skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you about "EU is claiming exists might be legal according to Irish tax law, but that doesn't matter [to the EU]", and your source is helpful.

I think if you read the actual claim they make, and then you go read the description of the Double Irish accounting trick on wikipedia, you'll notice that to the untrained eye (such as mine), there's nothing special about the deal that Apple is getting; we are publicly aware of dozens of transnationals that get that deal, and there are probably hundreds or thousands.

The EU's claim, I think, is not that the deal is special in its entirety, but that Ireland's ruling on the exact fiddly details of how profits are allocated to different Apple subsidiaries is, uh, irregular. It's a pretty technical accounting point.

e.g. the following assertion, from Vestager, some months ago: "This is not about transfer pricing, it is about allocation of profits so it is different to the decisions on Starbucks and Fiat".

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/08/apple-must-pay-...
It has been a while but with Outlook there was an option to ignore all read receipt requests. Maybe you turned that on?
In other news, Microsoft just bought the most lucrative position for corporate espionage available on planet Earth.
It's annoying, but it has to do with how Apple bifurcates the free and paid tiers. If you want to get the visibility, you almost have to stick with the free tier. Why? Because people are much, much more likely to download something that's free and try it out than even something for a nominal fee, but if you have a separate 'free demo' app, then each app has a separate download count, and suddenly you've got a lot less downloads you would have gotten otherwise (some people would skip the free and download the paid, and a lot less people will download the paid in general anyway).

Hardly anyone discovers apps outside the 'featured' and 'top paid' or 'top free' lists on the app store, so any loss in downloads drops you down those top lists, which can cost you a serious loss in potential revenue and is thus unacceptable.

Also if you have a free and paid version you're forcing the user to download your game all over again just to purchase it, which adds friction to the purchase, which anyone in sales knows even a single extra click lowers the odds of people buying something by a lot.

So the only thing that makes sense for most apps is to make your app free and allow people to spend money in the app to either unlock or acquire something in the game.

There are some apps that are better served on the paid tiers, but those are usually apps that have enough visibility (or built-in audience, i.e. Cartoon Network games) and possibly a high enough price on other platforms that people would expect to pay something anyway (i.e. Minecraft Pocket, Square Enix games), or serve a niche audience of people that don't mind paying (i.e. app versions of board games whose prices are set at fraction of the price of buying the physical board game).
I honestly disagree.
I see Mike Rowe's star rising over the next 4 years.
i seem to recal they were working on a "fedora upgrade" package, but only works as long as you dont miss a release iirc.
The accusations of "bloodsucking millennials" coming from other higher earning millennials (and ones who usually followed their "passions" to get there) is beyond ridiculous, it's actually a bit nauseating. The author starts the piece by saying that he is not only a millennial, but one that does work that intersects with his passions. That preface pretty much destroys any credibility he has to discuss dropping one's passions for a paycheck.

Not everyone has a passion that also involves a high paycheck, and since yours does you really have no right to criticize those that don't.

This line really sums up the sentiment.

> You do not deserve to pursue your passion.

Who are you to judge what someone deserves? From the contents of the piece, you gave up nothing in the pursuit of your paycheck (and if you did you should probably rethink the structure of the piece). Why should anyone else?

Also, did you ever stop to think that maybe Santiago's father's passion was to provide for his family, and so - in a way - he was following his passion?

This is all coming from a millennial that has a well paying job, and one that is also generally pretty damn proud of his generation.

Go back to reading your Ayn Rand novels.
The rule is about using marked cards, not granting an advantage.
Work is a majority of your work. Keep that in mind folks.

It's well worth the effort, and justifiably something to fixate on.
"Screw Your Passion. Get a Job." what a title, and the same attitude throughout the article. While I'm not one of the people your post targets, I really dislike this kind of rhetoric. Where you have to use "strong" words to cause rumble for attention.

Back to the core topic. I would argue about balance though. A lot of people are lucky to be in a position where they have that extra room. It's good to use part of that room,

There are parts of the world where that room was present for a long time, and yet due to fallacy of logic and paternal traditions people were forces to a "safe" choice. Now that this room is not existent, you have the majority of people that hate their job and their "safe" choice is not safe anymore. At least with passion it would have been easier and happier even to the whole society.

Suffice to say, that parents of course will try to do everything to take care of their family. No doubt about that.
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Flatbuffers in JavaScript
This is an excellent talk, but I wonder if Rowe realizes that the days of blue collar work are numbered? Tradesmen will be around for quite a while yet, sure, but everything will eventually be turned over to the machines. That's why we need to seriously invest in a proper changeover system to handle the droves of unemployed.
Allegedly GCC support GPU (ptx in particular, for NVIDIA) offloading. I don't know whether the performance is competitive and whether it can be used to speed-up fortran co-arrays (which I, as a non-fortran programmer, would expect to be the way that functionality would be made available to fortran). OpenMP should work as well.
When you make the commit, hg records in the commit which branch you were on when you made it. It becomes a permanent part of the commit. Regardless of whether you later merge or even delete that branch, the association between that branch and that commit is still there.

I personally don't understand the use case, and prefer git's way of handling things, but I don't rule out that other people find it useful.
AT&T criticized for giving internet subsidies to the poor
Work is a majority of your work.

yeah, the rest is spent on HN :)
Probably more like multiple Fortune 100 companies combined.
> Where do I sign to pay 0.005 percent tax on my income?

Step 1: be president

Step 2: don't pay income taxes for 20 years

Step 3: it's all cool, man.
> stealing everyones tax income

What an interesting turn of phrase. :)
Not everyone reads the articles. I usually skim the comments first to find out if the article might be worth reading; defining the abbreviations definitely helps.
I suspect you're just allowing yourself to be overwhelmed by the ambiguity in "hygienic macro system", which can be parsed as ((hygienic macro) system) or (hygienic (macro system)).

The former parse attributes the macros as being hygienic, and the system as having to do with that kind of macro (an not itself being called hygienic).

You're welcome.
That's because you can't just throw money at people and tell them to better themselves. It starts with drumroll a solid educational and support system. And we've come full circle.
You give me that money and I can replace MS in 3 years with 50 people.
The Loyalty to AMD’s GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is Decreasing
I think the clearest answer is Dweck is saying that misunderstanding her concept of the growth mindset leads to a "false growth mindset" rather than strictly defining the term.

FTA:

But Dweck recently noticed a trend: a widespread
embrace of what she refers to as “false growth mindset”—
a misunderstanding of the idea’s core message.
Growth mindset’s popularity was leading some educators
to believe that it was simpler than it was, that it
was only about putting forth effort or that a teacher
could foster growth mindset merely by telling kids to
try hard.

The larger concern seems to be that well-meaning educators have co-opted the growth mindset terminology and warped the idea in ways that are directly problematic or directly fixed-mindset in nature.
So basically if you are an expert. Find/install a XMPP client, then register/buy/install an XMPP server. Oh you probably want some SRV DNS entries as well. Then ensure your client and server support and have enabled XEP-0198, XEP-0313, XEP-0352, XEP-0280, XEP-0363, XEP-0374, XEP-0357 then in theory you can have a reasonable user experience.

However in reality opening a TCP connection to a server will silently drop and all the discussed behavior depends on the cellular provider sending an RST packet back when that happens.... which often doesn't.

So because google negotiates with carriers to not time out GCM connections those don't time out. Unfortunately other connections do, thus the power efficiency of other push based approaches on android.
My blog serves ~500k requests per month, mostly to bots. My pages generally have few external resources; with a typical CMS site this would be more like 5M requests.

(This is with ~15k pageviews-not-from-bots per month.)
> For a rich white dude up in a 50th floor penthouse, “the future of cities” might mean zipping around in a flying car while a robot jerks you off and a drone delivers your pizza.

The guy must think people of color are incapable of attaining that level of wealth.

Unintentional racism, but racism all the same.
I disagree. Github arrived in 2008, soon after many DVCS options arrived. Mercurial and git were developed at very near the same time in 2005, Bazaar was developed around then too. I don't believe that git had anywhere near the market share back in 2008 that it enjoys now.

When github arrived, git's biggest win was the kernel. But that was kinda a given if you consider its genesis. Granted, it's a noteworthy project that helps prove git's scaling capability. But IMO git didn't win until years later when folks who had adopted the other DVCS engines started switching to git.
So perhaps something like an infrastructure/tasks repo, then make various "environments" for assigning different env variables (like server IPs, etc). I'll fiddle around with this and see if its viable. I just really don't want to have to create a project/repo for every single little tiny task/report I want automatically done.

I like to run various reports, for example run a report monthly and diff my AWS/GCE firewall rules to show if anything that shouldn't have changed has changed then email if the there is a diff. Same with instance lists, load balancers, things of that nature. Then all of the server stuff, hourly snapshots using aws-cli or gcloud, yaddayadda.

Once the periodical thing is back in I can give that a shot. I've only used the travis style builds for about a year so I'm not very advanced with them. I think when I can do a when: monthly that will help greatly.

Re: ChatOps I've upvoted the ticket. I'd LOVE it if there was a slack: step that Gitlab could use that went beyond the checkboxes under integrations> - for instance I'd like the ability to echo whatever under a Slack step to a channel, for instance. I can do this buy making my own step, running a slack container and doing webhooks but that's clunkier than I'd like, especially when the GItlab server already has my slack tokens/etc. Right now I need to run a container that pulls that info to webhook to slack.

slack:
if: successful
channel: deploys
echo: "$buildtag has been deployed, you can access this build at $server1 and $server2"
curl: #posttodatadog "$buildtag released on $date"
Nice.

Is there an introduction, available online, to Fortran support for vector/matrix operation?
The Venus Effect (2016, sci-fi)
A floating station (eventually a city?) in the atmosphere of Venus would also be fine. On certain height, the temperature and the pressure are close to Earth's surface, and sun shines brightly enough for plants to generate oxygen. There's plenty of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to feed the plants.

No roaming over the surface, though.
No, Ireland is still a country it has to follow EU laws because Ireland law says so. They could leave the EU at any time with a single change to their laws. Brexit is going to take time for various reasons, but legally they could have left the next day.
FTC Orders Company That Used Verizon ‘Supercookies’ to Disclose Terms
I have a different take on this. The idea of "pursue your passion" is a thing in part for the reasons the author implies (or is explicit about) but he's eliding something. He doesn't really touch on the capital owning class' interest in cheap labor, and "find work that you're passionate about" is about a subtle and indirect way of pursuing cheap labor, mainly by the implicit suggestion that offering employment that fulfills a passion is itself compensation to some degree. Edit for clarity: so my view is that blaming or scolding millennials for this may be a bit misplaced. They've been raised in an environment where they've been told repeatedly that they can (and should) pursue their passions as their careers and also that it's possible and even feasible for everyone to do so.

"Money doesn't by happiness" may be technically true, but it is necessary in our society to fulfill basic needs and it's absurd to think its utility beyond that diminishes significantly.
We all know AMD is losing market share to Intel and Nvidia, but it's interesting to see that there was so much loyalty to AMD GPUs among people who bought AMD CPUs. This is starting to decrease as Nvidia wins more of the GPU market. AMD CPUs were only included in 11% of PC builds in the last six months on PCPartPicker.
Fascinating and frustrating at the same time, reading people going back and forth on their browser experiences.

"I've got 450 tabs open, in any browser, ever, and I experience 0 lag - in fact, it tends to finish rendering before my eyes even focus! And I've only got 6 gigs on some old 386!"

vs

"I can't even move my mouse in FF/Chrome/Safari without massive memory spikes and random reboots!"

At least some of the reports have to be expectations - I've sat next to someone and they thought I was "moving so fast" in my browser, and I was - at the same time - cursing how slow everything was running.

Someone reporting "no lag" might actually be experiencing what someone else reports as lag. Is there any way to adjust for our vague descriptions? Videos, perhaps, of what someone considers "fast" or "no lag" on a browser with 100s of tabs open?
Ask HN: What email is missing?
There thoughts are kinda philosophical, but I feel like something is missing from the email "experience". Too many times experience feels old, frustrating.

Maybe is because I am young (25years old) and I am more comfortable with ease of the chats.

The experience that I feel most comfortable with when talking about email is gmail, but can't tell exactly why.

I can't understand if these feelings are due to the tech itself or with the various clients or use that people make of it.
Will it be available in the future - that is, can I take the course later (I'm currently involved with the Udacity Self-Driving Car Engineer nanodegree - and that will finish at the end of July roughly - I have no free time for anything else right now)?
Agreed. Vanderbild, Rockefeller, Morgan, and all the other robber barrons went Scot free. So will Zuck, Larry, Sergey.
Apple pioneered [1] the 'deal'[2] and were one of the worst offendersl

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strate...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.de/how-apple-managed-to-get-its-t...
It looks like the quote in the article also says "free content" so there is definitely some confusion here. Yet the notification I received IN the game today was titled "new feature added". So, maybe features aren't content, but that seems like an update to me.
Google sued by employee for running an internal “spying program”
To add to the list of alternatives, try netlify it has a free tier with no build limits and provides a pretty liberal and free open-source plan that has more feature than GitHub pages.
https://netlify.com/open-source. Just throwing out there as well.

you can also connect your github repo to have a atomic deploys, which is more than you get from gh pages. https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/08/11/from-unstable-to-rel...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13167156 I was asking if a one man development company micro ISV) is still viable in this day and age
I want one where my data stays on my own servers, and does not share it. ---Yeah I know. There are almost insurmountable barriers to developing an effective product.
> As far as I know, in such a case, manual is unbeatable.

I guess that was a big mistake for F1 and other sport cars to have adopted semi-automatic gear boxes then.
> The key point rests on language in Article 107 of the 2007 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which provides that “any aid granted by a member state or through state resources in any form whatsoever which distorts or threatens to distort competition by favoring certain undertakings or the production of certain goods shall … be incompatible with the internal market.”

I don't get this, to be honest.

Doesn't every financial aid distort the competition, by design? What am I missing.

edit:

OK there is the whole article. It makes slightly more sense, but I would argue it's still hard to guess which aid falls where.

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE...

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Article 107

(ex Article 87 TEC)

1. Save as otherwise provided in the Treaties, any aid granted by a Member State or through State resources in any form whatsoever which distorts or threatens to distort competition by favouring certain undertakings or the production of certain goods shall, in so far as it affects trade between Member States, be incompatible with the internal market.

2. The following shall be compatible with the internal market:

(a) aid having a social character, granted to individual consumers, provided that such aid is granted without discrimination related to the origin of the products concerned;

(b) aid to make good the damage caused by natural disasters or exceptional occurrences;

(c) aid granted to the economy of certain areas of the Federal Republic of Germany affected by the division of Germany, in so far as such aid is required in order to compensate for the economic disadvantages caused by that division. Five years after the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, the Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission, may adopt a decision repealing this point.

3. The following may be considered to be compatible with the internal market:

(a) aid to promote the economic development of areas where the standard of living is abnormally low or where there is serious underemployment, and of the regions referred to in Article 349, in view of their structural, economic and social situation;

(b) aid to promote the execution of an important project of common European interest or to remedy a serious disturbance in the economy of a Member State;

(c) aid to facilitate the development of certain economic activities or of certain economic areas, where such aid does not adversely affect trading conditions to an extent contrary to the common interest;

(d) aid to promote culture and heritage conservation where such aid does not affect trading conditions and competition in the Union to an extent that is contrary to the common interest;

(e) such other categories of aid as may be specified by decision of the Council on a proposal from the Commission.

---------------
I think this is a bit of a tightrope walk. It's very important to be grateful, thankful, and appreciative of the work you do. For most of us posting on HN, our jobs are what most would consider luxury jobs. Collectively, we've got it pretty damn good.

I'd wager _most_ of us would not continue working these jobs if we had the option not to. If someone plopped <sufficiently large amount of money> into my bank account, I really don't think I'd continue working at my job, regardless of how much I appreciate it today.
I think the current focus on people following their passion is partly a practical response to the needs of creative/knowledge work.

No one ever got pulled aside from ditch-digging to be asked "I'm just not sure if you're really into this"
So would you want to work for those companies?
“You a lawyer, Frank?”

“Me? A lawyer? No. Why?”

“Hoping you might be, is all. I could use a lawyer. Whaddya do, then? Advertising man, or what?”

“No. I work for Knox Business Machines.”

“Whaddya do there? You design the machines, or make them, or sell them, or repair them, or what?”

“Sort of help sell them, I guess. I don’t really have much to do with the machines themselves; I work in the office. Actually it’s sort of a stupid job. I mean there’s nothing — you know, interesting about it, or anything.”

“Interesting?” John Givings seemed offended by the word. “You worry about whether a job is ‘interesting’ or not? I thought only women did that. Women and boys. Didn’t have you figured that way.”

“Oh, look, the sun’s coming out!” Mrs. Givings cried. She jumped up, went to the picture window and peered through it, her back very rigid. “Maybe we’ll see a rainbow. Wouldn’t that be lovely?”

The skin at the back of Frank’s neck was prickling with annoyance. “All I meant,” he explained, “is that I don’t like the job and never have.”

“Whaddya do it for, then. Oh, okay okay –” John Givings ducked his head and weakly raised one hand as if in a hopeless attempt to ward off the bludgeon of public chastisement. “Okay; I know; it’s none of my business. This is what old Helen calls Being Tactless, Dear. That’s my trouble, you see; always has been. Forget I said it. You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don’t like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out, so believe me buddy you’ve got nothing to apologize for. Anybody comes along and says ‘Whaddya do it for?’ you can be pretty sure he’s on a four-hour pass from the State funny-farm; all agreed. Are we all agreed there, Helen?”

- Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
Forget the starfish, how did they make that image?
My account on Skype seems to have gotten some sort of shadowban. I don't show up when people search for me and when I send people a contact request it shows as sent on my side but the other person never receives it. I can communicate fine with my existing contacts.