skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still install all my OSes via CD/DVD but I burn them myself from an ISO.
Maybe this is an easier to grasp phrase

Probably depends on the crowd. I mentioned this before during a local Python meetup (a few years ago) and I got the same reaction with your "streetlight" metaphor.
Sure many companies won't incorporate in Ireland, but about half the United States' corporations call Delaware or Nevada their "home" despite operating elsewhere.
I think it's worth making a distinction between knowing what password is and knowing how it works. I just think it should be on the list of security features of a service just like airbags should be on the list of features of a car, and people should have some idea of what it is and why it's important to have.

Of course, any site can claim to have hashing but not actually do it or implement it terribly. The same is true for airbags, but for that we have regulations....
Really? This seems insane.

So if two people want to start a business, they will need to fund their company with at least 2x €48k?

Seems that it'd be hard to start a business.
The money that Apple is sitting on could have been used for many positive things for the citizens of Ireland. Their government and Apple robbed them of that money for 6000 jobs, the taxes they produce and probably some administrative income.

Nonsense. The reason Apple and those other companies are in Ireland in the first place is because of those deals. That's why the EU is trying to shut it down - the EU is the cartel charging high prices (taxes), and Ireland is the member undercutting them.

I don't think there's anything wrong with what the EU is doing, assuming they have the authority under the treaties, but painting this as a government against its people is just wrong.
Apparently R730(XD):
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Why would there be a simulation? Do you call all perceptions simulations?
I wasn't viewing on mobile but I still missed it. Anyway, thanks for the clarification. I assumed it would be possible to upgrade, but seeing the RAM limits at least help gives me some intuition as to how much I could run at the different sizes.
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We run a SaaS business there on ~25 servers with Hetzner. Besides small issues we are pretty happy. Feel free to email me if you want to know more details.

Funnily I saw a thread on the customers forum at forum.hetzner.de today about why Hetzner does not have a better reputation social-media wise. Seems not to be on their priority list. There is even an English subforum, you may try to register there and ask for experience by other customers.
I'd like to know how does it compare with swipe methods. I feel faster with swipe, but doesn't know if it really is.
> They depend on selling their product to security-savy users, so they will ensure it's quality.

This is a dangerously naive attitude.
I haven't even owned a computer with a CD/DVD drive in over 10 years.

One thing that drives me mad is that computer manufacturers still distribute recovery images as DVDs, even though the computers the discs are for don't have drives.
As an Irish person, I can only look on in bewilderment.

Yes, it's certain that Apple is getting a sweet deal on tax. The tax that's under discussion is for their "European Sales Office" which was allowed to repatriate profits to some "Head Office" in the sky which was not subject to tax.

I guess what this all boils down to is the taxation on these sales within Europe, so the whole "Designed in California, made in China" argument is moot, since they are "Sold in Europe". Thems the rules and by internationally accepted standards they are reasonable.

But, to say that Ireland is owed 15 Billion is disingenuous in the extreme. The EC does not (yet) have jurisdiction over our taxation, so we can effectively tax them however we damn well like. That's why this is being spun as a "competition" issue - the contention is that Apple got a deal that other companies couldn't have got.

The public finances are hurting a lot in Ireland the last few years so the thought of trousering such a huge amount is indeed appealing, but if this revolves around the ethics of Apple's taxation, there's also counter-balancing ethics around the fact that we didn't actually do anything to earn it, aside from perhaps providing a low-tax platform for Apple to sell into Europe.

So to whom is the tax owed? To "Europe" it would seem. But Europe doesn't collect its own taxes. So they expect us to be their tax collector? WTF seriously guys?

Apple could easily give us the money without batting an eyelid. In fact I'd like it if they did just "give" it to us, but the format of the exchange under discussion is one that undermines our sovereignty all other foreign investment programmes that we have got going on.

Then there's the whole thing of them telling us we can spend the money however we want, which everybody just knows is a PR stunt to try and force our hand. As soon as we take it, there'll be some new eurocrat standing on a podium telling us something else about how it has to be paid into some European fund or other.

In this light I believe Apple's position that the EC are just making it up as they go along carries some water.

So what are we doing? We're publicly going to challenge the ruling, which should certainly be challenged, but should we really be the ones doing the challenging?

Nobody is a "good guy" here. They're just a bunch of asshats squabbling over money but I'll tell you one thing - if there was an ally that I wanted to keep onside for the future, if I had to choose, it wouldn't be the EC.

To recap:

- Apple should be paying more tax.

- Ireland needs the money. But more importantly we have an economy and business relationships that we'd like to keep intact thank you very much.

- The EC are a bunch of turncoats who I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw them.

All variables considered I'd keep Apple in Cork, but try to squeeze a good bit more money out of them in the near term.
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You are just like the loudest and most popular guy in the bar.

How do you propose to "back up" such a claim after 4-5 years without the Internet archive (which was mentioned there before the GP changed his post in response to your mud slinging)?
You sound like a cunt.
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I have the same problem.

Managed to get the reset password mail (from second or third try), but it didn't work (account not found again).

UPD1 Hmm, now the account page is visible, but I can't login (it silently redirects to twitter.com page).

UPD2 Another recent discussion I found: https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/50mesy/my_twitter_...

UPD3 "Some people may have briefly been unable to access their Twitter accounts. This issue is now resolved, thanks for your patience!"

https://twitter.com/Support/status/771328578013241346

Not completely fixed here, though, still can't login.
Wat? The issue at hand isn't low taxes, the commission is just fine with Ireland having low corporate tax, the issue is a special tax deal for specific companies, that's what isn't allowed under EU law on state aid.
It's just the same issue at another level. There's no reason that something can't have both properties. The issue is that it jars our preconceptions, which are formed from the things we've encountered so far. We want to understand things in terms of what we've seen. That's a basis of analogical reasoning.

It's kind of like the "monad tutorial" problem in software. Everyone tries to reach for analogy for that computational structure. Although there are some decent ones, in the end, people who work with monads just have to accept the monad laws (sort of a parallel to the data that physics has on quantuum phenomena) and eventually they develop a sense of what they are independent of cafeteria trays and burritos ( http://codetojoy.blogspot.com/2009/03/monads-are-burritos.ht... )
I happy she was able to check out on her own terms rather than being forced into a miserable existence.
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The credit card was most likely stolen. You can buy them in bulk from some websites.
And by the way, the author is French and named his product "BOLOS". "Bolos" is a French slang term meaning "potential sucker", someone who is naive and would be easy to scam. https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/bolos
I think the key as a business is to avoid being the sort of tool you only need a few times a year. In other words, the best solution to this problem is to cultivate users who use your thing constantly.

The epitome of this for me is RedGate's old Ants Profiler. It was the most awesome thing ever when it came out, and a day with it could get you a 1000X performance improvement in your code. But after a few days, you would have optimized everything to within an inch of its life. And the thing came with a 30 day trial. By the end of that month, there was no need to buy it any more, so it got uninstalled and forgotten.

Then one year later, you had a new project for a new company that had a performance bottleneck in a critical piece of code. So you'd download a new trial with your new company email address.

I actually see this usage pattern with S3stat (one of my products). Users will get excited for a few months, then drift away and cancel, only to pop back on the radar 16 months later. I used to welcome them back and kick off a job to run reports for all those intervening months. Now, I welcome them back and drop a notification on their dashboard with a link to purchase service for those 16 months they were away. It's a service with a real daily workload, regardless of whether you happen to check your reports that day (they still need processing so you can see them when you do eventually come back), so nobody has ever complained about this.

Contrast to Twiddla (another of my products), which only uses our resources while people are actually using it. For that, I'm happy to see Teachers cancel their account for the summer. I've even refunded customers who "forgot to cancel" for entire years at a time.

So, 500 words later, I guess the answer is that it depends on the business.
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Reading this story, seems to be a story straight out of Venkatesh Rao fertile mind instead of a real life story. These guys will have a tough 2016 quarter, now all the eyes left Martin Shkreli to be on them.
GCC diagnostics are great, but they are not enough
The sneaky math that made the lottery more alluring – and harder to win
I know that this post is basically a marketing plug for Kanbanchi, but the article, from an statistical perspective, is severely wrong.

Other than the usual warning that "correlation does not imply causation", putting Luxembourg in the dataset makes me cringe: Luxembourg's economy is based on Taxes[1] ala Tax haven, which, for this purpose, is like passive incoming for the whole population. There was an scandal here in Europe about this not so long ago[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Luxembourg

In 2013 the GDP was $60.54 billion of which services, including the financial sector, produced 86%. The financial sector comprised 36% of GDP, industry comprised 13.3% and agriculture only 0.3%

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/05/-sp-luxembo...
It discovered a statistical measure of features that happen to occur on cat images, on the pixels of those images. It might be something like brains do, it might not.
Facebook just got whole lot creepier
1) the zipped download has always the same name, becomes quickly confusing if you're grabbing several pages. Maybe adding a timestamp or, better, a title snippet could help.

2) found html tags and incorrect whitespace when exporting to TXT this page: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning

I want to try this tool with pages that Instapaper fails to grab.
Serious question: How are asian companies set up when targeting the EU? Does Samsung follow the same approach as Apple and other US companies?
As everybody, when you didn't pay your due taxes, you're asked to pay for what's due.
And basically every law applies to past actions...
I don't get why Apple would have a special treatment.

Apple deal with Irish government was illegal regarding access to EU free market.
If Apple is not happy with that, they can open a business in every EU country, pay local taxes in each of those and keep their deal with Ireland only for the Irish narket.

I don't even get how anybody could defend Apple on this. You're get caught trying to cheat, you pay what's due, that's as simple as that. The fact that the Irish governemt took part in this illegal deal is another problem that should also be pursued by EU.
Why ECommerce Multi-Screen Strategy Beats Conventional ECommerce Development?
What? Where do you see notes about it being changed?
Change this to the nature article, it is much better.

http://www.nature.com/news/alzheimer-s-treatment-appears-to-...

Other references:

Publicity materials: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/uoz-arh083016...

Paper (not open access): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature19323

Alzheimer's disease research is perhaps the largest single theme in the aging research community, with the majority of National Institute on Aging funding going towards Alzheimer's programs. The most advanced of efforts in Alzheimer's research are those that seek to clear the accumulation of amyloid-β in the brain through the use of immunotherapies, enlisting the immune system to break down and remove the unwanted amyloid. To date, however, this has proven to be a road of great expense characterized by disappointment and slow progress, to the point at which it was possible to question whether amyloid was the right target. Other theories and lines of research have begun to prosper due to the lack of tangible human results for anti-amyloid immunotherapies, in particular that neurofibrillary tangles of misfolded tau protein are just as much a target for clearance as is amyloid-β, and that perhaps it is time to focus on the decline of known clearance mechanisms rather than the amyloid itself.

Still, over the past couple of years, one of the latest entries to the class of anti-amyloid immunotherapies has lived up to some of the promise first seen in animal studies of amyloid clearance. It may well be that the light at the end of the tunnel is in sight. In a human trial that has now lasted a year, this new immunotherapy cleared near all detectable amyloid-β from patients, and the patients showed improvement in the sense that their decline appeared to slow significantly. The caveat here is that a year is not long enough to declare a slowing of the condition in certainty given the number of people treated in the trial, 165 individuals. Certainty will arrive given time and more patients. Regardless, simply through the demonstrated clearance of amyloid in human patients this is a big step forward for the field. If this holds up over the next few years of larger trials it should become very clear as to the degree to which amyloid-β is or is not in fact the primary cause of pathology in Alzheimer's disease.

I have long said that the best way to answer these questions of cause and contribution is to remove the mechanism in question and see what happens. As an approach that is much, much faster - and thus more cost-effective - than trying to infer the answer by analyzing the enormously complex workings of cellular biochemistry. This principle is well demonstrated here in the matter of amyloid, I think, given the past decade of theorizing on the degree to which the harm of Alzheimer's is due to amyloid, tau, or other causes, and the lack of progress on that front from theorizing alone. As soon as a treatment can reliably and safely remove the amyloid from a sizable number of Alzheimer's patients, we will have the answer.
I was wondering the same thing. Perhaps it was meant to say "stimulation" otherwise we're just talking about another layer of separation from reality.

"To see things in a new light is a cognitive challenge; to adjust the language to the new insight is nothing more than a bothersome technicality." - Rudolph Arnheim, Visual Thinking
"[T]hey’re using an arcane legal structure that is simply not available to the many smaller businesses Apple competes with."

Either it's illegal or it's not. If it's not, then shut the fuck up.

The shame isn't that Apple is doing this. The shame is that more people can't.
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Wow. Just finished your link. A great read. I don't know which I find more surprising. The fact that Blake (The creator of Firefox) can't picture anything in his mind, or the fact that he thought everyone was the same, and that "picture a beach" was metaphorical.
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> That's true if your actual password is leaked, but as described in this post, it is very unlikely that actual passwords could be retrieved.

If I'm interpreting the hashcat screenshot correctly (I'm probably not, and even if I am it's probably skewed by init overhead or by not counting the final result) it looks like passwords can be attacked at ~6ms/dictionary attempt against the bcrypt passwords? While HIBP didn't get their hands on salts for the SHA1s, that doesn't mean they weren't breached as well.

I take it as a given that all high value dropbox accounts with a weak password in this breach will be pwnt.

Then again, it took until last week for anyone to try and grab my Minecraft account (successful email change, but successful resecure.) Given that HIBP knew about 1 of the 4 breaches I'm aware of for similarly weak passwords, I'm surprised it took this long... (I've since finally gotten off my ass and better secured all the legacy old terribly passworded accounts I can think of / were listed in my password database...)
USB CD/DVD drives exist
Copenhagen vs. Everett, Teleportation, and ER=EPR
Moto G Play é um celular barato com uma bateria de 2.800 mAh
Gets PF for free, complains.
4Note: Simple, intuitive sticky note reminder for android
Hi folks,

I made this totally free app without adds called 4Note, which can be found on google play store and I thought it would be useful to someone.

Link to the store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smark.fornote&hl=en

The problem is I can't reach the people who would like it, so I decided to try with Hacker News. If you enjoy it, use it. If not delete it. Any feedback is welcome.
Personally, I think the European commission should size a part of the repaid taxes to punish bad behaviours from a member state. The money could be given back to other EU members as a temporary reduction of their contribution to EU budget.
We looked into buying in JC and Hoboken before abandoning NY for good.

Avoiding NYC taxes would have been nice, but the PATH train service was patchy at best on weekends, and the town was pretty expensive. Apparently lots of Wall Street types had already had the same idea as you.
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Deluge is nice.
Yeah, I'm a defender of Apple because I don't think they should be asked to pay for taxes in the past. Instead, I would like to see all the evasion loopholes closed so Apple, and every other large company out there, can't do it for the future.
A new paper from Leonard Susskind [0], see also:

"This new equation might finally unite the two biggest theories in physics, claims physicist"

http://www.sciencealert.com/this-new-equation-might-finally-...

"The equation that could transform physics: Researchers say ER=EPR could show how quantum mechanics fits into the theory of general relativity"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3768070/The-e...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Susskind
> these days
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Yes, change the link. Independent.co.uk does not inspire confidence in a scientific topic.
Pokémon Go and the lifespan of fads in the Internet age
Tbh it's been the oposite for me.

Had a few machines on hetzner for years and rarely had issues. The few issues i had with them i got fast replies.

I did try online.net few years ago and had a lot of network issues (it wasn't stable, kinda like when you have a misconfigured vps and your neighbour is eating all the bandwidth at times). Have they improved on that?
1. Regardless of Apple, states should make good + compliant laws. Ireland clearly messed up here.

2. If Ireland would've done a good job, Apple wouldn't be having this problem today. Which probably means Apple will recover the tax payable from Ireland, through damages.

3. There's plenty of tax optimising any business owner can do.
The only way I discovered is to not work with 'bikeshedding' types. Some people (typically people who contribute little else), have a propensity to do this when placed in leadership positions. They have to put their little mark on everything at the cost of everyone else's time. This I feel is the secret behind a lot of startups kicking incumbents ass in recent years, old school monolithic corporations are full of bikeshedding bullshitters.
Known techniques. JPEG uses Huffman coding for entropy coding, you can replace that with arithmetic coding. This requires knowing the format details, though.
Research labs are very international so as long as you speak English you can do a PhD pretty much anywhere. It's also pretty easy to get a visa for a PhD or a postdoc. As for the process, basically you need to hold a master degree and find a professor/researcher with enough money to hire you. Labs often advertise PhD positions on their websites.

Finding a grant/supervisor is quite easy for a strong candidate. The critical part is too choose wisely the topic. Research tends to be very specialized and you may end up with a PhD that gives you few marketable skills.
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Or the stress of being a social outcast for giving up sugar?

People who say they don't eat sugar make no sense, it's meaningless. My mother in law "doesn't eat sugar" but I see her eat stuff with sugar in it all the time. Fruit, most vegetables, and milk all have sugar in them.
"The Cuckoo's Egg" is an amazing book. I read it some months back and very much regretted not having read it earlier... It does a fantastic job of bringing 80's computing to life while at the same time boasting a plot stronger and more exciting than many thrillers (though true!).

"The Hacker Crackdown" is worth reading for the historical aspect, but it only deals with crackers, so I personally did not find it particularly engaging. (BTW, an epub is available via Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101)

A third book that should be mentioned here is "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy, which I'm currently reading. It deals with "real hackers", starting in the 50s at MIT - a deserved classic.
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[0]: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song60a.mp3
It's not quite the same. The tax isn't owed to the EU, it is owed to Ireland. As far as I'm aware this sort of deal is not only legal, but common in the U.S. The rules broken here are the ones against excessive "state aid". These are defined as selective advantages given to companies. The treaties forbid these as anti-competitive. This mainly applies to subsidies to individual companies, but also covers sweetheart tax deals like these that aren't open to all companies. They're welcome to set low corporate tax rates, but not to approve convoluted structures like these. Stuff like Tesla's deal with Nevada would be illegal in the EU.