft, 1997)

http://www.amazon.com/Software-Project-Survival-Developer-Pr...
If source distribution was the main way of getting software onto the computers of less technical users then it would be rife.
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Thanks for confirming - that was what I assumed. I really couldn't see the HN community suddenly getting their hate on for an article on converting CURL commands to Go! :)
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This is about potentially violating one of the most fundimental norms of Western law, one that's literally 2,500 years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Tables
Deutsche will be bailed out, no matter the cost. I would bet anything on this happening.

The bank always wins :-(
Netflix is in the video distribution business. Their usage is hugely variable over the course of a day. AWS is in the cloud computing business. They are good at selling unused server time. If netflix ran their own datacenters, they would have to pay for infrastructure to sit unused for most of the day to meet their peak demand. With AWS someone else is using and paying for that infrastructure in off hours. The cost-savings for netflix and synergy for AWS make the deal make sense.
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"Yeah, well I expect the lights had gone out."

Although I guess if this describes Linux, then closed source is generally more like the plans being on display at the local Galactic Council office on Proxima Centauri.
I've installed some home routers with the OpenDNS ip's as DNS servers and a manual block list. Works quite well. It has its flaws of course.
We definitely should. I'm sure there are factors in the ecosystem that rely (but maybe not depend) on mosquito presence.

That's why I love the idea of being able to genetically modify them to produce only male offspring. It provides a nice, asymptotic curve way of culling the population without dramatically changing their ecosystem overnight
> Germany does not have such a thing as a pension chest. Pensions are directly paid by the working generation.

That's only the statutory part though. You are advised to contribute to an occupational and/or private arrangement alongside the statutory scheme. They operate differently.

The underlying problem Germany has is the population dynamics. The population is an ageing one. Lots of people are living longer and not enough children are being born to cover the gap. It might be politically unpopular, but importing refugees and successfully converting them to integrated German tax payers, might well be a long term goal of the state in order to stave off the pensions crisis.
All _fundamental_ particles gets their mass from the Higgs (up to some issues with the neutrinos). Composite particles, say the Proton, is a strongly coupled system (that is, can not be described by perturbation theory) and it does not have the mass being the sum of its constituents (not even most of it). Hence, it is not known what gives most of the mass of particles such as the Proton.
For a long time I've been saying we'd get more rigorous after a bug kills thousands to tens of thousands of people. From this article it looks like that just might happen sooner than I'd guessed it would.
As I said earlier I don't think you can learn it in a book.

A short read : http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2015/01/grit/ (
A Navy SEAL Explains 8 Secrets To Grit And Resilience)

A previous ask HN on this topic but it didn't get many comments : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10048402
When special offers are not that special
“We're merging github.com/rackt  with github.com/reactjs”
Slightly confused - who's generating the ads in this scenario, and who's paying for the ad space?
It's more of a case of people not wanting to find out how things work. So many people will drive a car, use a washing machine or vacuum cleaner, or even use a phone with no idea how it works, and no intention of ever learning. If it breaks they go to the 'repair guy' that will fix their problems. Or they will scrap the old item and buy a shiny new one.

One part of this comes from the fact that some things are really difficult or impossible to repair these days. Cars come with engine computers that you need special tools to access, computers and modern electronics come so integrated that you can't easily swap out components yourself.

The other part is that people treat computers as one entity, not a combination of entities. So the whole device is one item, and if something doesn't work, it's all broken.
Except Google is literary printing money for everybody else in the group. Amazon is cashflow-from-operations positive, but nowhere near Google. More importantly, Amazon attempts to enter HUGE, developed markets, not the non-existent markets (at the time) of internet retail, cloud computing or public information retrieval. The only way for Amazon to enter in those markets is if they make a serious commitment. It is my opinion that if they commit themselves to the new markets they have been eyeing in the past couple of years (b2b commerce AND logistics), investors will become very bearish, leading to a disaster for Amazon, probably even a buyout.
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I think asking what's "fair" is the wrong question. We should ask what is effective at creating the most utility. I believe the marginal utility of money is roughly logarithmic, and thus taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor creates a lot of utility. However, this must also be balanced with the economic incentives that (potential) inequality drives, which leads to a lot of utility creation.

The intuition I take out of this, is that letting people be billionaires is a complete waste of resources, because plenty of people would still aspire to wealth even if the richest person in the world had a fraction of that.
> Imagine if all the 10x and 100x engineers were all on the same team.

Yes, and imagine they were doing fundamental physics or medicine, instead of social media apps...
So, shouldn't the investors then owe back taxes based on unpaid expense fees?
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TL; DR: We actually have no idea what impact there is to having or eradicating mosquitos. So let's do nothing.
What if i need a different version of mono? Or a different version of cmake, or some other third party package?
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Often the calculations of managing your own hardware is pretty naive. Folks are correct that they can hire a couple of infrastructure folks to build out a single datacentre, but often there datacentres aren't as big nor as resilient as what they'd get from AWS, at least not at the scale where the luck factor starts to fall to statistics.
Put yourself in their shoes for a moment. For the past 8 years, day in day out you have to hear jokes about how dishonest and unreliable Greeks are, that they caused these problems for us with their cheating, how they should be strictly honest and reliable like Germans, how they shouldn't spend money they don't have and get their finances in order like Germans, and then the Volkswagen scandal happened, and now this. You know, it doesn't involve me at all, but I can imagine why he finds this amusing.
Its amazing watching a normal person watching TV. They keep spamming the buttons until they find something that catches their eye. People are always going to go for minimal time/effort (and that s good), it s the responsibility if the IT industry to fix the side-effects.
Quote: "Reed’s entanglements serve as an apt metaphor for the school life of severely gifted children."

Ah, "severely gifted" -- what a meme. What a commentary on the times in which we live. I can imagine psychologists surveying this new frontier with barely concealed joy, in particular now that the DSM is being abandoned.

People need to understand that, in modern times, to avoid one or another mental illness diagnosis, you can't be too smart or too dumb, you can't be hyperkinetic or hypokinetic, you can't be extraordinary in any way. You have to be the very definition of dull and unimaginative. You have to be a psychologist.
I work 37 hours and I think that's too much.
You know you can download .deb files for some stuff and they install fine.
I'd like to think that this is the more "hip" side of the tech industry parodying itself, but I have an uncomfortable feeling that it's not.
> However, I think you'd be hardpressed to find another document store that [...]

CouchDB. Older by 6 yrs, so probably can't compete with RethinkDB on wow-yet-another-new-fresh-backed-tool-with-fancy-webpage-and-admin-ui scale ;)

In everthing else couchdb has more features than rethinkDB. And is much more mature, but somehow this word is understood backwards these days. Technology ageism I suppose ;)

p.s. I'm not couchdb dev/supporter etc.
I think the "how" is more important. Genetic modification sounds awesome, and really dangerous. If it's not just right, or if the potential of unforeseen mutations occurring is above zero, I think we risk too much regardless of the benefits.

I.e. please be completely certain that the GM offspring mating with female individuals will not result in some other side effect...
Well, having used Alibaba I would say good English and a website that doesn't look like a MySpace page would go 90% of the way.
You've hit the nail on the head, the derivatives they have on their books are massive compared to shareholder equity. "Counterparty risk" are the words nobody analysing bank's derivatives positions wants to hear.

It's a terrible mistake there has never been a separation of investment banking from commercial banking in Germany (i realise the line is hard to draw), because the German taxpayer is essentially guaranteeing this shoddily run bank.

Unfortunately German politicians seem to be quite oblivious to this problem. Joe Ackermann (then CEO of DB) was giving Merkel advice on the financial crisis of 2008, so there seems to be some asymmetry of information there...
How is this not extremely illegal? People have gone to prison for far less. How is it possible that a company like Lenovo would get involved with this?

I recently found myself wondering if I should consider CNET a reliable source of software. I guess this story answers that.
>Public finances are stretched

As others have pointed out

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_government_budgets_by_...

The only two countries in the world which have a higher surplus than Germany are Norway and Qatar
Why - has that led to a spate of projects completed early?
Yeah, I looked at it. The problem I have with ninite is their limited number of apps. Even with Chocolatey there are some key apps (to me) missing, like Spybot Anti Beacon.

Ideally you would want something popular enough that developers would be rushing to submit packages for their apps and so even relatively small softwares would be available. If customers are paying (and the cost should be fairly modest anyway), it would be an efficient way for developers to distribute their binaries.

The most popular package on chocolatey has 700,000 downloads right now. A typical user of chocolatey would have multiple machines and must download multiple version so at best you must have 100,000 people using it in the world (most likely far less). That's a negligible fraction of the windows user base.
The difference is that it's voluntary. Apple has competitors. If they are too strict with their policies, developers will get angry, customers will get angry and eventually both will switch to a competitor.

Apple has a strong interest in finding the right compromise between control, convenience and diversity.
If this lawsuit succeeds, then we'll live a surreal world where financial companies are routinely hammered for charging high fees...and for charging low fees. Perhaps we should have a state-mandated price list for all financial services.
It's happened with Bitcoin QR codes, to redirect payment to the attacker's wallet: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1wwzbf/psa_new_sca...
Underpromise and overdeliver — that's the secret to professional success.
Yes, but that's not remotely what's happening here. Go read the article, try again!
There appear to be two reasons why Deutsche Bank got the highest penalties:

a) They were among the worst offenders

b) They tried to get rid of the lawsuits quickly.
http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=102 Given they exist within the same forum surely someone would've noticed in two years and 200K+ thread views on the Kimera thread.
no... effort required seems to expand to fill the available time allocated to it... and then spill over some.

Which is why it's also a problem.
If it goes wrong and they end up breeding super bloodsuckers, worst case we put them all through the bar exam ;).
How do you get the right estimates then? Mind sharing your techniques?
Parallel scikit-learn on YARN [pdf]
These are not crimes where the banks are headquartered and from where they are doing the business.

Maybe US should not project their legislation on foreign subjects? They didn't vote for anyone who created that legislation anyway.
> Make sure […] your […] anti-virus stays updated

Or don't use them considering how many reports of them actually making your system less safe there are.
Jeff was probably thinking of heat maps with trees on the margins.
Have you heard of mutual funds? The clue is in the word "mutual". And "funds". Suggest reading the article.
The larger issue is that together with SPDY support they will also drop NPN in favour of ALPN. This means that to provide HTTP/2, server administrators will not only need a new version of Nginx (or their favourite webserver), but also OpenSSL 1.0.2.

The big problem with that is that currently no common server distributions provide an easy way to get OpenSSL 1.0.2. Many sites offer HTTP/2 with NPN instead of ALPN right now. Those will no longer get HTTP/2 in Chrome when SPDY and NPN are deprecated.

So, most web server administrators who do not want to deal with building their own OpenSSL/Nginx/... will have no choice but to drop SPDY and HTTP/2 completely, or switch to a future distro that comes with OpenSSL 1.0.2 (Ubuntu 16.04 will be the first major one in a few months).

The deprecation of NPN should, in my opinion, be postponed a little more. While you can easily upgrade your webserver with upstream packages, usually, switching to a different OpenSSL version is way out of scope for most administrators. Debian will have a stable release with OpenSSL 1.0.2 late 2016 or early 2017, CentOS 8 will probably take even longer. And even then, few people will just switch their server operating systems. Instead of pushing people to HTTP/2, deprecating NPN this soon will hurt adoption instead.
> Public finances are stretched due to refugee inflows

Pfft. Get real.

Germany has survived an influx of 10 million refugees in the immediate aftermath of WW2 and created the Wirtschaftswunder in passing while rebuilding the whole country.

Germany has survived the reunification and integration of 16 million communists (going by the right-wing, the only worse subhumans than foreigners) with a dead industry, and became the economic powerhouse of and dominating power in Europe while eating up the reunification's 2 trillion Euro cost.

Half a million refugees are a rounding error in our budgets.
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It does seem eerily similar to Harrison Bergeron.
Too bad Safari doesn't display favicons any more.
Gravitational waves and the relative inconsequentiality of developers
It's pretty much a mATX alternative to NCASE, I wouldn't call it a rip off though. You could call NCASE a ripoff of fractal Design's Define series, but in the end it's just minimalistic, monolithic black box.
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I don't understand the central claim of this lawsuit:

"Vanguard is cheating state and federal tax authorities by charging its customers much less than other fund companies do."

This simply isn't true. A list of the 100 lowest ETFs [1] shows several form the Schwab near the top of the list.

[1] http://etfdb.com/compare/lowest-expense-ratio/
To be fair, best of best Chinese programmers, I see, a considerable of them, come to US for better pay...

But could you elaborate on your claim a little bit? Amazon is not as incompetent as you might think, they have cutting edge logistics and mechanics in terms of delivery, the degree of automation is both futuristic and mind-blowing. Also AWS is definitely the market leading player, Aliyun outside of China has zero chance going against it.

Disclaimer: Ex-Amazon employee, visit the fulfillment center once.
>derivatives contracts

This is the cause.

It is not mere speculation, like it is with commodities trading, it is "trading" of imaginary things with other people's money in a way that it will be other people's problems. Now there is no way to convert these imaginary things back to other people's money, so it became German people's problem.
What? I fully read the article and also Matt Levine's take. [0]

I'm well aware what a mutual fund is and, for the record, think this case is pretty stupid and unlikely to be won. But it's important to understand that there actually are tax principles in play here.

Have you heard of transfer pricing? I suggest reading anything.

[0] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-25/calpers-fee...
The economic migrants are not going to work and be a tax payers. Even if they wanted to work, there's no work for their qualification. They are going to drain the social support budget and increase the inner pressure in the society.
to which the answer is, more research to discover what mosquitos connect with and are any of the connections beneficial

mosquitos inhabit a niche which could be filled by another organism were they to be eradicated and then we're back to square-one in a new way

but yeh let's eradicate them
I can see some similarities between the Cerberus and the NCase. However, the Cerberus supports mATX motherboards but the NCase only mITX boards. There are also some other differences, such as the I/O stuff on the front of the NCase. So, I wouldn't call it a ripoff.
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Even worldwide (in India). I used to suggest to wiki her and learn more about her to any girl who aspired to become a healthcare professional or engineer. I facepalmed at myself when WSJ story came out.
Linux is not so much a platform as a toolkit for building them. Some Linux-based systems are very open. Some are completely locked down via code signing (e.g. many routers or DVRs).

Not that many Linux users compile binaries directly from source - and if they did it would completely bypass the protection of the official repositories. Fundamentally there's an unavoidable contradiction here: if you only allow installing software from the official repositories then you have a very locked down system, and if you allow installing software from outside the official repositories then the system is unsafe. Windows went for the second option; contrast with iOS which goes for the first. There are Linux-based systems that take the one approach and Linux-based systems that take the other, but both have their downsides.
This is untrue. Good investments are often capacity constrained. In this scenario it makes sense for managers to charge high fees to investors to allow them access the best products.
No, because it isn't the investors who avoided paying taxes. If they had been expensed at market rate, their return (and therefore tax burden) would have been lower, not higher.

That being said, in principle it's all mostly the same since investors own Vanguard.
Not so. The "Dear Github" post is all about bug tracking facilities in github, nothing more. Previous versions of Github had a more functional issue tracker - it went largely ignored and github wisely removed the unwanted cruft from their code base. Github is not JIRA. OSS projects are free to use whatever bug-tracking facilities they choose. Just like everyone else. I would like to see better API's from github to support this.

On to Linus. There are 12000 contributors to the linux kernel, If Linus sucks at anything, it would be his ability to "chase away everyone". You seem to be of the opinion that if there were more than 12k Linux would somehow be "better". This is entirely conjecture on your part, and many would argue that Linus is fact too lenient as it stands.
No it isn't transfer pricing is transferring profits from a low to high tax country eg UK-> IE.