skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where would that end? How could anyone be confident that their actions would not land them in jail, if following the letter of the law did not guarantee safety, and judges or juries could decide that their interpretation of the "spirit" of the law was enough to result in a guilty verdict?
I don't really care that much if WeWork goes under; I do care if a bunch of kids get a sub-par "experimental" education that hurts them for life.
> If I were king, I would enact short term limits and regulation preventing any politician from increasing their networth while in office and for a period thereafter

As an aside... I can't see this ever working, it wouldn't prevent monetary bribery, it would just arbitrarily defer it. I suppose it would at least make it less attractive, but that is subjective.
There a few. I published a paper in the Journal of Information Policy once, whose (small) expenses are covered by a grant, IIRC from libraries that would otherwise have to pay through a publisher. Very field specific, though.
Isn't that what the World Wide Web was designed to do, before the web app? Why not just publish online on a university site, or a site for your specialty?
Could you please post civilly and substantively, like the guidelines ask, or not at all?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My personal favorite is lazy loading a traditional grid system with Javascript if there's no css grid support...
Certainly seems like we're headed that way. Not sure how it solves the revenue model problem but it'll be simpler for consumers for sure.
We can't unfortunately. With Github it's all or nothing. We need to enforce code reviews for all merges for certain branches anyway for legal reasons.
The SEC has $$ and ability to get Guys In Robes(tm) to send Guys With Guns(tm) to enforce its "outdated" laws.

Edit: down voting this does not change the facts of life.

Courts have more power than crypto enthusiasts/crypto promoters/pump and dump peddlers/etc. That power is enforced by Guys With Guns.
I believe Nintendo would be better off making little to no money on the Joycons.

What's funny if you abstract this concept out a bit in becomes "I believe the company would be better off making little to no money on their products."

Joking aside, that sounds like quite the gamble to me. And it doesn't appear to me that Nintendo likes that gamble, as they have been pretty averse to taking losses on hardware in the past.

Not to mention I don't know of too many other console makers that are willing to take losses on the accessories.
Strange? Yes, it's strange that the first amendment be ignored by the courts themselves when ordering such a clearly unconstitutional injunction. It basically boils down to the government telling ISPs and other sites what legal text they can and cannot write on their sites. I cannot think of a clearer, more direct violation of the first amendment.
Solution: Hire a librarian. I'm not kidding in any way. They are massively underemployed and are very good at exactly this task. Back at PBwiki we hired a librarian who not only organized all the things but ended up running and building our support organization.

Do not tell them what tool to use, let them own your knowledge base and make their requests for information understood to be P1 priority.
Why wouldn't reality contain contradictions?
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Oh no, not regular hours.
I was reading through trying to find out whether this is a joke...

[There's a nice subreddit for things like this called r/nottheonion/]
checks date

Nope, it's not April 1st.
I don't believe that this is accurate. Apple believes they are in compliance and at this time it appears the US federal government agrees. If the government was to disagree, they could take action and force Apple to comply with the existing tax laws. Apple would have their day in court and precedent would be set. Should Apple win that case, then we'd need to look into creating new laws.

I am not convinced that new laws are necessary, in fact, I think this just used to distract from the issue and to allow the polishing of that old chestnut about more laws creating more loopholes.

It is my opinion, but I do feel the argument that the problem is the law, and not the large corporations who can afford to flout them, is disingenuous. Apple is under no obligation to pay as little taxes as they can convince themselves is reasonable.
> That is not the Chrome web-teams decision to make. The point of standards is that the standards should be followed, regardless of your or anyone elses opinion. If you disagree with a standard, you work to change the standard, you don't just change your browser's implementation of the standard, break a ton of functionality all over the web, and then sit there saying "well that's how it should be."

You're exaggerating the point of standards, and/or confusing them with specifications. Standards have always been open to (ed: some amount of) interpretation with regards to how they are implemented.
> does anyone know of a service that's similar to Airbnb but for office space?

I know of https://liquidspace.com/ and https://www.pivotdesk.com/ but neither is really quite "Airbnb for office space." I too would really like to know if such a thing exists!
Moving from Heroku to AWS
A manual review would cost what, a dollar at most?

That's about 1/2000th of FB's yearly revenue. They should be able to handle that.
Be careful, you're rejecting the rule of law if you advocate for legal repercussions. What you judge to be immoral may not be judged to be immoral by others. When outrage of the masses is the sufficient condition for legal punishment, we have mob rule.

Apple should be held accountable by whom? The government? The consumer? Apple did not break a law, so law enforcement cannot hold them accountable. The consumer can decide not to buy Apple products though, that is a reasonable response.
> If they make it illegal to offshore money...

... then the US would immediately end up losing all it's multinational companies to less insane countries.
This is really the problem that comes from Youtube's "Heroes" program and having users police each other's content. You remove choice from the equation, and as a result, content becomes watered-down and a lot of more interesting topics are suppressed.

I will say that granted, some content is definitely too grotesque or offensive that it should be left off the platform (e.g. beheadings, murder, porn, etc), however I suspect this kind of content is much more "black and white" and can be detected and removed with much less controversy.
In this case it's speculation on unregulated penny stocks rather than currency speculation, but yeah, same applies. Cryptoland seems doomed to repeat the mistakes made by the traditional markets over the last couple of centuries.
DWI is a broad limitation on the use of any substance that impairs its user while driving. Texting is called "distracted driving" in some states/countries.

The drugs can be made legal, the consequences would still be the same. Except in cases where someone smoked cannabis last week and it still shows up a week later as metabolites, which is only a problem because the substance is illegal in most states still.
In the face of ambiguity, guess.

There should be N-- and preferably only N --obvious ways to do it.
Except that the Chrome behaviour isn't non-conforming. AFAICT, honoring autocomplete="off" is not required UA behaviour. It's a 'should', not a 'must'.
I was also seeing problems with Comcast in San Francisco, but they resolved just before I found this thread (~11:30 PST)
I wonder who else uses those tax tricks. Why isn't there somekind of SaaS that enables tax avoidance for everyone ?
I don't think the satellite was standing on the ground at the time it took the photo, though :-)
An alternative for this case for you might be the enterprise version of StackOverflow? We have that internally at the company, but it's not particularly friendly for the use cases our small team has.
Is her book satire? Or maybe dystopian science fiction?

Either way, it sounds like an interesting read.
Sure, but how does paying the publisher enter into this? The scientist may well be happy to have their paper shared freely after publication, since they receive no reward from the publisher. Scientists are only being irrational if they have choice in the matter. If they are forced to publish by the community / university, they may well resent being forced to use such publishers.
Apple spent ~$3.5 million on lobbying in the first 6 months of the Trump administration: https://9to5mac.com/2017/07/21/apple-trump-lobbying-increase...

How many times do we have to reiterate the point that large corporations and the people who own them spend a fortune on lobbying sitting politicians and bankrolling their election campaigns, and that the controls on such spending limits have been systematically dismantled over the years, in decisions like Citizens United, among others?

Trotting out these facile arguments like 'it's not corporations, it's the laws!' without acknowledging this point borders on trolling. Could you please do your fellow HNers the courtesy of acknowledging what they're actually saying instead of just repeating simplistic shallow comebacks?
What is Broadcom, and why is it trying to buy Qualcomm?
I would be more concerned they have lost revenue growth. That's usually the reason why companies start branching out before they have an established business model.
These are basically the same issues we have. We've ruled it out entirely as a suggestion. Markdown documents and searching on disk is better than Confluence.
everything's back up for me
Only thing I have to say in all this is any changes made on the web should always be backward compatible.
Apple has actually argued for better tax laws (that they'd pay more under!) but the problem here is that the US is absolutely a complete anomaly in how it handles this issue.

It's literally cheaper for Apple to store the cash outside the US and then get loans for the money they can't bring into the country.

That's just wacky. For a country that is incredibly pro-business and pro-corporate the USA is very strange on this front.
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This is the icky part:

* by appearing in the US court defenders would put themselves into the court's jurisdiction. It is a virtual certainty that the defendants will lose.

* by not appearing in the US court the defendants would get a default judgement against them. A third party might claim that a court ordering ISP blocking becomes a kangaroo court, but that third party has no standing in the case and unless for some strange reason a judge decides to do more than just follow a default procedure whatever is asked in the lawsuit would be granted to the plaintiff.

Edit: In theory, a plaintiff can ask as a part of a relief to make a defendant walk around a block for three hours, making donkey noises and if a defendant does not show up it may very well end up being awarded as a part of a default judgement. By appearing, the defendant most likely can get this part of the remedy tossed but at the same time by appearing the defendant would place itself into court's jurisdiction.

So it is a no win case for a defendant.
> alcohol deaths are a much lower percentage of the drinking population than opioid deaths are to opioid users

Unlike alcohol and tobacco, a lot of opioid use is illegal, and a lot is prescribed by doctors - this makes for a very different playing field.

If opioids were legally and openly sold, it would likely have a big impact (I'm not saying they should be, BTW).

Regulation would mean quality control, so you'd be much more likely to get what you thought you were buying.

Another example, if choice was available, almost no recreational opioid user would choose fentantyl or some of the random opioid RCs that pop up, instead opting for safer versions.
"In my book, there's no reasons why we can't take money from the parents of children in elementary school."

This has nothing to do with enabling entrepreneurial youth. The vast majority of cases will involve students whose parents bankroll, manage, or outright run, the business.

"Cute kid invents innovative new 3d printing process, with only minor help from dad (Masters mechanical engineering), and mom (MBA Stanford, Google Project manager)."
Ah thanks, my viewing of them was limited entirely to secondary school lessons so I assumed a lot were intended with this audience in mind, sort of a forerunner to bitesize.
Fungibility is something other cryptocurrencies have and that could be added to bitcoin via a hard fork.

That's one of the strengths of cryptocurrencies: they can adapt. And, in my opinion, which version is most valuable is decided by the community -- not the miners, but the people who are buying and selling.
Prove it. I think companies like being in the US because of the sophisticated capital markets, strong and predictable legal environment, and deep pockets of American consumers. I'd like some evidence instead of hyperbole.
gitit is a lightweight wiki that:

reads markdown

has an online editor available

stores in git

and is searchable.
Trust networks seem to work here: for example I've reported accounts like "Blacksmith Arms" (not a real example) for being not a real person. Blacksmith Arms is a common pub name, it's a business account masquerading as a user which is (or was) against Facebook rules.

Facebook responded on a couple of such reports but the accounts weren't altered.

If my account had sufficient standing then the action could have been automated. My accounts actions could then be meta-moderated by other accounts that are more trusted.

You make decisions using reports from trusted accounts, and verify them with multiple more-trusted accounts. Verified actions improve an accounts trust level.

Surely Facebook already use such a system? I imagine Google Maps are using such a trust network too?

Use the scale of the system to manage itself.
> it’s bottom-feeding scum behavior any time you see it

So, if you see it, then...
What are you going to do when you cash out? Declaring tens of thousands of dollars of income as capital gains is going to be suspicious (because capital gains has much lower tax rate than regular income), so you better make sure you have all the documentation to prove to the IRS auditors that you're not trying to evade taxes.
My kids are on YouTube Kids all the time, and this is terrifying:

> "Someone or something or some combination of people and things is using YouTube to systematically frighten, traumatise, and abuse children, automatically and at scale, and it forces me to question my own beliefs about the internet, at every level"

Something about a lot of the videos I have watched along with my kid has always felt "off" to me. It makes 100% sense that a lot of the content on certain channels might be produced algorithmically, and uploaded en masse.
Presumably that's because relational data is much easier to work with when you aren't using ML, so most companies have a lot of pre-existing data to work with and can jump right in and start using ML without collecting a lot of new data.

Image ML will take much longer to catch on because companies haven't historically had much of a reason to collect image data in quantities that are too large for humans to deal with manually, so they are pretty much starting from scratch when it comes to data collection.
This is true, but:

> When we derive the consequences of a theory, we introduce new
concepts — protons, molecules, stars — because they are
convenient

Couldn't matter itself be just another "human", "convenient" concept? Indeed the author writes:

> our external physical reality is assumed to be purely mathematical

Why should a purely mathematical reality also be material? Doesn't this lead to the logical conclusion that ideas, err, maths is "all that there is"?

Sure, in this case ideas are objective and not subjective, but Berkeley's "mind of God" argument also leads to an objective, albeit immaterial reality, doesn't it?
As a person who would love more freelancing opportunities, the market is littered with sketchy proposals, undercut / underpaid projects, and just a bad experience.

Software Engineering Daily had a episode[1] on Gigster that seems to be trying to solve this, but I have no experience with that. They also tout only hiring "1% of all developers who apply," which doesn't really solve the other 99% of freelancer's problems.

[1] https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/10/13/gigster-with...
It does, but it also makes it trivial for Mozilla to notice that this is happening and then they can weed that extension out before it gets published.
Reading the comments here make me feel Chrome is like Uber. They may be right in that the standards are outdated and force change. Yet, it breaks all rules and regulations which they shrug off saying the rules have to change.

Again, this is not a comment to choose sides. Just an observation. As with Uber I can’t say if I’m in favor or against. By law, they are wrong. In time, it may turn out they have led change. Funny thing how you can get applauded as patriots for breaking the rules early as long as you were right in the end but critiqued otherwise.
They could also get their thumbs out of their asses, but they won't.
If you take a look at /r/ChronicPain, it's evident that this is already impacting on a lot of people.

We don't need to demonise opioids, we need to carefully control their use.
> The example above, from a channel called Bounce Patrol Kids, with almost two million subscribers, show this effect in action. It posts professionally produced videos, with dedicated human actors, at the rate of about one per week.

This is basically lifted straight from The Diamond Age. Stephenson foresaw something weirdly like this, except it wasn't automated.
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20 top Afrikan startups enter World Bank Group's digital acceleration program
Yes. It was announced in local NYC papers a month ago:

https://tribecacitizen.com/2017/10/06/wework-is-co-launching...
Early empiricists find naturally-occurring GABAergic substance effective in preventing unwanted thoughts; advise “Drown your sorrows.”
Gotta indoctrinate them early to the capitalist way.

And the justification is such a load of crap: kids, and adults for that matter, are perfectly capable of "developing their passions" without wrapping it in the cloak of _business_.

The idolization of business culture has gotten completely out of hand.
People lost a lot of money (some all of it) in the dot.com bubble. Despite all those stocks and IPOs being "regulated".
And in that case those stockes were heavily peddled by well known brokers or advisors (not the case in ICOs yet). Does it feel better if you lose your money in a "regulated" way? Can you recover it? When $65b disappeared thanks to Madoff the SEC looked the other way (or not at all, rather). His company was "regulated" too. But you cannot even sue the SEC...Regulation adds costs for lawyers, auditors, brokers and the exchange. But it doesn't prevent you from losing it - as the dot.com bubble demonstrated.
Not for much longer, I think Firefox 57 is schedule for release on November 14th.
Related talk and slides:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iffTJ1vPCSo
https://schd.ws/hosted_files/osseu17/84/Replace%20UEFI%20wit...

Interesting Atom boards mentioned in the talk:
https://minnowboard.org/
So an N = 1 anecdote, but as a kid, in elementary school (albeit not kindergarten) I was interested in starting my own business. There was a bank in the area run specifically for young people (the Young Americans Bank in Denver, CO - it's amazing) that essentially had a club for that.

Most of it was kids selling handcrafts and things, but as I recall, there was one girl who had a custom map/layout design company and some others.

I think it was immensely valuable in teaching me how a business worked by thinking about applying it to the things I wanted to do, but it also had an ample helping of understanding the downsides, and at this point in my life, whenever there's a push to increase entrepreneurship in my field, my first reaction is "Uggh..."
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Absolutely, but you MUST watch from the beginning, in sequence, as the characters are developed and backstories unfold. Clunes does a brilliant job of being a total jerk.

At first.

It's far more than your typical fish-out-of-water setup.
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Treat income of any foreign company wholly owned or with substantially similar ownership structure of a domestic company as taxable income for that domestic company.

I don't think this is a good idea; I'm just demonstrating that it's not impossible.
An interesting article addressing this from Sabine Hossenfender: http://backreaction.blogspot.in/2007/10/mathematical-univers...

Her more recent article (review of Max Tegmark's book) also comments on the same subject: http://backreaction.blogspot.in/2017/11/book-review-max-tegm...
This needs care, but I don't see why they can't just rate limit key activity from high risk accounts that are reported, then let the person carry on. If they're genuine then things like friend requests will get accepted but if they're fake, those will get a poor response and seal their fate.

Simple: earn trust through good behaviour. And it's not too heavy handed for the false positives.
Stop moralizing the behavior of companies. They aren't humans.

OK, then they don't get to participate in politics by lobbying or making political donations of any kind, or buying political advertising.