skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is there's a very low signal:noise ratio when it comes to TEDx talks. Do your topic and knock it out of the park. It should raise the aggregate quality of available talks.
Do you think the idea that the "future of food" revolves around high end restaurants putting arbitrary geographic restrictions on food sourcing isn't ludicrous or isn't hyperbolic? Why not?
The whole comments thread here sums it up perfectly. You have a bunch of people praising Twitter for its utility to discover interesting content (which includes me), and a bunch of people condemning it for bad signal-to-noise ratio and abusive subcommunities.

And frankly, if I had control over Twitter, I'd just be okay with that. The only change I'd make is identify more clearly which usecases create actual value for users, and advertise these more clearly. The biggest problem I'm reading from the article is that people misunderstand what Twitter is good for.

Case in point: "How do I get followers?" Uhm, how about posting interesting things? This is not Facebook. People don't follow you just because you're a distant relative or happened to go to the same school once. People follow you because they find your tweets funny, insightful, or in another way a valuable target of their attention.
I don't see that contrast at all. You just said you can't decide to go out and kill wild animals to eat, then followed up by saying that what you eat is completely a matter of free choice.
Sam Hyde pulled off a brilliant troll of TEDx a few years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJn_DBTnrY
Please tell me your post is satire.
Shit they didn't even have to do that. A simple phone call to Apple saying "Hey if we reset this password how much are we going to fuck everything up?" would have sufficed.

Straight amateur hour over at the FBI
I would like to see TED scale down and return to its simpler roots (pre 2007), possibly even go dark and spend a few years finding itself. The brilliance of the older TED formula was that it was chaotic and amusingly unpolished: The audio was bad. The lighting was crap. The emcee was awkward. But that TED limelight could bring out unexpected genius moments from humble unknowns, and elicit real humility from the odd celebrity who might give a talk. "Put interesting people together," the rule was, "let a few of them talk, and see what happens."

Today TED is all polish and perfectionism and production value. The Academy Awards stage design and videography is planned months in advance. Speakers are carefully vetted, recalibrated, tweaked, and tuned among an upper tier committee. Corporate sponsors are courted by a large international sales team, and these accounts pay enormous sums for the chance to create branded "experiences" for the ticket holders. Speakers (those whose egos allow it) are coached relentlessly about storytelling, sincerity, posture...

These efforts may have increased the average-overall quality of the talks, and made the talks more palatable to a wide audience. But that came at an expense of a certain kind of magic.
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We're an open source private company. We list nutrition info for local spots
Hey everyone – my name is Charlie and I'm the founder of www.calospot.com. We list the nutritional information for healthy dishes at local restaurants. I’m reaching out to this community because we are looking for help in listing the entire city of Boston, MA. We’re unique because we are an open source private company – anyone can contribute and earn equity in the company. It’s really cool, and a great chance to be part of a startup that is trying to help the world eat a little better. All you have to do is contribute to the spreadsheet below – please check it out, we need your help!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oBUvA8KTjGLaOJrFsmOJqKYM0gH7sdWyGih9Knb0_tw/edit#gid=1030923100
Pension funds hold controlling stakes in various companies (private and public) globally. It’s not uncommon for a US or Canadian pension fund to hold a controlling stake in a private European business. Meaning they often have indirect influence over the actions of corporations. The same applies to hedge funds or investment vehicles controlled by activist investors.

Why would a US pension fund care about paying tax in France? I could understand why it matters if they paid tax in the US (even though a CA based fund probably wouldn’t care about contributing in NY), but what do they have to gain by overpaying tax in France?
Why not just use F#, it's better than Scala and C# at these sorts of things and functional first and immutable first.
It's a fair comment to make if someone is a self-described Google apologist.
Not everybody is motivated by money. Some people enjoy being rewarded with karma/lulz/creds/likes.

Is someone legally responsible for "liking" a child porn/terror/homeless beating video? Currently you are for the first case, sometime for the second.

Should "liking" or viewing criminal content be a crime? That's a tough question. It certainly encourages the production of such content (for money or karma).
Google doesn't pay income in England on stuff they sell, because they claim the tax is due in the US where the IP (search, ad sense) is created.

They then don't pay the tax in the US because something something.
If it's just for local development, you can make a self-signed certificate and add it as trusted to your browser(s).
Yeah, I once had to explain to an officer what a known_hosts file is so they could send MLAT requests and release me from jail without risking that I would wipe (the already automatically wiped) servers myself when I got out.
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Related, and perhaps a more poetic treatment of the issue:

http://hyperallergic.com/106071/3d-print-your-own-museum/

http://oliverlaric.com/

https://vimeo.com/51614085
There's an ancient saying worth meditating on, when statistics like these surface:

Hate the game, not the player.
It's really not. I worked for a .NET shop that migrated some new projects to Scala. We evaluated F#, but decided the power of Scala was worth the platform switch. F# lacks higher kinds and implicit parameters, meaning you can't really use the type class pattern. This hurt our productivity.
As far as I can tell, the website can not be used to browse all certificates directly; when the number was at 500k, the site would consistently time out when trying to fetch the oldest ~250k.

Is the raw data available somewhere?

On a completely different and off-topic note, as someone who would normally just handle my certificate needs by piping together 10 openssl commands, your ACME client is super handy!
> You have outlined the options, but added a half a dose of pessimism.

Yes, that was kind of intentional to spur a discussion. I guess persistence (along with optimism) is the key.

> Keep trying! You will get it!

Thanks for your feedback and encouragement!
It's nice that it's free, but if you have the means (like, you are using it for a business), please consider donating some of your savings.
> all the existing monad/functor/applicative/free/yoneda... libraries out there–they don't exist

Agreed. I can only hope one day that the CLR team decide it's a reasonable thing to support so that C# (and F#) can both support it. It seems to be the blockage to the language teams (they won't move without it, even if they could implement it in a weaker/slower way on top of the existing type system). I've jumped through many hoops to get as much of a functional 'base class library' as possible in C# (I needed it for a very large C# project I maintain and want to bring more stability to), but language support would be preferred.
The article was about taxes. How did you go from taxes, to terrorism, to cyber security?

Never mind the fact that this is representative of EU disfunction, not Google "being evil".
Exactly what I was thinking. How many salaries and how much research can be funded with $2.4B? On the flip side, if it were received as tax revenue how much government bloat and inefficiency would it have to cut through to produce something useful?

There's a way for the U.S. to fix this and that is to cut the corporate tax rate in half. Watch the money come flowing back home.
the ball is shaped like a foot, unlike a soccer ball.
Think about it for a second. You can hire cops, doesn't matter what the cost. Oh, hi officer, you work for me as a security officer in your down time. Hey, if you still want that work, why don't we just agree to ignore that traffic infringement?

That customer posting a bad review of my restaurant. He's acting like he's been on the wacky tabacky, nudge nudge... Best get him out of here to the police station, and whilst you're about it those comments are clearly drug affected. Just clear them. Incidentally, about that bonus for working extra hours - I put that in your account last night.

Good work officer!

edit: my new iPad didn't pick up the fact I wrote restaraunt. Aside from being a great typo to say aloud, wtf?
At least one of the configurations of the 2012 Ford Focus/Fiesta transmission had issues. The mechanic at the dealer agreed it was a problem. Ford never acknowledged their fault as far as I know. A firmware update about a year later seemingly fixed the issue. Why wouldn't they acknowledge the issue and tell people they're working on it? Liability issue?
I think the way the sandwich works is the US entity pays huge royalties to the foreign entity for the use of their intellectual property.

I might be wrong, but I think that's how it works, and if it is, that means a lot of the money is not "earned outside their domicile" quite as much as you'd think.
All the pirate sites like kickass are blocked in UK
Thanks for your reply. In my particular case, I guess I should be working towards getting more specialized (I’m more of a “generalist” now I’d say).
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That someone is predisposed to argue a certain way has no bearing on the validity of their argument.
They have a license from Canonical: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2014/02/13/community-council-statem...
> Google doesn't pay income in England on stuff they sell

If you'd like them to pay tax on what they sell, then you should be charging a sales tax, a value added tax, or a receipts tax, not an income tax.
I'm having a hard time understanding the notion that some forms of effort ('labor') to sustain yourself are bad but other forms of effort (something other than labor) are good but apparently are insufficient for survival and that there is some obligation for the government (i.e. other people) to make up the difference.

If you don't want to exchange your skills (physical or mental) for money, then you probably need to find a benefactor of some kind to sustain you and I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing if it is a mutually consenting relationship.

Note, there is a difference between not wanting to sustain yourself through your own effort and being incapable of doing so. There is plenty of room to talk about government assistance in latter case, not so much in the former case.
No they say the tax for European sales is due in Bermuda, which owns the IP. There is no tax in Bermuda, and no IP was created there.
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I love how a few years ago many people, including google and lackeys like fishkin at MozSEO, said that negative seo simply wasn't a thing

... and then google comes out with the disavow tool

!
Something recently occurred to me. The fundamental problem here is that as companies have grown multinational, something that used to be mostly a one-to-many relationship (country contains many taxable entities) has become a many-to-many relationship.

It wouldn't be fair or logical to tax any multi-national as if it existed 100% in each country where it does business. So the question is how to write the rules such that a business's overall operation is taxed by each sovereign state in a way that is "fair" compared to the amount of operation / amount of benefit it is getting in each.

This might be obvious to most people but it was a new way of thinking about it for me.
>> If this is the endgame, it's good that computers exist.
>> Without Twitter, the public might believe absurd lies.
>> Nowadays, the lies would have to be pretty nuanced to
>> have an effect.

I completely disagree. Just look at the presidential candidates: someone who is regarded as a serial liar, someone who wants to give everything for free yet is ridiculed for not understanding economics, a billionaire who takes opposite sides of issues even on the same day, a brain surgeon who is forgotten in the polls, etc.

People believe many things even without a single shred of proof. "Crowdsourcing of truth" should be the meme of Twitter.
I noticed recently that there's an open PR for Homebrew to add a formula for MLTon. There are still a few glitches to be ironed out, but I'm really hopeful that they can resolve them. I've been using SML/NJ locally for schoolwork, but it'd be really nice to have an easy-to-install, full-fledged SML compiler with top-notch performance installable with just

brew install mlton

[1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/48694
That must make taking bribes hard to catch!
What? Where are people going to get the money to pay higher/equivalent salaries if not funding?

The non-tech sector seems perfectly content to pay engineers 60k under constant threat of outsourcing. In the absence of Silicon Valley competing for talent they'll get away with less, not more.
Not true -- 4 digit passcodes work just fine (and are default) on Touch ID phones.
You could automate getting Let's Encrypt certificates, so it can automatically generate a certificate for each domain.
That cannot happen until the US does away with first-past-the-post voting.
> his house raided by the FBI and all his computer equipment impounded.

Thanks for reminding me to set up Amazon glacier for my FreeNas today. Jesus Christ, the world is a messed up place.
Anecdotal, but that's the opposite of how everyone I know uses it. In my experience people register to get access to real time news and "intimate" exposure to celebrities. No one tweets themselves.
Negligible effects since I 2 drinks makes me stop enjoying alcohol.

My point is that if you are making a buisiness decision and only thinking of the invoices, you aren't counting your costs well.
A good first step would be to get rid of the R and D next to names on state sponsored ballots.
> lacks higher kinds

It can be done in F# [1], but it's not pretty, and absolutely nails the compiler. The fact that the compiler can be cheated into doing it makes it even more frustrating that there isn't some official support.

[1] https://github.com/mausch/FsControl
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I did look at the J1 visa in the past, and as far as I remember it is a non-immigrant visa which basically allows you to work in the US for one internship, after which you will have to leave the country again. What I meant by “working in the US” was something like 2+ years (then there’s usually still the green card option).
Deductions on personal taxes are intentional provisions to encourage certain types of saving/investment/giving. Weaknesses in tax treaties are not designed to encourage people to repatriate their profits to artificial entities in tax shelters.

Google pretending that sales are made in Ireland (and not by the revenue-targeted local salesperson selling local ads to local eyeballs) in order to enable them to deduct fictitious license fees owed to a subsidiary in Bermuda is not even in the same ballpark.

It's the equivalent of me donating most of my salary to a "charity" created for the purpose of paying my mortgage. I don't think many people here do that, or would consider it if their accountant suggested it.
Is this a typical workflow for statistical analysis? The choice of go and mariadb seemed unique to me and I was wondering what others were using.
I would imagine the difficult part would not be writing the firmware (or rather, the changes), but code signing it.
the IRS is on record as telling people that they should practice tax avoidance.

Tax evasion is about lying to the government so you don't have to pay the taxes you should. Tax avoidance is about changing your behavior in order to reduce your tax burden based on what the government has chosen to incentivize.
I'm not sure that Feynman is the best example here. In fact, in my experience, he's actually more of an example of the problem than the solution. While Feynman does a great job of explaining concepts if you never need to use them, I always found his lectures to be of the "captivating until you try to use them" variety.

This wasn't just my experience either -- after struggling with this as a physics undergrad for a while (after all, they're supposed to help!) I started asking around. My academic advisor, several other professors, and many students felt the same way. Feynman may get closer -- or may do more to bring common understanding to complex principles -- but his approach broke down for actually learning to /do physics/.

But I'll agree that he's a major step in the right direction; I just want to caution against the hero worship. There's no magic formula, no one person, who can make learning complex concepts easier. Some things are hard, and trying to make them seem easier can easily make them more confusing in practice.
Interesting to see a high-profile domain requesting removal:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=527947

uber.com: Issues with subdomains maintained by contractors.

Of course there's an order of magnitude more insignificant sites requesting removal.... It's pretty clear that HSTS Preload isn't going to scale.
>I think is one of Apple's major concerns, and one of the reasons they implemented the "we don't have the keys" approach to their encryption.

They do have the keys. A 4-digit pin is useless if you have Apple's private key.
> you really don't need to be tesla or einstein to qualify

Interesting. I didn’t think you have to be a von Neuman, but I always thought you’d have to be of a calibre like, say, Linus Torvalds.
The raw data is publicly available on Certificate Transparency log servers[1]. There are various clients for CT log servers out there, but they all require you to essentially download the entire log to query it (there's no query API).

[1]: https://www.certificate-transparency.org/known-logs
It hinges on the "creativity" aspect. Where discretion and creativity are present, the image is copyrightable. An exact replica is not.
Probably portable 3D scanners makes it easier, but facsimile art isn't new at all. The V&A museum in London has a huge set of Victorian-era plaster casts of EVERYTHING:
http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/c/cast-courts/

There's a whole industry of manuscript fascimiles:
http://www.facsimilefinder.com/
I'm going to leave this now as I suspect we're not likely to make further progress.

Working a job for an employer in order to live is not immutable, people do cling to it - if you think we can't change that, we have nothing further to discuss.
Why, thanks! The original inspiration is probably related to http://what3words.com/. Mainly I thought it'd be "mad scientist" thing but it actually is fun and possibly useful in some contexts. As for usability, you could use text substitution [1] and have something like `ip174` change into `⢮`. Setting up 256 mappings isn't too terrible, especially since there is a system to Braille dot ordering.

[1]: http://lifehacker.com/162484/save-time-with-text-substitutio...

Base 32 seems like a good half-way solution of length reduction vs glyph complexity, as Base 64 or Base 89 (or whichever the RFC suggest) include too many distracting characters (IMHO).

Of course, Chinese/Japanese speakers have a natural advantage here (Katana and Hirigana both fall short of a contiguous 64 character mapping):

ip6emoji("fe8000000000000003ceecdfffe30c27",Char(0x3300),stride=8)
=> "㏰㌀㌏㏷"

( though hopefully that's not some form of insult in Chinese! ;) )
> Since it is volunteer based, would it be obnoxious to start using some sort of rating system for the readers?

If it was done in the spirit of future improvement, perhaps by ranking them in various dimensions or being prompted with questions such as "How could the narrator improve?" rather than just "Feedback."
Making the cover of a magazine potentially highlights a zenith period in a persons career. It's pretty unrealistic to assume anyone, entrepreneur or executive or athlete, to consistent perform at their highest level or exceed it. If anything, it shouldn't be unexpected for a persons performance to regress immediately afterward due to probability.
I'm currently in transition from developer to PM. As a developer you always have the ability to bang something out and do something. As a PM, there are more frustrating days. I spend my day answering emails, tracking down stakeholders so I can figure out what the requirements are, getting the status of work, and reporting on the work. The bad days are when you get emergency requests or requests that don't make sense. You need to be able to work with everyone and see their point of view, even if you think they are incompetent
As usual when someone tries to get into explaining monads, mistakes happen.

First, on the scala standard library and monads: Scala very carefully avoided creating a Monad trait, on purpose. So while List and Options are monads, we can't just go and say that everything that has a flatmap is a monad.

Also, the reason we can combine options and lists in a for comprehension is not really that they both have a flatmap: Try doing that with Future instead, and it will not work quite so easily! The reason those two have such easy interoperability is that in Scala's Predef there is a conversion that turns an Option into a Traversable, which is being called under the covers. For comprehensions are very powerful, but switching from one monadic context to another without help isn't one of them. In the case of Future and List, for instance, we'd have to use some of the utility methods in the Future object that can help transform a future into a List[Future], and a List[Future] into Future[List]

Don't get me wrong, it's great to see people trying to explain this kind of stuff, but it is so very hard to cover the topic in a way that is both approachable and that doesn't leave people with intuitions that will fail them outside of the given example.
Any recommendations for fellow HN readers..?
Yeah, I guess that would be another option. But not everyone is an entrepreneur. At least I am not.
The institutional form of "Journalism" never informs the reader of the means to commit an action, especially when that action can be trivially replicated by a lone individual, for fear of copy cat "crimes" becoming a rampant problem.

Except, of course, when it's school shootings and such.

Then you learn exactly how it goes down, in every gory detail, repeated 24 hours a day in the cable news echo chamber. This way, there will always be copy cats for that sort of thing.

And the ad revenue on those stories is just out of this world.
That remains to be seen! Depends on the growth, definitely.
That definition is at best imprecise and at worst inaccurate. The discussion page even shows someone objecting to that definition for the very same reason we are having this discussion.

The terms predator and prey are defined to describe predator-prey relationships, which are distinct (though similar) relationships to those of a cow eating grass or a bunny eating a carrot. Your definition of prey would include every single organism on Earth and necessitate a definition of predator that would include nearly all heterotrophs, excluding only some decomposers. Such definitions wouldn't be useful.
VAT is paid by the consumer, not by the seller.
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