skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These folks already paid their fair share of income and sales taxes

That would only matter had they chosen not to incorporate, once they do (or buy into it), then they should accept the rules, warts and all. As you said, a corporation is a purely legal notion with upsides (limited liability) and downsides (pay the bloody taxes, c'mon)
Looks pretty hacked to me!
OP means custom launcher.
To be 100% fair you should recognize that Wei Dai was very close.
Let me first say ... IANAL. That being said this (like most legal language) is a broad as possible and by design. Having spoken with Verizon (Wholesale, Wireless and Edgecast teams) there seems to be a consensus that models that limit their (the telecoms) transit costs are encouraged and there's a number[1][2] of commercial examples where thats the case. Indeed - their own CDN offerings don't (yet) have the economics (today) to support more distributed caches, so something like this which is lightweight and requires no DNS/infrastructure changes is interesting. A place where this is getting a lot of discussion is where we'd least expect it: on the LTE networks. Since there isn't yet[3] a solution for mobile peering there's a lot of discussion around solutions to run low cost, light weight caches _inside_ the Radio Area network.

[1] Xbox One | https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/wed.general.palmer...
[2] Spotify | https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web-P...
[3] http://datacenterfrontier.com/vapor-io-teams-with-tower-tita...
I'm not sure what you're asking for specifically. For signals like the ones in the linked article, there's no way to observe them without a giant dish. Lots of antennas don't do anything for the problem when the noise is many orders of magnitude higher than the signal.
> why on earth do you build chemicals plant that have a risk to explode near habitations ?!!

At least part of the answer -- at least, here in Texas -- is "because you can." Lax or nonexistent zoning laws have long exacerbated damage caused by industrial accidents, a posture state lawmakers continue to defend because it is seen as "pro-business." [1]

It seems to me this is simply socializing the externalities of running, say, a fertilizer or organic peroxide plant, but that seems to be an unpopular view statewide.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/us/after-plant-explosion-t...
There are so many different kinds of hacks that I feel the title should say "defaced" rather than "hacked".
Start at the very beginning:

"State and local officials in Iowa have been working hard to rationalize their handout of more than $208 million in tax benefits to Apple"

That sentenced is aimed to make it sound like the state is giving $208 million to Apple. That is false. If Apple is going to pay $300M in taxes to Iowa, then the state is getting $100M by having Apple come, and $0 if Apple goes to another state.

"These corporate handouts might make sense if they spurred economic growth. They don’t."

First, that sounds overly confident. And then to support it the author cites two cherry-picked articles.

"Unless that expansion occurs...Apple is guaranteed to contribute only one-fifth as much as people were led to believe."

Okay, where's your spreadsheet modeling the probability of the expansion occurring? Because if it's 80% likelihood, then the $100M figure is accurate.

I don't say I disagree with the author's main claim that the system is flawed in that we have lots of government entities having to negotiate individually with bigger companies (I'd prefer a simpler tax system across the board in general), I'm just saying in this particular case the author has provided no detailed numerical justification why he is right, which leads me to believe he is in fact, likely wrong.
Are you in the US? I think you should be an employee instead.
Still hacked for me, even checked with wget.
That's some false dilemma nonsense. There are ranges of corporate pandering from the left, anywhere from near 0 to almost entirely. Part of the problem is you have to buy elections for the most part, and in order to do that you have to make promises.

We have a broken system and refusing to play the game may get you a Senatorship in Vermont, but not much else.
Joseph Polchinski: Memories of a Theoretical Physicist
I'm certainly no expert

My back of napkin math says they are $48k short per household.

But ya, Harvey would have been devastating regardless of past insurance policy pricing.
My Nexus 5 has served me well for many years without incident. My next phone will be a Pixel 2.
Entrepreneurs Exploit Errors in Conventional Wisdom
We've documented it here [1] and also put an example footer implementation on our homepage[2] as well. Thanks for the feedback!

[1] https://edgemesh.com/docs/getting-started/opt-out
[2] https://edgemesh.com
I envision a panel of emoticons akin to the Facebook reaction set, but where the user can select as many as they want to quickly convey different combinations of their reactions:

(thumbs up) I liked this
(heart) I loved this
(thumbs down) I didn’t like this
(smiling face) This made me happy or satisfied
(frowning face) This made me sad or disappointed
(surprised face) This made me surprised or impressed
(angry face) This made me angry or frustrated

Of course, it gets complicated. Did Sam U. Zerr give that product an (angry face) because they used it and didn’t like it, or because they’re offended that you would recommend it, or what?

If you’re only using icons to make recommendations to an individual user based on their own history, maybe you don’t need to infer the actual meanings; you can add all sorts of icons without any particular meaning and just make recommendations by correlation:

(thinking face) I’m considering this / I’m confused by or dubious of this
(gear) This was useful / this made me think
(fire) This album was great / this sauce was spicy
(heart eyes) I really want this / this is adorable
...

E.g. a recommendation for me might be “(thumbs up)(gear)(heart eyes)” because some product or content is similar, by some hidden metrics, to other things that I’ve reacted to in those ways.

Just brainstorming here. There are obviously many possible approaches in this space.
Four excerpts on how entrepreneurs exploit errors in conventional wisdom. The first two are from a Feb-8-2001 public forum that was part of BusinessWeek’s “Captains of Industry” series, where Oracle Corp. CEO Lawrence J. Ellison sat down with Editor-in-Chief Stephen B. Shepard. The last two are from Peter Thiel’s CS183 class lecture on secrets.
An Argument for Why Windows Will Go Open Source
If you mind answering me this, I'm having a hard time figuring it out myself: Will the GDPR mean I'll finally be able to completely delete myself from Facebook?
You might be interested in reading this 2015 piece in The New Yorker about Headspace's founder (if you haven't read it already): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/06/the-higher-lif...
You're missing my point. Painting a $20M donation as pure profit is misleading if it ends up costing 99% of that to get the donation. Yes, in absolute terms, there was a net benefit, but in your own words: don't pretend you don't understand the difference.
The Worst Nightmare of Any Product Manager
> On 17 July, the DoJ served a website-hosting company, DreamHost, with a search warrant for every piece of information it possessed that was related to a website that was used to coordinate protests during Donald Trump’s inauguration.

And by coordinating protests they mean coordinating riots because I remember broken glass (including like say from bus stops, because Trump will be waiting for the bus to go to work in the morning, so it makes sense to break those), fires, including destroying a limo of an immigrant business owner, fireworks etc.

It would have helped they had checked DC laws as the District has pretty strict laws against either rioting or inciting / organizing one. And if property damages are above $5000 the charges get very steep - felonies, up to 10 year imprisonment, etc.

https://beta.code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/sections/22-1...
Manna (scifi by Marshall Brain) (2003)
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15132887
Much simpler semantics with much more powerful features, should we add. Because simpler here doesn't mean "dumber" in any way.
Cutting services is awful and harmful but it's not dangerous in the same way that using heavily armed police as emergency tax collectors is. It's bad but the depressingly stable self-perpetuating kind of bad, not the unstable riot-causing kind of bad.
The Accidental Elitist: Academia is too important to be left to academics
Thanks for submitting this 4 hours before everyone else.
https://www.aicas.com/cms/en/JamaicaVM

There are/were a couple others, but the customer base is very... exclusive
Angular 4 and Sibling Component Interaction
What's that have to do with the price of tea in China?
I think you mean dike. You may still be able to edit it.
Augmented Reality: Apple Human Interface Guidelines
ghshepard, true. The article focused on seawalls and surges, but still managed to get the damage correct: 600,000 residents effected, $100 Billion in damage, 145 mph winds. Regardless, knowing the effects of the storm -shown through the simulation - there could have been a plan for the ensuing catastrophe, e.g. evacuating the city, relief efforts; which seem ad hoc.
Portland is much nicer place to life than Vancouver. And the business is located in Portland, so profits are still subject to OR taxes.
The EU just fined Google €2.42 billion in an antitrust settlement for manipulating search results.

Go get the salt.
insufficient.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/21/fbi-cr...
Americans Spend More on Taxes Than Food and Clothing Combined [pdf]
https://myaccount.google.com/
in Texas zoning is left to the cities if they choose to even have zoning laws. If you don't want to live next to a fertilizer plant live in an incorporated city where that isn't allowed.
When I was considering Tidal vs. Spotify in the past, I ran across the ABX tests here:

http://abx.digitalfeed.net/list.html

Pretty much found the same thing for myself at 256+.
Seems normal for me, can click around, seems entirely functional. Adding a query parameter to the URL changes nothing. This suggests it's not a cache.

Perhaps there is a server rotation (by client IP) and only one such server was hacked.
Sounds undemocratic.
The only way to prove something is not shitty is to release a monopoly and let other players show themselves in a fair competition. We'll wait for cross-platform assembler to be supported on every toster and see how long js can stand his 'beauty'.
It always saddens me to remember that with the arrival of electricity & technology we've truly lost the fascinating view of the cloudless night sky. I assume that in 15th century Korea it was much easier to notice changes in the night sky than it would be today.

(edit: typo)
Does it say they can't nag users relentlessly until they click 'accept'?
To add to that, the desktop site works* with javascript disabled, is faster that way, and has much fewer ads, but the mobile site doesn't even load under that condition.

Edit: * - works in a read-only sense, you have to turn JS on to comment or expand comments.
ImageNet is a manually-annotated database to train models. Google had the Image Search corpus internally too.

The advances in image and speech recognition of these times are due to innovations in deep learning by Google, Microsoft, NVidia, Stanford, U. Toronto, CMU, and many others. I didn't mean to imply it was all Google's doing. Rather that Apple wasn't there, which is why "just waiting for it to become feasible" sounds like apologetics.

Then there's also innovation in making a product out of the new capabilities, or integrating them into an existing product. I think dismissing that as "everybody was just waiting for the technology" is not realizing that, in hindsight, all products look obvious.
yes most modern switches also can do routing but that's not the setup the above poster mentions. a dumb unmanaged switch doesn't even look at IP
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15136775.
I'm sorry that nobody else in this thread seems to understand the meaning of the words "largely ruled out".

I also would like to know why that is. Not saying it's aliens just saying I'd like to know the reasoning.
Instant +100% command line productivity boost
Appealing to authority isn't a valid argument.

Brendan and I have had many discussions about the nature of threading in JS.

The reality is that to get high performance in JS on modern (and future afaict) is that JS will need to have some lower cost threading mechanism than that provided by workers.

If you read the article you'll see that there isn't any way to mismatch lock/unlock.

The other massive footgun is the for whatever reason people insist on creating standard libraries that are not thread safe (collections, apparently bigint in java?). JS is never going to have completely undefined behavior, but non-determinism already exists.

Is concurrent code easier to screw up than single thread? yes. Is that cost enough to discount the possibility of ever having threads? I don't know. The article goes one way, you clearly go the other.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15099092

Nothing new here.
Let’s Talk About Storage/Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Databases [pdf]
Ask HN: How do I track movements of group members on one map?
It's not all or nothing, it's a continuum. Decisions about city planning can make things better or worse. There were things done wrong that made it worse.

For example, building homes in a reservoir [1] seems like an obvious bad idea. Do you really want to defend that?

[1] https://plus.google.com/+BrianSlesinsky/posts/GwxF2yM3QmC
> How many companies didn't choose to write their app in c# simply because a customer might not have the runtime installed?

More than enough to make a difference against Java.
You say "rather" as if there are only two possible alternatives, flavours of the same thing.
https://qz.com/1053957/charlottesville-neo-nazis-and-the-cas...

I think this article is a good encapsulation of the progressive ambivalence on free speech, which has provided a rationale for violence against speakers like Charles Murray (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/middleb...), the violent protests that have followed Milo Yiannopoulos, and "safe spaces" on college campuses.
The Linux Graphics Stack (2012)
Not the parent comment, but my Nexus 5 power button got stuck and bootlooped my phone.

Replaced the motherboard myself, a year later, same issue.

Bummed about it because otherwise it's a good phone at a great price. Only thing I complain about other than that is how terrible the camera is, but for a cheap phone that's a few years old, it's unfair to compare to today's devices.
I totally agree with you about Solidity.

If you're interested in developing a better language for smart contracts, check out Viper (https://github.com/ethereum/viper). Although development is kind of slow right now because Vitalik is the only one who merges pull requests.
"One the one hand" - do these publications proofread their stuff?
Most manufactures don't update their phones to newer version of Android anyway. I think Google should bite the bullet and upgrade to the newer kernal or atleast inform now that the next year Android will be on the latest kernal so hardware manfacturers should upstreaming their patches.
Rachel Maddow has been reporting on this last night and again tonight. More info here: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/harvey-damaged-arke...
v interesting, from another article:

> The insurance must be bought by homeowners with federally-backed mortgages living in the most vulnerable areas, called Special Flood Hazard Zones. ... People in those areas and near them have complained for years that the premiums are too high, though they would be much higher still if not subsidized by the federal government.

So on one hand the subsidies were way too much, on the other hand it's still not enough for more (than a handful of) people to afford it.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/30/about-80-percent-of-hurrican...
I wish there was some more color to the actual character of these fast radio bursts. There's not much to go on, given the nearly absent qualitative descriptions of what they are.

According to wikipedia, these are millisecond events, with no indication of any kind of embedded signal or carrier waveform, so I think the phrasing of the term as a "burst" described as "fast" is misleading and confuses a lot of people.

These seem more like strobes or flashes of light, than anything else. But to outsiders, the word burst sounds like packets of data, and "fast" hints at broadband network speed, so people jump to thinking about aliens.

It sounds like these are just blinking flashes in the radio region of the EM spectrum, even if that's a strange wavelength to find isolated flashes in. Seems like people are running wild with their imagination.
California initiative would legalize psychedelic mushrooms
Sorry if this has been mentioned, but it would be worth having a link back to your main website from Medium. I've hunted around and finally had to reach for my URL bar to get to your product landing page.
It does in most situations. For instance Facebook is free but Facebook still sells into the European markets and through that it triggers. Through either VAT registrations, B2B sales or any PE registration GDPR becomes a requirement.
Call of duty multiplayer epic fail
A large corporation like Apple getting a tax cut allows Apple to pay the relocation costs of engineers and other employees. Those sames engineers are putting off children to later or not having them at all. A group that also switches jobs frequently.

So long as Apple has some trendy locations people will be happy to work there and the schools won't even be a consideration for most.
I need to move to europe.
I'm not sure I trust that team at all.

Quite frankly, I think Etherium is a shameless powergrab by a bunch of folks who's sole positive contribution to the medium is growing it.

It's a tribute to the essentially unskilled & uninformed investors and inventors in many parts of the blockchain ecosystem that Eth has been allowed to grow at all. It's a great idea for the owners of Eth and a terrible idea for everyone, everyone, EVERYONE else (except maybe certain classes of miners).

I've got 0 interest in contributing my time to a system that will only be used to extract wealth from other people's good ideas while simultaneously welding them to a release calendar that keeps them at the back of the pack of blockchain software. If I wanted to pitch in with that, zcash is way more competent anyways.

You don't standardize to a platform at the beginning of a boom. You standardize to protocols. And that is, by the way, exactly what every competent programmer is doing; standardizing on the protocols laid out by bitcoin as they develop their own chains and experiment with new, cheaper ways to sustain a digital currency.
> Iowa isn't "giving money." It does not have the additional revenue before Apple arrives, thus, it can't give anyone those revenues.

That's incorrect.

The question is does the apple datacenter consume more of the state's resources in dollars than the state gets back in taxes? Services provided by the state and county include regulatory, legal, educational, emergency and safety, transportation, etc.

Then there's the cost of the environment, e.g. do they cause an increase in pollution due to their increased use of electricity?

So while I would say that it's unlikely they would cost more than the taxes they would pay, it's not guaranteed either. So yes, they could in fact be "giving money" away.
There are still several dark sky preserves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark-sky_preserve) in the world, where the view will be just as good as 15th Century Korea.

Having spend several nights around Tekapo, which is one of the largest in the world. I would definitely say that it's worth trying to spend a night in one. The view of the night sky is stunning. You can see the Milky Way with the naked eye, and the sheer number of stars is magnificent.
The EU can exert as much force as it likes on any assets within the EU and as exmicrosoldier pointed out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15137258), Google and Facebook have many of their assets outside the US to avoid the taxes incurred by repatriation.

A very real possibility is that Google/Facebook will have these choices:

- Comply with GDPR.

- Shut down business in Europe entirely and eventually be forced to repatriate offshore assets and incur the relevant taxes.

- Continue business in Europe, ignore the GDPR and pay a fine of 4% worldwide revenue.

- Continue business in Europe, ignore the GDPR, don't pay the fine, have all European assets frozen.

That's ignoring the possibility that the EU may be able to reach their US assets as well.
It may be that multinationals long ago exceeded soveign states as dominant political powers. As in the days of the East India Company.

So it's not a question of reigning them in, that horse has bolted.
Yes, something like that. It doesn't do multilateration yet. But processes ADS-B and Mode-S messages.
The thing with terrorists is that they tend to announce it when they do something, otherwise it's a bit pointless.
Not just lost the view through light pollution but found loads of other bright things to stare at once the sun is down. I agree it's quite sad.
Do you mean like the square kilometer array? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array
I found the same problem also exists for the end users who are sometimes using apps that don't support custom hostnames but they still want a brandable domain for it.

So I recently made https://www.ManagedAlias.com/ as an experiment to see if there is demand.

I avoided the bulk/business route because you essentially have to be a CDN to pull that off (since you are doing the TLS termination).

This is just geared towards non-technical people who need a pretty name for a site without fuss and they don't want to mess with anything technical.
You know this is Iowa, right? The farmers are a powerful political force there.
And it was pulled... what kind of click bait was this?!
It is a continuum, and we are way to the right on a log scale in terms of event intensity.

I agree we can do certain things like require people to have flood insurance.

Neat reference, but you are misquoting it. The homes are not built in a resevoir. They are built in a 100 year flood plain artificially created by earthen dams designed to protect the city.
Probably Qualcomm, but that's only because Intel's attempts were so pathetic (StrongArm and mobile Atoms?)
In true HN fashion, I'm sure this is a great chance for some plucky startup to 'disrupt' the market.
While convenience store food in Japan is far superior to convenience store food pretty much anywhere else in the world (except maybe Thailand!), it's actually somewhat expensive and not as good as what you'd get in Japanese fast food chains. For example, a convenience store gyudon (beef bowl) costs more and is less tasty that Yoshinoya's standard Y300 gyudon.
There were protests, and there were riots. The majority of people were protesting peacefully, not rioting. And the website was coordinating protests, not riots. So, unless there's any evidence that riots were pre-planned by the organizers...
It sounds like it's in a container, so it will likely explode when it burns. I wonder if they have some kind of pressure release system for those.
Billions and Billions Served >= 4,000,000,000 Served
Thank you! We just added a navigation element to get you back to the home page. Can't believe that hasn't been there all this time!