skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, maybe a little, but the real influence on GURPS was Metagaming's "The Fantasy Trip" (aka Melee/Wizard) -- not surprising because Steve Jackson (the US one, not the UK one) was the main designer of both "The Fantasy Trip" and GURPS.
All of that will go back to Ireland's national debt repayments under EU rules from what I understand, which includes large repayments due to the EU for the recent loans provided to Ireland for propping up banks, so really EU is collecting this money by proxy of Ireland. Interesting play.
Thankfully that craziness is starting to be unwound:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/25/university-of-chi...
I normally reply to people who cart this argument out: "so you're ok with someone following you around with a camera videoing you? At work....in the toilet....in the bedroom...?"

Privacy != doing something wrong.
TLDR#1: The investigation still didn't reveal exactly how this happened.

TLDR#2: The recommendation to "prevent" these issues on the individuals side is, "Lisa’s medical community has started recommending that patients concerned about privacy not log into Facebook or other social media accounts at medical offices, or even leave their phones in their cars during appointments. "

This is about as practical as recommending people just figure out how to fly and occasionally levitate into the upper atmosphere to go out of the cell tower's range, move a few kilometers west, and then fly back down to earth to scramble all these tracking algorithms.
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"Ireland must now recover the unpaid taxes in Ireland from Apple for the years 2003 to 2014 of up to €13 billion, plus interest." (from the official press release)
>Unfortunately there is so little time and no time for any grand works unless you already showed some promise at early age (ala Thompson).

Well, there are several artists that started out of nowhere in their 30s or 40s or even 50+. Especially in novel writing, this has been quite common.
This is why I built Reading Mode as a Chrome extension (https://github.com/srpeck/readingmode) - you can switch from modern browser to HTML only.
Jeez, an effective tax rate on profits in Ireland of 0.005% is pretty inexcusable.
And/or a mix, here are two full pop songs that are just commercials (intel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBxW22JLUmg and (amoled screens) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRxylJho898. Not Japanese though.

I wonder if these songs suck when you know the language. For me they sound good and have their place in my playlist.
Debt, not depth ;)
He took his lack of success so badly that he ended up changing his surname to McDonald, just to get out from under Roald's shadow.
Yeah, that´s probably part of my problem with this.
Until of course some journalist started digging deep into Schmidt, than the tune was completely different.
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Works great when it does, fails miserably when it doesn't.

For example, it doesn't seem to know about matrices. That's fine, but when you enter one, it comes up with spectacular failures. I got integrals (probably because an integral sign somewhat matches the 'opening parenthesis' of a matrix) i^i, cases where it almost randomly stringed together parts of a matrix, etc.
Appreciate the reply.

"But wouldn't people have made the same claim before literacy and math skills were (almost) universal? And wouldn't they actually have been right? "

Good point.

"People should learn enough programming to be able to understand how the world works."

Ah, I was responding to the assertion that every should be a programmer. I might have misinterpreted this to mean professionally rather than passing knowledge.

"But overall, I think the goal should be to ..."

I agree, and I do get frustrated when people are surprised that their cloud storage files are on someone elses hard drive, or other similar situations. They really need to understand the implications of their decisions. And it would be good to give them another way to look at problems, another tool to use.

"As for other subjects to throw out? Sure, throw out woodworking and electronics classes ... Microsoft product endorsement classes"

Hmmm. Not sure I disagree, but woodworking is a valuable skill, and I think its important for people to be exposed to different types of careers so they can make an informed choice. My dad does woodworking for a hobby, and I would rather have nice handcrafted furniture available, rather than cheap plywood crap. I suppose they could learn to program cnc routers, and make beautiful machine crafted furniture. Not sure what you mean by electronics classes? As far as the office classes, there are people who really struggle with computers, and teaching them skills they will need in an office is useful. Maybe teaching them some basic ui design principles would do more to enable them to learn these programs, and others?
How much is that at a macro level? Is it relevant at all?
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Apple paid taxes according to Irish laws. Is it Apple's problem that Irish law disagrees with EC agreements? (Seems to be Ireland's problem.)

If people want companies to pay certain taxes, they should vote for politicians that pass laws that require companies to pay those taxes..

In any case, we should be taxing land value. That's harder to avoid: you can't hide land.
Facebook must understand how weird that sounds. How can they not know why people are recommended to each other?

They really do need to dig into the issue, if in fact they don't know. Because something seriously need to be excluded from their recommendation algorithm if the article is true.
She may think that the problems associated with sexism in the workplace aren't solved yet, so feminism is relevant to her working life, whether she likes it or not. Or she may just find the subject interesting and enjoy writing about it.

Is there some reason you find the subject especially irritating? And did any of the other tangential things she mentions--Star Trek, deafness, Canada, etc.--provoke the same reaction?
I don't think this was planned but it could become a great bait and switch scam for countries.

1. Negotiate special tax privileges for a company

2. Have them set up shop in your country

3. Allow them to pay little tax for several years

4. Have federal authority sue saying that the deal in #1 is illegal

5. Collect back taxes based on normal tax rate and not the special deal in #1
So this works out at about 20% of the EU/IMF bailout amount or 6% of total Irish national debt.
Why? 0% tax on profits would seem fair and reasonable.

(There's lots of stuff that's not taxed. Eg not a lot of people complain about not taxing capital gains of home owner/occupiers.)
How would I use a 3d denoiser with ffmpeg? Any tips?
AIUI the money is owed to Ireland but Ireland originally refused it, EC is now saying "no, really, you have to take it". Might be followed up by Ireland getting into trouble if they unfairly benefited from the deal?

That said, I think Ireland owes the ECB money too, so they'll probably use that money to repay their debt?

EDIT: Corrected EU->ECB as pointed out below.
The choice of "sex slave" as an example of a bad situation isn't why you're getting downvoted. You're getting downvoted because, in context, you seem to be labeling customer service representatives, models, sales associates, waitresses, and strippers as "sex slaves". You should blame yourself for that, not your audience; the inference is conventional, and is plausible in large part specifically because those are jobs that call for smiling. (Though even more so for models and strippers.)
I don't see how that would work (at least in Europe). Companies know now that the EC is going to come after them eventually unless they have their head buried in the sand and didn't hear today's news.
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Apple is paying taxes in US? Interesting...
They will not collect back 100% anyway, maybe maybe 1/3 of the total amount.
From the press release:

> The amount of unpaid taxes to be recovered by the Irish authorities would also be reduced if the US authorities were to require Apple to pay larger amounts of money to their US parent company for this period to finance research and development efforts.

I wonder how much of the 14B could be offset by this? I suppose there's a chance that it all might be.
Yeah, for a long time I couldn't listen to O Fortuna without thinking of the commercial with the ship.

Joke's on them, though: I could never remember the actual product being advertised!
Working well can also mean that the sector doesn't exist when it shouldn't.

But to give an example: lots of people in lots of countries traditionally get support from their families for education and are expected to help out their parents financially later in life. This kind of financing never even hits the markets---but on the other hand, parents are probably the people knowing their kids the best.
And how is 0% tax on profits fair and reasonable exactly?
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Because the Pub next door pays a higher effective tax
0% tax on profits would be fair for whom? Definitely not the citizen.
Are your ansible scripts available, as this sounds an awesome setup?

Thanks.
I've been thinking about this a lot recently as we come to hire our third software engineer, in a company which historically hasn't valued their engineers - but with our help has changed a lot in the last year. With myself being the technical team lead going forward, it's important for me that my engineers understand what they will be doing and what value they provide to us, so I've been leaning towards the following:

We're looking for a senior software engineer with PHP experience who is interested in learning Golang in the near future. You don't have to enjoy working in Magento, as we're stripping out as much as possible, but a knowledge of Zend Framework 1 or 2 would be a significant benefit.

We've worked on some cool problems recently, like converting our monolithic architecture to auto-scaling EC2 instance groups, moving our local development from using a "dev.domain.com" domain to Vagrant (and soon, Docker across the stack) and writing custom security monitoring tools for our various bespoke applications.

Outside of the every day work of managing our E-commerce websites, you have fairly unlimited scope for the projects you work on, as long as the team sees value in the idea. You get one day per week to work on whatever you want and to experiment with new languages.

We don't currently allow remote working, but we're in talks with the MD to allow us to work from home one day per week, with a view to increase this going forward.

Your hours are fixed, you're expected to leave at 5.30, though very occasionally you will get a call out of hours if you're on call (which is a voluntary, paid schedule.)
Or they'll settle this so Apple pays $200 millions max in the end.
Every country in Europe has some sort of wacky tax exception for multinationals. Every state is locked in this race to the bottom with its neighbouring countries.

It's great that there is a supra-national authority forcing the states to cooperate on getting multinationals to pay reasonable taxes, because it wouldn't happen otherwise.
The money paid will go to Ireland. Ireland allowed Apple to structure its tax affairs in a way that reduced their tax bill which is a great incentive to maintain a presence there.

The EU has now determined this was an illegal tax benefit provided by Ireland, so Ireland must now collect the tax as if it had done so at the time. There is no penalty but interest must be paid.

This is not your normal run of the mill tax avoidance case (or a fraud as you've mentioned) although it appears to look the same. This was Apple benefiting from decisions taken by Ireland that Ireland should not have made.
Because other companies pay about 20%.

If you want to completely reform our taxation system, sure, whatever. But that doesn't impact Apple's liability under the current one.
I thought Ireland had exited the EFSF http://www.efsf.europa.eu/about/operations/ireland/index.htm so the Irish national debt is now just generic open-market bonds rather than particular debts?
I'm not sure how they get it at all, except via contact list mining. It makes sense that the doctor's phone number is part of her Facebook account. It does not make sense that her patients, who have not added her as a "friend" there, would nonetheless have explicitly told Facebook her number from their end. (I don't even think that's a thing you can do.)
Pro tip: you are responsible for libraries you use in your code.

Unless another engineer literally committed against your codebase and broke something:

It's always your fault.

This reads like your typical javascript dev -- knows nothing and takes no responsibility
Well, of course. He did say "you", after all.
This is NOT a fraud and any characterisation of it being so is ridiculous and wrong.

Apple followed the law. End of story. The issue is that the EU found that the law was illegal under state aid rules.
6% of total Irish national debt...

I wonder how much Irelands payroll taxes would have been were the corporations not to have set up shop in Ireland, they would have just gone somewhere with a decent tax arrangement.

Unemployment in the 70's and 80's was brutal in Ireland, personally, I think the government at the time made the right choice, however, this "selective treatment" allowed Apple to pay tax rate of 1% on European Union profits in 2003 down to 0.005% in 2014, FFS.
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I would be nice if it was possible to convert both ways so you could use it to explain existing regex.
> or LinkedIN transactional emails?

Certainly not the only one to think of LinkedIn; http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/signal...
I didn't think that quote would be true.

Confirmed true here -

http://92yondemand.org/gene-wilder-truth
Jungle, outback, and tundra environments have flying cars. They're called bush planes.

They land on rough, largely unimproved strips, or bare dirt, snow, or water. No, you don't drive them much, other than taxiing around the landing zone or airport, these are places with few or no roads, or far too many miles to go between spaces.

Australia, Alaska, Brazil, and similar places.

If you're interested in take-off and landing capabilities, there are truly impressive videos to be found on YouTube. With an unloaded plane and steep slope or high wind, a roll of 5-7 meters is possible.

The cars that tend to drive in such areas are heavy and robust -- Land Rovers, Jeeps, and technicals. Those make poor planes. Any aircraft subject to road conditions would shake itself to pieces.

Put landing strips where you need them and fly to them. It's far more effective. Given the terrain, it's also actually not all that more fuel-consumptive, see earlier comments about effective aircraft fuel efficiency.
McCLIM still living? That's very surprising and very, very cool.

Pity that it didn't get more active when there was the phase of the "Young Lispers" a few years back. I fear this project will continue to suffer from missing mindshare.
If they have to take it (after the expected appeals by both Apple and Ireland) they will not be able to use it in the national budget. It will be used to draw down on the national debt, so ya could very well end up going back to the EC or more accurately the EC.
Especially since odds are the data being correlated comes from the contact lists in her patients' phones. Even successfully confounding geolocation won't solve that.
If you tax something, you get less of it. Either because you actually really get less of it, or because you encourage clever accounting. (Just look up Hollywood accounting..)

People making profit isn't something we need to discourage.

How about taxing CO2 emissions and eg alcohol consumption instead? (Something we can live with less off.)

And the old classic: put most of the tax burden on unimproved land value. Land's supply is fixed, so there's no economic impact at all.
The BMP180 temperature sensor sports a +-2°C temperature accuracy.

That's too much for my sensibilities.

The DHT22's accuracy is +-0.5°.

Does anybody know of more accurate sensors (+-0.1°) suitable for usage wit the ESP8266?
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It's just hit me, I don't feel that anything really exciting and innovative has come from Apple for a long time.

Is this what the computer industry's leading company has become?
They sell alcohol after all.

But fair point. And because the bigger players who can hire expensive accountants can always mask their profits, we shouldn't tax profits. It's too malleable. Hey, even VAT is a better tax.
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Actually, it makes perfect sense even for large companies to buy software.
According to this document [1] the revenue form "Taxes on personal income, profits and gains" in 2014 was €15B.

[1] http://www.oecd.org/ctp/consumption/revenue-statistics-and-c...
> I never liked writing HTML or CSS in the first place

I also did not like the split between code and markup and or style.

> build my front-end out of regular functions, which I can compose however I want using regular code

Yes, me too! I want to share what I found.

PureScript. Has some nice libs like Thermite (React under the hood) and Halogen (no React, plain PureScript, cleaner). And much more then these two...

Elm. Has the batteries included. Nice lib in this language is elm-css, which makes CSS/HTML styling symbols typesafe!

GHCJS. The heavy weight. Compiles Haskell to JS (Elm and PureScript merely inspired by Haskell). Coming along quite well, may not be very ready for production. Lots of interesting libraries. Big lib here is Reflex.
The company "job sonic" posted something on its Facebook confirming that they will be suing a former employee for the medium post..

Thats confirmation in my book
What actually happened between IE and AAPL is on the verge of extortion and bribery - the only difference is not on personal level but on Gov vs Bus.

We should heavily penalise this, as AAPL literally stole money from both US and EU people. Because of this arrangement: Apple paid less taxes in US, hence US people have worse roads, healthcare etc. To the same in EU (but here by bad IE decision). Money taken is on AAPL accounts now.

Long story short:
Apple promised IE to incorporate there, to do a lot of business through IE, to open job positions. In exchange they asked for low special tax. They also said: if no low tax for us, we will do all this things in different country.

Questions:
1. how far is this from extortion? Should we allow this?
2. did IE gov make a good decision (14mld is of lesser value than apple benefits given to IE) ?
3. why this was decided non publicly?
4. should we allow corpos to make such decisions (dodge taxes) ?
How are you still denying that a covert military operation to seize land from another country is the very definition of an unprovoked military invasion.

Unless "provocation" to you includes "they started to like America?"
The phonebook hypothesis seems most plausible to me (especially considering that WhatsApp is owned by facebook). All those apps gaining access to a phonebook is a privacy disaster.
Two things: One, it's not moronic at all. Modern China and 1980s Japan are very much in a similar economic position. And two, your comment did nothing to challenge that assertion.
Is it Apple's problem that Irish law disagrees with EC agreements?

Yes. To the tune of €13bn.

At the scale Apple operates their legal team should be considering whether the deals they negotiate are legal in all the applicable jurisdictions, not just the local one. The Irish government should also have done a better job, so part of the blame lies with them, but that doesn't free Apple of all responsibility.

In any case, we should be taxing land value. That's harder to avoid: you can't hide land.

You can hide who owns it.
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Facebook will happily slurp your entire contact list even if you're not FB friends with all of them. And the algorithms almost certainly know and take into account having someone in your contacts as a way to build a graph of relationships.
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Indeed, it keeps trying to interpret it as a sum. Though perhaps the pi symbol is confusing it. I actually have an archive of all my physics degree notes - it'll be interesting to see how well it handles them (e.g. equations not written with it in mind, at all)
Why they won't collect all the due taxes?
Isn't this because electric drive has high power output, but that this comes at a severe cost in range?

Moller is probably most effective at having developed very high power-weight rotary engine technology. Fuel consumption is high, and the things are noisy as hell. I've watched development for over 25 years, and he's no closer to commercialisation than he was in 1989, for much the same reasons. It's nostalgic to see the occasional press mention though.
not surprising really, I have often written software, returned a decade later and had to unravel why it does what it does, even though I am one person and it's just a few thousand lines of code, I can well imagine the FB system is too complex for any individual to inspect, and if the record keeping and documentation on the whys as well as the hows is incomplete then we are we are...
A wide array of concerns, but I stopped reading when the article explains that algorithms are going to keep people from being aware that poor people exist. If the only awareness someone has of poverty is from the Internet ads or any other content, then they really don't know anything about it at all. This sounds more like the people that protested computers in the 60's because they are used for war.
How is it obscure? It's easy to read and vividly says what it means.
Actually it is the most reasonable thing for them to say. Anything more specific would be a privacy violation in itself.
What I don't fully understand is why Apple is fined instead of Ireland.

Edit: Maybe "fined" is not the correct term for this, but my understanding is that Ireland had granted Apple tax benefits which they shouldn't have granted. Isn't Ireland in the wrong here, rather than Apple?
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Alcohol is already heavily taxed

> People making profit isn't something we need to discourage.

Who is discouraging it?
I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't know. They also don't know how timelines are generated.

Strange place.
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In 2014 Apple's effective tax rate was 0.005%. That is 5 cents for every $1000 in profits.

Even a patent troll could do better than Ireland...
What is it with the use of the word "just" in headlines over the past few years? They're not going full-on "you won't believe what happens next", but it seems like it's a form of clickbait-lite.
Time for Ireland to leave the EU too, I think.
Apple is not fined
If you're referring to the public debt, that's towards the ECB (private bank) not the EU (public institution).
So Ireland, the tech hub that would replace London, isn't going anymore?
Nope, Ireland had kind of already settled this, which EU had declared invalid.
If the owners aren't paying for it, then it should go to the public domain. The idea of someone "owning" land seems pretty stupid to me.
> if someone found smiling could curtail depression I'm sure they'd win the Nobel prize.

You're reading way too far into that. If something brings you from -100 to -95 it's notable but not world-changing. yamike didn't say anything about actually fixing the depression, just adding a slight bit of happiness.

> I think it's evident

Are you basing that on anything? There's a reason we're actually doing this study and not just reasoning out the answer.