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I have a (mostly abandoned) side project with the same aim. I spent a lot of time thinking about language design, from the perspective of enabling adoption of a new language when an existing one has so much network effect:

https://www.slideshare.net/AurSaraf/re3-modern-regex-syntax-...
https://github.com/sonoflilit/re2

If people like my direction, I may continue to work on it.
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I would like to add that some recruitment companies place ads when there are no jobs as well to increase their candidate pool. It happens a lot when there is a lot of competition to get the best candidate at a moments notice.
Proud to see South Africa made it onto the list.
You're right in general but this case is about something else. The commission claims that Apple had a special sweetheart deal with the Irish tax authorities that is not available to other companies that simply abide by Irish law.

Of course, Apple and the Irish tax authorities dispute that and the case is going to court.
Probably not, but I would wait until the original authors have a look at this rebuttal, and comment on whether it is on the mark. Scientific method.
You can't begrudge Ireland for trying to get ahead when things were really bad. However, they've long reached a point where tax dumping is not morally justifiable. They were repeatedly told to sort it out, and got off the hook a bit only because of 2008. Now they're back on their feet, it's time to come clean.

Next, Luxembourg and Netherlands.
Ireland's entire strategy when it comes to attracting foreign businesses to domicile there depends on being both 1) in the EU, but 2) lower-tax than most of the rest of the EU (excluding a few micronations). They're selling a tax arbitrage within the EU common market, which doesn't work if they aren't in it! Ireland's domestic market in itself isn't large enough to really attract major international companies to set up European headquarters there.
> I think we need to digress from regexes a bit by introducing things like 'Separated by'.

You might be interested to learn that perl6 regexes have this, notated '%'. https://docs.perl6.org/language/regexes#Modified_quantifier:...
Nah, its the mentality within the project.

One that i think can be summed up as "code, compile, push, repeat".

More and more it seems that the incoming generation treats everything like a web site that they can change at whim. Likely because they have had the internet and source repositories the whole time, and thus do not know the value of a truly stable and maintained system.
No fine for Apple. Apple can almost look entirely innocent on this, they asked Ireland to look at how they've structured their tax affairs knowing full well what impact this would have on their tax bill. However Ireland agreed to it, even though it shouldn't have.

The EU has now stepped in and clarified that Ireland should not have allowed this in the first place.
The pub next door doesn't employee ~5000 people in Ireland and pay all taxes on those wages. If you consider the overall tax income generated by Apple as a company having a physical presence in Ireland, it's much much more than the pub next door. So Ireland probably decided to sign an agreement to have a higher total tax income by making Apple settle in Ireland rather than elsewhere.
Given that Piper presides over a massive safe space of his own, it's a bit rich to hear him complaining about them.
Exactly. And, of course, there is not even a way to flag some contacts as private, or otherwise to be excluded from social graph analysis.

I mean, I guess you could keep those contacts in a note or some other record outside your contacts list, and just tap to call or email or whatever. But that only works as long as the Facebook app doesn't decide it needs access to that kind of record, too. And when you find yourself going that far out of your way to circumvent something that's installed on your phone, maybe it's time to think about whether that thing is more trouble than it's worth.
I'd love to hear your feedback on my approach, that focuses on the kind of problems I read in your comment.

http://www.slideshare.net/AurSaraf/re3-modern-regex-syntax-w...
https://github.com/sonoflilit/re2
Apple did not "literally steal money" nor did they "extort or bribe" anyone. Both of those are criminal offences and people would be going to jail. Nobody who is looking at this through a reasonable, mature lense would ever resort to cheap hyperbole.

And you are completely wrong to say that this decision resulted in Apple paying less taxes in the US. They paid less taxes in Ireland not the US.
That's similar in size as the Tunguska meteor - 10 - 30 megatons of TNT.

Cool gif of it flying by:

http://www.virtualtelescope.net/2016qa2_28aug2016.gif
They are not fined, they are being told to pay what they owe.
So basically don't install Facebook or Whatsapp try to use the Facebook website if you can or better yet don't use Facebook at all on your phone if you value your privacy.

It's sad that we are at this stage but it's mostly our fault for being so complacent with companies doing these kinds of things.

If people stopped using their service when they did these kinds of things they would change their behaviour really quickly but most people don't know or care that this is happening.
People working is something we don't need discouraging, not people making profit of them. I hope apple has to pay it and must important, don't have another place to run.
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It's excellent to see FPGAs being increasingly utilised.

As moore's law no longer holds true for CPU, there is increasing interest turning to FPGAs. You can create a truly bespoke Processor for any task.

Of course this is trade of between development time / cost vs processing needs of task.

I suspect FPGAs demand to only increse over the coming years. Intel's integration of FPGA into their line of processors is a promising step and sign of where things may be heading.
Chromebook user here. The Web Browser IS my Operating System. ;)
The article literally says that EC told IRELAND to recover the due tax from apple. Apple is not being fined - Ireland is being told to sort out their tax system - it just happens that if they do, Apple will have to pay a lot of tax.
Unfortunately, in most cases, it's the option you have. An actual software engineering degree concentration would be better for what most people actually want, but it's a rarity. You'd have to entice professors with industry experience (who are good enough to know what they are supposed to teach), and you aren't doing that on typical faculty pay scales.
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To be fair to Apple there wasn't a clear precedent set before this.

There definitely is now though and you can be sure legal teams around the world will be advising senior leadership teams to rearrange their corporate structures accordingly.
Instead they have to pay back the billions that they supposedly should have paid.
The pub next door struggles to survive while Apple don't know what to do with hundreds of exploited billions.
Not just that. Once the income has been taxed outside the US, it can no longer be taxed by the US.

And so far, the US Treasury considered this income as "not taxed", meaning it would have been taxed at the corporate US tax rate when and if moved to the US.

Which is why Apple hasn't moved that money to the US, and has something like $190 billion sitting outside the US.

So the treasury is being extremely disingenuous here, they just want to be the ones to tax this income.
What autogyros (and other light aircraft) play even less well with are high-tension wires and radio masts.

It's surprisingly difficult to find an area that's definitively clear of these, if you're looking for an impromptu landing zone. Ground traffic doesn't mind wires overhead, but if you're flying over land, they're a poor idea to tangle with.

A very close call: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w-F-cBF5ZbQ

Even when you know they're there, and have ground support: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v5aMT9MBfZI
For several official numbers (local taxi company, local police station, local pizza place) I've been random people's names and facebook profile pictures be added to the phone contact where the app has been installed and asked to sync "profile pictures to contact list". This must be people on facebook that jokingly puts in one of these well known phone numbers in their profile, but these strangers then start to appear and take over otherwise reasonable "local pizza" type phonebook entries on completely unrelated people's phones...
TL;DR (for those who know already how CF works): CF doesn't advertise whether a website origin is reached via HTTPs or not ("Full" SSL mode in CF terminology). The author advises them to expose the information in a response header.
Hi author. Small nit: consider changing your title to "their" time rather than "he" since you talk about "a technical co-founder". There's no need to use gendered language in the general case, and gendered language needlessly encourages gendered based identification. Imagine if you included your race and ethnicity and sexuality in the title - that'd feel silly, right? It would limit the audience who found the piece relevant, and it could be read as though those aspects were somehow relevant to being a technical co-founder. No doubt gender and race and ethnicity do effect one's experience and interactions, and that's a great piece to write, but that's not what you're trying to talk about in this piece so why put it in the title?
The other tricky thing is, even a single lapse in forgetting to turn the phone off, or bringing it with you is enough to undo all vigilance ever. I don't see it as feasibly, especially for people that are anxious or distracted by something more important on their mind.
Imagine you had an agreement with your local tax authority that they agree for you to pay X in taxes. Then few years later tell you that actually, they were wrong and you have to pay more - you would fight this for as long as possible, wouldn't you?
Yep, you do make sense (though I would suggest more line breaks :-P ). Also my username is swombat not snowbat...

A great source for this discussion is Hannah Arendt's book "The Human Condition". I find it really heavy and difficult to read but full of incredible insights and powerful ideas about certain features/definitions/perspectives of human life. Highly recommended.
Apple is not being fined and nobody must necessarily be at fault here.

It is legal and not unprecedented to require additional payments for the past after a change of tax-law.
I'm not sure that they Ireland is back on its feet.

Unemployment is still high in certain areas. The bank bailout crippled the country, forced really high taxes on those who really shouldn't have been held accountable (low income earners).

That said, Apple (and many other mult-nationals) seized an opportunity and ran with it. The moral responsibility to pay taxes should be on the CEO and the board.
On one hand, Troy is right: absolutism can hurt security, and a partially encrypted connection (e.g. CloudFlare's "flexible" version) is better than a wholly unencrypted one.

On the other hand, opportunistic encryption as described can also be misleading and dangerous. Yes, most attackers will have a harder time achieving MITM between CloudFlare and your EC2 hosts than an unsecured Starbucks Wifi, but the possibility remains. And in the case of the non-"(strict)" versions, there is no way for the user to tell that the data was not encrypted. The security community has spent a lot of (well-placed) effort training users to look for the padlock symbol before trusting a website. CF's opportunistic encryption undermindes that. Files can be served over insecure HTTP to CloudFlare, and even a competent end-user will have no way to tell.

As Troy mentioned, Let's Encrypt and CF's Origin CA are steps in the right direction. Trust On First Use could be another one, allowing for a partial departure from the CA model. In any case: opportunistic encryption is a big improvement over no encryption at all -- but it should be clearly recognizable as such, and must not be confused with identity verification.
-As one who has toyed enough with the idea (not to live in permanently, but for overlanding) to start kitting out a Land Cruiser 78 to make it liveable, I'd agree with most of your points - though presumably, if he mostly sticks to highways or at the very least properly paved roads, mpg shouldn't suffer too much from a couple of hundred pounds of additional weight.

My one MAJOR gripe with his build, is the water jerry can directly behind the driver's seat - in the event of a crash, he is -quite literally- trusting his life to the straps securing the can. I wouldn't do that. Definitely at the very least have a proper base for the can to sit in, rather than relying on straps.

Edit: Oh, and I hope there's proper ventilation from the cupboard where he stores the cooking gas. One leaky can and you're in for a potentially very nasty surprise. (I solved this the lazy way - by using a kerosene stove...) /edit

Hopefully, the sink and countertop are secured well enough to the van not to come flying forward, too.

That aside, I have nothing but admiration for people with the chutzpah to actually go ahead and DO what they dream of. I wish him many a happy year on the road.
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> ...it's mostly our fault for being so complacent with companies doing these kinds of things.

> ...most people don't know or care that this is happening.

You seem to contradict yourself.
Well the problem is that the EU has a legal structure and if you want to do business in IE then you have to abide by EU's rules.

So it is AAPL's lawyers' fault, in the end. Hence, AAPL's.

This is another issue why I am strongly against the EU. You can find out that a country is behaving illegally when WRITING ITS OWN LAWS...

So you cannot even be sure to be abiding by the law if you obey a country's laws.
Well, we're slowly moving forward and attract new users. I'm from this wave of "young lispers" myself :)
You would be surprised just how few people know Facebook owns WhatsApp. When I mention it to my non-tech friends, they are first surprised, and then nod their heads like its no big deal, and then a few weeks later exclaim utter surprise at some new privacy intrusion.

Someone should start a project with the sole purpose of mining all kinds of personal data about FB employees from Facebook/Google and publish it as a Kaggle dataset for mining. Wonder how they would feel about that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unjust_enrichment

Having to pay back the taxes that were due is not a punishment, it's simply restitution.
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Well there is a paradox here, if the models were faulty, then why was every bank scrambling to offload the mortgages to someone else? If the models said the mortgages were sound, why didn't the banks want to hold onto them as a cash cow? Could it be the data spoke but no-one wanted to hear what it said?
This trope is stunningly older than I'd have thought.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=flying+car&yea...

Starts in the 1750s, though some of that is simply justipostion of the words "flying" and "car", often with intervening punctuation.

A 1923 article: https://books.google.com/books?id=BcIrAQAAMAAJ&q=%22flying+c...

"future flying car will weigh far less than our present-day cars. The entire upper part of the body will be enclosed in an unbreakable, unburnable, glass-like substance. This is quite necessary, particularly for the ..."

And from 1810:

https://books.google.com/books?id=P_AOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3&dq=%22...

"likewise instructions and plans, for making a flying car with wings, in which a man may sit, and, by working a small lever, cause himself to ascend and soar through the air with the facility of a bird..."
Looks like Java isn't very popular in Asia.
Shouldn't Ireland also take the blame here? If not, this sets a dangerous precedent for future governments who can sek companies to set shop but then back out once courts rule against. I mean, Ireland here comes out with no culpability.
Companies make deals with governments __all the time__ for tax breaks and government subsidies. Governments want jobs and investment, companies want the best deals they can get.

This is NOT extortion or bribery, just everyday business. It happens every single day even between US states, not to mention nation-states. Business is competitive and that's a good thing.

AAPL in this case has deferred taxes on profits with their structural arrangement, NOT avoided them. To call it theft is extremely ignorant of how taxes and governments work.
I don't mind regular expressions myself, but this does look quite nice. Any idea if this has been implemented for anything other than Rebol (which I'd never heard of)?
> This is not correct. Saying "the number of blues isn't prime" just once would be sufficient to start the process, as would "there is at least one blue", etc. It doesn't matter that it's not new information to any one villager.

Sorry, can you explain this part? If there were 10 blues and 10 reds, and the stranger said "there is at least one blue", why would that result in a suicide in any of the dot-town people?
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dupe, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379518
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In 2003, Apple made a profit of $69 million.

In 2014, Apple made a profit of $78.5 billion.

That would explain why the percentage went a lot lower.
I'm not sure about that. I think most multinationals follow the same double-irish structure [0] which is based on laws in Ireland, the Netherland and the Bermudas.

According to Wikipedia (just listing the IT-companies):

* Adobe Systems

* Apple Inc.

* Facebook

* Google

* IBM

* Microsoft

* Oracle Corp.

* Yahoo!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
No, Apple sat down with the Irish Government and drafted an illegal law that had them pay almost no taxes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12388601
Fiscal State Aid was declared illegal almost two decades ago; Apple was trying to walk a fine line here.
Did I say Apple didn't share the blame with Ireland ?

I just fully disagree with using the term fraud to describe what happened.
The main reason is that the government is the one holding the pursestrings that enables the whole system to operate. If federally-guaranteed student loans cannot be used by these places, their business model collapses entirely. And a big chunk of these terrible for-profit universities are also preying on veterans using their GI Bill benefits.
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Submissions about the Apple backtax ruling
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You know, it really says something about our industry that our preeminent modern accomplishment requires everyone to choose, blindly and unaware, among effective social nonexistence, espionage-grade opsec, or the kind of radical transparency that no one but maybe a performance artist would even have contemplated just a few years ago.
Because it implies that this news is the newest news. it JUST happened.
Duplicate
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12385232
You can find out that a country is behaving illegally when WRITING ITS OWN LAWS... So you cannot even be sure to be abiding by the law if you obey a country's laws.

That can happen in every country which has a constitution.
I honestly don't understand NASA's approach with simulating and studying long-term isolation. Submarines, especially nuclear ones, have been doing 100+ day missions under cramped conditions for over eighty years, and in war times with crews that were anything but picked for their compatibility with each other. And yet, from Mercury on, NASA never seems to have tried to tap into that experience, nor the hardware, and keeps insisting on doing everything themselves from scratch. Why?
> add more police to his neighborhood because of higher violent crime rates will necessarily be more likely to be targeted for any petty violation

He'll also be less likely to be the victim of violent crime in an area with a proven record for violent crime. For the price of avoiding 'petty' crimes, it seems like a good trade-off.
Actually people making ONLY profit is something we should discourage, people investing back their profits and sharing the pie with others is what should be encouraged.
Hmm, I'll have a look, but currently you need the repl to be able to write files (otherwise I'd have to include my files in the firmware and copy the entire thing every time).

That's not really so bad, as it's what you do for the C++ version, but it would be nice if there were a way to update the code somehow. Maybe I'll write some code to fetch a file from an HTTP server and unpack it, though.
Hi, it was interesting to read such a text in this context!!!

Early baldness is not bad that much I know a lot of successful people who are bald. Some of my best friends have this problem as well, but they are happy and never complaint about it.

And I know some people who never had gf up to 40, and after that they got married.

These two issues you've mentioned might not related to each other at all.
Baldness is congenital or hereditary, while being single is related to your personality and your life style.

I think for finding a girl you need to increase the chance of meeting someone in real life instead using websites and applications and also you need to learn about girls (put away all the logics you know )

Remember :
If you want something you never had
You have to do something you've never done.

Good luck.
> Disallowing the use of race as a signal in machine learning / ad targeting could help intercultural awareness.

Uhm, racial segregation is still a thing. Even if the signal of race is gone the geography of where a person lives could be signal enough to discriminate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12387876 : 5 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12388164

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12388411

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12388601 : 72 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12388605

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12388619

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12388620 : 2 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12388648

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12389006
…a day before that article was written, so two days ago.
It's too bad that nobody is replying to you. Personally, I would be over the moon if I could develop for the ESP8266 in Rust, but that might be a tall order, since it's a very small chip.
> This is another issue why I am strongly against the EU. You can find out that a country is behaving illegally when WRITING ITS OWN LAWS...

That's true whenever you have international treaties. The WTO has plenty of clauses that go very close to disallowing this type of stuff in slightly different contexts. Same applies to the states within the US. They are bound by federal law in many ways.
A lot of things are thriving in Japan that already died out in the rest of the world. Like fax machines and hand drawn animation.