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Don't fault corporations for exploiting legal loopholes to save money... They optimize what they must optimize as operating businesses, and if we the citizens want to compel them to do something we must pass the laws necessary to do so...

Stop moralizing the behavior of companies. They aren't humans.

If you choose not to buy apple products in reaction to their behavior, great. If you want to convince your friends to do the same, great. But legal repercussions are reserved for law breaking entities. Loophole exploitation is not law breaking.
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"Any kind of business or financial transfer or ownership of assets or beneficiary interest in the Cayman Islands (Etc) is a criminal offence"?
Yes, a user-mode driver is something you would write instead of a kernel mode driver, if you can. Kernel-mode code is the most powerful, but also poses the greatest security and stability threat to the computer, so Microsoft locks it down the hardest. If you don't need the extra power, you can write a use-mode driver that uses Microsoft-provided kernel components (Like Winusb.sys) and you don't have to go through the same security procedures.
governments allow it

corrupt governments interfere with it

Are those not in opposition? Another solution is a better breed of business that doesn't see $ as the most important thing in the world, but not sure how you change that. Capitalism can and should be a conduit for innovation without outright greed.
> There is a rule against breaking APIs

What rule? Is it that the 11th commandment? How about my rule: Users are more important than API backwards compatibility (because, in the end, we are serving users, not developers.).

It's simple really: killing a person to enhance user experience is morally wrong.
Forcing, in very rare cases (by my own experience), some developers to make a 1 line change so that in effect almost all pages will have jitter-free scrolling is a worthy exchange.

> By the way, browsers are in the business of providing a platform

YES!!! That's the main point of it. They serve (and thus get payed by) users first, developers second.

> Platforms should be stable. If they plan on not doing that they should say so. Guess how many developers will stop supporting chrome the day after that.

They did more than say, the just did it. So let me guess have many web developers will stop developing for Chrome now? uhmmm ..., zero?
When I was in the scouts (80s Britain), our local Catholic group organised a bonfire for November 5th, same as everybody else. We all knew about the origins of the tradition and the gunpowder plot, but I never caught any anti-catholic prejudice at all; unlike a few exceptions (Lewes, Northern Ireland), there didn't seem to be much heavy historical consciousness about protestantism and catholicism.
And if anything, I'd say that's even more true today; guys on bonfires are rarer, some events go off without a bonfire at all (just having the fireworks as entertainment), and so on.
Except anarchism, of course.
You've mixed up two related topics: the right of a private entity to decide their ToS, and the right of the state to restrict information.

Disgusting as it may be, none of that content should be banned by the state. It places too much power in the hands of administrations which are frequently abhorrent.

The right of Youtube/Twitter/Facebook to forbid content on their own servers should be exactly the same as their right to burn copies of books that they own.
A website is owned by someone. If they decide that in their shop they want to have a carpet floor it is up to users not to visit that shop (if they don't like that), but not up to adidas to turn the floor into tarmac, because that works better
for their shoes...
The thing, though, is that their main "loophole" currently consists of "play chicken with the government until someone passes a tax holiday". If you make it clear there will never be a tax holiday, but that you will instead keep adjusting the rules to go after earnings withheld abroad, at some point the rational choice for them will be to bite the bullet and repatriate the income.

As it is, the most rational choice for them is to keep waiting for that amnesty/tax holiday unless they badly need the cash.
My understanding is Grid is designed for whole page layout, while Flexbox is designed for sub-page or component layout.
> Not sure that I would do authentication directly in PG

I agree. But I am thinking about making a database role for each user. The user becomes that role after signing into the front end, like Apache.

db.exec('set role to $1', req.remote_user);

Apache 2.4's form-based authentication makes this attractive.

> The biggest downside is that there are no tools to help to debug or measure the performance of the code you wrote.

Isn't there the explain command (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/using-explain...) and the \timing option for the command-line client, psql (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/app-psql.html)?
Well, it depends on context. More and more, web tools are being used in a way where you can control what browser they're running in. Not just Electron, but also when making UIs for things like industrial tools, where you control not just the browser, but the hardware it runs on.
Sweden here. Facebook and other select sites down.
Same trouble in Frederick, MD. Packet loss appears to be high too.
Comcast residential customer in Denver, CO. Lots of sites intermittently slow/unreachable right now.
How'd that $13 billion Motorola buy work out for them ?
We should just keep pursuing the tax loopholes as they are discovered, they should be closed. I also think we should be lowering tax rates in conjunction with this as our tax code becomes more effective.
Is this a common issue on other platforms? I’ve basically been using my PS4 controller as you describe (although wired more often than not simply because my setup has the console close enough for it to be convenient) and I’ve never had any issues. It always seem leaky switches between wired and wireless.
> I read the essay, and I disagree that the multiverse is necessary.

Read his book 'Our mathematical Universe', he explains there why these are actual separate multiverses.

I agree it's somewhat a matter of interpretation whether it's truly "multi" or a single entity. But if the domains are separate enough, it's probably best to think of them as different universes.
I never understood the argument of “we’ll block this website that host papers because we need revenue to host those papers”. I mean, if you want papers to be hosted just leave people to host them... There might be other arguments and I don’t really find most of them valid as well, but the one about hosting costs just sounds ... absurd
If you unplugged the government's board (or given decision-making apparatus) and plugged in a (currently nonexistent) AI with the parameter "Maximize Power of Government," would you see a different result? I think not.

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My point is that you are implying government is the alternative ("they will govern morally! academics will keep them in check! journalists will keep them in check!") then you need to rethink your conclusions
Hydrogen bombs are already of any desired variable strength. It would make no sense to pursue 'bigger' bombs. The hydrogen bombs we have now are already so large that no legitimate military target could ever exist which called for one. They're purely weapons of genocide with no reasonable military use. That's why Oppenheimer opposed their development in the 70s (and was burned for it).
Merrimack NH same
Point of debate:

Why should Apple have the US government lay claim to the revenue/profits that it generates in non US countries?

From the article:
"This allowed Apple to funnel all its sales outside of the Americas - currently about 55% of its revenue - through Irish subsidiaries that were effectively stateless for taxation purposes, and so incurred hardly any tax."

If you support the taxation, do you also support the IRS taxing the wages of expats living abroad?
Dang I can't even access downdetector. I'm in California in the central valley. Everything is very sluggish and the ol' router/modem reboot did nothing. :/
No deal is too good to walk away from.
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What exactly is that money doing right now? What would the ramifications be of transferring that money back into the US economy?
Which mathematics?
yes, lots of sites offline for me. I'm in Atlanta GA.
https://cloudflare.com is down for me. Comcast in California. HN is really slow.
Also people like to talk about their interests and work. I don't see a lot of my own writings being about profit. My interest in them existed well before they helped me get into this profession.
> scientific papers need hosting and server space and such

The cost of such things is trivial. A typical article is <<1GB. The cost of storing a GB is about 10 cents at today's prices. If you charged each author $1 to publish a paper you would cover the costs with a 90% profit margin.
Blind faith in any paternalist system which makes judgements for us about which information is appropriate for us results in western democracy, whose death throes due to information poverty we are now seeing.
To be clear, it appears that Chrome disables autocomplete=off for all fields and forms, not just for password fields. The linked ticket is about password fields in Firefox specifically.
Might as well be a symptom.
These articles are written by lobbyists. They just want to open up new fronts in the discussion to hinder any change that might threaten the status quo. It's the same with NRA lobbyists, big tobacco in Africa and Asia, big oil companies and soda companies who use high fructose corn syrup.
Widespread ISP Outage in North America Peaking
A bunch of services are being reported as down. Also looks like they're peaking:
http://downdetector.com/
Google provides alternatives at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
I thought it was just me - was about to head to a cafe. On comcast here in Berkeley FWIW.
As I look at schemes to prevent this, it's pretty obvious that a low gross tax rate on exported goods is a net positive for a nation. But that leaves the question of how/whether to tax companies with comparatively few exports (think of telecoms as an example, where the majority of a company's total capital is physically located and impossible to move).

I don't think there's much argument that a near-zero corporate tax rate is ideal; unfortunately wealthy individuals would simply take advantage of that to lower their individual taxes and the country would end up with a revenue crisis.

I would actually argue that the largest contributing factor to the success of the US over the last 80 years has been our ability to consistently collect tax revenue. Many other countries are not nearly as successful at enforcing and collecting on their tax code as the US is (but then, their tax agencies don't have nearly as much power as the IRS).
Timely? Milner takes $50m mortgage on a house he had originally paid for in cash..

http://www.yolandaslittleblackbook.com/blog-1/2017/11/02/yur...
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I'm completely with you on this, but there is one issue: many hardware platforms are simply incapable to show such scrolling text (or dump it into UART) fast enough in the early boot stages which is the reason why you don't today get that even on server-oriented distributions.

Somewhat ironic is that KDE3 splashscreen showed low-levelish looking messages that had nothing to do with what was really happening in order to cater to users with this approach to computing.
That was always Feynman’s attitude, obscured by the strong human layer he ran.
Bell Canada business customer in Ottawa. Getting about 50% packet loss to about 50% of the internet.
Isn't that a board's fiduciary duty to their stockholders? To put it differently would you buy stock in a board that doesn't act this way, would a mutual fund?

Which way do you expect the mutual fund's proxies to vote when electing the board?

Multi-polar coordination (competition markets) have a lot of bad Nash-equilibrium states, but they are better than any command market in history.
same in Modesto, CA
Yup. It's to some extent an adversarial process. But that's part of why we have a legislature all the time, rather than just relying on laws written decades ago.

A fine example is wire fraud. Existing fraud laws didn't really cover it, and innovative criminals made extensive use of the loopholes until wire fraud was criminalized. (For those interested, the Yellow Kid's autobiography is a fun read. [1])

Same thing with any sort of security hole, really. We'll always have on-line attackers, but that's not a reason to give up. It's a reason to keep plugging holes and improving state of the art.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Kid-Weil-Autobiography-America...
None of the sites mentioned in this or other threads are down from the vantagepoint of Cox in Arizona.

Sounds like an ISP issue.
Wild guess: Their infrastructure runs on time and they don't have to wait hours to catch a bus.
Bloomberg is targeting this at their reader base (general investors), who may or may not be up to speed on the latest ICO discussion, or aware of any of these issues. News reports targeted at the broader market are always going to seem obvious/repetitive if you're already active in a sector.
Pretty sure Apple and their 'class' is writing the existing tax laws.
The input even on modern hardware is received by an Ethernet PHY which then has logic-level lines going into the SoC. So this level of debugging would be possible. Inside the SoC if something has failed, well, you are kind of screwed.
It may have something to do with a large, prolonged power outage in downtown Denver. I've seen at least one ISP tweet about possible disruption to services due to this, and it may be impacting others.
http://www.9news.com/news/local/power-outage-in-downtown-den...
No one I know believes flat-earth (fortunately), but for a while I was fascinated by the existence of flat earthers and wanted to understand why they believed they way they do.

The outcome was mostly disappointment for me. They don't have anything like a reflectively consistent worldview. They don't in general have positive statements (other than that the earth is flat). Their beliefs are almost entirely negative, and phrased as arrogant dismissal of mainstream belief and evidence.
The people of Ireland have democracy, perhaps they have different views on taxation than you do.

It may come as a surprise to you but some people aren't so greedy as to believe that they are entitled to the fruits of other's labour.
Is it a language or a python package? The example I am looking at looks like python to me.
No, the spirit of the law is effectively being broken. Sidestepping the law does not constitute following it in my opinion. Laws are meant to be guidelines and legal precedent defines its true extent, you cannot make laws extensive enough to cover every scenario. If they make it illegal to offshore money then apple will simply find a way to establish a corporation on the moon. Its clearly demonstrable that they are going through great lengths to sidestep the law.
Same problem in Hayward (i.e. Bay Area), CA, USA.
The issue with all of these major companies will forever be their "product".

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From: Silicon Valley (HBO)

Jack: Richard, I don't think you understand what the product is. The product isn't the platform, and the product isn't your algorithm, either. And it's not even the software. Do you know what Pied Piper's product is, Richard?

Richard: Is... Is it me?

Jack: Oh God! No! No. How could it possibly be you? You got fired. Pied Piper's product is its stock.

---

When the only product a company cares about its stock, and they only care about their accountability to the shareholders, we will continue to see mass tax evasion schemes and using any/all methodologies (including illegal/unethical) to maximize profits.
True and it's unclear how usable cheaper options will be without those files. It's pretty much a de facto standard that source code going along a technical book is available for free. This is too bad because I would have purchased it instantly otherwise.
And you want to make sure that whatever the hypothetical terrorists whip up has never had any research done on its pathology, cure, or vaccine?
Actually, though, set-builder notation can use the equals sign to express a condition. e.g. the examples here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-builder_notation. Maybe there are other examples in math.
Same in Philly
Math works because reality works. Not the opposite.
Reality is bigger than math. Math is just a tool that models reality.
That's only if you use Volta's Tensor cores however.

AMD's 16-bit packed performance with Vega is more than respectable vs NVidia's 16-bit packed performance in Pascal.

In the future, all AMD needs to catch up to Volta's Tensor cores is to build Tensor cores themselves. That doesn't seem like a major technical hurdle. I'm fairly certain that Google would be the primary patent holder on Tensor-cores.
Comcast Business in Nashville is terrible right now for anything that's not local (Facebook, Reddit, etc.). Some are worse than others (HN is just slow; Reddit's very slow but loads eventually; Down Detector won't load at all on our work connection now).

AT&T (in Nashville) doesn't seem to be impacted; I'm RDP'd into one of my home machines with Uverse and everything's working great there.
Why is it being labelled a "Language" instead of a python library?
It's not just disproportionate, it's going to push people away from the platform.

YouTube isn't too big to fail. If you push out the people who are creating the content your business model relies on, you'll fail. YouTube isn't too big to fail.
I've never understood why is it greed to want to keep your own money, but not greed to want someone else's.
You don't really need a dev board for these, you can just stick them in a breadboard and go, they're already in a DIP package and don't really need any extra circuitry besides what you're going to connect them to. You can also program them using basically any other micro-controller you may have, or use a cheap USB programmer to do it, so they're pretty cheap to get started with (Though it's not exactly as user-friendly as plugging an Arduino into USB).
You talk like a meaty Russian internet troll.
Most Irish citizens had no idea about the extend of this.
I’m in the SF area and Comcast is between slow and not working. Cellular data is working fine though
Same here. I was going crazy trying to diagnose potential WiFi issues. Since LTE worked fine on my phone I assumed the culprit had to be the WiFi link.

Its really weird.
No problems reaching any site from the UK
Getting a very similar issue with Bell Canada. So similar I'm wondering if they are Comcast customers themselves.
The author asks how we could use the mathematical equations which describe all of reality to compute the frog’s view of the universe — our observations — from the bird’s view. Wouldn't we also need to include our self-awareness in those observations, which would make the computation impossible according to Turing's halting theorem, or is it Godel's?
Spotify has been down for me since ~1:00 EST in Toronto.
Second Life is reporting major problems. [1]

[1] https://status.secondlifegrid.net/
I can't see how this post hit HN's homepage. Too random/minor to deserve a thread.
Someone did. It's called Sci-Hub.
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I'm having significant issues as well -- it happened quite suddenly an hour ago (9:50 Pacific Time, northern California). Thought it was a local issue at first and spent the last hour debugging my network. I think my apartment is on Comcast, although I'm not 100% certain (one of my roommates is in charge of it).

Spamming `date` at an affected SSH connection suggests it's entirely a download problem, since all of the timestamps are very close, but they're received multiple seconds apart.

Like some other commenters here, my mobile connectivity is just fine.

EDIT: Certain sites (including Hacker News) are now qualitatively more accessible, and I'm now hitting expected speeds at http://testmy.net/download. SSH to my DigitalOcean is also better. Here's hoping everything else smoothes out soon!
Wireless Xbox One controllers are at least $40, and about the same complexity.

Or even the licensed minecraft controller, which is identical apart from being green and costing $72: https://www.amazon.com/Xbox-Wireless-Controller-Minecraft-Cr...

Remember, electronics cost has basically nothing to do with BOM cost, other than that the bare minimum for profitability is going to be roughly twice the BOM cost.
Nice try, but there is not much point in considering the corrupted without also taking a look at who is doing the corrupting.
I'm with Apple on this one. The government can make it illegal if they wanted to. But it's not so Apple of John Doe should not be bothered for doing legal things when it comes to taxes.

If what they're doing is illegal, slap them with a fine too (like EU did...it's currently on appeal i think)
It's a noble idea that government should exist to protect consumers from corporations. But it will never work unless there is some authority that could protect the governments from the corporations.
AMD only supports OpenCL 2.0 today.

So practically speaking, OpenCL 2.0 is the best you can get, unless you want to run on Intel's iGPUs or Intel's AVX 512 on their CPUs.

AMD does have support of C++ in OpenCL 1.2 as an optional extension, but their support of C++ in OpenCL 1.2 doesn't work when you enable OpenCL 2.0 for some reason. Also, the CodeXL debugger only works on OpenCL 1.2 at the moment...

As far as I can tell, AMD's implementation of OpenCL 2.0 is still early stage. Its fine if you're cool with debugging with "printf" statements.
downdetector gets all their data by scouring twitter posts, there is nothing scientific about their collection.
> Some OEMs continue to add low-end Nvidia graphics to Intel-based laptops, even though they have the same or less performance than Intel's graphics

The only competitive part from Intel is Iris Pro 580 with the Crystal Well cache, and those parts are capital-E expensive.
"flexbox horrors":

"flex-basis" - defines mysterious "main width" (WTF is wrong with just width?)

"flex-grow" and "flex-shrink" - grow and shrink relative to what?

How to define flexible margins? Like I want left margin to be twice larger than right one and all this to be flexible:

|---m:2*-------|--1*---|--m:1*-|

?

Effectively flexbox breaks CSS box model that postulates only width/height to define box dimensions.

Why I cannot say just this:

{ width: 1fr;
margin-left: 2fr;
margin-right: 1fr; }

?

Where 'fr' are flex units introduced in CSS Grid
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/flex_value

Why two specifications define the same entity (flex weight) by two different mechanisms - by property and by unit?

CSS looks like Christmas tree where each passer-by (Google and Microsoft here) adds its own shiny stuff ...

Is this what we name as modularity of CSS?
Salem, Oregon here. Everything is zippy. Seems like it's location dependent? Just checked reddit and facebook.
More likely BGP or similar border gateway routing things. In some cases, gateways can become overloaded because of bad destination routes that other gateways are routing correctly. Not that I'm an expert at this stuff. I'm not.
That website took forever to load at 100kbps. So long I cancelled and started with comments.

I know this is off topic but would love HN to show a page size besides each link so we know whether the link is even worth opening.
So what you're saying is their corporate tax law wasn't enough of a concern to them to actually read it?