skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the same thing at all. The one is a non-profit that had some additional commercial activity to finance it. The other is a multi-billion dollar company that avoids paying any taxes at all, as much as possible, to avoid doing their part for the economies and societies they profit from.

The one is using the law, the other is misusing loopholes.
I did the same, along with switching over to DuckDuckGo. Mobile web works fine when you block all the crap.
It goes both ways. If Thiel's money was necessary for Hogan to get justice, that is indeed a problem with the US legal system.

But, on the flipside, Thiel was financing numerous lawsuits against Gawker due to a personal vendetta, many of them much more frivolous and defensible than the Hogan case. He clearly intended to bury Gawker, the Hogan thing was just a way he found to do it quickly rather than waiting for their legal defense funds to run out.

Both of these are problems. What's troubling/chilling is that Thiel hasn't stopped, he's just agreed to finance other peoples' vendettas (in the first case, Shiva Ayyadurai, about whom Techdirt are telling the absolute verifiable truth when they say he's lying about inventing email). That's where it crossed the line, and created a dangerous precedent that has a real chilling effect.
+1 for Yuggoth!!!

Of course, if we name it that, we have to go looking for Fungi out there! ;-P
> will be vulnerable to all kinds of criminals as well.

But legal authorities would never abuse their power (without you even knowing about it, unlike in other cases of abuse).
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For macOS there still isn't a 64 bit compiler from Embarcadero. They promised it will come in a future release and then you can port your firemonkey (FMX) apps. But of course that will set you back a couple of thousand in upgrades and put you on an subscription model.
For several years I hoped that FMX would get mature, even ended up building a product with it. You must sit on their subscription model if you want updates/fixes and yes you need those as the (macOS) product has plenty of issues.

Meanwhile freepascal/Lazarus already has a 64 bit compiler and their LCL (like VCL) does have a cocoa (not mature) and carbon (mature) port. I'm sure it has its own issues, but at least it uses native controls, can compile to Linux desktop right now and doesn't cost an arm and a leg if you want a fix.

So yes, pascal is still awesome, not too sure on the commercial version where you don't get fixes unless you pay regularly (anecdote: I bought XE8, couldn't debug on latest macOS about 4 weeks later, that was never fixed in XE8, ended up debugging via an earlier OS X)
You can only ever sue a law/accounting firm for the total cost of services rendered to you in that year or whatever. Depends on the client agreement.

Even then it's always a grey area where it's advice that may or may not be what you should do and it depends on your decision, blah blah blah.
You are not supporting the software but bad practices resulting in fines and fees. But there's hoping a lesson was learned. It would be a shame if something like this damaged the product.
There is too much complacency and faith in our democracy in the UK. No one really believes a despot will get into power, despite it happening in recent history to similar european countries.
Well combining the for profit sales and accepting donations was a mistake. but to correct that mistake they are now setting up two entities, one for doing business and one for non-profit things. they are not deceiving anyone, if they do business they will do it with the entity which is intended to do business. They are not routing the profit to the non-profit organisation nor they are backing off in paying the taxes.
Cute idea, but I will eat a broom before this actually becomes reality.
Do you know how to give maintenance to your car, fix your sink, install an electrical switch, sharpen a blade and cook ?
Link to the product itself http://www.schematiq.com/

I don't see pricing, but major energy companies as customers, so I assume it's very expensive.
You know this argument might well work for Theresa May.
Hm, if web extensions become a standard, are they really even extensions? Isn't that just new web APIs with tweaked security parameters?

This is great for security and all, but browser extensions were borne out of the idea that you wanted your browser to do things that the browser vendor didn't want, or didn't even conceive of.

Having it be a standard adds security but strictly limits extensions to things the browser vendors explicitly did conceive of, and stamped their approval on -- sometimes literally, if you're going through a curated store. Is that a net win? I'm not sure.
Nice to see this here, thanks for sharing it cmsimike.

This was a labor of love/appreciation for me a couple of years ago over a Christmas break. I went through a retro gamedev period during that break, read a few books like Masters of Doom, and found myself trying to read through the various (relatively poor quality) electronic copies of the Black Book that were floating around. Yak shaving being what it is, I spent most of my Christmas break scraping and cleaning up a few different copies to put this together so I could (more comfortably) read it on my Kindle.

FWIW, these conversions were done with an eye for preserving an interesting piece of gaming/graphics programming history, and aren't really intended to be relevant today.

I also converted the Zen of Assembly Language also by Abrash[1], but it's considerably less relevant than the Black Book in general.

[1] https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-zen-of-asm
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There's a larger truth hidden in here: experts disagree. It was one of the things that took me by surprise when building Machine Learning systems, but it makes sense if you think about it. For all but the most trivial matters, it's the job of the expert to exercise personal judgement. It's why they're experts, not because they have a solid understanding of the "knowns", but because they have developed methods and intuitions about the "unknowns". Ask 10 different experts a complex question in their field of interest, and you'll likely get widely varying answers. My guess is that it also played a role in the early expert systems AI bust (AI winter). There are interesting papers published about this as well, e.g. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0951832007... the money shot is in this chart http://imgur.com/a/shaii but you'll see similar distributions everywhere where expert judgement is warranted.
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Dmitry is a freelancer who lives in Moscow, not an employee. For the kind of work Dmitry does, there is no VAT appliccable in Russia. If the Krita Foundation had been Russian, no VAT would have been applicable. There is no VAT ID on his invoices, but he does send invoices. He also keeps ownership over his work, and the Foundation doesn't tell him what to work on...

But since the Krita Foundation is in the Netherlands, the tax authorities feel that the VAT is transfered to the Foundation. Like I said below... If 100% of our income had been from donations, no VAT would have been transfered. If 100% had been from sales, it would have been transfered, and then we would have claimed it back. Since it's a mixed bag, 100% is transfered, and we could only claim 15% or so back.

I still don't understand the logic behind that, though...
If you can choose to make your vote public then you can be coerced to make it public.
That...
Also, I would try going to the local tax office. Maybe yours is a friendly one (I've been to both types) and you can get to speak with a your tax area local management. They might have enough knowledge and administrative power and help you out. Human to human protocol. Been there, done that, got a t-shirt.
>it is not responsible to announce such a dark diagnosis without certainty

I think that's the crux of the discussion here. For many of us, we're going to find out it's a possibility anyway, so what's the point of the doctor not acknowledging it? Actively witholding information just adds to the anxiety. Not asking for an early diagnosis, just a frank discussion about the possibilities.
It seems you didn't actually read (or understand) the post: The problem is that - until now - they DIDN'T split it in two, so currently the tax authorities say "you are some kind of mix between company and non-profit, we do whatever we want with you" (obviously simplified, read the post!). But at least they gave them a suggestion for the FUTURE: Split up, you will have no more problems.

So, there is no intention to deceive, just a simple misunderstanding which leads to very grave problems (as usual when taxes are involved and you are small).
The tax authorities in the UK (at least) would prefer that charities set up trading subsidiaries for commercial activities. Although there are rules for handling trading through charitable books, everything is much cleaner if the two entities are taxed separately and the profits of the commercial activities paid on from the subsidiary to the charitable parent.

So it seems very unlikely that it's an attempt to deceive. If Dmitri isn't involved in the merchandising, it seems that this structure reflects the proper intention of the tax system.
I have no problem, in principle, with the prevent strategy. If impressionable children are at risk of being brainwashed into a dangerous ideology, then the state should step in, just as it does with any other form of abuse.

Hasn't "pre-crime" always been a part of policing, in the form of intelligence gathering and crime prevention?

My main concern is schools, and (increasingly) the police acting irrationally and disproportionately.
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If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.
> She wants to institute pervasive spying (targeted spying can be achieved by individually planting hardware backdoors, or simply recording the suspect entering their password).

I can see targetted spying is possible today. It sounds like she wants targeted spying to be cheaper, and restricted by the judicial system.

> But pointing out the harms of pervasive spying is a weak argument, because she didn't deny (or even address) those harms?

The argument I replied to wasn't pointing out the harms of pervasive spying. Nor was your argument.

"If she wants law enforcement to be able to see other's metadata, she should expose her metadata" is weak. We needn't waste time with that.

There are stronger arguments, such as asserting our right to privacy, or perhaps that it isn't technically possible without critically compromising encryption for everybody.
You say bad practices, but they got advice from a registered qualified professional in a complex area of tax law.
>Say what you will but this is simply fraud. If they were selling stuff, they should've collected and paid the VAT for Dmitry. You are NOT a non-profit if you sell stuff.

Non-profits sell stuff all the time, and whether you are exempt from VAT or not for that depends on the jurisdiction and even within a single country can have several subtleties.

>There is absolutely no complexity about this.

Oh yes, there is. Here's how an expert puts it: "Sadly not. Charity VAT is one of the more complicated areas of VAT, which is a great shame given that many charities are operated by unpaid volunteers who have to administer the complex rules." [1]

>Didn't they see anything wrong with selling stuff without collecting the VAT from every transaction?

Why would they? It's not like they pocketed anything -- the VAT that was not collected was not imposed into the salary in the first place. Besides, they are volunteers running a non-profit, and had asked a consultancy, not seasoned merchants.

>And the best part: they are now separating the sales from the foundation so they can avoid paying taxes. This is the kind of stuff HN abhors... ooops it's not Amazon, it's Krita! Then let's allow it!!!

Because a small open source foundation giving its product for free and largely based on volunteer work (with the occasional donation funding only part of what needs to be done) that has stumped upon a tax issue due to inexperience is the same as a global behemoth looking to avoid taxes.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/dec/15/charities-ta...
I wonder how subtle changes to the way the game is framed may alter what people write.
That's why, I suspect, this type of esophageal cancer usually has such a grim prognosis. It mimics symptoms you already have, so you ignore it until it's too late.

In my case, the pain was worse than usual, though I didn't consciously note that. What did happen is that I was eating less because of it, so I had unexplained weight loss. That caused me to see the doctor.
Just what I wanted, been looking at bulma/flexbox and bootstap which are great but not small/clean/simple enough - thanks!
Tends to be something more mature developers are better suited to; though there might be higher salary expectations.
Not sure what you mean by this, but this (like most modern web standards, and I'm not even sure of the modern part) is just documenting what the implementations are already doing.

Mozilla and Microsoft are specifically re-implementing the Chrome Extensions API, and documenting it.
> If you keep the TLS connection open, sending an HTTP request is very fast. Waiting for the roundtrips of that chatter reduces the throughput, especially on higher latency links.

I agree that for a high load of sending email it can be beneficial to use an intermediate service. IMO a local sendmail is still preferred, but I see your point.

However, the Mailit service makes the client wait on the SMTP traffic too [1]. So with this particular service you now have to wait for both SMTP /and/ HTTP communication. Doesn't really speed thinks up :)

[1] https://github.com/dthree/mailit/blob/master/src/routes.js#L...
"Wanton or Furious riding" is also an offence.
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> good old CAP theorem.

Sat in on a candidate interview recently whereby I heard the news that the blockchain "invalidates CAP". Not sure if it will also cure cancer.
Two 'cool' objectives:

1. A build-system that does algorithm parameter tuning for me -- so I can incrementally improve the parameters overnight every night -- this is pretty much in place already -- just missing a motivating application to take it through the final few yards.

2. The ability to do NLP on requirements - initially for "linting" the requirements to encourage conformance to the sort of restricted natural language e.g. of the sort evangelised by Chris Rupp, but eventually to build a much more sophisticated understanding of the relationship between low level requirements and low level design (code).

https://www.sophist.de/fileadmin/SOPHIST/Puplikationen/re6/K...
Let's be devil's advocate for a second. The UK's speed cameras are brightly coloured, so there is an intention for them not to be traps - that is, they would prefer road users didn't speed. You cannot seriously argue that they are trying to sneakily catch people.

If you get caught speeding by a speed trap which wasn't so visible, it is still your own fault and no-one else's. Either you are in control of your own vehicle's speed, in which case you are to blame, or you are not in control of it - which is even worse.

Speed, or do not. Just don't go crying about it and blaming others when you get caught.
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>I've known people desperate enough to start selling that crap (as well as others-their friends-that have to buy it just due to friendship), so please stop spreading MLM scams.

They offer 100% buyback for distributors for unopened products and they stopped lead generation completely 4 years ago. So, their distributors are no different from what cell phone carriers are to Apple.

>They either sell snake oil products, or protein shakes that are 10x cheaper at Costco.

Kinda like Apple then?

>I've got the feeling this thread is full of people that drank the BS koolaid of herbalife.

Or the other way around?
>thanks for the mental image of clown-terrorists

Have you not seen Four Lions?
It is controversial. For example, Gmail old design was much better for me than current white design which makes much harder to read for me.
No it's not possible. If you provide any way for an individual to verify their own vote, then they can be coerced to provide the same proof to someone else.

In this case the coercer would just force the voter to give them their string after they vote. Now they could theoretically lie, but they'd have to be able to give a valid string that matches the preferred vote of the coercer, and that no one else has already given them. This is sufficiently hard to arrange that at least some people will not be able to do so.
The native Windows COM part is still good, you can create your own controls very fast and integrate it with other Windows programming languages easily.

That part certainly has improved since Delphi 7.
As a person who grew up in Britain and now live in Sweden in cities with a comparable population size, I disagree.

London is an exception when it comes to the UK, there is a lot more investment in public services and it's not a true representation of Britain due to its multicultural component.
Since there's a sprinkling of negative feedback I'll say something positive. Usually when I see something like this pop up it still looks horrible or does something rediculously glitchy instantly on a mobile phone when all I wanted to see was a table or a form and this looked great on a mobile phone. I used skeleton when I hated making CSS pretty in college and I probably would have dropped this in instead. I like to say I'm a minimalist when it comes to CSS and JavaScript but then I have to think about other employees and the garbage they can produce when not contained.
> SMTP really is a very simple protocol, that's matured for decades now. Also it is fully specified by RFCs.

So simple and so mature it needs an RFC.

I'll take the http API I can figure out in 10 seconds because I make API requests all day over some ancient tech I don't even want to begin to understand.

Does that make me lazy and a shit developer? Probably. Do I care. Definitely not.
I think you meant to say it's not necessarily
illegal. It's a scam in any case because the products don't do what the people buying them are lead to believe they do and the distributor opportunities aren't the oppotunity the people buying into them are lead to believe.
Wait, is this a recent article? If so, this is a really great attempt at humor:

"My colleague told me to abandon Delphi, it’s obsolete, Silverlight is the future.”
That's for US law, unrelated to this case.
> I think GP's point is the warrant isn't needed.

GP?

> Whether [...] you are simply pointing out that those in authority have a default duty/right to an individual's private conversations

Certainly not. Whether they do ought to should be decided by society and its representatives via the legislature.
As a chrome extension developer I really like this. Previously I didn't develop extensions for other browsers because I would have to learn another ecosystem. Now it could be pretty simple to do.

I also like that all of the asynchronous API calls are returning Promises. Chrome API is still using callbacks. This also means that some time will pass while this is even added to chrome. I expect that there will be a polyfill library that translates the new API calls to legacy browser API calls.
I hope the new design will not become mandatory. Currently I am on the old design. New is too white for me.
Read the book The wolf of the wall street. It is quite entertaining and describes the pump-and-dump scheme really well:

https://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Wall-Street-Jordan-Belfort/dp/05...
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It's the running costs. If you want to make a lot of the same part and need a 5 axis mill, they have to be operated by technicians which are extremely expensive and they can't work on anything else.

Make a lot of parts on a printer and you spend a little more time designing the part and time to tune the settings (which might be done depending on the material you use) and you're off and printing and just paying for print time. Not cheap, but cheaper than paying techs at mid-scale.
They think you should pay VAT on imported services? That sounds very fishy to me. I've never heard of such a thing (and I have been exporting into the EU for many years).
Getting accounting correct in this kind of situation is just very hard, and sometimes people get it wrong even with due diligence and advice from trained professionals in the field.

Saying this is "supporting bad practices" when they are addressing the problems with their set up is IMHO disingenuous.

(This kind of problem also illustrates why Mozilla is set up the way it is, with a Foundation and a Corporation. Tax Law doesn't always deal well with doing both in the same org.)
EU bank transfers are free of charge.
> Oh yes, there is. Here's how an expert puts it: "Sadly not. Charity VAT is one of the more complicated areas of VAT, which is a great shame given that many charities are operated by unpaid volunteers who have to administer the complex rules." [1]

And then add the complexity of an international situtation...
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There's some info here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once_read_many#Current_W...
"Do large law/accountancy firms give a guarantee for their advice in the case that it was incorrect?"

Do you give a guarantee on your code, including damages?
Boudewijn Rempt replied elsewhere in this thread with a little more details [1]. After reading this, I don't think the fines are based on bad practices by Krita, but rather on the over-complicated Dutch tax system.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14899324
For the uninitiated: how long before we can expect the results of this research to be used in mainstream products?
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I don't get it. Isn't Dmitry the guy responsible for paying the VAT for the Dutch authorities?
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I've seen the Tesla Model X can tow horses, camping trailers, cars and boats without breaking a sweat. The power consumption naturally goes up and towing something heavy for hundreds of kilometers is problematic if you're going outside the Tesla supercharger network.

The X is quite expensive, though. Hopefully there will be more affordable models coming to market over the next few years. But the technology to build a SUV capable of towing several tons is already here.

Quite a few cities will likely ban diesel driven cars from entering the city core at some point in the near future and this will to a certain extent obviate diesel powered cars.
There is an online package manager and a docking IDE package (if you are into single window IDEs) in the latest Lazarus 1.8rc3, so they are slowly getting there.
Yeah, I see, I didn't mean to say it was intentional.
> you come back from the polls with the string that says you voted X

How would the criminals know what the unique string would be for a particular vote?
It compiles to just about any platform you can come up with.
You can build a GUI app for any platform and backend without having to change a lot of code.

Builds to Linux, ARM/x86/x64, macOS, iOS, android, Windows, freeBSD and I'm sure I'm missing a few.