skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted this in the other thread on the subject but it's worth repeating here: Apple does not actually have any subsidiaries in the British Virgin Islands (or any other Caribbean island), and (despite common belief) it has not actually moved its intellectual property offshore.

Apple's international tax structure was thoroughly documented when they were called up to testify before the Senate, which you can read about in the Senate Subcommittee Memo on Offshore Profit Shifting and Apple[1], and while they do have several Irish subsidiaries, they do not have any subsidiaries in the Caribbean or move any money into the Caribbean.

This is further reinforced in Apple's testimony before the Senate[2]:

> Apple does not move its intellectual property into offshore tax havens and use it to sell products back into the US in order to avoid US tax; it does not use revolving loans from foreign subsidiaries to fund its domestic operations; it does not hold money on a Caribbean island; and it does not have a bank account in the Cayman Islands. Apple has substantial foreign cash because it sells the majority of its products outside the US. International operations accounted for 61% of Apple’s revenue last year and two-thirds of its revenue last quarter. These foreign earnings are taxed in the jurisdiction where they are earned (“foreign, post-tax income”).

[1] http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/download/?id=CDE3652B-DA4E-4EE1-...

[2] https://www.apple.com/pr/pdf/Apple_Testimony_to_PSI.pdf
Sure. There was a new FCC ruling that based it's decision on a much more legally sound law.

The FCC is allowed to regulate telecommunication services strictly. Right now it takes a sort of a hands off approach, but they have broad authority to make rules. Before 2015, the FCC considered ISPs to be "information services" instead of "telecommunication services." So the first time the FCC proposed net neutrality rules, it tried to apply them under the "information services" framework.

The Court in 2010 (I think) found that the FCC didn't have the power to regulate "information services" so harshly. So the court canceled their net neutrality rules.

So last year the FCC reclassified ISPs as telecommunication services. Since they are allowed to harshly regulate those services, it's considered very likely to upheld by the court this time.

The only chance it gets struck down is if the court thinks the FCC was clearly wrong about ISPs being a telecommunication service. But the law is pretty clear that are. But I think some ISPs are still fighting it.
Oh yeah, absolutely hard to gauge and what you say might be the intended outcome (50% of marketing budget is wasted, but which half yadda yadda...).

But the other part of me refuses to believe that such an action was taken with no planned feedback loop. It has to be damn expensive since music videos are one of the few pieces of media that people choose to watch more than twice and are short enough that your paid spot will get way more % screen time than a movie or TV show.
And why are they even visible? There's no value in seeing the link URL, so they should just make the relevant text the link like everyone in the world does.
>also really liked the search strategy. first try all the things already approved by the fda to find something, even if not 100% fast.

Yup. On the one hand it's unfortunate that they have to do this at all, on the other hand this may be a larger innovation than the Zika treatments themselves.

In the long run if this approach can be applied to other diseases it'll save many lives.
That's not weird. As a driver of a car, you control much more destructive and lethal potential than someone with a 9mm handgun. (You can even quantify that in terms of kinetic energy.)
Don't forget the circus: http://circus.fsu.edu
Yes, I was talking about this. Irregex is much better than RX, nowadays, however. Shinn did a really good job.
Makes sense. But they've shown no staying power in any of their other long term initiatives. Google Fibre (halving staff). Self driving car (looking for investors/partners). Robotics (disinvesting). Google+ (firing the boss after 2 years). Glass (debacle buried under the carpet). Motorola (flipped for a few billion pronto and now struggling). Shopping (trounced by Amazon). Cloud? (for second place, Microsoft Azure is ripping them a new one). Music/Video premium services? (spare me as my eyes roll towards anybody else). And they're now miraculously going to do Uber? Which requires enormous long term financial commitment? With the above record? Unlikely. This company knows how to do ads, and that's it. It fails at everything else.
couldn't find at a glance wheter it has the same read after write issue of s3, or in general what the consistency is.

also, failure and backup modes.
Then people will stop using it and they'll address it. A lot of drivers are part time and use it just to supplement their income.
We need to tip in America because the prevalent attitude here is "I don't get paid enough for this shit." It's not so much about paying people a living wage, as much as changing the way people view their jobs and obligations.

Everyone wants to change the world, but how many people will actually pick up a stray piece of trash and throw it in a bin?
Where did the author express a desire for a picture with a majority of people of color and women? Because I didn't get that at all.

The closest I found was her desire to see there is another woman of color so that she isn't the first.
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SRE might help. It's pretty nice, if you like parens.
Yikes. Hope I don't run into one of these when I graduate. :/
Strike UK if you plan to be around more than a couple of years. :(
From the PDF linked:

"If the transient claimed by Bursov et al. (2016) originates from beyond the Earth, then, given what we currently know of the parameters of the RATAN search, such events ought to be common. The fact that they are not frequently seen in continuum imaging surveys suggests that the RATAN transient is likely due to instrumental interference or to some other artifact of human technology. While absence of evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence is by no means evidence of absence, our GBT observations did not detect ongoing emission from the direction of HD 164595..."
I can't tell if you're continuing the jocular tone of your parent or if you're serious that this is the concern that actually came to your mind first. I charitably hope it's the first.
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Awesome project! I'm a big fan of using econometric methods in Quantified Self -type analysis.

A couple of thoughts on your regressions:

Keeping holidays in the data seems counterintuitive. I'm fairly sure just from eyeing the graphs that the increase in your work week might reach statistical significance if you were to use a regression method more resistant to outliers, like Least Trimmed Squares.

Another idea - in microeconometrics it's standard to use some type of Poisson regression four count data, which this could potentially qualify as.

And furthermore, I would have loved to see some sort of distributed lag model of the timeseries (or at least a scatterplot of all activities against each other) to see which ones tend to co-occur.
These institutes charge excessively high fees for poor education....and funnel that money into more marketing, lobbying, or investor pockets.

These institutes typically recruit anyone eligible for a government student loan and lobby hard for the ability to recieve them.

When the student fails (common), the school keeps the loan and the student owes the feds. If he graduates, the school still wins becuase they spead very little on education unlike a traditional non-profit.

Its a textbook definition of a con game.
I think SRE is a bit nicer than TXR's regex format, but it's the same idea.
> Honestly I wish they wouldn't try to compete on price.

Waze Carpool is more targeted at actual ridesharing (and designed specifically to support to/from work carpooling), not a taxi service using "ridesharing" as a misleading name.

Its not really trying to compete with price as it is offering a slightly different service (its kind of like UberPOOL, except its really focusing on -- though not strictly limited to -- the case where the driver is also one of the passengers with a need to go to the destination, or from the source, or, ideally, approximately both.)
"Kim Dotcom's extradition appeal will be livestreamed, however all footage must be removed from the internet after the hearing ends."

The judge obviously doesn't know how the Internet works, but I applaud his efforts.
Interesting project name. The authors seem to be telling us something about their philosophy of education :)
That makes sense. I misunderstood that part of the article.
Anime flashbacks...
If you've had a nice ride than it makes sense to tip but no one should feel pressured out of obligation.
Kaz is right.

Now if only I made this joke first...
I have to disagree with your assessment of people in California. Having lived in the MidWest, New England, the South, and out West, I can say that the people in California (at least in Los Angeles where I am) are very friendly. I chat with them in the store and at the pump all the time. I can also say that it is the place where it matters the least what you look like when you talk to people you don't know. Skin color, clothing, etc. don't really seem to change people's attitudes too much here, whereas those other places all had very strict expectations of how people doing certain things should look.

I've also found that people here are far less afraid to try new and different combinations of just about anything - clothing, food, working with people from different disciplines. It's fascinating.

I'd bet that most of our impressions just come down to the luck of who we met when we lived in these different places. But my experiences definitely don't match yours. (My experiences in Arizona have been unmemorable. People seemed "normal" to me - neither rude nor overly friendly. I'll be going back next month, so we'll see if my impressions change one way or the other.)
At that point, isn't the question whose family sues you for malpractice?
EDIT: Oh, nevermind.
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Frankly, I think that was the intention of the person who coined the term "living wage". But that's perfectly fine. It's like saying "pro-life" instead of saying "anti-choice". Use whatever phrase helps you get your message across.

I'm not in the habit of saying "living wage," but if I wanted to say, "a person can't live on 5 dollars an hour" in a pithy manner, that's what I'd say. A literal-minded person might get annoyed at that, but most people understand that it's an ethical statement, not a literal one.
The OP was being sarcastic.
"What you propose is to guide society by deliberately lowering the pay of teachers and nurses "

No, I'm not. So your response has lost all credibility right there.
Branding plays are notoriously hard to measure the impact of because they simply lack the ability to consistently track the touchpoint on the path to conversion. And even then there is the question of how to weight it along with all the others. View-throughs should never be given 100% credit.

If there is anyone who has cracked the nut on how to justify branding efforts to management on an ROI basis I'd love to pick your brain. Arguably one of the hardest problems in marketing today.
You can also list sites and domains. I hope it is helpful.
Yes, and the cafeteria is run by people who take actions.
> I didn't write that comment, but in my opinion net neutrality is mostly a solution in search of a problem.

Net neutrality is (partial) remedy for lack of competition. Cure that and a lot of the reasons for net neutrality disappear. However, it is not realistic to expect true competition in the US telecoms market anytime soon.

One reason a lot of people see net neutrality as a solution in search of a problem is that net neutrality was the default before and it hasn't been egregiously abused to date. I'm sure a lot of people will agree it's a problem once they get some first hand experience of it.

> Hypothetically, ISPs could try extorting and controlling the entire internet, but realistically it's not going to work.

I don't know. Comcast seems to be doing a pretty good job at it in the US.

> I'm more concerned about app neutrality. Apple is extorting 30% from app makers and enforces rules to ensure their dominance over my phone.

You do know you can sideload apps on your phone?
I would argue for reducing the unit rather than increasing it.

> Perhaps that's more important than disclosing per se.

I respectfully disagree, I don't support any ulterior or non-marked advertising. I'd rather see legislation that bans paid product placement in movies than reduced disclosure rules. But that's just me being an angry old man.
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Just hit the delete button from youtube, and it's gone. What are you talking about.
Yes, Windows 10 has this now, just as Ubuntu with its "Print to File". But Windows 7 and 8 don't have this feature.
> Lookup tables

This one also seems a bit iffy to me, depending on the stage of compilation, how often this code runs, how much information the engine is able to collect, and the size of your table. The initial unoptimized property lookups will likely be slower than if/else statements, and the engine may end up optimizing them with inline caches, which are essentially a chain of if/else comparisons and jumps between dynamically generated code stubs.

> Try-catch

Yep, SpiderMonkey does optimize this case.
Google is pushing "Progressive Web Apps" and "mobile first" really hard... such that the desktop experience is horrible. I love the idea of web apps that load quickly on 3G connections, but not only is it not happening (Google products take a while to load), they look awful in a big monitor.
That doesn't seem to be very important. It's not the doctor who wants privacy.

The people who want privacy allowed Facebook to scrape their contact lists and monitor their locations. They then expected Facebook not to correlate this data with others who contact and visit the same doctor. Why not?
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You left out probably the biggest culprit- modern, highly-processed foods
Why would you pay to carpool to/from work instead of arranging carpool with a coworker, paying for your share of gas directly, and cutting out 1) the (future) middleman 2) the tax man?
Many of the models people are building here, such as generative image models, take a few days to train (say, 100 hours) on our 4 GPU boxes. Research would be faster if we could train on 400 GPUS in one hour, but the communication bandwidth required makes it hard to scale.
From the article: Ren also wants to choreograph the surgery with cadavers and, as a final test, swap the heads of two brain-dead donors.
>> if you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a 'new boy' in another.

> The tone suggests that old people have "had enough" of this disappointing world, but I'll suggest a different view.

I read it differently - not that the older person has had enough, but rather that they count their experience so valuable that they don't want to start again without it. At the age of 27, I definitely don't want to relive the trauma I went through in my teens and early twenties as I learned to navigate relationships and look after my wellbeing. I'd love to have a young body forever, but that experience is worth a lot.
So trying to classify Ireland a tax haven isn't correct. It might be popular amongst certain political classes and media in the US to do so but it doesn't stack up. Ireland has a flat corporation tax rate of 12.5%. Many other EU countries have rates which can, and often do, end up even lower. Look at France for example where the tax rate drops down to an effective 8% for many of the CAC40 companies (according to the OECD).

The 0.005% rate is NOT the corporate tax rate Ireland charged Apple, its the rate Apple managed wrangle on all their European wide profits by arranging their corporate structures to take advantage of various loopholes in several countries, not just in Ireland. This was perfectly legal under Irish, EU and importantly, US law at the time. Now the EU wants to effectively rewrite history and even the US agrees with Irelands position on this.
Wow, a place where you can run away and join the circus and fulfill your parents expectations of being a doctor.
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Class quality varies greatly by program but they are notorious for recruiting people who can barely read or will pass since the real goal is aquiring their hefty federal student loan allowance.

So either classes are dumbed down so they can eventually graduate or fail many leaving them with a gigantic loan amount(most schools try to max this out) and no education cert.

Also, they tend to pay fairly low for teacher faculty while having little prestige or oversight: quality is unlikely in this environment.

However they have top notch recruiting and sale teams.
I made no promises of either free or low.
Thanks! That "Print to File" is provided by the operating system, not Firefox. I'm on Windows 7, where the operating system doesn't provide this. Yet Chrome provides it itself.
I wish people cared about exploiting others, but they just don't seem to care, unless exploitation is so appalling it makes them look terrible. Even then--they rationalize, and go into denial.
The Bay Area does casual carpool without it ever being in the news. It's been going on for decades. I took it almost every day for 3 years and never had an issue.

It sounds like Google might be tapping into the strong community that exists rather than starting something new.
Which is why it exists - to reduce tax avoidance by holing up in tax-friendly jurisdictions away from Uncle Sam.
as a practical matter, i don't believe it's possible to have "optional" tipping that doesn't create obligation (even if that would be desirable).

either you create a cultural norm where tipping isn't allowed or expected, which Uber has effectively done, or you have a situation like restaurants, where the tip may as well be part of the price, unless you're cool being the asshole who doesn't tip, which most people aren't.

if tipping is an option, through a kind of cultural game-theoretic pressure, the situation will always devolve into the restaurant norm. at least that's how it is in the states, and short of massive cultural changes i don't see that changing.
We use S3 for our hosted version - but for our on-premise offering it simply has to be 100% on-premise, entirely on our client's infrastructure.
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As a daily user of G+, this is great news! I am so tired of micromanaging characters on Twitter. I just want to express an idea sometimes without using extra CPU cycles. I only have so many of those available each day and I don't want to use them on Twitter.

It just needs more users. It is great to follow developers on.

Here is a seed list of active G+ users that may be relevant to you (remember how empty it was when you first signed up for Twitter? You had to follow some seed people...):

https://plus.google.com/+ElijahLynn (Elijah Lynn, myself, web developer)
https://plus.google.com/110558071969009568835 (Koushik Dutta, Android dev)
https://plus.google.com/+JonoBaconProfile (Jono Bacon, former community manager for Ubuntu)
https://plus.google.com/+ChrisWeber (web developer)
https://plus.google.com/110043970153071176315 (Chad McCullough, Linux/BSD guy)
https://plus.google.com/+UrsHölzle (Sr. VP of Tech Infrastructure @ Google)
https://plus.google.com/+DerekRoss (Phandroid)
https://plus.google.com/+KirillGrouchnikov (User interface engineer on the Android project at Google)
https://plus.google.com/+LukeWroblewski (Author of Mobile First, Product Director @ Google)
https://plus.google.com/+BensonLeung (USB cable guy, Google)
https://plus.google.com/+DaedTech (Software Engineer, Writer)
https://plus.google.com/+IlyaGrigorik (Performance Engineer at Google)
https://plus.google.com/+DanielleBuckley (G+ Team at Google)
https://plus.google.com/+ChetHaase (Sr. Software Engineer at Google)
https://plus.google.com/+GoogleChromeDevelopers
https://plus.google.com/+google
https://plus.google.com/+GoogleMaps
https://plus.google.com/+JonathanZacsh (Software Engineer)
https://plus.google.com/+AddyOsmani (Engineer at Google)
https://plus.google.com/+DonnaPeplinskie (Front end developer)
https://plus.google.com/+NityaNarasimhan (Engineer, Consultant)
https://plus.google.com/+IanHickson (author and maintainer of the Acid2 and Acid3 tests, Google)
https://plus.google.com/+JeffreyZeldman (A List Apart)

Not active but still:
https://plus.google.com/+LarryPage
https://plus.google.com/+SergeyBrin
https://plus.google.com/+EricSchmidt (former CEO at Google)
https://plus.google.com/+SundarPichai (CEO at Google)
Thanks! Might this be provided by the operating system as well (instead of Firefox)?
SNOBOL, AWK, and TXR are all pretty cool: Pick your swiss army knife.
You asked a yes or no question, so there should be little surprise that's most of what you received. Interestingly, my response was the only one that wasn't a simple yes or no.

I wasn't dismissing your question and I wasn't baiting you.

My point was to get the information needed to offer a substantive response, which you confirmed is what you are seeking.

If you are hoping for more I think you need to at least take steps to make that possible, i.e. provide more information, respond to the questions asked, rephrase the question to not make it a yes or no response, etc.
What alternatives are there for unskilled laborers?

I'm pretty sure Uber drivers make more than minimum wage (barely) after expenses and it seems like much more comfortable and fun than flipping burgers or working at Walmart.
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In every Uber ride I've been in recently, my driver's used Waze for navigation.
You're not wrong. Does it seem likely, though?

I mean, at this point you're asking Facebook to do something which is directly inimical to its interests, in that people opting out of "local friend discovery" truncates its social graph, or at least reduces the weights it can put on some edges, and thus makes its information less valuable for targeted advertising.

It would be nice to imagine that the people who make such decisions would make that one out of the goodness of their hearts. I do not think this likely. In the absence of a strong financial incentive to do otherwise, I would expect to see things go on pretty much as they have been, i.e., getting gradually worse over time. Threatening Facebook employees with physical harm seems like a severely counterproductive strategy toward applying such an incentive, but I'm not sure what to suggest in its place, because I've tended more in the direction of finding ways to convince people the problem actually exists - itself a regrettable necessity.
And indeed, six days later they announce their formal plans to release the code as open source

http://inessential.com/2016/08/30/vesper_sync_shutdown_tonig...
I don't think "of exceptional or temporary network congestion..." means "at will".

Recital 15, attached to the article 3(3)c, goes to great length defining what exceptional means, that such traffic may be managed, temporarily, only if it was unpredictable, unavoidable, and short duration, or it damages network reactivity. It clearly states that such management is not a replacement for upgrading bandwidth, both mobile and fixed. And even then they cannot prejudice specific traffic, just an entire class of it, again, only temporarily.