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> So having more cops in a high-crime neighborhood is somehow a bad thing, because the presence of more police actually confirms the fact that there is more of a need of police in this neighborhood?

Did you understand what you quoted? The author is saying that citations for petty offences (which practically everyone commits with some non-zero frequency, intentionally or not) have a higher chance of affecting future prospects of people in communities where there are more police. the Author isn't saying police are bad in general, rather that the negative effects of police presence are more significant in communities with higher police presence.

> So targeted advertising to the needs of people is bad because... I can't even make sense of this one.

The message isn't that hard to get, come on. The author is saying (assuming you think like them) that ignorance of suffering is a bad thing. You can say something like "why should I care about people I don't know", and I would understand and even agree to a large part with that statement, but this isn't James Joyce here, you can make sense of it.
I believe this is done by not accepting any certificate issued past date X. This way the old certificates keep working, while the new ones don't.
This is the same argument made by Bruno Latour in "We were never Modern", that modernity is marked by the insistence on split between science, politics and philosophy - but this split cannot hold up, and we get "hybrids". Science is not a separate domain, but treads in politics and so on.

My wife is fond of "The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosopher", which argues the Enlightenment wasn't new, either, it was just pouring religion (the thirst for god) into new cups.

Modernity, to me, is a more complex attempt at the same, to find a new source of unambiguous authority, a method by which the world makes sense. Again a futile gesture, but still it takes hold.
I was born nearly 50 years ago. The only reason it may seem "slow to arrive" is that the dramatic visuals are absent, and that some of the expected technology proved a lot more boring/problematic than expected. Instead of rockets taking the staggeringly long time to reach staggeringly boring destinations (Moon & Mars are dead rocks), we've brought most of human knowledge & communications from racked hidden ink-on-paper to instant access anywhere on the planet via a pocket wireless supercomputer - something so amazing that most people spend much of their time staring at it (mostly for porn & cat videos...ARGH!). 5-minute food is the norm. Electric cars are on track for massive market penetration. Nearly-free worldwide-coverage videophones are available (just nobody actually wants to be seen). A lifetime of cinema, much in 3D, is available in your living room for an hour's pay per month. A couple days' wage can fly you to the other side of the planet in a few hours. 72F indoor temperature is so ubiquitous it's practically illegal to not have it. Thousands of books are trivially stored on a $35 e-reader weighing ounces.

Heck, as an middle-class kid growing up back then, we had wood-fired heat (no A/C), well water, grew half our own food, walked miles to town, and 4-digit phone numbers. Home computers didn't exist early on, the closest being hobby kids with maybe* hundreds of bytes of storage; when "personal computers" finally appeared (Apple II and IBM PC) they were, well, paltry. I don't remember a milkman delivering, but do recall returnable glass bottles.

We could have rockets and Moon bases etc as the norm, but when we got to the Moon early on we realized it really wasn't that interesting. Infinite cat videos in your pocket - that's what people really wanted.
Not really sure why they reimplemented std::list. Also that NoCopy base class adds a vptr for no reason. And so do all those other virtual destructors. I personally wouldn't trust this code at first glance.
Indeed, I did think that was rather odd...
Thanks for sharing.

You can find here all of the code.
Everything here is written (by me) from a scratch, beggining with game engine, and ending on ML algorithms. It's taken to the level where I even multiply matrixes for graphics transformation, operating on pure HTML5 canvas. So everyone should find there something interesting for him. Only editors are a great plugin for ace C9.
In a way, the EC's decision actually acts as a safeguard against this kind of blackmail: a country may be pressured into making a bad deal like this, but EU law renders the deal invalid. And because the EC is not controlled by any single member state, it can't treat any single nation different from the others.
Irish sentiment is and remains vastly more pro-EU than it ever was in the UK.

That said this is a very cynical ploy by Apple.
LOL. There's no "even if it's technically legal". It's legal or it's not. The police aren't going to let you go from something because you were only "technically breaking the law."
+1 revoking a CA using the issuance date seems like the right solution
I'm guessing if Ireland wasn't part of the EU then Apple probably wouldn't have to pony up 2bn. Ergo, the idea of a country leaving/not being part the overlord EU looks more like a good idea than a bad one. Given my absolute lack of political and economic experience, I could be horribly wrong. But I thought it would be fun to post my opinion nevertheless.
That is actually what I like about being a senior developer on enterprise consultancy.

We see these fads come and go, wait for the dust to settle and use what is actually mature to be deployed in real production environment.

It also helps that our customers don't sell software, as such they view of what technology stack is supposed to look like is quite different from what the typical Starbucks developer thinks about software.
You forgot "the end is nigh". And sources, you forgot those too.
Ask HN: How do I find out if a company has really raised a Series-A/B?
The company I am interviewing at has claimed they have raised a Series-A last year and they're looking to raise a Series-B this year. But I can only find information on their venture round.

I can't find info on their series-a round on either the SEC archives or crunchbase: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar
Why is it unfair? You're automatically jumping to the assumption that individual people should pay the same tax rate as a corporation. Why? Just because most countries do it now? It wasn't done through most of history though. What about the notion that corporations should pay no tax at all, and the only taxes should be on individuals.
Agree about used vs. new, but I am comparing a $20k new car vs. a $35k new car. Maybe I should be factoring in the type of car here (sedan vs. truck) but otherwise, the only thing the new $35k car has over my $20k new car seem to be frivolous luxuries. Now that I think about it the type of car must be accounting for a lot of the difference.
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Even with fusion energy we'd still use oil. We do have cars after all.
In this analogy the worker is Ireland and the employer Apple. The analogy would be that the worker must now receive, and the employer now pay, the difference between the contract and the minimum wage. Just like Apple must now pay and Ireland now receive the extra tax.
I doubt the deal was in good faith. They have an army of lawyers so most likely they knew about this it but took the risk.
> In order to escape all pain and suffering, we would have to surrender our freewill

Why? I can write a game where you have choice, but no pain or suffering. Is God worse programmer?

> and then what would be the point to life anyway?

There's no "point to life". It's a sandbox game you have ~80 years to experience. Enjoy, while you can, and don't be a dick.
Nah.. everyone knows very little value is created in California or Shenzhen. It's all done in a few small offices in Ireland, dontchaknow.
So, if I understand correctly, EC's argument hinges on the idea that Ireland gave "special favors" to Apple in terms of the tax deal. In particular, that Ireland offered things which nearly all other companies were not. If that is not the case (IE, if it can be proved apple received no special treatment), then the conclusions of the case, and the penalty, are false.
Good question! For some toy weather data, Elasticsearch as the only data store made sense. If I were to add more sensors and features and make this a long term project, I'd likely try to wire up some automated backups. If it were some kind of production app that a second human relied on, then I would think hard about the data, the failure scenarios, budget, etc.

Does that answer your question at all?
(edit: reply is on the first part, but i might need coffee :) )

I'm not sure the goal is to have someone who is some kind of horizontal fullstack guru in all spheres, from management to hardcore security.
Rather, people with those skills should work together, instead of staying in their silos, by automating the friction points between them all and making the process more "parallel"?
I've found this physical timer much more useful than a timer app: http://www.polder.com/shop/measuring-temperature/timers/digi...
Local subsidiaries are not usually resellers, and even if they were, the parent company can set an arbitrary price, so they just say that every iPhone cost $1000 and is sold at $599 locally, so the subsidiary makes a massive loss - there are plenty of other reasons, think it through and you'll see that the subsidiary can't operate like a reseller.

The subsidiary will usually have accounts that have costs like salary and premises, and no direct revenues, just a big cash transfer to fund the costs from the parent company.
>because if me and five of my buddies did a crime we'd all be in trouble simultaneously.

Probably not if you are not part of the same crime. If you and your five buddies commit a crime together, you'd be in trouble simultaneously. If you all commit a crime individually, you are not.

It's not like all thefts in a country are in trouble simultaneously, just because everyone committed their individual crime at the same time.
I'd agree that if it seems that containerization is a fundamental part of an OS that it would make sense to have a neutral platform for it.

That said there were containerization efforts in this area in the past (e.g. LXC) which never really seemed to attract the same kind of traction as Docker.

Ultimtely if people want to create containers, it's entirely possible to do with pure linux commands and no upper-level software at all, it's just Docker makes it much easier/nicer to achieve :)
Curious about that Powell Electric jingle because there's another firm out here Texas way by the name Milestone Electric that uses the same slogan. Curious if it's a franchise model. Something akin to how Clear Channel has a robot playlist Bob FM, Jack FM, Steve FM, etc in different large markets.
Countries are not companies.

Also your comparison is pretty bad. The direct cost per unit is pretty high for a car in a car company, the one for a company in a country is negligible. So it's more like a publisher selling digital goods, except that there's no copyright, preventing the others from selling exactly the same for a lower price.
Just out of curiosity, why would tax competition be considered bad? It is generally accepted that monopolies and cartels are bad for the free market, but when it comes to governments and the services they provide, we're completely OK with tax cartels. These EU and OECD tax agreements basically amount to a tax cartel, where governments agree they'll fix their tax rate regardless of the infrastructure and level of services they provide...
From the way I understand it, you can use student loans for any expense related to going to school, including living expenses.
50 years ago was 1966. Judging by many SF novels from that time, people were actually rather pessimistic about computing power we would have right now. Almost universally, authors predicted some progress, but still thought computers would be expensive, large and not as powerful as what we have now. On the other hand, they were very optimistic about space travel, AI algorithms, robotics, energy prodution/storage tech, personal transportation and the state of industrial engineering.
> That's not even true!

That's a graph of cash reserves, not revenues. It's highly likely that Apple spends most of the revenue it accrues in the Unites States. You know, on expensive shit like Apple Campus 2.
The real issue here is that a multinational tax-avoidance scheme is only available to large corporations. This means that their smaller competitors who do not have millions to spend on lawyers each year are taxed at the insane rates of their local jurisdictions. The larger competitors shield their incomes from those same rates, making them more competitive than the smaller companies.

This pay-to-play scheme, coupled with other regulations tailored specifically for large corporations, keeps them shielded from upstart competition. The best thing for consumers and business alike would be to slash the taxes and regulations, instead of going after what the companies "owe" the government -- as if a group of bureaucrats in some capital city have any justified prior claim on the fruits of someone else's labor.
I love my Pebble, my phone is always on completely silent mode and nobody but me feels or hears the Pebble. It feels quite private. I can ignore it during conversions and see what it has to say whenever I look at my wrist later. I can blindly dismiss notifications, knowing they are still open on my phone for later. I never miss important calls but I can also refuse calls without looking away from someone I have a conversation with just by touching my wrist.

But oh man is it infuriating when the Pebble shows me a spam message, for some reason it evokes hate against the spamming company to a much larger the degree than it does on my phone. I'm much more selective about what app can have notification on the Pebble. It's strange, the smartwatch just feel closer to me and it feels like people mess with me when "they use it" to disturb me for useless things.

Sorry, not really a point in this comment but it felt significant to the point of the website.
Something like the "tick-tock" strategy that Cassandra has adopted?
Interesting that you were downvoted for making a genuine observation about your environment which relevant to the topic. I agree with you by the way. I see much racism in public debate about immigration problems. It's mostly about culture and religion issues and those are very different than racism.
Thank you for clarifying
> Of course they did (the loophole is now closed), but the point here is that this scheme was entirely legal

No, it was not legal, this is what the ruling says
So it's C++11 but still uses naked pointers...
Do you have a library outside of React that you would recommend?
I don't have information about attrition rates on MS programs in STEM. The only thing I've read was a summary of a paywalled publication that put overall attrition from STEM MS degrees at about 30%. I don't know if that applies to elite programs (elite law schools have much lower attrition than lower tier programs). At Berkeley, where I was a grad student, 25% or so seems about right, but not sure how much help that is. In short, I strongly suspect that attrition rates from MS programs in STEM fields is still an order of magnitude (edit: two orders of magnitude) higher than from elite law and med schools - but then again, attrition rates from those programs is close to zero.

It's a tough comparison of course, in that the degree itself is a very different beast. Half of a med or law degree doesn't help you, a strong student with a BA in History can't skip law school and just go be a lawyer, whereas anyone who can get into MIT's CS PhD program is already almost certainly capable of getting a good paying job. So attrition does mean different things.

That said, we are a nation that officially (by that, I mean our top elected officials, most of whom are lawyers) fret loudly and constantly, often with a tech CEO at their side, about the shortage of US citizens getting graduate degrees, especially PhDs, in STEM fields. I have never heard one of them ask why a 50% attrition rate in some programs isn't part of the problem. I think this is because, as lawyers, they think that elite PhD programs in STEM are kind of sort of like the elite law schools they attended.

There is legislation, for instance, to "staple a green card" to all PhD degrees in STEM fields. I can't argue that these talented people should be excluded from the US, nor would I want to. But if we're so short on PhD holders in STEM, to the point where we need to empower US universities to bestow green cards upon STEM graduate degree recipients (but not other fields, it has to be STEM)... shouldn't we at least ask them why they're throwing out half the class? Test scores and grades for the students who drop out or fail out are sky high, elite law and med schools don't seem to have a problem getting everyone through the program. This is a lot of power with very little accountability. US STEM PhD programs need to change if they are going to attract highly talented people with the freedom to choose their careers, unencumbered by visa restrictions, and I'm not really in favor of giving them special powers to avoid that reckoning.
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And website owners can whitelist Tor traffic to never get a captcha now too. Progress!
The average is heavily overweighted when looking at the top quantiles, since income is lower bounded by zero but effective unbounded on the positive side. A better number is to look at median income.
First thing that comes to my mind is the Nationwide jingle, and lately, hearing Peyton Manning hum it. Anyone know how long the Nationwide jingle has been around?

There are definitely still a lot of jingles that I instantly recognize or can think of (like other posters mentioned here, Folgers is definitely another one).
EU totalitarians will not see a penny from this. Tim Cook's clear here. Taxes are paid. It's a moral and legal duty of Apple to protect their profits from these morons.
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Now "Apple Pay" has a new meaning :)
>sure everyone can host his caches and be better off. but that cost money, and localizing traffic to reduce latency costs even more money. hard to beat free.

My entire comment was about refuting this.

You don't need to host your own caches to be better off, you'll be better off by simply not having cloudflare in front of your server (even for transatlantic pageloads!).
You could imagine my surprise when hearing The Kronos Quartet teme for Requiem For A Dream being used in a trailer for one of the Lord of the Rings franchise pictures.

The one that cracks me up still is Carnival cruises using Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" which coincidentally a lot of people associate with the film Trainspotting.
Anyone have any good Arxiv research papers on this inverse DRL?
I buy stuff from Adafruit because they do good work. They are advocates for approachable and understandable electronics. They work hard at combining art and technology and education. They pick good components and they make software libraries and tutorials to match.

I buy their stuff because I think beginners should buy their stuff and I want to see more companies like them exist.
Cloudflare gets a lot of hate for the core concept of their business model, but I still just don't see it as nefarious or even weak in terms of security if you set it up correctly.

I always configure my Nginx instances to only respond to Cloudflare's IP ranges.

I tell Cloudflare to sign all communications with my origin server and I configure Nginx to validate those signatures.

I encrypt the communications between my origin and their system.

How can this be man-in-the-middle attacked even by a state actor? I'm ensuring that not only is the data encrypted between Cloudflare and my origin server, but that I'm verifying that nobody is able to impersonate Cloudflare.
> Only thing missing is a tiny violin playing on that webpage.

Done http://hadalin.me/apple-customer-letter/
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They didn't use the exact same structures. Therefore there must be a separate investigation for each company. Apple is probably the largest case so they started there.
I did not make a blanket statement that all ML algos are racist against Asians. My point was to convey that if the training data do not accurately represent the population, the algorithm will carry the biases of that inaccurate representation: the algorithm is only as good as the data it is trained upon (for supervised learning).

As a sibling comment stated, humans are deeply involved in all aspects of designing and interpreting an algorithm's results. To the extent that we are flawed, so will our algorithms be.

Another example I heard recently from a conference was that of analyzing blighted homes in areas. The underlying data was generated by human inspectors who turned out to have given passes to violations in more affluent areas and fines in less affluent areas. The fines compounded the problem of blight as the residents could not afford to pay them and ended up causing a feedback loop of blight increasing in neighborhoods identified as blighted.

I am frankly confused as to what is so controversial about the statement that algorithms created by humans are not free from human biases. I apologize if I have only added confusion rather than a productive analysis.
On the other side of it, they are the only loans I know of that offer income based repayment, and complete loan forgiveness after a certain amount of time while on such income based repayment plan.
Because Apple Sales International is a proxy for a US domiciled entity. This is what Apple needs to fix, the EU has correctly pointed this out many years ago, and Apple are dragging their heels on fixing it because it's one way they have of keeping the cash offshore (from the US), but it doesn't change the fact that the profits were not created in Ireland and should not be subject to corporation tax there.
My point is, it's a bit much to ask for people to adopt philosophical modernity without having a "modern" values system first. (And on the flip side, having a "modern" philosophical perspective is often a ready conduit for bootstrapping a "modern" (e.g. humanist) values system.) The conceit of modernity is that we are so much superior to the "brutes" of the past. Because our values and our thoughts are so much more sophisticated, so much more true and fundamental. But actually our values are not our values (or, to be more precise, our claimed values are not our values as practiced) and our philosophy is not sophisticated, it's crude. My point is complementary. Our technological advancement, and our "values on paper" blinds us to the reality. In truth we are but brutes, we compare ourselves favorably against the past only because we fail at contextualizing the present in a way that strips away the illusion of modernity caused by technological progress.
As an aside, I found Neal Stephenson's historical fiction the Baroque Cycle, to be a wonderful exposition of the invention of the modern in the 17th and 18th century.

Apart from the swashbuckling, romance and intrigue what makes the books so compelling is the idea that so much of what we take for granted with respect to our worldview and our mindset was created at this time.
Well, part of the idea as I've heard it from "devops experts" is to make ops so automatic and engrained that it becomes a natural part of development.

Obviously a front-end developer wouldn't be worrying about server configuration, but they can write the integration tests and deploy when they are done without involving another team assuming the test coverage is sufficient / code review is done / etc.

That's the utopia at least.
You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

However, I’d be surprised if Apple buys enough things in Ireland to offset the sales of iPhones in Europe.
Why does it seem like Go programmers need to include "in Go" on the tail end of product announcements?