skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's pretty much all courts do: interpret the law. There's a lot of ambiguity here, hence all the push-back on Apple stowing profits offshore. In my opinion, the only case that can be made is that, in general, profits made outside of the US by corporations is not subject to tax. That is hardly the only issue being discussed, in fact, it strikes me as the most simplistic interpretation.

There are lots of other good questions, and it may not turn out to be the case that everything Apple has done is legal. For instance...

Is it legal for Apple to attribute all of their intellectual property to their Irish subsidiary?

Is it legal for Apple to avoid paying taxes in Ireland by sending the money to a fictitious head office with no physical location?

And so on and so forth.

https://blogs.wsj.com/briefly/2016/08/30/apples-irish-tax-bi...
Do articles that are published in journals meet some sort of specification? If you find a study that was published in a journal do you automatically find it more credible than a random article you find on the internet? If so, what has the journal done to achieve that credibility.

The way I see it, the value academic journals provide is to verify that the study is from a reputable source. It's not the distribution of the articles that you are paying for, it is the curation.

Something like Sci-Hub would not be able to exist without the publications first verifying that the studies are legitimate.

I know very little about the world of academic publishing, so I'm not sure if my take on this situation is totally off.
>This assumption explains why our universe is oddly complex

That is, to me, a weird mixing of scales. The universe only seems complex to us because of the scale at which we experience it in terms of time and physical extent as well as the convoluted way our own systems of understanding developed and then were later mutated and stretched into different forms to be better suited, etc. By definition the universe itself can't really be more or less complex than anything. At least not anything we can experience.

The idea of a geometric computer is surprisingly close to things I've been considering recently, but 'position of objects can be determined with infinite precision' seems strange. It may be just that I don't understand what is fully meant when you say 'geometric computer' but I would expect 'position' would be mostly meaningless in that space except as an emergent/illusory 'property'... and I don't think arbitrary precision would necessarily be implied either.
What's this got to do with the tech industry? Doesnt every industry have this problem. Ikea is particularly well known for their ability to minimise tax. Mining/resources companies are currently under a lot of scrutiny in Australia for the same thing.
https://www.regus.com/coworking-space/united-states/ca/irvin...
That article is from 2016.
"and there are no compilers to tell you which combinations don't make sense"

well thats not quiet true, in purescript you can write type-safe CSS checked at compile time

https://pursuit.purescript.org/packages/purescript-css/3.3.0...
It is not obvious to me that the judge intended to order worldwide ISPs unaffiliated with sci-hub to block all traffic to sci-hub. Seems still to be referring to sci-hub's ISP.

The reference to search engines is odd, though. Hypothetically, a search engine indexes documents from that court case, and the documents name the address of the outlaw website. Does that violate the order?
MY manager actually warned me about this when I gave him notice that I was leaving my last job. "Don't suddenly download a whole lot of stuff because they have some tool that tracks it and it looks like you're stealing IP to take with you."

Sure, he agreed it was stupid, but nothing he could do about it.
Well. I've reported dozens of fake accounts.

All of them were "REAL" according to FB.
I stopped reporting. They can have their fake accounts.
> Timer alert is delayed ~10-20 seconds if you look at the screen as it hits 0

I wonder if that's something to do with timer coalescing. The visual timer ticks down in some "cheap" way, but to actually change the view and make a noise, it has an event set in the OS scheduler—and that event only goes off at some large granularity, to prevent the scheduler from burning energy.
That's a year old article, FYI.
Part of the sacrifice you make to live in a stable society, governed by laws, is that you have to contribute some of your labor in the form of taxes to maintain the upkeep of that society. If you don't like it, you're free to try and eke out a living in a failed state somewhere.
Pretty soon they'll become bold enough to stop attempting to sugarcoat this stuff with all the "trying to help children grow" language.

"Good morning children, and welcome to GoogSchool. Please take out your Google Chromebooks, wait 2 seconds for facial verification, and click two ads to start today's lesson"
>1. by random selection, every social category is represented equally

No, every social category would be represented similar to their ratio in the rest of society. This wouldn't line up well with many groups that want much stronger support for minorities.

Take Native American concerns for example. With just over 1% of the population being Native American they will probably only end up with a few representatives out of the 100. The remaining ~98 people are going to be spending a bunch of time concerned about their own problems and won't put effort into making sure Native Americans get equitable treatment due to past issues.

In other words, by cutting out the ability to lobby for rich people to help themselves, you also cut out the ability to lobby for legitimate issues as well. Lobbying has (rightfully) been seen as a terrible thing, but it does have the legitimate purpose of bringing issues to a representative's attention that he/she would never even think about otherwise.
If actual money is involved, then not every part of your investment is anonymous. If actual money is NOT involved, then the SEC shouldn't need to worry about it, right?
Got any specific examples? Don't think I've run into anything like that.
That's from the outage on 10/21/16.
That’s from 2016?
Alright, that's it - I'm now forcing my children to skip college to be electricians or plumbers or something.

If every kid is expected to be in tech/business, there's going to be a massive shortage of skilled labor, and those people are going to make a buttload of money in the near future.
I wonder how much of the problem would be eliminated if Facebook accounts had a 1 time $5.00 set up fee?

I'd definitely be willing to pay a 1 time fee for a 90%+ reduction in fake accounts.
Sorry. The link was to support the first sentence (and my main point) which is to refute the parent post's statement that "they are not attracting talent and or companies' which create the demand". Brisbane is planning to do exactly that in this case.
Goes to show you how incredible slow this attack has made the Internet!
The PLEASESTOPNAMINGVULNERABILITIES vulnerabilities are surely of a different type than the KRACK attack.
I agree that clubs are a great solution for this kind of thing. I'd encourage kids to explore whatever interests them (business, dinosaurs, Model UN) as early as they're interested. But canonizing 'business' as a core educational pillar feels deeply misguided.
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Irvine is one of the most expensive cities in the United States. I don't know why you're so surprised prices were high.
Um.... gay propaganda ?
This is true in a very practical sense: Product people will not care about engineering specifics. But that being said, I think you're missing the important take-away from that conclusion:

You must decide that it's necessary. As an engineer, you are the most qualified individual to determine if something is technically necessary. Just like you decided that proper indentation, unit tests, refactors, etc. are important, so must we decide that other elements are.
How Augmented Reality Enhances Online Retail
Same here! I seriously miss that site.
Chrome disables it for all fields. That's the difference
Users don't even know. And if you offer a professional site, with support, you will field calls where chrome autocomplete confused the user and doesn't behave like the spec. The answer is buried in a chrome bug report. Stupid
This is all a bit misleading. The general tone of the article is "Apple's not paying their fair share in Europe." The bigger context here is these are taxes owed mostly to the United States. That's where most of Apple's value-creating work is done and that's traditionally how international tax law works. What's happening is, Apple is parking funds in offshore tax havens while lobbying Congress to lower the tax rate for repatriating funds to the U.S. from ~40%, which they think is too high. So all this talk of "avoiding" taxes is true but it's a temporary avoidance.

That matters because it affects what would happen if Europe were to raise taxes. It wouldn't necessarily mean that Europe starts getting Apple's taxes moving forward. It would just eliminate the possibility of parking funds in Europe like this. Maybe it would prompt Apple to look outside Europe for havens. Or perhaps it would impact the stalemate that exists between U.S.-based multinationals and Congress. Ultimately, Congress doesn't want to miss out on those taxes in the long run and Apple doesn't want to get double-taxed when they repatriate. That's why Cook calls it "political crap"... Changes probably wouldn't benefit Europe in the long run.
Let’s keep it concrete.

Should we force companies to repatriate all foreign-earned profits?

If yes, then the US will lose its economic advantage. No international company would be insane enough to incorporate in the US.

If no, then we have our current situation.

IMO the tax law itself is broken, not Apple’s response to asinine laws. Remember that Apple has not violated the law. I also agree with the comment you replied to - for tax law, there should not be a difference between the law and the intent. What is written is what needs to be followed. And right now Apple is following it to the letter of the law.
Except the General Anti Avoidance Rule flatly contradicts that.

The GAAR takes the spirit of the law into consideration when considering whether the law has been broken.

The Ramsey Principle (first stated with respect to a case governing circular transactions) also raises the spirit of the tax law being superior to the strict rules based interpretation.
Resonance Audio SDK is available for a variety of platforms, including Unreal, Unity, FMOD, WWISE, Android, iOS, the Web and VSTs. For the web version, it can be made compatible with any other code that uses the WebAudio API. Unfortunately, none of our API current supports multi-channel surround output as you're describing.
Exactly. The test points don't need to be numbered either. The CAD tool they use to design the boards can produce a bed-of-nails pattern that can be fed back into QA testing machines. If something fails, they can pinpoint it through the testing facilities and propagate the failures up the chain. At least in my experience with modern manufacturing, unless you have someone doing manual testing with a spring-nail, labelling the test points is completely optional.
10 things you (probably) don't know about Go (2012)
"obvious" is key point here.

This

{ width:100px;
margin-left:1fr }

has clear and obvious physical meaning: solid block with the spring of strength 1 on the left of it.

So the block is attached to the right side of its container. And so you don't need all those aligns - flex units can do alignment in more flexible ways.

That's obvious indeed.

But those flex-shrink/grow ...
The difference between autocomplete=off and the rest of your examples is that there are actually positive UX use cases for disabling autocomplete on certain inputs (e.g. when you are an admin editing existing users)
It seems that the publisher's value is curating studies that have gone through this process. If you were to find a study through Sci-Hub would you know that it had gone through editorial/review panel? How do you know that the study is trustworthy?
> In late 2016 and early 2017 I became burned-out from hunting bugs as it became a race between some very talented researchers and I. For example Derrek and I spent 2 months auditing and coding up PoCs for some bugs in a wifi driver where nearly 95% of our reports were duplicates with the Chinese teams. It was becoming hard to compete with teams who do this 40 hours a week while I do it as a hobby over coffee on Saturday mornings.

This isn't really the main focus of the article, but I find this really interesting. There are teams of full-time Chinese researchers looking for and reporting vulnerabilities in Android? Are they doing this to win the bug bounties? If so, it sounds like Google's bug bounty program is really paying off.
Does this support non osx hardware like a windows machine?
Yes it is having issues across USA
CHeck this
https://www.downstatus.com/comcast-xfinity-outages
Upvote this article highly enough, and then watch http://n-gate.com/ over the weekend.
This is like that lawsuit, I forget against whom, where the defendant was arguing he de facto didn't steal anything or commit any crimes because the server let him do it. (Nevermind he was exploiting the server)

There are no bugs, only features?
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I don't think it's at all that straightforward. Apple has assigned intellectual property to their subsidiaries in Ireland and has used that as a way to direct profits out of the US. Is that legal? I am not an expert, but surely it is not straightforward.

Once profits collect in Ireland, Apple moves the profits to it's "head office", which not only is not in Ireland, it's not physical in any way. Thus they avoid the bulk of Irish taxes. The EU is suing Ireland and seem fairly serious, at least in this case it looks like Apple will pay some of the taxes, eventually.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-apple-taxavoidance-cou...

Is this the only way they are avoiding taxes? I strongly suspect it is not and that they are breaking the law in more than one case.
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$3.5 million is absolutely nothing. Compare that figure to Apple’s yearly FCF (free cash flow)...
That seems like the kind of company most interested/invested in knowing which phones are the most breakable, no?
So why can't this be a scenario of the state charging Apple with tax evasion and the state proving beyond a reasonable doubt that this was their intention?
That is a very interesting use of a BeagleBone. He made an interface to the Alto's 3Mbit/sec Ethernet using the BeagleBone's PRU (a programmable real-time unit of which I believe it has two). Someone also used the PRU to build a video card for a Macintosh SE: https://hackaday.com/2014/02/05/the-30th-anniversary-macinto...
Things mass produced cheaply are lesser quality, but we're willing to make the trade off as a society because we get things for cheaper.

Problem is, from what I'm seeing, is that the market bifurcates into "shitty, but cheap" and "OMG, the price, but quality". I want the middle way: "reasonably priced, 'good enough' quality, and won't break the bank". Tools are a prime example. You had Snap-On/Matco/etc., Sears Craftsman, and "stamped steel sockets from China". Snap-On for the pros (and worth every dime if you're a pro), Craftsman for the guy with the '57 Chevy he works on regularly, and then the cheap shit for the person that needs to turn a 13mm nut once a year.

Now we "get things for cheaper", but those things (in the case of tools) are not something I'm going to let anywhere near a fastener I care to ever reuse. Craftsman is gone, so my option is to chase a Snap-On truck around town [0]. I don't need Snap-On quality, it's like buying a $100K CNC machine to turn a table leg when a lathe will do. I just need a decent socket that won't round the fastener.

Seems like the middle fell out of appliances, too. Only in this case, it looks to me like the high-end is shit, too. Every single person I've known that's had a Viking stove or SubZero fridge has had it worked on at least once. I think our Kenmore stove/fridge and LG washer/dryer are disappointingly not built for longevity, but at least nothing has broken after five years. But that washer isn't going to be washing clothes twenty years from now like old Kenmores.

About the only thing I can think of where the quality goes up and the prices down are cars. Man, it is amazing how long a car can go while doing practically nothing for maintenance. And they are much more complex systems, and live in much harsher conditions, than a washer.

To tie this back to the topic at hand, "we can't be bothered to take the time to make it nice" is a fine excuse if only they'd use that as the actual excuse. "Doesn't scale" just means "too much trouble to make it nice, so you'll have to settle with half-assed". If "that's just the way it is", then I don't want "it".

[0] When I bought Snap-On, it was from a truck that drove from auto shop to auto shop, selling tools out of the truck. They had no retail presence; IOW, you couldn't go down to the Snap-On store, it all came off the truck. Not a practical option for the home mechanic, though I've heard they sell online now.
All our South Central Web Apps are down.
There was a FCC regulation limiting the transmission power sent on the line; this regulation did not exist elsewhere. It limited the speed to 53.3 kbit/s.
Flu Vaccine 'Factories' Create Errors That Reduce Protection
Criminal cases in nearly all jurisdictions in the United States are not judged on a case-by-case basis. They are judged on precedent.
Syndicated copy of NYT article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15626749
Up to a certain point. Above that point, not only do you have to pay the tax to the foreign country in which you earned the money, but you also have to pay American income tax on that as well. I believe the cutoff is around $90,000.
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> what could cause this?

It could be ...

The Backhoe, The Internet's Natural Enemy (2006)

https://it.slashdot.org/story/06/01/19/1643215/the-backhoe-t...
We are using Jive for all of our internal documentation which works really well for us. For deep documentation, both new document requests and document updates are submitted using a built-in "Ideas" feature. "Ideas" can include plain text, links, images, or videos, and can be submitted by anyone in the company. With this information, we can create a new document, save it in Jive, and then respond to the "Idea" with a "The document is done and here's the link to it" comment. For quick fire Q&A, we've created a page in Jive that uses built-in "Questions" and "Answers" features, again, accessible to anyone in the company. Jive's search feature is pretty robust (keyword-indexes anything you add to it without having to create tags, though you can add tags if you want).
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So, now you need the identities along the transmission chain too, up to: 1+3¹+3²+3³+3^n = (3^(n-1)-1)/(n-1).

It only makes the problem worse. Most of these identities cannot be recovered. It is not realistic to believe that the first 3 identities in the chain will be recovered. It may very well end up being identities further down the chain.

Furthermore, you will still need to try until you can find an identity in a jurisdiction in which you can sue.

Imagine that you find someone at step 12 with some fraction of the coins, who lives in Japan, and who bought the coin fractions at an exchange. Are you sure that the Japanese courts will cooperate with your recovery efforts?

By the way, the MPAA mostly stopped suing bittorrent users in Europe and elsewhere, because "Pirate parties" started springing up and gaining increasingly more elected seats. At that point, we are no longer talking about what the law would be, but what it should be, and things started looking bad for the MPAA. So, they backed off.

Suing lots of random people on rather flimsy grounds would very soon get political too.

Furthermore, as Von Clausewitz nicely argues in "Vom Kriege", war is just the continuation of the political negotiations but then by other means. So, that would be the next step, if even the political confrontation would fail. It was not that the MPAA was ever going to win.
My first thought upon reading this was that it sounded kinda like magnetic-core memory. Assuming this tech can be produced at commercial scales and does not remain just a lab experiment, how many years is it going be before "core", is once again slang for the computer's random access memory, instead of the number of compute units in the CPU? Or will perhaps some new slang come to be?
Its still highly questionable.

Try it at home: don't pay taxes for 10 years because YOU decide they are too high and tell Congress you won't pay until Congress will lover your taxes.

And make sure you don't have any animals at home and don't forget to turn on your surveillance cameras, because after third visit from IRS, local SWAT team is coming up with flash-grenades and fully automatic ARs.
> that's traditionally how international tax law works

No, that is how US tax law works. Most jurisdictions traditionally do not tax foreign earnings, but exempt them.
This was covered in the NYT yesterday:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/business/media/youtube-ki...
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This (the universe is 'made' of math) seems to me like the most egregious error in the general outlook of contemporary scientifically-minded people—and one I made myself for many years.

If you really consider the issue closely, you'll see it depends on not overlooking certain dark corners of it which you can sort of ignore and assume to not contain contradictions—but they're there! And once you see them, it's hard to unsee them: what in the world would it mean for a desk to 'made' of mathematics—it's nonsensical. I think programmers are especially susceptible to this mistake because they're used to using mathematical descriptions to generate things, but even there, the idea that the math is doing any generating is a bias of our perspective since we're focused on the math; what's actually going on is a physical process involving silicon and plastic and metals etc., which can also be described mathematically, but the leap to being math is an unfounded step which could probably be predicted by the fact that that's where our focus lies.

It also begins to look kind of silly when you consider how human math is: it's an outgrowth of an evolved mental faculty. Cognition is certainly impressive relative to the other things we and various animals are able to do—but it's probably still in the same category of our other faculties like the olfactory, visual, tactile etc.—and unlikely to be involved in the literal fabrication of the universe.
For me the worst bugs have been in Safari by far.