skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that EU documents estimate that number for the Irish tax take as percentage of total global revenue, it isn't their total effective tax rate (on profits as is common for corporations). The parent used a meaningless number in a misleading fashion.
That's actually pretty common. Every community has at least one or two businesses that don't look very busy, but the owners have managed to hang on for 10+ years. Could they be laundering money? Sure. They could also just be operating by the skin of their teeth. Or they could have made their money in real estate in a past life and are milking their savings. Or they could be in debt up to their eyeballs. Or they could have a rich uncle. I could go on...
As mentioned in the post, it was about differences over copyright assignment, which has apparently been resolved. The wikipedia page says slightly more about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_nano
My kids were refusing to stop watching netflix
Is it smug to enjoy the perception of having more control over the vehicle's performance?

What's funny to me is the observation that only low end and high end cars have had manual transmissions. I started out with a low end Honda and either had to give it up or jump to a high end vehicle a decade later. I bought a second hand Audi to keep going with a manual at the time.

Car's are a heck of a depreciating asset.
Another way of saying this is, do not waste effort by starting early on non-critical tasks. This all has to do with the critical path, the series of sequential, dependent tasks that determine the minimum project length.

Think of building a four-legged chair with multiple people (A, B, and C). You need to cut the wood into legs, a seat, and a back. You need to buy wood from the lumber yard, and buy screws and glue from the hardware store. You need to sand and finish the wooden pieces. You need to assemble the pieces with screws and glue.

The naive approach would be to have everyone go buy materials (and wait for everyone to get back), then together cut the wood (and wait for everyone to finish cutting), then together finish the wood, then together assemble the chair. This takes a longer time, because people will wait at each step, if there is any difference in task completion time between people. The length of each stage is the maximum of each individual task completion time.

The critical-path approach would be to send A to wood store. A returns and starts cutting leg 1, not waiting on B to return. B starts sanding the leg 1 completed by A, while A starts cutting the next leg, 2. C starts by finishing leg 1 after B finished sanding, while A starts cutting leg 3, and B starts sanding leg 2. Near the end, A has finished cutting the chair back, and goes to the hardware store to buy the screws and glue. A returns and starts assembling the chair as the pieces become ready.

Note how much earlier all the wood was cut in the naive approach. This is "early starting". In the critical-path approach, the cutting of each piece by A was delayed until it was needed by B for sanding. Buying the screws and glue was delayed until much later, when they were finally needed for assembly. That is because the critical path is:

(Buy Wood) -> (All Parts Are Finished) -> (Assemble Chair)

Other tasks can be delayed as appropriate, when doing so allows more resources to be spent on the critical path. I.e., wait until you are almost ready to assemble the chair before you buy the screws and glue, as time is better spent on getting those pieces finished!

I hope that makes sense.
Pardon the nerdigression, this feels much like Emacs VS Windows ergonomics.
I'm not dismissing the $2bn revenue at all - but the buyer will get that and the strategic leverage from the platform.
> Food trucks are brilliant for this,

Yes, that would be pretty good. In the right kind of city. Buy a fleet of used food trucks. Pay someone to stick some labels on them. Find what local food trucks pay for produce and maintenance. Maybe ask some friend to drive them around town.

The only problem then is other food trucks would notice this fleet of trucks always driving around yet never stopping to sell anything.

They could sell something really simple -- just hotdogs. And it would be funny, other honest ones would see this plain hotdog business growing and expanding like crazy while they sell organic Korean bbq and don't seem to break even. So they go and expand into the plain hotdog market to capture some of the profits and then realize how unlucky they are when nothing sells. That's a plot of a short movie right there.
I use this phrase all the time. It's a great way to describe technical debt:

"I don't know why we have that Mongo instance running out of those docker containers. It caches... ...something. It's pretty much just turtles all the way down."
N4JS: JavaScript language extension with sound type system
Please cite your sources. I have BS EE with CS concentration from U Illinois/Urbana and was mentored as a computer chip design engineer for four years in a major computer firm.

For Musk, I see no engineering degrees nor work experience being mentored in engineering which is absolutely necessary.

Compare Musk with GM CEO Mary Barra who as a BS EE and work experience as an engineer and engineering manager, mentored into those positions.

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

I am betting that if Mary Barra were running a startup auto company that it would have spare parts.
Heads up - when I was working for a lead gen company, they would charge per lead, not on a monthly basis.

Also, I assume you'd want to be the exclusive recipient (or nearly the exclusive recipient) for these leads, because for most of the business brokers out there you can get a newsletter with the newest businesses for sale, though maybe not filtered as you'd like it.
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Depends. The API for strings in java is mostly UTF16 but the latest JVM will magically use UTF8 as its internal representation.
There's a balancing act between cash and credit cards that you have to watch out for. Once a table exceeds $80, the odds of payment with a card rise to 90%. If you run a nice fancy restaurant where hardly anybody gets away without paying $100 a head, your cash deposits ought to look like 15% of your totals, max.

At the low end, a coffee shop, or dive bar can reasonably establish 60-75% of their sales in cash, but unless you've got huge turnover, the overall amounts aren't great.

That's why strip clubs, where legal, are always watched for laundering. A remarkable percentage of their clientele want to use cash, and can drop it in high-end restaurant quantities.
Actually the PM BOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) added Critical Chain in the 5th edition (current one is 6th edition).

https://4squareviews.com/2013/04/18/5th-edition-pmbok-guide-...
>There are five mobile operators in Finland: Elisa, Sonera, DNA, Ålcom and Ukko Mobile.

Sorry still counting 3, as Alcom and Ukko don't really "count"
Alcom is a regional operator for the Aland islands this isn't unusual.

Don't know about Ukko or what they cover, can't even figure out if they are an MVNO or not their wikipedia entry says that they operate LTE 31 which makes them sound like a rural/remote region operator since that's what most of these low bands are used for.

If they indeed operate on the LTE 31 band this also means they are a speciality carrier which also means they have to provide you with their own devices since I'm not aware of any mass market consumer device which supports B31.

And a quick look on their website does seem to suggest that they provide cellular internet and speciality connections to mostly remote areas, mostly through roaming and partnerships (MVNO) with other cellular providers.

EDIT: You can count Ukko out completely they do not provide voice at all not to mention that paying 85 Euros on a 12 month contract for 3-10 Mbit/s without a device is laughable.

http://www.ukkoverkot.fi/tuotteet/?lang=en

>There are similar numbers of mobile operators in most countries because there is only so much spectrum to go around. However there is a great deal of difference in the amount of wireline broadband providers per country.

The cellular spectrum especially in regards to 4G LTE channels is pretty damn large, and most countries started with more than 3-4 cellular providers they just had decades of consolidation since then.
Can you train them over water, so the stall is not fatal?
This isn't an argument that everyone will care about, but it is a legitimate one for some: manual transmissions are much easier/cheaper to repair/rebuild.
ItsWhalesAllTheWayDown
I would have to respectfully disagree. Many, many successful entrepreneurs come from modest backgrounds, with little or no education. What they all have in common is the belief that hard work developing their business and laser focus on their customer's needs will make them successful.

I often feel sorry for privileged young people - I think they have it much harder in some ways. They sometimes live in a bit of a bubble due to their upbringing and that makes it hard for them to understand the mass market. Also, they might have a harder time developing a work ethic and grit if they did not need to go to work at a young age or face adversity.

The whole tiny VC funded startup club in SV may be an exception to this rule, but vast numbers of successful entrepreneurs in the USA never get a penny of VC $ and find some way to startup themselves.
It used to work for laundromats too, until the feds started measuring water usage. In fact, I think it would be trivial to set up on a restaurant and be able to do fairly close calculations about how many tables a restaurant does per night vs how many table cloths get cleaned, how much water gets used for washing dishes, electricity, etc. It makes me wonder if this method actually gets used anymore.
Er yeah, fine, but placing blame doesn't change our current situation or inform whether it might be wise to restrain meat consumption. People are already here and need food, space, clean air and water, and climate stability.
Exploring calling conventions with x86 assembly
Remembering Vernon Adams, creator of KDE's user-interface font Oxygen
The obvious difference is that the gun industry is opposed to making it easy to track down guns. There are no powerful financial interests fighting for our data privacy.
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Please don't do this, comments on HN need to be substantive.
Not at all smug to enjoy it, but smug to judge other people who don't care about that and just want their car to take care of shifting gears on its own.
The problem is that Elon Musk has a history of not keeping his promises. Sure, we got the Model S, but late, and a lot more expensive than promised. With the Model 3, he is promising even more.

It's relatively easy to build an expensive luxury car. It's incredibly difficult to mass produce an affordable mass market car. We have yet to see any evidence that Tesla is capable of doing so.

This is not just something that I believe. Lots of people believe it, and put their money where their mouth is. Tesla is one of the most shorted stocks there is.
I agree, and also wonder if the concepts of more complex mathematics and how to apply them are beyond most people, at least in the way they are taught. They are designed by professors for professors, sort of like that software that nobody can use effectively because it's designed by its developer (who has deep expertise in that application) for her/himself.
I hate to say this, but Discworld is pretty much not turtles all the way down: the Great A'Tuin just swims in space, as astrochelonians normally do.
One amazing attempt to apply project management to software development can be found in the work of Steve Tendon at http://chronologist.com/blog/2012-09-25/critical-chain-proje...
Australia comes to mind.

You can add California, SKSes due to an AG reinterpretation of the law, New York state, and right now Massachusetts is going through such an event due to their AG.

And as you note, it's not like there's any lack of public figures including politicians who are touting outright confiscation, including those praising the Australian model, which include one of the two major party nominees for this presidential election.

"You aren't paranoid if they are out to get you."
I agree, but I think GP is also considering the premium paid to live in a "walkable" area.
I know that things are different in Canadia, but in the US you appear (up thread) to be conflating W2 employees and 1099 contractors. Yes, you can pay the latter as vendors - because that's what they are. No worries about vacay, health benefits either.

I would suggest that your little side gig did not provide you panoptic insight.
Depends slightly on what you breathe while you walk.
> And I've never encountered a non-smug argument against automatic transmission.

Manual are cheaper and ubiquitous. If you want an automatic car in Europe, you pay premium on a new car, and a very large premium each time you rent a car.

I'm not sure how that works for second hand cars - there are less but less people interested too, so not sure where the balance tip. In any case, automatic car tend to be expensive cars to begin with (BMW Series 5, ...) - you won't find as easily a regular joe car that is automatic.
PyPy doesn't have a _csv.so - that was the main point of the comment you replied to.
Reymond-Brucke oath
> So you're saying a countable infinity can be occupied, so that there is no room for one more.

No. I'm saying that a countable infinity doesn't have room for one more at the end. There is no end.

You can obviously stick a 1 in the middle, but then you have a number strictly less than 0.999...
Excel - on of the best pieces of application software ever made.
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (2007)
But in that story it's the decision to use the database to carry out confiscation which is unconstitutional, not the existence of the database in the first place. If a government decided to confiscate all the cars from Hispanic people by using their vehicle registration database, that would be unconstitutional too - but that doesn't mean having a vehicle registry is invalid.
Startup idea time: An app that connects tax-dodging restauranteurs with money-laundering drug dealers.
Please stop. You've been commenting primarily for generic ideological purposes, and this isn't a legitimate use of this site.
> "It works for me. You must be doing it wrong."

That is not what I meant at all. I am sorry if you got that impression.

What I meant to say is that I was rather lucky in that regard. While hardware support on popular Linux distros has improved massively since I first tried it, there is still a lot of hardware around where support on Linux sucks. If I tried some distro on my notebook and something like Wifi or suspend/resume did not work, that would be a dealbreaker for me, too, and I am too old to spend a weekend trying to get stuff like that to work. But like I said, I was very lucky in that regard (and I really mean lucky - it's been at least ten years since I had to spend any significant amount of time getting my hardware to work properly).
Is this a sign of Linux' growing political influence when government agencies are investigating crimes against it and enforcing them?

Would this crime have been handled by the federal government 10 years ago? 20? Would an attack on your server get a response from the FBI and the DOJ?

That influence doesn't have to be the Linux Foundation; it could also be corporate or other powerful entities that are heavily invested in it, such as IBM.
The best way to handle that.

Well, unless you want to use geolocation and match them up by location. Think of all the romance you could spark of you knew what sort of genitalia people sending were hoping of receiving.
US, China sign Paris climate change agreement
A very interesting and thought-provoking essay. This part in particular stuck out:

> Otherwise monkeys would have self awareness and they don't

This suggests the existence of other research that has both defined the concept of self-awareness robustly and made it testable enough that we can state as fact that monkeys don't have it. Does anybody know what this might be alluding to?
Automatic transmission cars are not popular in the UK. I've never really understood why, but I get the impression that they are considered to be expensive, unreliable and somehow offering poor performance or fuel economy. I've never owned one (there aren't many for sale) and so I wouldn't know whether such opinions have any basis in fact. However, IIRC passing the driving test in an automatic only allows the driving of automatics whereas passing it in a manual allows driving all cars, so driving lessons are conducted in manual cars.

It is slightly amusing that my current manual car has a display I can't turn off which tells me when it thinks I should change gear. The software which issues these instructions can tell when I am trying to accelerate rapidly or navigate hills and changes its instructions accordingly, so it might as well be changing the gears for me.
"It's relatively easy to build an expensive luxury car." Would be nice to back this up with examples. Especially in volume segment like here's another example of a company entering luxury car market making a competitive vehicle that's for the sake of argument just hits top spot in sales in the S class segment.
The end result would be that responsible gun owners who wished to practice at a shooting range could no longer afford to, and criminals would continue uninterrupted because they would just steal the ammo they need.

A variation on this theme already happens with cigarettes, when one state raises tobacco taxes, bootlegging from neighbouring states goes up.

Now the responsible gun owners are no longer a very good shot, criminals are roaming around with plenty of ammo (which they need because they often have terrible aim), what could possibly go wrong?
From the transcript [1]:

"The government is recommending a guidelines sentence, meaning between zero and six months in jail... It's not sufficient to comply with the purposes of sentencing. It doesn't reflect the seriousness of the crime and the conduct surrounding it. It doesn't provide just punishment for the offense to give simply a guidelines sentence."

[1]: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-pdf-transc...
How do you handle stuff like day trips? Do you just rent a car?
Of course they "had control". They could have evaluated airbags and suppliers better, they could have made sure they had two different suppliers they could use for any particular model, or alternatively that they have plenty of spares. This is commonly done for many kinds of components. I happen to be more familiar with computers of course, and it's commonly done for SSDs, batteries, screens, and more.
Seriously.

Before I lived in LA, I lived in Boston. I still have the rather nice pair of wire cutters that were left behind rather hastily when I came back to get my bicycle at the stand after being in a shop for about 3 minutes. Now that is a city with a bicycle theft problem.

But military histories quite often comment how most of the GI's had much better mechanical skills that their British counterparts, and how baseball pitching was instrumental in their superior grenade use. (Cricket bowling just doesn't teach quite the right skills there.)

Despite being one of the most homogeneous species on the planet, everybody is different. I agree it was rather cruel of the local council to stick a magic roundabout right outside Heathrow's car hire[1], to add to the driving on the wrong side/manual transmission nightmare, but at least it let's people know what they're in for.

[1] http://goo.gl/Dk3mXw
Manuals are the same price in the US as automatics (or are more expensive) and are harder to find. Buying a new manual doesn't make economic sense here anymore. It's purely for the fun.
Because the ability to predict outcomes is a key validator of any scientific field. If civil engineers couldn't predict if a bridge will hold up or fall then we couldn't and shouldn't rely on huge portions of our transpiration network. Similarly with economists, if the field can't forecast the instability of a major sector of our economy then we shouldn't put a tremendous amount of trust on their field for policy.

And 2008 wasn't just any economic event, it was a major event which nearly took down the world economy because the financial sector hyperextended and intertwined risks. The economic field had no widely accepted or reliable metric to predict that crash.

Public health experts have a very good model for spreads of diseases, models which have been validated many times against real world data, and then therefore can be relied upon to direct resources to help prevent dangerous spreads of disease. Not so with the economic field...
> Clearly there are some other forces driving cellular communication in Finland other than only having 3 carriers.

The difference is that Finland has effective competition, whereas other countries have nominal competition.

A good and effective regulative authority has definitely helped, but the fact that Finnish operators actually both invest and compete makes for all the difference.
these were fun times.... Wind of change and absence of Putin
Presumably you have a pile of dirty cash you need to make clean. That cash needs to enter the banking system somehow. If you show up to the bank and say, "I got this money from selling Bitcoin", they'll likely wonder how you received it in that form, rather than as an ACH, wire transfer, or other non-cash form. So the question is, how did you arrange to sell BC for physical cash?

EDIT: Ok, I'm looking at it the wrong-way around. I guess you buy the BC locally with the cash, then tumble it, then sell it and claim that those coins were purchased back when you were a shrewd BC investor. I think the point still stands though that this is a risky maneuver, because the cover is a red flag in its own right, versus a restaurant that appears to be doing normal business.
School reform
Location: Boston/Providence

Remote: yes, although it would be my first time

Willing to relocate: No

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Email: jesse dot michael dot davis at gmail dot com

I'm actively looking for a new position. I've been working the last 3 years as devops, and would like to move towards a split of software and infrastructure engineering. I'm also interested in Scala, Go, Docker and deployment automation with Kubernetes/Mesos/etc.
There's an Italian sub place down the road from me like this. The owner is the only employee as far as I can tell. He makes delicious sandwiches but there is never anybody in there. There's even a tiny grocery area in the front with imported everything (at import prices) that never seems to move. I really don't understand how this guy can keep so much expensive and perishable stock in there with no customers.
Fractional-reserve has crap all to do with it, but their lending do indeed introduce new money into circulation.
I was thinking the same thing after reading OP's comment.

I wouldn't even try to wrap my arms around what Elon is doing. Cars, Energy, Rockets, etc. It's not everyday that someone who wants to change the status quo comes along. All I know is he must be very lonely with so many people hoping he fails.