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A ton of time is an exaggeration. I think this is the first time Redfin is mentioned by name on HN.[1] And I don't think my account is anon if you and Glenn both can figure out who I am. I enjoyed working at Redfin, and I believe they are disrupting real estate in a good way. I would say I love the site. I spend a ton of time advocating for Redfin. But I wish Glenn tried to build a more inclusive work environment.

When I worked at Redfin, a number of people complained about racist and sexist incidents. All of them were minor. For example, boss touching a black woman's natural hair. No one wanted to escalate it to management, because they didn't feel it was safe or that people wouldn't care. Some co-workers were empathetic, while others expressed disbelief and defensiveness. Many were dismissive because "it's worlds apart" from their experiences. A couple of us eventually escalated to management. The lack of empathy was disappointing but not unexpected. A handful of my friends have left or want to leave partly due to these incidents. That's not good.

What would you do? Feel free to PM me. I think a private conversation would be more honest and involve less posturing.

[1] https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e... Looks like I only say nice things about Redfin. :)
Gotcha. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
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That will certainly offer cultural insight, which is valuable, but I think you'd find essentially the medieval equivalent of the YouTube comments section.
The bigger problem is that it's a two way street within the EU.

The "smaller" economies have to give incentive to large corporations so they could set up shop.
Ireland did it with various incentives, Poland, Estonia and the likes are also doing it with others.

Ireland is in the Eurozone so they can't set up their own monetary policy so they can't offer much in terms of favorable interest and conversion rates to large corporations.

If they can't offer tax incentives companies would be less inclined to set up shop in Ireland if their operating costs would be similar to those in Germany or France.
English gives Ireland some advantage but it's not nearly as big as people think, the culture in Germany or France is close enough and you can train people to speak English and with the shared market even import a few 1000's Irish to man the phones.

Apple and the other big guys set up their shop in Ireland because the Irish government gave out huge incentive both direct and indirect it provided funding for training and education for its residents to meet the specific requirements that companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook had.
It provided financing, loans and tax breaks to those companies to come in and employ Irish workers and it did it because it's the only way it could compete with the likes of Germany.

Tax loopholes are bad, laws that prevent smaller countries from being competitive are even worse, an equal playing field works when the players are equal, when they aren't "equality" is only advantageous to the strong and established players.
1. Fixed, oops!

2. That sounds like fault lies with Ireland, not Apple. Or perhaps with the EU for failing to enforce their own damn rules.
I edited my comment as I was aware it was billion not million, it was just a typo. I think my point still stands though. If Apple were to pay the correct tax and MS, Google, FB still didn't Apple has so much money that it doesn't effect their ability to compete. In other words they can still win without playing this game.
Apple ordered to pay up to $14.5B for illegal tax benefits in Ireland
No, that's not right.

The idea that state aid laws are relevant to corporation tax levels is a relatively recent phenomenon in the EU which is why these tax setups date back decades and it's only now that the EU has suddenly "discovered" that they're illegal.

The laws have not always been in place and not being followed. Rather, an extremely vague set of EU powers is now being stretched past the limit in order to enforce EU policy of the day.
"That is not how things should work in a system based on the rule of law and fairness". If you find a loophole in the fiscal system and exploit, you are following the rules, but at the same time, you are clearly robbing the society as a whole. In France, this is a fraud. see https://xkcd.com/1494/
It is a bit early to "learn their lesson with the UK and Brexit", because Brexit didn't happen yet. And if it will ever happen it is not given that it will be a sacrifice for the EU anyway.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/nyregion/new-york-police-d...

This seems to be what he is referring to.
Seems to be related to an AWS EC2 outage:
https://statusgator.com/services/amazon-web-services

It's currently affecting a lot of services across the web.
I hope so, but knowing my Apple fanboy friends, they will be apologizing for Apple whatever they do.
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I was thinking rather a citation that Apple used the language in the way you refer.
I don't think that there's anywhere they can go but that's the feeling I get from this message. I see it as Apple trying to strong arm the EU with a possible threat and trying to justify their actions.
I require extra explanation. Are you saying that Apple wrote Ireland's tax laws that have been deemed improper?
I'm not sure, and I am not familiar with the TX company, but if you want to take a look for yourself, this is a link to the Powell I am referring to: http://www.powell-electric.com/

I hope that was an answer, in a flash...

Now, just because I am curious, mostly because it is catchy, if you do confirm an affiliation either way please let us know. Thanks.
> The problem is the UN 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.

No, the EC is not saying anything about the tax laws of Ireland
Firstly not sure you being sarcastic brings much to the table. And many people use enough BW that it's a real cost. If you don't that's fine. But don't assume that it's a non-issue.
The bad spam recruiters seem to have found GitHub in the last few weeks.

eg not the "normal" recruiters who have a clue, but the ones who just email everything through regardless "just in case".

I had a lengthy discussion with one of the managing directors (Nick Rapley) of such an organisation ("RBW Consulting LLP" here in the UK) recently. He goes out of his way to defend their approach, as if the anti-spam laws don't apply to his line of business. Just because some small % of people might actually be convinced to say Yes.

(that is literally the same justification every other spammer uses)

Ironically... he told me to stop wasting his time. Like... hello, pot calling kettle black. :/
the kv::List is not intended as a generic linked list implementation like std::list.

The reason for the specific implementation is to get constant time removal and remove-add_to_end operations. Truth be told, it is a hold-over from the previous implementation. I shall be writing benchmarks for this next up and shall revisit the decision on whether or not to use std::list soon-ish :)

The : private NoCopy is just to block the copy constructors.
>My point is, it's a bit much to ask for people to adopt philosophical modernity without having a "modern" values system first. [...] My point is complementary.

I'm not convinced that "morals modernity" is a prerequisite for "philosophical introspection modernity". To me, it seems like those 2 are orthogonal. In other words, we could have both of these outcomes:

- I believe we humans are the center of the universe and with Zeus by my side, I'm also going to kill a million people to purify my race.

- I believe we might be in The Matrix but can't prove it and I'm also going to kill a million people to purify my race.

It looks like both types of "modernity" can coexist.

Perhaps the New Yorker shouldn't have put "modern?" in the title. At the bottom of the article, they disclosed that they used a different title (which emphasizes philosophy instead of morals) in other editions:

>This article appears in other versions of the September 5, 2016, issue, with the headline “What Makes You So Sure?.”

(Btw, I didn't downvote any of your posts.)
This series was really well-written and fun to work through! I second this recommendation.
> Interesting that you were downvoted for making a genuine observation

Equalling "migration" with "open borders" is dishonest and already spinning the discussion before it even starts. I don't blame people for pre-emptively downvoting that.

But yes, dehumanization goes both ways. Branding everyone you disagree with as Nazi isn't helping anyone either.
Well, it's possible they have something like Synergy installed to control multiple machines, maybe.

Or else, perhaps they're talking about headless machines where it's just a box with power and ethernet.
Who told you this "cut" stuff, Farage or the other clown?
Or if you want a non-obfuscated version

https://gist.github.com/Quinny/09e34afb1d187e43dea2f3c3b0c04...
Ahh right. And thus the 'Double Irish':

It relies on the fact that Irish tax law does not include transfer
pricing rules. Specifically, Ireland has territorial taxation, and
does not levy taxes on income booked in subsidiaries of Irish
companies that are outside the state.

Funny - when it's phrased like this it seems a whole less clear about what Ireland (and Apple) has done wrong.

It's also worth noting that Ireland has passed tax reform to render this not possible any more.
> However, if you were born 50 years ago, the future has been slow to arrive.

I'm guess you've never lived in a world where almost all the information contained therein was in the form of paper documents, and have had to search for information in those documents?
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PM here—he's already brought to me to discuss :)
Almost certainly Tess. She likes to think she's a gonzo reporter so this is more her style.

(If Penny is accurate) it's unlikely Isaac because he apparently likes to avoid, deflect and delay.
>> So Apple is being forced to buy Ireland? No.

Come on, really?
Start with a real problem that you need to solve. That's the only way to learn something in a way that's actually effective.
because it targets a specific audience. people not interested in editors may look it up because they're interested in Go, and vice versa.

editors written in Rust also announce it proudly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8734307, so do many other projects.
True. If there is anything that can be considered an unambiguous benefit to this otherwise hollow era of ubiquitous entertainment, it is that living in a small space has become much easier to cope with.

Just go to 4chan and check out a lair thread. People will go to utterly squalid lengths to stay glued to their skinner boxes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber
They cracked some vulnerability in HN ranking algo. "Go" is a magic word
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Ah, soft deletes, so there's an accepted term for this approach. Does anyone know what sort of books run through these sorts of development issues? I feel like I should plug a few gaps in my knowledge around this area
>_< autocorrect
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> Why is it unfair? You're automatically jumping to the assumption that individual people should pay the same tax rate as a corporation.

I didn't say that corporations should be the same tax as individuals. I've said that's unfair for Apple to pay less tax than any other EU corporation/company. How can you compete with Apple if they pay no tax and your start-up pays 20% ? How could Apple have succeeded if they were to pay 20% tax and all the others (i.e. IBM) was to pay no tax?

> What about the notion that corporations should pay no tax at all, and the only taxes should be on individuals.

That would be basically slavery of foreign people(not nice).
I get the very real feeling, when using cloudflare-based sites over Tor, that I'm being tracked specifically by the captchas used. It's always the same two or three.
"Others" is not singular. "they" is a reference to individuals out of a group. "they each" is a common disambiguation, but it doesn't actually matter who turns the light on. The generic he was also used, anyway. This "they" is commonly used to refer to groups of only males, too, and has nothing to do with gendering.

In contrast, F was really singular.
digg reader is good, simple and reliable if not as pretty as google. Take a look if you haven't already.
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the naked pointers are inside an internal kv namespace and are a convenience/carry over from the previous implementation (I've covered the justification for the way it's written in a comment above).

the TL;DR is that it is written the way it is to achieve constant time remove/remove_and_add_to_end operations which is not an erase+append but more like an unlink/relink operation.
This seems like a pretty good development overall - more people looking at application security across the org is a good thing imo especially if it can provide another layer of defence for where the app developers missed something or around new vulnerabilities just discovered. Even for things like Wordpress, I like the additional hardening of a WAF and with tools like OSSEC (and eventually more advanced tools like Immunio) on top of the usual app hardening.
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Are they looking for Star Fleet Academy? It is by the bridge..
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So Ireland will loose access to the EU market and all those double irish deals are worthless?
Interesting, I wasn't aware that people still do that. I thought SETI had vanished along with other 70's trends like UFO sightings.
> Across the U.S., more than 95% of packages ordered over the internet are delivered by three organizations: FedEx, UPS and the U.S. Postal Service. A similar percentage of the logistics operation to get these packages to their destinations happens before the last mile.

So... 95% of US internet purchases get delivered by one of three organizations... and 95% of the logistics of delivering a package occurs before the last leg of the delivery.

I don't get what's going on in the article here. These aren't comparable things. It's like saying "men are under 50% of the population, and vowels are under 50% of the alphabet".
It's on Github after Google Code shut down, but progress is nonexistent since I got sidetracked trying to prove the type-system and type-inference algorithm work in Coq. I encountered so many errors in my own reasoning about that damn thing that I decided to not accept anything less than a formal proof.

My willpower is wearing down, considering the effort it takes to achieve a full Coq development of something serious like that.
> The fraud is that there are many who feel no company should be able to shop around for a better tax deal and no country should be allowed to give them.

That is most definitely not fraud. Fraud involves deliberate deception for unlawful gain, none of which are involved in tax shopping.
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Equally - the car we drive today is a result of 130 years of human work and innovation. But after all that time we're seeing a real shake with the electric car. Things change when people try. I say good luck to the girl/guy - perhaps they'll create something incredible :-)
Android is taking up a much larger share of the smart phone market than before. They've seemingly abandoned their computer market. Mostly it seems to have started when Steve Jobs died.

They need better leadership. They could also free up their ecosystem. It would bring in more developers.
I used to hear mocking birds mimicking car alarms when I lived in LA.
Any pointers for EU based one-time CC are also appreciated.
How can I contribute ;-)?
Have you read any Don Norman? Like Emotional Design or The Design of Everyday Things? Based on the principles (and even the examples) given here, I'm wondering how this book adds to that work.
Lots of big companies commented on Brexit (before the vote). I agree it didn't do them much good in the public eye, but Apple didn't choose to dive into a political debate, it is being dragged into one.

I see a bunch of comments from non-Irish people here saying how badly this letter is going down. But it's aimed at the Irish. Ireland has benefited to the tune of tens of thousands of jobs (perhaps way more) from just a handful of big tech firms, in a country with a population of just 4.5 million. It is one of the things that contributes to the falling Irish unemployment rate.

If the EU starts trying to systematically move big, rich employers out of Ireland (and that's the purpose of these moves, to eliminate Ireland's "unfair" appeal), then there's a risk Irish sentiment will start to turn against the EU, just like it did in the UK over the issue of immigration. If the EU systematically attacks their primary competitive advantage in order to satisfy the high-tax French and high-debt Spanish, then what becomes of Ireland?
> Shouldn't they be taking this up with Ireland? Like, Apple pays Ireland, Ireland pays the EC.

No. This isn't over money owed to the EC, it's over state aid perceived as manipulating the Single Market in a company's favour, which is [to an extent] undone by requiring that company to repay the money

> Seems like interesting timing. They've decided to go after back taxes right before the UK leaves the party.

It's the culmination of a three year investigation and legal process, and they've been going after companies with other special tax arrangements with local governments for years. I don't think Brexit had anything to do with it.
Yeah, I read it. Which is how I know about it. It's not at all an unreasonable suggestion.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/14/tim-cook-addresses-apples-us-...

"Cook added that it was up to Congress and the president to enact tax reform, which he is "optimistic" will take place sometime next year."

I am actually both scared and biased, you got me!
You're probably right. I guess in a sense it's almost the opposite of a garden path sentence since the ambiguous part comes at the end.
Apple is not an innocent Irish taxpayer quietly filing their forms at the local post office. They are a market leader in "tax efficient" structures involving Ireland. They knew that Ireland was in violation. They knew it better than Ireland did. Unlike actual Irish people, Apple chose Ireland for its tax law. Apple now must live with that choice.
> That is not how things should work in a system based on the rule of law and fairness.

Something doesn't jive here. If it is that clear cut, didn't EC read its own laws before asking Apple to pay? If there is a paragraph they skipped someone should point to that, Apple should perhaps.

It would seem to me EC is implying what has happened in the past was not entirely legal somehow. Then it is not obvious what should happen next.

Notice Apple mentions how they "asked govt. of Ireland" for guidance. That means they might have documentation of a govt. official advising it to act that way. That is very important because it is building the case of Ireland here doing something illegal against the EC laws. So Apple is washing their hands here of this case.
>the fact is that they don't originate the product they are selling

They are billing locally.
They have local accounts in which local payments are made.

so no, they have local revenue. Value is created there.
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Does anyone feel like Apple might start abusing the "open letter" format whenever they're in hot water? Since they're so famous for ubiquitous brand representation, it automatically grabs your attention when a letter written by the CEO himself is posted. Even if it's subconscious, I'm sure some people (me included) read the letter and think that if it's important enough for Tim Cook to write passionately about, on the main site of his company, then Apple's probably in the right.

I wonder how many more open letters we'll be seeing in the next few years.
You know a place is in the sweet spot when people complain about it being too left wing and too right wing at the same time.
Yup, and even better when you aren't even tied to any language.
It seems like a chicken or egg problem. If there were no student loans beyond what you could get from a bank or friends and families, fewer people could afford current tuition costs and colleges would be forced to lower them to attract new "customers".

It's Keynesian demand-side stimulus at its core. With the national dialogue focused on how college should be available to everyone, along with unlimited, federally guaranteed student loans, demand skyrockets and prices rise to meet them.
I know people for whom Vim was overwhelming to learn and they gave up or didn't use it properly. I'm trying to make an terminal-based editor which gives them as much as possible of the power of Vim or Emacs, while making it dead simple to learn and use.
Small typo: I think
"How many are notifications are necessary?"
should read
"How many notifications are necessary?"
Because cartels means something specific to a group of market players and tax means something specific to a nation state.

The two are vastly different, and the first is tolerated only by the latter because it's the best way we know to bring order and organization to trade.
I love virtual worlds and don't fetishize nature, but there seems something essentially different between a world created by physics and a world created by humans. It would be a shame to miss out on either.
Been using Terraform in anger, and I agree with your statement. It is not for everyone, not yet anyway, but I love using it.

Btw, Terraform 0.7 comes with initial support for import and state manipulation commands.
Even the electric car didn't start from scratch - it'll use the same component manufacturers as the rest of the car industry - e.g. tyres, brakes, suspension, interior, safety systems.
> "who has been nicknamed “The King of the Jingle” and whose greatest hits include the long-running “Nationwide Is On Your Side”"

I really have no idea where she learned it, since really no media she consumes contains ads, but I've heard my 4 year old daughter sing "Nationwide is on your side" on multiple occasions. It's both cute and kind of terrifying.
What's with the downvotes? Granted, I missed the comma before "too".
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From the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

"Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
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It is bad because it decorrelates the country you make a profit out of from the country you pay taxes on this profit.

The people paying for your product are able to buy it because they live in a country that provides for them, through added value, jobs, health care, infrastructure and so on. If you want to profit from these people's buying power, then you have to conform to that country's rules of business, that's all.

Apple is very happy to make huge sells of iPhones thoughout France, Germany, Italy and such countries, siphoning money from their people to Ireland, without ever contributing as much into the local economy. They employ a few hundred people in Apple stores and hotlines, but compared to their profit it is just ridiculous.