skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't really about tax loopholes. It's about France being uncompetitive and unwilling to change.

Google advertisers sign contracts with a company in Ireland because Ireland decided to effectively not apply corporation taxes (i.e. use a low rate and allow a variety of schemes that reduce the real rate even further). They did this fully knowingly ... the policy has been popular with voters ... because they wanted to attract international investment and employers to a place that otherwise wouldn't have much to offer, and as a strategy it worked amazingly well. Even during the financial crisis Ireland did not back down on that.

This upset other countries in the EU but none moreso than France which has notoriously high taxes and a notoriously stagnant economy, combined with a population that routinely mounts protests against any attempt at reform.

France is very powerful in the EU and thus instead of trying to make itself competitive has spent the last few years coming up with a variety of political solutions to their competitiveness problem:

• Pressuring low tax jurisdictions to charge more tax

• Getting the VAT rules for online businesses altered so now instead of paying VAT where the sale takes place, you have to pay to the country of the buyer ... woebetide you if you don't speak Hungarian or Croatian. You're gonna have to find someone who does and get them to file a tax return for you.

• Now, apparently, simply harassing rich companies in an attempt to extract more money directly.

Google hires very competent accountants, I seriously doubt they have actually made mistakes or lied on their tax returns. Instead France is going to exploit the existence of a Paris office to try and present Google with a giant bill. This would strongly incentivise Google to simply leave France entirely, I don't think the Paris office is very large compared to the others it has in Europe.
Depending on which version of Android you're running, you may be pleasantly surprised. Manually encrypted an HTC One m9 (Lollipop) and found no noticeable performance decrement, and now with it enabled by default in Marshmallow it's unnoticeable.
We[1] drive the bulk of our revenue with on-prem. Many companies prefer to keep their SSH key management in house, and we actually count on that.

However, we've invested a LOT of time into making our distributable a simple daemon. It's very easy to manage and install. We offer two on-prem versions: one is Pro which provides the basics (starts at around $3,500), and one is Enterprise which costs a lot more and supports external Redis, multiple app servers, web servers, LDAP integration, etc. Sales between the two are split approximately 30/70 in terms of revenue. In other words, we make a lot more on the Enterprise versions, but we sell less of them and the support costs are definitely higher.

Just my 2c - but for us, on-prem has been a huge win and has taken us to profitability. In truth, however, we've probably focused too much on on-prem and not given enough focus to SaaS/cloud.

For a startup that's just starting to hit profitability, we've actually been very happy with focusing on on-premise over SaaS, in contrast to the article, but our product was (re)designed with both scenarios in mind from the very beginning. We actually re-wrote the entire product before offering an on-prem version.

In other words, just as described in the article: making technology changes like SQL to something else 'on the fly' might be hard but not impossible with SaaS... but with on-premises, it's almost impossible to work through hundreds of on-prem installations of some previously chosen tech, and the need for data migration, installs of new supporting packages, etc. I used to work as a tech consultant for a big company and one of our huge clients decided to upgrade all of their on-site journaling systems (running a PII-300!) from Windows to Linux. Remotely. Through an ISDN. Yes, this is possible if you have multiple drives available in the box with careful syslinux. Yes, it's also pretty insane. (We had about 95% success across around 10,000 stores worldwide.) Changing horses in the middle of the race is something to avoid where possible.

It's easy to see that you're probably going to be stuck with your early technology choices if you go on-premise, unless you really build fantastic, auto-data-migration tooling that never fails, so make wise decisions and stick with SaaS until you're certain that you are sticking with your tech choices.

(We don't differentiate between "on-prem" in your datacenter versus your VPC or (your) cloud. To us, you're installing/managing/running it and we're not, so, to us, that's on-prem. Other providers probably define this differently.)

1. https://userify.com (sudo and SSH public key management.)
We've reached a point where additional security checks further endanger the passengers because terrorists attack the queues before they enter the security check.
I have a time and whenever I get a email or text I can read it on my watch first and determine if it's worth getting out my phone for. Before, whenever I got a notification I'd have to take out my phone and could get drawn into other things on it. It depends on how you use it, but I find it really good for that exact purpose.
In many states you can book an appointment ahead of time on their website. No waiting necessary.
Structuring laws are highly controversial and have caused huge amounts of pain for innocent people who were just legitimately trying to reduce their paperwork burden. They're bad laws.
Pebble Time owner here: The watch has reduced my "take out the smartphone and fiddle" occurences from 40+ to maybe 4 or 5 times a day. Notifications are no longer an excuse to glue the phone to my body, so I just put my phone somewhere in the house/on my desk most of the time.
Telerik mostly blends into Progress
Somehow all of the remastered Ages games ended up running on it. They'll happily choke computers that can handle the latest-and-greatest FPS, just because most of their cycles are being spent on god knows what.
This may be helpful, depending on the geography of the rural area:

https://www.ubnt.com/
Interesting, I've never heard of kdb. Probably because the pricing is absurd from the little research that I have done so far:

http://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/3156/is-there-any-t...

$25k for 2 core setup is a little crazy. They should definitely add a free tier if they want more adoption and more people investigating their tech. Spark is open source and free.
I used to write software for the cellular radio baseband. I certainly didn't put any backdoors in, but of course it would be possible. I don't think there is any conspiracy though, shared memory is just efficient and convenient for shuffling lots of data. Phone designers are not really trying to have security barriers between hardware components, and on many phones the baseband is inside the same chip as the main processor.
Adding a strongly typed eager loading feature to an ORM
Two weeks ago I traveled in the US and after the scan they first handed me my own computer and then a minute later someone else's MacBook Pro. I said that the Mac isn't mine, and you know what, they didn't believe me. I had to tell them several times that I don't own a Mac and I had to show them that I had already received my own computer. I think they didn't want to look for the owner and just wanted to get rid of the damn thing. I wouldn't be surprised if some people were tempted to give in and say "ok, yes, I admit it, this expensive-looking MacBook is mine". Very careless of the TSA to handle people's belongings this way.
I have been looking for any sort of software review of VeraCrypt or suggestions by security experts that they use and recommend VeraCrypt. I want something more than unknown people in forums saying they use it.
Expecting to see people trying hitching a ride on the rocket. Was not disappointed.
MIT's new 5-atom quantum computer could make today's encryption obsolete
Someone should get him an angel investment then; there is a lot of talk here about backing entrepreneurs that won't give up. Here is a perfect example of that personality trait.

He never ever gave up. Good for him.
Y-aware principal components regression (better for predictive modeling)
The Libertarian Party tries to seize its unusual opportunity
Augusta is pretty urban (for Maine). I'm sure I've seen at least a few Z4s around.
Not if the debate is conducted in civil terms. There is no indication that thiel will start shouting and calling names. However you're suggesting that people should be preemptively removed from debate. That's evil.
Sounds like the distraction was on purpose so that the theft of the laptop could occur. Perhaps TSA agent was in on the issue & the reason they're saying it's not a crime.
There is an often-missed elephant in the compiler optimization living room in the form of poor language design leading to a tremendous amount of wasted human effort. First, effort is demanded of the programmer to write the clever optimized C code in the first place, and then effort is demanded of the compiler writers to recognize the clever optimized C code and compile it down to the native instruction that does the Right Thing.

All of this effort could be eliminated simply by adding a function to the standard library called bitcount. This would make life easier for both the programmer, who could now count bits by calling bitcount, and the compiler writers, who no longer have to write and maintain code that recognizes clever hacks.

This (counting bits) is not an isolated incident either. There is an entire field of academic endeavor devoted to this sort of thing, focusing particularly on recognizing common idioms involved in vector and array processing. All of this could be eliminated at a stroke through better language design. Instead, an entire academic field dons the ball-and-chain of a poorly designed language and then pats itself on the back for getting to the finish line panting and sweating, and people like me who say, "Um, why not just take off the extra weight and use a better designed language?" get marginalized at best and vilified at worst.
The idea that doing business is a "privilege" granted by the state is exactly why France's economy is famously bad, with unemployment double that of the UK.
Surely that would just defer the problem? Plus, the airlines now have to buy all their own equipment, train their own staff. At the moment, they are 'outsourcing' their airport security to the TSA.

I suppose they could each choose which security checks they are going to carry out, but how would they choose? Based on recommendations from something that looks like the TSA?

It's not clear to me that the airlines would want this responsibility, or would do a better job at it than the TSA.
How one announcement destroyed the .NET ecosystem on Windows
I thought they just asked the people there whether they preferred to be part of Russia or part of a more EU focused new Ukraine. Then the People voted.

And did they shoot down that jet? There really does not seems to be any motive for them (the Russians) to do that. Maybe they fired on a fighter flying in the radar shadow of the commercial jet? How ethical is that? There is still a lot of vagueness around that incident and it not just from the Russians.

But ok, Putin may not be a nice man, I don't really know, somehow he is never ever in the news here. Whenever I look up stuff on the internet he comes across as quite intelligent, not like a tyrant. My point is, should we make the EU's and Russia's economy suffer? I'm betting you don't know any people in agriculture, the flower or the fruit business that lost their jobs because of this stupid boycott. I'm betting it's much worse in Russia. And who are we punishing? Putin? No, those nice people that live in Russia and work hard to make a living.

How would you feel if you lost your job because suddenly the EU would stop trade with the US because your president build a wall on the Mexican border and kicked out friendly Muslim Families? It's all a game to these people. Let's not humiliate ourselves by screaming in forums what they feed us in the media.

When goods don't cross borders, armies will. Were just getting ready for another senseless war because our leaders are dicks.
> Laws are meant to be applied as written. That's why you hear about people getting off on a technicality, and why you hear about obviously dumb rulings like two teenagers who get into a relationship and end up guilty of paedophilia.

This isn't true in the English legal system, which seems worthwhile to note given its wide reaching influence. When dealing with statue law (because obviously common law cannot be applied as written!), judges have three options as to how to interpret the law: the literal rule, where the law is interpreted literally as written; the mischief rule, where something that would have been judged illegal under common law can be judged to have been intended to be illegal under the statue law even though it is not literally; and finally the golden rule, which essentially allows the judge to avoid an absurd result. (It's relatively similar under Scots law, and I cannot comment as to elsewhere.)
My TomTom Cardio can: https://www.tomtom.com/en_us/sports/fitness-watches/gps-watc...

But I wish it could play music from Spotify, specifically Spotify in offline mode... which this can! I'm sold.
Some people hire a Certified Public Accountant; others use software like TurboTax. The American tax law is so complicated that doing them yourself leads to spending at least one weekend locked in your house with a calculator, filling out forms and hoping you don't get audited.

Vox made a video about how companies like Intuit lobby to keep them complicated, to keep the money from TurboTax rolling in:

http://player.ooyala.com/iframe.html#pbid=88e901a4b29c47ba95...
On the phone side you would have to use Replicant, which sandboxes the modem.

http://www.replicant.us/

Problem is the project is mostly dead. Nothing in from the last four years is supported, and its stuck on Android 4.2.
Turkey's female journalists now risk parental rights for critical reporting
I agree with this. The page says it's a framework, but I feel like it's describing a kickstarter/generator. That said, I will bookmark Pepperoni and give it a go during the weekend, it looks interesting.
The new "broadcast @tweets to all of your followers" to me reads as "now your twitter feed will become even noisier".

On the other hand, their incredibly annoying "here's what you missed" and "non-linear timeline" feature will help limit that, combining the chocolate that I hate with the peanut butter that I can't stand into something approximately edible.

I can't say that this is an objectively bad move, but it definitely sounds like it'll erode Twitter's usefulness to me.
And here I just bought a Pebble Time. Guess I know why it seemed so cheap.

Hopefully this won't fragment the app marketplace and it will maintain universal app coverage across all the Pebble watches.

I wonder if it would be possible for an Android Wear watch to do something similar to the Pebble: Long battery life, no touch screen, e-paper display and run alright. I imagine the colour space differences between e-paper and LCD would cause issues though.
Thanks for your answer. "Garbage collection" seems to cover a huge range of actual implementation approaches and sometimes it's hard to see the pros and cons of each approach when they're all lumped under the same thing.

In my mind, 'stop the world' pauses are the biggest disadvantage of some GC approaches, so it's nice to hear that deferred RC ameliorates that to some extent.
This is the first time I can justify a move from a version 1.8.0 to 2.0 or 3.0 of a product with "it has fewer code".
When Clayton Christensen came up with the concept of "disruptive innovation" it originally referred to a specific phenomenon. Normal innovation is when the large firms servicing a market make incremental improvements to their products, when those products already serve the market needs very well but at high cost. A disruptive innovation is when you can service some of the needs of the market with a worse product which is dramatically cheaper. Nowadays, people refer to disruption for anything and everything, but SpaceX could be an example of this classical definition. I say "could be" because I'm not totally sure that SpaceX's service is or was worse than other launch companies in a technical sense.

Anyway, according to the theory when the much cheaper but worse technology gains momentum, it gets better and better, until it's serving the high-end needs even better than the original technology and at a lower cost.
Yeah, but still there's possibility of failure there as you could paste in and forget to update the one below.

Honestly, flags should be a type. IIRC, the C# designers have admitted this was a mistake on their parts to continue C's ambiguity between flag enums and choice enums.
looks like it supports standard watch straps so knock yourself out
(steel 1 owner)
I use mine solely to make sure I don't miss calls texts, and appointments. But you know yourself. Would you be tempted to load flappy bird onto it right away? Would you forward your facebook notifications to it?

Fortunately, there isn't enough screen real estate and input methods to get a lot of gaming going.
http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/google-hits-50...

Over 5k employees apparently.
>I can't imagine how easy that much be in an SUV or Jeep.

Possibly not at all easier. SUV usually has bit more clearance than sedan. And possibly more suspension travel and overall weight. End of the day SUV vs. AWD sedan difference is almost insignificant.

Real off-road cars also have differential locks and reduction gears. While they usually don't weight that much (relatively). Now you have real advantage, as you can approach any tricky spot with incredible amount of quaranteed torque and slow speed.

What I'm sayin is that if you drive on a swamp off-road car is 100/100, SUV is 60 and AWD sedan is like 50.
Last I heard it was a fragile benchmark stunt, and compilers would enable the optimization in only very limited circumstances. Has there been progress since?
I can do next/previous, play/pause, and change the volume when using PocketCast on Android from my pebble time 1. When PocketCasts was the last used audio app, it opens and start playing when I go to music and hit play on the pts.

Oops, now I see what exactly the core is... Maybe a bit different.
I run Bitlocker on my Windows 10 machine it causes some issues with multibooting.

Does anyone have a good multiboot disk encryption setup?

On Linux I sometime use LUKS disk encryption. For adhoc disk container file disk encryption I use Veracrypt which is the successor of Truecrypt.
Not all AWD is the same, some manufacturers have better AWD systems than others.
not the same but congruent but there was the baggage theft ring[0] at JFK that focused on easily resalable electronics (and other goods).

[0] http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/baggage-theft-...
> "However, if you are going to make a lot of state changes, having them all happen inline does have advantages; you should be made constantly aware of the full horror of what you are doing."

Nicely put. :) Thanks for the link.
I would think pebble would be able to negotiate a better rate than 5%.
Bonus points for those who leave a note with their password between screen and keyboard!
Coffeehouse Connect Week (Who Works in CoffeeShops?)
Does 'futurice' rhyme with 'uterus' or how the heck to do you pronounce that name?
The voting percentages are always calculated based on eligible voters, not total population. The 2012 presidential election had 54.9% of the American votes turned up to reelect Obama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_the_United_St...
Sinofsky had a reputation for not working well with anyone outside of his team[1]..Net (including WPF) occurs outside of the Windows team.

[1]: http://allthingsd.com/20121113/in-the-sinofsky-departure-bil...
> "forget the law, anything we think is unreasonable is illegal"

That's basically how all Anglo-Saxon (including the US) law, i.e. case law, looks like.
James Clavell's fictional account based on his experiences in a Japanese prison camp is wonderful read too, 'King Rat'.

I talked with my grandfather often about his service as a submariner in the pacific, brutal, but oddly he never hated the Japanese. He saved that for the French.
WW2 was an existential threat for Britain/Europe/"Christian civilization". I don't mean to diminish your forebears' bravery; I'd probably have been one of those men who was paralyzed with fear on the beach and never even fired a shot.

My point is just that facing an existential threat to your country, and by extension most of the people and places you've ever loved, is clear and highly motivating – and unusual for western countries in the last 60 years.

It's very different from the Korean War, Vietnam War, Falklands War, Gulf War, War in Afghanistan, etc. Those were not existential threats; they were mostly geopolitical posturing. I'm not making a statement on whether those were good or worthy wars (posturing can be necessary), but it's at least an arguable position that most casualties in those wars died "because delusional leaders sent them into battle," not because they were choosing to fight and die for some grand idea.
My biggest fear of flying. Do those TSA approved bags really "work"? Meaning that you don't have to remove your laptop
How to Motivate Developers? Let Them Slash Monsters
BACtrack Skyn – Wearable Blood Alcohol Biosensor
So the “nasty trick” is that clicking the "X" to close now keeps the Windows upgrade scheduled instead of skipping it or cancelling it.

That’s a stupid thing for Microsoft to do but it also shows why the "X" doesn’t even belong in a window when there are buttons. (As far as I can tell, only the Mac platform gets this right: Mac buttons appear alone, without a close-widget.)

If the "X" is also there, it is at best confusing and at worst buggy. I’ve maintained apps where the developer forgot to even “wire up” the "X" button, or where the default behavior created a 3rd untested outcome. And if the button is mapped at all, the choice is arbitrary: in some messages it means “OK”, in others it means “Cancel”, and in others it might as well mean “Nuke Hard Drive with no Undo”.
I really love Elixir and Phoenix and see myself using them heavily in the future, I just think you are completely not fair to Rails.
Sounds like your describing the US who pay the FSA and the Kurds who fight each other. Please read "confessions of an Economic Hitmen" and, as a nice example, watch the Regime change in Venezuela closely in 3...2...1...
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Ethereum: The Mist/Geth Hack Urgently Needs Our Attention Again
Not really, the LHC was designed in the 80s. Genome project launched in 1990.
It's true that current generations work on incremental problems. The blockchain and social media are something of note.
This has nothing in common with Facebook or Twitter timelines.
Quite nicely iTerm2 will catch when you attempt to paste new line characters and warn you about it. Mostly it's useful when I've accidentally copied an extra line, but protecting against malicious abuse is a useful plus.

http://imgur.com/hPMtbU2
Sad they haven't announced a new Pebble Time Round - I got one after giving up on smartwatches for a long time and it's fantastic. I get compliments on it as a watch before anyone even knows it has smart functionality built into it. At the end of the day, smartwatches are still fashion accessories and the PTR is the only one so far that doesn't look supremely awkward to me.
Can only French companies open offices in the centre of Paris? Couldn't an Irish company rent office space just as easily?