skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conspiracy theorist in me wonders if this isn't an attack by somebody hired by an anti-piracy group.
Australia’s new $5 banknote: Design and production
Looked pretty good untill I saw the €30/mo for windows licensing :( I pay €7,50 for the same windows license @ TransIP; wonder why there is such a big difference (Windows 2012 R2 Standard)
Clearly defined goals (literally write them down on a whiteboard if you can) and a little time management? It's tough.

If you've got an hour-long meeting and 30 minutes in you're talking about the color of a button, reestablish the goal of the meeting — "hey, we're halfway through this meeting and we're still stuck on the button color — maybe we should make a decision now or move on"

I've found that a lot of bikeshedding ends up being uninformed opinions/bias. If there's no evidence one way or the other it always seems more efficient to just pick one path and do it. Flip a coin, do an A/B test.
Hi, I think its a great idea. I'm a software engineer, so I can't give you any great insights, but what I would suggest is looking at online courses such as this one: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

That will give you an idea of what kind of skills you will need - I would guess physics, maths and electronics would be good places to start.

This site has some links to job vacancies at the bottom - that would give you some idea of what employers are looking for.

Good luck!
Readability is shutting down its read-later service this month
Here’s how Russian hackers could actually tip an American election
I can't see how setting up an Irish company will allow me to skip paying the 30% app store tax.

Maybe Ireland should up it's game & slap Apple with a 30% charge! If Apple wants to complain, they can hunt for an email address, not find it, and be forced to fill out a little form, from which they will never hear back.
Yep. They've played a blinder.
> Turing's model classifies the busy beaver function as non-computable. Correct?

Yep.

> I thought we were discussing Church-Turing. This assumes Turing Machines, and what they can compute. Of course you can break everything by assuming an imaginary machine that can compute functions that are not computable by Turing Machines...

Turing never redefined the concept of “countable”, which belongs in set theory. If you had asked him what the cardinality is of the set of functions from the naturals to the naturals, he would've answered you “uncountable, of course”.
TL;DR: this drug seems to clear the amyloid plaques, and it also brings a small cognitive benefit.

If that's correct, it's also a demonstration that removing the plaques doesn't remove the cognitive impairment.
Systemd has its own container solution with nspawn and machined, I don't see why it'd want docker.
I think the key is to have a Safety Net. If you're lucky, you get one for free at birth. If not, you need to build it yourself during the first several years of 9-5ing.

Once you know for a fact that you can coast along for an entire year if things go south, life gets a lot better. You can start consulting and not have to sweat the occasional dry spell. You can build income generating products after work or during those blessed dry spells. You can do all that stuff remotely while dialing up your leisure time activity of choice to whatever level feels the most comfortable.

Better still, with a bit o' Safety Net, you'll be able to demonstrate to yourself that you can quickly pick up contract and full-time gigs when you need them. And you can emit artifacts that demonstrate to prospective employers that they should grab on with both hands if you happen to signal availability at any point. That helps a lot towards being able to bootstrap a product business on the side.

Eventually, after much trial and error you'll find something that sticks. I think for me it was something like Job Quittin' Side Project #6 that finally started bringing in enough profit to replace the day job.

Finally, make sure you're having fun along the way. It's not supposed to be a grueling heads down slog for however long it takes before you finally "win". It's life. And it's most enjoyable if you actually take the time to enjoy it while it's happening.

All the best! Let us know how it turns out.
An issue that wouldn't exist if taxes were not so high to begin with. It's naive to assume this is about special treatment alone.
Free as in beer or freedom?

FWIW, the client is open source: https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap
I believe you are misremembering the details. There is a free account option, but code signing isn't available.

https://developer.apple.com/support/compare-memberships/

What's not clear to me, however, is if the educational option allows for free developer-level memberships.
I thought everyone was the same, and "picture a beach" was metaphorical.

The fact people can actually do this in their minds has blown my mind - metaphorically. I'm genuinely still reeling from this.
Nope, they're not.

This is the result of an investigation. Now Apple can appeal and it can be taken to an European Court. Where's the overstepping again?
I use owncloud on my own server to handle this between all my Macs, Linux boxes, and iOS devices. It works incredibly well.
Do we need to --force just for updating?
It would indeed be much more reasonable to say, "this stops now" + giving Apple, say, 12 months to restructure their affairs.

Second, if that poorly Irish designed piece of tax law wouldn't have existed, they might have structured things differently. Even if Apple is to pay the €13bn, you can assume they will sue the Irish state for the exact same amount in damages.

If the EU wants to harmonise tax law, they should focus on that. But I'd be curious to see if it will ever happen, given member states don't want that. The state aid mechanic is the only thing they have to perhaps combat avoidance a bit. But if you only have a hammer... Well, just look at Vestager - that's exactly what happens. I wonder, has she challenged Danish tax mechanics?
> The average individual working person has no negotiation when it comes to what taxes they pay.

I'm not sure this is true. It's not a coincidence that many small businesses often pay their employees under the table, ignore minimum wage and overtime laws, and often prefer cash payments. The IRS chooses to go after the individuals where there is the biggest spread between how much they can collect and how much it costs to go after that person. If a small business is reporting suspiciously low income, the cost of going after them won't be worth it.

> Every individual should support the EU. If the EU is defeated here it will be a loss to the small man and small business

"Apple" doesn't pay these fees. The shareholders do. You're taking away that money from investors (401k, pension funds, ordinary investors, hedge fund investors, Tim Cook) and giving it to Irish politicians. This may be a good or bad thing, but you cannot argue that this money is coming from some giant black pit called Apple.
On sci-hub, not behind a paywall:
http://sci-hub.cc/10.1038/nature19323
Tried on http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/wp/2016/08/13/2016... and export to pdf, not what I was hoping for.
I completed Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course on Coursera over this summer and thoroughly recommend it. The course is free unless you pay for the optional certificate.

Andrew's course makes extensive use of GNU Octave which is also free (you can use Matlab), but the material is easily transferable to other environments.

Andrew spends a lot of time explaining how and why the algorithms work, so you are fully prepared when it comes to implementing them for the assignments, rather than just showing you how to call a method or use a wizard.

This course will help you understand the mathematical principles behind the ML techniques that are covered, which I found particularly helpful.
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I didn't realise it's actually illegal for media to report suicides in NZ.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/80143183/New-Zealand-suicide...
Describing some project with phrases such as "built with love" or "from the ground up" really make me cringe.
The king of smokers
The one that completely solidified my love for Online.net was last April 1st. They had an additional option "Selfie - €0.00" when ordering a server

https://console.online.net/en/server/selfie/Al5dpTp6Awp3
Also in English: https://www.hetzner.de/ot/hosting/news/hetzner-online-bietet...
When Trump was down in the polls and said the voting machines were vulnerable - mocked by the media.

Now he's up in the polls, Russia is about to hack the election.

Putin put a lot of money the Clinton's way. HRC is saying cyber attacks will be responding to by military force. Then the media runs stories about Russian interference an the election.

HRC and the DNC are the true fearmongers in this race.
To late for my father I fear, but as long as my father and mother are content... on my advice they take Curcumin regularly http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2015/01/curcumin%E2%80%99s-abilit...
As I am part of the 50+% of Americans with investments in the stock market, I would prefer the money stay with the shareholders rather than transferred to European politicians. It's okay if you disagree and think that politicians would make better use of the funds than an individual, but it shouldn't really be inconceivable why someone else would disagree
Yeah I know, it's just annoying to own something you'll need once every 2 years or so.
I like aria2 from https://aria2.github.io. I use it on the command line, but there is a web interface at https://github.com/ziahamza/webui-aria2.
Fiscal Harmonisation -> would be a good starting point.
> The country I would be most hesitant about is France, they really don't like speaking English

I believe it's a stereotype and it's certainly not the case in CS research labs. I did my PhD in a French research institution (INRIA). In my group, a majority of the people didn't speak French. And of course, PhD students could write and defend their thesis in English if they wanted to (I don't know if they had to find a non-French external examiner, but it's likely to be the case that some examiners are foreign anyway).
Wtf is wrong with you
That's what I thought as well: http://news.softpedia.com/news/transmission-bittorrent-clien...
There is just no depth in gameplay. Good games are easy to learn and hard to master. In Pogo you can only optimize the grind.

Pogo is fairly easy to learn (though there are a lot of strangely obfuscated things very relevant to your in-game success), but there is plain nothing to master.

Rocket League does a great job here: There are just 3 main controls: steering, jump and boost, but there is physics and there are other players. Beginners try to make the best of their luck pushing the ball in the right direction at least, while pros jet through the air, ration their turbo, anticipate if the other goes for a shot, have fairly good control over their aiming and use the simplified chat to collaborate with teammates. It's very niche compared to PoGo, but look at the google trend. Thy initial hype went away, but it refuses to fall lower: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=2015-06-20%202016...
The EU is not questioning what Cisco, Facebook, Microsoft or Google do in Ireland.

Yet.

This is not the end of this line of inquiry for the EU. Microsoft is very much in line as are probably a handful of other companies, like Mc Donalds and Coca Cola.
Hmm. Could use like 50 Lisp dialects to create the largest polyglot!
Farewell sparc32. You will be missed by the retrocomputing geeks.
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So Tim Cook was lying when he said Apple paid $400 million?
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The problem is choice. You can choose to buy those things. You can't with the BBC.

150 GBP is quite a lot when you only earn minimum wage. It quite a few books/dvds you could have brought instead of watching tv.
While I'm a big fan of the BBC, I have absolutely no interest in most of those radio and TV stations. Their news service is great, and they have some reasonable factual/documentary programmes, mostly on BBC 4 and Radio 4.

Unfortunately more effort seems to be put into singing, baking, dancing and fiction :(
It appears that this is the crux of the disagreement. Does the loophole that Apple used constitute "giving one company a tax break"? There seem to be reasonable arguments on both sides.
"It’s clear as day—and this was one of the findings of the 2013 Senate subcommittee—that there was no sensible business reason to set up those subsidiaries except to avoid paying taxes."

The avoidance of paying taxes, the lowering of costs, does not qualify as a "sensible business reason" to take an action?
Maybe you could search for your answer?
> You're just pushing the complexity into the validation of the algebraic type.

Who says it needs to be validated, any more than your string needs to be validated?

> The universe doesn't let computational complexity slide. What, you think that God says, "oh, you clever boy, you chose a typed model so I'll let you have this proof for free!" ?

You're responding to something completely unrelated to my statement.

To be clear: I wasn't suggesting a typed lambda calculus.
If you don't trust it to keep your email safe why would you trust it when it says it's going to hash your address?

Also it's an email address, not your credit card number.
It is now legal for US firms to start using drones in a limited manner
I don't think that the system must be in a certain way. We should not be too dogmatic about what capitalism is, but rather ask ourselves what is desirable for a healthy society and work toward achieveing that.

Fair corporate expectations and capitalism are not mutually exclusive. If the result will not be called "capitalism" is not so important for me.

I don't want to make an anti-capitalist case, because I am not opposed to it, but rather certain aspects and behaviors. I think you're arguing that those are intrinsic parts of capitalism.
I wouldn't stop just for the tax evasion, but Tim's open letter has been a direct insult to my intelligence. If he thinks I'm stupid I'm happy to prove him wrong by not buying his products ever again.

This is coming from someone that has avoided flying Ryanair his entire life, no matter how convenient or cheap it could've been.
The EU isn't a federation. It's not the United States of Europe. If you're from the US you misunderstand the system.

The EU court and EC has no authority to do what its doing now.
How Apple helped create Ireland's economies, real and fantastical
Subsidizing means support financially or pay part of the cost of producing (something) to reduce prices for the buyer. Why is whatever you believe the appropriate tax rate should be the baseline for which you determine subsidies? Apple is paying taxes, not the other way around. Perhaps you believe they should be paying more taxes but that's not exactly subsidizing as the appropriate tax rate is not written in stone or decreed from the heavens.

Perhaps you believe that the government needs $X to function and by Apple paying less, we have to pay more. But this isn't true either as I'm sure your tax bill won't go down if Apple loses this case. Perhaps spending will increase in some program or some new commission gets created from the funds but this will not come free, as any money transferred from Apple to the discretion of Irish politicians will come from Apple shareholders.
Torrent users might be a good target for better than average internet connections for ddos?
> Why are there so few useful Haskell programs?

How do you know how many useful Haskell programs there are? Did you count them all? How many have I written?
The Computers of Star Trek
What FB Messenger Bot you can do for $0 and 15 min?
It is important that we have a good discussion going on about this very important issue. I invite everyone to contribute to the talk page.

But first, should we use TAB or SPACEs in the talk page?
> if I get told today that Irish tax rate is 20% for example

You got that wrong. They knew that the Irish tax rate was 12.5% for all corporations, but the government at the time offered them a super-extra-deal that - just for them - would bring that to 1%. Apple's lawyers were surely aware that this kind of special deals are very debatable in view of EU antitrust law, but took the deal anyway - at their own risk.
Octopress on Raspberry Pi
The original Parkinson's Law book is well worth looking up, and a couple of sequels are not bad either.

My favorite piece is probably 'Plans and Plants', already summarized here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=610761
I think Ireland and Apple would argue that Apple was legally entitled to do so because:

1. Irish law (according to their interpretation) says it is ok
2. This interpretation was upheld by an Irish court.
Nice idea with a major problem: If they did this, the absence of such a message could suggest that you were not affected, when in fact you could be (changed IP, cleared browser, etc).

False negatives are pretty bad in this case, better for users to check themselves.
For Tim Cook not to write this letter would be a breach of his fiduciary duties to Apple.

That said, this tax liability is a rounding error on Apple's balance sheet, and I hope they pay it.
I think their work is fantastic, but I really don't like that every site I visit meets me with CF's captcha page. It's not only annoying per se, but the privacy implications are unsettling. I welcome the competition.
The page is taking too much time to load, but maybe it is my internet connection.

On the other hand, how can I be sure WhatsApp will not put your service down, since they have done that for every service that tried to use WhatsApp in a different manner than what it is originally intended?
The point was that I had to find out the dangers of prolonged ecstacy use the hard way because the dangers of the drug were so overblown by opponents and I didn't hear a more nuanced take on the subject. I cannot be the only one capable of figuring out how to use it safely because I did not figure out how to use it safely.

I just think that potential ecstacy users need to hear that there are consequences that can be very severe that don't work well as scare tactics. If they understand the risks and still choose to use, then more power to them. They've made an informed choice based on accurate information. But accurate information is the key and we do a disservice as a society by putting out the ridiculous message that ecstacy can kill you.

Oh, and to equate breakup misery with clinical depression is pretty ignorant. Depression has a specific meaning that doesn't equate to sadness.
Here is a section from the article I found interesting:

"Some worry that any insight into what could be the world’s largest repository of securities transactions will provide ways for either company to profit beyond cloud services....It’s also specified in the CAT proposal that whoever wins the bid must ensure the security and confidentiality of the data, and agree to use it only for appropriate surveillance and regulatory activities."

How will they actually enforce such clauses? Who is going to monitor what goes on inside these big corporations?

And why not initiate a sort of private-public partnership to form an independent entity dedicated solely for this purpose if there is such a desperate need?

If Wall Street was too big to fail during the last recession, does it not mean that now Amazon and Google are also going to be conferred with the same blessing once they become the repository of such information, especially if there really isn't any simple way to enforce these clauses? So two of the biggest tech companies are now becoming candidates for bailouts - so the threat they pose with the data they already possess is not enough for people?

Would love to hear thoughts from the folks who are already working in fintech who might be more familiar with the enforcement of such clauses.
What about moral luck: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_luck

If higher IQ correlates with higher income, and higher income means better circumstances (health, safety, opportunity, etc) then wouldn't that explain greater empathy and ethics? As opposed to someone who has to fight for their survival. Because when you're talking about survival or the threat to it, all ethics go out the window.

For example, I had fairly high test scores indicating high cognitive ability - this has made life relatively easier for me. I see coworkers, on the other hand, one socioeconomic class below and there is a pattern of mistrust in others, the mentality of scarcity, and the belief that people who are successful are lucky or corrupt. All of which seems to indicate less empathy.
I find the openbsd.org site to be excellently laid out and presented. Most sites on the web would do well to take lessons.
Using the DECT radio band for wireless speakers in an interesting idea. But does the technology allow to transmit uncompressed PCM sound (the lack of which is a big point of pain for Bluetooth in terms of quality and latency)? I can't find a clear answer on that site, does it mean the answer is no?
> It boggles my mind that there are people supporting Apple in this.

Boiling the argument down to "who" do you support is the 2 line news-byte version of it.

This is about the law, and has some pretty big implications.

1) The EU is essentially attacking a law made in 2003 in 2016. To do this retroactively for 13 years is far too long (imo).

2) If the EU wins the case, the money flows back to Ireland, in essence rewarding the country who was out of line to begin with.
Didn't know there were still people working on elks...
This is not a bad idea, maybe write to them and suggest that?
The problem is when people don't have sex before marriage they tend to get married to have sex. Then instead of having a heartbreak and moving on they are caught in a miserable marriage.
If Apple was similarly accused of wrongdoing by the IRS, and told to backpay taxes that they were supposed to have paid, would you still feel similarly?

I'm trying to figure out if you're taking Apple's side because of the Shareholders vs Government angle, or the America vs Europe angle.
A promising alternative is http://misago-project.org/
If I understand correctly, this also means that the main excuse for it not being supported on DigitalOcean is now alleviated. :- )
Why Luck Plays a Big Role in Making You Rich
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That's a really nice resource, thanks for the pointer.

The ideas behind are actually used in multiple places, through the librsync project (https://github.com/librsync/librsync). rdiff-backup and duplicity are 2 known examples, and surely in other projects as well.
What gets me is the <in {languageX}> like that gives it more credibility to be trendy.
From a Wefunder post[1] about RC: "However, with these protections, in the very worst case scenario, a venture capitalist firm ideologically opposed to a “messy cap table” (even though there are no voting rights) can simply repurchase the crowdfunded securities during the deal."

What does that last bit mean, regarding "repurchase the crowdfunded securities"? Do smaller investors run the risk of losing their shares entirely during a later-stage deal with a VC that wants to clean up the cap table?

[1] https://blog.wefunder.com/founders-the-strengths-and-dangers...
It could be that the damage, once caused, is irreversible. I wonder if taking the drug before cognitive damage occurs will prevent it.
Also, when startups start the description of their generic SaaS tool with the word "beautiful".

It usually seems to mean: "The app doesn't do very much yet, so we had room for plenty of UI whitespace and 18px fonts."
Apple responds to EU tax claims
The GUI way: https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:UserCertDB#Deleting_a_Root_Certi...

The CLI way: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/285831
Still supported by NetBSD.