skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to share something I wrote in response of seeing too many posts like this: https://medium.com/@kapv89/code-will-always-be-written-207d3... - Code will always be Written
How would Texans feel if th federal government slapped the state government in the wrist because the state government restricted the right to bear arms to only the super rich? How defenceless would the average Joe feel?

If you're going to do analogies, first please understand the topic you're talking about.
Sure. So if Australia wants taxes paid in Australia. Be competitive and keep the money local. But Australia doesn't want to be competitive. They keep their high taxes and capital gains so people don't want to own businesses or pay taxes in Australia.
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This is not accurate. The complaint was about downtimes only.

Nowhere did the original comment mention "otherwise bad experiences", in fact it mentioned the good value that you get for the price.

The "insults" were clearly directed at the downvoters, thus at a small but nasty subset of HN users.
How long till we need one for an internet connection in case we happen to watch BBC content elsewhere online.
It's good, but in my opinion, the fact that patches are not distributed in binary form is a bit of a problem. (Yes, I understand the reasons). With debian, I type "apt-get upgrade" and that's it. With openbsd it's more complicated.
I am disappointed the Talk:bikeshedding page is empty.
If Apple paid $400 million in tax in Ireland, and this was an effective tax rate of 0.005%, then that implies that Apple's profit was 8 trillion dollars.

Something doesn't add up.
Once again you don't understand the issue. Please read against about it. If Ireland sets their tax to 0.005% tomorrow that'll be fine in the eyes of the EU and they won't (nor can't) do shit about it.

This is not a tax issue. Full stop. Doesn't matter how much you say it is by using your throwaway account.
Or they re more willing to spend frivolously.
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He means holding it closer to your mouth, so you don't have to talk as loud.
A pretty good overview blue zones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone
It would be interesting to see if there is a trend on the spaces / tabs per language statistics, and I would also be interested by the numbers of spaces per language.

e.g. I always use two spaces, but I mostly code in Ruby / JS / CoffeeScript. And that may influence my preference.
When I was a fresh new Solaris sysadmin in 2001, cast adrift as the only sysadmin when three people above me were made redundant all at once, I would read the Solaris man pages for the details ... but first I'd read the OpenBSD man pages to understand what the command was supposed to do.
What's stopping Amazon doing the same thing over the next few years? They have the resources to buy some planes and write some software to schedule them. The hard thing would be negotiating with airports to get the same level of access that FedEx enjoys. I don't see what that would be a particularly big problem - it comes down to the fees they're willing to pay.
Unlikely to happen but seriously why the fuss over the licence fee, it's approx 40p per day for a number of radio and TV stations without advertising. You can pay £50 per month for sky and still get ads or £10 for Spotify with no ads but only music access. The licence fee is cheap compared to what you get for it.
Some peoples tastes are broader than the mainstream American TV on offer by Netflix
That reminded me I had a random thought about how the universe is a sorting algorithm working towards heat death a few months ago. Probably not an original thought but its fun to think about.
Tell your card issuer. That should get their attention quite promptly.
I couldn't find anything specific but this overview [1] does give some background and suggests that the EU is trying to harmonise taxes.

1. https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/company-tax/o...
I can't put down a person for effort, but this tool doesn't work at all. Over half the pages I tried are missing content entirely.
This seems like a big deal:

One thing to note: this will be the last version of OpenBSD to be pressed on CD. The project will now focus on internet-only distribution, giving much more flexibility in the release schedule.
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Any server would profit from it, you don't need to have a public website to be DDoSd
If you jumped through all the hoops Apple did to try to evade paying taxes, you should know you're playing Russian roulette. Apple knew going into it that they were intentionally evading taxes - hell they hired several special tax accountants just to manage the cf required to make all this work. They were just assuming (hoping?)they had enough grease to keep the loophole open - they were wrong.

I believe they even called the liability out in their s1 filings, but I can't currently check.
I host at Hetzner and have noticed reduced Fail2ban notifications and shorter Logwatch emails recently.

If this has kicked it, I guess that might explain it.
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Depending on where they get their checksums. Anyone can submit an app update, so long as the official download link matches the provided checksum then it will get merged. The only benefit here is the delay introduced in receiving the update.
> Am I at risk?

Instead of "Blah-blah, less than a day, go check yourself", they could grep the logs for IPs (and session cookies if they log that) of lucky winners and explicitly inform them, when they hit any page on their site. Then show generic version to everyone else. This takes all but 5 minutes to set up.
Seems quite rambling and doesn't get to the point. I think they are trying to say that Blockchain based music sales are a non starter and I agree. We are moving away from the people paying for prerecorded music paradigm and everyone wants to be at the start of the next wave of charging for music, whatever that may be.
I really thought Apple had added a free option (maybe even specifically for open source projects?), but I can't find it anywhere. Can anyone else find that info, or am I misremembering?
It won't, but running

pbpaste | sh -

Means it's taking whatever is in my clipboard and executing it.

I had replaced what I wanted to execute with just "pbpaste | sh -"

So it passed "pbpaste | sh -" to the sh to run. Which would have then taken "pbpaste | sh -" and passed it to sh to run, which ...
But what if I'm born with a disease that ruin my kidneys by the time I'm 18? Both me and my clone will have that disease and will have ruined kidneys, so rendering him useless.
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Forgot about those. Yeah, they're on the list. Elm seems to be the most practical of the lot, and also one of the nicest to program in.
The title is slightly misleading but the article is very interesting. It does not blame algorithms and big data themselves, but it points out how the misuse of these technologies can yield unfair results.
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EU trading laws speak about unfair subsidies which sounds like a good approach to viewing what i would call state sponsored tax evasion.

But since i'm not a lawyer so i can't speak about Irish law though ...
Looks much better than Hetzner.

What caught my eye is, if you scroll down long enough on dedicated servers page [1], you will eventually see GaaS - "Geek As A Service". This made me giggle far more than I am wiling to admit :)

[1]: https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server
What I wrote is about 8859 bytes and, thus, already "elaborate". What do you want elaborated?
Fair enough. However, as I've mentioned, there are other reasons I dislike clojure.
The Scala Center [1] is the leading not-for-profit sponsor for Scala. Lightbend [2] is the company maintaining the main compiler.

[1] https://scala.epfl.ch/
[2] https://www.lightbend.com/
> Something doesn't add up.

It'd be great if people could be less vague about their opinions, and a lot more specific if they believe the EC is making a mistake - the EU isn't perfect, but please don't discount it on a superficial hunch (which unfortunately seems to happen a lot these days).

From the press release I referenced:

Therefore, only a small percentage of Apple Sales International's profits were taxed in Ireland, and the rest was taxed nowhere. In 2011, for example (according to figures released at US Senate public hearings), Apple Sales International recorded profits of US$ 22 billion (c.a. €16 billion[1]) but under the terms of the tax ruling only around €50 million were considered taxable in Ireland, leaving €15.95 billion of profits untaxed. As a result, Apple Sales International paid less than €10 million of corporate tax in Ireland in 2011 – an effective tax rate of about 0.05% on its overall annual profits. In subsequent years, Apple Sales International's recorded profits continued to increase but the profits considered taxable in Ireland under the terms of the tax ruling did not. Thus this effective tax rate decreased further to only 0.005% in 2014.
My brother also went bald around 30. He is highly accomplished but felt his confidence dented by his male pattern baldness. Got depressed, picked up weight and was also flirting with suicidal thoughts.

Then he decided to shave his head off completely. Then he started lifting and getting into shape and a few years later had a ripped body that many with a full crop of hair would die for.

He tells me "having hair on my head for this body won't work."

I guess he channeled energy into something he could fix about his looks.

I'm very proud of him.
Weird. I searched for the definition of Aphantasia and came across this[1] link which describes it in detail. I think I'm the same - I can't visualise things in that way.

[1] - https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-...
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I doubt they do either. I was just wondering how Athena runs over a network, given it's using GUIs with pixmap primitives.
The email that started it all (at least in the software world): http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/bikeshed.html
Okay. Well, then, now we know.
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Question: How can it possibly be illegal to get together with others to bargain? What is the rationale?

If I and my fellow students/etc want to boycott something, compare notes on pay, share legal actions, or protest shouldn't that be protected by law?

I'm not a fan of unions or political parties but it blows my mind that the legality of organizing with others is even a question.
Yeah, I imagine he was hoping investor / VC money would come through and it would all be good. The faking wire transfers thing was weird though - he would have been better off just saying they were out of cash and trying to raise some.
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It does? I was under the impression the only reason anyone still did that was to give something physical to donators.
Back when I tried them Online.net's international network was significantly worse than OVH.

Their support was responsive but ultimately unable to do anything.
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What type of support issues? I had servers with hetzner for years and I never had any problems, which also means I never contacted support, so I can't say.

I'm trying to figure out if you were expecting support for things that most dedicated, colo and cloud providers wouldn't support (OS updates, install nginx, ....) or if these were clearly provider issues (hardware and network).

> People are surely not running websites on commodity hardware.

Huh? That's been the growing trend for...decades? It feels like the two places where pure server-grade equipment is used, high end dedicated hosting and collocation, are losing market. I'd go as far as to say high-end dedicated hosting is flat out dying (yay!).
IIRC not in this case because WoSign had been accepted as a root, it just wasn't in all browsers yet. LetsEncrypt went through the same process -- it was accepted, but it takes time for root store updates to reach all consumers so in the meantime it was cross signed by some other ca. That ca has no responsibility here, since letsencrypt was itself accepted as a CA and was a peer (and is thus fully responsible for its own actions)
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I'd be curious to read more about your startup you mentioned at the end. What problem are you solving?
Yes you are exactly right!

You're missing the point on the EU though. It is not for an EU court to decide this, it is for an Irish court to decide this. The EU should be challenging Ireland to do this, not retroactively changing Ireland's taxes.

Either Ireland controls its own tax affairs, and they're equal for everyone (the actual issue) or they don't.

The EC is overstepping its bounds, that is the issue you are oblivious to.
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Also see http://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article380/motion-comic-proje...
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Could you please substantiate your claim that the EU is going after tax harmonisation? For starters, all the facts point to non-intervention, including the topic discussed here.

Also, it wouldn't make sense. A normalisation maybe, but harmonisation is stupid and a sure way of creating poverty, turmoil and destroying the EU market by removing jobs hence consumers.
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I agree that using thumb on alt is a good idea, but I didn't find the extra hardware necessary: A simple control/capslock swap on my Unicomp Model M is all it took to make emacs perfectly usable.

I also used to map lshift to alt. I find it convenient. I don't know if anybody else would.
Sure, but I'd be surprised if they had iphone 6s laying around.
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This is happening too often... so, what other BitTorrent clients are you using on Mac OS?
Or fix local taxes so there's no reason to send money off shore.
OpenBSD binary patches: https://stable.mtier.org
I'll stick my head above the parapet and say that I partially support Apple in this. They negotiated particularly sweet deal with the Irish government and got it. The EU has now said tha the deal is incompatible with EU law. I don't particularly blame Apple for the attempt, if anything I rather think it is the Irish Government who were a bit naughty.

I'm conflicted on whether Apple should pay back the sum - it would seem fairer to me to simply agree that 'This Stops Now'.
Now, that OpenBSD runs on Xen (and, by extension, on Amazon EC2), is there an official AMI?
Dear everyone using the word "blockchain", whether working with one or writing about it: for the love of all that is holy, take five minutes out to do a Google search and at least read and understand the top hit or two before jumping on the bandwagon.

A blockchain is not the same thing as the Bitcoin distributed ledger implementation. The concept of an append-only chain of blocks of data linked by hashes is one small component of Bitcoin, and your own application need not be constrained by all the other design decisions Bitcoin has taken just because it happens to use a blockchain.

Specifically, Bitcoin may choose to use a proof-of-work competition to impose an ordering on its distributed ledger, but there is nothing about the blockchain concept itself that forces you to do the same thing.

The field of network synchronisation has been well studied since the 70s and many alternative solutions exist; almost all non-Bitcoin applications have more relaxed requirements for anonymity, peer trust, consensus and decentralisation, so there is rarely good reason to pick a solution that "uses about the power output of Ireland".
The parent comment was suggesting paying for uTorrent to remove the ads, not paying for Netflix. (Although paying for subscriptions to overseas services might also be an option.)
Does rclone support multi-threaded/multi-processing in a similar way to how gsutil support it via the -m option? As a clarification I'm referring to an equivalent to "gsutil -m rsync ..."

I haven't been able to find anything in the documentation mentioning this
Does Rclone support multi-threaded/multi-processing in a similar way to how gsutil support it via the -m option? As a clarification I'm referring to an equivalent to "gsutil -m rsync ..."

I haven't been able to find anything in the documentation mentioning this
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I think there is a difference between saying 'we comply with the law' and being happy when someone retrospectively changes the law and then demands n years payments under the new rules.
Side note: Interesting paper on mathematical model often used in analyzing the patterns in stromatolites and other growing interfaces: the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation.

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I am not an OpenBSD user, but as in every release I am happy to check the lyrics for the release song, this time we got 6 so it's awesome :)

http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#60a
The French Senate can at most delay the adoption of a new law. The Assemblée Nationale has the final say and can overrule any modification made by the Senate.

While the lower chamber could have a change of mind, it is very unlikely to happen.
Unfortunately it cannot. But I think one of the biggest advantage of messaging apps is availability at any time. Customer can send you a message and its OK, if you will reply on 24 hours.
We've used 're-arranging the furniture while there's a hole in the roof'
Are those R730XD's, or SC4020's? Can't tell from the pic. Either way, super cool!
A bit of topic: I'm sure that most (if not all) OpenBSD visitors are pro users but a website redesign would make the 'conversion' more friendly for newbies.
Ireland agreed to the Treaty of Rome, in which they agreed to not provide state aid to corporations. The EU commission's ruling is that the effective tax rate of ~0% amounts to state aid via a tax break. In order to reverse the state aid, Apple needs to pay Ireland the money that it was illegally allowed to keep. That is why it is Apple's responsibility to pay back the money, because that is the only way to ensure that the incentive of this tax-favouritism is removed.
Look, if I negotiate with the state of Texas that I will not pay taxes in the state of New York for doing business there and then get fined by the state of New York for not paying my due taxes there, you will say I was stupid and it suits me right.

It's exactly the same with what Apple did.
It boggles my mind that so many people immediately and forcefully side with the EU in what seems to me a pretty complicated and arcane question of tax law. I'm honestly not sure which side is correct in this, but jumping violently to the defence of either side seems unwarranted.
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I just compared both services to find a new VPS provider and decided in favour of Hetzner. Why do you think online.net looks better?
My main problem with online was the poor IOPS performance due to non-local SSDs. But maybe my test was just on the wrong node?
I'm sure Apple doesn't like when other compete with them either; does that mean they should avoiding competing?
Interesting, thanks! I found this recipe: http://www.kotikokki.net/reseptit/nayta/528268/J%C3%A4lkiuun... which looks quite straightforward once sent through Google Translate. I'll give it a try.
Perhaps I'm the only person using computers in 2016 who only installs OpenBSD via CD :-)
Ask HN: Where/how do you test apps on physical devices pre-release?
We're an early stage startup with apps on iOS and Android, with about 200 paid users at $15 mo.

With our latest app update, we saw a couple of users report crashes on their devices. We immediately fixed those crashes and updated, but I'm considering measures that we can adopt to prevent this in the future.

Until now, we've been testing the app on a Nexus 6, iPhone 5s and Xiaomi Redmi Prime before releasing.

We're now considering between Amazon AWS Device Farm (https://aws.amazon.com/device-farm/) or using Firebase Blaze Test Lab (https://firebase.google.com/pricing/).

Thoughts on Amazon/Firebase, or any other service you use, or the need to at all test apps?

Many thanks! :)
As a user, if I ask for a DOC I want a DOC. If your service gives me a zip, it's not what I asked for. As a programmer, this is quite simple to solve as others have said how (store gzipped and serve with correct headers).
Nobody changed the law retrospectively. The EU law always existed and Apple obviously knew about it.

If Apple asked for the state of Texas for a tax cut in the state of New York and then got fined for not paying their taxes you wouldn't call name it "retrospectively".
No HTTPS?

(Given that the original post was about compromised downloads this is a bit ironic)
Nothing is changed retrospectively, in the EU you cant give one company a tax break. Ireland knew this, but went ahead and did it anyway, Apple knew this too, and took a chance.
Off topic, but could you explain the destructuring form you've used in your Clojure function? I've not seen destructuring with keywords in first position (in vectors, no less) before: is this something new for 1.9? I can't get it to work under 1.8.

What does it offer over the standard associative destructuring form:

(let [{auths :authentications, curr :current} identity]
...
Yay! I get to spend 5 hours figuring out how to update the syntax for my pf.conf rules.
> I get told today that Irish tax rate is 20% for example, 5 years down the line I can just expect someone to send me a letter stating that actually - I got preferential tax and I should repay another 20% on everything.

Were all the other companies also paying 20% when you started, or were they paying 40% then?

Did your accountants and lawyers not notice the preferential treatment? Were they not aware of both Irish and EU laws?

As an individual tax payer, can I get similar treatment where the IRS confirms that my 1040 is correct? If I get bad advice from the IRS which causes me to fill out my 1040 incorrectly, am I not still liable for any owed taxes?

If I am liable, why should Apple not be liable? If I'm not liable, tell me how to get the IRS to review my taxes this way.
My only issue here is that Ireland get's to be the big beneficiary of this.

Ireland was in the wrong trying to strip the other EU countries of their due taxes as much as Apple. This money should go to EU to apply a they see fit, instead Ireland profits from it exclusively.