skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually quite pro europe, but the insidious influence of the French in particular and, to a geat extent in other ways, the Germans, over their desire for economic imperialistic dominion (now enriched tenfold with GB no longer party to anything going on) is a problem.

Ireland is a very small country with no natural resources. Its way of participating in the EU's drive for growth was the nation's economic policy and its well educated population as a base for American companies to bridge into Europe.

France clearly is bent out of shape because if other EU members can survive without gouging business, citizens et al with incredible levels of punitive taxation, then they can't continue their own shakedown forever without seeing business flight. Sooner or later they will have to relent and reduce their own taxes.

Same with the pursuit of Google, MS, Facebook et al. by Eurocrats with open portfolios.

Its an old fashioned shake down by the biggest self protecting bureaucracy outside of China. In my opinion.
I think the dangers are even more real present than you allude. The idea that social networks and search engines are deciding what media we consume is already a form of AI, and it's already causing real harm.

Case-in-point: just yesterday an innocent man was falsely labeled a mass murderer on 4chan and those threads were surfaced on the top of google search results and on facebook.
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Not enough.

A 250M fine is almost a joke. Companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc, save Billions of dollars every single year by setting up "creative" tax schemes.

A 250M fine is almost an incentive to keep doing it.
It sets a precedence.
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The Golden Goose Awards illustrate the virtues of basic research
The metamask testnet faucet worked for me - https://faucet.metamask.io/
ScreenCat (https://github.com/maxogden/screencat) is using WebRTC, but it is currently Mac-only.
I think also the machining has become more accurate.

I am old enough to remember when it was ordinary (for 2 strokes single cylinder race engines - think of karts or motcross bikes) to mount the piston in the engine, do a few kms/laps then disassemble the piston and remove with a very fine ceramic file where the aluminium became shiny, rinse and repeat 5 to 10 times.
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Yes. In a globalized world that model just can't work anymore. That's just siphoning off wealth from all countries to enterprises, backed by one single country.

Sorry to open that can of worms, but taxing on profit in the country (and not headquarter placement) is actually one of the few early Trump suggestions that differed from the mainstream and made sense.
Most professionals in the field of medicine were educated towards an elitist and dogmatic mindset. When I talk with a physician about the human body I always get the impression they really believe the body works as described in the books - exactly like that. Most of them didn't seem to have noticed or learned that what we know about medicine is just theory approximating reality and all of those theories had to be updated sooner or later - always.
That's one of the reasons I no longer use Github. I don't want every line of code I write to be used as part of a hiring filter, much less just the languages I'm tagged with or the number of stars in my repos or in anything I contribute to.

The more useless social media BS Github piles onto its site the more it becomes the new Linkedin... no thanks.
That's a sci-fi possibility, but it's more likely that buggy AIs will be the problem. They'll be rushed to market in hopes of getting that market-share and will make tons of errors and miscalculations. Most will be in ways that are hard to detect, but some will be obvious.

Rather than making a perfect AI that can control everyone, I think it's far more likely we'll develop a buggy one that accidentally kills us all.
> Super simple example - you don't need AI to determine that men claim more frequently and more on car insurance than women. So....over the years, the rates for men have risen, until finally it was completely outlawed to take into account the sex of the applicant for car insurance quotes(at least here in the EU).

I believe that law should be repealed, because it would lead to fewer people dying on the roads. So there is a case where not everyone agrees the human touch is actually a good thing.
Older thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8166388
No. Serving at the pleasure of POTUS means Mr. Trump is your master, period.
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Ireland Faces Rebuke from EU for Failing to Collect Apple's Tax Billions
> ...unions are becoming obselete in the US...

They don't make sense for knowledge workers. Knowledge workers are rarely interchangeable, so standardizing contracts, job titles, pay schedules, working conditions, etc., makes little sense. There is also the chance for protectionism (closed shops) that runs counter to the freelance culture in tech.

Some sort of worker-administered group could make a lot of sense. But maybe a guild or cooperative instead.

Services that would be useful, especially (or only) if employers weren't paying the bill:

* Personal negotiation agents

* Career consultants. Lots of engineers are very underpaid and need some help holding their boss accountable. Or finding the next job.

* (Re)training. Engineers shouldn't specialize themselves into early retirement.

* Lobbying and marketing. Do you want BigCo telling your congressman what you think?

* Independent research and reporting on work environments. Some push back on penny-wise, pound-foolish facilities decisions.

* Charitable technology work not under a corporate brand

* Insurance, modulo whether competitive tax advantages can be arranged. Setting up pools for disability and life insurance, at least. Maybe healthcare if the tax advantages can be worked out.
I don't think you are aware of just how big the taxcut was Ireland gave to these companies. There is no growth if nothing is earned.
Yes, there is! http://www.wekinator.org

(It is not a Python application but a Java application, but still as fun!)
I was looking for something else (automotive, but not related to pistons) when I came across this. The style of illustration and prose isn't so common in modern technical writing either, so it caught my attention and made for a very enjoyable read. It's fun and lighthearted, but that doesn't get in the way of being educational.

Some further searching reveals that there is a whole series of these with accompanying slide films:

http://www.imperialclub.com/Repair/Lit/Films/index47.htm#194...

Imagine if Tesla made booklets and videos like these for the technology in their cars... I guess 70 years ago companies were far more open with sharing such things, and willing to spend a lot more on it too.
It does indeed. A precedence for trying to pay no taxes and paying just a tiny percentage if one gets caught.
Price caps on most things produce shortages. Doctors on the other hand are generally not that money motivated - I doubt many would drop out of medical college because the salary was $80k rather than $120k say. Though there are limits - I know some people drop out of the UK NHS.
Journals don't pay for research, nor do they do the work themselves.
Does it work sensibly if I'd like to do a 3-part split too?
Checkout what https://twitter.com/iam_preethi is tweeting about these topics. Really liked her last article about Etherum: https://medium.com/@preethikasireddy/how-does-ethereum-work-...
There is no requirement for range checking in the C standard. That was a missed optimization that was only very recently fixed on GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51513
That may be new to YouTube, but it's been a part of Google search for years. Whether you make the top 3 hits of a particular keyword can make or break many businesses; also based on a statistical AI.

Google is not bad at generally pulling 3 decent results, but at least a few searches a day it returns garbage results.
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What?

The internet is global and taxes are local. Why should governments allow a race to the bottom on tax rates?
The modest size of the fine is probably just because Amazon isn't all that into making profits and thus has little taxable income. Apple had to pay a lot more.
GDP PPP is a near worthless reference for countries like China and India. India has a billion people living in extreme poverty, with the word extreme not doing the context justice. China still has about half a billion people living in that type of poverty as well. Both of those are semi-masked by the fantasy PPP figures.

PPP is a way of pretending that just because you can afford a Starbucks cup of coffee in Beijing, you're economically equivalent to someone earning $60,000 per year in Frankfurt. Back in reality, there are vast objective economic differences of reality that go with comparing China vs highly developed nations on PPP. Can you afford to travel to Paris or Toronto? Can you afford a BMW or Mercedes (cheap Chinese cars are death boxes on wheels)? Can your savings or income get you out of cities with extreme pollution so you can live better? Do you have access to the kind of healthcare available in Finland or Denmark? What kind of social safety net does your nation provide?

Once you get much beyond comparing hamburger prices, the value of the PPP premise collapses when comparing highly developed nations vs eg China.
Indeed, they all seem to have made it a priority to meet China's aggressive push for EVs:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-28/china-to-...

Regulated capitalism does work. Who knew?!
>were encouraged by world leaders and scientists alike

The Nazis (the real kind, not the Internet name calling kind) were working on an atomic bomb. The atomic bomb is a pretty good example of "if I don't do it someone else will".
This book helped me understand the basics of bitcoin as well. Great read.
Right, an uneven playing field is not good. But how about levelling it by lowering the taxes for the other companies instead?

The money that EU bureaucrats cannot see, is the money the EU bureaucrats cannot waste and embezzle. The European Commission is not even elected, and now it wants to hector entire countries? The Euro Soyuz is already bloated enough.
This is not a fine, it's back taxes. That's a very big difference.
Nice troll, but this PR piece is a bit too evident, oozes corporate propaganda. Go back to the drawing board and make is subtler
Pistons are still made to be oval when cold:

http://blog.jepistons.com/maximizing-horsepower-with-piston-...
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European Commission is taking Ireland to court
Absolute complete nonsense. Not only a misunderstanding of the situation but a crazy and completely incorrect understanding of EEC principles.

This particular problem aside, for there are reasonable nuances from the EUs POV.

Your statment:

> we just can't accept that it's enough to open your headquarters in Luxembourg to only pay Luxembourg corporate taxes

Yes. We can. That is quite literally the point of being in the EEC and isn't at all the nuance of the issue Amazon and Ireland have encountered and not something even remotely in question by this report. Complete misrepresentation.

You only pay appropriate taxes in the nation state in which you HQ. This allows poorer countries to compete with richer countries, and allows wealth to "drain" into poorer countries whilst providing cheaper services to the richer ones.
Not to mention the correct use of 'Less' and 'Fewer'. Well done copywriters.
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legal tax schemes are legal
I think it really depends on what parameter(s) the AI is optimising for, or weighting the most. If it's efficiency or profit, there are tons of things that make sense financially, but would probably be considered unethical. E.g. we could encourage people to smoke, as it tends to lower the cost of healthcare overall (since they die younger / quicker, on average). That's just an example, the point is that I'm sure there are tons of "truths" from some perspective that an AI might employ, but we'd find unethical.
An interesting related idea which was prototyped and merged into Haiku OS some years ago:

video: https://youtu.be/ccniJHjo_Uw?t=124

user guide: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/gui.html
The decision seems pretty clear. Why shouldn't Ireland have to abide by the agreements it signed when entering into the EU? If it wants to be able to enter into these agreements it shouldn't have joined. If it considers it extremely important, maybe it should leave.
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I'm pretty sure Ireland can thrive without leeching taxes from the rest of the EU. And regarding no natural resources, I don't think Japan or South Korea or quite a few other developed countries have those either.
> a Java application, but still as fun!

Your unbridled optimism even in the face of reality has inspired me to give this a shot, thank you! It seems to be based on Weka, so it should be good.

On a first run, I don't really see how to record images from the webcam, it just says "waiting for samples". I'll play around some more and hopefully figure it out, thanks again.

EDIT: Ah, there's a detailed walkthrough which seems to work well!
> And yet no one has explained why a guy holding particular political views can not effectively be the face of the company.

I'm pretty sure they have, many times, but you presumably don't agree - which is perfectly fine but don't say it's not been explained!

(To recap: someone with exclusionary views, donating money to promote and enforce those exclusionary views, cannot effectively be head of a company specifically promoting inclusionary views.)
The converse of:

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

― Mark Twain
I'm perfectly aware. No one in the successive Irish governments has done anything other than state they will stand by their current policies. Without them there would be few jobs in Ireland.
IDEs can still substantially aid in refactoring with runtime type checking and return type annotations - see WebStorm and PHPStorm for two good examples of this. It isn't perfect - but certainly for things like changing the return type of functions, it will usually get you at least 90% of the way there.

Now, whether you consider that's actually helping solve the refactoring, or actually introducing new bugs, well - that's another issue :)
I assume OP is referring to the test nets which are already running publicly, not one u would run locally:

https://testnet.etherscan.io/
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> This allows poorer countries to compete with richer countries.

Yes, the poor, starving Grand Duchy of Luxembourg :D
> Nice troll, but this PR piece is a bit too evident, oozes corporate propaganda.

Care to back up your assertions? Or indeed offer anything to the discussion.
Growth is earned by the extra employment in the area, generating income tax and reduced reliance on benefits/public services.
I feel like half of the internet copied Stripe's REST API documentation design. They were the first to make them a pleasure to read, now almost everyone's docs are pretty.
You can of course remove race and gender data from the algorithm as legally required. There are even more advanced methods to prevent it learning that information indirectly and average out its predictions.

But I don't really see the point. Men really are riskier drivers. They should pay more on insurance. In the US they do, and no one seems to care. Men, as a group, pay exactly the rate that matches their risk. Anything else would mean women subsidizing men and paying more then their actual risk.

I like this example because it's the reverse of the typical stereotype that women are terrible drivers. The algorithm doesn't care about stereotypes. And it's a small effect, something like 5%. Men aren't being banned from driving or ostracized from society, they just pay a bit more to make up for their higher risk. Other factors like age or previous accidenrs matter far more.

And as the insurance companies get better data, that proxy will matter less and less. In the future they will just offer to record your driving behaviour on a test track and statistically analyze how skilled you actually are, or something like that.

And anyway this has gotten far away from the point. If getting insurance required a human to interview you and judge your character, it would be 100 times worse. You think humans can be made blind to gender and race? When the choice is between a human and an algorithm, it's indefensible to choose the human.
What makes you think computers are less likely to be biased? It's far easier for an algorithm to "learn" an association between probability of guilt and the colour of pixels in the moving bit of the video screen or dialect words used in the defendant's transcript than it is for the algorithm to actually evaluate the testimony itself.
Amazon ordered to repay €250m by EU over 'illegal tax advantages'
Taxing profit is essentially a tax break for spending. Amazon.com in the US reinvests almost everything it makes back into Amazon from what I understand (please correct me if I'm wrong). Is it ok for them to pay no taxes?

Let's say someone buys $1B worth of junk, has expenses like salary etc of $1B, does something with it and sells products and services worth $2.2B. Do they pay taxes on $2.2B or on $0.2B? I think we can fix some kinds of tax dodging by taxing the $2.2B. If I'm on a low margin business, that's not the government's problem to pick winners and losers, right?
Reminds me of this: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/can-modern-neuroscie...
> programmers are so well paid that even taking that down a nodge to the benefit of the general public would be fine

The problem is, taking that down a nodge will not benefit the general public. All the surplus will be eaten up by the companies.

I suppose there are two ways to view this - putting up barriers to entry vs. preventing wages from being driven down by encouraging everyone and their dog to become coders. At this point I sort of see it as both at the same time.

The reasons unions could be useful in the future is both to preserve a reasonable standard of living for tech employees and to help oppose unethical demands from employers. Right now, tech employees have some leverage over their bosses. Without unions, this will eventually end.
>>I believe that law should be repealed, because it would lead to fewer people dying on the roads

Citation needed.

Counter argument - vast majority of males in prison for murder in US are black. Therefore, if we stop anti-discrimination policies in US, that will lead to saving more lives. I mean, statistics don't lie!

Or, maybe, just maybe - the statistics omit a lot of data that would allow us to narrow down what makes men claim more and why there's so many black prisoners in the US?

And that brings us back to the original problem - AI can just come to a conclusion = charge men more for insurance = less accidents! Or....put more black people in prisons = less murders! And the results might be exactly what it expects, so of course it will be declared as a huge success - but it's everything but.
But that's a context specific unit, not intended for general use.

Metric is great for general use simply because of it's multipliers:
(...) 1G = 1,000M = 1,000,000K = 1,000,000,000 = 1,000,000,000,000m (...)

And also the simple way many units are related as well, like 1L of water having 1kg of mass (yes, with a certain temperature, pressure, yada yada yada)
In the old days, you would do that.

Now that’s not allowed in most places, plus you need to hire fancy salespeople to deliver those gifts.
Ireland is around 4 million people and in the 80s was an incredibly poor country with little industry. Now it is building a large services economy and is a business destination. Thanks to the tax policies implemented in the early 1990s. Without those, the jobs and net population decline would have continued faster than it is now.
I'm not saying anything different. Whenever a business/individual sells information at a value, they'll be taxed on the sale, just like anything else. OP mentioned selling a cars worth of his own data, which doesn't exist.
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Ask HN: What annoys you about law firms?
As a former lawyer and now a coder, I'm interested to see an outside perspective of what law firms are doing wrong.

Surely there are many things that we, as coders, could implement to make legal services better.
> You only pay appropriate taxes in the nation state in which you HQ. This allows poorer countries to compete with richer countries, and allows wealth to "drain" into poorer countries whilst providing cheaper services to the richer ones.

Not sure from where you got that idea, but in real life it sure as hell doesn't happen that way. I live in one of the poorest countries in the EU, comparatively speaking (Romania), and let me tell you that there's no multi-national company that "drains" money into our country based on tax arbitrage the way countries like Luxembourg and Ireland do. Quite the contrary, lots and lots of companies do the exact opposite, i.e. draining money out of Romania to their headquarters in Ireland, Luxembourg and other (much richer than us) countries of Europe.
If I'm a healthy individual then the risk that I need my healthcare insurance are low (But it has a big impact on my economy if I do need it).
However the risk that I need some form of housing is 100% and the impact of not having it is huge which to me makes it a bigger risk. However YMMV depending on your situation.
Would you be as ok with it if the algorithm was charging black people more? Would you also reply "well, the data shows that black people claim more, so it's only fair - otherwise, white people are subsidizing black people driving"? At the end of the day, you have as much control over being a man as you do over being black, and are being penalized for the actions of others, that makes no sense.

>>When the choice is between a human and an algorithm, it's indefensible to choose the human.

That's where I vehemently disagree.
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Difficult to say. My mental framing has, as a result of my previous post, become “be suspicious”.
Kipnis made a mention of this in an interview closer to the actual discovery:

As to how the brain’s lymphatic vessels managed to escape notice all this time, Kipnis described them as “very well hidden” and noted that they follow a major blood vessel down into the sinuses, an area difficult to image. “It’s so close to the blood vessel, you just miss it,” he said. “If you don’t know what you’re after, you just miss it.”

http://neurosciencenews.com/lymphatic-system-brain-neurobiol...
Because just like other net benefactors from EU money such as Hungary and Poland they want to have their cake and eat it.