skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the end, that kind of policy would hurt the US at a time when America needs more winners like Apple

How does it hurt the US if the policy is changed to remove tax on foreign earnings? Total change on inbound money = $0.

Frankly, screw Apple. They play fast and loose with tax law, and so what if other companies do it, it's not an excuse. Particularly given their target demographic. And here in Australia, Apple makes us pay proportionately more anyway; I'd rather that extra money go to the US citizens than Apple's $250B "let' not do anything with this" money. The US budget is in dire straits, and Apple could take a 35% haircut on its ready cash and not change its behaviour a jot. They could be doing so much with that money, from tangible Gates-style global philanthropy to re-investment a la Amazon. Nope, just throw it in a bucket and crowd around saying "ooh, that's a lot!"

The other big American 'winner' of this kind is Wal-mart. Amazingly explosive growth and armloads of cash, yet plenty of their employees rely on government food stamps to make ends meet. The US needs fewer of these kinds of 'winners', not more.
Pretty sure it was the university administration, not the student body, that said the Ann Coulter event wouldn't happen.

And I believe this happened because at previous events clashes between protestors on both sides, right and left (or all sides if you prefer) had turned violent. And since then the university has changed its decision.

Also I don't think we know that the protestors were students. Although it's reasonable to think that at least some of them might have been.

To me it's far more interesting to look at the Chinese students associations as a phenomenon with a longer history, predating the recent free speech brouhahas. The groups have been around since at least the early 1980s and are staffed by brainwashed zealots who were raised in a country where the official school curriculum teaches them things that are simply false (edit: as does ours too (US) but in China it is at an entirely different level), and media is tightly controlled to the point that journalists sometimes just disappear.

The liberals in the US are more in line with the thinking: "tolerate everything but intolerance," so you see them react strongly when intolerant people try to spread intolerance. It's hard for some people to wrap their head around the seemingly contradictory idea of not tolerating intolerance... you may be one of those people. But the Chinese folks are an entirely different thing, imho. They are complicated (due to national pride coupled with a huge chip on the shoulder from their history of getting surpassed in the last century) but suffice it to say they have a very rigid line of thinking about things they were force fed from an early age, and this goes way back.
>HandBrake needs to install additional codecs. Enter your password to allow this.

Interesting, the malware creates a phishing-ish popup.
How can you blame them? They're playing by the rules, the same rules their competitors play by (Google also uses the double Irish). In that context, isn't it far better to pay single digit interest rates on money when you're backstopping it with overseas cash rather than taking a 35% haircut to repatriate the same? Finally, what odds do you place on the one time transfer of $88B to the US government with a love note ACTUALLY resulting in a better quality of life for US citizens? It seems to me that regardless of regressive policies and hero projects like walls and Mars trips, monetary policy is still trying to get people and companies to reinvest to spur growth vs. sitting on savings.
> China has the right to take care of its national security, sure. But not at the expense of the right to self-determination of other nations.

How about the self-determination of the Meskwaki and Sioux nations? Do they have a say whether an oil pipeline gets run through their nations? The Meskwaki and Sioux are getting water cannons, pepper spray, dogs sicced on them. Americans talking about the "right to self-determination of other nations" is a farce.
That video is great. The multiple cursors GUI is a brilliant way to visualize a repetitive operation (i.e., one that often would be recorded and executed by macro). I was going to ask if anyone else implements it, but I thought I'd search first. Does anyone know more about it? Its origins? More functionality?

* Vim

https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors

* Atom (I'm not sure if it's the same functionality)

https://atom.io/packages/multi-cursor

https://www.lynda.com/Web-Development-tutorials/Selections-m...

* Sublime

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14963775/multiple-cursor...

EDIT: Well it seems like Sublime has had this feature since at least 2012. I suppose I should have considered text editors besides Vim, and I might have known sooner. I'll leave this post in case there are others as narrow-minded as I am ...
There are a number of things that make RISC-V different from OpenSPARC. One is that OpenSPARC is not a very scalable design, it could probably only ever work in servers and workstations, and workstations are essentially a monoculture.
Another reason is timing: manufacturing processes have effectively stopped yielding performance and power gains as the fundamental constraint (distance between components on chip) doesn't get any smaller. This means that in order to keep the pace up for any popular workload, many new microarchitectures will need to be created. RISC-V is amenable to a wide array of microarchitectural decisions, and doesn't carry the architectural baggage of ARM and MIPS licensing and technical quirks, or the impossible licensing of x86.

> But does anyone expect RISC-V to really go head-to-head with Xeon, Opteron, ThunderX, Centriq?

Except for Intel, none of these manufacturers have any reason to resist RISC-V. All of these vendors can directly port knowledge from one ISA to another. So really it becomes a matter of "will there be a demand for RISC-V hardware in the server and workstation markets?", and the answer to that is a firm "maybe".

I think that today, since most software is written in high level languages which are at least as abstract as C, there is little reason why a new ISA couldn't take hold in any of these markets if hardware vendors can promise good things to ISVs and to customers who write their own software.

At present, there is a considerable barrier to entry for new designers and manufacturers to approach ARM, POWER, and MIPS, and basically no hope of manufacturing an AMD64.
ARM is not the cuddly RISC architecture people think it is, it is in many ways nearly as quirky as x86, and therefore very expensive to enter and innovate on. Furthermore, it can take more than a year to negotiate an architectural license with ARM, your company or the market might no longer exist by the time you close the deal. POWER is not too far off on licensing, and it's not all that elegant either (though far more surmountable than ARM). MIPS lacks industry momentum and standardized high performance feature sets (wide vector compute, hardware security features), and its custodian company seems to barely acknowledge it exists.

All in all, nobody knows if it'll work out, but there are good reasons for RISC-V to succeed in the market. The challenges also seem surmountable.
Distribution costs perhaps (except for maybe CDN fees for extra traffic), but the flipside of 4x the users is extra support, server load, file storage space etc. which are real costs that a LOT of software businesses don't seem to factor in at an early stage.
$84 from K Software.
I spend more time on HN than on FB by a fair margin now. I probably need to start reigning it in... :P
I agree it's a separate issue, but if the reason is "these people aren't paying property taxes" then it's a much lower priority than reforming Prop 13.
This.

The article reads like a feel good story about helping the less fortunate, or something.

It would be great to personal success stories, from the words of the employees themselves.

Objective measures of performance and outcomes:

- pay increase %
- vacation increase days
- hours worked
- stress level
- level of claimed satisfaction
- $ spent per employee
- $'s returned per employee

That would be better than techno utopia propaganda from Stripe et el
With more producers, you get more competition, but LESS economy of scale, and for a product like this (with demand being limited initially), this was already a critical concern.
As I pointed out above. The medium is important because the spectrum is a public resource, and cable isn't.
This is probably a really dumb question, but... ELI5? I understood effectively none of that readme, and the web demos didn't really help, either.
The most important bit of the advice - change all your passwords in keychain.

To coin a phrase - oh shit
Before Facebook I recall that chat apps like AIM and MSN messenger were fairly popular. I actually found those useful, and could have fairly meaningful conversations on them. Even if I hadn't seen a person in years, I might have an ongoing and strong online friendship with them. On Facebook, though, this never seemed to happen and many old acquaintances started to feel like complete strangers.

I also recall that things like e-mail from friends was a lot more common. You know the type - you hadn't heard from someone in a few months and they send you a long e-mail just checking in and telling you about their life. And people would respond to you if you sent the same. A few years ago I stopped sending those types of e-mail out because people stopped responding to them. These days, it would be a genuine shock to get a "just checking in" e-mail from friends.

I feel like Facebook has encouraged connections to be vapid and shallow. As a result, I feel like I have far less meaningful connections with friends now than I had a decade ago.
I am not arguing for the status quo. The hostage-taking of immigrant workers through things like corporate linking in H-1B is a tragedy and shouldn't happen.

I would rather solve the day laborer issue by going after the employers. Some immigrants take these jobs because they have no other choice, but employers are the ones actually exploiting people.

My impression was that the post was referring to the "classical anti-immigration" arguments that have been debunked like "immigrants are stealing our jobs" or "immigrants cost us money".

I'm very much for a humane system of immigration, that is to say being able to come into a country without having to be an indentured servant, and having the same labor protections as citizens.

I think you'd find a lot of pro-immigration people to be for this as well. A lot of corporations lobby for things like H-1B increases because it's much easier to get than "overhaul the immigration system to just let us hire who we want".
Shopbot has a closed loop stepper on some models [1], but Tormach says they don't.[2] Tormach just has a big enough stepper and enough gear reduction to avoid missed steps by brute force.

[1] http://www.shopbottools.com/mProducts/ShopBotdesign.htm
[2] https://www.tormach.com/technical_questions.html
>So okay, then Apple Sales International should pay taxes on all of that IP licensing cash, right? Well Apple negotiated an agreement with Ireland such that all profits earned outside of Ireland are attributed to a "head office" that literally doesn't exist. So the only taxes that Apple Sales International pay are from sales in Ireland.

Why does it matter to New Zealand whether or not Apple pays taxes in Ireland?
You're describing my college tv antenna. Coax is cheap. An actual digital antenna is like... 50 ramen equivalents.
no car and hideakey for home

:)
A good reason to suggest that projects also keep screenshots on their GitHub repositories.
> there is no logical reason to not also price it 1000$ and it would have still sold almost the same

Maybe not. In my case, I was just out of school in the 80's and would never be able to have afforded a $1000+ compiler. When Turbo Pascal came out at that price point, I jumped on it. It was my chance to do some 'real' programming at a budget friendly price. Even IBM's Macro Assembler at that time was several hundred dollars.

I would credit Borland and providing the launchpad for thousands and thousands of students, hobbyists and amateur enthusiasts to start their programming careers, who never would have otherwise. My first program I sold for $$$ was written in Turbo Pascal.
Did not realize that was a thing, but the 'smile' that the girl in the top picture has looks absolutely fake to me. And for that, indeed, American. Something I do not know what betrays she does not mean it. And that is quite common when running into Americans, while if someone does that here, people indeed are suspicious. Not sure if the science behind this article explains why we think that, but cool to see there are people researching it. A lot of people I know equate that smile with plastic, fake and mcdonalds here (which is also amplified by unnaturally whitened teeth). Personally I always thought it is positivity: if you smile on the outside you feel better on the inside even if sometimes you do not mean it; that is a good thing and I try it when feeling down once in a while.
Those are the public ones.
More recent info at http://jmap.io
To be honest that's news to me I don't use tablets. I think potentially ios makes it seem less palatable to something like a MacBook air and I don't believe they are on par w/ a surface pro-- although you might be right about performance / convertibles but I'm not sure.

I see Apple maybe even killing iPad now the plus is released and just blending the air, MacBook, and iPad into 1 device.

I agree about the laptops, I had an i7 MacBook pro from 2011 and it was powerful; still competed w/ newer offerings. I sold it for $500 and built a i5 6500 hackintosh it's quirky of course but 33percent more powerful than the laptop and minus the screen it's on par w/ a 1999 iMac and including a Mac pro mouse and Mac keyboard it was about $560.

The laptops are not only disappointing; but I just can't even afford them
OK. I'll contribute. Where is the developer talking donations for this specific purpose?
I wish that this security incident would get more attention. It seems fundamentally unfair that some projects that are essentially volunteer labor get so much scrutiny, while Intel doing some so fundamentally asshole-ish gets mostly ignored.
I thought Windows 2000 was the peak of windows (anyways, it was my favorite version).
It takes very little reading to stay far more informed than the average person on current events if you set out to have that as your goal rather than just casually consuming information.

As for being a well informed citizen acting against injustice, I'd say there's a similar situation in that someone need not be very well read to find far more injustice than they're capable of acting on.

We live in a time of excess information yet have societal values that have developed throughout history when information was scarce. Passion, motivation, discipline and ethical principles are the things holding people back from being active, caring citizens of the planet not lack of information.
You don't have a pic or link to a design by any chance? Curious what they built and how it came out
Thank you for this! What a fantastic resource. This is going to hurt my wallet.
Mods didn't flag that post. As for 'SJW', when people accuse us of moderating HN ideologically their logic typically goes like this:

1. I agree with X.
2. An X was flagged.
3. Mods did it.
4. Mods are anti-X.

There's more than one non sequitur in that.
I feel like "I can reliably make the bug disappear by turning on my debug harness" is a reliable sign that things are about to get weird.
Also, let's not forget that the offshore pile of money has already been taxed in jurisdictions where it was earned. The world is slightly bigger than US. If Apple sells an iPhone in Germany it pays taxes in Germany. It is a bit silly to then send the money home and pay another huge tax on top of it!

Yes, I'm aware that thanks to various tax shenanigans the offshore tax bill might be artificially low. If that was the case though, Apple would've cheated local governments and not the US government.
So do you blame today's Dalai Lama for the alleged sacking of the capital of the Tang dynasty? You must believe in his reincarnation then? Because I don't think he was alive in the Tang dynasty... yet you give this as a reason for denouncing him.

And who would be doing this supposed invasion and coercion you mention? Nepal? Really?
If you want to try out JMAP on a provider that is not FastMail, you use a proxy:

https://proxy.jmap.io/

I've not seen it deployed anywhere else yet as a production thing, and I don't know how much progress has been made on standardisation of it, but it does seem to offer vast improvements over IMAP.
ARM is too license-encumbered. If we're going to switch away from x86, it might as well be to something that admits free development and production.
At what point does it become reasonable to conclude that strncmp, and every other string API that treats the pointer to the string and its length as separable variables, are too dangerous to be used in security-sensitive software? I feel like I've seen another vulnerability this week from someone sending the wrong length to a standard C string function.

If you want to fix this, there's no strict need to move away from C (not that I'd particularly encourage you to stay, but if you have some reason to prefer C, you can solve this in C). There are a number of C libraries that give you a struct string {char *ptr; int len;} of some sort, from bstring to GLib. And there's always C++, too.

What need does the Intel AMT firmware have for compatibility with POSIX string APIs? It's not running a POSIX OS, is it?
About 200 passwords in my case. Looking forward to going into work tomorrow and discussing whether I'm infected.
It discourages people from downsizing as empty nesters. It discourages landlords from remodeling/improving their property. It allows long time landowners to sit on underutilized properties for a long time, as they wait for prices to go up even higher, instead of nudging them to redevelop sooner.

The housing market has few properties on the market, which is part of a why prices are so high.
This too. For every one time it's the parent article, 99 times it's my code.
That's not exclusive to Google Mail. I have never noticed any regression in search since switching to Fastmail.
>I've found scientific literature and a number of very high quality bloggers to be a much more efficient source of reading material.

I have same sentiment as well. For me most books are of very low information density, and simply are not interesting.
Even books that meant to appeal to emotional side -- seem to be doing that very slowly ....
I may be wrong, but that seems like the only way to provide push notifications. I guess that's the trade-off.
That part seems sketchy, by sheer force of population size of China and India it's very likely that "Asian males" is the dominant demographics globally. "White males" might have a solid #2, but "Asian females" wouldn't be that far behind.
Talos failed because Raptor tried to sell a high-end server in desktop clothing when the market called for maybe a PowerBook at most. They needed to start smaller with something lower-power.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...

What I use.
Yes, that is crazy. Checking for match based on the length of the input. If input is "", that matches anything.
Does anyone who uses it in practice care to comment? I'm curious how it plays in actual use.
20,000-Year-Old Artifacts, 21st Century Technology
That distinction largely irrelevant in the context of how either is trying to interfere with freedom of speech on the campuses of American universities.

And the comparison is pretty obvious, because I can't think of any other countries that are doing something similar, at least on a noticeable scale (i.e. actually getting results they want).
While maybe not misery, I was certainly drawn into a stressful state of mind. I didn't get upset about about a luxury car or anything material, but demonstrations of copious free time did eat at me.

My schedule was completely full with kids, lots of work, and little down time for hobbies or relaxation. But I got into the groove and was reasonably content. Enter Facebook's feed with endless updates from friends on vacations, attending conferences, exotic work travel etc., and suddenly I start viewing my own lot in a shitty light. My rational assessment was that things were fine, but I just didn't feel very good about it. I quit FB cold turkey and within probably a month these feelings evaporated.

I don't think fragile is a good description. I think it's simply reacting. If the shared family photos you mentioned started having a lot of stuff that you didn't like, you'd probably choose to avoid it.
I was skeptical of audio books until I discovered WhisperSync with Kindle and Audible. This has definitely improved my reading pace and motivation.
"Technologies and Browser Requirements

This site uses a number of advanced (but open and standard) technologies, including HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. To use this project properly, you will need a modern browser that supports these technologies. The latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari are the best choices. The Internet Explorer and Edge browsers for Windows do not fully support the technologies used in this project.

Display of mathematical notation is handled by the open source MathJax project."

I've tried the interactive examples also in Safari Technology Preview and Firefox Developer Edition and work ok. :)
The SHA hash of the dmg file is useless. Who still keeps the dmg file? I need a way to verify the app itself is compromised.
But US Navy nuclear power school grads ("Nukes") are not typical veterans. I should know, I've been lucky enough to have had several as bosses and co-workers. They were first-rate and far too valuable to use as software developers. Their knowledge of naval matters was much more important.
I am curious as a total novice why chips and why now? As you said ARM is cheap. For price to performance I don't see why there aren't multi-motherboards coming out.

Someone made a 10 raspberry pi MoBo which if it is cost effective would be easier than a cluster. I think it would be awesome if that was scaleable but I am sure there is a reason. It would be cool and save space making a cluster out of 4 of those boards rather than 40 rPis
Code signing requires some verification that you are who you say you are in the real world so there is an additional cost.
Please don't post rants like this to HN, regardless of how wrong someone is. Especially not about nationalist politics.
Relevant article: http://makezine.com/2017/05/03/sifive-brings-open-source-to-...
Reason for Whatsapp outage?
Whatsapp with more than 1.2 billion users experienced a 2 hour outage on wednesday.

Many journalist, activist, etc. use this service and it's encrypted communication. Over the alternative of local mobile carrier text messaging.

Their explanation for the outage:
"Earlier today, WhatsApp users in all parts of the world were unable to access WhatsApp for a few hours. We have now fixed the issue and apologize for the inconvenience"

Anyone else have any info on the cause? Hacked? Genuine server issues? other?
Show HN: Rill – The Express style router for the browser
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Send a Message to North Korea Dictator Kim Jong-Un
Please don't post uncivilly or conduct flamewars on HN, regardless of how wrong someone is.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14278218 and marked it off-topic.
I used a previous version for a month. It was clunky, but functional. The font rendering had issues, though I understand that has improved in newer versions, which I have not tried.