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they are being forced to buy the car that they won't keep as well.

So Apple is being forced to buy Ireland? No.

Following your borrowed car analogy, Apple finds a gas card in the glove box on the first day and uses the car every day for 4 years and uses the gas card. When it's discovered that the borrowed car is stolen and the gas card wasn't Ireland's, who has to pay the gas card off?
I started with Hive and worked backwards. It gives you a nice SQL interface and allows you to do M/R operations on CSV files easily. Once you get the hang of it, going back towards raw M/R or even something like Cascading/Scalding might be less of a shock.

If you know Cassandra or other NoSQL, you can try your hand at Hbase. To do anything with it beyond adding or removing data from a key, you'll need to write an application of some sort. Cataloging tweets is a decently simple exercise.

In my work, the only time I accessed the HDFS directly was doing a put/delete of a flat file CSV that I was going to load into Hive. I'm not saying there's not use cases for using HDFS, just that in the set ups I've used, I've never seen it.
Technology seems to follow either a sigmoid or a bell curve.

And invariably during the climb to the plateau, the humans living at the time envision the climb to go on forever.

So when people looked at the rapid growth of computing power as transistors and ICs replaced radio valves, they envisioned the computing power hitting the point where it would rival neurons.

But now we are reaching the plateau, and it has come far short of the early visions.
>'Apple Sales International', which was not based in any country and thus was not subject to tax.

How can I do it?
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I've been on this website many times and read the book. I long for the day everyone follows these principles.

"Technology should amplify the best of technology and the best of humanity".
But isn't efficiency(and density) almost everything when it comes to data centers ?
Which then begs the question, "I only need the English version. Why am I forced to download a dozen other languages I'll never read or even knew existed?"

Because packagers don't have the patience to split them up. LibreOffice on Debian & derivatives, for example, has a different package for each localization plus a different package for the Help files in each language.
The race to the bottom doesn't optimize fitness though. It relies on being globally unsustainable and just works by parasitically draining all business from the rest of the world.

Ireland isn't somehow magically fitter than other countries and thus able to offer 0.005% corporate tax. It's only relying on attracting an above-normal amount of companies by having low taxes and draining other countries of their tax benefits in the same turn. It wouldn't work if everybody was doing it. In fact countries would just turn to shit.
Or it might play well on rising nationalist anti-EU sentiments throughout Europe. The EU has a lot of battles to fight at the moment so Apple might be betting that they back off to an extent. That said I agree it will likely blow up in Apples faces. It strikes me as a line that would play well in the US (replace EU with US and re-read it) that they've not realised won't work over here.
Not to sound to heartless but I wonder if the animals will be taken for meat, buried, or nothing done at all (ie left for nature). What normally happens in these situations?
Wonderful exploration of many similar / related / intellectual / belief / explanation systems regarding human existence! Coming across a lot of those names and concepts what feels like a decade ago (probably was, during graduate school and supplementing my Education track with hybrid Philosophy & Anthropology snippets) but they're very nicely presented here in my opinion. The sticking point is treating each as a belief structure, and looking to the human condition and our primal tendencies (e.g. "reasoning") as to why they have appeal.

In a world were there are so few answers to genuinely big questions, seeking explanations or making them up seems reasonable and, as history seems to show, kind of inevitable. Interesting to keep in touch with, diversity I think helps understanding and/or appreciation (and also the ability to discuss in polity, heady company where there may be disagreement to chat about).
Why are Atlas Obscura articles tolerated on HN? They often lack substance when compared to more upstream sources and invariably come packaged with social-media ready clickbaity titles.
precedent has to be set somewhere.
Not sure what you mean. The typeface is much larger than the type right here, and serif typefaces are more readable than sans-serifs.
In fact the LinkedIn invite seems to work as the "universal caption" for every New Yorker comic ever:

http://time.com/4046328/new-yorker-linkedin-caption/

So it's clearly the pinnacle of human civilization. It makes perfect sense that it's the message an alien intelligence would want to send us too.
I'm not going to claim it is an epidemic, but I know a few people in this boat. Generally speaking they are able to get by with a few life hacks: Cohabitate rather than marry, work jobs under the table, and/or be the stay-at-home parent.
It is not as though Apple knocked on the door and were welcomed in with tea and cake. This deal (these deals?) were the result of much planning and lobbying by Apple.

And you're right, it's not a punishment, just asking them to pay what was owed. If you owe the taxman £20000, it's a big problem for you. If you owe the taxman £13,000,000,000, then it's definitely a problem for the taxman :)
I would second this. I've used Hadoop at two jobs, and both times the added overhead in terms of operational and programming complexity wasn't worth it. Most everything could have been done on a beefy machine with the most basic knowledge of parallel programming.
The federal government banned new students with federal financial aid from enrolling in any ITT program or campus.

Then, the California state government banned all new student enrollment at ITT campuses in California.
Most likely that's illegal too. However I'm not sure if they will pursue given the circumstances(UK out in a year or so).
Oh dear this is pretty mendacious:

" A company’s profits should be taxed in the country where the value is created. ... In Apple’s case, nearly all of our research and development takes place in California, so the vast majority of our profits are taxed in the United States."

No, I don't think the agreed principle is at all to tax research and development - it is to apply taxes at the point where the transactions take place.

In this case, in Europe. And the European UNION is named that way for a reason; the states have to abide by rules that are designed to protect and enhance the European collective-bargaining position, just as for workers in a labor union.
Even so, some states still try to use lax corporate legislation as a competitive edge.

Now they've been caught out.

I'm no fan of retroactive taxation, but there it is - if the tax arrangements are deemed illegal, then the beneficiaries of that are going to be on the hook. Apple's claim that they followed the law may be true to an extent, but the full 'legal tax' situation must obviously include not only the Irish tax rules, but also the European ones, so they appear to have failed in due diligence.
I love a good comma[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves
Interestingly, I think technological progress really has been faster over the last 50 years than the 50 before that (although it's decidedly close.) But the progress of the first half of the 20th century so spurred our hopes for rapidly accelerating futurism that even the fast pace of computing, transportation, and communication tech development seems dull if it doesn't get us to space.
I do not encourage retroactive law changes, but they do happen. Anyway, I think you miss the point (which was not communicated at all).

Long term gains are very hard to pick over short term gains, especially if that would incur some short term loss. The free market [long term] goal of EU can be roughly expressed as a fight for competition over monopolies. It may look extremely lucrative to lower taxes for a corporation to pay significant lump of money (create jobs, capital movement, etc) even at low rate, than to let the corporation set its foot at another country. As it was stated in other comments, a multinational naturally attempts to increase profits by any means and incorporating at different location with significant tax discount is one of the ways. Although, globally (or EU wise) this is simply tax discount for a corporation that is already pretty much resembling a monopoly.

Think about the EC decision in this light.
Oh dear this is pretty mendacious:

" A company’s profits should be taxed in the country where the value is created. ... In Apple’s case, nearly all of our research and development takes place in California, so the vast majority of our profits are taxed in the United States."

No, I don't think the agreed principle is at all to tax research and development - it is to apply taxes at the point where the transactions take place. In this case, in Europe. And Europe is called the European UNION for a reason; the states have to abide by rules that are designed to protect and enhance the European collective-bargaining position, just as workers in a labor union.
Even so, some states try to use lax corporate legislation as a competitive edge. Now they've been caught out. I'm no fan of retroactive taxation, but there it is - if the tax rules are deemed illegal, then the beneficiaries of that are going to be on the hook. The full 'legal tax' situation must obviously include not only the Irish tax rules, but also the European ones.
I would agree with you if it were really a case of Apple dodging tax by (for example) lying about their revenues to reduce their tax bill.

Except it's not. Apple paid all the tax Ireland asked for. The problem is the EU are saying Ireland should have different tax laws and therefore Apple should now pay Ireland retrospective taxes based on what the UN thinks Ireland's tax law should have been in the past.

The problem with that should be mind-numbingly self-evident.
We have strong norms against overt bigotry now, but actual racism is very common. Go but two generations back, and white supremacism was still a governing ideology in most industrialized democracies.

The modern world is not immune to racism; rather, the invention of "races" is an artifact of the development of nationalism in the 17th through 19th centuries, and so racism is a feature distinctive of the modern era.
IMO, they shouldn't get behind rkt, because it too is owned and primarily developed by a company who uses it as a commodity to sell their own products as well, and the same concerns arising from Docker wholly owning development against Docker Engine could very easily arise against rkt as well.

I believe an independent project managed by a board of shareholders would be better for us all.
> Is it even possible to have a useful workstation these days without any USB devices

All my gear is on the network these days. The only USB device I regularly plug is in a dumb 5V fan from the dollar store... I imagine these days it's more possible than ever.

Air-gapped computers (which is what this seems to be targeting) on the other hand are surely going to do all their data transfer over USB.
Was it the Art Institutes International? My mother taught typography and design there and I could tell you some stories! It, and schools like it, are very intentionally set up as funnels for government school loan programs. There were some good teachers there that did their best, but the corporate side was a pit of snakes. The labs were all outfitted with 5 year old technology, the teachers were paid peanuts, but every year the recruiter with the most sales got an all expenses paid two week vacation at a five star tropical resort. If you want to see the effects of the education bubble, take a look at for-profit trade schools.
> If this went bad, you see something like MongoDB happen.

What did we see? There's still buttloads of software being written whose authors flat out refuse to support a sane database.
I think it has an adverse effect because Apple literally steals from EU citizens regardless being british, irish, spanish etc. How could can someone sympathise with their message which is not only insulting but also divisive ? I for sure will think twice before to get the new i-device.
One of the commentators on the story says: "An empty plane flying every night – an excellent example of the value of spare capacity. But I wonder how many organisations would have taken a narrow view, classified this as “waste” and cancelled it?" is so on point. Reminds me of Tom DeMarco's Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency ( http://amzn.to/1H4qRld ) which is all about having slack (spare capacity, which means not having 100% efficiency) in order to deal with unplanned issues. Failing to have slack results in a slow grinding process when issues arise and has enormous opportunity costs.
There are some controversies in the Cook's letter:

1) "we employ nearly 6,000 people across Ireland" but they seem to create almost no value... because "profits should be taxed in the country where the value is created" and "nearly all of our research and development takes place in California"...

2) "the most profound and harmful effect of this ruling will be on investment and job creation in Europe" and "We are committed to Ireland and we plan to continue investing there"...
Eh, no, not quite, Apple has set up several companies in Ireland. They do some assembly and some customer support, and some sales and administration. Generally, a multinational has to set up a company domiciled in any country that they have direct employees, because governments don't really like when you have employees without a company, because there's no such thing. These companies don't really have a PnL in the same way as the parent company, even though they will have filed statutory accounts in the country of domicile, the fact is that they don't originate the product they are selling. The services they provide could be outsourced to a third party; for example, a US company could design and manufacture a product, and just use Amazon to manage fulfillment globally. Manufacturing of electronic goods is often outsourced as well, so that's not a counter-argument.
The EU has correctly pointed out that Apple's arrangement in which the "head office" of Apple Sales International is not actually the US parent company, and it looks like it should be.
The funny part about this is CoreOS is talked about being one of the players in the article, and they are the developers of rkt.
Was just discussing with my wife (teaches user-centered design) that some in the HCI profession will be migrating to this.
> But you don't train the algorithm to make the same decision humans did. You train it to maximize your objective function.

In the idea case you would, sure. In practice mortgages take 25 years to deliver outcome data and the point isn't necessarily to get better outcomes, the mortgage provider would be content to get exactly the same outcomes (or even slightly worse outcomes) if it let them replace a large number of human employees with an automated system.

In most fields of human endeavour you can't backtest, because you don't have access to the outcomes of the decisions you didn't make. And the data often aren't as clear-cut or objective as market prices. The stock market is great but it's atypical of modern "big data" in many ways.
(Hi! I'm the original author!) I'm able to get about 200ms resolution at both ends without any trouble.
A solution fixes a business problem and can have both product and service elements.
the Apple marketing machine is going all out with this.

Looks like the circus is in full swing, so where is the popcorn vendor?
Hadoop ecosystem is ptetty vast. I used the book "Haddop the definite guide" and "Hadoop Security". But I see more and more organizations moving to solutions that augment Hadoop (or even replace it) such as Apache Spark.
I've never seen a customer yet that would prefer a classic map reduce job over a spark app after understanding the performance and developer productivity benefits. But I might just be lucky.
AWS EMR is as others said a great place to get started and you can get Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Presto and other great projects easily installed and ready to go.
Start with a higher level interface and work backwards? Possibly something like Hive/PIG/MRJob, get familiar with them to wrap your head around MapReduce.

Past the scope of your question - but I'd also recommend learning Spark as well, it's probably more relevant and marketable at this point than learning pure Hadoop.
> As a side question, is it opsec or secops?

Secops, definitely. It helps to think of where the term comes from.

OpSec = Operational Security; outside the infosec circles you'd likely hear this term mostly in conjunction with "spy stuff".

SecOps = Security Operations. I.O.W. the practice and theory of maintaining and improving security of a system.
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Literally the last sentence in the article:

> "The normal routine in such cases is to let nature take its course."
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Adding another layer isn't going to help them, the tax will need to be paid and the additional layer will incur additional costs.
> People are already used to the basic of Docker command.

The tiny amount of existing early adopters can be made to adopt something else one more time.
I'm just saying that everything that Angular makes convenient via the hints it throws in HTML is handled behind the scenes by calling Javascript libraries.

I would much rather the QooxDoo approach of writing apps in pure Javascript and using Javascript libraries instead of the HTML/JS/CSS soup that Angular tries to serve up to me as convenience.

It might be more convenient for someone who cant write computer programs. But for me it insults my ability to read, extend and use well-documented APIs.
EU should consider this hypothetical:

Imagine that aliens from a remote galaxy came to Earth to trade. They sell alPads and alPhones. They don't have any papers about how those were created and what kind of costs they paid in their galaxy. It was so long ago no one remembers and why would it matter anyway, maybe alPads and alPhones grow on trees in their world.

Now consider how we would like to tax those. Is VAT enough? If not maybe tax for land where they open their office? Whatever you decide do the same with foreign companies in Europe. It's the only way as digging into costs/deals in other countries which may not even be friendly with EU in the future doesn't make much sense.
Thank you!

This is probably just Tess on her own thinking she's being proactive and in charge of corporate image.

Someone should tell her that accusing someone of extortion without proof is likewise libelous.
Elastic.co is trying to get into that business. A time series datapoint is just a very small document, and they're churning out agents that collect and ship it.

I'm not entirely sold on the idea, as their examples for turning metrics into actionable insights are a lot more complex than they are for Grafana (or similar).
Reminds me of the whole USB 2.0 Full Speed vs USB 2.0 High Speed nonsense from the early 2000s. Raise your hand if you can tell me which one is 480 Mbit/s and which one is 12 Mbit/s without looking it up online.
yup! that's next up. :)
I think it reads more like, "tax us, and you'll see what we can do to you."
Traditionally it's difficult for browser vendors to revoke a root CA as they want to grandfather in old certificates, so existing sites don't have the rug pulled out from under their feet when their only crime is using a crap CA.

Partial solutions include blocking the CA's certs based on the issuance date or insisting they hand over a list of the certs they've issued - but if the CA is going down in flames anyway, they have no incentive to cooperate; they can backdate certs and destroy their own customer list.

My theory is [1] this is one of the side benefits of Certificate Transparency - CT will give browser vendors a list of certs to grandfather in if they decide to shut down a CA against its will.

[1] https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/certificate-transparency/
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Any data on how good FICO scores are at predicting default rates? In my limited experience, my own credit report is rarely accurate... and from what I understand, that is quite common. So I wonder how a score calculated on inaccurate information could possibly be a great indicator of default rates?
Indeed. I was angered by the letter for precisely those reasons as well.
But still, people in Europe would be able to get iPhones, even if the cost is higher. They would never be banned like illegal narcotics.
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That's a broken argument since what they are stating is that a higher law was broken. It's also not always the case that laws do not apply retroactively:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law
A better comparison would be to a two-year community college.
You can only accept certs issued before a given date, though.
But you can, because the tax breaks we unlawful this whole time! That is the entire point. If I break into a warehouse and steal a TV every day for years can I just argue "ok I'll stop but you can't punish me because you can't apply the law retroactively"?
To say Apple's Cork presence is just a pretense is largely inaccurate. I've been to the Cork campus numerous times while I worked for the company for seven years (2005-2011). The campus was, and is, still a huge base of operations for Apple. The majority of their AppleCare international support is based there (both support personnel and management/exec), as are many other departments. There are, literally, hundreds of people there from all across Europe who have relocated to Cork.

Beyond the main Holyhill campus, Apple has a large amount of office space within Cork's city centre.

Additionally, Apple also has a pretty big assembly line there. Many of their products have also been (and still are) assembled there. For many of the PowerPC and earlier Intel machines, if the serial number started "CK", it was assembled in Cork (it's been a while since I've memorized Apple's serial number structure, but they used to be much easier to parse).

However, the area of Cork that Apple's campus is located isn't very affluent and suffers like many inner-city boroughs in Ireland and Europe. Ultimately, the state of the roads isn't Apple's responsibility. You'd hope that a company like Apple could lean on the local government to improve it, but Apple wasn't the company it is today, back in the early 2000s. It was getting there, but it was still coming out of the near-bankrupcy 90s.
That's not an "as well", BPPE is the California government agency that acted here. An article with more details, including a link to a full copy of the emergency order, is here: https://consumerist.com/2016/08/29/california-bars-itt-tech-...
Changing mutation rate to 0.1 and crossover rate to 0.3 seems to improve the learnig..

0.5 mutation rate is way too much..