skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most Irish people are aware that the primary appeal of the country to multinationals is as a tax-efficient English-speaking common law bridge into the EU, in approximately that order. The specific amounts flowing across the bridge, no, I don't think people are generally aware of the numbers.

But because it is a bridge, we Irish don't really have a strong claim on that money: the revenue was generated somewhere else, and it's going somewhere else, it's just resting in Ireland for a while.

There's a bunch of hypocritical talk from other EU countries criticising Irish tax rates, all the while having lots of carveouts and tax breaks of their own that reduce supposedly high rates to nearly nothing in various deals. For example, France has an effective rate of about 8% on profits for companies in the the CAC40. Luxembourg is much worse, it's practically a tax haven that avoids being listed as such somehow, probably down to location.

In principle I'm in favour of something like the common consolidated corporate tax base. The problem with taxing multinationals comes down to game theory: if there's a common market between countries, there's a race to the bottom in tax rates for hosting multinationals. So there needs to be a pact.
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It baffles me that people ignore the fact that they have subjectivity when making these claims. It makes a certain amount of sense since science itself aims to remove any taint of subjectivity in its practice, so folks who want to be thoroughly 'scientific' in other aspects of their lives (e.g. their personal philosophies of reality) carry over over this ideal.

But it's also a contradiction since science scientific methodology demands we check our results empirically: the fact that you have subjectivity (i.e. that qualia exist) and what it's like, is the most direct empirical fact we have access to and which needs reconciling in any discussion of the universe's constitution.

I think people sort of push this point aside either by saying that qualia/subjectivity could be generated by math (or a computational process), and that's what really matters. But we have no examples of abstract math generating anything; physical processes generate things and we use math to influence their behavior—but that's it! And furthermore, even if math generated subjectivity—it's still there in all of its un-mathematical obviousness at the end of the day.

I've yet to see an argument in favor of math having higher ontological status than this which wasn't every bit as unrestrainedly imaginative and unfounded as Plato's 'ideal forms'. I would expect a thoroughgoing adherent to scientific methodology to instead say something on the lines of, "this is outside the domain of science to judge one way or the other; the most we can say is the idea that reality is made of math is one untestable hypothesis among many whose probabilities of correctness each approach zero by dint of their many peers."
I agree, publicly funded research should be public domain, where the authors cannot legally transfer the copyright to the publishers like that. However, most Journals do offer a way to publish open access, and I bet they would push things that direction. They just cost thousands of dollars, that most of the time is not affordable.
Would you accept that everyone in a community be sent a speeding ticket for prior behavior if a road's speed limit was reduced from 45MPH to 35MPH? In spirit, the first speed limit was set for a safety reason right? Clearly everyone disobeyed the spirit of that limit by going faster than 35MPH and necessitating the limit be reduced. Pay up.
All these legal theories will not matter, because the entire problem will immediately become dangerously political.

When the protesters started marching in 2011 in Syria, Bashir thought that he could solve the problem by putting a lot of them in jail. Well, outside the small area that he still controls today, the entire Syrian police force has been exterminated. They are all dead now.

The political situation in many countries is already explosive without provocation. The state-sanctioned banking system is generally hated. Too many people already are looking to overthrow the ruling elite. All that they still need, is a flimsy excuse.
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> a browser should be the extension of the users desires.

In a perfect world that would be the case, because the browser would belong to the user. But how much did you pay for your last browser? Consider yourself lucky when the browser does something you consider beneficial.
There seems to be a lot of confusion here. Yes, math notation certainly _can_ be used to write ambiguous expressions. This in itself is not the slightest problem, because it doesn't mean that you are _forced_ to use ambiguous syntax, you never are.
> Peeking at the API indicates I can pass something called an ambisonic order into some functions, but even the constant for the default gives me no obvious indication of what this means.

They're likely referring to Ambisonics[1]. Think of Ambisonics as a 3D Mid-Side encoding, and the signal fed to each speaker is calculated from the differences in these components. Contrast the more common surround setup where each channel corresponds to a speaker directly. Something in an ambisonic format can be decoded to the more common 5.1/7.1 formats.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonics
Is it now possible to do a responsive CSS-only layout a la Masonry/Pinterest, with the correct order of elements using this?:

[1] [2] [3]
[4] [5] [6]
Can we change the title? There are two things wrong with the internet on the front page currently.

The first is children's videos. The second is the actual internet itself.
Looking at the dates on the file list, I suspect not, and that the way you keep up to date is to keep adding the new torrents as they come out.

Since torrents are immutable it makes sense... would otherwise be a pain to update.
I wonder if this might not be a viable revenue model for "premium" services. IE: service is "free", but we're gonna use your CPU cycles for our own benefit.
No, actually "I" (and anyone else building software) am not. Please be civil.
Amazon requires zero interaction? I didn't know, it's been a few years since I have interacted with them, and I always remember my friends and family having to call Amazon to fix some issue, which, good on Amazon for handling that process efficiently.

Any seller who is willing to automate returns and eat costs is good in my book. Sadly, as a small shop, I couldn't automate that process and couldn't eat many costs whether I was in the right or in the wrong. So it was a big problem when Amazon would just automatically side with the customer, no matter how hard I tried to work with them and prove my credibility.

Like I said, I try to avoid issuing chargebacks wherever I can, 99.9999% of my purchases are just fine. But I've charged back 2 plane tickets and 2 parking tickets, believe it or not, and my credit card company was just absolutely stellar in handling the situation for me, since the companies involved were totally corrupt and non responsive.

So the net net of all of this is, unless you have deep pockets to fund your customer service ops (an increasingly large cost center), you will probably get burned on chargebacks and returns.

This will only increase the centralization around Amazon and Walmart, which I would define as "not always a good thing".
With infix notation you can clearly group terms and factors in your head. Postfix makes it almost impossible.
They've been doing tool-assisted runs on real hardware for a while now:

http://tasvideos.org/TASBot.html

In addition to TASBot, there's also a growing practice of using physical rigs to "verify" tool-assisted runs:

http://tasvideos.org/ConsoleVerificationGuide.html

This isn't generally regarded as necessary for a TAS to be valid, but it allows it to work on TASBot and similar rigs, which can help it get in front of a wider audience. It also helps figure out which TAS techniques are theoretically possible in non-TAS runs.
The real problem here is the fact that active listeners are still a problem to begin with.

It'd be absolutely insane if a native app did not get first crack at all input events. This is how they all work (iOS, Android, Windows - take your pick), and the mere existence of a touch/scroll listener is never a problem.

But on the web simply having a scroll listener is such a massive performance issue that it's worth introducing not just a new API to get events after they've happened, but to then make that the default? Why not just fix the performance problem instead of hacking and slashing around it?
Oh ok, got it. That makes sense. I think it was the phrasing in the paper such as "..fusing quarks can release much more energy than anyone thought.." "..energy is involved when quarks fuse together.." and so on that got me. I didn't catch that it's baryons being fused not quarks.
This may be true in some areas but where I live every retailer (gamestop, target, best buy, walmart, fred meyer) is full of available switches, with no bundles attached, selling at MSRP (no additional markup). It's been like that for about a month. I'm sure they will start selling out again as we get closer to the holidays. That said, I'm with the OP in that Nintendo would make more money off me if they sold the controllers for less. So far I bought 3 games (Mario Kart [again!], Street Fighter II [again!], and Super Mario Odyssey), all of which have multiplayer modes, but none of which we have played multiplayer more than once because using the tiny joycons sideways is just terrible, but the cost of an additional controller is too much. It's not that I can't afford it, it's just that the value isn't there. So far, none of the games is good enough that it's worth spending the extra $$ to buy another controller. If the controllers were $40 I would have bought 2 of them by now, probably. I get how silly that sounds.
Funny to hear him discuss people omitting “to be” in Pittsburgh. The car needs washed. (@3:30)

That was one of my more difficult habits to break. Anyways...just kidding.
It's well-dressed, well-spoken, well-connected cultishness. They're Branch Davidians. If you've gotten that far into a belief system, you'll do anything to promulgate it, even at the expense of children.
USC 2257 compliance comes to mind. With that on the books, a nebulous definition of what it means to be compliant and no precedent for interpretation, I'd hate to be in the adult industry when any administration decides to start enforcing it.
With evergreen browsers, that basically requires a dev team to adjust the code and release/deploy a new version every X months.

WHICH IS OKAY, if we're talking about security/privacy, but performance ... not really. Let the market (and the users) decide. If a site takes forever to load, and scrolling is impossible because it takes ages to scroll, and burns a mark in your palm in that time, then maybe you'll reconsider visiting that site ever again.
This is just arrogance.

From a historical perspective, this is nowhere near the sort of behavior one saw from Microsoft in the 90’s, but that’s pretty faint praise - nobody wants anything like that to happen again. You shouldn’t have people contributing to competing products out of spite.

I hope we never hit the point again where it is a cliche for FOSS people to bond over shared hatred of a company. I’d like to think we have been inoculated against that. I like to see people who will speak up like this early and often.
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Well, given that this controller talks bluetooth, wouldn't a logical way to control the input be to write a BT stack that emulates the controller?

I know its not the legit real controller, but buttons are buttons (analog or digital). As long as you don't mod the console itself, that should be fine for the TAS community, no?
I'm talking about literally dozens of verbatim-identical posts on known-divisive issues, from different accounts in different cities — or even countries, though many-to-most of them are already in the US, mitigating so much of your counter-argument — and specifically not the viewpoint they're espousing (except insofar as that viewpoint tends, "with a probability approaching unity", to be driving an extant sociocultural or political wedge further in). This is about form, not content. You really need to understand that or we're talking past one another, and this conversation is moot.

For another example of what I'm talking about, I saw a video a couple of holiday shopping seasons ago, that showed clips from local newscast after local newscast, from dozens of TV stations across the country, all prattling on — verbatim — about how you should "buy yourself a gift this Christmas!" It's a manipulation, that no-one not seeing the broadcasts from multiple markets will ever notice, because they never see another market's telecast.

Obviously, if Facebook can aggregate these posts well enough to present them on a single "trending story" feed, they can damned well perform the step further analysis to check whether they're dropping verbatim posts, and whether there's anything else hinky about the accounts submitting those identical posts. These accounts, if they're fake, are being used to sow disinformation and dissension. They are not dialogue or diplomacy, let alone "direct people to people interaction".

Facebook's "right" to grow in non-US markets is completely orthogonal to that, and also — IMO — way less important than, you know, "a functioning democracy."

EDIT: phrasing.
Ultimately this is still legally undecided, and will remain so until a court decides it. Given that cryptocurrency exchanges have operated in a legal and straightforward way by treating cryptocurrencies as money, I suspect that courts will tend towards preserving the status quo.

It is true that in other legal contexts courts and governments have decided to treat Bitcoin as a commodity, but they have no problem calling it "money" when requiring exchanges to register as money service businesses. This is not inconsistent because the definitions of "money" and "commodity" are local to each law; tax law has a narrower definition of money than the laws regulating money service businesses.

So it would be perfectly reasonable and consistent to say that, for the purposes of title, cryptocurrencies are treated as money regardless of the way they are treated elsewhere in the law.

Even if Bitcoins are treated as a commodity for property law purposes, title is unlikely to follow them in practice. If I take some BTC from source A and put it in an address, and then some BTC from source B and put it in the same address, the two lots of BTC are now mixed up in a single address. In cases where this occurs as a physical process (e.g. putting petrol in a car) the law (at least in the UK, I don't know about anywhere else) treats the mixing as a one-way step. So if you put petrol in your car and then find you can't pay, the garage is not allowed to siphon the petrol back out because they will inevitably take some of your petrol as well as their own. Once the mixing has happened the petrol is your property, although of course you still have to identify yourself and accept the debt, or be guilty of "making off without paying". Similar arguments apply to food at a restaurant.

By a similar argument, it can be argued that once stolen Bitcoins have been mixed with others in a common address it is not possible to distinguish the stolen bitcoins. Hence they become the property of the person who has acquired them.

Whether these arguments will actually persuade a court remains to be seen, but the legal situation is more complex than the original article lets on.
This question is kind of subjective as there are many ways to have a successful career in tech. You can deep dive and learn lots of technical skills in computer science or you can go down the business route and learn about management and market trends and go that route.
A broader answer is, just keep learning new things and surround yourself with people that push you to do something.
One universal answer is, read a lot, as its been shown many successful people read a lot more books then the average person.
On a related note with the watch, try making a call using the watch as a speakerphone.

I know a lot of people hate this feature, but i use it all the time while driving. It will literally, every time, connect the call then go to "call failed" after 5~ seconds. This is completely reproducible on my parents and roommates S0's even after a pair/unpair(which is to my understanding the closest you can get to a "restore")

I've also gotten this to completely lock up the watch at the 'call failed' screen a few times, too
Very impressive. I will be using this in future.
Some authors use conventions such as boldface for vectors and capital letters for matrices. There are also often conventions around different types of e.g. scalars. a, b, c are typically used for different things than i, j, k, within a text.
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Fuck Facebook. Delete your account.
A corporation's singular goal is to maximize profits, by definition. That's exactly what they've done by taking Russian money and using it to influence our elections. If you want justice, it's simple. Delete your account and don't use any Facebook services. Then we need laws regarding political "ads" and the internet, in addition to a lot of other changes our system obviously needs. Facebook will fight change as long as it affect their bottom line.
The flip flops trump has made between extreme statements then dial backs when people give him a few political points have far more whiplash than any US president that I can recall.
They feel entitled to roam around in the woods without adult supervision, they come home muddy, they don't learn that you have to pay for everything, and their self-learned knowledge of manipulating the physical/natural world is scary and disempowering to tech weenie parents.
You know. Open access just means paid for by the researcher. Not everyone has that kind of money..
No, that is not true. Their intractability has absolutely nothing to do with the precision of measurement. Assume the initial condition with infinite precision and the further evolution of the system is still intractable. Ignoring the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for a moment and getting to the heart of chaos theory the problem is the production of information at a rate faster than any existant (and I believe, though I don't understand it well enough to give exact details) or fundamentally possible future system of mathematics can compensate for. Nonlinear systems (ie, essentially everything in existence) display chaos (extreme sensitivity to initial conditions, period-doubling, whatever you wish to call it) on every scale. Were the universe mathematics and mathematics alone, all things which are provably outside of the grasp of mathematics would also be non-existent. Such things, however, do exist.

While we may not be able to predict the location of a single molecule of air in a mere 10,000 years with a rough accuracy of a cubic femtometer, the universe does it. And our inability to predict it is not because we need a bigger computer. Our inability to predict it is because in order to predict it, we would have to simulate the entire universe and every single particle within it, and every interaction between all of them, to infinite (ehhh... maybe) precision. Which would have an information load exactly as big as the universe itself and increase entropy (which implies it takes as much time) as much as actual evolution of the entire universe over that course of time. To predict one molecule of air. And the universe does it for all the molecules of air. Along with all the other particles.
>At the end of the day, there is no way you as a corporation can entirely subvert a nation state.

There are countless examples of this happening, from the East India Company (who essentially ruled India for a century) to the United Fruit Company to present-day Shell Oil.
Don't worry. By the time they grow up, we will have renamed the position of "Intern" into "Participation CEO".
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Peer review has little to no financial impact..
> In her own family, she said, “there are no lines” between work and life or home and office.

This line also stuck out. Seems horribly dystopian to me and yet is presented without comment. Sad that these people are considered "thought leaders" and that viewpoint is presented with anything but scorn.
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There's a constant noise for data after the connection has been negotiated. I'm not sure how loud it would have to be to work.

I do remember hooking up two modems directly with a phone line, turning off dial tone detection on the answering modem and issuing an ATA on the answering modem and a ATDT on the calling modem and negotiating a connection that way. It still was only able to transmit at roughly 3 KB/sec.
It seems that you're suggesting that we tax corporations on overseas income, even when reinvested overseas. That would put American companies at an extreme disadvantage compared to those from other countries, by forcing them to pay double taxes, US and foreign corporate taxes, on all income.

The logical solution is to get rid of the corporate tax altogether. The only reason why it exists is to be a plank for politicians who want to tax the "greedy corporations." All corporate income is either paid as dividends, paid as salaries, or reinvested. When it is paid as dividends, it is taxed as capital gains. When it is paid as salaries, it is taxed as income. When it is reinvested, it is either lost, or eventually becomes income and capital gains. There is no need to have another layer of taxation that just makes a giant accounting mess and creates all sorts of ridiculous incentives to use tax shelters.
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Just use Bulma. You can drop it into any project. https://bulma.io/documentation/columns/sizes/

Your example can be accomplished like this:

<div class="columns">
<div class="column is-half">m:2*</div>
<div class="column">1*</div>
<div class="column">m:*1</div>
</div>

There's a good reason to limit yourself to 12 columns: the layout is consistent across all common screen sizes, whether it's tiny mobile screens or huge desktop screens. If you have sizes like 1.374fr, you lose a lot of that automatic layout functionality.
You see an interesing article.

I see a new ringtone :)
But the contradiction is in the mathematical model not reality. Even a totally random universe follows some kind of distribution, which can then be modelled (which is exactly what QM is).
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Direct from the README of the linked library:

> However, it's not recommended to use this library as browser detection since the result may not accurate than using feature detection.
weirdly, i regularly had or witnessed the messages issue in iOS 9 and 10, but haven't seen it once on 11(on a 5S, 6, and 6S+ both sides). That's been fixed for me since 11.0

I wonder why some of these are so ridiculously inconsistent