skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we might get to nanogram levels

Right! Now we're talking about some antimatter!

Kidding of course. But there is no reason to believe ab initio that it could not be scaled to whatever quantity is useful given enough incentive for that use.
They're on course for having a car pulled over, the cop asks for their self-driving permit (SFPD probably has briefed their people on this by now), they don't have it, the driver is arrested and the car gets towed to the impound. Routine enforcement.

If it's an accident, it's much worse for Uber.
Meh, Vice covers a wide spectrum of topics, all aimed at youth..

Some is heavy, some is not..

Find a mainstream (non-topic-specialized) publication that doesn't do that, and I'll be surprised.
It's essentially just another form of click fraud, which is a tricky problem but the ad industry already largely has tools in place to deal with it.
Cool, but where's "here"? :-)
Now there's an irony, I had no idea.

The timing never worked out, but applying to Matasano was tied to the start of my interest in security. It was one of the most welcoming and positive interview processes I've ever seen.
Nine out of ten Americans believe media content is better in 360 degrees
This is ridiculous analysis. If Uber loses (or wins) this DMV "permission" battle they don't magically win the "existence" battle. The state never forfeits its right to challenge whatever it wants to challenge, whenever it wants to challenge it. And if the state loses in court it can even change the law and fight again - no private entity has that power.

To the extent Uber is doing something clever, it probably has something to do with avoiding having to spend $150 for every entity or person that wants to buy a self-driving car and rent it out through Uber. It is certainly not that they have found a brilliant way to sidestep a legal battle with regulators.
You as the individual don't matter. Parts will fail, components will need to be replaced, time moves forward. The future will be those same devices (or similar) using a single cable that will be compatible with everything, or it will be wireless. If for some reason it's not, then you just buy an adapter (which people do now anyway).

Your view is short-sighted. You're saying "What about me? What about right now?".
I dislike ads as much as the next person (and indeed run uBlock on nearly every site), but I'd feel wrong using this because of the cost to the advertisers. It would be further lining the pockets of ad networks while increasing expenses for, at least in some cases, legitimate businesses. Sure, it's a bit of fighting fire with fire, but I'd rather not be an unnecessary expense for someone in my fight against intrusive ads.
Doctors should only have to work like 5 hours a day but should still get paid large amounts of money.

It's important that the people responsible for our health are well rested and well-rewarded.
Not sure if this supports the article or is just a warning, but going off of anti-depressants can be fatal. If depression relapses anti-depressants that once worked can prove ineffective. (edit: wrongly said SSRIs and not anti-depressants)

David Foster Wallace:

Wallace died by suicide on September 12, 2008, at age 46. Wallace's father reported in an interview that his son had suffered from depression for more than 20 years and that antidepressant medication had allowed him to be productive.[42] When Wallace experienced severe side effects from the medication, he attempted to wean himself from his primary antidepressant, phenelzine.[43] On his doctor's advice, Wallace stopped taking the medication in June 2007,[42] then the depression returned. Wallace received other treatments, including electroconvulsive therapy. When he returned to phenelzine, he found that it had lost its effectiveness.[43] His wife kept a watchful eye on him in the following days, but on September 12, Wallace went into the garage, wrote a two-page note, and arranged part of the manuscript for The Pale King before hanging himself from a patio rafter.[49]

It's something to be very careful about...
I don't remember exactly in what way this wasn't working for me, but it was something related to Carthage and xcodebuild. The workaround, which I use to this day is to define TOOLCHAINS=com.apple.dt.toolchain.Swift_2_3 before calling Carthage.

Even if I did downgrade to Xcode 7.x, it would still add quite a bit of effort on my side, which Apple forces me to do by nagging me to update Xcode.
I think it should work the other way around - Swift 2.3 still default with the option to use Swift 3.0.

In all fairness, I like Xcode - it looks nice, it's fast. It's quite good when it works well - mostly with Objective-C projects.

But the last version has been really frustrating and I think it's a step backwards, which I hope they will fix fast.
No, this is not just a problem you're having.

I was an early engineer at Zenefits and found myself holding stock options seminars to explain this stuff to the rest of the engineers.

I built optionvalue.io as a calculator to help people answer some basic questions about what their stock is worth, and I'm building it out more to answer questions (eg, tax implications and exercise windows).

I've talked to grellas and some other folks with a long, long history dealing with this stuff. There seems to be some consensus that:

(1) People now are more educated about stock options than they've ever been.

(2) That's a pretty low bar.
Do doctors and nurses get paid by the hour? If not, they should be, with double or even triple pay for overtime.

That would get penny pinching administrators to stop overworking their medical staff.
This project downloads 1650 different node modules. With 230 megabytes of 3rd party modules how do you ensure it's secure now and will stay that way?
And then there are people who just use a Google Voice number on Whatsapp instead of a real phone number, and many don't even have a phone number listed on Facebook. I'm actually surprised that anybody would give their real phone number to Facebook, Whatsapp, or any of the other "social networks"...
Mark Zuckerberg Debuts AI Assistant Voiced by Morgan Freeman
PS: that's why i use crashplan for backups.

It's on-server-encrypted, version controlled, supports all platforms including Linux and also flat fee-ed.
> Apple is doing nothing more than not paying the taxes they are not supposed to.

Well they did take part in secret sweetheart deals with Luxembourg that were designed to specifically route tax from EU countries into Luxembourg tax shelters. I would define that as "more than following the law"

https://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks/new-leak-revea...

Jean-Claude Juncker, the current president of the European Commission, who was prime minister of Luxembourg admitted after the “Lux Leaks” publications that the system was “not always in line with fiscal fairness” and may have breached “ethical and moral standards.”
How is that "double taxation"?
This is called Transfer Pricing[0]. It's not illegal, but only if you can prove that you are charging your subsidiary the same price that you would otherwise charge an independent third party.

That can be difficult depending on what kind of arrangement you are trying to make.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_pricing
Apple Airpods Review
Django, fast: part 3
Wow how lame of Dell. That was the reason I went with a Lenovo T460 (which I do not regret btw ;))
No it hasn't. Why are anti-Obesity groups banned, but overtly racist groups with racist names allows? (Answer: Moderators are fat.)
I was the one who made the original comment. The ad industry does not have to adopt at all, because they use a bidding system. Just advertisers have to adopt by bidding less. Sophisticated advertisers will automatically do that because they keep track of conversions.
This is not true. A doctor is a person who is extremely motivated by money but was too uncreative to come up with their own path for getting there.

They suck it up because its going to allow them to buy their 3rd summer beach house. Not because they are genuinely better people.
This is a great suggestion. I will add that there are very groups of people more fun and open than those that are interested in the performing arts. One of the best things that ever happened to me in college was getting a job working backstage at the theater. Suddenly I was surrounded and working long hours with people that very smart, funny, and talented. It is a great way to meet people.
Nah it's not really good. We need to just tax rich people if that's what we're going to do. Taxing a corporation takes operating money away from that corporation to spend on other things. Normally this is where people say "they'll just enrich their shareholders", to which I reply, then tax rich people.
Well I am not a pole but I guess they know they pay ridiculous taxes. It's just our parents and grandparents suffer from this post-communism mentality that state has to provide for you. For them this whole globalized economy is a nightmare and so traumatizing that no wonder other populists are winning.
It also does not help much that young population left the country for better life. This is a huge wrongdoing from West. Europe.
I'm currently listening to the Great Courses course called "Machiavelli in Context" on Audible, and his take was more that Machiavelli viewed monarchical rule as a stepping stone to a republic. In the Discourses on Livy, he gives the example of the people of the Roman Kingdom rising up to dethrone itheir king to establish the Roman Republic.

He goes on to say that, depending on the circumstances, a republic could backslide into monarchical or despotic rule, as the Roman Republic did when it transitioned into the Roman Empire.

The idea of a monarchy or a dictatorship being a stepping stone to a republic isn't something I see expressed online as much.
Not really. It mostly just devalues the ad units. Since none of these fake clicks result in any action on the advertiser's site, the per-click price the advertiser is willing to spend goes way down.

And at least in its current implementation, I would guess most 3rd party click validators already filter it out.

(disclaimer: ad-supported news sites pay my bills)
My wife's a second-year resident and it's pretty unbelievable how hard and how much they work. She's on her 18th straight day of working long days during the week and long nights during the weekend. Legally there's an 80-hour per week cap, but no resident would ever complain. They do 24 hour shifts, but never 30 hour ones, though other programs at her hospital do.

I felt upset about her hours all through medical school only to discover residency is worse. There are no fellows in her program either so the residents handle it all. I feel I've just accepted her terrible schedule at this point. I'm most saddened that we won't be able to have children for another five years until she's completed her fellowship, especially because I'm in my mid-30s.

Writing this comment makes me realize how painful it feels at times that her medical training runs our lives.
I suspect this is validation of Ben Thompson's analysis of Apple's Unitary Form organization - it is great at a single focus (iOS) but has trouble walking and chewing gum. I hope this is just a sign of things in flux at Apple and they eventually arrive at a design hierarchy that privileges both desktop and mobile...

Then again, playing devil's advocate, why shouldn't it be that way? The purest, Apple-like form of computing is a computer that is seamlessly with you and adapts to everything you need. Perhaps the end-point is a single iOS device in your pocket, and when you need the desktop/bigscreen/keyboard rubric of the Mac, it would seamlessly connect wirelessly to those things, but without having to burden you with those things otherwise. In a way, having two platforms, in the long-long run, is inelegant and therefore un-Apple-like.
It did not lower in price, so you're working with hardware of between 1 and 2 years old which on top of being old did not become cheaper.

One small advantage the 2016 version seems to have is being able to get power from either side of the laptop while the 2015 has 1x Magsafe (why on earth did they replace that) and 2 USB-C.
Yes, totally, this is the trick. They come up with bogus costs, usually something vague.

"We have to pay our headquarters Y billion to use 'their' very valuable logo". And this amount Y just so happened to match our gross profit X in market A. So X - Y = 0 profit in market A.

My point is that this doesn't make any sense. If the company actually didn't make any profit year after year they wouldn't stay. Everyone knows this is true. Any other argument is just PR-bullshit to justify the tax dodging.

–––

Another common trick is to buy something with intangible assets, for example software, in a market where you have untaxed profits (as described above).

Then you wait a few months and suddenly realize that this was a stupid mistake and that all this software is now worth zero.

You make a huge write-down (which is a cost) that can help you reduce your (bookkeeping) profit to 0.

You still actually made money though + your 'worthless' asset [the software] is still around, and will keep generating money in the future.
An Interview with Martin Scorsese: Faith, Film and 'Silence'
Not if

https://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks/new-leak-revea...
By the way, the first iPod ad!

https://youtu.be/gS8iHrNpc2I

It doesn't have much bearing on this discussion. I just think it's interesting, all these years later.
Laws are not capable of withstanding the kind of gamesmanship and time-geo-varying-interpretative arbitrage that multinational companies spin against all the countries in which they operate or generate business. The idea that tax rules are absolute entities defined within geographical lines in the instantaneous moment has always struck me as pretty flawed.

The lie that regulations define an absolute set of rules with no room for subjectivity is used as a weapon by the biggest rule breakers -- who argue that subjectivity both exists and does not exist as needed to suit their position.

Intent really does need to be part of the definition of law -- the idea that law can exist without a model of intent is flawed beyond hope. It's high time we acknowledge that there exists acts which explicitly violate the intent of law -- and that there exist criteria for deciding when this is indistinguishable from violating the letter of the law.
Advertisers will just lower their bids, so it mostly hurts the publishers of the websites you visit.
In my experience, you are absolutely correct. I dated a nurse for a while and later married a doctor, and it was completely different. Physician training is absolutely, terrifyingly demanding.
"Welcome to" implies it hasn't been that way for longer than any of us here have been alive.
There's not "a lot" of guess work. It's quite clear to read that it is mostly about GC trade-offs and technologies in the general sense, not especially critical of Go's implementation. There are very few absolute claims of good/bad, if any. A poster on a Go forum admits that the latency improvement cost 20% CPU usage, and the article doesn't call this necessarily bad.

You're making a very uncharitable interpretation, and unjustifyably calling them guesses only makes it more so.
WowPopup – WordPress Popup Plugin – Convert Visitors into Buyers
You're right, I thought it would be clear from the context that I'm talking about employee stock options.

It seems like your experience with stock kind of proves my point and reveals the employee side of this problem — because you didn't fully understand how all these things work, and no one explained it to you — you had much different expectations.

And now, instead of incentivizing you to stay, you employer leaves you frustrated and basically incentivizes you to leave.
The question is, when do we absolve people of debit while still giving entitlements?

It's a thorny question, in the general case. But fortunately we can rely on the time-honored constraints of common sense and general decency, in cases like these.

For which the factors "Would this force the individual below sustenance level? Are they disabled, or do they have disabled dependents?" are actually pretty easy to assess, and verify.
If not anything else the tax avoidance is really dangerous for small countries. I mean how are you going to protect your people from a mega corp like Apple that is so rich and powerful than a country of 5 millions ?
The title does, the article doesn't
This isn't about taxing individuals vs. taxing corporations.

The unfair part is that small companies (startups and others) can't do any of this fancy tax-dodging.

(there are many arguments for/against taxing individuals/corporations; I think there are good arguments on both sides, but this isn't about that)
> I can’t see why the tax liability is in Ireland.

Because it's cheaper. Duh.

If a company charges too much people don't buy their products and go to a competitor. Likewise if a government charges too much tax businesses change their tax nexus to somewhere else.

It's unreasonable to expect a business to operate against its own self-interest. Any system that requires it is bound to fail.

Governments must design their tax systems to be competitive if they want revenue.

Arguing that companies should opt to pay more in taxes is like arguing that consumers should buy a product that costs more. It makes no sense. It's the reason why Walmart exists and why people don't buy local. It's a matter of practicality.

You can make all the moral arguments you want but the facts are that people and companies are going to act in their own self-interest. Until we can be frank and accept this as fact, we can't design moral, legal, and tax systems that work effectively.
Recruiters Report More Caution Over Tech Hiring in 2017
Can you find it though? Or, like a string of trees in a rainstorm, will it too become saturated?

I'm no longer looking for an alternative. Wishing for the good old days of dial-up BBS like Totse is useless as well. However, there's still hope this will all turn out to be a narcissism fad which will eventually give way.
I mostly agree with that answer, although think that there are virtually no politicians pushing it: those that want to cut one tax want to cut the other two, rather than a revenue neutral adjustment.

Doesn't it create some kind of weird cross-border investing incentives though? I.e. we drop the corporate tax in the US, we could raise the income tax to recoup some of that, but not all of it, due to foreign investors who get taxed in their home countries.
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products [video]
Post-Truth: Why Facts Don't Matter Anymore (Veritasium)
Britain (well, England) has managed a good 350-450 years before.
You can also use http://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/
Ok.. but Walter left the company and then sold his shares for $5k.. how was he screwed? He made the choice to sell them back.
Would Ycombinator be willing to start a separate product with its ranking/reputation system to allow other sites to host comments section?

Comments section allows discussion and debates, which is what Democracy is built on.
The independence of microservice is not always achieved. You often end up with a mess of interrelated services depending on fairly narrow version ranges to retain compatibility. The more homogeneous your production environment is, the less that's a problem. The worst case is when you have a dozen (or hundreds...) of production clusters that are all independent and not necessarily in-synch as far as deployed version goes.
In Australia (or at least NSW), the health system doesn't know what to do with you. About 7 months ago I had a mental breakdown and experienced thoughts of suicide. When the health system found out, I had finished having the thoughts, and was at home trying to sleep, being supported by my loving family having been awake at the time for over 14 hours.

I was ripped out of my bed by ambulance officers with police present, despite my protests and my wife's - eventually agreeing to go voluntarily with them in their ambulance. Then after I got into the ED itself I discovered I'd been sectioned and not allowed to leave. After I realised this was what had happened I got placed in an isolation room, with no explanation as to why, and there I sat quietly rotting for the next 5.5 hours. In other words, I got no care, had my rights stripped and was treated like a criminal because after a sustained period of incredible stress I had a breakdown. I was then sent back home as they decided I shouldn't have been there in the first place.

I was then sent a bill for $600.

The system sucks.
I wonder if they could work in a napping system that compensates for the lost sleep. Several 45 minutes naps can do a lot if they are working 30 hours straight.
I'm surrounded by doctors and I don't know any that abuse drugs, other than alcohol and maybe weed. I believe they are just so busy and so overworked that they are constantly moving around / doing paperwork. The demands of the job keep them going.
Great analysis!

HN comment styling: If you want literal asterisks, separate them with spaces: ( * . * . * )
Google still has the best voice recognition IMO. Apple frequently gets my dictations incorrect while Google seems to understand the nuances of my voice correctly. I haven't used Amazon, but I imagine their AI is not as far along as Google. Amazon will only be the next big platform through marketing and distribution, not technical superiority.
Idk, I knew most of these, but the alternate operator tokens, ref-qualifiers, comma operator overloading, and function try-blocks were all new to me. What book do you know that covers those?
This is what happens when a US company that built it's reputation on bulletproof reliability sells the division to a Chinese company that built it's reputation on high-quality knockoffs. Just saying...
Articles like these, while generally quite helpful, should probably be titled: "How to clone and tweak an app for X in under 10 minutes."

Because that's what they teach you to actually do. OTOH, figuring out how to "create" such an app, from first principles, without any HOWTO guides... is much more difficult. And vastly harder to teach.
Really interesting. I still have some doubts on Socket.io on large scale though!
Easy to say yes and then shirk it in future though. Unfortunately common in practice.
> Taxing a corporation takes operating money away from that corporation to spend on other things.

(1) Does that mean rich people should incorporate?

(2) Taxing a rich person takes operating money away from that rich person to spend on other things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_tax#Luxury_tax_in_the_U...

Rich people were taxed, the industries that depended on them suffered (I'm from Florida, and yacht manufacturing industry alone laid off tens of thousands in the state).

---

Your distinction is arbitrary (especially considering point #1).
Surprised I haven't seen anyone post Markdeep here yet: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/

Seems to cover a lot of the same ground, though it's not restricted to visual studio code.
You're right. It's about fixing the corporate tax problem.
Anyone can be "alternative" but it's impossible for a well-off Canadian who hires writes specifically from upper-class NYC and LA to be legit alternative.

My point is, this is just like when Starbucks tried to copy indie coffee shops, or when record labels tried to produce "underground" bands, or when Walmart attempted to sell "hand-crafted" and "artisan" products. The premise makes the end result impossible.