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I'm not convinced that even if Apple have the money and probably employ some of the best tax lawyers around. That they always go for the solution that is unambiguous above board and guaranteed to follow the law.
This might be one of the times they went for something that looked good and they thought they could get away with, but that didn't pan out in the end.
I haven't; certainly not with Cloudflare. I'm not a veteran of the industry, but if it were common, I suspect I would have seen it by now.

CF issues tend to be browser-related, tor-related or configuration-related. I suspect these three happen far more than the odd organization that blindly blacklist websites at the IP level... {{cn}}
Nice, I love the way the user can change the NN and genetic algorithm parameters!

There isn't much documentation though - is the genetic algorithm being used to evolve the NN somehow?
You should be there soon. I've quite numerous times throughout my life and it took me exactly seven days each time. But those seven days were hell.

The funny thing is how hard it is to avoid caffeine after you quit. In the fast food restaurant there are almost no decaf diet drinks. So do you want caffeine or diabetes?
Only the ones they caught, eventually. Like ripping off the DoD or Medicare much of it is never found, or is ignored.
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And then where they would see their products, if not by having to pay taxes in the countries where they would ship those products from their own tax free country?

I don't think you get the issue here, a company in the USA can't just come to EU and sell their products without paying taxes... much less a company from a non existing wannabe country.
I would argue that your business shouldn't be paying the 47% not that Apple should pay more.

Like the other poster said, they had an agreement with Ireland and I think it sets a bad precedence when agreements between a government and another entity are not honored.

Also, where are you that you are paying 47%? That can't possibly be the effective rate can it?
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When writing laws, it's best if they can't be circumvented by obvious semantic games. That's why our judges are humans, and not computers—if someone is trying to jump through a semantic loophole, having judges decide the case can prevent that.

In this case in particular, describing the financial benefit as "lower taxes" instead of "giving money", when "giving money" is illegal, probably isn't a loophole that should be allowed, when the result is the same.
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It seems a lot of people think this ruling has something to do with 1) the "double irish" which is doees not or 2) Irelands 12.5% corporate tax, which it doesnt either.

The ruling, as far as the EU are concerned, is that Ireland gave Apple a deal more beneficial than anyone else. But the basis for this claim is how the tax was charged. Instead of charging Irish tax for all income for the company, they charged what was reported in Ireland. The issue that needs to be resolved is did they pay tax anywhere else on the remaining profits. The US said they did but the EU say they dont think so.
I sometimes buy from them because it guarantees a quality minimum. They have a good reputation to uphold and will make sure I'm satisfied in case of any issue. Buying electronics from ebay has a higher risk of receiving bad parts. Which means the project is set back and my time is lost. Id rather pay more and save time/headaches.
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In-reply-to: ZigZigZag: Once again, it comes down to a question of fairness; you describe Apple's tax deal as if it is a conventional part of fiscal policy where clearly it cannot be treated as such (indeed, if it were, and such tax deals were cut fairly across all corporations in this sector, Ireland would have quite some budgetary problems).

The argument is that the deal that Apple brokered would not have been available to any other company.

A country regulating an industry's tax across the whole industry, affecting every player equally, is very different to a sweetheart deal with one company that puts other players in that same market, both at home and abroad, at a grave disadvantage.

The modern EU is based on freedom of access to market and equality of opportunity. This is what is enshrined in the treaty currently enforced. The EU is not forcing "its members to give up tax policy", it is forcing its members to treat companies fairly across the bloc according to those policies which they have each set. Whilst this could be seen as an assault on their sovereignty, for a collective union to work there has to be common rules, and everyone has to play by them; thereby fairness is ensured. Everybody concedes an equal amount of their sovereignty for the common good (c.f. the ECJ). When one country doesn't play by the rules for its own gain, the others are disadvantaged, and so it is only fair that the central body of that union enforces the previously-agreed rules.
Looks like these are just nanorc files. so reusing nano's definitions? The project name also checks out.
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I don't understand the moral equivalency that you are implying there exists between US gas prices etc and VW providing fabricated statistics.
My point is that the EU and Germany failed to uncover this.
Also Germany and France have both in the past chosen to ignore the rules of the EU/Euro club without sanction.
That it is far easier for the EU regulators to pick on one of the small fry countries and make negative findings is my argument.
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Pretty much this. I'm very new to microcontrollers and hobby electronics but I've been doing some projects with addressable LEDs and such over the past year. Adafruit is great for tutorials and forum help and they ship quickly in the US and have some level of protection against defective gear.

When I need to order reels and reels of LED strips? Sure, if I have the time I will hit up Aliexpress or something like that because I can get a few 5m spools for the price of half a spool from Ada.

But if I need a part that's $5 on eBay/Ali and $10 on Adafruit, I'm just as likely to spend the extra money for fast shipping and support even though the relative markup is high. It's kinda like how I'd still run out to Best Buy or Radio Shack on the rare occasion that I just wanted some small connector or part that day rather than waiting 2-5 days for Amazon to ship it to me for less.
I think the name is a play on the other popular editor 'nano'.
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There isn't a simple answer here - like in most non-trivial data science/ML questions.

The only think I think worth pointing out is that in the mortgage example the current location of a person isn't as major an influence as income. The fairness test here seems somewhat reasonable: a person on $10K/y who lives in Oakland should probably have the same outcome as someone on $10K/y from some very white area - all other things being equal.

The flip-side is that under a human-biased system, the first white person might get the mortgage based on being white, and the second black person might be denied. That would be reversed under an algorithmic system only considering legitimate factors, and surely that's progress?

Yes, I think so? Or at least it can be audited (in theory at least - although see sentencing guideline systems for the problems with this).
Even with these baby steps, I like to see that the EU is unifying its corporate tax code. Of course, we do not need to worry about Ireland, Great Britain already made sure their position as English entrance to the EU will stay strong regardless of tax-breaks.

The Netherlands are naughty, too, due to a strange coincidence Ikea Germany has to pay fees of exactly its profits to Ikea Netherlands each year. I think the bigger countries should use their power to end this ruthlessly, since in the end also the smaller countries would benefit if the race to the bottom stops.
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in fully automated traffic, we can get 2x the current speed, even 3x in congested areas, and probably no traffic jams ever again.

it's not a straight line performance, but considering how 'little' is needed (capable ai-drive) compared to complete overhaul of almost everything just that people can fly around and land somewhere... much more realistic goal
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example@example.com has been pwned a lot ;)
They look similar, but definitely not the same:

https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/blob/master/runtime/syntax...

https://github.com/nanorc/nanorc/blob/master/csharp.nanorc

Looks like they were s&r'd. Which kind of makes the case: why not just make it compatible with nanorc? (Or anything else really, just, something that doesn't create yet-another uncountable set of syntax highlighting files that has to be maintained to support just one more editor)
I was going to say something similar. So it's a three way marriage, dev + ops + opsec?

Most companies I know can't even find one person who can do dev + ops well. I've only met a few people. Usually there are ops people who can do a little dev and dev people who can do a little ops. I've seen a few companies where it is a productive marriage but most companies I know just throw Docker into the dev environment and call it devops.

Now imagine having all three be the same role?

> DevSecOps is propelling forward-thinking organizations by doing something simple — fostering collaboration of seemingly contradictory teams to align their disparate goals into a singular effort.

This is not how devops works! Dev ops merges the two teams so that everyone is responsible for both. It doesn't just have the two teams "work together"... the two teams have been "working together" since the web was invented. Devops, by most definitions I know, is where developers are responsible for thinking about and dealing with the operations issues rather than having another team.

As a side question, is it opsec or secops? I've always heard the former.
Agreed, to me much of the point of the EU is ensuring countries don't undercut eachother on product safety, environmental regulation, tax laws etc.
Ideally these things would be regulated in global agreements too, but that's harder to achieve.
I'm fine with Apple moving all of their business to China to dodge high taxes in the EU.
Sure. My threat model is roughly to divide attackers into three categories:

1) Amateurs
2) Professionals not targeting specific individuals (i.e. spammers, credit card fraudsters etc.)
3) Professionals targeting specific individuals (i.e. corporate espionage, government-like threats)

Let's go with the article and assume that category 3) is virtually impossible to defend against, and ignore them hereafter.

People in category 2 are concerned about volume efficiency - they will perform those attacks that are cheapest per CC#. They don't care about handcrafted attacks against individuals, or even edge networks of a few hundred people. Their main attack on unencrypted HTTP will be passive listening on big backbone connections, which is achievable with their resources, and which "flexible" does not protect against - indeed it makes people much more vulnerable to.

Who are the people using Firesheep and similar tools? Technically-inclined students playing pranks (maybe a decent chunk of "threats" by number, but not really a threat you need to defend against)? I just don't see it being used as part of serious attacks. No carder is going to bother. No spam-information-harvester is going to bother. Maybe people with personal grudges who are at just the right level of technical skill? But how common is that? (This can vary a lot - I can see that it would be an issue for public figures with controversial political positions, victims of stalking etc. - but not for the typical "person in the street")

In other words I think category 2 is the vast majority of (damage-weighted) threats; the threats Flexible protects against are mostly irrelevant, and the threats that Flexible makes worse are precisely the most important class of threats for most "ordinary people".
The compressed binary is only ~2.6mb....
Whereas nano is only 141k on my system uncompressed.
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ack/nak ain't going to cut it.
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Many of JobSonic devs have been foreigner students in the US, that allows them to work after their MSc is finished.

H1B application (lottery this days) is at the beginning of April, H1Bs granted visas won't be effective until October of the same year. Most of the JobSonic devs started in the end of 2015, therefore they are not H1B visa holders, JobSonic 'probably'(I hope) applied for their H1B visa because they have been students in the U.S. they have more chances of winning the H1B lottery. If the won the lottery, their visas won't be valid until October 2016.

There is a quota of 60k H1B per year, and extra 20k for students in U.S. Universities.

Edit: So their H1B application (Oct 2016) depends on JobSonic well being, that's why they are not asking about getting paid, because their H1B visas are not valid yet.
VW cheated, but the bigger moral problem and the underlying topic is not the cheating but the pollution that was hidden by it. And suggesting that VW is polluting more than US brands is just nuts.

Edit: Just wanted to make clear, that of course the cheating should have totally been caught in Europe earlier. The thought that the US is not biased with its domestic brands just made me chuckle.
> so did you get a reply?

No, I've not. If I wanted to brush up on my Java, I'd take a look at submitting a PR. But Java is the opposite of fun.
An aside that seems relevant to a general discussion of "name vs not name": I've noticed that you (or a set of users that share your very unique username, perhaps) spend a ton of time attacking Redfin on various social media accounts (HN, Reddit, Facebook). I used to work there, too, and it's strange that you consistently describe the company in a negative way that is unfamiliar at best and completely unwarranted to the best of my knowledge.

It sounds like you had a really bad experience, which of course is your prerogative. But generalizing your experience to attack an entire company seems to demand a higher burden of evidence and credibility -- a standard that is tough to ascribe to an anonymous hit-and-run commenter who seems to have the sole motive of flinging as much dirt as possible.

I guess the question I'm posing, to you and to this forum, is the following: to what extent can you take a non-specific, general denunciation seriously without a name and a real reputation behind it? Penny did a brave, good thing in writing about her experiences for public consumption. If you want anyone to take you at your word, I'd encourage you do the same. I look forward to reading about your perspective, with a name and context attached, since it's worlds apart from mine.
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I don't think rkt is a valid candidate. People are already used to the basic of Docker command. There is no reason to change to something else. If rkt decides to reproduce the feature set, how is that different from a fork?
"Apple, which with Ireland said it will appeal the decision, paid tax rates on European profits on sales of its iPhone and other devices and services of between just 0.005 percent in 2014 and 1 percent in 2003, the Commission said" .....really 0.005???
Because the eBay stuff is usually a copycat of Limor's work.

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Aside from what superuser2 said, let's not forget basics: it's beautiful. The weather is great. These count for a LOT.
> patrolling the street in front of an office building isn't the least bit effective against white collar crime.

Do you have any sources for this assertion? Have there been any studies?
That is an incredibly clever solution. Could you go a step further and reward schools who have a lower default rate as well? Having an institutions incentives aligned with the students sounds like the first step to solving this.
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I would suggest, however, that this is not an argument for less police but instead an argument for fewer laws that are only infrequently and inconsistently enforced. It is these laws that give police the opportunity to "issue fines so frequently" and to give affected populations (rightfully or not) the impression that they are singled out. (Laws against loitering or the consumption of alcohol in public come into mind, to a lesser degree probably also the criminalization of marijuana consumption.)
Their punishment, in this case, is having the EU step in and dictate what their tax laws should be, overriding Ireland's own tax laws.
The proclamation that jingles are dead isn't true and the best ones will never die. This is evidenced by the fact we still reference Folgers, Dr. Pepper, etc. I appreciate the comments about Japan and Korea as I wouldn't be aware of those otherwise.

Like most things advertising evolved and since mass appeal is the objective it makes sense that pop songs, which are simple and catchy would fill the role that jingles once played.

Pop songs, however, are relatively expensive, and even more so if you have an effective commercial that you want to run a lot.

Without doing any additional searching I can name 2 great, current jingles running here is Los Angeles. Powell Electric's, "...we'll fix it in a flash..." and Empire Carpet, "...call Empire Today..."

So now I think they fill the purpose of lower budget commercials, but they are still a live and they are still a great tool for the right job.
meh, the website is using publicly available information. It might be making it easier for the attacker, but it does not enable him. Same could be said for Google, for example.

edit: by publicly available I mean available on underground networks at least, if not downloadable from pastebin.
So what's changed that FPGA's are making a come back? They were all the rage in 2008/9...however that faded relatively quickly when people realized programming them was a hassle and that programming had direct implications to synthesizability/clock speed/area. Looks like Google Trends shows a downward spiral in interest from 2004 to present, so my intuition was close. OpenCL->HDL and Vivado's C/C++ -> HDL makes the process a bit easier, but it's still not as easy as writing optimized C code.

To get perf on an FPGA over a hard core you must go very wide (as in lots of parallelism). I suspect you could order custom hard cores from places like Tensilica and get far better perf/watt. I love FPGA's, they thrive on parallel integer/fixed point codes if enough time is put into designing the pipeline. It seems for most float heavy codes a hard core unit at a higher clock rate with a dedicated MMU is much better? Am I missing something that changes that?
Note that as far as I'm aware all the custom FPGA solutions (and even Google's TPU which I think is ASIC) are really only being used for inference, and only "beat" GPUs on a efficiency basis.

That's interesting and useful, but the real bottleneck with deep learning is the training stage. AFAIK everyone is still doing that on GPUs.
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It's definitely true that wargaming is stronger than it was in 1998, but it's still not a shadow of what it was in the 60s. Wargaming, as far as I know, has had a greying problem for a long time. Light Weuros are attracting some crossover boardgamers, but I'm not seeing those people moving into the historical simulations of actual wargaming.

I love Sakigahara, the COINs and most of the Mark Herman games, but I'm not moving any farther in that direction.
> Ireland is cutting taxes far below the EU average to attract all companies they can. That's a dick move

Allowing people and their companies to keep more of their money while creating tons of jobs in a high unemployment country. What a dick move indeed. /s
I found this article problematic. First the assertion that "big data comes with all the biases of its creators". Isn't this exactly what big data (which I believe is a term used here to reference some sort of predictive model or machine learning) is supposed to avoid - ie. Making decisions based on evidence and not bias?

Maybe it's the cynic in me but someone who worked in a hedge fund, started yet another advertising tech company and now releases a book about the evils of "big data" abusing the poor... guess I'm biased.
Unless the underlying economic issues are tackled (basically blacks being hit with a huge economic disadvantage for generations due to racism and issues stemming from it (redlining, segregation, Jim Crow, poorly funded school districts, etc.), race relations can't progress much further.

That's because they are also "class" relations, and US society sees it fit to offend, deride and look down upon the poor. So when blacks are predominantly poorer, the will be looked down.

People are less inclined to be racist to middle class/richer families (and the inverse is the reason that most can be trivially discriminating and offensive against poor white people "white trash", "trailer tress", the homeless, etc -- the poor, even white ones, are fair game for discrimination and abuse).

And this can't be trivialized to "it's 2016, slavery stopped in 1865, they had all the chances to bounce back". Black people alive today, in their 60s, have faced segregation. It's not some ancient history. Their parents faced Jim Crow. They couldn't get job opportunities, study where they wanted, etc.

When parents are held down, their kids wont get the education their white middle class peers afforded for theirs. And that will pass on to the next generation, keeping them poorer. And there has been plenty of racism in hiring decisions, redlining, etc since the 70s to assure this goes on. "Affirmative action" compared to the damages done is a drop in the bucket.
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