skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fraud is that there are many who feel no company should be able to shop around for a better tax deal and no country should be allowed to give them.

This isn't about fairness but instead so that other countries don't have to correct their spending issues and can inflict the same pain on their contemporaries.

Even in the US there are politicians who want to have all states implement similar taxation rules or penalize those who move one state to live in another. The absurdity of taxation rules never ceases to amaze me, let alone the punitive actions of politicians who go after people and groups who don't adhere to their rules.

Worse, the EU tends to think of beneficial tax polices to people and corporations as subsidies where in the US the government calls it a tax expenditure.

People need to wake up. Taxation view points are closely paralleled to privacy issues. Politicians and many left leaning groups think that all money belongs to government as do most rights. The same goes for privacy rules, in that many think you should have protection only from other individuals and private groups by government does not have to grant the same and in fact can decide how much you should keep.
Two questions:

1. How do they target these companies?
2. Is this the issue then? If it was for all the companies, with no exceptions, would that be allowed?

I'm seriously asking in the hope to get a better understanding, because right now, the way I see it is: As long as they are not breaking any laws, it's their "right" to use any loophole there is, to minimize their taxes (or maximize their profit, depends how you look at it). Is it ethical? Of course not, I'm not arguing about that.
I'm criticizing a lot of CS programs, not programmers who didn't program before college. There are plenty of good programmers who never attended college for computers at all. My own mother started programming after majoring in English in college, learning in a training program at her job in her mid-20s (because she wanted to move out of a management track.) She went on to a 40 year career, and inspired me to become a programmer.

I can see why my comment could be seen as slandering all non-hobbyist programmers rather than programs that don't bother to teach programming because they expect you to already know when you arrive, but you would probably have to skip the second sentence of the first paragraph, and the first parenthetical in item 2).

Thanks for the rage, though.

Again, I watched people graduate who couldn't fizzbuzz. They got jobs, and they still couldn't fizzbuzz. These were friends, who I liked very much as people, and I'm as happy that they got good jobs as I am sure that anybody who hired them should be fired.
That isn't _its_ feature. It belongs in a web browser as much as it belongs in Adobe Acrobat (although you could consider that a VM for executing untrusted code, too -- heoh!)

If you want a VM for executing untrusted code, use a VM for untrusted code, don't shoehorn it into HTML, or PDF, or whatever. That makes zero sense.
We launch online products (like https://feedcheck.co ) with very limited budget. So, our PR campaign contains:

submissions to many startups directories
starting discussions on Facebook startup groups
blogs articles
Yes, it happens very often in EU countries too, and because of that the EU has very strict rules what sort of help is allowed, to stop countries undercutting each other and racing to the bottom.
Your suggestion might actually lead to something very interesting.

Once a day when someone logs into FB, they should be presented with a word problem asking if the data they have thus far submitted to Facebook can be used to mine such-and-such fact about them.

If they cannot answer correctly, FB should not do said type of mining. As their understanding of the potential for mining info increases, FB is also allowed to add that type of mining.

This would be a win-win. People would actually understand what is going on, and FB itself has something to fall back on when the day comes when people turn this into an inquest (more a question of when than if in my view).

And I wish all the big tech companies would do something like that.
And thus the understanding of humans.
> It's interesting how this article thinks it's inevitable that wargames have had their day in the sun and will now die away almost completely, when in fact the wargame world is far stronger and the games far more interesting now than back in 1998.

There's a kind of inverse hype cycle whenever a newer, better version of something comes out. In the late '90s no-one dared make a 2D videogame, because 3D was the future. Then we saw which things 3D did well and which it didn't, and have a new appreciation for what 2D games can do, and we've seen a resurgence in recent years.
Sure. DNSSEC was designed in the early-mid 1990s on the premise of "pick two: offline signing, authenticated denial, secret hostnames". They picked offline signing and authenticated denial. They picked wrong: the protocol should be redesigned to assume online signers, taking advantage of cryptography in every transaction.

Obviously, DNSSEC should provide query secrecy. Obviously, every DNSSEC transaction should be encrypted. That's functionality not present in DNSSEC that must be before the protocol can be taken seriously. Resolver-server encrypted transactions also solve the problem of endpoint signature validation (because there's no weak link between servers and clients anymore).

Daniel Bernstein, among others, was smart enough to realize that if you encrypt the connection between a resolver and a server, you don't really even need signatures anymore: if every link in the resolution chain is encrypted, there's no straightforward place to launch spoofing attacks anymore. DNSSEC advocates will point out that this doesn't make injecting fake DNS records 100% impossible. But it makes it so difficult that it's not worth it to any plausible attacker.

There's nothing you can do about the fact that DNS is a hierarchical PKI controlled by governments. DANE simply can't be made to work: DNS has no business holding TLS certificates.
They forced Ireland to 'take one for the team' and prevent contagion by repaying bad commercial bank loans from overseas banks to the failed Irish banks. In other words they prevented Ireland from doing an Iceland.
They hinted that new, shared burden, measures, to be put in place, to cover such eventualities in the future, would be applied retrospectively to Ireland but they weren't.

During the bailout term the EU/ECB adopted a far harder stance against the country than the IMF advocated.

And doubtless on the back of this case there will be a legal action in Europe and a resulting large fine on Ireland.

You just don't get the feeling that this sort of treatment would be given to Germany or France.
Most of you should probably read the EU press release which is full of juicy details before commenting.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2923_en.htm
Presumably they respect that the running program has put the terminal into "raw mode"

e.g. with https://github.com/golang/crypto/blob/master/ssh/terminal/ut...
> Not taxing someone is not the same as paying them!

That is a terrible straw-man - no one ever claimed that in this thread. Additionally - your argument relies on word play: in practise, Walmart giving you a $10 bill after you buy a $100 item has the same effect as giving you a $10 discount on the item.

When one corp (Apple) pays less taxes than others in the same jurisdiction (Ireland in this case), it is unfair - logically and according to European law. If Irish taxes were uniformly low to all companies (including the German, French & Greek ones), the EU would have no case.
you normally need several motors or to distribute the power of the motors in several rotors that is very dificult for small vehicles

this guy did it with using several two stroke engines

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/garden/in-a-remote-part...
France, joining German Economy Minister, urges halt to trade talks with U.S
JavaScript Garbage Collection Improvements – Orinoco
Ireland isn't a sovereign country. It's an EU member state. So it's like Apple violating Federal law and saying it's okay because what they're doing is legal under California law.
Is the new, more user friendly, CLI in 16.09?
> Most people don't work hard.

Doubtless. I've even heard rumors that some miscreants collect healthy software developer salaries but just post on HN all day.
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I think you meant: precisely 1945-07-16T05:29:45−06:00
>> Well you have US Govt now arguing on behalf of Apple, which suggests that US people were not going to be the losers.

Not really. The US Govt sides with an US corporation in a conflict with a foreign government. That's not surprising and does not imply anything.
People here are commenting on Ireland (and other jurisdictions) engaging in tax arbitrage to attract companies and jobs.

Competing on tax rates and negotiating tax deals were a huge MNC like Apple pays a ridiculous 0.005% is bad: morally wrong, cuts to public services, increases unjustifiable economic inequality and is just not fair on other much smaller firms who have to pay full whack on the tax.

Apple, FBK, etc don't see it like that - they will engage in aggressive tax planning to minimise their tax, hoarding billions of dollars. And its not like they do anything productive with their cash pile; its not like it goes to higher pay checks for their Asian workers. Instead, its spent on share buybacks to prop up sagging share prices and keep Wall St happy.

Here's a better approach: tax companies on their profits and remove or reduce income tax and capital gains tax. This aligns incentives to:

1. encourage and reward founders to start new business

2. the most valuable employees tend to be mobile ones - a core EU principle is free movement so compete for the best employees by lowering taxes and giving them great public services. Companies will follow.

3. tax company profits and everyone is on the same level playing field: provides an incentive for companies to reinvest their profits into growth (and indirectly jobs).
...how have I not noticed the "learn" link before? Thanks.
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2923_en.htm

is the link to the EU press release that answers your question. Irish govt. tax deal is in violation of EU tax law and the EU recommend that the Irish govt. seek recompense to the tune of €13bn plus interest.
There are other Rebol inspired languages that may have the parse dialect but the only one that I know for certain is Red.

http://www.red-lang.org/
> This is particularly important for those paying for bandwidth as it slashes that cost by 84%

Feel sorry to read such a generic statement.

> Full (strict): CloudFlare issues the certificate and they'll intercept your traffic, but then it's all HTTPS to the origin and the cert is validated as well

Ah! Seems to say that it's ok if your certificate issuer were to be a MITM.

> What it means is that you can choose how much SSL you want ..

Interesting point. So privacy and data integrity between two parties can vary, the states being: (1) off, (2) flexible, (3) full, (4) full (strict). Amusingly, even when you choose option 4, i.e. full (strict), your certificate provider would act as a man-in-the-middle.

--

[It makes the entire article seem like a Cloudflare campaign. Thank you.]
A land value tax only taxes the lane value, not any improvements. Improvements can make it more valuable of course (e.g. via proximity to work, entertainment, subway, etc.) but the improvements are not assessed.

The idea is that taxing improvements means reducing the incentive to build and ultimately passing along the tax to renters.

A LVT doesn't allow pass through as the supply of land is fixed, and a tax cannot reduce the supply of land. It encourages more intense use of land in expensive areas and reduces land speculation.

You can think of it as a rent to the government for the land.

Growing companies who buy expensive core land are punished for making no use of the land, but if it's a soulless suburban office park or rural land kind of deal the costs are far lower.

Really what would happen is zoning would be looser as the incentives align and therefore a greater supply of housing and offices would follow, aiding growing companies.
Very true - I actually helped rewrite the JD for my own job after I'd handed in my notice. They were going to repost the one that I went for, but the nature of the role had changed so much it was almost unrecognisable (that being said, £25k for someone to do everything from sysadmin to social media, i.e. about as much full stack as you can do without writing an operating system was utter BS...).

If I wasn't still there to tell them, it'd have been total nonsense.
Ask HN: Any Product Hunt moderator here?
I want to know which is best approach for submitting a new product to Product Hunt.
Thanks for taking the time to type that up, the bits I understood were interesting and the bits I didn't have enough detail for me to do some reading. :)
Downtown is expensive, roommate is annoying, especially in small apartment. Plus, we're talking here about reducing costs in general, for for 20 year olds. We're talking about people with family, kids, jobs, etc. If you live in downtown so you don't need a car, you'll find out your groceries suddenly become much more expensive.
Isn't land already taxed?

This very much depends on your jurisdiction - the UK has local government taxation which is very roughly based on house size or commercial building use, and is capped so everything above a large family house ends up paying the same rate.

I'd be quite happy swapping the transaction tax and council tax for an ongoing property value tax, but I also know that wouldn't be very popular in the UK which is so dependent on house price inflation.

How do you tax companies which rent their office/production space?

You don't, you tax the rentier. Whether the property is let or not.

Isn't taxing land punishing companies planning for growth? It is not uncommon to buy/rent spaces which you don't need now but you know will be needed in the future?

The process of "land banking" by e.g. Tesco is controversial in itself, since it potentially results in land and buildings left idle or even rotting while everyone waits for the expansion. It obstructs the use of land by others who want to put it to immediate use.

How do you deal with real estate investors?

Real estate investment is usually heavily geared and pro-cyclical, so I'm quite happy to stick them with a tax bill. Especially if it might prevent another 2008 boom/bust cycle.

It's a form of social engineering, like everything else in the tax code, and requires a bit of attention to detail. How to avoid ruining family farmers while discouraging people from reserving vast areas for sporting estates, for example? What of property-rich but cashflow-poor pensioners (the most common objection)?
Do you think that consumer applications (like games, 3D rendering, etc. ) will eventually require FPGAs?
Not GP but:

>How do you tax companies which rent their office/production space?

You don't, you tax whoever owns the land they rent and the landowner will charge rent commensurate with the expenses he incurs (including tax) by owning the land.

>Isn't taxing land punishing companies planning for growth? It is not uncommon to buy/rent spaces which you don't need now but you know will be needed in the future?

This is already the status quo, though, except now you 'punish' corporations and people for succeeding (making a profit on investments, earning a high income etc.). I don't know how to rigorously decide whether it's worse to punish someone for owning land or to punish them for owning things that aren't land, or to punish them for being personally useful to other people (i.e. profiting from their skills and effort rather than from property that is in their name), but intuitively it seems to me that punishing, and thereby discouraging people from being useful is the worst, while punishing people for owning things is not as bad. I'm not sure how society looks when people are adverse to owning land.

>How do you deal with real estate investors?

In what sense would you have to deal with them? Their investments presumably lose most of their value if all present taxes are converted into one (high) land tax.
It's up there with "X quietly does Y" in my articles to avoid filter.
> caching optimizations (what most users care about)

Cloudflare does a really shitty job at that though, I've literally never seen them beat a reasonably configured nginx instance running on GCE or even OVH. (That is for a single instance serving both EU and US markets).

It's honestly baffling that anyone who isn't drowning in bandwidth bills would use them, but I guess antiviruses and PC optimizers are a big industry too.
The fact that it's a news story implies that it just happened.
There should be a way to turn off "Peole you may know". I actually hate this feature.
Unlikely, that they'd not recognize it; multinationals have to much leverage internationally and many have sway over the masses too.

What reasons would make you believe that?
That's exactly the puzzle!

If you'd like a hint, imagine that there are only two villagers - you're one of them, and the other one has a blue dot. A visitor tells you both "there is at least one blue". You already knew that, but did he? And what happens the following day, when you see him still alive (or don't)?
How to be on the top of HN?

"<Name> - a text editor written in <new popular programming language>"
I disagree with #2 completely where you specify a school that has majors with poor job prospects. I studied Psychology/Philosophy, specifically Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience related fields within Psychology, but the job prospects for a Psychology major are minimum entry level jobs at best unless one pursues grad school.

My plan was never to work in the field, but rather take classes that I enjoyed and could learn more to become a more well rounded individual. With that, the onus is upon the student who takes a major that does not have incredibly great outlook upon graduation to develop a plan to survive in the real world.

I'm a mid level software engineer now, and the courses I took around I/O Psychology, Human Behavior Psych and many other Social based Psychology courses have paid incredible dividends within my career.

I know n=1, but as someone who worked nearly full time through out college to afford it even with student loans I'm tired of hearing about the blame being on colleges. The student has a responsibility to harden the "f" up and prepare themself for the realities of the real world.
The problem is deciding which features are reasonable to include. Yes, location and income can probably predict race to a certain precision, and if you're building a race-detector-by-proxy, you'd want to include those. But what if you're evaluating eligibility for a mortgage? Certainly location and income are critical. A black person in East Oakland with an income below $10k is going to struggle with a mortgage, but so is a white person with those characteristics (and a black person in Connecticut making $250k is going to do fine and so is a white person). But if more black people than white legitimately are in a situation where they might struggle to service a mortgage, more black people than white would get flagged as such by an objective algorithm. Does that make the algorithm racist? The slide seems to imply so (although without speaker-notes it's difficult to ascertain).

The flip-side is that under a human-biased system, the first white person might get the mortgage based on being white, and the second black person might be denied. That would be reversed under an algorithmic system only considering legitimate factors, and surely that's progress?
GitHub Updates Privacy Statement
HTU21D comes to mind, has something like +-0.3°C, nice recent I2C device

edit: if you got time buy on Aliexpress/ebay, ada charges 4-5X for most stuff
DANE does harm HPKP. Part of the point of HPKP is that when pins are broken, browsers can punish CAs. You can't punish the TLDs that way. HPKP assumes agility. DANE removes agility.

Equally importantly: DANE doesn't actually solve any problem we have today. HPKP does. Why would you spend a penny, let alone tens of millions of dollars, to deploy something that is a step backwards for our security? What's the point?

Regarding MX records: I think you need to re-read the post, its FAQ, or the comments on this thread, because it's been addressed ad nauseam.
There are concerns at every level about the decisions coming from Docker, Inc. and there have been consistent issues for a long time. Swarm is just the latest issue, and the arguably the worst, since none of the key decisions are defensible - Why is it there in the core product? Why was it added in a point release? Why was it included at all when it is clearly not stable? Did any major contributor outside Docker, Inc. have any input into this?

Ultimately, forking is what happens when the contributors can't work with the maintainer, and it seems pretty clear that Docker, Inc. can't act as responsible maintainers.
Why Race Relations Got Worse: Our Conversations Are Increasingly Tribalistic
Assuming the title hasn't changed... I don't see it?

The confusion of a garden path sentence is caused by a prefix being parsed differently from the final sentence, but "Handwritten math expression" parses as one would expect here.
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They had a legal agreement with the Irish government. Your gripe should be with the latter.

Overseas businesses negotiate with foreign governments and their offerings (tax, employment and other possible advantages) to the foreign country from that government's point of view, will vary.

I guess, to put it bluntly, no one in government cares if your small business relocates in Ireland or not but they do care if Apple does. That's life. They should therefore be able to make special arrangements if this is definitely in the interests of the Irish nation. Ireland will argue that their arrangement was within EU law but the courts will decide. Of course if public disquiet (as in your understandable reaction) is intense thanks to 'special arrangements' then a balance has to be struck.
Technically illegal to use school loans for things like cars or houses.
How a country chooses to tax, and where and on who the tax burden falls, is a political matter, and thus has a moral dimension.
Some gems in here

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It's not a straw man: the EU itself is claiming it - that's what the entire thread is about. If the EU isn't claiming that low taxes are "state aid" then why are they using state aid rules to try and enforce a tax rise?

in practise, Walmart giving you a $10 bill after you buy a $100 item has the same effect as giving you a $10 discount on the item

I guess you meant a $90 discount? But regardless, the wordplay is on your side: if Walmart charge you $10 for an item then by definition that item costs $10. If they charge other people more, perhaps because they don't have a loyalty card, that doesn't mean they're giving you "aid" under any normal definition of the term as they're still charging you money. Aid would be if they gave away their products for free, or explicitly made a donation to some cause. Merely having differential pricing isn't "aid" for the same reason that an airline charging me less to fly economy isn't "aid", nor is it a discount.
Yeah, I know. I've already fixed it.
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