skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because Adafruit makes it easy to find and usually has some amount of tutorial/howto easily findable from the product pages. Not everyone knows that these parts can be sourced more cheaply; not everyone cares. Plus, there's some higher assurance that you're going to get what you pay for from Adafruit.

For that matter, why buy from Ebay when you can often get them cheaper from Aliexpress? (Or even cheaper from Taobao in a lot of cases. For me, Taobao is too hard to access as a native English speaker, so Aliexpress is where most of my cheap components come from.)
Which in the case of the web to a large degree means "follow the consumer" (of web content, so including firms; and developers so close to consumers to be the same for this purpose).
One of the main ideas of Pomodoro that I see most people ignore is that you are supposed to keep track of your distractions. This should make you more mindful of what is interrupting your work.
It has had both for several releases now.
Thanks for the feedback on the title. I've changed it to "their", which still works fine for me.

For the avoidance of doubt, I do say in the article that:

> The CTO role is a very diverse one, and I don’t expect that the results here will be true in general. This is just my story. I hope it is an interesting one, and it is uniquely backed by data!

So, the subject is me, and I am a male. I did not intend to exclude anyone by using "him".

(I can't change the title on HN myself, but if someone who can wants to do so, please feel free.)
Apple engage(ds) in aggressive tax planning - and they, along with FBK, Google, etc - deserve to be smacked down with a heavy bill.

An effective tax rate of 0.005% - when your next door business neighbour is paying 20% - is morally wrong and damaging to society and the common good.
Interesting. But no mention of any studies or tests whether jingles are actually effective. Perhaps advertisers discovered they just don't work at selling products.
> In 2010, the U.S. Navy embarked on a study to research how submarine crews react to each other so commanders could learn how well teams work together.

Jesus. It only took them 110 years of submarine experience to realize a need for that? Well, that explains why the data wasn't available to NASA in the 60s…
Not quite. It's possible they'll feel the effect of the 1,000+ overseas companies with a presence in Ireland reassessing the pros and cons for their being there.
If you make a deal with a government to pay 0.005% taxes where all other corporations in the same country pays 12.5%, you might want to suspect that something is wrong. Even if you are not paying bribes, it does not pass the smell test.
You have missed the point - this is about different companies within one state being charged different rates of corporation tax, not different states across the EU charging different rates of tax.

> if the EU successfully forces countries to pick a single corporation tax rate across the bloc

The EU is forcing no such thing. It is forcing countries within the bloc to not give any one company special treatment. The distinction is critical.
Not if you knew the deal was sketchy from the start. What's likely the case here.
> TBH, I can't really blame ImageMagick devs too much for this. They're not making an image editing suite for web-facing services with access to sensitive user data. They're making an image editing suite for the Linux command line

On the other hand, CLI image display and edition doesn't mean it'll only face trusted content, it's not rare to download a file and display it or further manipulate it.
The container runtime is a basic building block. If it moves too fast (and in broken ways), stuff on top of it breaks. If Intel processors came with a completely new instruction set in every generation, it'd be hell.

I don't think people are suggesting that Docker Inc. should be boring. The criticism is more targeted towards Docker Engine, the container runtime.
Live on half your income. For every year you work, you can have one year of play.
(Author here.) Subsequent comments are correct: I am a male, and the subject is me, hence "him".

However, I have no problem using a non-gendered pronoun, so I have changed it to "their" in the article.
I disagree. Your operating system is what allows chrome to be your userland.
When you need one, fast, and want it to work, get it from Adafruit and you will be sure.

When you need 10, then its time to look at ebay.

Also, Limor is a force of nature. You know how to use half of that random chinese stuff you find on ebay because Adafruit or Sparkfun went there first and left libraries in their wake.
Hey thanks, I'll look into it
Heavy discounts are usually given for this kind of issues by fiscal authorities, unless there is proof (beyond doubt) there was unlawful intent to not pay those taxes.
The problem is that the government allowed the problem to persist for too long before acting. If the government wants to be in the business of approving schools (even if it's only indirectly) it should hold schools to a lot higher standards and move a lot quicker when results start to slip.

For better or worse when people see "Approved by The US Department of Education" they have (perhaps unreasonable) expectations that that means something.
>> as AAPL literally stole money from both US and EU people

Well you have US Govt now arguing on behalf of Apple, which suggests that US people were not going to be the losers.

The losers are people of other countries where Apple and other MNC's don't pay their fair share of taxes.

The plan is to hoard this money in low tax jurisdictions and I guess for 2 purposes
1. wait for a lower tax rate amnesty to be offered in US
2. use cash hoard to undertake overseas acquisitions to grow the US Company and by extension US influence.

Apple finds it better to take loans out in US for its cash needs there and write them off against US incomes inspite of sitting on more than 100b in cash reserves.
> In any case, we should be taxing land value. That's harder to avoid: you can't hide land.

These companies buy up 1 person offices to use as PO Boxes. Land isn't representative of profits flowing through a place.
You aren't full-stack unless you are writing the Verilog for the chips that run your other code.

Seriously though the term full-stack is pointless as everyone has a different definition of what that means but still wants to say "I am full-stack"
It means "the most vulnerable part of the connection - the last-mile - is probably secure". That's still useful information.
Yes I have seen where their OSes come from.

Mac OS X and their predecessor might have an UNIX heritage, but C was always left for the very lowest layer. Already on NeXT the device drivers were written in Objective-C, being replaced by C++ on Mac OS X.

Anyone paying attention to their Swift talks during the last two WWDCs knows where the boat is steering. Cris is quite clear in stating Swift should be usable in all scenarios where C is being used and Sierra already got some adoption in userland components like the dock and launch deamons, now rewritten in Swift.

Microsoft has declared C89 as good enough with the future being C++ and .NET Native.

The C runtime library was rewritten in C++ with extern C for the public symbols.

The C99 compatibility and upcoming C11 are only done to the extent required by ANSI C++. For anything else there is clang.

As of Windows 8, the device driver framework has been changed to C++ and there was a talk from Herb Sutter where he mentioned the plan was to migrate the kernel to compile with a C++ compiler.

The idea of Core C++ Guidelines actually originated at Microsoft, before Bjarne and CERN guys got involved.

Google doesn't allow native code on ChromeOS and on Android they make pretty clear that the NDK is just to make game developers happy and nothing else.

They are all aware that C isn't going away tomorrow, but are driving efforts to make it as relevant in the future on their platforms as Assembly is today.

When I started working in IT, the only OS written in C was UNIX.

The language is not a sacred cow and the only thing preventing replacing it is the ubiquity of UNIX like OSes.

OS not bound to the UNIX culture and POSIX compatibility are free to chose other language as their systems language.

Not doing so, is usually a decision to cater to the status quo and ubiquity of existing developers and library (with their endless CVE entries).
> Common keybindings (ctrl-s, ctrl-c, ctrl-v, ctrl-z...)

How do those not get blocked by terminal emulators?
>The Irish people benefits when subsidies to French, British or German corporations are curbed.

Are you serious? Subsidies to German and French corporations were not curbed they were replaced by the ludicrous loans that the Germans and the French give out to the "poorer" and "less industrious" EU member states so they in term can go around and buy German goodies.

And when this Ponzi scheme blows up because of a financial crisis they force you to take on even more loans to pay back the debt you own all while preventing you from writing off debt or going bankrupt with threats of shutting off your banks because you do not control your own currency.
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Are you sure you didn't select "Full (Strict)" ?
> I think it's something they care about

so did you get a reply?
Did you make screenshot by any luck ?

btw: a 1080p episode (30min?) at 400MB is impressive enough for me.
There are lots of reasons for choosing a small company over large ones: interest in the field, involvement in decision making, maybe more technical freedom, less bureaucracy ... I would say it depends more on the company itself than its size
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> The problem is that yes, in fact, google/gmail will drop email, by default, into gmail users' spam folder from a privately run email server.

That alone is the reason to not use gmail, if any of you think it hasn't happened to you, trust me it will.
That explains it. I've kinda been in denial that there were any Bond movies after Brosnan so I thought this was more of a 70s era Bond reference than '00s.
wow, great minds...I guess.
How to counter this:

Just regulated the transfer of IP rights. If you sell say a patent portfolio for $50m to your British Virgin Island subsidiary, and then make $20bn in profits in the decade thereafter on that BVI sub, it appears the IP transfer was waaaaay below market value. And should retroactively be taxed in the US where we engineers had developed that stuff in the first place.

Problem solved. US tax base restored. Government deficit fixed.
Many technologies break the end to end principle. NAT, load balancers, caches, security inspection/monitoring devices, etc.

This occurs everywhere on most every network and should not come as a surprise, although many technologists and researchers argue against it while others argue the principle is holding back advancements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_principle
That's a bad argument because:

1) Apple would have sold their stuff in Europe whether they had to pay full taxes or not, they only wanted a discount. I would probably not pay for the solar panels because I can't afford them.

2) Solar panels are very expensive and would make a huge dent in my balance. That's not the case for Apple.
He wrote

> for a certain group of college grads

Also, even if he hadn't said that, I don't know, do we really have to explain for statements clearly meant to be understood that way what "statistical" means, on HN, and in a thread about Ph.D.s? How many go back to a Ph.D. program once they are in an industry vs. how many get there without having left academia?
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Did you read the article? The numbers I wrote are straight from the European Commission.
As a European Union citizen I trust EC's findings more than yahoo.

Also, do you really think that Apple made only 50 million in Europe in 2014? What is it? A startup?
If both Apple and Ireland are opposed to this I see little chance Apple actually pays this. Ireland's government obviously setup this tax structure intentionally to bring capital into Ireland and will want to preserve this.
The fact that all traffic is decrypted at their servers makes possible caching optimizations (what most users care about) and inject content,headers. This is the best example of the centralization of the internet.

Does anyone know what Cloudflare's response was regarding them treating Tor traffic suspiciously by putting up never ending captchas?
Yes, when it occurs it totally breaks the experience of reading long reads on the kindle. This, and the fact that multi-pages articles are sometimes not properly fetched.

I'm working on generating perfect (all images, all pages) .mobi periodical files from rss feeds, send me a mail (in my profile) if you want to test a MVP when it is ready.
The US tax code is a huge mess, agreed. But you gotta pay your dues (aka taxes) somewhere, and here Apple et al goes essentially Scot free. That is not cool.
If you send email directly from your machine by looking up MX records from a home ADSL line, then yes this will happen. Instead, you should send your mail via your ISP's outgoing SMTP server, using the mail submission port number 587. Your ISP should provide this service, and you will probably have to authenticate using your username/password associated with your internet connection.
I'm not going to comment on the article other than "yay, science!".

But the title sounds like someone ended up in bad circumstances after some kind of misdeed.

It should rather read "Two women conceives successfully" instead of just "Two women pregnant" to illustrate that this was 1. intentional and 2. an achievement.
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Thanks for sharing your intrusion story. Although it is always painful for the person to experience, it gives good insights on what happens in the wild. As the author of security tools rkhunter and Lynis, it is still a sign that basic (and advanced) system hardening remains needed for a long time.

The other comments show that there are so many things you could do. But some are more relevant than others. That is something we want to test for in Lynis with upcoming updates. One focus area will be detecting Drupal/Joomla/WordPress installations. If anyone wants to help out the open source project and make the web a safer place, this is your chance to help: https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis

Thanks again for sharing!
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> In any case, we should be taxing land value. That's harder to avoid: you can't hide land.

Would you also tax virtual property? I guess that would be things like domain names.
> Trust On First Use could be another one, allowing for a partial departure from the CA model.

Any step away from the horrible "HTTP is fine, but god help you if using a custom certificate" scaremongering currently implemented by browsers is good to me.

I absolutely cannot understand this: if is's a trusted, non expired certificate, show it as green. If not, there's nothing more insecure about it than using plain HTTP; should we display huge scary warnings for plain HTTP, too?
I would like to have more constructive suggestions to offer, too. It's not a simple problem, though, and it will not be quickly solved. Threatening Facebook employees (doxing people is a threat) does not seem likely to make anything better.
"...The findings are a result of the culmination of a three-year investigation by Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager into tax arrangements for Apple, dating back 25 years..."

I have no love in my heart for Apple.

At the same time, it's not like they don't have enough lawyers. So I have to assume that anything involving billions of dollars would be strenuously vetted. I might be wrong, but I'm starting from there.

And if they were supposed to pay taxes, they were supposed to pay them. Purposefully evading taxes is wrong. Avoiding taxes is another matter. Complex tax codes to change society work because we assume that people will be actively avoiding them. So good for them. They're playing the carrot and stick game that governments like us all to play.

If true, this means that they did the right thing that the best-informed legal minds could offer in order to legally avoid taxes. It worked for a while then suddenly the rules changed. And they changed not just for the future, but retroactively.

What occurred to cause a rules change? It wasn't the law. It wasn't Apple's behavior. It became a story in the U.S. about how companies are getting away without paying their "fair share". The EC was the one that acted, and the only thing that makes sense to me is that the EC saw an opportunity and appointed a commission. Not arbitration, not a criminal or civil trial. A commission.

Quite frankly, this looks like a stick-up. Apple's a big company and can take care of itself. I really hope that the same kind of thing doesn't happen to mid-sized and smaller companies trying to eek it out in the EU. It's not just bad for the companies involved: it's bad for the reputation of the union as a whole. You can't keep changing the rules up if you're trying to tweak regulatory issues to promote long-term growth. Nobody with any sense is going to trust you.
I'm a bit disappointed that this article doesn't mention the threats specifically that SSL in this way will defend against..

So what if the back end isn't encrypted? How much more unlikely is it that someone will be listening to that connection?

The major threat that SSL in this method is trying to prevent is a listener close to the client. That is by far the most likely scenario and is protected against.

Also; PCI won't give you a fail if the traffic isn't encrypted end to end because of two magic words, "Compensating controls"
I absolutely detest Facebook for:

1. Sharing my mobile number via the Facebook app without my explicit consent or knowledge

2. Using my Whatsapp contact list to recommend people I might know

And now, I've recently started getting all sorts of arbitrary notifications even though I've stated several times I don't want to be notified of anything.

The only reason I still have a facebook account is so that I don't have to share stuff like my email address and phone number with people. But at this point it doesn't seem worth it any more.
The app looks slick and recipes look yummy. Congrats on the lovely design. Looking forward to cooking the Indian Vegetable Balls
'Inject javascript into your code while returning pages'

I absolutely hate this, you go to a completely benign website but you can't see the content unless you allow the injected CF to run in your browser.
It would be fine if you moved the tax to dividends and capital gains.
The title is at least confusing, but FTA:

> According to IVF Japan, which announced the cases in Osaka, mitochondria were extracted from egg precursor cells in the patients' ovaries by way of laparoscopic surgery and other means, and were injected into the women's eggs alongside sperm at the time of in-vitro fertilization.

Anyway, it's not very clear in the article that they have a control group. A control group is important to be sure that the improvement in the pregnancy rates are due to the treatment and not due to other factors.

I guess they choose a group of women that had problems to get pregnant. But how many of them would have got pregnant with the usual in vitro fertilization? Did they select a group that have good health or is quite young?

Perhaps some small details changed from the previous attempts of these women. Just to make up a few, perhaps this time they get more rest, or a better diet control, or more vitamins/iron/folic acid/whatever.

All these things are very difficult to measure and the only way to remove the bias is a control group.
Docker's mistake is bundling swarm and throwing away regular docker-compose with services. The bigger mistake was presenting them as they worked perfectly, just because in the sake of a badly timed DockerCon (seriously why the hell do we need 6-month spaced dockercons) they released something that was not complete and fundementally different from previous way of running containers. I feel their urge to monetize but events like this really leaves bad memories. By the way, does anyone remember the service command that was introduced in ~1.8 or 1.9 and just vanished? It was a similar mess.
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Because other nations wouldn't recognise it.
Best i can tell, Asia never picked up the "minimalism" that swept "the west" somewhere around the 90s.
http://imgur.com/a/mYdJe
I also went to DeVry and graduated in 2006. I was really upset for a long time about the cost and quality of the education after I got into the workforce, especially after having had a few manager tell me outright that they almost didn't bring me in to interview because of the school on my resume. After talking to other people who graduated with similar degrees (mine was in CIS) it seems like the actual quality of the education I got wasn't materially worse than any of the people I know who went to state schools. Really I was upset because the recruiter had essentially promised me a CS degree and what I got was a degree that was a hybrid between a business management degree and a coding bootcamp.

I think, cost aside, I do have to acknowledge that without DeVry I'd probably have never gone to college at all. I was definitely exiting high school hovering over the cracks and ready to fall through them, I had no resources to help me even visit any other colleges, let alone navigate enrollment or filling out forms for financial aid. DeVry recruiters might have been sales people, but they made sure I was able to navigate the process and because of that I had 4 years to self-study and learn and came out of it at least able to say that I have an accredited degree.
This would solve Troy's issue with his own site, too - his hoster serves it with a * .ghost.io certificate. If he could configure CloudFlare to only accept certificates that match troyhunt.ghost.io, that would be a lot safer.

I have the same use case with GitHub pages -- https://www.glowing-bear.org is Full SSL in Cloudflare, but I can't switch it to Full (strict) because the upstream certificate is for *​ .github.io
People learning or not learning ethics doesn't really have much to do with it. Read up on the Fraud Triangle. Unethical job tasks follow a similar pattern. Perceived need ("I might lose my job if I refuse") and rationalizations ("the results of this flawed algorithm surely won't get taken seriously") get you two-thirds of the way there. The third leg, opportunity, is inherent in this sort of job. So "ethics" are really beside the point when the workers confront the reality of their situation.
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They do share information, but it's a much different situation.

It's not 100 days, NASA already does 100 day missions on the ISS, there's little NASA doesn't know from direct experience that any navy could tell them. The most common scenario for a mission to Mars would involve 6 month trips with 18 month stays on the Martian surface, for a total of well over 2 years away from Earth. With a crew of maybe 4, on the low end. That's a situation that's completely unprecedented in history. Not only do you have extended isolation, but there's no way to get out of that isolation, no matter what happens. They are locked in to that extremely long term of isolation, there's no abort scenario to bring them back home sooner (in many mission designs anyway). The closest analogy on Earth isn't submarine voyages, it's actually prison. And that's a big reason why there's been a desire to study these sorts of things separately, without the extensive cost of space hardware in the picture. Because it is an unknown and it does have the potential to impact the potential success of a mission.
Morals are irrelevant in this story.

Tax law is a system of rules. There should be no second arbitrary standard people (and companies) should be expected to follow.