skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that this is a straight-up bad law. It provides no realistic benefits and may actually harm US security interests. This passed because no congressman wanted to appear to stand against 9/11 families during election season.
I think this is exactly the distinction the article is trykng to make. The statement "apes haven't gone away because there are humans" has a false premise: apes have changed a whole bunch since the common ancestor they share with humans, just like humans have. Back when there were no humans as we know them, there were also no apes as we know them.

As far as I remember from biology, even if there is no selection pressure on a population, the population will still experience genetic drift and will still change over time.
This tech company's office is a sports fans dream
> Retailers of CD-ROM games (when they were a thing) and video games do not charge that kind of markup.

Maybe not anymore but the app store was launched in 2008. If you look at the percentage a writer or a band makes from a physical book resp. studio album, 50% actually looks very optimistic. Don't forget, there were multiple layers involved, including shipping, wholesalers, retailers, etc. and everybody wanted a cut. There's a reason desktop software to this day has a much higher price anchor than mobile!
"Important to whom?"

Important to lawful civilizations.

If you think that there should be better regulations around setting transfer pricing, then vote for it.

Unless companies are breaking the law, then there is a very profound 'distinction'.

Some tax issues are easily resolved, or at least, easily improved. 'Transfer pricing' is not one of them. It's very thorny.

I for one think that Apple's argument of 'the innovation and design is done in California - not Ireland' - is pretty reasonable.

Im fact - the US government should be reaping most of the tax dollars that Apple generates, not Ireland.

That said - if they have operations in Ireland they should be paying taxes there.

I think that a company should pay it's 'primary corporate tax' in the place where it is incorporated and has it's major operations.

And then ancilliary countries like Ireland can tax them at a corporate rate, but discounted for what they payed in America. Ireland's biggest tax receipts from Apple should come from VAT - which is the fairest tax of them all, because it's applied to each iPhone sale in Ireland, not France or wherever.

Currently - it's upside down: if a Canadian company has a subsidiary in France, they pay their corp tax rate in France for sales there - and then only a 4% remittance fee to Canada. To me that's backwards.

The American system is the worst: American companies pay full tax overseas - and then full tax back in America. Plus American corporate taxes are high.
Thanks for your help, mtmail! They really know how to communicate. Maybe the path really is through transparency.
Interviewing _is_ a filter. Each step where you eliminate candidates is a filter; that's what that word means.

I think what you're really trying to say is that blind filtering is bad (okay, you said this part explicitly) and you think that HackerRank is a blind filter. Unfortunately, this is pretty obviously not true. HackerRank uses quite a bit of data. Arguments that HackerRank is using the wrong data, or using what data it has poorly, would make a lot more sense than what you've said so far.
Understanding the ideological underpinnings of an organization can help to provide context for that organization's statements, especially when those underpinnings are not included in those statements.

In order to fully understand politicized writing—its assumptions, its impacts, its expectations and its motivations—it can often be necessary to have that context. Writing that isn't even consciously propaganda can often be heavily influenced by jargon and premises that are not apparent to the reader, but being familiar with the ideological background can help clear up that cloud.
This happens to me seemingly every time I order from Amazon and USPS fulfills. Either that or the mailman gets lazy and marks it undeliverable even though they have keys to my building and the mailboxes are inside. I cannot wait for Amazon to put USPS out of business.
Armor – Simple HTTP server, supports HTTP/2 and auto TLS
People holding government jobs and on welfare would say "yes, definitely".
I would expect speech therapists to want to pay for the app, speech therapy apps and apps for doctors in the states are usually pretty pricey.

I wouldn't expect any medical office to balk at $9/mo . . . if anything you should raise the price, that seems too inexpensive. I'd do three plans $49, $99 and $199 depending on features/levels you can offer or maybe per doctor/staff/patient depending on your app.

Do you have Hipaa style privacy laws regarding electronic medical records in Brazil? That usually commands a premium here so same app for non-medical $99/mo for medical $199/mo.

https://www.appointmentreminder.org/pricing

I think you're pricing too low, if it provides value speech therapists are going to expect to pay for it.

Good luck, let us know how it goes.
The 'difference' is one is illegal.

If you have $1M in a Swiss bank account earning capital gains, and don't declare it to the IRS - that's 'tax evasion'.

If you have a company in Switzerland generating revenue, and decide not to bring back your profits to America to get hit with another tax, and just let it sit in Switzlerland - that's a 'tax avoidance' strategy.

'Tax evasion' = illegal.

'Tax avoidance' = doing everything you can within the boundaries of the law to not pay taxes. There are some wierd loopholes due to the way taxation works across borders.
If those major distros weren't switching though, you wouldn't have to, which is what my point was. The only reason you're adopting it is not for a practical benefit, just because the distros did.

I run devops though for a small business and we've avoided the issue entirely using runit for our software.
Yeah, let's get a pill to fix it and keep chugging processed industrial foods and sugar water while sitting browsing social networks.
This is a good overview: http://www.dwavesys.com/tutorials/background-reading-series/...

Inside is also a link to the whitepaper on how to program the DWave, which has a lot more detail on "ok, but what does that mean I can do with it, and how?". More or less, you need to map your problem space to the functioning of the DWave (a series of weights), and then you need to map the answer space of the DWave (out-state of each qubit) back to your problem space. The DWave doesn't actually return a canonical answer, but rather a bundle of statistics for each qubit, from which you then determine your answer (say, by taking the average).

Some things to remember, aside from the debate about whether it's actually a QC and actually uses entanglement to produce answers:

1) All 2k qubits are NOT entangled with each other
The qubits are grouped into cells, and the cells have a coupling between them, but each qubit does not (directly) interact with all other qubits. This is a large part of why it's not a "general" quantum computer; it's more like an ASIC.

2) You program in "similarity" and "dissimilarity" to neighboring qubits, and an initial weighting.
Each qubit in the dwave has some programmed possibility of being 1 or 0, and of being the same or different from each neighbor. "Running" the calculation more or less applies all these weights, and then you look at the resulting state.

3) The "answer" is actually the statistics on multiple measurements.
After programming the weights, you run the machine, and get out an answer. You do this 50, 100, whatever, times, and now you have statistics on the state of each qubit. From this you determine your answer; AFAIK, usually you just take the average.
Checking this ping I have open, the 99th percentile jitter is less than 20ms, and packet loss is about .2%

It doesn't have to be as good, it just has to reach a certain level. And for a lot of games it works fine to have a bit of lead time on controls.
New Wind Turbines Could Power Japan for 50 Years After a Single Typhoon
you failed to read the one paragraph conclusion.

both pro and cons arguments were wrong. absolutely nothing relevant has changed.

crime didnt go up nor down. neither did taxes. etc. nada.

also, ted is only relevant to rich pot heads ;)
That sounds more sound than trying to outsource everything while running another business.
I don't think you should be downvoted, but if you have a hard-on for spending a lot of money on a helium cooled computer for these problems, you'd be better off retrofitting a mid-level PC with helium cooling and overclocking it. Probably by an order of magnitude.

The search for good problems for the D-Wave (irrespective of whether anyone cares about their answers) is still on.
This case was actually about whether or not it was legal. It was a mixed decision (seen as being in favour of GlaxoSmithKline) that settled confidentially after the Supreme Court case:
http://business.financialpost.com/legal-post/glaxosmithkline...
While I wouldn't personally mind a "corporate dystopia" (or at least a sci-fi version of such) on Mars at all, it seems exceedingly unlikely, even conditional on the success of the whole enterprise -- for one, there wouldn't be any actual profits to be made there for a very long time :)

BTW, I haven't read these particular books, and perhaps they are different from other KSR stuff that I've seen, but at this point I would honestly take pretty much anything over what he would consider an ideal or even a good society. It kinda puzzles me why people who value things like caution, leasure, and social cohesion above actual progress so insist on calling themselves 'progressives' -- they certainly have a right to their opinions, but couldn't they have picked a term that was less of a misnomer?
Curious: Do we actually know that we stopped nuclear advances? I'm guessing it's not something that would be publicized.
Yes, I think that is the primary problem - they invested in Zipkin. At the end of his talk, he mentions the idea that you should prioritize core functions and use vendors for everything else. But he's right that some person created that code - and thus it becomes difficult to get them to switch. And instead it becomes a huge source of technical debt for a company that is non-core to their mission.
We don't put people in jail for pot, at least not here in California. We don't have the room. Officially in this state 0.3% of inmates are in for "possession for sale" and "sales" of marijuana. They don't even list simple possession.

http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Reports_Research/Offender_Information...

It's true federal penitentiaries have a larger percentage of inmates in for simple possession, but the federal prison population is a tiny fraction of the number of people incarcerated by the states.

And while I don't have any evidence to back it up, the comparatively small number of people in federal prison for MJ possession suggests they're either the most unlucky people on the planet or they're really there for some other reason even if the government could only make the drug charge stick. Think Al Capone and tax evasion.

tl;dr: Legalizing pot isn't going to affect the prison population very much.
> The Simpsons is probably one of the tamest, least hostile television shows I can imagine at this point.

Interesting to read this. I agree, but I do remember when The Simpsons was first shown on local Australian TV 25+ years ago, there was a massive backlash from conservative groups that the show was a den of iniquity. Bart for example, was touted as coercing kids to talk back to their parents and even (gasp) responsible for a new generation of kids calling their fathers by their first name. Homer was castigated for being a bad role model parent/human being.

If memory serves me correctly, it was even discussed in parliament here when they considered banning it from local TV stations. How times have changed.
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Yes, I meant it as in, "Processes qubits with entangled ensembles of photons". Thanks for the answer, it's what I remembered from the last time I'd read about them, but that was a while ago.
True - and marketing to developers is very challenging - a lot of noise to get above.
> The study seems to be making a sincere effort to be objective and evidence-based, with proper citations and such.

Without commenting on this particular study, I'll point out something I've learned from long experience reading think tank material:

Some think tanks are created to provide 'intellectual cover' and credibility (in the eyes of people like you and me, who care about the things you listed) to whatever ideas their political masters desire, regardless of the ideas' true legitimacy. This isn't a conspiracy theory, but a well-known (in political circles) tool in the political toolkit. And they do it in exactly the ways you identify, by appearing to make "a sincere effort to be objective and evidence-based, with proper citations and such." Unless we have time to check the citations and expertise to evaluate the quality of the citations and the arguments, we have little chance of detecting it.

Other tools are used to persuade other audiences: Anonymous, slandering robocalls are used for some (probably not you and me), blog posts for some, newspaper op-eds for some, astroturfing on Internet forums for others; some think tanks (not all) are just another tool for another audience.
It is not significantly less sunny than many northern US cities also mentioned in this thread--Cleveland, Pittsburg, Buffalo, etc...
Note that:

1. Friedman positions the student's view as wrong. And changes the question.

2. Friedman argues himself to the student's argument. Without acknowedging this.

3. Friedman never once acknowedges that the problem was that Ford was aware of the risks but chose to conceal them from the public, such that the public was fundamentally unable to make an informed choice.

4. That allowing people to bargain with their own lives leads to numerous other slippery-slope and logically-constrained tragic inevitabilities. Individuals almost always think they can beat the odds. They're almost always wrong.

What cost-benefit analysis almost always fails to consider are the moral and goodwill costs of making a decision which is intrinsically harmful to the customer. Most especially when not informing the customer of the full risks.

That specific clip is among the more prominant reasons I find Friedman an entirely unfaithful and bad-faith debater. He keeps moving the goalposts and using equivocations just enough that unless you're quite attuned to the fact, you'll miss it completely. And that is where he's not lying outright. Curiously enough, his son David does pretty much precisely the same thing.

Neither seem capable of admitting error either, which is the final loss of credibility.
actually it have achieve that in the worst way possible: making it easier to be surround only by the little echo chamber you choose.

see how most tailored "news" aggregators such as facebook or yahoo or reddit will mostly show you only what you want to read.

its perfect for the fear mongering ways of the two party system.
Thank you for making this easier to comprehend for the lay programmer.
Fine. I concede your points (except the part about being "dense" with errors).

The essence of my argument still stands and you can easily recast my argument, if you cared to think about it, in a form that is consistent with your vastly superior knowledge of QM, QC, P=NP, etc. If your point #1 is true then how can DW sell a single computer? That makes no sense on the face of it. Do you propose that their customers are buying them in an act of charity or that they are too stupid to notice its a scam? Don't forget these machines sell for millions of Thalers. Clearly, to make a sale DW must have demonstrated some thing superior to the Intel or standard CPU in solving some kind of problem. My guesses at "thing" and "kind" are wrong but my argument stands.

The gist of the issue for me is that DW is claiming to cohere 2000 qbits when the "state of the art" is a handful, at best. So I say, let's see sales contract and check out what are they really selling. That point stands despite your objections too.
I find it strange they prefer Ads as part of the solution to discovery problem. Apple App Store Search SUCKS. And I have no idea why. It is not that they cant do search ( Spotlight in Mac ), but they cant do search at scale.

It is also to get some of the Ads revenue from Google and mainly facebook, where Apps install is a huge deal.
There is actually a whole political thing developing around this between renewable energy opponents and proponents. Ostensibly, the blackout was caused by a main transmission line (interstate feeder) being knocked over, disrupting frequency synchronisation, and activating failsafes.

However, because SA gets 40% of its energy from wind farms, it's now being suggested that having more local baseload capacity in the form of fossil fuels may have prevented this.

Ironically, the severity of the storm itself (it's being a called the worst storm in 50 years) is being blamed on climate change.

I guess we'll see what's true and what's not in due course.
The temperature was almost certainly determined by fitting the spectral data to the black body radiator equation, the reason that red-hot metal glows red. Basically, objects emit light when they are warm, and the hotter they are, the higher the energy of their emissions (more blue). At normal Earth temperatures, these emissions will be in the infrared, not visible. Remember, the Landsat data includes not just visible data, but also registered images at a bunch of other wavelengths (near and far IR, at least). The actual color of the object is not really relevant.
Let's assume all these assertions are correct i.e. the disappearance of every Google product would hurt more than the same scenario but sub Google -> Apple. That doesn't actually imply that Google > Apple (in terms of general influence) in the world in which they both do exist.

My interpretation of your post is that Google might be more _important_ than Apple. And my counterargument is that importance is not equivalent to influence.
> If you stored milk in a stomach, it would coagulate very quickly. The substance would be solid: something you can dry! Aha. This could be a good way to store surplus milk.

You can make cheese without any sheep stomach involved, so it was probably more of an "Ah ha! Faster cheese!" sort of moment.
I'm not sure where you're getting your information: everyone in this thread seems to be parroting the same popsci headline that it's not a "real" quantum computer, but that completely misses the point. Regardless of whether or not it's a general purpose computing machine with programmable logic, it can still perform mathematical optimization of an objective function over a superposition of bits. Saying that it's not quantum because it's not general purpose is a complete distortion of the facts.
Why OIDC? Why not use something much more standardized like PAM?
Another analogy -- its like those thermometers that can measure temperature from across the room by pointing at an object!
Ubuntu's Snappy-Core grew out of their brief run at the phone: http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/devices

It has some parallels with Microsoft's strategy and could roll back into phones as just another device. And I think that getting a platform that works from embedded to server clusters has a good chance of how provisioning phones works ten years from now.

There's really nothing magical about phones. It's some compute cores, a bit of memory, some radios, a battery and a display. The only distinguishing feature of a phone is how the radio is tuned.
Mental Hospitals in the USA, a lot of them closed down.

I used to have a good one near me that had a STEPS program that worked quite well. It was shut down as part of the ACA act. I had to go to another hospital farther away that treated all patients like criminals and had everything locked down. STEPS would have a level 1 to 4 that patients could earn privileges like wearing a belt or shaving themselves. This new system in the hospital I went into they can lock down everything and you have to ask a nurse or technician to get it for you or help you with it. There are so many patients that they can't all get showers or shaving or new scrubs etc. In Steps we were allowed to wear our own clothes and underwear and stuff. In the new system you wear disposable scrubs, footie socks, and disposable underpants. You can't wear a watch or have any clocks or anything in your room. The only clock is on the wall near the staff desk and it is hard to see by your room.

I am certain Geel has a STEPS program and other stuff that doesn't lock things down like a prison. If a person is depressed, you don't throw them into a prison like environment and hope they get better, you have to have a better environment than that.

We need more mental hospitals that aren't run like prisons.
That's a nifty feature, but I am sceptical that Apple can offer the same kind of experience when compared to cloud-based solutions that leverage massive amounts of aggregated data and backend processing.

Apple has made a pretty big deal about privacy, but they do collect user data (see the interview a few weeks ago with Apple's mapping lead -saying they are collecting user data to improve maps).

Ultimately if users want ultra smart AI assistants (Siri, Google Now, Cortana, etc.) they will need to give up some of their data.

That may be very unpopular with the HN crowd, but I suspect the vast majority of consumers will be OK with that tradeoff.
These things should exist outside of revenue. If it was more to have a free society does should we rethink freedom? It feels silly to attach a monetary value to individual liberty.

Tax revenue is used as a benefit for legalization. It feels like a flawed argument, but it still aligns with where I would like to be.

The slippery slope argument applies here too: should our freedom be tied to tax revenue? Sure, it works for some drugs. Does it work for our other inalienable rights?
How do you debug things when you discover that machines are randomly dropping logs for x minutes?
A search space that's 2^2000 big when each fitness function evaluation takes a few seconds is intractable on a conventional computer. The relative performance gain is exponential the more qubits you add, which is why this is the first interesting quantum computer (or quantum optimizer if you're being picky).
DC always looks good in these because they never take into account all the cheap rents are in neighborhoods your average young professional is not going to wanna live in. I don't care how progressive you are--you're not moving to Anacostia.
Maeby Funke, from Arrested Development, was less smart and more rebellious than George Michael. I don't recall anyone attacking that show.
> If people cared more about security, they'd move away from Yahoo after something like this

That's why Yahoo's failure to disclose this immediately bothers me so much.
Not unless there's some strong union action going on.