skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real people disproportionately situated in the US. I'm not sure if that helps any of those other countries.

The basic problem is companies using public resources of a country but not paying back into the system.
I am defending the idea you mocked.

Why does it matter who's releasing the information? Because they're not us. It's that simple. It's same reason why you can talk shit about your proverbial sister, but no one else gets to.

If you don't understand the concepts of national sovereignty and self-determination, I can't help you.
Every Wordpress blog out there has a comments RSS feed; interaction is certainly not precluded by the technology. If you want to have Facebook-style comments and likes, for example, you can simply have the commenter send the message to the original poster, which will then incorporate it in their feed for everyone else.
Ask HN: What are you using D (language) for?
I had posted a similar question about Go(lang) here on HN a while ago, and there were some interesting answers. Since I'm using D some nowadays (mainly for small utilities as of now, but may do other things with it later), and liking it, I thought it would be interesting to ask the same question about D.

Thanks in advance to all who answer.

Edit: Add the "Ask HN" prefix to the post title.
I'm not saying that DWS and the rest weren't biased. They were. I'm saying that it didn't matter, because of both the strengths and weaknesses of candidates' campaigns, and the fact that biases were pretty minor league.

The reason why I said the Saturday debates were obvious, because they were reported that way at the time.[0] They were opposite NFL playoff games for crying out loud.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/19/ho...
Whoa. How did that come about?
I don't think Elsevier has editorial control over the journals.
Interestingly, Google displays different maps to different countries.
The subject of this thread is the vulnerability of the networks and IT infrastructure involved with our democratic process, but fair enough.

We should be concerned about all the foreign money the Clintons have taken, and all the foreign money Trump has taken. We should be concerned about foreign influence in our elections in general, regardless of which party it benefits.
> B, which must in turn be a (possibly equal) subset of A

Correction: Gödel has proven that B is a proper subset of A :) so that last "(possibly equal)" should have been "proper". :P

No comments, anybody? I really want to know... :)
But this whole game is inherently one where some governments will lose. If countries are free to set their own corporate tax rates, you'll get some with high rates and some with lower, and corporations - which can relocate in a way that a state cannot - will just gravitate from the high end to the low end, screwing over those at the high end.

That is the problem: we live in a world where business can be global, but our states are regional. It's asymmetric warfare: because of the structure of the game, the corporations always have the upper hand.
I wouldn't put it beyond the capabilities of a nation state to tap fiber by putting a kink in it and processing the light that leaks out.
No argument there. My point is "balance", though. You lose some guarantees, but gain a lot, and the quality of a codebase will always be up to its programmers.
> how difficult would it be to let him access his data sans the illicit material?

It's not my service, and I'm talking about the general case rather than this specific one, but that seems to me like it would be pretty complicated - you'd need some sort of review procedure to determine what material can and cannot be distributed, you'd need to somehow do this while preserving user privacy, and you'd need some engineering work to make all this possible.

A project of that scope could take weeks or months to complete, depending on the amount of data involved.
Would you actually want to use software written like this? You submit a bug report or feature request, and the maintainer tells you: “Okay, let's see whether my AI can make sense of it...”
I support ending sprawl, but there are factors that drive people to it. (Perceived or real)

* Quality of education for their children.

* Privacy (space/sound insulation)

* Nature (if you move far enough out, then wonder why wildlife 'invades')

* Investment (housing shouldn't be, but it is; also rent is too high)
It's on us, as individual developers and individual participants in the software industry, to come up with economic models for open source that 1) provide high value, and 2) allow us to capture that value. Companies have a different role in a capitalist system, and though we can have a mutually beneficial relationship, their interests are not perfectly aligned with ours and never will be.
That's pretty cool! Where did you get the data?

Is there a plan to sell advertising or get referral revenue?
One aspect is that arbitration agreements almost always block class action lawsuits which can be hugely advantageous to a company. If a group of people have their rights or contacts violated, each must now pursue it individually, at potentially high personal expense in a system the company has more control over. Class action lawsuits are far from flawed, but they can be a terrifying prospect to companies. With arbitration, they now get to fight N people one on one instead of a talented team of big time lawyers indirectly representing all wronged parties (and keeping all the money usually, but it still punishes the company, and you can at least still bring your own suit).
Highly recommended, this tutorial got many people (myself included) started on Rails. The parent link is to the free-online version, but I do suggest folks who have benefitted from this give back to Michael by spending on the paid version:

https://www.railstutorial.org/#pricing

No affiliation at all, just want to encourage support to a resource that has been a net-positive to our ecosystem.
I understand. I don't want to do that, though.
There's one habit in particular that he didn't really touch on that has been one of the most impactful parts of getting my math degree on my thinking.

There seems to be a gap between formal definitions and what we feel actual definitions are. Every once in a while, a professor would prove something that was clearly right, but felt like a violation of some unstated implicit part of a definition (for example, that the set of all vector spaces is itself a vector space). Despite feeling wrong, I couldn't come up with a particular reason that it wasn't right (short of falling back on some weasel word like "technically that's correct"). Math education forces that gap out into the open, and makes you pay more than lip service by building more and more theorems on top of it. The real world effect is to make you examine whether there's some actual value in this definitional gap (which can then be explicitly stated) or whether it's just fallacy.

I know far too many people who are comfortable with stopping at "this doesn't feel correct despite me having no counterargumemt to its 'proof' ". I've never been inclined that way but my math education certainly sharpened my ability to avoid this.
>Sure, big companies are best positioned to take advantage of trade agreements. So what.

So, tremendous stealing of resources from the economy at large, increasing inequality and deterioration of society?
These are known as "projection displays":

http://www.decadecounter.com/vta/tubepage.php?item=10

http://www.decadecounter.com/vta/articleview.php?item=989

One company that makes them is still around:

http://www.ieeinc.com/about-us

A lot of other interesting old display technologies here:

http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/count.html
Possibly referral revenue at some point. At this point I'm refining and expanding on the design.
Depends on how complex your UI needs to be, but have you considered libui?

https://github.com/andlabs/libui
Just the bible foretold. The geek shall inherit the earth.
This article seems to legitimize satire by pretending "Its raison d’ȇtre over the long term is to bring about change"

Can we just step back and say that funny things are good as an end unto themselves?
Who would have thought War Driving would turn into War Diving?
Is your argument that tax law is only complex because of lobbying. That seems like a ridiculous statement.

The gov't is more than capable of coming up with complex regulations.
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Not directly answering your question, but I've actually gotten interested in D because I wanted to learn something I can code hardcore stuff in (I mostly do web: js, dart, ruby, bitcoin in js). So I started learning D and thought I should try myself writing a simple Terminal emulator - this idea intrigued me because I didn't know where to start and how it all comes together. Then someone pointed me to a terminal emulator written in D: https://github.com/gnunn1/terminix - I decided I should probably study it and understand how various parts come together. From the description and the looks of it, it looks great.
Interesting position. This implies that corporations, by default, have no social rights or interests at all -- while humans, by default, have all human rights and interests.

I kind of like this. No free speech or even property ownership rights for corporations, unless we decide it is in our interest. Only humans can be the source of rights or interests.

It will involve a pretty big reworking of the laws, however. Let's get started!
A long commute in a self-driving car, even more than in a comfortable train, can be a part of your work day, or even your leisure. Commute while driving is manual labor, preventing any meaningful concentration, be it watching a movie or writing code.
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One for each . In the colon?
Well, for one they can't cheat their wives, because they don't have any.

As for cheating with married women, in China woman's infidelity is much lower than that of married men infidelity.

"In a representative sample of urban Chinese – 3.9% of married women and 20.6% of married men reported to have the experience of extramarital sex in the past year".

So just because each dick needs a corresponding vagina (and vice versa) doesn't mean that infidelity between sexes is equal. There are other factors in play too.
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The "hard analytical disciplines" require understanding the fundamentals of whatever they work with, in order to process those fundamentals together into a useful effect.

Getting meaning across via words is fundamentally the same process.
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Food for thought: Can we create a license which allows source distribution and collaboration openly and is free to use for individuals and non-profits but companies have to pay if they use it for commercial purpose.

It could solve companies vs open source developers situation and give developers financial support. If current open source developers had means to support themselves without full time job, I think that would solve the problem of burnout and depression.

I mean just complaining that companies are taking full advantage without giving back is not working. So time to think outside box?
> (1) A parabolic antenna is a huge radar target for anyone hunting submarines.

I'm not sure if you are suggesting that an antenna would have to be detrimental to the radar cross-section of a submarine or if you are suggesting that you can intercept radio waves from a high directivity antenna.

For the former, directional antennas are on all forms of modern day stealth vehicles without compromising the radar cross-section of the vehicle (eg. modern jet fighters).

For the latter I have already seen successful systems such as MADL [1] which use highly directional radio waves to communicate between stealth fighter jets (something you would hope would go undetected). So I highly doubt that submarines couldn't have a similar system in place.

> (2) A parabolic antenna, or any other very directional antenna, requires a stable platform. Either it's on a huge inflatable raft, or the sub is rigidly attached. Either way, the operation will be noticed.

As shown in [1], directional radio waves can be sent from one jet fighter to another. Both of these are not stable platforms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifunction_Advanced_Data_Li...
>The reason a lot of people (especially young people) have been flocking to walkable cities has a lot more to do with self-identity and lifestyle choices than with just merely commuting time.

These are drivers to be sure, but the biggest is the network effects of being in a denser metro. The more people there are in a given area, the more human resources: job options, entertainment options, dating options, knowledge-sharing (the form that can only be done via meeting people in person), collaboration, and other forms are human and knowledge-derived capital. It's easier to form a rock band or hire for a startup idea in NYC than it is Duluth, Minnesota where there are fewer musicians and programmers.

This is why rural areas, unless undergoing some sort of unique boom (e.g. the Bakken Formation or Athabascan Oil Sands) or hosting a college/university, sustain much older average populations. Unless one's career allows them to live/work remotely, it's often necessary to move to the city to pursue most career options.

Aside from the self-identity and lifestyle points you mention.
I'm not sure why you put value in scare quotes. By avoiding excessive US taxes, Facebook is now a more efficient company.

That is how taxes work. The government introduces friction into economic transactions, which sucks up some amount of productivity from those who produce value, which the government can then use for its own ends. By moving to a country with more reasonable taxes, Facebook's economic interactions now have less friction and higher efficiency.
>There has been a lot written on the subject

Yes, there has been a lot written. And there is no evidence.

>but I would ask you to try staying away from processed foods and sugar for a few weeks and see if you feel better. It is an easy experiment to do.

95%+ of the food I eat comes from my property. There's nothing processed to cut out. I feel no different than I did when I was eating little ceasars pizza and coke every day for a year. This "experiment" is not an actual experiment, and would not support the claim in question even if it were.
There is so much inefficieny in gov't spending that your statement is meaningless. The biggest line items in the gov't budgets have nothing to do with the legal system or infrastructure.
E&Y denies yet another country tax income. When are govts going to blacklist these guys from govt contracts?

The UK was supposed to be excluding such companies.
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Fishing trawlers are more likely to cause damage: By far the most common problems, however—accounting for about 60 percent of cut cable incidents—are dropped anchors and fishing nets.

The cables are on sea charts so this can be avoided, but that won't stop deliberate saboteurs. The strategy for safeguarding undersea cables has been described as “security through obscurity.”

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/undersea-cable-maps/
Well, they do that, the trick is doing it in a foreign country that has access to a market that matters. Sure you get zero tax on some island state but what good is that if you then pay prohibitive taxes to buy/sell something to the EU because it becomes foreign trade, for example.

So they use Ireland, where they can get a special deal:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-may-decide-on-apple-tax-probe...
Hence the name PRISM.
>NSA are masters of making the impossible work.

Citation needed. And not Hollywood movies.
I'm confused. If you have a table of data where one of the columns varies from -A to A, what is the difficulty in calculating the odd and even parts by just adding (resp. subtracting) the values at x and -x and dividing by two? Even if you don't have a precisely symmetric span of x values you can use simple interpolation as long as your data points are reasonably dense.

Fourier analysis seems to be overkill in this case, unless I'm missing something.
I wonder how long it'll take for people to be comfortable enough with self driving cars that they stop paying attention to the road.
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The data is from the Edmunds Vehicle API.
Accounting and law firms hire lobbyists to persuade the government to make the law more complex. This is value destruction.
That's because they are deferring the taxes on the ex-US money.

It's a 401k in the US. It's a tax deferment, not a tax break. If your effective rate went from 35% to 25% due to your 401k contribution, you still end up paying 35%, just not right now.
Actually it's pretty normal. Existing cases have found that the phrasing and website design matters significantly.

See for example:

https://termsfeed.com/blog/how-not-place-i-agree-to-checkbox...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_v._Barnes_%26_Noble,_In....

http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2014/07/23andmes-browse...
Remember just a couple of days ago all the people praising Facebook over its "profits"? Not paying taxes can get you that.

I just think it's terrible how Facebook wants to have its cake and eat it, too - profit from low European taxes, but transfer all of Europe's data to the U.S. for maximum amount of mining.
This has nothing to do with taxes or business efficiency. The IRS is saying that Facebook undervalued their assets when transferring them to Ireland. It's the implications of that deal that are being discussed
The much larger problem is that philosophers can't agree on one (or at least few) axiomatic base(s) they want to base their argumentations on. Thus lots of philosophical discussions are rather of the kind "we have different axioms and thus come to different conclusions".
I believe the data goes through some friendly countries where we can get to it easier.
They should isolate countries like Ireland who are allowing countries to wash profits through their territory to "allow investment".

Ireland is 5m people. Just hang them out to dry. Either they consume as much as they add in value or their standard of living has to drop until this is held to be correct.
"Googling it brings up things I don't like so I'll call them fabricated". What is fabricated about it exactly? This is a man who directly lies all the time. He claims "sugar is toxic" and "sugar is poison". These are both outright lies, and not claims any respected scientist would make. The data doesn't even support his modest claims, much less his poison lies. http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-ab...
"now that it’s public, you have to wonder whether this will bite me in the ass when I’m 60 (...) and my identity gets stolen"

Could someone from the US care to explain why publication of these numbers is such a big deal, and why it can lead to identity theft (an idea that I see often on the internet)?

In Spain we have a unique ID number and it is pretty common to see them published all over the place. The government and administrations routinely publish lists of people with their name and ID number, for example if you have applied for a public sector job, a government grant, etc. your ID number will be published in a list that everyone can see and even find on Google. We don't see it as a problem because knowing someone's ID number doesn't mean you can steal their identity - to do that they would need to forge the actual ID card, for in-person procedures, or steal passwords or keys, for online stuff. Knowing the number alone doesn't give you access to anything. In fact, it is publicly known that the current king has the ID number 15 and the former king 10 (number 1 corresponded to dictator Franco who created the system), but it's not that easy to go around impersonating the king :)

What can you do if you know a person's social security number in the US?
Yep. I talked to Dario, one of the authors of this press release. He's definitely interested in both kinds of approaches.
will just gravitate from the high end to the low end, screwing over those at the high end

Gov'ts are providing a service. Competition is a good thing.

If one company was charging $1K for a computer and another charging $500k for the exact same thing, would you say consumers are screwing over the first company when they buy from the 2nd company?
Well, I AM doing cartoon animation. Although video editing/compositing is always handy. Do you know if sombody's created a UI for this stuff yet?
To avoid being exploited and burning out, use the GPL for your projects.
You are correct, Hello used OpenTok. To enable Hello with NoScript active one had to whitelist opentok.com and tokbox.com

Loop Server was indeed open source but sat downstream from the WebRTC and STUN / TURN provider

https://wiki.mozilla.org/File:Loop-network.png

Interesting to see OpenTok's pricing, though presumably Mozilla had an 'arrangement' with Telefonica:

https://tokbox.com/pricing
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You mean like the GPL?
You'd end up with a country like Singapore, where the taxes are lower, but more wisely spent.
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Concerning example 1: There are different concepts, such as average-case scenarios (for example modeled by expected value) or quantiles. Use them if this is what you want to model (but pay attention to the assumptions).

Concerning example 2: If you want some 'common sense' property to hold, why don't you specifiy it then?
> Can we create a license which allows source distribution and collaboration openly and is free to use for individuals and non-profits but companies have to pay if they use it for commercial purpose.

These kinds of licenses have existed for a long time. They're not open source, though.
The other day on my way to the airport, I had an Uber driver in Portland who was telling me that he was just about to start a lengthy coding bootcamp in JavaScript and PHP. Not Node, just front-end JS. And Rails was one of the options, but he opted to do PHP with a focus on Drupal.

Kind of blew me away. I know Rails seems to have waned relative to when coding bootcamps first became big, but I had thought PHP was well past its attractiveness for new developers, despite the number of PHP systems that need maintaining in the real world.
How does using GPL avoid the issue? I'm just curious and trying to learn something new.
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You don't pay anything to use GPL licensed software. So that's the difference.
This is 100% about taxes. The only reason the IRS cares about valuing assets is for the amount of tax they can levy on them. And saving $5B sounds darn efficient to me.
And the follow-up article, which discusses the usual objections that programmers have to the original article: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/24 . Particularly noteworthy is a comment from a lawyer that a key misunderstanding among programmers is that in law, the humans and their social interactions are the first-class entities of the system, not second-order distractions as they tend to be in engineering. This was a very enlightening moment for me in my journey towards understanding why the law seems so absurd from a mathematical perspective.
Obviously it's for a metal 3d printer...
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XML IS actually more painful than JSON: There's more syntax, and it looks less distinct, especially if it's not properly indented. JSON look a lot cleaner, and the extra metadata that XML provides is rarely needed for casual reading.
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