skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sorry, I read the article and the word BuzzOps popped in my mind. I think most companies are still trying to get their heads around clouds and micro services.
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State aid has been forbidden or at least heavily regulated in the EU since the Treaty of Rome in 1957, although Ireland joined later in 1973. No need to play the victim here and stoke anti-EU feelings. Apple got caught, and rightfully so. Time to pay up what is due. Hopefully, others will follow.
The EU has been pursuing companies, including domestically based ones, under "illegal state aid" rules for years. Why should US tech companies get special dispensation to avoid repaying state aid ruled illegal that the likes of Real Madrid and Estonian Air (which went bankrupt when faced with the repayments) didn't?
Kudos on the write-up!
I don't recall where I heard this analogy, but I repeat it frequently.

"Not using a hadoop is like cutting down a forest with a single chainsaw. Using it is like cutting a forest down with unlimited hatchets. It will usually be faster and cheaper with the chainsaw."
Current EU president, Jean Claude Juncker, was the architect of much of the corporate tax avoidance scams for those very same companies, e.g. Amazon

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3688861/Jean-Claude-...
excellent catch. just pushed the fix. thanks!
Have they really settled?

In the 90's we had the UNIX wars.

Nowadays we have the GNU/Linux wars.

Each distribution does its own thing and every disagreement leads to yet another fork.
Why would they allow their student loans to default in such a situation instead of enrolling in an income based repayment plan? If they have 0 income, they would have a payment of 0 dollars, still get their tax refund, and have their loans forgiven after a some time on the plan.
At the time, the company knew that in order to serve customers in Europe, it would need a base there.

Are you sure this had nothing to do with avoiding US tax and keeping a cash stronghold in Europe?
WoSign was also caught red-handed backdating certificates to avoid the SHA1 deprecation.

So you can't trust that information either. As mentioned in a different thread, whitelisting certificates extracted from CT logs is the only really viable choice here.
I split the categories based on my own background - I'm sure there are systems that are worth defending against targeted attacks from professional crime gangs ("3a") and not nation states ("3b"). I don't think that changes the reasoning here - "Flexible SSL" would very much be insecure against an attacker in category 3a.

With regard to the NIST curves I understood there was no advantage to using those curves - they were slower than alternatives whose constants did not carry the threat of NSA interference. I agree with the general point that there is some absolutism going around (e.g. I think treating self-signed certificates as worse than plain HTTP is wrong).
Here are a few more principles of Western Law for you. Statute of Limitations. Ex Post Facto.

If this tax activity was illegal, why wasn't it stopped 25 years ago, when it started?
9 foot range, 26 feet if you have a hard drive with a USB cable plugged in.

Doesn't work with thumbdrives.

More importantly, the airgapped computer needs to be already compromised before the attack can occur, and you must have write access to the drive.

While they show an Ubuntu machine next to the compromised machine, there is no signs that the malware works under ubuntu.

Neat research, but limited utility.
It's disappointing but unsurprising. Stifling people you disagree with in such a way serves to create the extremism the original comment alludes to, but it feels a lot better than having an open discussion.
The problem with this approach is that a CA that's been given the death penalty has little to lose, so they might just start backdating certificates. In fact, backdating SHA-1 certificates is one of the incidents they've now reported.

The only way to do this without the risk of backdated certificates being accepted would be to explicitly whitelist all known certificates that were issued prior to the cut-off date. I'm not sure how practical it is to ship such a large list, though (they've issued > 100k certificates in 2015 IIRC).
With a bit of luck this will trigger an Irexit.
Thanks. I think my anecdote still illustrates how fully removed Cork was from any of the high-value development or R&D work that Apple seems to have been accounting to Ireland though.
Definitely seeing a lot more of this type attitude in the industry:

"You old developers just don't get it! The young are building the future! We LIVE on the bleeding edge, man. Who cares if there's a few bugs, that's what you MAINTENANCE developers do, fix the bugs that are beneath me. Besides, I'm out in like six months anyway. On to my next gig."
Of course it does. Volkswagen has gotten hundreds of millions of dollars worth of incentives from the state of Tennessee for its Chattanooga plant, for example.

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/business/aroundregion/sto...
Step forward to ScalaJS and dont look back?

https://www.scala-js.org/
No Agenda is a good example. The show utilizes jingles, songs, and soundbites for entertainment reasons rather than commercial. Too many to list (or find), but a few examples below.

In The Morning Breakfast jingle: https://clyp.it/1jlijg2g

See Something, Say Something: https://clyp.it/hcjt1i2g

Uber Spies acapella: https://clyp.it/wgpj4jjh

Don't Look Over Here (Nothing To See Here): https://clyp.it/on2d3pf3

Monsanto: https://clyp.it/ayuf1scs
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One side note I haven't seen covered yet:

The court ordered Apple to pay the penalty of 13 billion euros, plus interest. For the last couple years, many bonds in Europe have been sold at negative interest rates. Does that mean Apple could potentially be paying less than 13B back?
I think it is effective in some ways.

Planning out what you are going to work on the night before is a huge help. I think getting good at knowing what you can fit into a 25 minute slot takes some practice.

Staying focused, not reading emails or posting on HN takes serious practice.
I find this a really odd statement. No, it's not the future we were expecting (when is it ever?). But slow? I was born 40 years ago and am constantly bombarded with the fact that we live in the future.

50 years ago, the first super computer was built that could do 3 MegaFLOPs. No one had a home computer. People used land-line rotary phones to make audio calls to their friends. Sputnik had been launched and men had been to space.

Today, we all walk around with GigaFLOPs computers in our pockets that can make video calls and talk to billions of other computers around the world, all over the air—and we think nothing of it. There are people living in space semi-permanantly, we've sent probes to every major body in the solar system (and some minor ones) and there is so much stuff in orbit that it's become a potential hazard.

That seems like a ton in 50 years, and that's just in two areas.
relevant xkcd
https://xkcd.com/792/
This is problematic here, because WoSign is also known to have issued a certificate in July 2016 backdated to December 2015:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/...
Temporary 'tax holidays' have happened before. Sorry, no links atm.
You have a networked keyboard/mouse?
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It would certainly be better than nothing, yes.

But prior to March 2015, CAs could issue certs valid for up to 5 years. So even if browsers stopped accepting WoSign certs with an issuance date after today, WoSign could still issue certs "issued March 2015 valid until to March 2020" and browsers would accept them.
That's excellent to hear, thanks! I'm looking forward to that.
Apple: You can have taxes or you can have jobs, but you can't have both
Yeah, or maybe tell each EU citizen that Apple owes them 40 euro per year, and they can expect similar amounts from Coca Cola, and Starbucks, and Google, and McDonalds, and ...
Do you think that's how IRS and SEC investigations work? That they won't come after you specifically, as long as there are other people doing the same suspicious thing?

Of course not. In white-collar and corporate crime, they pick the cases they want to pursue. It doesn't matter if it's "fair" to you that everybody else isn't getting investigated.
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How was Apple supposed to know that Ireland's tax legislation was going to be retrospectively upturned by the EU?

Should Tesla be worried that the United States Federal Government might deem Nevada's special tax deal invalid?
The Wikipedia article on civil liberties in the UK is a good starting point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_liberties_in_the_United_...

Selections:

Criminal Justice Act 2003, abrogated double jeopardy in cases with "new and compelling evidence".

Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, created an offence of inciting religious hatred, an advanced notification scheme for protests up to 1 kilometre from Parliament.

Terrorism Act 2006, following the bombings in London on the 7th of July, this legislation allows for people suspected of terrorist offences to be detained without charge for up to 28 days.

Here's someone's blog post listing things that would be legal in the US but not in the UK, citing the specific laws or constitutional provisions in each that make it so.
https://prestonbyrne.com/2016/01/06/the-american-english-civ...
There's also already a reasonably-popular Go project called "Micro," though honestly both projects could have picked better names.

https://github.com/micro
I find it insulting when statements start with "Mathematician says", "Experts say". Whoever does this thinks little of his readers. They count on that prefix to make their story more convincing. Sadly, it probably works.
> Machines shouldn't act like humans

I'm surprised - does that mean ML/AI isn't calm ? Why ?
In most fields of human endeavor you do have an objective function better than "do what humans do".

Mortgages are very specifically an area where you do. First of all, there is historical data.

Second of all, you can backtest well before 25 years. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post explaining specifically how to make measurements in the presence of delayed reactions - I'm discussing a situation involving sensor networks, literally the same mathematics would work for mortgage default or refinance: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/delayed_reactions.ht...

Third, mortgage lenders can often backtest alternate decisions because there are pretty straightforward relationships between decisions. Some of them are even mechanistic, e.g. refinance_risk(interest_rate) and default_prob(interest_rate) are monotonically increasing.

You seem to think we are living in the exact specific dark age necessary to make your morality play poignant and relevant. That's about as silly as Star Trek landing on all sorts of alien planets, each one designed to highlight one specific social issue from USA 1966.
Ah, so many downvotes. And I see people are so mad that they've gone out of their way to downvote other, unrelated posts of mine. Oh well, I guess it's not surprising that HN has become infected with the same virulent "anti-SJW" folks that have been running rampant everywhere else. To be honest I'm somewhat looking forward to proof that HN has sunk into an irredeemable slide into the abyss, it would probably increase my productivity if I avoided this place.
I'm not developing anything against Docker except for automation tooling, and I would kill for a stable Docker Engine; stable disk drivers, stable CLI arguments, stable configuration file formats, a stable daemon, and so on.

That said, it's a hard problem, and I certainly don't have the time to work on it myself; nor can my employer spare me to work on them either.
Lately I looked into writing history (and desire more) and was surprised one "fact" - many more people read than people who wrote (as centuries went on). I suspect the total number of studied writers is quite small wrt the articles mentioned sources.

To compare to today, the keyboard and vocal cords afford many more authors. History is not taking the "average" of philosophical thought but if it was I wish there were more writers centuries ago.
The parent poster's point was, if you're going to credibly say you "can do all of it", you need to list expertise in x86 assembly and VHDL on your resume. Otherwise, you're only a "most stack" developer.
I really want to use terraform but after dealing with the collection of hacks called vagrant I am not so excited to do so. (speaking of randomly merging up parent directories)
I don't sock puppet and (hopefully) don't say things on the internet that I wouldn't say to someone's face. My username is my name [without "The Great, Savior of the Universe, Creator of Large and Small Mistakes" as I'd like at least some anonymity].
What's a "custom certificate"? A self-signed certificate provides no security: any MITM could simply substitute their own.
So it seems to me that the Irish government should be punished, not Apple. Apple did nothing illegal.
I think this issue arises from fundamentally western ideas about what it is that are our most basic human instincts. We have certain instinctual needs, which, I'll agree, would seem to imply a hedonistic lifestyle when considered alone. However, many of these things balance themselves out. As an example, we have an evolutionary need to be healthy, viable mates, but we also have an evolutionary need to consume delicious food. Overindulging one need would inherently cause the other need to not be met. I would also add that the need to express kindness and compassion, and the need for positive social interaction seem to also be instinctual, and do drive us to act in ways that would not necessarily fit with a hedonistic lifestyle.
And how would you prove that hypothesis? With some data and an algorithm. The problem you speak of can be fixed by improving the model, not abandoning it.
I clicked End Race in the first few generations when all the cars got stuck in the middle of the road. I think that by the fifth one at least one car was able to complete a lap.
Billion not Million, although still a small number in respect to 200bn its 7%. But I think you have to look at it in terms of the magnitude of the number, its easy to make it look small in comparison to their reserves but 14 billion is still enough to power a whole lot of economic growth.
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Eh, no, if I buy an Italian suit in Macy's, Macy's has bought it from the manufacturer in Italy. They have imported the suit. They pay the Italian producer. The Italian producer is taxed on their profit in Italy. Macy's is taxed in the US. One or other party may have to pay a tariff on the import. Why do you think the product has to move through a subsidiary domiciled in the local country? When did that become a requirement?
There is no process for recycling /automotive/ lithium ion batteries, but that's because their use is so recent--the first commercially available lithium ion EV (Tesla Roadster) wasn't released until 2008. However, EV batteries are essentially the same as commodity lithium ion batteries (e.g. stacks of 18650 cells that you can buy on Amazon), and those have been recycled for a while.
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Ireland uses lower taxes to attract companies to create jobs.

This has worked, but I wonder if the EU is going to cause another country to exit with this ruling?

Seriously, what does Ireland gain if it loses a ton a jobs due to this?
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Yeah, that might be true, and that's what this editor is for :D I didn't want to give users the best solution at the beggining, so they might search for it themselves. It's actally only the third combination of parameters that I've tested.

On the other hand 0.5 is not so large, when you look at the mutation procedure. If a speciman is going to be mutated, only 20% of it's weights are changed and only within a range [-0.1,...,0.1]. But fill free to experiment :)
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1. It's the EU, not the UN.

2. My understanding is that Ireland's tax laws should meet a certain EU standard. Apple was meeting Ireland's laws but Ireland was not meeting the EU's and thus Apple wasn't paying the correct amount of tax. So the laws have always been in place, they just weren't being followed correctly by Ireland or by Apple.
"Member states cannot give tax benefits to selected companies - this is __illegal__ under EU state aid rules,"

Yeah - but this arrangement has been going on for more than 20 years, no?

A little late in the game to be declaring it 'illegal'?

I'm not against the ruling, but it's clear that the EU is messed up.

Make no mistake - the only reason Apple was under investigation is because they were making so much money.

This thing should have been brought up the moment it was implemented.

Also - the EU is structured to incent governments to screw other governments by creating crazy tax schemes.

You know who spearheaded this? Jean-Claude Junker - the same guy who spent 10 years developing tax avoidance schemes for Luxembourg!
SayberX looks interesting enough as a male masturbator, but the real innovation is the connected X Ring that allows for remote play. I wonder if it's like fitbit for sex?
> My only critique is that they accept ANYONE. This leads to a large number of dropouts. You have people that haven't been able to grasp basic algebra and they bust their butts learning basic math and then hit Cal I, Cal II, Signal Processing, etc and they just can't hack it. By the time they flunk out they've wracked up tens of thousands in student loan debt.

I went to a private ABET certified school for an Aerospace Engineering degree. My class was maybe 80-100 students when I started, and at graduation there were only ~20 of us. Everyone who left early was also stuck with a metric tonne of student loan debt.
There is a "Building a Web Browser" course on udacity[1]. Maybe someone who has taken the course comment on it.

[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/programming-languages--cs262
Nice to see you using our authenicated origin pulls feature: https://blog.cloudflare.com/protecting-the-origin-with-tls-a...

I think we get a lot of criticism because we explain clearly what we are doing and people pick over it. There are always going to be criticisms but I'd rather we be transparent and take some heat than say little and clients not fully understanding how we operate.
It's not an appeal to feelings, it's a statement of fact.

The EU was never meant to control member state's tax policies. That's exactly what they are now trying to do. Regardless of whether you feel they're justified or not, Apple's point is sound: it is a loss of sovereignty.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/oct/18/uk-uncut-ta...
It's not retroactive! The law was not passed today! It was there from the beginning. It's just that Apple didn't care until today when they were told to pay. So suddenly they don't want to pay what they own because the 'didn't know' so they call this "retroactive" even if it's very much not retroactive at all.
Just a note, precedent has little impact on law outside of countries that don't practice common law. Common law originates from the UK and Germany and France don't practice it, therefore precedence has little to no impact.
Given the current political context in Europe (Brexit, fears of populations across the continent of loosing their sovereignty to Brussels (i.e the EC), the message of Tim Cook is very political and bold:
-"We believe these changes should come about through the proper legislative process, in which proposals are discussed among the leaders and citizens of the affected countries"
- "This would strike a devastating blow to the sovereignty of EU member states over their own tax matters"
I am not sure this is the way to go. Apple should fight this decision on a legal basis: laws cannot be retroactive - and not a political (borderline populist) one.
Do you understand how VAT works?

VAT is irrelevant for companies.

Apple collects VAT on behalf of the EU governments when selling products and passes those on to the respective governments. Other companies collect VAT on behalf of the same governments when selling products or services to Apple; Apple gets reimbursed by the same governments for the VAT it paid. It's effectively a zero sum game.

The customers pay VAT, Apple only collects it on behalf of the governments and passes it on (after deducting whatever VAT they already paid on their expenses).

This is why in EU countries prices for end users are typically presented as flat sums (VAT included) but prices for businesses are generally presented with VAT listed separately (because businesses don't care about the VAT they pay themselves).
Income based repayment plans are even better in the US- if you have low income, you don't pay anything the same as you describe, payments go up with income... and loans are forgiven after 10-25 years, not 40!
"In the past"

In the past?

This is ongoing - enabled by Junker himself ...
Cool. Thanks for the edification.
This is great and worked very well on the few examples I tried. I wonder how it would work with a photo - author, has it been tried?
Did you report that to us?
Apple got a sweetheart tax deal from Ireland.

Tesla got a sweetheart tax deal from Nevada.

Pfizer got a sweetheart tax deal from the United States.

I don't see the difference.
> That's 69% of my requests that didn't need to hit my website. That's also 57GB in that same period [...] This is particularly important for those paying for bandwidth as it slashes that cost by 84%:

Oh, wow, so, you paid only 2 cents instead of 10 cents for bandwidth? What a huge advantage!

I mean, seriously? Where do you buy your bandwidth that it's a relevant cost factor below 10 TB per month?
Wosign is not in the list of default CAs on the Mac, according to Keychain, so if you are using Chrome on a Mac, since Chrome only uses the system's root certs, you should be safe as long as you don't go add that root cert into Keychain. Wosign is in Firefox however, so Mozilla needs to do something about this.
Judging by the commits I've seen, I'm guessing no. Not sure what the time frame on this is, but it seems a lot of people are looking forward to it.
I'll keep that in mind. Thanks!
"especially since the EU has had it out for US tech companies for awhile now"

Sorry but this is typical American FUD, European companies are scrutinised on the same terms and when breaking the law or dodging stuff are getting (high) fines as well.

It is not Europe's fault that this kind of news doesn't find its way in the US... .
> Give people what they need to solve their problem, and nothing more

If this is true, then "tools for thought" can never be "calm technology," since creative thinking is not just about problem solving, but problem finding.

I completely agree that—when you're talking about thinking tools—"technology should amplify the best of technology and the best of humanity." But I don't see how it applies to any of the examples given (including "lavatory sign," trend graph, office window, and, of course, teapot).

> How many are notifications are necessary?

OT, but it seems no technology is so calm these days that people can effectively proofread the first 58 words of their web site—not even an author promoting her book.
That there was apparently not NDA required on her exit more than anything just how amateur this Choi is. All he had to do was give her an extra grand specifically as compared consideration for an NDA and nothing but the government complaints would be said. Obviously you can't prohibit the reporting of a crime but she already did that anyway.

Which makes me wonder, why isn't she under an NDA already? Every one I've signed prohibit discussing practices even after termination for cause.