skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. This is why capitalism built on "everything to maximize revenue for shareholders" is broken. Maximize revenue by generating more revenue, not by evading - or avoiding - taxes. If your company cannot remain afloat without dodging taxes, your business is not viable and does not deserve to exist.

2. The fact that you can "game the system" and remain squarely in the "legal" column makes the system broken.

3. Considering that fines are typically a fraction of what they should be, again the system is broken. Consequences should threaten the ability of a company to remain afloat, not be a slap on the wrist that doesn't even dent the bottom line.

4. You perform business in a country? Pay the taxes for all revenue factually originating in that country, not technically based on loopholes. If revenue originates from a customer/client/subsidiary in country X, you pay taxes in country X; you don't get to have customers in country X, but pretend like your business in country Y really took their money. Simple as that.

5. Exactly this. The fact that it is not intended, but is possible, makes the system broken.

Governments need to crack down on this sort of thing - HARD. The laws need to be rewritten from the ground up, but this will never happen because of another ugly facet of capitalism - at least in the US - lobbying. Also, self-interested politicians - how many of the politicians who could rewrite the laws have their own businesses that are avoiding taxes which implies a conflict of interest? Large companies that threaten to abandon doing business because state X or country X makes them pay tax? Farewell, we don't need you. This also applies to incentives, which some states are famous for. Individual states should not be competing for companies' business by reducing taxes or offering reimbursement programs.
Toxoplasma gondii – 30 to 50% of humanity has a brain parasite
Lossy, but powerful.

Which is why it has been so successful at co-evolving with and (nearly) subjugating our brains to the extent that it has.
The EFF already defended this very same group (The Yes Men) against the very same actions when they satirized the Chamber of Commerce (an advocacy group for big businesses):

https://www.eff.org/cases/chamber-commerce-v-servin

I think they're pretty trustworthy as far as free-speech advocacy goes. There wasn't a ruling but eventually the Chamber of Commerce dropped the suit.
If the chinese miners adopted the fork, then everyone would follow them because they are the consensus. That's why he tried so hard to convince them.

The lightning network (or any other private side chain) are not a solution because it still requires the bitcoin network to verify, which means they can't scale for users.

Example: It takes minutes for a side chain to process 20 million transactions for just 2 people, but it takes over a month for a side chain to process just 2 transactions for 20 million people.
It is, but AWS is all about making money on rounding errors. How long before Amazon starts letting to place and receive calls?
Really? The fact that you hacked a GPU to work on your Mac didn't immediately raise red flags?
And the US of A:

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/11/is-adultery-illegal-...
Its such delicious satire too. It has forced a lobby group that has an unyielding view point on the 2nd amendment to clash directly with the 1st amendment. Which in turn causes me to question my own unyielding view on the 1st amendment... Hilarious and brilliant stuff IMO, assuming this was all in the design of the satire.
The letter itself: http://www.ehrlichfirm.com/jennings/Ray-Jennings-Letter-to-C...
Interesting; I've never heard of most of those besides Go (& Perl of course). Is CoffeeScript considered a programming language? :O
We don't know for sure where bitcoin was created.
I take back my terrible suggestion. His family is down there and there should be no reason he moves away from them.
I'm surprised they offer messaging in China.
Our China SMS provider (yuntongxun.com) only allows templated SMS messages.

Eg. "Hello {{name}}"
Almost any publicly available source is heavily skewed downwards. Also, total compensation is much more important than base salary.

I am a fairly mediocre engineer. I have less than a decade of experience and have never worked at a "top" company. Yet I earned over $200k last year.
This is demonstrably not true. Suppose I have a pool of 100 candidates, 20% of whom are female. Suppose further that 10% of the pool (8 men, 2 women) meets my "bar", and are therefore people that I want to have in my company. But finally suppose that I only have budget for 2 people, not 10.

By your logic, I should hire 2 men, because dividing that candidate pool in half leaves the women at "less than half of a person". Equivalently, I should leave it up to a coin flip, which has an expected value of E(two men).

But why? Since we have already established that the candidates are in all other respects equal, why shouldn't I choose the candidates that I think will do my company the most good: bring in the most diverse perspectives, life experiences, and skill sets?

Of course it is a simplified example. And maybe you think that expressing an interest in diversity in this fashion is "reverse sexism". But I think it is a clear win for my company, a clear win for women everywhere, and I don't care if it isn't a clear win for men -- we win often enough anyway.
Rust Community Team lead here.

It is fine if people don't consider themselves underrepresented, we just want to be proactive about discovering if people end up self selecting themselves out of our community because they don't feel welcome. Furthermore, we are starting some initiatives to focus growing a diverse group of participants (https://github.com/rust-community/RustBridge), and so we need some baselines to see if we are successful or not.

We did have a number of categories that people could select from. Our plan for next year is to identify groups from the free text for next year. We are tracking our improvement plans here: https://github.com/rust-community/team/issues/28
There are many organizations around the country that supply free business attire to people in need. In New York City, where I'm based, main one is "Dress for Success" and in Baltimore there is "Success In Style". I'm sure there is something similar in Clint's area. There might be a directory these organizations online OR just call up either of the ones I mentioned, I bet they could connect you to a place that would help.
What did you find unfair about the original piece? I haven't seen it but I had assumed it would be relatively favorable if Dateline had chosen to publicize the case 15 years after the murder and 6 years after the conviction.
Clothing: Thrift stores. Specifically, if you go to the church thrift stores and you say "We are trying to help him get back on his feet" they will often give you a discount and/or some clothes for free.

Jobs: Side gigs on craigslist. Lawn care, concrete, helping people move...you can look on craigslist and find these. It's not perfect, but it's -some- cash flow until he can find someone willing to hire.

Transportation: There are enough funds to get an old car for probably around $1k or less just to start out. Can resell it later and get something better once he gets more stable. But it will provide transport to side gigs and worst case a roof over his head. I've had to sleep in my car more than a few times.
The EFF disagrees and already defended The Yes Men against a similar takedown request / lawsuit:

https://www.eff.org/cases/chamber-commerce-v-servin
Because this is a thing I feel strongly about, I'd just like to say: As long as you have more qualified candidates than you have seats to fill, you don't have to lower the bar to increase diversity.
It would pretty much ruin the experiment if they allowed volunteers.
Totally agreed about a simple nastygram requiring a takedown. But

> I don't know what the standards are for satire to be fair use. It wasn't very clear that the video was satire, but the nature of satire is that it's not always obvious to everyone. DigitalOcean should not have intervened in a trademark dispute between two different companies outside the DMCA.

The video itself doesn't have much of a leg to stand on. I personally think the approach of the Yes Men is brilliant, but they're obviously operating in a grey area where they can expect censorship via the legal system.

BUT that is irrelevant - it still is not DO's job to act as a judge and skip requiring a bona fide court order, especially when they're clearly dealing with a downstream service provider. If they want to be taken seriously as a platform provider, then they really need to apologize for this incident and fix their policies.

(Also what a horrible title. I guess the NRA stokes more rage with Vice's audience, but Digital Ocean seems to be primary party deserving blame here)
I have assumed that this is the basic story. Bitcoin has provided a way to move funds out of China, and has provided a place to store value that can't be easily seized by law enforcement.
No, the 1.7MB figure was an average, the max for base+witness is about 4MB. https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/01/26/segwit-benefits/

It's true that to reach the maximum capacity, all Bitcoin software has to be upgraded. But that's also true for a 2MB bump hardfork.
Looks like that didn't work either and you ended up with Object.create which is a fairly new function. I think assigning Person.prototype (instead of Person) to p2.__proto__ would have worked. Or is that already what you had before?
Though I know about Procs, Lambdas, and Blocks, I did not use any of them, because there was no real need to. My goal when completing the work sample was write concise and readable code.

Though there might have been places where these constructs might have been useful
Substitution Ciphers, still not dead since Caesar.

But the website looks cool at least.
I hadn't seen this. Thank you for sharing.
Hollywood, maybe? Netflix made a series on Steven Avery that created an enormous amount of attention to that case. Him being in the army, coming back to his country, being arrested for a activity that he didn't do, spending 11 years behind the bars and finally being released as an innocent man is a great story to tell. Since hollywood is running out of stories these days that could be an option. Hell, maybe Netflix would want to tie this to the next season of "Making a murderer"?
Markov chains. paul graham's secret revealed
This has been proven wrong many times in Bitcoin and Ethereum
My (almost) entirely unscientific thesis is that this is why cats are domesticated. They are neurotic and totally useless pets, but people love them, specifically certain people. The "crazy cat lady" probably just had toxo induced psychosis. [1] PS. The immunosuppressant drug that treats toxo symptoms in the immunocompromised (ie. AIDs infected) is the one that Martin Shkreli got famous raising the price of.
[1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your...
N is for Nougat
I read the articles a bit, but I didn't find any information on who the real killer was. Are there any leads?
You can also use pruning, that's how I run a full node on my laptop SSD. Initial setup still requires a full download though.
"But Markov chains aren't just useful for automatically generating Paul Graham essay parodies. They're also quite practical. You might even say Markov chains are a large part of what powers today's internet. Most remarkably, to me at least, Markov chains underly Google's trillion dollar PageRank formula:"
Think I meant ovine, i.e. sheepish
I think people like to help more directly. I'd talk with churches in the same state as Ray. Physical goods and places to be are as useful as money to a person in that situation, and people typically have a lot of extra "stuff" that they'd be happy to part with to help a person in need, especially if it was brought up in church. They'd probably raise some money directly for him too.
Getting an extra $500k would put you ~38% closer to your goal of $1.3M. So to say it wouldn't give you any peace of mind or security that you don't already have seems odd as it would put you SIGNIFICANTLY closer to your goal of FYM, which presumably would bring you peace of mind and security that you don't have now, and reduce the risk you would not eventually get there.
How do they diagnose this condition?
> Am I just suppose to guess because there is no way the company would do that? That isn't how it works.

Well yes actually, it is. But you will notice that this was posted on the Yes Men youtube channel, which is well known at this point, so you don't even have to.
There must be subreddits on rehabilitation or something.
I've met most of my trans friends (three out of four) through Rust, it's indeed interesting that Rust apparently manages to appeal to such a specific demographic.
Your original question was "how I can help him get money for housing, food, and clothes?". Whether or not you speak to the media, and whether those appearances are paid, probably wouldn't impact your client's financial situation unless you intended to share it.

If Dateline is interested in speaking to you, one could be relatively sure that Dateline would be equally (if not more) interested in speaking with him.

I see your post now mentions that he might be reluctant to speak until his charges are formally dropped (I don't recall seeing that initially, so either I missed it or you edited it perhaps?). Scheduling an interview and having it go to air is likely to take time anyway, but I'd imagine that if he requested some fee to speak to Dateline that they'd oblige given the situation.

Perhaps I'm being overly optimistic, but I'd like to think that a network that profited over the publicizing of a conviction would give at least some small compensation to have the convicted discuss his release and case.
There's absolutely no reason to suspect that a web browser cares what kind of firmware you used to boot your OS.
The Dateline piece came out right after Ray's conviction. I just happened to see it 5 years later.

It portrayed him as a craven killer who was brought to justice only through the Herculean efforts of police and prosecutors who wouldn't let the absence of any physical evidence stop them from getting a conviction.
Will CORS ever be enabled for the https://discovery.etcd.io/new endpoint?
> - Remove the ridiculous "internal market" in the NHS
> - Stop defunding the NHS

I don't have an ideological opposition to privately provided services (so long as they're free at the point of delivery, available to all regardless of ability to pay), but my experiences of NHS services delivered by private companies has been fucking awful, with a doctor clearly unfit to practice and a bunch of zero-hour contract minimum wage health care assistants topping up their wages by selling pirate DVDs. Looking at the clear abuses committed by companies like G4S it's terrifying that they're in charge of some forensic units.

And people don't understand just how badly the NHS has had its budgets cut.

> - Lapse the train operator contracts and run them as BR once did.

What we have now (one company owning all the tracks, and leasing out contracts for regions to run on those tracks) is a baffling mix of piss-poor competition (which doesn't work (look at how few people change suppliers for phones or broadband or utilities)) and central control.

> - Re-nationalise our infrastructure (electricity, water and gas)

This sounds controversial until you see how abusive some of them have been. They've created fake debt recovery agencies to scare vulnerable people into prioritising a debt that isn't actually a priority (it's more important that people pay their rent!). Some of them have got weird corporate structure purely to avoid tax or scrutiny. And competition just doesn't work - Electricity and Gas suppliers have a range of baffling plans that make it impossible to actually compare what your bill will be.

> - Stop defunding Local Councils, and allow them to build houses (rather than have housing organisations do it)

There's a bunch of stuff around public health and social care that really desperately need funding. That small amount of funding would save a lot of money for the NHS in a few years. This kind of "spend to save" thing is impossible to drive through because You need to spend the money now to see the saving in five, ten, twenty years.
No, because it's a supported GPU in Mac ATI drivers.
Courts? Why? There is a simple fix:

Since these are felony allegations (criminal not civil) IRS investigators should sit a few of these CFOs down in a cement room and ask: "Does any of this money come back to the US?"

Then the CFO has a few options:
1) lie to a federal agent (not a good plan)
2) plead the 5th (not a good plan)
3) state to a federal officer that none of the money is used, transferred, or used to pay employees of said corporation by proxy.

I would assume these wouldn't go well at all.
Basic good looking comfortable outdoor/indoor clothing from thrift stores suitable for job interviews.
It being a red herring is another red herring.
Nope, I'm pretty sure it's the players, the manager, and the front office.

It's hard to go from 23-10 to fourth in the division.
> Or would we have to get all the OS and browser vendors to agree to phase out their root after some time?

Yup.
> It's criminal that that's not mentioned in the caption to the photograph

Well ... all satellite images are taken with sensors tuned for a specific frequency range, so essentially B+W, then false-colored for human display.

Unless an astronaut with a Hasselblad is pointing the lens out to space, you won't get the normal exposure that you're thinking of.
TodoMVC with React Native and Redux
And that may be why the video is not removed, but the website itself is what I am questioning.
Strange choice of language. What word do they use for things that are "original" in the ordinary sense of the word? Surely there's something less awkward than "original with a past"?
Basic simple cheap outdoor/indoor clothing that is suitable for job interviews. See if you can find it at goodwill. Merino sweater, patagonia jacket or old wool suit, glasses, toothbrush, good backpack, from thrift store.
That's not how law works, everything is permitted until it's forbidden. So given the absence of legislation they do not have to.
If you don't like what the newspapers are saying -- or are suspecting them of severely distorting and/or outright fabricating the reasons behind the raid conducted earlier today -- I'm sure the Hacienda will be putting out their own press releases soon, if they haven't already.
Thanks, and I will definitely write some of this up as I go and blog it.
> once the "training" stopped, they went right back to their previously low cognitive levels... not to create a lasting change.

This article criticizes previous methods for lacking enduring effect, but does not claim enduring improvement for any of the promoted methods (including for the boy with PDD-NOS, and dual n-back) nor revisit the issue. On the contrary, it later claims that on-going training is required. This is not "lasting change".

This article is written enthusiastically rather than scientifically. It reminds me of "In Search of Excellence", that had sensible, intuitively appealing advice, but whose supporting data turned out to be fabricated.

Also, quoting Einstein is a red flag. He wasn't a polymath (unless you count several areas of theoretical physics as wide learning).

Still, it's interesting, and what more can you expect from popsci Scientific American?
Suppose an environment e.g. stimuli/education was difficulty adjusted as you went up a grade so you were always on the very bleeding edge of your cognitive abilities.

You'd throw out the entire education system in order to do that, but would it mean that children would have higher IQ as adults?

tldr; if by modern standards we were cruel to children could we maintain high IQ levels?

I'm reminded of Dr Spock as a child in the 'education pits' in that new Star Trek movie ;-)
got it - sounds like I probably misunderstood the motivation which appears to have been less about demographics than about under-representation identification. Kudos on the whole survey and this particular section, my nitpick aside, I find the whole thing highly interesting and am personally impressed by your desire to know your user base in this way. Not a Rust user yet as I am a scientific programmer and on the exploratory side I really need a REPL, but I will make an effort to look at Rust for the parallel side of our production code.
It has forced a lobby group that is perceived to have an unyielding view point on the 2nd amendment

The NRA's stance is very much exaggerated, e.g. every piece of Federal anti-gun legislation passed with their approval until the 1994 AW ban, and since the passage of the Brady Bill the year before, which eventually set up the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), their baby, you might say, they've supported and are right now supporting legislation that uses the NICS to prevent people from buying guns from FFLs (gun stores).

To cover a bit more of their relationship with the 1st Amendment (which after looking at the Wayback Machine copies of the website, I'm not so sure is implicated, e.g. it does not come off as satire unless you know enough about the NRA's stolid style), they fiercely opposed McCain-Feingold, since it banned a lot of their political speech before elections (this was resolved in their favor in the Citizens United case).
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What many people who criticize the high data fees that carriers charge often forget, esp. in Germany: in contrast to highly rural US (where you need LOTS of towers to serve few people) it's not about the infrastructure costs in Germany, and it's also not about the profits of shareholders, at least not much.

Problem was when former finance minister Hans Eichel decided to reduce the German state debts in 2000... he did so by auctioning off the UMTS frequencies, for in total 50.000.000.000 €. That's 625€ per German citizen that first have to be paid off before the network provider makes a profit on that user. Also, the provider has to pay interest on the debts (ECB interbank rate at the time was 4.5%), and the infrastructure had to be built, maintained and upgraded (electricity costs, networking termination fees, personnel, construction workers, materials, ...); this in turn moves the "profitability point" per customer waaay behind.

In essence, Eichel screwed over us Germans by selling us "reduced state debt" when all we got was a debt-shift from the state to private entities, and we still suffer to this day from the highest data prices in Europe.
A lot of colleges and churches will lend people suit jackets and or leather shoes for job interviews. That really helps people, just make sure they feel comfortable and warm/cool enough and don't smell bad for job interview.
What app is that, Artlav?
> Fair use applies to copyright, not trademark.

This is simply wrong. Here's a link for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use_(U.S._trademark_law)
And with a crypto chip it's much easier to share the device. Think of family or classroom/work devices.
So adding yet one more with competitive pricing won't do anything?

I thought same thing as the parent when I started reading blog entry. Especially the part where opt-in requirement was removed.
EyeFi to drop support for some cards, even those barely a year old
A friend of mine got a text that a relative was in the hospital. The first thing she did was post about it in an open group conversation with about 10 participants that she had on Messenger. I asked her about it and she said that the conversation had been open for months and people in her family use it to stay in contact.

I'd never thought of that, but it works and its better for staying in contact than FB's features. It's a Slack-lite.

FB could easily destroy it by putting ads in Messenger, and they probably will.