skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think their point is that in a free market, the vacuum of power leads to organizations (with the means to) filling that vacuum and establishing rules that rationally favor themselves.
I would say that its the "with some maneuvering" that we should re-evaluate as a society. If you can demonstrate clearly (and I think its clear to everyone here that they are dodging taxes) that they are attempting to sidestep the law even though its technically legal, then we should pursue precedents that prevent this.
Yeah you can indeed.

But that £8 includes next day courier delivery (which is free), a phone number you can actually call and talk to someone instantly, materials and tutorials on their web site and product support.

They do a slightly lesser dev board for £3 as well.

Hell I can order a £0.20 resistor and get it next day!
When stable companies experiment with new things, I'm all for it. But when a rapidly growing pre-IPO company does, I get concerned they've lost focus.
You didn't address the DDG part. I know you're an advocate.
Ask HN: How do I learn the reason why a post was flagged?
Is flagging some kind of super-downvote that is automatically triggered after a certain threshold of flags is reached and no human is reviewing it?

It would be nice to know why something gets removed.

A post with now 72 points and 63 comments got flagged yesterday.
"“In my book, there’s no reason why children in elementary schools can’t be launching their own businesses,” Rebekah Neumann said in an interview. She thinks kids should develop their passions and act on them early, instead of waiting to grow up to be “disruptive,” as the entrepreneurial set puts it."

Jesus dude, let kids be kids for a bit.
>Thanks for the info. How on earth could Comcast have a single point of failure for their entire network nation-wide?

I guess I've been a Comcast customer too long given I don't even understand your question. It would seem more shocking if it were not something like this.
You can close all loopholes that rely on literal interpretation by changing the approach to interpretation of the law/tax code. You can reinforce it with minimum taxation based on revenue, which prevents you having to wade through treacle in the courts.
My computer is owned by me. If I download your HTML, I get to do whatever I want with it, using any software I please. I am under no obligation to render it or process it in the particular way you would most prefer. You can suggest that I might want to render your website with carpet on the floor, but if I object to carpet and choose to render all websites with tile floors instead, that's my choice - because it's my computer, and I get to decide what I'm going to do with it. If you don't like that, don't let me download your HTML.
Bitcoin anonymity isn't usually all it's cracked up to be.

And in any case, most of the people involved aren't anonymous, in practice.
Noted that Ken had an issue when a 74S TTL part was replaced with a 74LS because the characteristics are different.

Back in the day (mid 1980s), when I was going through an electronic engineering apprenticeship with a flight simulator company and many boards were end-to-end TTL, it was generally understood that power-hungry 74S series TTL were used for a reason (generally speed) and should not be substituted lest 'funny things' happen.

Mind you, there was one time when debugging a glitch led to one chip being replaced with the same type from a different family - something like a 74LS replacing a 74F - and the propagation delay difference was enough to fix an edge-case timing issue. Due to project constraints, the root cause wasn't tracked down and so the board bill of materials made it clear that the 'odd one out' was correct and should not be changed.

PS: Ken - I think I still have a quantity of 74S TTL 'pulls' from the day, so if all else fails sourcing a part, look me up!
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Can't we all just get along? I like tacos and burritos.
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Most of the value of RISC-V will not really be in free designs though. The GPU is already a commodity because of higher-level standardization in APIs (Vulkan, OpenGL [ES]). It's just hard to design and build good GPUs, which means fewer players in the high end space. Vivante seems like the only really independent GPU design vendor, not sure if you can license Mali for a non-ARM design, you'd at least need to support their peripheral buses.
First Americans came by boat (from Finland):
http://www.paabo.ca/uirala/ui-ra-la.html
Some might go under 0 - being a defendant even when innocent has costs too.
A little OT, but here's a heads up for entrepeneuers out there: WeWork is trash.

If you're a startup, I'd just recommend that you and your cofounders get an Airbnb month-to-month. I was quoted 1500/month for their Irvine Spectrum coworking space (which is lol in itself...because it's literally in the middle of nowhere!) AND they wanted an extra 250/month per person for parking.

The real kicker is the hours the coworking space is open: 9-5. Good luck trying to grow your startup with a working day of <8 hours a day. WeWork: not even once.

Btw, does anyone know of a service that's similar to Airbnb but for office space?
> What could Apple buy with its offshore cash

The examples are ridiculous. How many teachers, nurses, doctors could you employ with that money, had it been properly taxed?
Agreed. I became aware of Louis' work after looking for information on the infamous Mid-2010 Macbook Pro 15 GPU kernel panic. After watching this video [1], I was able to replace the same capacitor for ~$3 and restore a previously unusable Macbook.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzcgT_fiVTA
Yes it is of relevance, since the EU made it clear if Intel tried it again not only would they act much much more swiftly, but they would also be very tough.
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--"anything you need the historical data to be unalterable for is a good use for blockchain."

and you don't trust a third party to record it for you so everyone keeps a copy of the data.
> I tend to go on the side of freedom, even if it's "free to be dumb"

The issue is not as simple as you characterize it. Should 'freedom to be dumb' include freedom to drive drunk/while texting?

>And both attempt to say that their actions are addictive, therefore we cannot trust their actions, so we have to decide for them.

You seem to think that these controls exist for the protection of the addicts. They don't. They exist to protect the society and economy from a downward spiral caused by widespread drug addiction - which is what will happen if you remove all controls.
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> Regulatory compliance.

> there are plenty of regulations in certain setting that require us to disallow client applications from auto-filling form fields.

And which regulations would those be, specifically?
Define "predominant in a market." Is intel competing in the x86 market, or the computing market? Intel could rightly point out that vastly more ARM cores are sold than x86 cores, so really it should be open season on ARM, not Intel.
The author of Vuejs used to work for Meteor and he proposed them to officially integrate Vue as the front end layer. They didn't like the idea.
I have to know. What's "inadequate" about the argument that satellites exist therefore the Earth cannot be flat?
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The internet seems to be going offline. Multiple ISPs and major websites. Anyone have any more information?
Tangent: I remember the first time I used Quora, thinking that it had a great model of content discovery and collaborative answering — that it would be fantastic if they let companies deploy internal versions of it. Now that Quora has been around for 7 years and has clearly decided not to do this but instead to make money by , does anyone have any guesses as to why they decided not to?
GP made a specific point about the fact that companies lobby for the creation of such loopholes, a point which has been made over and over in threads on this subject and even in this thread. Why are you misrepresenting their argument?
A couple points here:

- The US federal government cannot sue someone for not following the spirit of the law. Thankfully.

- Per Justice Learned Hand: "Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant."

- "Offshoring" isn't the right word, because it implies that the money was in the US and moved offshore. In fact the money is from product that was sold outside of the US, and the money is remaining outside the US.
Is it really "corrupting" though if the government allows it? It's wrong, but not corrupt (yet).
Be interesting to have a head count of those who following current tax rules, do not seek to minimize their tax bill. Tax authorities whereever, are certainly vigilant in maximizing it.
And if the law is too costly, just buy the law! Mortified.
Techmeme summary: BBC: Paradise Papers: Apple shifted to new tax haven of Jersey, after crackdown by European regulators of its Irish tax arrangement, sought to keep move secret
Woah woah woah. Let me recount/nutshell the crux of conversations I've had with my product manager(s) about things like this.

Me: Hey, I'd like to add a work-item to our current sprint that reworks semantic attributes into our site.

Them: What would that do?

Me: It improves the underlying architecture making the markup more usable and extensible.

Them: How does that benefit the users?

Me: Over time it will reduce the TTM for features and allows us to adopt a common standard others use on the web.

Them: So there's no UI and it won't affect their workflow?

Me: Well, no.

Them: Then why would you suggest it? We don't have the budget to add meaningless development tasks.

I might be biased towards thinking there are plenty of developers and engineers out there thinking about this stuff but we don't always get the final say in what is done. Also, a lot of enterprise applications were and continue to be around before many of these standards. It's a struggle to improve what doesn't directly add to the bottom line.
I have been thinking on this idea lately and trying to build a tool to filter out the crap. What I have found is operators help, but the only things I have found to work are EDU sites, pre-2010 operator, and intext: welcome to my site. Beyond that, nothing seems to work to find complex content. I also thought about maybe making a tool to filter out content from the top million sites or so, but for now I am going to just use operators.
I fail to see how the injunction is not a violation of the first amendment right of search engines and ISPs to display any legal content they want--and we are talking about legal content here (links). It is clearly improper under DMCA, but it seems to me such injunctions are simply unconstitutional, DMCA or not. Anyone care to explain the twisted logic of the court here?
> In older browsers, useCapture is NOT an optional parameter

Which browsers are those?
> Netscape is irrelevant.

Netscape is entirely relevant. The question was raised about how different Google / Chrome are compared to Microsoft / IE and the answer is Netscape. Microsoft tried to tie the internet into their own platform, Windows + IE, due to them pushing non-standard rendering and ActiveX. Whatever your opinion of Chrome's break from standards might be, Google simply are not trying to lock people into Chrome on Android / ChromeOS. Remember that Google's revenue comes from ads, not software sales (as was the case with Microsoft). Chrome, Android, etc are just platforms to help leverage ads but they still make money from people running Firefox on Windows, Linux and OS X. So while you might dislike the standards Google are breaking in Chrome, the intent is very different from Microsoft in the 90s with Internet Explorer as Google are not trying to control the web (or at least not with the examples given in this discussion. I'm less convinced their intentions are honorable with AMP).
Which is why you have to constitute a power structure which is actively prohibited from the unwanted behaviours, while filling the void of an organization with said behaviours. This is partially accomplished by the U.S. constitution, but there are some holes either in the formulation or in the interpretation.
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Intel 8th Gen laptop chips to support VR with dedicated GPU
At last laptops will be able to drive performance VR, by placing the dedicated GPU on the same package as the CPU. This should mean the physical wiring will be connected directly to the package enabling direct dedicated GPU output, avoiding the stutter problem of existing dedicated graphics being copied through the onboard video (as happens with Optimus etc, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15447198).

As a bonus this will also decrease the size and weight of dedicated gpu laptops :)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/intel-will-ship-processors-with-integrated-amd-graphics-and-memory/
Have you tried incognito mode? I also recall there was option to turn off customizing search results (or something similar) in google's privacy settings.

EDIT: I did not notice any differences so I don't really know how to test it. I search highly technical stuff for work or very mundane "popular" things outside of it. Seems like I'm bad target for the customization.
As a U.S. citizen who has lived abroad, all expats have to report and pay back their taxes to the U.S.
Given, there's a bigger exemption (I don't remember the exact number, but you start paying taxes at 40-50K).

So I agree, Apple as an American company should pay taxes on the money it makes abroad. And again, I would vouch for a larger tax break, but still pay on their income abroad - as expats do.
You should look up the DAO which attempted to do similar things.

Incentive for trading the token is something to be vary of.
Political and governance problems are the issue here. Tech is here
But it is the job of browser developers to build programs that serve their users. If I, as a user, want to autocomplete a form field, the website operator doesn't get a say in whether I can do that.

The settings that come with the markup are best understood as a recommendation, a slight hint that autocomplete might not be appropriate here. The final say is always with the user, though.

Sadly, through over-usage on the part of website operators, this hint has become utterly useless.
Hmm, I think I've misinterpreted your meaning of "Every human being in that company should be held accountable for their actions" I mistakenly related "their" to the company in the context of the article, but in light of your followup you clearly mean the individual. Anyway, we appear to agree :)
But they are doing what's best for them without breaking the law. You cannot reasonably expect anything more from any actor in a society. In personal relationships we expect more (lying is legal but frowned upon), or else we break off that relationship, but the functioning of a business in society does not amount to a personal relationship.

This is why we have laws. Expecting people to be 'nice' is naive. They must be coerced.

If you choose not to buy apple products as a result of their behavior, fine. If you want to convince your friends to do the same, fine. But legal repercussions are reserved for law breaking entities. Loophole exploitation is not law breaking.
And giphy!
What’s horrifying about paying every cent of tax you are legally obligated to pay?

If i own a stock that increases 50% this year, am I doing something unethical by not selling it until january so i don’t have to pay taxes on the gain for another year?

That’s equivalent to what Apples doing. It pays all the taxes it owes in every country it does business in. It pays taxes in the US, UK, France, Germany, etc, etc, and what’s left over from the foreign profits it chooses not to bring back to the US, or leave in France, Germany, etc, etc.

Instead it moves those profits to Ireland or the Channel islands so it doesn’t have to pay more taxes on their interest every year while it waits for US corporate tax policy to no longer be so irrational so it can directly return that money to its owners, Apple shareholders.
Well that's precisely the point, if you pick your axioms/theorems/lemma's right you get to skip a lot of steps and only calculate a particular end result instead of every turtle along the way.
Looks like it prints automatically once Page.loadEventFired is triggered.

Alternatively, you can run Chrome headless with the remote debugging API (--remote-debugging-port=9222) and send a Page.printToPDF (https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/tot/Page/...) after some delay.
This also takes me back to watching some modems have bad implementations of the USR protocols. Some were so bad that they'd actually watch the packet traffic for commands. I remember seeing people getting knocked offline from someone typing ATH0++ over IRC (all plaintext!), and their modem catching it as an actual USR command (the Attention-Hang Up command).
We too use Confluence and it's abundantly unbelievably awful.

* Super bloated and laggy

* Hard to get your data out/migrate to some rival system. Did your technical writers spend a bunch of time typing strings into a table using the Confluence table building GUI, and now you want that data as a .csv? Too bad, hope you want to spend half an hour in copy-and-paste + reformatting hell.

* Impressively broken search (e.g. if you create a page named "foo" and then search for "foo," you'll often get pages of unrelated results that do not include your page called foo)

* Can't natively show typeset math. Doing so requires plugins that are somehow both expensive, broken, and only compatible with narrow ranges of Confluence versions.

* Gross nonstandard markdown dialect

These are just the shortcomings that I can think of right now. However I think even Confluence is probably better than submitting PR's for docs changes as the OP mentions, since at least it's a wiki.
Why is it that criminal laws are judged on a case by case basis and tax code is so inflexible?

For instance, in states that allow shooting trespassers, you could buy a patch of sidewalk and shoot anyone that walks into it. I doubt that you would get off scot-free since in criminal law you always consider context.

Why is that notion of context impossible to include in the tax code and leave some interpretability to the judge? This would make these loopholes more risky and therefore less attractive.
I had an outage in Canada today for about 10 mins around noon EST.
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If we're talking about Greg Egan, then I'll go ahead and also suggest his short stories Luminous and Dark Integers. They postulate a similarly tight connection between physical processes and mathematical theorems, and then go on to consider the implications of the fact that such a system can't prove its own consistency.
I was thinking the same thing, it would have been a nice idea.
> Apple also maintains very high margins, something that leaves more than enough room for another company to compete on price. The trap here is instead of producing a good product at a better price, most companies produce the cheapest possible product in a race to the bottom.

This is what companies like Anker and Aukey are doing too. They compete directly against Apple's accessories with a well polished, durable product, for cheaper than what Apple charges.
And Egan's other book Distress. Which goes further into the OP's second point. Not actually needing to calculate everything.
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> It's not really comparable to IE. MS had a pretty explicit goal of destroying Netscape

While Chrome has the goal to destroy everything else.

Example 1: Google Chrome spam on youtube, gmail, every website on the internet. I can't count the amount of times my parents called and asked why Google asked them to "upgrade their browser" (hint: It wasn't a new Firefox-build).

Example 2: Sending email SPAM to all Google-users where they are advised to install Chrome if they ever sign in to their Google-account on a new machine using anything except Chrome.

Example 3: Installing Chrome unasked as drive-by installers when you install anything lots of freeware, because Google paid third-party developers to host Chrome as a spyware-like installation in their installer.

Google is using spyware techniques to deploy their fucking browser. Google is literally working on killing all other browsers.

And for the good of the web, this should be reason enough to instantly and permanently uninstall Chrome.

Had Microsoft done a fraction of this for anything they did, you'd seen social media and the EU causing a shit-storm. How come Google gets a free pass?
Here's something more philosophical concerning the mathematical universe hypothesis:

http://shelf1.library.cmu.edu/HSS/2015/a1626190.pdf
This.

If I don't believe this is tongue in cheek then i am very out of touch

Young people do not learn respect for their elders as a matter of course. Imagine a school where disruption is built in!
Indeed. The bird has left the nest. ;)
Couldn't they use Firefox?
I work at a large bank. Mostly people hold all relevant knowledge in their own head, and when they receive a request for information they only respond if their manager knows yours. Then, they will mostly refuse to create any type of actual document and instead request that you set up a meeting with them through Outlook. They are of course completely booked on their Outlook calendar for at least the next few weeks, and then when you do get to talk to them they use obtuse department-specific acronyms as much as possible so that by the time you've started to understand the surface of their answer they have to leave for an urgent meeting.
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The way developed countries handle that is through regulation (specifically, fines). That changes the cost equation.

Eg. Germany passed a law that fines Facebook if they don't comply with German hate speech laws.
The browser vendor CAN'T install tarmac in shops floor.

The shop controls the server the user rightly controls the experience on their machine. The browser vendor provides an application that runs on the users machine. If the shop doesn't like it they can pound sand or suggest the user would be better off with a different browser.

They can perhaps rightly say that the deviation from standard is unfriendly or sub optimal but one would hope they wouldn't appeal to imaginary authority derived from a bad analogy.

A raven isn't like a writing desk and a client server interaction isn't like a user visiting a physical store.

Analogies can serve to communicate but when you use them to prove a point the only thing you prove is your lack of understanding of the matter.