skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the UK did not have VAT prior to joining the EU

VATmoss has been disastrous for small online UK businesses.

UK businesses do not have to register for VAT until their turnover exceeds a figure (£80,000 odd).

with VATmoss: if they have any EU customers they must either VAT register in the UK (which adds 20% to their UK prices), OR register and fill out VAT returns
for each member state they have customers in, which is not really feasible

I have simply stopped selling to EU customers... "single market", yeah right.

The EU commission's answer to this has been "we know this is a problem for small businesses. we'll sort it out when we discuss it in 2019"... not good enough.

all this bureaucracy was an attempt to try and get Amazon to pay their fair share of VAT... to hell with the small businesses
I am fascinated by holocaust denial and the people who think the moon landing was faked. Does anyone believe both? Do the people who believe those have any other historic events that they think were made up?

Most importantly (too me) would it be possible to start one of these on purpose? If you wanted to, what would be a good candidate?

I concluded that the atomic bomb is an excellent choice. I say there never was an atomic bomb. It was propaganda to prevent the US and Soviet Union from engaging in a disastrous WWIII so soon after WWII. And it was very effective but it's time for all the suckers to wake up.

I know you've seen the films. Special effects! Hiroshima/Nagasaki? Regular fire bombing that happened to get out of control because of favorable (or unfavorable) winds! Godzilla? Well that's more difficult to explain but I'm sure if we put our heads together we could come up with something.

Who's with me?!?!?
Transaction Costs Are Not an Afterthought; Transaction Costs in Quantstrat
A) Actually, we have plenty of ways of measuring software engineering competence.[1][2][3]

B) Weirdly, all of them are heavily process focused and none of them have much interest in the ability to write functioning code, because

C) Software engineering, as a field, is built on the belief that anyone can write software if properly managed.[4]

[1] http://cmmiinstitute.com/

[2] http://www.sei.cmu.edu/certification/

[3] https://www.computer.org/web/education/certifications

[4] and that would make software development much cheaper.
They "do" see other reply.
Questions is: at what point do we consider it suffering ?
When there is a reaction to harm ? When it has a brain ? When it has consciousness ? And what about a virtual brain, does it suffer ?
If travelling helps your depression, you probably don't have depression.
> 2. When using generic names like "button", "big", "small", etc... I always find myself in a naming conflict at some point. The likelihood of semantic names having conflicts is much smaller.

css-modules[0] are a nice solution to this. Your nice, simple class names like "button" are transformed as part of build process to something less likely to collide, like "ltuZCYvCyDVU_2kG0Sspr":

[0]: https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules
I thought people stopped doing Centaur chess when it turned out that human+computer usually loses to computer alone.

There are still positions that people evaluate correctly but computers misjudge, but those are pretty rare.
the secret is that if you're the first inquirer in a new field you get to make the proportionally highest number of discoveries!
Windows as a Service: The Highs and Lows of Rapid Release
I've seen the reMarkable before, and it's definitely a product I'm interested in. However, every other e-ink writable tablet I've seen reviewed (other than the DPT-S1) has some amount of issues with input lag. I'm also cautious of buying products from companies I had never heard of before, which may or may not be justified. When you get your reMarkable, make a post here reviewing it. If it turns out to be any good, I'd like to know!
You can see some of the original research I did on this in my old blog post: http://timepedia.blogspot.com/2009/08/on-reducing-size-of-co... I followed up by researching different clustering metrics including something called LZDIST instead of edit-distance. http://timepedia.blogspot.com/2009/11/traveling-salesman-pro...

I think it works better for GWT than for Closure because GWT's optimizer permits inlining functions in some circumstances even if they increase code size. This causes repetitious fragments to appear, and re-ordering the code to bring those fragments within GZIP's compression window functions as kind of a late-stage "anti-inliner/common subexpression elimination"
Don't forget efficiency, insects have a far better food input/meat output ratio.
Any guesstimates on how much it was acquired for?
Is he? Not doing hard work is guaranteed not to pay off.
> What's the goal with arch trees/flat earth theory?

It's a very efficient fruitcake detector. It's sort of like a pyramid marketing scheme -- the dumbest people naturally float to the top.
I'm unconvinced that this measurement of income mobility is a good thing, and I'm confounded that it gets talked about and referenced so often. The frequency at which I'm hearing about this makes me suspicious that it's in service of some political ideololgy.

I understand that this measurement of mobility purports to measure something like how meritocratic a society is. But parents teach their children their own habits (consciously and unconsciously), so if your income quintile has any relationship to your behavior, then it's no surprise that income mobility is not perfect. But what's the "right" amount of mobility? Comparisons between countries are a little suspect, because, for instance, the top quintile in income in the US is drastically different than the top quintile in Canada.

The fact is that 20% of your population will always be in every quintile no matter what you do. Every person you send from the bottom quintile to the top will be balanced out by a person falling by the same amount. We should be focusing on making everyone's life better, not shuffling people around.
I think if you broaden your view a bit, you'll see why it's not harmless: climate change deniers fall into the same basic group, as do anti-vaxxers. Both dangerous for different reasons.
Why? Nginx is not a political statement or software nor does it benefit it's author's causes in any way.

With that said, use caddy. Not for political reasons, just because it's awesome. https://caddyserver.com/
Do you mean intrinsic human worth or innate genetic potential to become highly skilled?

I thought merit typically meant a person's ambition and skill set, regardless if it comes from nature or nurture.

edit: Merit can't mean 'innate human worth'. If it did, then all humans on earth would have equal merit, and terms like 'merit-based scholarship' and 'meritocracy' would be meaningless.
Hate to do this, but since it's a common mistake also repeated in the reply, it's Colombia.
Benchmarks of Solus vs. Other Linux Distributions and BSDs (April 2017) – Phoronix
Reminds me of the ol 'turn 360 degrees and walk away' gambit.
> one friend has a small kid

How did they get the kid? Stork dropped it off without inquiring about their financial situation?
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Ferguson Missouri comes to mind.
I am systems developer working mostly in C++. I often make things with no user visible GUI, like libraries and algorithms. They wouldn't be able to pry my colored syntax highlighting from my cold dead hands.
and it's only a 5.6!
1) HN
2) Whatever is on HN
3) Akka documentation
> if they have any EU customers they must either VAT register in the UK (which adds 20% to their UK prices)

While I'm sympathetic to the fact that this will increase your administrative burdens, in terms of your bottom line this really won't make much of a difference, because once you register for VAT you can also deduct it for all the costs you make – you only pay tax on the value you add, hence the name.

Thanks for the correction re: the UK not having VAT before joining the union, didn't know that.
In short, the same principles driving VC returns are driving public market returns with the exception that amongst top teir VCs there is effectively insider information which is illegal in public markets, hence no information asymmetry to bias returns.
I do technology due diligence on behalf of investors for a living, so I live and breathe this type of stuff on a weekly basis.

All companies build software differently. Some have automatic deployment, some don't. Some have strong testing procedures, some don't. Just because a company doesn't use a CI, doesn't necessarily make them "worse". It's just an indifference to the indoctrination of the "SV mindset".

The more important answers are not binary yes/no by rather "why aren't using a CI". Common answers are:

- I'm not sure what CI is

- We don't have enough unit tests to justify it

- We're a small team and it doesn't really justify the effort to setup

- We're working on setting up and should be live in the next 3 months

You can tell a lot about engineering competency and leadership from those answers.
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Yes... I was looking for weirdness and found it quite normal.

Also, they make $700 sound like a high price... that sounds cheap for a coveted and new emerging product to me...
> Intuitive javascript:
$('select.dropdown')
.dropdown('set selected', ['meteor', 'ember']);

Please no...just use React, Vue, Angular or some other sane data binding framework already. Don't mix logic and presentation. Your javascript code should never know about CSS classes, and ids and preferably not DOM-states either.
Yeah, these are not subtle embedded-systems bugs were talking about. These are frequently things that would make any halfway-experienced programmer or sysadmin refuse a release. If your security failure gets revealed and the entire software industry screams "what were you thinking?!", you don't get to plead that finding the bug was too tricky and complex.

Hell, the Ring issue wouldn't even require one direct employee to avoid. You could solve that in a 30 minute call to an "is this obviously terrible?" hotline.
That looks like just what I'd want. Still a little more than I'm willing to pay at the moment. I don't even mind the slower refresh rate of the screen for handwriting and drawing. I'm not making art, just taking notes and sketching concepts.
I'm considering getting one of those LG 65" OLED TVs, after seeing one in-store and being completely blown away by the picture quality. Much like the GP I can't recall the last time I saw a display that actually wowed me, but watching a space shuttle take off, and bright stars as dots against a pitch black sky without the typical blue-ish backlight bleed, was just amazing. I stood there watching the same 4-5 minute video loop for what must have been half an hour or so.

But your comment now gives me pause – the picture warps over time? Do you have any sources on this so I can learn more?
Yeah, that looks to be it. Thanks for digging this up!
I think EngineYard is going elsewhere- Microsoft only acquired the Deis part of the business.
Definitely, and hopefully, an API that works better than the one already in place for VAT validation (which is quite unreliable)
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It's not xml!!!!

There's just opening and closing tags for a stanza. Look at a basic virtualhost config.
I'd assume most tech workers. Most that i'm personally aware of 'bonus' have an individual performance multiplier attached. Can get <Standard> * 2 or <standard> * .5 depending how well you (and/or the company) performed that year.
This is awesome. Hopefully a step towards my dream laptop with an e-paper screen for coding outside.
One issue I don't see considered is - how to ensure that explainable artificial intelligence doesn't lie? Right now, it may not be an issue, but as AI systems get complex ("smart") enough, one need to be sure that the introspective output isn't crafted to influence people looking at it.
I think that's largely luck. Most people who go into engineering do so because they have some "natural aptitude". That's luck of the draw. Conversely, I'd say that studying history is also largely (bad) luck. A kid has some interest in it and they're too shortsighted to understand what it means to carry tens of thousands of dollars in nondischargable debt while working a low paying job because history degrees are not in demand.

Of course, it's largely luck whether a person even goes to college. If you're born upper middle income or higher, college is basically a certainty. If you're born low income, it's much less likely.
Complete overview of webpack's architecture in 20 minutes
Caddy needs a decent networking library to compete with nginx, it cannot do that with crappy net package.
I've never liked the taste of chicken very much, especially white meat/eggs. The smell of normal eggs that have been cooked is nearly enough to make me vomit.

Despite this fact, I still ate chicken and eggs, because it can be rather healthy.

A couple of years ago I had an organic free range egg for the first time and it was incredible. It didn't smell anything like normal eggs, and it tasted like actual food. It's hard to describe, but normal eggs almost smell/taste like a hospital to me.

A little while after that I was picking up some chicken breasts, and the organic ones at the supermarket were on sale. Given my experience with the eggs, I thought I'd give it a shot.

The difference between the organic chicken breast and a normal chicken breast was incredible. For one thing, there was fat, and it actually looked like fat. And the breast was pretty small, but it was super tasty.

Altogether, that experience totally sold me on organic food.
The solution is clear, de-escalate the war on drugs, reform sentencing guidelines, invest in treatment instead of interdiction.

Yet the incoming AG and his inner circle are intent on reversing the progress made to this end over the last decade or so, and instead want to take us back to the policies of the late 80s and 90s. We know where that got us. The private prison companies must be salivating over what's to come.
Here's an idea:

There exists an FCC ID for every device that uses the RF spectrum. Similarly, there should be a similar required license for any device/product that operates on the Internet.

The license should be easy to get initially (basic examination by 3rd party). However, once the product is out on the market, if it is shown to be demonstrably broken (insecure), the license is revoked. It now becomes illegal to operate or sell the product as-is (both for user and manufacturer). It now has to be disconnected from the Internet (or the user and manufacturer face a fine).

Devices that are produced in very low quantities will be exempt from this (prototypes, specialty equipment, etc).

This is similar to the mandatory safety checking of a motor vehicle.

A cop pulls you over since your car mirrors are broken? You need to fix them before its legal to drive.

Some one finds out that all models have a fatal life-endangering flaw? It is now both illegal to drive them, and to sell new ones (as-is). Note that in this case, manufacturers will always foot the bill and do a recall.

I get that this is extreme. I don't see how anything else would work, though.
So, literally, Netcraft confirms Apache is dying.
I know that one of the reasons that Apple went with XML for launchd was that you can define an XML schema for the files and validate them against that schema. IIRC, this claim was made in a HN (or Slashdot) discussion maybe 5 or 6 years ago.
We have things that put things to sleep. Anastasia. I don't hear people complain about operations (except those rare cases). The other option would be C4 that should also be painless. Although you could argue that the pieces of brain still suffer for a moment.
Modafinil is not a long term solution. Sleep deficit that you would build up would have to be "paid back", or it would become detrimental to your health.

By the way, those few people who need less sleep most likely have certain genetic advantage that the rest of us don't: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/genetic-mutation-...
> Overpaid relative to what? Your estimation of perceived value? What do you define as value? How would you even begin to empirically establish what you're saying?

Some research has been trying to answer these questions, for example the MSCI study [1]. Anyone can play around with the collected data of public companies, for example the WSJ data model is kind of nice [2].

As a passive index small-time investor, this is of keen interest to me. My theory is passive indexing can potentially be supplemented in the future by specific value-oriented long-term Buffett-style investments in companies that establish a track record of promulgating a culture that successfully selects CEO's who deliver sustainable (5+ years) returns to shareholders, and CEO compensation linked tightly to such results is one of the signaling indicators I look for to draw attention to such possible organizations. Thus far in the US, I see very few companies who can pull this off, and unfortunately, they are all private, and precise returns are fuzzier than public companies and only theoretical.

I do not need five sigma results to discern actionable data. But the consistently relatively poor performance of CEO compensation to sustainable shareholder returns is one of my confirmation signals that passive broad indexing still works (like some fellow passive indexers, I believe under some specific conditions, the strategy will not work). If price discovery is broken in the CEO compensation market, then I'm better off ignoring it until it works.

Definitely YMMV. My style is not your style. Investing isn't my day job, and it isn't even my hobby; it is simply a facet of modern current life that I carry out as a duty, like flossing. I select for a strategy that can return results I can relatively count upon over long (20+ year) periods, with very little personal time (<80 hours per year) required. So while I am happy to listen to Bloomberg for example, I'm not so keen on a hands-on active investment to micromanage a portfolio.

[1] http://chiefexecutive.net/higher-ceo-pay-produce-better-comp...

[2] http://graphics.wsj.com/ceopay-2015/
>Flat earth insists on the primacy of direct experience (look at the horizon, really look, and try to see the curve) against abstract domination.

But you can see the curve... Have they never been to the ocean?
I've had my eye on the Earl for over 3 years now.

So glad I was not a backer. It just seemed to good to be true.

https://earl.is
http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/04/10/earl-back-country-t...
50 USD is tight though..
Differentiating between various grays seems like a waste of time when you could just use color
Yes, and with a cpu that can render complicated PDFs with big vector plots without needing a cup of coffee between page turns.

The Kindle DX graphite was almost workable in grad school for journals, until a vector-based montecarlo convergence plot or even a scatterplot with many points would bring the poor thing to its knees.
I'm coming late to this discussion, but there is one point I'd like to make. Our "interviews" in the world of software engineering, are immensely different from "interviews" in the standard sense of the word.

I've worked in different fields, and I talk to people who work in other fields. Most of those fields work in a way that is described in this article - interviews are question and answer sessions, where people are evaluated by a number of highly subjective criteria. "Tell me about your fundraising experience?" "How do you deal with difficult clients or coworkers". That kind of thing.

Software interviews are exams. They're not "more like" exams, they are flat out exams. There is very little banter. The closest I've come in google and Netflix interviews has been the more open-ended system design style question they often put in there, but even that has an academic test quality to it.

It's pretty much 5 hours of technical exam. "How do you find all matching subtrees in a binary tree" might be a question - and you really are expected to get it written at the whiteboard. "Find all permutations of a set". "Find all square sub matrices in an NXM matrix." The "top" companies are good at modifying the question so that you must know how to do this but can't just regurgitate it.

Alternatively, you may do a "take home" exam. Most recently, I did a mini rails project. I actually liked my result, I kind of enjoyed writing it. However, it was a no-hire, one reason given was that my routing was non-standard. True. I hadn't really thought about it, it was a take-home, so I mainly focused on the UI and code, and just chucked in a couple of named routes for demo and testing purposes. The other reason was that there was some duplicate code (I disagreed and had a reason for this, but there is no chance to defend your code, you write it and send it in, and they say "no hire").

I have no idea if it was a real piece of crap and they were just being nice. It had 100% test coverage and git for version control, and implemented a few features. Unfortunately, like I said, I never got a chance to defend the code.

Our processes in high tech are badly broken. I'm probably done interviewing, my next job will have to be one that doesn't involve a software interview. The routing and duplicate code, along with a google interview, pretty much sealed the deal for me.

My advice to people is (this isn't my idea) be an X that programs, not an X programmer. Coding is an amazing tool for a job, but avoid making it your job. For instance, I actually know a fundraiser who does a lot of data science, and he's a rock star in his field, but I guarantee you nobody asks him to reverse a binary tree in an interview!

Best of luck out there. Our interviewing processes are their own special version of horridness, just not uselessness described here.
the variable costs for digital services are essentially zero (make once, sell many times), so having an extra 20% tax makes a phenomenal difference to either profit or competitiveness
From what I read, it is harmful because it's illegal. Just like countless other drugs. You can't get a high purity sample from an advanced lab and have to trust random chemists who do it illegally. Pure LSD seems to be quite safe.

Should probably ban alcohol and tobacco, since they're really risky, and refuse to re-legalize them unless everything else is legalized heh.
Wow, Unity on a VM? I haven't seen that, actually I haven't seen any Linux user in my current and previous employers that would start any X apps on a VM.

Why start a browser there? Is it for testing the web pages in different environments? If not, then wouldn't it be more reasonable to start it on a bare metal (the machine you connect to the VM)?

But it might be my bias, I'm one of those that install Linux on a company laptop on day one :) so I'm most efficient in the console.
If you're going to deny undeniable fact, may as well go all the way crazy. I'm in! Let's work on that Godzilla problem though, that's the real hole in our theories.
Well, that's definitely a way to buy yourself into the Kubernetes ecosystems. Congratulations to the Deis team!
Meanwhile I was a fool who wrote way too much MUSHcode. At least it helped by making me learn to limit the side effects my code had due to performance issues...
The article doesn't explain why the author considers the tablet weird, or why anyone else should.
Fragmented is not the right word, it is federated. Many clients suck, not all.

Be sure to choose a good server:
https://gultsch.de/compliance_ranked.html

And a good client:
https://omemo.top

Dino is a new Linux client. It's nice and simple.