skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh make no mistake I am contemplating piracy if only because it's unfair/immoral/irrational (pick your favourite) that the people securing themselves such huge income are the keyholders to almost all legal distribution of media.

We need a Richard Stallman for media.

(edit: added 'legal')
The link goes to the "discount widget" itself for me, though it is actually a widget for validating coupons/vouchers, which is of little interest but still better than what it originally evoked (a widget for displaying discounts)
Malloc envy
There might be even something to that. I.e. If I was Mark, I would not release in India first, with all the Anti "Free Basic" sentiment.
I do not know, but strongly suspect, that my absence from Facebook means I'm rarely mentioned there. Certainly I'm mentioned less than if I had an account.

Even if I am mentioned there, Zuckerberg & friends don't have any account to cross-reference to target me with ads, etc.

So, my absence from Facebook is nonetheless a significant enhancement of my privacy.
Completely agree. While I'm very interested in the data and I'm sure there is a significant amount of implied evil deeds going on, I think notion that there is a conspiracy to protect the 1% is sophomoric enthusiasm at best (and idiocy at worst).

People move money around for a variety of reasons. Tax fraud, sure. Capital flight for protection of assets from instability or fears of nationalization (Cyprus, for example) is another completely valid reason and I don't see anything wrong with that. At different scales of wealth, a shell company isn't that different from hiding cash in the mattress.

Now, if you're talking about dictators in resource rich banana republics siphoning off riches of their country, then by all means, let those be prosecuted... But how likely is that?
Ill buy one when the windows have solar cells integrated.
Yea, I'm ready for websites who can't find a viable monetization strategy to just go bankrupt already and stop blaming me for their shitty business plan.
I think a lot of them share same hopes/sentiment that I did. A lot of them write as if they think there is high chance that Mark will read their comments. Even though I am pretty certain at this point that he won't.
Self driving cars don't use GPS, it is not reliable or granular enough.
See the third definition here:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vehicle

They're generally referring to legal entities, investments, and particularly the interplay of a network of the above which exercises various features of countries' tax laws in advantageous ways.
Looks like Shaxson is a guy who writes books arguing for more financial regulation, talking to a media organisation. So that's two entities who want the story to be big.

The worst offenders like Poroshenko are already known by their people as being corrupt. It is unlikely these cases will significantly change anything for them. Perhaps there will be more cases like Iceland, although it's a little hard to know how much benefit those politicians really got from their companies.

I restate my case: the most impressive cases of corruption are in places where nothing will happen, and the cases in the west will turn out, on deeper investigation, to reveal not much of legal interest ... gaming of vague rules, at best.
So the folks who did this complained about a bad DB (needing indexes) but then failed to convert the DOB's to date types.
Assume an investor takes all dividends and buys more shares.

Example:

Assume 10M shares at $1 each. With a 10 cent dividend ($1M total), an investor with 100k shares (1% of the company) receives $10k. The market cap drops to $9M (since cash holdings decreased) and the stock price drops to $0.90. They then buy ~11k (10k/.9) shares and have 111k shares, or 1.1%.

Now instead assume the company does a buyback of 1M shares. Now there are 9M shares, each still priced at $1 (cash holdings decreased). The investor has 1.11% of the company.

Lots of assumptions here (no fluctuation in price due to market reaction, cash is not discounted in market cap, etc) but the numbers check out in a perfect world.

The point is that with a Dividend investors can choose whether to reinvest, whereas with a buyback everyone essentially reinvests.
Tesla could have done a better job communicating that the internal look or feel wasn't finalised.

Clearly that didn't impact pre-orders but I think a lot of people didn't love the internal look even if they thought it was nice looking externally (disclaimer: I was one of these people).

In my OPINION the 3 won't be fully self driving (for certification/legal reasons). But we can reasonably speculate that it will have things like auto-braking, lane keep assist, automatic cruise control, and similar. Since competitor's vehicles have this, and in order to achieve "five stars in every safety category" you actually need to have auto-braking.

Look at the requirements for the IIHS's "TOP SAFETY PICK+" which is the gold standard for safety. A system like EyeSight, Honda Sensing, or similar is required in 2016[0], and this vehicle will be looking for the 2017 or 2018 TSP+ rating no doubt.

So suggesting that it will have "auto-pilot"-like functionality[1] is very reasonable. But that doesn't mean it will have full self-driving ("hands off"), in particular given the regulatory landscape, development stage of the technology, and the costs. We'll see.

[0] "Vehicles with optional front crash prevention qualify for either award only when equipped with the technology." http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/TSP-List i.e. without frontal auto-braking as an option you cannot appear on the TSP+ list. But even vehicles on the list only quality as TSP+ rated when the auto-braking option is installed (without it they're TPS tier only).

[1] https://www.teslamotors.com/presskit/autopilot
Or maybe hardware is now much better supported whatever the distribution you use ?
The model S 0-60 varies from 2.8s (P85D in ludicrous mode) right up to 5.9s (2012 Base model), so it's possible that they'll also release a version of the model 3 that will be able to go zero to 60 in less than 4 seconds.

It sounds like less than 6 seconds is what we should expect from the base model though.
Exactly, why is Cameron's holding offshore stuff? Now he's dead and Cameron has picked up his assets, no doubt having avoided inheritance tax, is he holding these now?

Why do normal people pay these taxes yet these guys do not?

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to the poster below as HN throttle messages when UK corruption is raised:

I think he was mocking the UK's corruption as law.

The last part is a nod to Private Eye, the only remaining free press in the UK.
> The timing of dividend payments is irrelevant.

False. If I receive cash today I can reinvest it and start earning a return. If I receive cash in a month I have forgone one months reinvestment return.

> investors could simply short the stock and get a guaranteed profit, which is not possible in an efficient market.

False. Well if you are short a stock over ex dividend date then you need to pay the owner of the stock (whomever you borrowed from) 1) the dividend which he has forgone 2) a financing spread equal to a benchmark (e.g. FED Funds + 300 bp's) for the duration you are short.

No offense but you really haven't thought this through very hard.

Also markets are not efficient despite what you read in academia.
Lease payments are about half as much as purchase payments. You're only paying for the depreciation in a lease.
Or just re-use of basic structures ;)
If it's only 2 bits, you're assuming the attacker already knows that the formula is "Using someone else's information" and that there are only 4 possible people whose information you would use.

Even knowing that you're using a formula is a bit of information. The type of formula is potentially thousands of bits of information. An attacker doesn't know whether it's a cipher, or a code, or something more complex, and only then can they begin figuring out the parameters to that formula.
Pretty cool! Still, you have to see the chainsaw in action. And landing it! That was amazing. Had to descend until the (inactive) chainsaw touched the ground. Then land the helicopter in a sort of arc, to lay the rigid chainsaw on the ground without tipping the helicopter nor dragging the blade along the ground. Artistry!
Let's say they built it for an average user. And it's kinda impressive. So how much was your Debian taking up?
One that I find interesting is that we Brits say "the BBC" but don't extend that courtesy to other broadcasters, either foreign (ABC, NBC) or British (ITV). I guess that reflects how it's seen as a little more than just a corporation, if still a little less than a government agency.
> Volvo

> not a luxury car
Agreed, the nose design bothers me. Looks unfinished.
Having the ability to tap into faster acceleration doesn't hurt range, in fact with dual motors it you can actually have a faster car that is more efficient.

One of the motors is turned off when not needed so you can run essentially half-power and yet still have the second one available in a split second.
Why? What specifically is hard about narrow streets? That actually sounds like the kind of thing a self driving car could excel at.

The bigger problem, is imagine, would be weather. I dunno how completely they've solved that problem yet.
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Thanks for the hints everyone. Switching over to the github fetch polyfill to see how it goes.
> that a stock's price predictably fell the day after the dividend,

They do. But you don't usually see this, because the prices are "adjusted", to make price history continuous, same as with stock splits.

Take a look at MSFT (Microsoft) stock price on Yahoo! Finance. "Close" is what actually happened, and "Adj Close" is what you see on the graph.

Date	close Adj Close*
16 Feb 2016 51.09	51.09
16 Feb 2016 0.36 Dividend
12 Feb 2016 50.50 50.14

* Close price adjusted for dividends and splits.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=MSFT

> investors could simply short the stock and get a guaranteed profit

No, to short a stock you need to borrow it first. If you borrow a stock, you owe the dividends that were due in the meantime.
It is illegal for a civilian to possess automatic weapons or grenades in Finland. Chainsaws are quite legal.
That is certainly true. All distributions work much better because the kernel and userspace are just more solid now.
"screw you and your interviews"

"I lowered myself to doing an interview recently with some tech leads who were incompetent muppets who were intimidated when they heard better answers than they were expecting to their questions"...

I don't mean to be facetious, but "coding tests can be bad, so I won't do one" isn't a particularly useful stance to take, and I think you'll rule yourself out of a great many good jobs at companies that are very good. I would even say that you might be biasing towards companies where the hiring managers are non-technical (generally not a good sign), or towards companies that lack a solid technical foundation.
Would it be difficult to get venture debt with 10bil in prospective sales in the pipeline?
Even 15+ ton trolleybus will accelerate faster than your basic diesel car.
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Pretty sure lots of people use relatives' info. Very, very few use ciphers in their head.

Friend used to have a car with a keycode door lock. He just used 5555 or whatever. I suggested he use the address where the car was parked, or some hash of that. Wouldn't have to remember it! And it would vary some at least.
No, it will not be filled by people with "passion", it will be filled by people with free time and economic security. We don't yet live in a world where passion is enough to motivate free content.
You do now. It was easier before the ad industry fell into the classic Tragedy of the Commons trap.

"Reinvent your industry with this one weird old tip."

Yes, it was greed, and yes, of course it led to a predictable outcome.

The smart thing for the industry to do would be to create a code of practice and do a deal with the ad blockers to allow - not force - people to view ads that add value to their lives. Print publishing used to make this work fairly well.

But the industry seems incapable of acting with anything that passes for strategic intelligence. If it didn't treat customers like exploitable prey, it wouldn't be in the situation it's in now.
Still better than never though
As far as tax law is concerned all tax havens are essentially the same - money that's in one tax haven is the same as money in another tax haven. Someone who wants to minimise their tax can choose any tax haven and get the same end result.

What that means is that if someone has chosen a Swiss bank, which are relatively open and willing to comply with the tax officials from around the world, then they're not hiding anything.

On the other hand, if someone choses Panama, a country that has completely opaque privacy standards and is totally unwilling to comply with requests from tax officials, police, governments, etc then they are very likely to be hiding something they want to keep secret.

This has the potential to be a much bigger story than the Swiss banking leak.
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At all? How would it drive to the mall on the other side of town without GPS?
Do does that mean everyone can put up develop their own Stingray now?
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> The Model 3 will come with standard rear-wheel drive, with an option for dual-motor all-wheel drive.

It better be fully autonomous if you've ever seen how rear-wheel drive performs in a north-eastern snowstorm. Sure, there's a lot of weight over the back wheels but that sounds crazy to me as the default.
How bad will the D.C. Metro shutdown be?
Playstations run a very heavily modified and locked down version of FreeBSD.
I couldn't believe it was gonna be a fully autonomous car long-term until I saw the empty dashboard in the video: http://i.imgur.com/XcUjuDv.jpg
It's true that intrinsic value is not usually well defined (except in simple cases, where a company is going to be liquidated and has clearly defined assets and liabilities that can be precisely measures, such as cash/marketable securities), but that doesn't mean that a thoughtful investor can't determine a reasonable range of likely values that errs on the side of conservatism. For example, by zero-valuing assets that are hard to quantify, such as an undeveloped plot of land. Or if there is an annuity-like cash flow stream from a long-term contract, one can discount those cash flows to the present using a conservative (high) discount rate. In cases where the share price is way below a conservative downside-case valuation, it's not necessary to know with precision what the intrinsic value might be.
Some background from a Finnish news article [0]: these guys are experienced, professional RC and drone camera operators and the copter is a professional quality photography drone. They describe the copter as a "5 horsepower circular saw" which is "pretty dangerous even without a chainsaw attached". Indeed, you have to operate such machinery with caution and respect. All in all, it looks like they were operating with caution and in an isolated area without causing any risk to outsiders.

Silly and pointless? Yes. Reckless and stupid? Perhaps not. Fun to watch? Hell yes.

[0] http://nyt.fi/a1459480177666
If you want to willfully misinterpret what was said, sure.
They want one rule for when it's at home. What rules exist abroad are up to the government of that country, not India.
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What else do you have? Rando civilian blogs? The more serious ones are a form of news media, but they need to make a living like the more corporate ones.
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TR citizen here, for the last 10 years only those who are really close to AKP got the government contracts including software like this etc. for stupid amounts of money with no know-how. Therefore this is absolutely normal -at least for us-, only thing that surprised me about this leak is this got into front page of HN.

Those software "companies" take millions of liras, usually for stupid CRUD stuff, develop it in like years and result is goddamn vulnerable, unaesthetic pieces of garbage.

I'm on that list as well. With that info, a terrorist can buy a SIM card for my name, use it to proxy-blow up a goddamn bomb aaaaand I'm in jail.
I wouldn't put it past Trump to encourage radical christian violence, whether that would be terrorism is in the eye of the beholder.

Erdohan certainly is using the situation to crack down on national opposition and get as many separatists killed while the rest of the world is focusing on the Syrian civil war and its exports of violence. That's simply realpolitik though, not ideology.

That said, the tone and message accompanying this leak is ridiculous.
I don't remember seeing any responses in my data set. I think I have seen him respond to comments before, hence where I got my inspiration.

I also know that he has people who actually are connected to him (he friended them back) and their comments appear to show up differently from the regular followers.

He does reply to those comments a lot more, intensifying the illusion that if you write to him, he will read it.
Firstly, the article doesn't mention speculative execution - it refers to a programming technique which is effectively (assume f,g,h are arithmetic functions, not 'program' functions):

compute f
while f is in the pipeline, compute g
while g is in the pipeline, compute h
let bits = 111111..111 if h is true or 00000...000 if h is false
let result = (f & bits) | (g & ~bits)

In your example, if they're function calls, and not inlined, then they won't execute speculatively at all: speculative execution usually only applies to straight-line instructions and in any case only applies to letting the instruction go off into an "execution" unit. Only one branch should ever make it into the "commit" phase of the pipeline (think like a database commit), and only one should ever have effects that are visible off the processor die.

Also things like system calls, interrupts, context switches, and so on tend to flush the pipeline and insert a "barrier", at which point all the instructions before the barrier have committed and none of the ones after the barrier have committed.
That mask started to grow on me: it makes the car look like a spaceship, and even more importantly, it sets it apart from all other cars out there.

It's like the hatchback-shape of the Prius. I don't think anyone does actually find that attractive, but it's a great design to tell everyone from a distance that you're a better person than them.
Build sports car

Use that money to build an affordable car

Use that money to build an even more affordable car

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He's definitely a visionary. It's amazing how he followed up his plans to the dot.
Seriously, this deserves an automatic penalty until they fix their issues. Business Insider do the same thing.

What's to localise though? We speak English!

dang... if you're reading this, anything you can do? Very frustrating for the many Australians who read articles on HN.

(a side note: when are U.S. sites going to stop treating Australians as second class citizens? We are a pretty wealthy nation filled with people willing to participate in the online world in a meaningful way, and yet we are constantly screwed over either in terms of pricing or just plain being blocked from stuff we are willing to actually pay good money for).
Yes, I remember this was posted recently. I thought the wait period for dupes was a year?
I can't tell if saying 'Mark Zuckerberg – the Bill Gates of our time' was a joke or not. I mean, isn't Gates very much still going strong? I get the analogy I suppose, but doesn't that imply Gates is all washed up?
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Why do you continue to talk to me, a known censor and oppressor of free speech?

As for the FSF way, you aren't forced to share the code. That's one of the four freedoms you mentioned. It's only when you distribute something based on the code where you are forced (by the horrid anti-free speech Stallman) to also include the code through one of several mechanism.

If you do decide to distribute it, and your software incorporates someone else's work under the GPL, then there's already a clause which prohibits you from obfuscating the code. ("The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it".) It's in v2 and v3.

Disassemblers are a thing. They are quite good these days. Let's assume perfect reverse engineering. Even with source code it's hard to reverse-engineer how a large project works.

Though not perfect. No one had yet reverse engineered Skype.

> universal reverse engineering of built binaries

Your complaints seems to be with contract law, not copyright law. I believe US and EU copyright already allows you to reverse engineer built binaries, with some restriction.

The problem is that people voluntarily agree to licenses which restrict that right.
It's from Atlas Shrugged, and I think it's trying to draw some kind of parallel between using Arch and struggling against oppressive forces of mental tyranny. As represented by Apricity perhaps? Arch is for heroic individualists?

Arch is great and all. I love using it, but I get pretty impatient with people who think they're smarter than everyone else because they can follow the detailed instructions in a well-written and lovingly maintained wiki. I get similarly impatient with B.S. Arch derivatives. If you want Ubuntu, just use Ubuntu. It's based on a perfectly legit distribution.