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For about 9 years or so, I've used the .CC TLD for my personal/family's email without any technical issues...though it is important to know that throughout the entire time, I've used G Suite as my email provider (used to be called google apps for your domain, etc.). So, one could speculate that perhaps my lack of technical issues was less due to the TLD that i used, and maybe because google considers my domain name "not spammy".

HOWEVER, an annoying problem that I've had over the years - and while it has diminished slightly still persists - is that people (or at least people here in the U.S.) are not used to hearing domain names that don't end in the usual .COM, .ORG, .NET...so I ALWAYS have to clarify and explain that my email ends in .CC and not .COM, etc. i find myself still doing this even today - almost a decade later - with so many lay people "being online". I sort of expect that more often with lay people more explanation is needed, but you'd be surprised how many technical people also are not as used to hearing domain names that don't end in the usual top 3. I like the .CC TLD, I really do...but having lived these last 9 or so years with having to constantly explain to people (with whom I plan to correspond with) that there are soooooo many other TLDs out there (beyond just .COM, .ORG, .NET) does get really tiring. If I had to do this all over again, I would have gone with .NET or .ORG (the .COM back then was already taken for my domain name). Oh well.
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Delphi, VB and C++ Builder surely are, and we could do a full application just by dragging components and setting properties, without a single line of code.
There is also Smalltalk Pharo, but I don't know how good it is as a UI builder. Still, you have the idea of a programming language environment inside a GUI where everything is a customizable, live object that talks to other objects.
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For the same reasons as Delaware, the legal framework and establishment are favorable but there is nothing criminal in this.

As for the second parts it’s every large non-EU corporation and that is the problem.

These acts as well as the anti trust investigation into Google and other such affairs is a protective response to the lack of competitiveness from EU corporations primarily in Tech.

Tax avoidance in the EU isn’t an oversight it’s a deliberately orchestrated and legislated ordeal which was established to favor EU corporations.

Since the EU seemed to nearly skip the tech giant bubble and it’s largest corporations are primarily ancient energy and finance giants it now goes after US corporations which have subsidiaries in the EU.

This is selective enforcement the EU didn’t go after Lidl which keeps much of its Tax books private it didn’t go after BNP, Shell, ING and the like all of which also excel at not paying.
Recruiters and a plethora of job posting sites like Monster, Dice, and jobs. Weeding through the junk is the tough part.
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2014 chemistry.
> The pin itself would be changeable (forced every 90 days, at will anytime)

You have now destroyed any security this device has, as no one wants to create a brand-new PIN every 90 days, no matter how much or little entropy it has.

Changing passwords on a regular basis as a security best practice has been debunked for years now. Even NIST is (finally) on board, saying that forced regular password changes should not be used in an attempt to increase security.

Your password/PIN should be changed iff there is reason to believe it has been compromised.
Are they really much worse than other weapons? If they're firing at someone who is running at the border in the DMZ (where these are placed) during an invasion, the chance that you're going to hit a civilian is effectively zero. Compare that to, say, the large number of civilians killed by airstrikes or drone strikes.
Awarded the 2014 prize:

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/...
If BMW sells a car in the US, where is the profit from that taxed? See https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-usa-tax-trade/u-s-t... for an explanation. The idea was to tax local turnover, not income.
Maybe they thought they could do better. Maybe they didn't want to be in a race to the bottom with Amazon
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It seems to me that the dispute here is between the EU and its member countries and not between the EU and Amazon, Apple, etc.

I generally disagree with the creation of special tax deals between governments and individual businesses, but it is the government that I disagree with, not the businesses for optimizing their tax burden.
The faces are unlabeled, and I'm not sure what that data would be good for. If Google really wanted face data, they could look at:

- Gmail / Google Plus / Google Apps profile pictures

- Google Street View

- Google Hangouts

- implementing a primitive Face ID or Snapchat-style camera on Google Android

- the large mass of face pictures that they index with Google Images
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> If you're a PHP user, don't use this function unless you know you need to. There are better functions now.

Don't leave me hanging! What are the better functions now?
The problem is that in order to play with the mockups and test them, you could create interactions that work with the expected happy path, but are not what the final application logic is supposed to be.

For example, you have an action that will ask some remote server whether the user has a permission to do something, and if it receives a positive response, it performs that action and only then updates the UI (and shows the error UI if the user doesn't have the permission).

With a tool like this, you could easily create an interaction that updates the UI immediately. It would look correct, but it would be wrong.

>For example they could define a "Send form" event and tie it to the button and the "Enter" keypress all from the visual designer, just like you would do it in code.

That's fine, but I don't count that as an interaction. In React, you would just define that as a prop and pass it to the buttons and the keypress event, so that would be ok. `setState` would not be ok (unless it only stays in the mockup and is not exported).
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I understand people who land on both sides of this.

On one hand, you don't want to do support Trump. On the other hand, you don't want incompetent or malicious people supporting him instead.

If Trump's goal is to shrink and destroy the credibility of the federal government, which it seems to be, then there's a good argument for the latter.
how about scala.js or maybe some other compiled&typed language that compiles to javascript ?

Anyway, i feel you and know the pain of frontend, gl.
This seems to have flown over your head, but humans fall into that "other animals" category
If this happened, the Google Chrome tab would show a camera. Many webcams have adjacent LEDs that identify that they are activated.

Google could theoretically release compromised versions of Google Chrome and only use the permission on devices where webcam LEDs are unlikely (e.g. smartphones), but this is going deep into tin-foil-hat territory.
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> Unlike Ireland Luxembourg also did not hand out tax credits.

This seems to be contradicted by the story itself:

"Luxembourg gave illegal tax benefits to Amazon. As a result, almost three-quarters of Amazon's profits were not taxed," Ms Vestager added.

She said Amazon paid four times less tax than other local companies.
Eh, URL/URI escaping is an interesting example, because people have been doing inconsistent and sometimes standards-problematic things with it pretty much as long as they existed. And indeed it's been a perpetual pain and problem. (just one example read up on `&` and `;`, and whether `&` can/should/must be escaped in what contexts; that's not the only one, `+` is another long-standing one). So not a great example of how everyone used to always be consistently standards-compliant in "earlier times", more like a counter-example. I don't think it's unique, my experience is not that everything used to be more consistent and standards compliant in "earlier times" than it is now, when it comes to the web, if anything the reverse.
I hear ya. Pinko commie liberal me abhors the idea.

Legal fictions like "property", "money", and "rights" are practical innovations that make society work better (eg more moral, greater public good). Kinda like the tech tree in games like Civilization.

The books "The Mystery of Capital" and "Nonzero" influenced me a lot. Good starting points, optimistic, and more right than wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto_Polar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wright_(journalist)

Until something better comes along...
PreScheme serves the same sort of role within the Scheme48 ecosystem. It's been a while since I've looked at Scheme48, but if I remember right, the VM is written in PreScheme, which is usually compiled down to either C or machine code. However... you can also run PreScheme code within Scheme48, so that it's possible to test/update the VM semantics without actually compiling down to C for each dev cycle.
HN is criticizing the article wording but completely ignoring its point. This article coupled with the other one on the dystopian reality of San Francisco[1] have me feeling completely disgusted at the current state of the tech industry.

Simply put: these tech giants are making too much money. They are losing touch with the average people and simply put with reality itself. It wouldn't surprise me if that's exactly how all "evil" companies of the past became evil themselves.

[1]: https://www.mhudack.com/blog/2017/10/1/san-francisco-now-wit...
This is looking like the final blow for Western economical dominance unless serious catch up begins. Investing in coal, what a joke!

It won't be easy to compete with a manufacturing powerhouse that practically runs on free energy to provide the world with goods and services. Good luck competing with that!
The basic premise for most of the marcial arts movies.
I think sleep studies tracking lymphatic activity will be coming soon. At least I would hope
> Far more people live outside the Bay Area than inside it. Are they all poor saps who are waiting to move to Silicon Valley but haven't yet figured out how?

Usually when people claim that companies should try to recreate Silicon Valley in some cheaper "heartland of America", they are talking about flyover country. And demographically, many people still in flyover country may well be poor saps who haven't yet figured out how to move to the coasts, as statistics show a steady drain of young people to the coasts or at least a few major metropolitan areas in their part of America.
How did the random recruiters get your phone number? And then, if you want to
speak with them at all, why don't you tell them as the very first thing in
the phone call to send you an e-mail with the offer?

When an idiot recruiter sends me a message asking for my phone number (and
I know he/she is an idiot, because I have prominently stated in my profile
that I don't casually give my phone number away and prefer text messages),
I always ask them to send me ad details in text.
Thank you for articulating, explaining stuff better than I can.
Aah, yes, those crafty poor with their Dutch sandwiches, accounts in the Caymans and Switzerland, and their tax-shelter charities.

This quote sounds almost ironically similar to this quip from Anatole France: The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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I wrote my diploma thesis in an industry research group trying to figure out the optimal (non-cylindrical) shape of the cylinder bore.

We attempted to model static stresses from mounting the cylinder head, thermal stresses, and mechanical stresses from mass forces, combustion forces and the like.

Our goal was to achieve low combustion gas blow-by, low oil ingress into the combustion chamber, yet low friction between piston and cylinder wall.

We used simulations (about three months worth IIRC) and measurements to generate data points for a continuous ersatz model of the physical phenomena, then performed multi-criteria optimisation on that model. The resulting shape was interesting, but not exactly earth-shattering. Kinda randomly warped.

This work was tremendous fun, and I learned a lot.

If anyone is interested (and can read German), it resulted in this dissertation: https://books.google.de/books/about/Tribo_System_Kolbengrupp...
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While that's true, it's also a simplistic take on taxes.

The mega-rich, including corporations, work with the government (bribery, oops, I mean campaign donations) to ensure there are loopholes in place to avoid taxes.

While the average citizen can attempt to minimize his obligation, he has very little opportunity to do so. In the US, most people (about 60%) do better taking the standard deduction vs itemizing their deductions.
For a previous role at a fintech company, we did have a CTO and a few engineering managers managing each of the various tech teams. In our organization, we had web development, operations, integration (which builds development tools and sets up testing infrastructure), internal development (builds admin tools), product development (consisting of web, mobile and other business-specific dev teams)

I think the necessity of the CTO depends on the technical savyness of the other executives although an effective CTO will always be able to highlight challenges the tech teams are facing, lobby for resources when necessary and provide sufficient support to make sure the tech side of things is working well.
What is unique here compared to other bug trackers and feedback solutions is that all the feedback is collected in a social network for feedback. This is an example use-case: https://www.stomt.com/empires-of-the-undergrowth

It prevents bad reviews and combines feedback management with community building in a simple way. Basically like a Twitter for feedback.
What is that solar in percentage of total power production?
I'm always glad to hear news about the advancement of solar power, but I don't hear as much about advancement in batteries or storage. The manufacturing of batteries is not a clean and renewable resource, or have I missed some new methods or ways of extracting rare minerals.
Ask HN: What next after PhD in physics?
Hi HN!
I am about to finish my PhD in experimental physics next year (Europe), and I am thinking about what to do next.
I would like to get into CS, but I have no formal education. However, I am used to work in terminals, only have linux machines around me, know my way around git, have done a lot of data analysis and modelling in julia / python (setting up own packages, some testing included), and just started out with ruby / rails to realize an project of my own.
Ideally the next job would be in an English-speaking country (anywhere is fine). Since I do not have any experience / certificate to show off for CS, I thought doing a PostDoc might be a good idea. Well, is it? Should I rather look for an internship / first position?
Happy to hear your thoughts! _mjk
so what? we have to accept immoral any possibly illegal tax evasion schemes impacting negatively half a billion of wealthy population so that tiny country can have its artificial growth?

with same logic you guys can start manufacturing weapons and land mines, it seems like a good way to earn some dough in current times
As far as I can tell, the fact that it remains a taboo to discuss means that it remains extremely socially salient. Some of that is the fallout of the 1960s-era denunciation campaigns, which were both seemingly effective and very painful in the context of Japanese values. Most Japanese I have talked to about this view the whole topic as extremely shameful. But with something like this, it would be useful to have some kind of positive indication that it is a historical relic, rather than just something declined to discuss anymore. But any effort to gain real demographic information is seen as a threat, because that's how buraku people were systemically blackballed in the past.
Why aren’t these companies looking to make a deal with a high-congestion city? Block off downtown for regular cars. Have people park on the perimeter and use cheap self-driving taxis to travel around. Tax revenue will skyrocket when all the downtown real estate currently wasted on parking lots is replaced with office buildings, shops, and residential structures. People will be happier not wasting hours every day on congested roads.
How are the dynamic typing facilities in Smalltalk better than those in Ruby?
Their market (sending SMS to consumers) is dying, replaced by app notifications.
Recruiter. Was just casually exploring the market to decide whether to begin a job search in earnest, and they happened to send me something that was a good match for the next stage of my career development.
Some (most?) recruiters don't know what they're doing, and contact me for entry-level help-desk positions (or senior network architect positions) that I'm well-past qualified for (or nowhere near qualified for).

Some at least take the 13 seconds to skim my LinkedIn profile or actual resume from my website, and at least send me listings for jobs that are sorta related to my experience.

And then there's the contractor recruiters, "2 months for $35/hour for a senior automation architect". Yeah...no. When base salary for positions like that starts at $100k annually (and has benefits), those hourly contract rates are comically insulting.
I just read the preface and have to ask... is this heavy on marketing, cheerleading and kool-aid? First the author makes it sound like the Nakamoto paper was sent from the heavens and then this:

> I became obsessed and enthralled, spending 12 or more hours each day glued to a screen, reading, writing, coding, and learning as much as I could. I emerged from this state of fugue, more than 20 pounds lighter from lack of consistent meals, determined to dedicate myself to working on bitcoin.

To me, this seems a little dramatic for what should be a technical topic.
I'm not really sure what you are claiming here. My experiences with Smalltalk ended 20 years ago with IBM Smalltalk and Digitalk Smalltalk/V. At that time, they both used the host operating system (Windows or OS/2) for UI widgets, windows, and such, and any applications you built in it could be packaged up to be launched as any other application. One could use such an application and have no particular sense of isolation beyond an application written in a more mainstream language (like C or C++). Have modern Smalltalks regressed in this regard?
Based on my cursory understanding of the topic,
The Merkle tree has been around for a while, but Satoshi figured out how to use that to achieve decentralization, and consensus building. If you ask me, that's quite revolutionary.
Yes, the blockchain is just a gigantic DAG, but adding and deleting nodes on the graph is where the crux of the matter is I guess. I am starting to understand the logic from a currency perspective. Still trying to understand how the same translates to smart contracts.
I interned at Intel in 2002. We (all the interns) were invited to hear him speak. At the time, I didn't know who we was, but he was some exec and, well, it's always cool to listen to execs.

I don't remember much of his speech, but when I remember most was bumping into him in the stairwell on my way to the speech. My eyes landed on his badge, and I said something like, "hey, I'm about to go listen to you talk."

We had one of the most friendly conversations I had.
Not that it'd happen but it would be an interesting experiment if you could try changing to the Singapore system in some part of the US. Say Hawaii or Puerto Rico. It would be an upheaval but at ~1/3 the cost and longer life expectancy it could be worth trying. Assuming the locals were up for it.
All but one job I've ever held has had at least some form of reference to get me in the door.

Many have been from direct personal recruitment on the part of a former colleague who wanted to work with me again.
I love this idea in theory, but iOS is just not there yet, for me. Quoting a previous comment of mine on the subject:

I have one major thing that holds me back from considering iOS a viable replacement for a more traditional OS for daily computing: App and browser tabs are seemingly (not sure what is actually happening on a technical level) backgrounded if you switch away to a different app/safari tab. This results in the app restarting/browser tab reloading.

Perhaps this is some sort of caching behavior, and prior apps/tabs are ejected to make room in memory? Either way, it's very disruptive to have apps/webpages reload when switching back.

Until I can count on basic things, like my webpage to still be there if i open my laptop on a plane with no wifi, or my SSH session not to be logged out simply because i switched to a different app, iOS simply cannot serve as my main computing OS.
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Actually, does Harold ever agree with either party? Tammy and Roy both want low housing costs, and Harold doesn't.

Sure, you can get to an armistice with Harold and Tammy: Housing costs are high but your salary is such that even spending 66% of your pay on housing leaves you with an ample amount of money.

But I wouldn't call that agreement anything other than begrudging.
technically I "found" my current job via LinkedIn - a former colleague shared an opening with his company, I contacted him, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Somewhat related:

Regarding i3-wm is there such a thing as pre-defined resolution tiling for the sake of UI testing? That would be pretty neat.

Imagine a bunch of windows that were tiled (think mosaic) according to known device resolutions like 320x680 (or something like that for mobile devices) then you could have say a browser open in each tile (with local dev url) and refresh/shows the UI as displayed on every resolution that would be impressive.
This is what I wonder, especially with Elon building the so called 'giga factory'. How sustainable really is it?
You should read the actual source.
Amazon paid normal tax rates on trade goods, it paid the lower tax rate on IP derived revenue such as AWS and several other digital services the deal wasn’t any different than what EU companies in Europe get including OVH.
The difference is that Amazon like many other US tech companies have substantial revenue from IP and licensing while EU companies still rely on trade goods and services.
This isn’t a court ruling like with Apple there is more than a good chance that this will not hold in the high court.
Likely even better since Amazon didn’t get direct tax subsidies.
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These videos by Jordan Leigh are really great for Ethereum concepts and development.

http://decypher.tv/series/ethereum-development
For example, the Interlisp-D of Xerox PARC, ZetaLisp of Genera or even Alegro Common Lisp.

They provide a rich graphical developer experience, with many features that are the genesis of modern IDEs, and nothing on their standard library and runtime depends on anything POSIX related.

The Lisps that "integrate well" with UNIX, like SBCL, do so by providing a UNIX text based repl without that graphical power, while using Emacs, an editor based on Lisp Machines, that even with SLIME is not quite like the commercial Lisps.

Same applies to any other language with a rich runtime, that makes the underlying OS irrelevant.