skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like someone's done a bit of appropriation themselves :p
OK so in specific case of apple story is complicated by the onshore/offshore tax situation, but it could well be that they have more cash than they know what to do with - in which case returning it to shareholders makes sense instead of using it badly. But it is really not an obvious statement that buying back shares actually returns any value to shareholders.

In my view you really should qualify your earlier statement that "Buy-backs are more tax efficient because they increase stock price" as it is really not a generally true statement. If it was, I would be in the business of buying companies, then making them use any free cash to buy back some shares from me (my remaining shares then somehow go up in value), then selling the remainder back to the market. Free money, it would be great!
Why is this downvoted? It's true, isn't it? And as far as I know they had plans to make English the 3rd official language (along with Kazakh and Russian).
EURUSD: Bearish, Retains Its Downside Pressure
What is App Store Optimization(ASO) and how to explain it to someone?
Mainstream users could use such things so long as the UX was really, really good.

The problem is not the principled nature of decentralized networks, but that they have to overcome the same hurdles as centralized networks—how do you compete with Facebook when they're so entrenched?
Perhaps they are new to web development. This is the nature of developing for the web: you have to perform cross-browser testing and you have no control over media. The only thing you can do is test upcoming browser versions and respond appropriately. They do release future versions as canaries. Developing for the web has always been this way.

If the dev doesn't have time to be a commercial web developer then they should hire an assistant.
Oh thats a great idea! That would also encourage people to draw new things instead of defacing old ones.

One of the first things that happened when the site went up was that someone started drawing something, and then someone else immediately start spamming junk pixels over the top of it. Despite being able to draw literally anywhere else in the world they thought the best use of their time was to ruin someone else's creation. It was kind of disappointing to witness.

I might make that change now actually - the simplest form of that is very easy. I can just make white pixels cheaper to draw on, and for everything else there's stiffer rate limiting penalties. (Which isn't quite what you said, but I think its the MVP version of it)

(Edit: This is implemented now. You can draw over 25 white pixels in each 10 second window, but only 10 colored pixels)
> 3+ (actually, I didn't count, it was a lot) cups of coffee per day

My God. You monster.
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Investors are seeking high ROI and low risk too, though. This creates challenges for "putting money to work".

If risk is ignored and the money is thrown down a pit through ineffectual business, it's pushing on a string, velocity-wise. The company added the same kind of temporary stimulus you'd get by hiring people to dig ditches or do a cash transfer, but in a less efficient way than either one of those. Sometimes you get a hit, but dealing with direct investments is high overhead and introduces more conflicts of interest.

Capital that prefers lower-risk bets, on the other hand, ends up pooling in financial instruments designed for a low nominal risk: indexes, bonds, treasuries, real estate, and more sophisticated cocktails like the repackaged subprime mortgages that contributed to the 2008 crisis. These tools act indirectly on businesses, and so the money only gets "spent" in the sense that someone in finance is getting paid to handle the trades, somewhere along the way. Hence you get the effect of "velocity at the top", because money is sloshing around in a musical chairs game disconnected from goods and services, going from one large institutional investor to another. Each trade raises the pressure to speculate, allowing the market to trend upwards without actually doing much of anything for consumers, gradually increasing the likelihood of a crash.

And that is why Apple can end up sitting on $246B at the same time that the economy runs at less than full employment. Their strategy is already executing at full funding. They're financed for anything they could ask for, so if they're not doing it, they didn't want to do it. So they have to make a decision as an investor instead, and one of those options is to sit out if they perceive the market to be too risky.
libdvdcss is also consider to be illegal for distribution in the US as it is circumvention tool in violation of DMCA

It is a legal gray area if a individual who obtains libdvdcss breaks the law by using it, however no software vendor can include it if they are a US Company

This is why VLC, Handbrake, and many other organizations that distribute it are very very clear they are not US Organizations and exist outside the Jurisdiction of US Courts
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I'm one of them. I didn't post much, but I was on SA as much as I am currently on HN and this is all a huge blast of nostalgia for me. I just read through the whole 9/11 thread and logged in an explored what's currently going on. Very strange feeling.
There's some 2011 info here: https://hackaday.com/2011/04/07/hacking-electronic-price-tag... See also the 2014 presentation linked to in the comments.
The system isn't fancy. Its just the bare minimum code to stop the specific forms of abuse I was seeing.

I replied to another comment with details:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14125518
For Polish (on computers) we have a keyboard layout called "polish programmer" widely adopted many years ago affectively making the original "polish typewriter" layout (that mapped diacritics to separate keys) almost extinct.
For typing diacritics AltGr is used (eg. ą = AltGr+a).
Typing without diacritics is considered clumsy at least within the groups of people I interact with.
On mobile it is a bit more relaxed, but the dictionary autocorrection is sort of OK. Conjugation, declension etc. complicates things, but you have the stem + most common suffix autocorrected, so usually it is a matter of erasing last 1-2 letters and changing them if needed. Also the Markov chain alike logic of autosuggestion quite often is right with the inflection.
Spending $350K to build a statue to illegally place in front of a stock exchange is a horribly bad investment. He may have made profit, but it probably took a long time. It's unlikely that was his prime motivation. If it was, he got extremely lucky. Artists typically think in terms of making great art rather than making money.

He should have taken that $350K and put it into stocks in 1987, he would be much better off. I suspect he had other motivations.
Put in something innocuous but interesting to me. Got porn in return.

And I'm at my in-law's home on their network.

I can't believe I'm still making rookie mistakes at my age.
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This is a key point to be made -- especially about the kind of research that ARPA/PARC did. We built all of ideas in quantity both in order to use them ourselves, and as the only good way to validate them.

This involves teams, and -- for example -- the award in baseball is a "world series ring" for everyone involved in the effort. The standard awards -- including the Draper, which does award to more than one person, are really more like "most valuable player" awards -- which quite misses the point in large scale edge of the art computing research.
Also once they pay tax (again) on it to get it into the U.S., it gets taxed a third time if they distribute it to the shareholders.
Try going on YouTube and searching for "forcado", you may change your mind :)
I assume this is one-sided, but since Dr. Laskar didn't get to present his side of the case in court, I believe it's appropriate to link to it: http://joylaskarstory.com/chronology/
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> That changes everything

If I hadn't read the article, I wouldn't have known. I suspect very few people know the provenance of the statue, and, few care.
As the one who challenged you in that original thread, what drew me to your initial comment was the great point that you made: that much of the time and difficulty in doing something novel is making many of the tough decisions, and that once those design and technical decisions are made (and revealed), it seems "obvious" to others, and is judged simple in comparison.

Congratulations on following through, and demonstrating your core premise!

What were the top things that you felt weren't captured by that premise--for instance, undocumented decisions that you had to discover on your own, or cases where you made tradeoffs that led to unexpected complexity? Were they maianly around bot-mitigation?
PARC happened because of the added "D" which made it impossible for the agency to find open ended "problem finding" research. I don't know of funding since then -- or today -- that is on a reasonable scale and of the same quality and outlook.
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Before arguing this question again, we should have an understanding of what information a programmer needs to know about a function in an unfamiliar code base. Depending on circumstances, that may include issues like whether it modifies its arguments, preconditions/assumptions and post-conditions, failure modes and error handling, corner cases, resource use, thread safety, time and memory complexity, the architectural conventions that the function needs to observe and imposes on other parts of the code, and why this and not something else. I cannot see the proposition that you can write optimally readable code simply through the choice of identifiers as being anything but based on a misunderstanding of just how much information there is in code.
> Vowels are an afterthought to Arabic writing,

That's an orientalist claim. Vowels do exist in Arabic but some foreign learners of the language don't get the distinction between short and long vowels and how the letters "ا و ي" have dual role as consonants and vowels as well.

> you're shoehorning a language into a script that really isn't appropriate for it.

Here's a phonetic transliteration of your first sentence in Arabic

"Arabic is a Semitic language; Turkish and the other Turkic are not."

"أَرَبِك از أَ سِمِتِك لانجوِﭺ، تِركِش أَند أَذَر تِركِك أَر نَت"

By the way, this is the Egyptian convention since the "g" sound is missing in Modern Standard Arabic.
Not only have we trained people to be good at it but we have filtered and sorted them based on that.
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Undisclosed "1-day" is real and has gone on forever. A popular set of tools is binary diff tools such as the now defunct Zynamics acquired by Google. There is evidence. The amount of tooling around examining MS patches should convince most.

http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/OH/BHUSA09-O...

http://www.phreedom.org/presentations/reverse-engineering-an...

People built businesses around this.

With so many eyeballs on release diffs, undisclosed vulnerable were often discovered (and still are). With the number of experts on file observing this it should not be controversial at all.
Why would a company that a lot of investors trust change/reelect directors every year if it's working well?

For Uber, it makes more sense, as the trust in the CEO has gone.
Any kind of direct console access can be used (which many VPS providers offer).
My first employer actively encouraged its employees to get into debt (cars, housing, etc). Sadly it took me some time to connect the dots and realise what they were doing.
I expect if the iframe is small enough you could trick the user into clicking a small button as they'll click before they realise. Even if they notice, I bet many users would just click anyway after being briefly confused and put it down to a bug.
Seeing as the index has shares in Pepsi, that would make sense.
Kazakh teenagers do from time to time write Russian or Kazakh in a very strange mix of latin letters, but most of them write in either Kazakh proper or in Russian (Cyrillic) since it has most of the letters of the Kazakh alphabet.
>>On the better web Berners-Lee envisions, users control

I have a hard time taking him seriously at this point, he talks about User control while at the same time advocating for the Advancement of DRM in HTML5 standard

I can not square these positions, DRM is anti-user. You can not be for User control while also supporting DRM. Pick one
So art studios owned by one person are real art and art funded by corporations aren't real art? Is this like 'I only eat Italian food made by italians'?
It does, but why would it change to represent men?
I love it. There was an article about how the stock exchange actually lives in a nondescript warehouse-looking data center. Put the bull there.
> I spent a lot of time on forums too, overclocking this or that, or waking up for alarm clock-ops in EVE. I met people at LAN parties who I ended up working for later; set up servers to host our Unreal Tournament matches and learned to edit and repackage files so I could run around Jedi Knight as Deadpool with a lightsaber.

As someone approaching mid-thirties, aside from EVE that's pretty much me you're describing.

Jedi Knight was my first foray into modding. I never release anything, but spent a lot of time in JKEdit (and/or that other editor). I also working on two UT and UT2003 mods after that.

Then there were the LAN parties, coping tons of crap from each other computers in between Quake and whatnot. There was also local play: Comet Busters, Liero, Molez, One Must Fall 2097, Wacky Wheels.

And the flash stuff! Salad Fingers, Strongbad, that thing with the cats singing Independent Women in a French accent. JeffK, Cliff Yablonski Hates You.

The drama fascinated me too: the TTLG forums and their colorful cast of characters, Digg 'selling out' and this new 'reddit' website, etc.

> One evening, when I'm not trolling HN at 1AM, I'll sit down and write how the early 2000s affected us all and set us up for today

I, for one, would very much like to read more articles like this submitted one about the history of the web, similar to the earlier posts here on the days of Ultima. It's far back enough in the past to be worth writing about (damn, makes me feel old) and yet I can't help but feel understanding those developments, or discussing them chronologically, will play an important role in understanding our current world. More, at least, than often superficial articles and theories about Trump/alt-right/Brexit/SJW that are written by people who did not experience what 'we' did.
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Terry Tao is also the author of the top answer, mind.
Once content has reached my computer, it is mine to do with as I wish and consume as I wish.

No, it isn't. That isn't how copyright law works, and it isn't how various business models work.
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I am as pro-capitalist as one can be (Ayn Rand admirer, work in prop trading), and I like the girl. She's beautiful, and should be left there.

I am not in favor of "patriarchate oppression" interpretation that everybody seems to invoke. She's confident, and she looks at the bull with genuine curiosity, not resentment. I think it sends the right message.
Great work thanks fir sharing!

One decision that I don't agree on is the choice to send messages in order.

I usually prefer to flood the client of messages and attach at each message a timestamp (a monotonic increasing integer) and having the client to re-order everything.

It is cheaper from the server point of view and the worked is done by the clients.

Are there any reason why you picked your specific solution?

Just a technical question, that I am very curious about. I guess that there are concerns that I am overlooking at the moment...
http://www.livetechexperiments.in/snapchat-got-new-filter-ca...
This is all over simplified to show the point.

Lets say you have a $100 stock with 100 shares outstanding.

The company can issue a dividend of $5 to all 100 shares costing $500. This results in a $95 share price and $5 of realized gain for each share.

The company could also buyback 5 shares at $100, also costing $500, and also increasing the share value. This is canceled though as the company loses approximately 5% of its value by spending that $500. The effect is that the share price is still worth $100, with each share now holding 5% more of the company than it did previously.
Kafka wasn't a problem at all. Actually, I was shocked how well kafka just worked. It did everything I expected it to do, exactly as advertised in the documentation. Well, except for how annoying it was to get it installed and working on ubuntu. I will definitely be using kafka in future projects.

I think all my technology choices worked out fine. I dumped server-sent events halfway through in favour of websockets because WS support binary packets. But that was a pretty easy change affecting at most 50 lines of code.

I still wish we had an efficient (native) solution for broadcasting an event sourcing log out to 100k+ browser clients, with catchup ('subscribe from kafka offset X'). Nodejs is handling the load better than I expected it to, but a native code solution would be screaming fast. It should be relatively simple to implement, too. Just, unless my google-fu is failing me I don't think anyone has done it yet.
Enforcing your wishes isn't Google's problem, but actively interfering in a commercial relationship between two other parties might be.
I'm saying that the poster is trivializing the "brain in the jar" argument by providing something just as overfitted. His argument is just as trivial. We are a mixture of timeless things and expiring things. So for sure, don't forget you're rotting flesh. But don't dismiss brain in the jar either.
One more datapoint for the cliff at 120. No supercentennials are able to pass that age...
The point is that he didn't have an incentive to approve such wide permissions at that point. They should have waited to ask permissions until that screen, or given more information as to why you should approve their request.

On iOS it's also pretty cumbersome to allow these things after disallowing them. You have to go into settings, find the privacy tab, go to the correct requirement and then find the app to toggle it on.

I agree it's not clear from this article alone, but I've read his previous publications and it comes up a lot.
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Where can one find a simple "Hello world" example of an app built upon Solid?
If you're male it's (effectively) impossible.

If you're female it looks like the oldest living person title is typically held for around a year[1]. Lets say that means 120 currently living people can hold the title, that gives you a 1 in 29 million[2] chance. Which feels far more likely than I would have intuitively guessed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people#Chronological_li...
[2] Or half the odds of a given ticket winning the lottery
So this is like zero net?
Hmm 15 hours ago. Could have been me! But clearly several people had this idea, too :)
How did women get stuck with pink?

Soldiers get yellow. Environment gets green. Anarchy gets black. Peace gets white. Coke gets red.

Poor women. Have to share the worst color with cancer.
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>That Quora post is pretty bad.

My favorite part was when it cited "natural security".
You think they're keeping logs of what sites people visit on their network?
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Yes, I am surprised by the lack of criticism by the community. Only see what is happy and awesome?
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Sometimes I want to take interns from minorities and teach them both technical skills and the network to get a job through the Internet.

Them I remember taking them as interns is part of the discrimination; and they'll be better promoted in physical companies where they can invoke anti-discrimination laws, rather than being only promoted by their skills.

Then remains those who are really discriminated against: Those who are neither protected by being good-looking nor by the laws, like the (short) author.

Pixels don't care, but next time you read statistics about how white people are paid more than average, remember which side this guy falls on, now that he succeeded. The strange world of statistics.
> Mainstream users could use such things so long as the UX was really, really good.

I'm not so sure. In my experience with encrypted chat apps with non-technical people, they completely ignore any kind of security in the key exchange. They'll give you their account number to get in touch but nothing to verify the key.

I don't see this changing in the near future or at all if fundamentals of public key systems aren't going to be a part of school curricula. I'm a bit sad that it's so poorly understood as public key cryptography has really changed the world in the past few decades (can you imagine going back to a world without online banking?). The key insight to understand is that cryptography can't establish trust, only maintain it.
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> Sorry to burst the bubble, but this is nonsense. If you don't want something to be downloaded, don't put it on-line.

Or lobby really hard to implement DRM into browsers and lock down all devices allowed to access internet right? :P
What I feel is awful is the lack of information stored against each update.

It's all just "security" or "reliability" and possibly a link to a KB which says the same.

Some large organisations still have stalwart IT managers who insist not to apply updates unless they know it affects a specific issue that they have. And now that this information is unpublished they apply nothing. It's lost on me how they keep their jobs.

Oh well.
No, but I still want to respect their rules. And they're in the room with me.
I am not sure why you talk about socialist system vs. Laissez-faire. Single payer doesn't mean socialist neither does private mean Laissez-faire. Those kind of oversimplifications doesn't really add anything useful to this discussion.

Switzerland has universal healthcare but it's based on private insurance. In other words it's not that simple.

In general I find this discussion hard to have because you are assuming so many things about what I say or mean, that simply aren't true.

I am not saying that a profit center is cheaper than a cost center I am saying that its able to make money which gives it flexibility.

The incentives that drives the US healthcare system are pretty shitty but they aren't incentives which are unique to a private system. On top of that in the public healthcare systems you see more and more new public management to hold down cost, which itself is expensive. But it's not something that's set in stone. It's not a property of the system it can be changed.

Changing the US healthcare system to patient outcomes incentives would do a lot to fix the incentives and there is an active program trying to do that.

And no it's not false that there are limits to a public healthcare system. Believe me I have lived in one and it doesn't only get realized by not doing certain treatments it also reflect in waiting time for operations, to see a specialist etc.

In Denmark if you go to the dermatologist you have to wait 3 week. In the US I went straight in.

In Denmark my biopsy had to be done at the hospital. In the US they made it right away at the dermatologist the same day.

With regards to drugs it's actually based on the cost, the rarity of the decease etc. I think it's in the UK where they have a list in order to prioritize.