skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Shouldn't blame the companies for lobbying and creating the tax laws either -- they're just acting rationally!

spot on. this.
I've not seen better advice than in Scott Adams' How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big[1]

[1]http://amzn.to/2952RAD
Do legislators not possess primary responsibility for their own actions?
However, Google does not make very much purchases in EU, so there is not so much VAT to deduct, which means that much of the VAT is "real" tax revenue, not just a flow-through amount. This is simply because Google doesn't have a substantial part of its real operations in EU; it has sales offices, and in some countries it has data centers, but these are not such a big cost that the VAT would factor in by too much.

The actual value of Google is in its business concept, IPR and brand name, none of which are substantially developed in Europe.
It's very limited in nature but it's a great introduction. We have a character and we have to give him the knowledge to handle his environment.
Yup, not buying it. Too cutesy, too impersonal, too obvious. This is a team effort. And not a very good one.
"Simply playing by the rules". No they aren't. They are paying a small fortune to figure out how to avoid paying taxes by following the letter of the law. However they break the spirit of the law, and hence are not playing by the rules.

This is not different from using drugs to win sports which hasn't yet been banned because it is too new. Strictly speaking it is legal, but it is both immoral and unethical.

The problem with depending on every possible behavior being described in the law and closing every loophole is that that would create a very draconian legal system nobody wants.

It is the same as with contracts between two parties. It is easy to screw each other over if one nitpicks about everything and don't follow the spirit of the contract. However the problem with such behavior is that it dramatically increases transaction costs, because one can not trust each other and have to make extremely complicated legal contracts.

I've noticed when dealing with American how the lack of any trust, makes any kind of business deal very expensive. Contracts are completely over the top.

I don't think this is how one wants society to develop. Parties in an economy have to be able to play fair with each other most of the time without resorting to ever more insane details and regulations.
How does this square with the generally accepted view [1] it was the Russian security services?

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/guccifer-20-is-likely-a-rus...
Seems like this Guccifer 2.0 figure really is just in this for the fame and glory. No real hacker with a different agenda would reveal so much about him/herself (assuming the info is true). It puzzles me. It's almost as if this new Guccifer wants to be caught just like the last one. As if his prosecution by the FBI will finally validate his status as a great hacker, the one who hacked the DNC amid one of the most historic elections in US history.
Google wanted and kept most of the patents.
There's a whole bunch of pills and they're called Nootropics. Transhumanism anyone?
I often have trouble expressing my thoughts concisely for complex concepts. I know the concepts and have a model in my mind of the 'thing' I want to explain. When thinking through, i'll abstract out many things, simply referring to them as 'this' or 'that' in my mind as i try form the sequential narrative to explain them. If a spend too much time trying to think what 'this' and 'that' are, i forget where i am up to in the sequential narrative, needing to start again. I find writing it down helps, but i'll sometimes forget what i'm trying to write half way through it.

> Thoughts are multi-dimensional, whereas words have many fewer.

Another way i like to explain that, is that thoughts are concurrent, while words are sequential. I can think of multiple things at the same time, but i can only speak one word at a time.

There's a quote which i'm not sure where its from, but it something to the effect of:

> Words are power. When you can put a word to a concept, you have power over it.

The correct single word can instantly convey multiple concepts more quickly than many other multiple words can. This enables much better compression and easier conversion of multiple concepts faster and more easily, assuming the recipient of the word is familiar with it. Using multiple words requires the recipient to sequentially construct concepts, leading to the greater possibility of confusion.

I previously never cared much about using the correct words all the time, as it required a lot of effort to remember them (at least on my part). However, i'm beginning to think that the advantages of doing so would be worth the effort.
One big difference is that people outed by Ashley Madison were not at risk to the degree that muslim daters are at being harmed violently.

And even though the definition of adultery may vary between cultures, ignoring the difference between a website where you purposely go in blatant disregard of a personal and somewhat legal trust you established with someone versus a website where you go in an attempt to build a new relationship with the goal of finding a partner, are totally different things. This isn't "impressing" values. There is a clear difference in the acts.

To drive that point home, there is a clear difference between a 8 year old stealing something versus a 40 years old man. The 40 year old man knows the difference and the consequences while the 8 year old does not. When making a decision on punishment, it shouldn't matter what cultural values you have, there is a clear difference between the two that cannot be ignored. And that is the same things here. Dating versus adultery are more different than just different values.

So I wouldn't label this as hypocrisy as you are attempting to.
>Google is actually lagging in consumer speed testing, because in addition to Ookla and Netflix, rival Bing already shows speed test results straight from search.

Bing doesn't seem to show anything either, at least from Poland.
This is ridiculous and a form of bullying. If you want multinationals to pay tax, fix the laws. Were they really expecting Google to fake anything? No, they were looking to cause bad press. Form international alliances and create a proper incentive structure if you want to collect.
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Well, if he said "If we want to lead our lives the best way possible, then you ought to read this and this, not that" it would still be pretentious. Is it really clear cut that one set from all of literature is the best for everybody? Of course "read whatever you like is a bit on the opposite side, too easy, too shallow. One could then decide "fine, I'll just read kid's comics all my life." Read varied literature, from different cultures, try different genres, and try to read some classics, as they're classics for a reason, would probably be better advice.
As another commenter remarked, it's pretentious.

What's pretentious is taking such strong issue with a statement that starts with "I think we ought...". I think you ought to get over yourself, as Kafka was expressing an opinion, one with which you're free to disagree. Argue your dissent, even if it's just "Kafka? Yeah, fuck that guy.", but stamping your foot because you perceived it as some dead guy telling you what to do is just silly, IMO.

As to the topic at hand, I like me some entertainment fiction on occasion, but I'll never make the claim that Stephen King's latest changed my life.
SpiderOak describes this as "Collaboration and messaging for teams." It seems like it's for (for-profit) business teams and not for personal "teams" or groups or non-profits/social groups. I guess the pricing model mentioned in the article is to get businesses that use Slack or Hipchat or other system.

I don't like SpiderOak's pricing models in general because of how it seems to oversell and upsell services. For personal teams/groups, there are free services like Telegram (awesome user experience that keeps improving at a fast pace but poorer homegrown crypto with normal messages stored in plaintext on the servers) and Signal (great crypto but awful user experience, slow and buggy app and slow and unreliable message delivery).
I think it's an important point to bring up, but I don't feel like the same people who were passing judgement on the AM leak are the ones raising concerns here.

But if I had to explain the difference, I think it's the differences in potential backlash on the affected users. Majority of Ashely Madison users were not in countries that would severely persecute them for their activities.
Who is Guccifer?
Blumfeld
That last part is an excellent point. Approximately nobody suffered legal prosecution, mob justice, or honor killings due to the AM leak. The potential consequences here are much more severe.
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I'm confused. Was your response to me or Certhas?

If it was to me, I don't agree. Science is a collection of human ideas that exist in the minds of humans. As another commenter said, it's our model of the universe. There is no difference between science and our understanding of science unless you're talking about differences in understanding between individual people.
It is indeed, and the recent spat of seemingly-illogical laws commonly known as "vat-mess" is the first step in trying to clarify that.

The internet is a real mess for anything that has to do with jurisdiction, which is the underpinning of taxation. Free flow of capital could be acceptable when goods were eventually involved, since their physical presence decided jurisdiction; as goods become similarly immaterial, new parameters are required. The current "equilibrium" is anything but.
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I think the grandparent has a valid point. IMHO learning is a necessary feature of any intelligence, artificial or natural. That's why modern AI is 90% Machine Learning. All non-learning approaches (frames, symbolic AI) have failed 20 years ago.

How to make an easily approachable tutorial that combines game-like world and real learning AI (for example Q-learning or maybe evolutionary policy search) remains and open question. Maybe someone will build it.
Four words: "Show me the money"
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So if I understood correctly, there are 5 requirements for such a system to be secure:

1: secure/unmodifiable cryptographic processor
2: with unremovable rate limiting
3: and exclusive access to a hardware key

4: cryptographic processor has the only function of encrypting user data based on
5: hardware key and a user supplied pin/key

Errors done by Qualcomm:

Violated 3: Hardware key not exclusivly readable by cryptographic processor
Violated 5: Encryption based on derived key

Anything I overlooked?

(edited: formatting)
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that's really interesting, thanks for posting about it I'll look up more info :)

However, unfortunately in a scheme like this, the tenant would have to have 150k in the first place. I'm looking to find ways to lower barriers to entry so that one doesn't have to be rich.
Why call it a honor culture? That almost sounds positive.
Here (Netherlands) it is often labelled as shame culture, where people do everything to avoid shame or put it under the carpet.
Here are several examples of honor killings in the US:

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

I'm sure you can find them in other countries too.

The people who use Muslim Match and the people who would commit honor killings aren't the same people. I don't see why it's so unimaginable that a child might use Muslim Match and their parent might think honor killings are necessary.
If you had your Calendar open in a web page it will continue to be readable. I have a pinned tab that I can still see everything 3 months in either direction.
Absolutely! I started a comment yesterday about what i found interesting skimming through the code of this library, but abandoned midways because i could almost see the snarky "oh, so just another templating library" response.

Too be fair, that response would be somewhat justified. After all, the code of the client-side library is so small[1] because it doesn't actually do much there. And that is in fact what i find interesting in comparison to other client-side rendering libraries like React (or Mithril ;).

There's quite a lot more code in the repo though[2], and that has to do with the processing of the view files, and compiling them to plain JS functions at build time. These plain JS, however, are not like most JS functions generated by templating engines, which usually involve generating a bunch of HTML (taking care to escape text as necessary) and then inserting into the DOM via `innerHTML` or a similar method. Monkberry actually parses the HTML bits of the templates and generates functions that construct the DOM using the JS DOM API. For the example on the homepage, it generates code similar to (you can see this on the browser devtools just by visiting that page):

// Create elements
var li0 = document.createElement('li');
var input1 = document.createElement('input');
...
// Construct dom
input1.setAttribute("type", "checkbox")
li0.appendChild(input1);

// Update functions
this.__update__ = {
todo: function (todo) {
var result;
input1.checked = todo.complete;
...
},
...
}

Notice that the DOM elements are themselves cached and re-used each time the view is updated. And the update function does very direct stuff like setting `input.checked = todo.complete`.

TL;DR: seems like a solid library. Interesting idea and good execution.

[1] https://github.com/monkberry/monkberry/blob/master/monkberry...
[2] https://github.com/monkberry/monkberry/tree/master/src
We must not be reading the same threads because I don't see anything remotely "anti-US" when reading HN. It almost sounds like you are accusing us all of being unamerican, which is one of the sillier political epithets history has provided us.

What I do see is a realization that the US is a fairly small minority of the global population, and that globalization and automation are stampeding across labor-based economies, and discussions of solutions to the resulting societal problems.
Did he come up with the idea or initial funding? Why is he even on your team to begin with?
BridgeUS is doing some interesting work in this area. http://www.bridge.us/

There are other startups working on creating "Turbotax for immigration," such as Clearpath and FileRight. At this point they're focusing on the simpler US immigration forms that are easier to standardize.

O-1s are tough to streamline, since they're so personalized and one-off.
You mean if you want them to think you destroyed the evidence, and thus incurring the wrath of the law, without actually destroying the evidence that might incriminate you?

Sounds like a lose-lose scenario, to me.
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Well, the Double Irish was invented by Apple...
There is still a lot of dependency by the carriers to adhere to this which most do not. They have no systems in place to differentiate. So while you may think your message is transactional, it may still get blocked for spam because the carriers aren't smart enough to know the difference.
> Opposite to her, Donald Trump has earned his money himself. And at least he is sincere in what he says. His position is straight and clear.

This must be satire...
My take has always been that what you take out of a given book, whether it's Vince Flynn or James Joyce, has more to do with you as a reader, than the book you're reading.

That is, if you're the kind of person who thinks deeply about things, looks for insights and connections, questions how things work, etc., you're going to draw some insight from a James Patterson book, or Stephen King or whatever.

OTOH, if you're not that kind of person, you can force yourself to grind through mechanically reading the words of Infinite Jest or Gravity's Rainbow, or Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake or whatever, and wind up no better off at the end than if you'd read from a random word generator for the same period of time.
It seems to be down now? http://www.fastmailstatus.com/

So, Google fails so rarely that you just sold me on the idea of not changing! :)
This Twitter analysis on the FAQ is worth following: https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/74848214296815616...
If an eight-year-old hasn't been impressed with the immorality of theft by that point then there has been a serious lapse of parental and even basic community policing.
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Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12004914
It sounds like you have a foundation to build on for an O-1.
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Just off the top of my head, some schools of Buddhism come to mind. Then after a few more seconds it occurs to me that most major religions have some form of ascetic system that frowns upon indulgences such as pure entertainment. In other words, you can have your choice of philosophical bases.

That addresses the "where does it come from?" but not the "why", which I would generalize as entertainment distracts from the pursuit of a better way of living.
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It may not be cut and dry but you do people a great injustice if you blanket there beliefs and values held over generations as acts of religious or political exploitation. People have a choice, and they can choose the change if they want. Freedoms arose from people choosing to do so.

And yes, if they have a strong belief in the hadith and the local cleric has ruled that there person is an adulterer and proves 4 people witnessed it (not hard to due in corrupt regimes anyway), then why wouldn't you feel virtuous while carrying out the punishment given by God.
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If you can liquidate $500,000 worth of shares, that means you still have at least $3,500,000 worth of shares in a company that has no plans to ever go public.
He came up with the idea. Has no funding. He is a long time high school and college friend and the only person I know that wants to pursue entrepreneurship.
Hey, they didn't immediately cover the article I came to read with a full-screen ad to get me to subscribe to something completely unrelated. On the modern web, that's deserves an award!
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This all points back to the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, which reveals the intention of transnational corporations to try to limit sovereignty. It didn't pass but it's terrific object lesson (especially in the aftermath of Brexit).

The irony is that the economic incompatibility thesis claims liberalization of capital tends to undermine free trade, because capital flows make very volatile markets, ultimately making it much harder for trade to take place. So what happens is the reaction to freeing up capital is increased protectionism which is what's generally happened since the '70s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilateral_Agreement_on_Inve...
In countries that provide universal health care, the hospitals are eager to provide peritoneal dialysis because it is much cheaper than hemodialysis. You don't take up hospital space, use up a specially trained nurse's time, and tie up expensive machinery. The problem is that peritoneal dialysis is less effective (worse for your longevity) and requires more hours. Just be aware that hospitals have their own agenda for pushing peritoneal dialysis.
"Global tax office"

You would quite literally see revolt / insurrection in the western world, especially America and other former anglo colonies, at the idea of a One World Tax Authority, which would rightfully be seen as a part of one world government, the so-called New World Order that conservatives have maintain DEFCON1 fear of for decades.

Even if it did exist, if if you had a global tax authority with the weight of a global government to enforce it... that doesn't necessarily solve the problem.

There are plenty of tax havens in American states despite a national legislature that could squash them.

On big reason Americans were unrepresented in the Panama Papers leak is that Americans used on-shored havens. They had far less need of an offshore haven when current corporate tax rules allow you to incorporate and tax dodge in Delaware or another friendly state without leaving the country.

If the US can't or won't control domestic tax havens, I'm not so sure a global government would have better luck.

Plus, one world tax authority means one single target for corruption. The Googles of the world, with literal billions to spend, they'd hyper-focus on corrupting that authority to their desires.
Hey thanks. This sounds like the first reaction that I had. Can you elaborate on experiences that are similar to mine?
If I wrote a program with bugs in it and it returned unexpected and undesirable results, I couldn't reasonably say that the code breaks the spirit of my program. I simply wrote bad code and should fix it. I can no more expect a company of tens of thousands of individual to all perfectly adhere to some nebulous "spirit" than I can expect my computer to magically intuit my desires and do that rather than my actual mistaken request.
That article seems to be mostly speculation, though. Maybe Guccifer is a Russian, but not affiliated with the Russian government (aka Putin aka Ivan the Terrible).

But apparently this is The Cold War 2.0, and whenever Russians may be involved, this means that the Russian government is involved...
Honestly, define language first because the word it thrown around and used sloppily with no one taking the time to reflect on it. (I shouldn't be surprised, of course, by the willingness of HN posters to pontificate on subjects they have not studied or comprehended in any meaningful way. The Emory professor is just embarrassing to read.)

This topic has been studied for a very long time and a rudimentary understanding of concept, signifier, denotation, etc, would cut the bullshit drastically. Donald Davidson, Karl Buehler and Karl Popper are contemporary contributors to the subject. Frege. Aristotle. Tarski. I can keep going.
hopefully your survey does a better job at predicting the future than the polls, big banks and bookmakers whom got Brexit wrong.
You still have to deal with the bi-product of salt and other various minerals that come out of the desalinated water.
It's something of a standard term[1]

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-rise...
Google shares will grow regardless of how much taxes they pay. But they may fluctuate if tax evasion scandal breaks.
Anyone else think this is related to the meeting they had with Glenn Beck, et al.?
The two benchmarks you mention aren't very useful for comparing brotli and zstd, because they deal with large datasets. Per-call overhead matters a lot for small files, and I imagine (particularly brotli) is aimed at small files. Zstd (usefully!) calls out dictionary compression, which hints that small files matter for it too, but I'm not positive there's any specific use case for zstd in mind.

In any case, neither the compression ratios nor the speed of large-file compression necessarily say much about small file performance. There's just much more context to search in a 100MB file than there is in a 10KB file.

Having said that, there's no reason to assume brotli is better for small files; there's just no way to tell given the links you provide.

I'm not affiliated with nor use neither zstd nor brotli.
"Even where Mr. García completely mangles the facts – as he does for instance in describing the mechanics of the Facebook initial public offering – he manages to draw multiple fresh insights that somehow feel directionally correct."

I find it hard to read this other than as "It's bullshit, but but bullshit that reinforces my prejudices."
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