skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on the "How Product Hunt really works" discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739875 it's indeed best to look for a moderator to introduce you. I'm not sure if they hang out and/or identify publicly on HN.
Roughly 8.9% it looks like.

(Last section of article mentions it...)

http://higherednotdebt.org/blog/time-itt-tech-go
You're sharing the internet with far worse than gambling sites, and it's just as irrelevant. Did you expect to get your own private IP4? If not, why does it matter who else is on there?

FUD.
H1B is for qualified workers in specialty occupations, the requirements are a 4 years degree, if less, 3 years of experience counts as 1 year of university studies.
Well, so long as extensions have to pass elisp data, it's okay-ish.
You need to get your facts straight - the 'Double Irish' loophole was remove by the Irish government several years ago.
It is a derogatory term. Just like I use the term "racist" as an implicitly derogatory term. Because it is.
Well my rule is basically - if search functionality is the most essential to your platform and the only other functionality you need otherwise is basic key-value stuff (look up items by user id, stuff like that) then yes, and handle performance issues with your preferred caching solution - redis in my case.

If you need something where money needs to be maintained then you need the security of relational database.

If search is only of secondary importance, use whatever database your prefer to work with and then index that.

But I also have the opinion that as time goes on search becomes a primary functionality of any platform.
>People would actually understand what is going on

I don't think that's in the interest of companies like Facebook or Google. If people understood how their data can be used, many would close their accounts immediately. Data mining companies, and their customers are best served by keeping the public in the dark as much as possible. Revealing how much they actually know about us would cause trouble, if nothing else then simply because it's creepy as hell to many of us.

The funny thing is that while I think all this data mining is creepy, I also believe it's useless in most cases. The only thing I've seen work well over time is Amazons recommendation of books.
Australia Challenges Mugabe to Stop Harassing Protesters
Are we really so modern?
This article is regarding Apple's EU profits, the Yahoo statement (I think?) is global profits.

Also the income statement says: All numbers in thousands

So you need to add 000 to the end of those numbers
You would need better charting/tracking of low altitude obstacles than we have today. One 75' tower (or even telephone/power poles and lines) can make for a very bad day for the flying car and people on the ground nearby.

If this were to become common, I suspect you'd find designated sections of roadway becoming impromptu runways, but I don't think you'd find arbitrary roads being used that way.
Not all EU countries have the same tax rates so yes, it is allowed to have lower ones. It is OK to have low rates (like Slovakia and some other countries have) as long as the same rules apply to all companies.

Problem with this one is that they didn't and it wasn't a loophole. It was a well understood and by Ireland supported ignorance of existing treaties which have an effect of a law that just finally caught up with them.
And I think that SRE is far more readable than standard regex syntax, which is in turn more readable than SRL. SRE is lisp-like, though, so it's not for everyone.
I disagree that any such distinction exists though. Governments routinely set taxes and tariffs such that they apply to one industry and not another, or put another way, one set of companies pays lower taxes than others do. The oil industry is famously heavily taxed, that does not imply that hydropower companies are receiving illegal state aid.

If a country can't charge different tax rates to different companies based on their own arbitrary policies, then they have lost a significant component of their own sovereignty. If the EU wants its members to give up tax policy to Brussels then they should propose a treaty change and make corporation tax a competency of Brussels, then it can be the EU that decides which companies pay more or less tax according to their own political priorities. But they haven't done that and I bet they won't, because they know that they'd lose any such argument. Hence, the back door approach.
20 days x 2 trips a day equals 40 minutes. If you have two people in your household that jumps to nearly an hour and a half of time savings per month for $56. Not horrible. This doesn't factor in qualitative benefits of being closer to other amenities (that tend to be near to train stations).
I only wish that countries would compete for people the same way they compete for businesses. If they were to provide the best services, quality of life, in exchange for the lowest income taxes. That way people would move there and companies would follow. Wishful thinking?
> Thiel isn't like the others in that list.

If it wasn't clear - I was quoting a Mother Jones article (which I agree with). And if you don't mind my asking, how is Thiel different from the others, if the premise is that the others are weaponizing the courts to exact a price on their foes?

> And was Thiel and the others not "in the tranches" too?

"In the trenches" isn't a metaphor I would use for Thiel and the other aggressors; I would say he was more than 200 miles behind the front in an air-conditioned tent with a fridge and a decanter of whisky in the corner.
Protection against "passive attacks" is mostly meaningless: if you can observe packets, you can hijack sessions. It's only the certificate validation that Cloudflare apparently performs only in "strict" mode that prevents this attack.

In particular, the "full" TLS they offer that Hunt is taking advantage of (because he can't deploy a working certificate) is grievously insecure: he's essentially running his system on top of the equivalent of the "goto fail" vulnerability in Safari that the Internet was (justifiably) freaking out about two years ago.

Hunt is smart about a whole lot of things, but he's wrong about this. There's nothing "unhealthy" about the absolutism here: you either have end-to-end cryptographic security, or you're vulnerable.
> If they fail to pay that becomes a lien and ultimately reposession

And then someone close the the Government leases back said land for 99-years with little to no actual "rent" money and you're back at step one of the problem.
With technology there is no upper limit on productivity.

But it will never be enough to satisfy all human wants and needs.

We will always be able to produce more than enough.

More than enough for what purpose?

We could do it indoors in skyscrapers with robots. You
could grow enough weed for the whole world to chain
smoke, in one building in the desert if it came to the
point where that made sense (which it might in the
nearish future).

Surely you understand that if we're using those robots and that skyscraper to grow weed, we can't also use those robots and that skyscraper to produce some other good. Surely you understand that less of some other goods would be produced because we chose to use that particular productive capacity to grow weed rather than to produce those other goods. Surely you understand that the raw materials, including human labor, used to build the robots and the skyscraper were not available to be used to produce other goods, and that the energy needed to grow the weed could not be used for other purposes. Surely you don't believe that human desires have already been fully sated, except for more pot, and that resources are just sitting around idle until jobless stoners get UBI money to buy pot.

Capital is essentially imaginary and therefore limitless
given the right incentives.

This is the first I'm hearing that capital is "essentially imaginary". What do you mean by that? What do you mean by 'capital'?
How can governments "make deals" with individual companies? Aren't governments making laws and the laws apply to everyone?

Giving a tax break to some specific kind of company (e.g plumbers or taxi companies) sounds dubious but doable.

To my ears this just sounds like the Irish government tried to "make a good deal" with Apple, but the law doesn't allow it. Which sounds obvious.

It feels like a clash of company and government culture: the US one where companies try to get "deals" from states in return for doing business there, and the European one where they can't.
No it doesn't. A small amount of very flawed research did. If you smile more you may become happier. But this is because other people's reactions to you change if you smile or not. People being nice to you makes you happy, not your own smiling. Either way, how does that apply to racism? We've clearly seen that silencing racism does not make people less racist, it just makes them form little racist clubs to be racist in.
The fact that the Navy did a study in 2010 doesn't mean it's the first time they've done it or the first them they shared it with NASA.

Also submarines are a good source of data but not necessarily a good analogy.

Space exploration isn't the military, rank, duties, discipline and many other things like even the what drives the individuals are quite different.

A submarine would have a considerably larger crew than a manned Mars mission.

While a submarine has a very specific mission they are supported by the navy and their nation state, if they are caught in a bad situation they know that help is not only possible but would muster virtually every resource available to save them.

Submariners are selected first for their mental profile rather than a skill set and trained, astronauts are usually selected for their skill set first and then trained to adapt.
In general there are more people that would deal well with isolation than there are world class biochemists and geologists that could adapt to such mental conditions.

Submariners have fairly basic duties, they are trained to be able to execute them under duress and the mental stress from both isolation and combat.
Mars explorers would have to use their intelligence and think every day, you don't send them there with an SOP booklet to push buttons you send them there to discover so it's really important to understand how isolation affects their thinking process and creativity and what stimuli need to be created or simulated to keep their brains in working order to keep their creativity and intelligence up to maximize their effectiveness.

And you could probably find 1000 other different variations that make it pretty important to do these studies on the people like the ones that end up going to Mars rather than just say well the navy has done it and their peeps didn't go crazy so we'll be fine.
> TPB has been an enormously popular site for the last decade and a bit that has served primarily to distributed copyrighted material [...] is exactly the sort of site that piques the interest of governments.

Well this deserves at least a comment -- I know this is a rhetorical comment: why on earth would a government need to be involved with copyright infringement to the level where now it's "exactly the sort of site". Are these websites used to plot mass murder / rape, treason and the like? Nope. Then why on earth would a nation state get involved with it?
Technically the gov't own the land (or so they say), they just let you use it.
Like money.
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What's with the FDA bashing? The author notes that in the EU there are 8 generic varieties of epinephrine autoinjector on the market, but medicines must go through an approval process in Europe as well.
This article really lacks substance. Why not do a semi in depth interview about what it was like, their biggest struggles, biggest wins, how they kept sane, ect. Seeing that is posted here, I would've expected more of an interesting read than just "they were in a dome a whole year." As commentators pointed out, Navy sailors go through confide quarters for better part of the year. Not too mention, America houses the most prisoners in the world, surely they would be a good example of cramped living. Hmm, oh well, it is has gone.
I Believe this is not just yoit standard double Irish, there was an extra loophole that Eire closed in 2014 where the second company could be based in no country at all, not just a fiscal haven
It's not new information to either person individually. But while both people already knew it, they didn't know that the other one knew it. That's the new information.
The first is BRE vs ERE. Honestly, just use egrep. It behaves more in the way you'd expect.

I'm not really sure what so different about the escape syntax in mySQL. But I'm sure you know.
I don't feel like that. The Windows release can cause the machine to permenantly loose networking and on Ubuntu 15 the service is causing ridiculous CPU usage on some machines and locking up. Something is broken in the recent releases of the basic engine, its not stable.
[citation needed]; why does this particular risk apply to land taxation and not any other form of state ownership of land?
The laws are designed to make the extortion impossible. If one state isn't allowed to undercut another for an individual company then the "or we'll take our business elsewhere" question isn't possible.
The US, which went hard after VW, is not particularly known for going hard after the environmental footprint of it's domestic brands. Yes, VW cheated, but exposing VW as the sole bad guy considering US gas prices and mileages is quite an impressive trick to pull off.
That's what it means to you. It does not mean that to the vast majority of people.

I can have a red line through mine and be just as secure as you with a green padlock.

This is what the ap is speaking of when he mentions snake oil. You had to pay money to have people believe you are safe.

Now of course you don't, but what does that really get you?

I'm not going to bag on the people behind let's encrypt (they've done an amazing job getting a lot of people on board to a worthy cause), but really the only reason they exist is because browser developers decided to add a green lock in the first place.
Interesting. Do you have a source?
Mithril does that decently, actually. I mean, the library's not included, but it's not too hard: http://lhorie.github.io/mithril-blog/velocity-animations-in-...
If you are "invoicing" the company you are not employee but an independent contractor

Contractors never get Paystubs

and yes there it is a HUGE red flag (and likely illegal) for a EMPLOYEE to invoice a company for their wages.
Have you never seen an org with filtering for such sites?

Not FUD. It kind of sucks if $POTENTIAL_BIG_CORPORATE_CUSTOMER can't access your site because it's blocked as a porn site, just like it sucks if they don't get your emails because your entire ISP got blacklisted by spamhaus.
Apple responds with an open letter:
http://www.apple.com/ie/customer-letter/
What's strange about that? Applications should be using a computer's resources. That's like declaring that employees now get more of a company's payroll than management.
Except the phrase I parse is "Math expression parser", prefixed by "Handwritten".
Been staring in awe at this with my little sons (2&3). We actually get enthusiastic when the first signs of understanding arise. Where can I begin learning about this? I've done several sklearn examples, but this application to 'a new world' (like a racing game), how do you build that?

With build I mean, how do you structure inputs and objects so that the goal is met? The goal for racing is both steering, braking, trottle...
Oh, I was misinterpreting the definition of handwritten. A pity.

Edit: Though, thinking of it, does anyone know of research into decomposing images of text into stroke patterns? It seems like it's a problem that must have had some decent research on it...
First reaction: Congrats, looks great!

Second reaction: Yet another, completely different syntax highlighting implementation/definition list... https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/tree/master/runtime/syntax

Couldn't pick any of the hundreds that already exist? :(
> 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...

Spot on. I'd also add:

3) English-speaking
4) Close ties to the UK
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You need to read the mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Part of the story is about "metanationals", multinationals that become so rich and powerful they can basically buy a country.
> In a few years, we’ll fondly look back on 2015 as the year that DevOps and SecOps “got married”

I can't remember the year Dev married Ops so I doubt I'll remember the year Ops got a sister wife.
It's more about getting what you pay for rather than relying on your expertise to get something working. Plus Adafruit writes good software and tutorials to get you up and running.

When you are going in for a hobby project, you tend to go towards a more 'established' and 'complete' solution including software than having to rely solely on your expertise.
I mean in general. Of course there are physicists at some universities that write about philosophy, but not a single one in my theory department.
8.5Mb is a little too much for editor named micro. Whole DD-WRT/OpenWRT Linux Image is twice smaller.
The issue is not that Apple did not pay tax, nor is it Ireland giving Apple a good deal. Ireland charged tax based on reported earnings in Ireland, not world wide, for a child company of Apple that says it is based in Ireland but has revenue income from around the world.

The EU has decided that all revenue income for that company should be charged in Ireland, although the US say they have also paid tax in the US.

Fundamentally Ireland is saying it did not give a "deal", the EU is saying it calculated the tax incorrectly and the US is saying that the EU's findings are based on no tax being paid elsewhere which was not the case.

As was also pointed oout, Ireland seems to be the scape-goat for all EU decisions. The Irish bail out has already been mentioned in this thread, but for those who are unaware of what happened here is a simple break down.

German companies bought binds in banks (like shares). When the banks started to fail, Germany told Ireland that the tax payer had to pay the bond holders all the investment money and the interest. However if the tax payer had purchased these bonds, they would have never received anything back. They also told Ireland that if they tried to burn the bond holders they would incur trade embargo's to stop Ireland trading in the common market (Ireland makes a loot of money from exports to Europe). So basically it was pay the bond holders or you will have no income.
All strategy is HOF, not all HOF is strategy: Observe:

(define (make-counter n)
(lambda (c)
(set! n (+ n c))
n))

This is a HOF, but not an instance of Strategy.
>Morals are irrelevant in this story.

ah, the capitalist angle. unfortunately, the consequences of acting this way are poor for the rest of society.
On the one hand, this kind of site is incredibly useful and interesting. On the other, I feel like it would make a wonderful vector for collecting possible metadata to match with login credentials when trying to use said hacked credentials.
I think this is part of a more general trend of companies trying to use software that definitely isn't ready for prime time. Sure, it's trendy and being hyped, but those are not sufficient reasons to use it in production.

These days some new technologies become "trendy" (on HN and elsewhere) and start being used by developers. That in itself is great, but many of those developers are also young and inexperienced and do not realize that production systems have different requirements.

There are many symptoms: the docker situation, npm (need I say more), libraries like Semantic UI that can't be built in a CI environment from the command line (require user interaction). Even small things, like tools that change their behavior based on files in one of the parent directories (npm again, but not only), or the proliferation of fancy progress bars and useless drivel being spewed to the terminals, are symptoms. Those are tools designed by developers working on their laptops, for developers working on their laptops, and do not (at this stage) fit the requirements of a production server environment.

Maturity and stability are valuable traits in software, especially in larger systems.
A Message to the Apple Community in Europe
Nyt should try using a cell phone in Manhattan. It is pretty bad there too.

Any other industry would be threatening to leave but SV is such a circle jerk it would dry up and blow away.
>The laws are designed to make the extortion impossible. If one state isbn't allowed to undercut another for an individual company then the "or we'll take our business elsewhere" question isn't possible.

Those are EU laws. Apple could have taken their business anywhere else, including outside EU where such laws don't apply, and a country could undercut Irish taxes.

That said, I'm not against an international agreement to prevent that (though I don't think most countries will be willing to sign it, as they lose their negotiating advantages compared to other countries, and no companies would prefer them all other things being equal).
>Major players in this unwritten pact include the USA, China, and the EU. It's so large you might almost think of it as WWIII, but being fought with monetary policy (mostly) instead of guns

Indeed, there's a book called Currency Wars. Recommended.
I like the stealth style but most people that go this way don't embed toilet/shower (because must be hard to do and harder to have space for it), which in my view must be a horrible downside, no? What do you think? What did you do?
In a world where we have police, we want to deploy it against crime. If the police isn't fit for purpose, that's a different kettle of fish.

(Also, the next bit of the quote, "Yet neighborhoods more likely to commit white collar crime aren’t targeted in this way", suggests a very loose grasp of how policing works. No, they're not, because patrolling the street in front of an office building isn't the least bit effective against white collar crime.)
> we don’t let third parties track you on GitHub

I thought that meant that Google Analytics would be gone ... it's still there though.
I can have a red line through mine and be just as secure as you with a green padlock.

I don't agree with that. Security is a matter of cost to the attacker. A green padlock adds a significant cost compared to a red line.
That would be the case if Apple only used those tax cuts to do business inside Ireland.

But Apple used those cuts, sold products all over EU and then tried to pay (or actually not pay) their due taxes to all those EU countries where it did business back in Ireland.

Apple was not trying to use the Irish law, Apple was trying to use a loophole in EU that didn't actually existed and got caught.
Ah yes, because laws are totally independent of morals. I'm clearly being facetious. Laws are the manifestation of morals, either collective or of highly influential individuals.

But, to your point, laws are the non-arbitrary manifestation of those morals. Indeed there should be no unwritten standard as well. In this case, there wasn't: the Irish laws did not comply with EU law, and EU law take precedence in this matter. Apple should have known that was a possibility, and probably did know but hoped (and lobbied) for the best.
That's been in progress for the last couple years. They've been making certain features like geolocation only available to secure origins and the browser UI is changing:

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/marking-http...