skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a victim of this, thanks for pointing it out. Now I know what to fix at least!
..and with one simple statement, HN user jcmoscon forever put an end to this age-old debate.
With only 70% browser support, you're going to have to have a pretty strong reason to believe your audience is different (or not to care) to justify using Grids
Yeah, regulation is one place Europe generates lot of employment. In other industries, not much.
Paradise Papers: details of Apple's tax arrangements revealed in leaked document
The basic result from Turing/Godel is that you don't need any self-referential. As long as it is an enough powerful formal system, it is always incomplete from day one. There will always be some mythical things you cannot compute. There will always be some universes you cannot prove their existence or nonexistence.
First some background... VATs (value added taxes) are pretty solid for distributing this money fairly between the national entities involved in producing this wealth. Currently companies cheat the system a bit to do the bulk of their value adding in nationalities that don't tax it highly (the famous putting stickers on computers in bermuda in apple's case).

I think it is fair for a nationality to claim that there is a certain minimum amount of our production we wish to divert to social causes, in that case I also think it is fair that, for products sold in that nationality the government can claim any shortfall in paid taxes on the value accrued to that point. Let's assume that China has a 10% VAT on 5% of the value, Bermuda .5% on 90% of the value and USA 8% VAT on 5% of the value. The tax owed to the US might be calculated by ignoring the first 5% of the value, since china already collected a sum exceeding the sum the US would collect, then the US would collect a 7.5% remainder tax on the middle 90% and a full 8% on the last 5%.

These collections would only be owed on products sold or incrementally improved in the US, any items that never entered the US could live by their own rules.

Regarding the IRS taxing the wages of expats living abroad, it follows much the same system. An expat is only required to pay the difference between the taxes they are paying and the taxes they would owe if they resided in the US, this is a silly rule that probably shouldn't be on the books since expats living abroad gain none of the benefits from their citizenship.
Many probes fail, but we care about success.

On the other hand with slot machines ~999,990 work 'just fine' and we care about the 10 that fail at some point.

Each machine may be used ~100 times an hour for 20 years. Odd crap is going to happen.

That said someone probably messed up at some point. However, perfection is never going to happen.
What you want to read then is the transcript of the presentation along with slides to follow along.
Let’s be realistic. How many forks, other than a personal fork for patches, are actually viable? This is one of those attractive fallacies like owning a Tesla service manual.

Complaining is warranted when you are a paying customer and you are told to post a GitHub ticket which is ignored...
Didn't Feynman think that the world was essentially void?
if we are talking public blockchains,
Immutablity, decentralized trust and censorship resistance

Private blockchains can be anything the owner wants them to be.
That sounds nice, but why don't proponents of term limits ever offer evidence for their claim? We already have term limits in California. The result? Politicians spend a lot of their time in office figuring out how to leapfrog up the political ladder - usually city/county school board, to supervisor, to state assembly, to state senate, to Congress. They are never in one place long enough to build stable networks of influence (superficially a good thing) but that just means they're easier for lobbyists to manipulate (definitely a bad thing).

I have an open mind on term limits, but since they exist in multiple jurisdictions why don't you show, with data, that they are leading to qualitatively different outcomes where they have been implemented?
>The only way to prevent this is to impose fines, tariffs and penalties

The ONLY solution to an abuse of power by government is more government exercise of power? How about limiting the powers of government to remove the "direct incentive to lobby"?
Glad they have a much more descriptive name now!
When you break an API you are an "asshole" fullstop.
I got excited by the headline thinking that they want to normalize co-locating daycares / kindergarten to ease the burdens that working parents have with drop-off/pickup, etc.
But it turns out they actually want to innovate on the education itself. That is far less exciting to me.
How to Become a Blockchain Specialist and Where Is the Profession Required?
The case against Apple is not about Double Irish, is about a secret agreement with Irish Government on how to account the revenue in Ireland
The WeTransfer Alternative
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My incorrect interpretation of parent comment who means accountability on an individual basis (see children).

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I know where you are coming from but this level of extremely inclusive accountability would result in either: Everyone from the janitors to the legal team being held accountable for corporate tax evasion or: a company wide democracy on every decision that could potentially result in legally or morally grey outcomes.

IMO, in addition to individual accountability investigations, the company should be impeded somehow to make scapegoating a less attractive route (the hidden decision makers pushing other peoples buttons still get hurt by proxy).
What do you cook in the microwave for that long? You could also look at much cheaper brands/models. I find that cheaper products seem to be keeping older UIs and therefor staying more functional
Alright, why not go one step further and make Universe computational instead? (i.e. state is important in von Neumann-style instead of meaningless in classical math-style; or algorithms vs formulas)
Smoked a pack a day for 25 years. Quit cold turkey (for the most part) 5 years ago. Woke up one morning, was out of cigarettes and decided that was the day I was going to try. Made it through the day (although I found myself nibbling on chips and drinking a ton of water all day) without one.

The next day became an internal contest with myself to see how long I could go without having one. I had to give up alcohol (have a drink = have a smoke) to avoid that temptation. I also tried to eat smaller meals to avoid the binge eating, feeling full, craving a smoke feeling.

By day 3 my urge to smoke was diminishing, but the nervous addiction was still there. A friend recommended I buy one of the cheap e-cigarettes they sell at convenience stores to take the edge off. I did get one and every time I would crave a smoke I would take a drag off it. The nicotine levels are fairly low in those so it was just enough to take the edge off. After about 3 or 4 days the e-cig was "dead" in that the non-replaceable cartridge was empty, but I still kept it around. Every time I would crave a smoke I would take an imaginary drag off of it. After about 2 or 3 more days of not getting any nicotine or satisfaction from the e-cig, my cravings had pretty much ceased. I still kept from consuming any alcohol and trying to eat smaller meals spread out across the day. In total it took me about 3-4 weeks before any/all cravings were non-existent.

My sense of smell (I can smell someone smoking a mile away now) and my taste buds increased after about week 3. Interestingly, I still love the smell of a freshly lit cigarette, however, I hate the smell of someone that smokes and has it on their clothes (overly sensitive to this smell now). I did go back to consuming alcohol after about 6 months (not that I drank a lot before but even a sip made we want to smoke before I quit). I do occasionally crave one if I am out with friends and have a drink, but have been able to withstand those cravings. I'll still go outside with my friends that smoke and I think the smell is enough to cure the urge now.

The best advice I can give is to get one of those cheap e-cigs and go cold turkey. I have several friends who have successfully used the same method in the last couple years.

I had tried several times previously going cold turkey, using the patch, trying the gum, and even Chantix for a short stint. None worked in the long term. The nicotine addiction seemed to be the quickest and easiest to overcome. It was the "nervous" addiction of hand to mouth that was difficult and I think that is where the e-cig proves wonders.

Good luck it is not an easy task to quit.
<Raises hand> Took about a developer day to fix everything. Drag/drop list reordering, pan/zoom image cropper were the primary things busted. IMO, the change was an unacceptably aggressive move by the Chrome team made with good intentions.
> ...you have a fairly high chance of chance of you accidentally targeting a few thousand genuine users.

Which is why I said "further scrutiny", and not robo-ban.

The tone of these posts is very much, and very consistently the whole "sow dissension" and "poke at wedge issues" shtick that is demonstrably part of how the Russians have been meddling in our shit — and which Facebook, perhaps knowingly, profited from. (Unless you're also suggesting that's somehow part of the "correct... beltway centric" narrative that NYT, &c, "think" we should have, and which is instead some kind of false-flag, psy-ops disinfo campaign — in which case, never mind; please don't waste my time further.)

As your sibling comment describes them, they so often have a feel of "Markov chain gibberish", and not just "not being us college students" or "someone who diverges from what the nytimes think the correct mainstream should be".

EDIT: Parenthetical.
I disagree with this whole heartedly. Laws like this are not deterministic procedures, they are more like best practices. Can you seriously argue that Apple is not a functioning member of society? For many its a daily companion.

It should be held accountable to behave like a good citizen within society like everyone else and not find ways to sidestep the law.

If society can oust an individual like Weinstein and hold them accountable for their actions why not a company? A company consists simply of a group of individuals making decisions with moral implications no different than an individual. Demoralizing companies is the most irrational proposal I've ever heard. Capitalism is not a computer program, it is a set of guiding principles meant to operate within a society of well intentioned and reasonable individuals that are held accountable for their actions.
I prefer pragmatist. I think we have the same goal really which is avoiding anything that is a commercial risk, money and time sink and that’s the status quo with this particular organisation even to this day.
> Pure free market Capitalism is playing a game of Monopoly where after each time anyone passes go, the player with the most money gets to create a new rule. Guess what? The game is gonna get pretty skewed, pretty darn fast.

I think you've misunderstood the free in free market. If anyone is allowed to make rules like that, it is not a free market, not superlatively, not normally, not even slightly.

The problem here is that you have a government apparatus which has outgrown its mandate in ways that were not adequately accounted for, which makes it ripe for the picking.
This is a such a cyberpunk story. A malevolent Library of Babel.
Poi – Delightful web development
How? Badly.

Right now it's a GitHub wiki in our "infrastructure" repo (which is basically all the bits and pieces that don't fit anywhere and don't have a proper repo of their own). We migrated to this from: "several github wikis, each in the repo of the project" - but often you have overlap and it was bad to find stuff.

Pros:

- easy backup (git clone)

- markdown

- easy to get started, "good enough"

Meh:

- searchable only with a browser extension

Contra:

- some coworkers don't like the github wiki

My dream (never happened in any company as of now) would be a single document (think: the manual), hopefully editable in a proper way (I am not sure if checking in changes in a doc/ folder in a code repo is the way to go for <10-20 people) that's hopefully displayable in a browser (and not a PDF, and ESPECIALLY not a Google doc) with cross-references.
Still, if you think about it, that statement is very deep (and is probably true).
This is like Internet Explorer way of doing things all over again. Instead of following the standard, just try to guess what people wanted to do, so you create a new standard.
Yeah, I just headed there for the first time in a while.

DISAPPOINTED.
Marten Mickos on 2 Open Source Business Models
It may be packet loss on certain routes.

I resorted to using VPN and that resolved the problem at-least while over VPN. Without VPN its a CRAWL for many sites.
Hey there,
I work on Office UI Fabric. I'm a designer, and do code as well because I care about quality. I just want you to know that I care a lot about how our product can help people create great experiences. That's why I often dip into the code myself, when there isn't time on anyone else's plate to get even what some would consider a small fix in.

I do love Linux and what it stands for. I'm happy to have my work out in the open, because I care about it and want it to be better all the time. My whole team cares too...we love to be open source and work better with others. As a matter of fact, I care about all the people using these things out there. I'm an accessibility champion on our team and I want to make sure people with any abilities can use them.

Maybe you should come see us. I'll buy you lunch if you find yourself in Redmond sometime. Let's make things better.

Ben Truelove
Manchester, NH... Sllooowowww....... Droppin' packets like it's hot.
Definitely don't use SharePoint either! It's the ultimate data black hole.
We use mediawiki and and recently IT invested in confluence.

I hate it, because it's slow.

but I do see it has some benefits, for example, it automatically generates a content table. so content discovery is easier. it is also designed to be a document system for a software company. you can use it to create meeting notes and tag people.

but overall, I liked mediawiki, the problem with it is, it's hard to make sure things are up-to-date. and it's difficult to do content discovery.
I'm in Northern California and also having issues.

One thing I noticed is that it is only Downloads having issues. My uploads are as fast as ever.

I then connected to my VPN, and everything is working great. I think it is their routing that is having the issues, not the connection itself.
Same here in CT, some things work some things don't.
@shhkmo, are you proposing choosing random people off the street to be our elected officials for short terms? That is such an interesting idea!
Millbrae, CA, same problem with Comcast
Confluence is still the best Wiki out there for general documentation itself, in my opinion. It takes work though to create the initial structure with a realistic view of how projects will evolve, and to make sure that everything is reachable through an organized hierarchy (or lattice, or DAG) reachable from the Space root. What sucks is random "floating" pages not tied to anything else -- these get lost.

There are various orthogonal concerns to deal with when documenting software development with Confluence:

+ knowing the underlying platforms / technologies your project uses

+ architecture / design of system (which will evolve over releases) -- Gliffy plugin works well for illustrations

+ documenting releases

+ engineering-level precursors to user documentation

+ meetings -- high-level overview of discussions, decisions, resulting actions

+ Confluence wiki integration with bug-tracker, source code repositories

Without an up-front design one will run into problems. Even worse if managing several projects.
What powers does SEC have here if the people behind the ICO are anonymous and you invest anonymously?
The same site says virtually nobody, aprox 2-3% is using edge.

You either have to go all the way back to supporting IE11 and ignore everything not supported by 2013 microsoft to capture another shrinking single digit percentage of possible users until they progressively die of old age or ignore Microsoft stuff.

Alternatively start providing a slightly degraded interface with fewer features and a banner. Our website works best with a modern browser with links to up to date edge, firefox, and chrome at top of page. Preferably with a notice regarding dropping support for internet exploder sometime next year.
The one of homotopical type.
Got a link to that exploding grasshopper exploding scene?
Yes, I prefer a law where I can take a possible action and judge by the text whether that action is legal or not, rather than always trying to avoid pissing off a fickle public, like trying to avoid waking a husband who drinks too much so you don't get a black eye.
I'm in the SF Bay Area and after looking at traceroutes and packet loss it looks like something at PAIX has failed between Comcast, Hurricane Electric, NTT, and others.

A coordinated attack could be a cause of something like this, but more often than not it's a hardware or power failure at a critical exchange like PAO, DFW, IAD, etc. Also possible, human error in turning down traffic to certain servers, networks, and IP ranges.
Does that differ in any significant respect from a normal day in IT?
Ah, sorry—it's in the following article (is there a term for this?) and didn't autoplay for me in Safari.
If the website says to display ads, my browser will properly ignore that. If the website says to prevent the user from switching away from the tab, my browser will properly ignore hat. If the website tries to take over my system and install malware, my browser will properly ignore that. And if the browser tries to break the ability to remember passwords, my browser will properly ignore that too.

Websites consist of code to be interpreted by browsers as they see fit, for the benefit of their users. Those users do not necessarily want exactly the experience the site authors want them to have.
Drop test concludes iPhone X is 'the most breakable iPhone'
Isn't Apple market-share of x86 tiny?
No, they couldn't. The money belongs to foreign corporations also named Apple whatever.

That little issue is purposefully glossed over for the sake of sensationalism to sell advertising, of course.
That authority is the justice system. Corporations also have rights and they can defend them by going to court.
> 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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0MeI0sQfy4

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmar...

Intel's highest end can't meet Nvidia's lowest end embedded, which can be had at a very affordable price.
Meet the startups fighting Silicon Valley’s soaring housing costs
Thanks! That's kind of what I was going for. It's a crowded market, but I felt like there wasn't a great solution yet.
Same in San Jose.
> I am regularly adding hackers blogs to my bookmarks. Sometimes they stopped updating in 2012, but their writing still looks worthwhile.

Can we start sharing these somewhere? I have several I'd like to contribute.
Why would it be extremely inclusive? The janitor didn't choose to place the money in Ireland. As you go up in management, you typically see pay scale up, and the normal justification for this is that they hold more accountability. You expect more pay to offset the higher risk that a mistake or poor choice will hurt you. If the CFO approves the choice to do X, Y, and Z with the company's money, he should be held accountable on a moral level.

Why are we not allowed to have a minimum level of moral expectations for people just because they paid a small fee and registered under an LLC?
I contacted Comcast Network Operations Center. They confirmed they're aware of the issue and working on fixing it, but didn't provide any more details.
This is a little off topic but the question will help me parse your posts better.

Is there any situation you can imagine where Apple, or any corporation, could have done anything wrong when it comes to how it pays taxes?
I can’t connect to VPN (on AWS), but AWS CLI is working fine. Weird. But, I’ll just do something else for a while ...
Those regulations are bad and user-hostile. If they are making it impossible to fulfill them, they are doing the right thing for their users.
VAT is paid by customers, not companies
In this case it's not a loophole in American laws. It's a problem with European and Carribean laws. This money was earned abroad. Blame the Irish, and now whatever this Jersey Island place is.

The EU made a move to close the loophole, apple found another.

I suppose there are loopholes with them selling IP assets to subsidiaries. But that's a different loophole than the one with them floating money around different countries. That money wasn't earned in America, so why are you trying to "repatriate" it? The better term would be "appropriate" it as it was never here in the first place.

Until it costs more for apple to pay interest on a loan (and/or penalties and fines) than they would pay in taxes, that money will never come here.
Interesting. Care to tell me a little more? How many people live in your town? Is it a socially cohesive place? What would people qualified enough to run the ISP do if not work at the ISP?

I always think of that last point (what else would people do) when people mention how "the Soviet Union had such great math teachers OMG WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE US". The US has SILICON VALLEY, hedge funds, world-class universities, etc. - US primary/secondary ed has to compete with these places for talent and frankly, they often lose.

I have a hard time believing that a small operator could offer anything that stacks up against Comcast product-, service- and price-wise, but I'm willing to be shown I'm wrong about this. Maybe I shouldn't be so cynical ;)
The details of the school seem amorphous / nebulous right now.

Some Excerpts:

> “In my book, there’s no reason why children in elementary schools can’t be launching their own businesses..."

> “...we noticed she has a strong aptitude and passion for design,” Neumann said. She is securing an apprenticeship with fashion designers who rent space from WeWork.

> But WeWork’s “very instrumental approach” to learning, “essentially encouraging kids to monetize their ideas, at that age, is damaging,” Abrams said. “You’re sucking the joy out of education at a time when kids should just be thinking about things like how plants grow and why there are so many species.”

> Neumann argues it’s conventional education that is “squashing out the entrepreneurial spirit and creativity that’s intrinsic to all young children.” Then, after college, she said, “somehow we’re asking them to be disruptive and recover that spirit.”

Could gettings kids into entrepreneurial thinking very early on backlash and make them less interested in entrepreneurship? I think the idea of identifying interests and finding out how to foster and to develop those is great (e.g. the child with design aptitude and the apprenticeship program mentioned). Entrepreneurship seems to be a proxy for finding something you are interested in and creating a way to financially support that interest - perhaps that is the theme to strive for (queue Alan Watts: https://genius.com/Alan-watts-what-if-money-was-no-object-an...).

This seems like a way to make a human a "WeWorker" for life - you start in school and then you graduate to using their services. I would not be surprised to see discounts for graduates. Also, they are throwing cash at celebrity-level architect(s) - this is catering to the elite and I question when it can trickle down.

On a related noted: how are Thiel Fellowships panning out? (Connecting Theme = Entrepreneurship at Younger Ages)