skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
presumably if google broke your crappily marked up website then you'd be able to justify fixing it?

so what's the problem?
Im not a legal person so I apologize, but how does intent play into this then. If Im climbing with someone and I accidentally drop them and they die, then I have to show that my intent wasn't to murder them right? Can't you make the same argument here, the crime is that apple didn't pay the full taxes it owed the government don't they still have to prove that their intent wasn't dodging taxes?
I agree. This would make an interesting after-school program. Not a full education.
We The People don't have any other suitable mechanisms to reign in businesses. I'm a citizen first, and a buyer of stuff and owner of shares a distant, distant second.

The laws, that I get to, in at least some way, help craft as a citizen of a country are the only real voice I can meaningfully exert, far more than a boycott or trying to buy shares and sit on a board. And that's a power every voter has.

Heck yeah I want to maximize the government's power to make a better life for me and everyone else--the corp's not looking out for us, but we are.
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It was directed at the general posture of comments disassembling and not believing his business model, saying that he cannot be as good as Walmart at predicting demand and hence should go out of business, etc.
All Azure North Central Databases Down
Anyone else experiencing an outage with Azure? We host many many dbs in North Central and they've all been knocked out this afternoon.
The problem is after it changes owners through exchanges and tumblers. It's like stolen cash being deposited into a bank and given back to someone it was stolen from 5 years and hundreds of transactions before.

It wouldn't be fair to anyone if we did that with cash, and it's not fair to try to enforce that with bitcoin.
I love that sort of sleuthing. It displays an incredible depth of knowledge of her subject area (signal processing), and great intuition.
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Where did the $3.5 go to?

> The company specifically outlined in its filing that a strong focus of its lobbying has been for immigration.

> In addition to immigration, Apple’s government filing indicates lobbying for climate change, patent reform, accessibility, health initiatives, diversity, and education.

Seems like worthwhile lobbying to me.
drunk driving deaths are a tiny fraction of deaths caused by or hastened by alcohol.

About 11,000 people die in drink driving accidents in the US. Compare that to only cirrhosis, which kills over 30,000 people per year. Excessive alcohol causes about 1 in 10 deaths in the 18-64 age group in the US.
Maybe the idea is that it's a DSL?
If you paste WSJ links into http://archive.is, you get the article. http://archive.is/ytv5S
Regarding 3. It's rumored in the chip design community that NVidia designed an x86 CPU and got as far as engineering sample silicon but the project was cancelled because they couldn't work out the licensing.
How long was your development time?
Ah, gotcha - I had been imagining you meant prev/next with respect to a playlist.

I think you can do that in Mixxx using the "cue" button. While playing, tapping "cue" will rewind to the beginning of the track and pause; pressing "cue" and holding it down will preview from the beginning. While previewing, you can press "play" before releasing "cue" in order to continue playing; otherwise, releasing "cue" will rewind to the beginning and pause.

So, you'd use a similar workflow: play from the beginning of the track and tweak until beatmatched, then press and hold "cue" to rewind to the beginning and start playing from the first beat. If it works, press "play", release "cue", and bring up the fader; if it didn't work, just release "cue" to rewind, then try again.
Great they mostly cared about patent portfolio the rest of Motorola was just a side bonus
There are some big confluence UI annoyances though:

- wide screen support (paragraphs to across the whole screen)

- Every page is a folder and the add-button is visually above the current page in the hierarchy, but creates a child page. Easy for techies once they figured it out, hard for new people and the rest of the company.

- no tree-view by default

- comments can't be seen in edit-mode

- no markdown

Biggest pro though:

- collaborative editing in a wiki (and still a dedicated edit-mode so work in progress remains hidden from those trying to just read the resource)
The US is the only country which does this though. From an outsiders perspective, it seems unreasonable. The rules have become significantly harsher in recent years. Banks may avoid dealing with Americans, and there is a lot of paperwork to prove you owe zero.
How about an (technical advisor to a) buyer for a company like Adafruit, that both resells SoC/microcontroller "developer boards", and puts out their own? I could see them writing up their experience in trying to find good SoCs to base their products on, and how they compare to the ones in the boards they resell.
From skimming the documentation it sounds like, rather than being just another library of utility functions, there's a formal language of sorts under the hood that the programming library "compiles to":

Think of this as the compiler for a PPL: it allows us to divide labor between the modeler and the inference expert.

Or something like that. Someone from the team could no doubt produce a better explanation.
The point of regulation isn't too prevent you from losing money, it's to prevent some common forms of fraud.
Nope but someone clearly makes money doing them otherwise they would not do those. Unit economics dictates that those who make money on them would like to do more of them.
A bit of context: with LA traffic 9-5 at WeWork is actually 12-3. Unless you want to leave at 5 AM in the morning and leave WeWork at 2 PM.

My point is, it's just plain inefficient. We got a beach house on Airbnb literally on the beach. I wake up to a beautiful view in the morning.

If I ever feel like I am burning out, I just walk on the beach or grab a beach chair and start hacking away :)
nuget.org has been failing for me. Can't get any packages to download.

All our North Central App Services and Azure SQL instances alike are down.

EDIT: https://status.nuget.org/ is showing that their services are unreachable. Azure portal is unresponsive as well.

EDIT2: Looks like the problem began at 2:41 eastern, and according to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/ it's a problem with North Central.

EDIT3: Issue confirmed by MSFT https://twitter.com/AzureSupport/status/927629300370571264
I would say yes. Intel are better at marketing than AMD (think decades of TV ads and the little Intel Inside stickers).
I am nearly finished now and really enjoyed reading it. The book leaves me with more questions than it answers, I appreciate this in a book though.

It provides just enough information to interest you in a subject, then offers a few common theories with a reasoned most likely case (this is especially prevelant in the beginning of the book due to the lack of information available about humanity tens of thousands of years ago). Most of the assumptions made though are not the author's and there are references in the Notes section at the back if you do want to pursue these further.
You're incorrect about hours, WeWork provides 24-hour access at your assigned office to all members except On-Demand members who pay per-day to acccess a WeWork location. Hot Desk, Dedicated Desk, Private Office all provide 24 hour access. Front Desk / Community Staff are usually present only during 9 - 5, but otherwise there's no difference between 11am on a Monday and 11pm on a Sunday -- I am typing this from my Dedicated Desk at 19:53.

You can see this information on the WeWork Plans page (https://www.wework.com/plans), and you can see events listed after 5pm at the WeWork Irvine location, demonstrating it is not an outlier and is definitely open after 5pm.
But completely ignoring it isn't super helpful either. I run into more issues with chrome autofilling in forms inappropriately than I ever did with forms that I couldn't autofill.

I think the solution is to follow the hint, but give users an override button next to or inside form fields that have it set to off.
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Actually, most of the opioid epidemic is perfectly legal, as they are pharmaceutically-manufactured substitutes for the Opiates found in street drugs like heroin. Which brings up my secondary point, doctors don't prescribe tobacco nor alcohol. Nor do doctors receive incentives from pharmaceutical companies for prescribing tobacco and alcohol, but they do receive incentives for prescribing opioids. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/doj-billionaire-...

That said, are you asserting that society's answer for someone out of control on Opiates is for the state to mandate Opioid use? The addicts I work with all tell me on no uncertain terms that kicking opioids is much harder than kicking opiates.
The more people use the web, the more Google gains. It's really as simple as that. People switching their media consumption from traditional media (TV and dead tree) to the web is what makes Google more money.

How? Advertising budgets follow those eyes. Google is a nobody in TV ads, so doesn't get any part from the (big) money advertisers are currently spending there. If these would switch to targeting the web (where Google is the dominant actor), chances are that huge chunks of those ad budgets will be inserted into Google's giant ad placement machine.
Pure foolishness.

The law says “if you bring your foreign-earned profits abroad, you must pay taxes”. (I left it vague because I’m not an expert but my understanding is Apple would be responsible for around a 30% or higher tax rate).

Apple says, “okay we’re not going to bring the money back at that rate. Instead we’ll leave it invested in liquid assets abroad and take on cheap debt in the US to fund our share repurchases”.

So what’s your proposal? Forced repatriation? I hope it’s clear why that isn’t a good approach.

Our international tax code is completely fucked. Apple’s not the problem.

Full disclosure: My portfolio is heavily weighted towards Apple at an average cost of $120/share
yikes D:
In our society, taxation laws are a system of rules. I think its important that if companies and people are following the law that they're then not held to some other second arbitrary standard.
When talking about "tax avoidance", it is important to be fair. There is only one question, "Is this illegal?", and that question has only two answers.

Wait a minute....so it's important to be fair, but not to examine whether the behavior in question is fair? I get that you want to shift consideration to the rules, but as we all know the rules are up for auction by those willing to spend money on lobbying and financing campaigns.

If we're going 'to be fair' - the standard you're asking for - then I think we need to include that factor in our assessment. Otherwise, it seems like you're appealing to people's instinct to support fairness as a diversion from the rather blatant rigging of the rules, and that doesn't seem fair at all.

There's something disturbing about the prevalence of this rhetorical technique by so many posters whenever this subject comes up. Whether it's cynical or reflexive I don't know, but it is misdirection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlkQPiiLs6U
Is there any way to use just the search engine bit? I don't care much about investing, but it'd be great if you could take the investment-specific information out of the free/public account and just returned the results for searches.
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Yes it does already, and the US is particularly unique in this regard.
Visual Studio Team Services is down for me. :(
> I love that he leaves in all the little mistakes

In fact, in the video I mentioned, someone who was watching his livestream pointed out that he installed a polarized capacitor backwards...
If our reality consists of mathematical programs and the multiverse theory holds, then the theory of everything is a simple incrementing binary counter. Every possible binary string is ran on a Turing machine in a different universe.

The halting problem (endless loops) is sidestepped by being contained to a single universe. Also, apparently our universe got lucky as we get to live in an ordered universe, and not dissolve into nothingness due to a bug in our universe's binary code.

Of course, like "normal" mathematics, "reality" mathematics should also be incomplete. Furthermore, there is no way to know everything of the universe one is a part of, as this requires at least 1 bit more than there are available bits in the universe. But this still allows for the possibility of the universe itself being an inference machine.

Edit: Then again, I believe that mathematics is a mental construct, mathematics does not exist without brains, or if it really exists external to human minds, it exists in all possible forms: Humans do not discover maths as a whole, they cast a local net of subjective observation over it, and keep the things that make sense to our brains and are consistent within the current framework. Again, this does not preclude the possibility that our mathematical reality exists inside the mind of a giant supercomputer.
You get an offset though for the foreign tax you paid, right? So you aren't taxed twice as much as you are just taxed at the higher rate of the two countries.
A common technique is fallback to mobile first layout
Could be useful for blowing up an incoming asteroid. We're currently stuck in a dilemma where if the rock is small enough for a missile to actually wipe it out, it won't be dangerous enough to merit nuking in the first place. If we had a reliable and lightweight bomb that could take out a rock the size of Ceres, we would have a much better chance of defending our planet. Of course we would still have to refrain from annihilating ourselves.
'Have you tried turning it off and on again?'

Many a true word is said in jest.
oh yeah allow the perspective of youngling to come up with a concept of a CRUD app and try to rationalize a business case for it...
I think the EU knows very well that it needs a uniform tax code. This faux outrage - "I am shocked—shocked—to find a tax haven in the channel islands!" - is just laying the political groundwork for the project.
Your margin scenario is exactly what css grid handles nicely (grid gutters)
This is less like a nut that needs turned and more like getting the courts to consistently put "bad people" in jail or define "obscene". Just because it has to do with software does not mean it is a problem software can solve.

Even if it is a human doing it, it still has to scale to many humans, and there are plenty of examples of things we have never manged to get right due to scale well outside of technological limitations.

Even if you could, my example from the article was one human, with one example case, and as another human I didn't see it as a cut-and-dry bot. Try doing that with 20,000. It's not that it would be "costly", it's that it would be an unavoidable train wreck
Technically VATs are almost always collected from customers, and paid by companies. A higher corporate income tax will affect consumer prices too. The bigger difference is that VATs are taxes on consumption, and not on earnings which alters consumer and corporate incentives and behaviour.
I will support in any business that ascribes to the 3 Ps: people, planet, profit, in that order.

If a business maximizes its dividend payouts by stiffing its workers (i.e. potentially my neighbors, friends, family), it's a shitty business and I want it to go away.

If a business maximizes its payouts by wrecking the planet (i.e. my future kids' playground), it's a shitty business and I want it to go away.

BUT, after a business looks out for its people and the planet, I want it to make as much money as possible.

Anything else, what kind of shitty life is that to live, or legacy to leave behind?
Maybe someone smarter than me can explain this:

"Also, in a bizarre move, Nintendo didn't use the traditional "one side pulled-up other side to ground" way of reading buttons, instead they used a keypad configuration where buttons are arranged in rows and columns. They used the keypad scanner built-in inside the BCM20734 with 128KHz clock for reading the buttons. That means it would be extremely hard to spoof button presses for TAS and twitch-plays. Maybe the Pro controller is different, need to buy one though."

Why would a 128KHz polling prevent spoofed button presses? Seems like a NPN transistor could easily spoof that - if TAS players are looking at that. Or am I just missing something how TAS players do it now?
Man, this is timely. Work in data science at a startup right now, and table 1 is an incredibly accurate portrayal of my day-to-day. I had just opened a ticket about running analyses on production data before reading this article.
So many websites have "Use with Chrome" that if a user sees the website not working in Chrome, it's likely that the user will assume the website is broken, not the browser.
It's not as if human drivers do, either. The closest we've come is Waze, which would a trivial data set for an autonomous car to both utilize and supplement.
I prefer the syntax of STAN or edwardlib. Curious why Uber would choose to work on a PPL library in-house as opposed to contributing to existing mature OSS packages
Like Madoff...???
If the state charges you with murder, the state has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you intended to kill. You don't have to prove anything. And that's the way it should be.
Do you mean something like https://jsfiddle.net/Mystrl/9uj40kam/1/
This is so cool. Would love to see some screenshots of the UI.
A 'Compensator' is an element that dynamically controls the payout typically based on the current 'hold'. The hold being the amount of money in the machine.

If I recall 'Barcrest' has a range of patents covering compensators. (For those interested).

AWP is Amusement with Prize(s)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusement_with_prize

Not sure about the Dutch market. I recall a game shipping to Netherlands called 'Golden Goals', so I believe they have class 3 gaming machines (at least in Casinos?).

Its possible the machine you are talking about has the BET (per line) set high, so that your current CREDIT amount is insuffient to activate all the available LINES.
On most modern video slots there is a BET per line, a possible ANTEBET a number of LINES to wager on. The total STAKE = BET * LINE + ANTEBET. The LINE lights (or BET lights in USA) will illuminate based on which valid bets.

My advice is press the collect button, take your money and buy yourself a drink :)
Gaming machines work on 'Negative Compound Interest' - thats all you need to know. If you keep re-'investing' you will only end up with a $0 balance.

Finally every Jurisdiction typically operates on different rules. These rules are normally publically available.

For instance NSW Australia has their rules outlined at:
http://www.liquorandgaming.nsw.gov.au/Pages/gaming/gaming-ma...

This covers the national standards that are generally applicable to machines in Australia and New Zealand, and then variations and specializations for the particular market of NSW - management protocols, jackpot behaviour, prohibited features etc.
I'm not complaining about the existence of lobbying per se, I'm pointing out that they have the resources to lobby for special treatment and that companies in general shape the law by paying to influence lawmakers. Please don't obfuscate the point this way.
I think I agree with you - autocomplete=off more often than not just makes me angry. It's honestly a big reason why I prefer Chrome, it tends to do the right thing here.

I didn't realize until now that it doing the right thing from my (the user's) perspective was because it was breaking a web standard, but damn if I don't find it useful.
Gizmodo is reporting that it is a DDoS attack.

https://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-s...

[edit] Dang, I thought I had checked the date. Sorry everyone!
> The fast-growing co-working company joins a growing list of billionaires trying to reshape American education with their influence and investments.

It's no surprise that many of those same billionaires go out of their way to make sure their own children aren't exposed to any of their "reshaping of education".
Chaotic systems are only intractable if you measure the initial conditions with finite precision.
Theoretical physicists are my favorite people. They all sound slightly insane and I love it.
If I recall in Part 11 compliance (which is how the FDA regulates software in the US) one is required to ensure that "Passwords are not remembered by [browsers] and applications."

From an ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148 perspective the language might be "shall not remember passwords" which would imply a legally binding requirement for compliance purposes.

This doesn't preclude applications from using autocomplete on form entry from password managers; just that the browser is not allowed to remember the entered password.

However in practice I've seen most systems deploy their applications on a target platform that runs the browser in "kiosk" mode, which if I recall from the time, was an IE-only thing. In more modern times we're starting to see consumer-level tablets and devices enter the mix and I'm not even sure if those can be locked down into a multi-user/kiosk type mode. Regardless... the web is a difficult platform for this kind of stuff.
There are several Moons in Odyssey which, in traditional Nintendo fashion, make full use of the new system hardware by vibrating the joycons with increasing intensity as you walk around the area until you feel the strongest vibration, which is where the Moon is located.
If congress is to simplify the tax code to $rate = $rate->{calculate_bracket($amount_of_revenue)} then the members of congress would lose 99% of their net worth because there would be nothing special that is worth any money that the members of congress could do so they could reap some money for doing it.

which is why this would never happen.
I mean in the logical sense. If reality could contain logical contradictions then that would mean reality isn't rule-based, which means unconstrained randomness, no information, no meaning, etc.
How about you provide the evidence? If US makes it defacto illegal to operate internationally as a US-based company, the US will lose its economic moat within a matter of decades [citation needed, I know]

I’m not a tax expert but IME the people who are blaming Apple don’t know what they’re talking about. Only the US has such an insane attitude towards international profits.

And remember that there’s no loophole to close, unless the “loophole” is deciding what to do with your capital. Who is the US to tell Apple that its foreign subsidiaries must return their foreign-made profits back to the US?

Also remember that with our current laws, repatriating the money before a tax holiday is arguably a violation of Apple’s fiduciary duty to its shareholders.
The UK doesn't benefit from protecting these dependencies and we're a change of government away from seeing them all brought to heel.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/05/uk-could-impose...
> Never heard of Trumpet Winsock before.

That sound you just heard was half of HN sighing at how old they feel, including me. :/
Precisely. The argument is that they are less common due to regulation (not that they cease to exist entirely).