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The government makes the rules. The problem is that the government is made of politicians and they are by definition open to corruption (lobbying, contributions, etc). Those campaigns cost and administration salaries are not that big.

The solution? Reduce the government's power and you take away the incentive of the whole sick system.
What I gather from discussions about fine-tuning, it would not be enough to define all the constants as 1 to simplify the picture. In fact, this is already often done in physics. The universe still appears to be oddly fine-tuned.
Is linkedin's SEO approach documented anywhere? Something like SEO Site checkup for linkedin profiles would be pretty cool.
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Amazing levels of ignorance here. Even this has become difficult and awkward thanks to an effort to close the door after Eduardo Saverin et al bolted. Hacker News seems to be a reliable place for people to holding forth on situations that they don't understand; it's no wonder that the brains trust here gets regularly crucified on n-gate.
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You can find a loophole that lets you get away with murder, but that doesn't make it any less imoral, or you any less of a murderer.
I've been using the mono in my code editor for a while and it's a delight.
There is a transition feature: https://www.robustperception.io/accessing-data-from-promethe...

The problem with data migration is that the two versions of the system lay out the data quite differently, so converting from one to the other would take a lot of disk seeks. In the worst case you could be looking potentially at days to convert the data over, which isn't really an option for most systems that care about older data.
All companies are supposed to be equals regarding taxes. If a part of them can trick this rule, then it is not fair and must be fixed.

I agree that there is a part of entrepreneurship which include being able to understand the rules and laws and use them efficiently, but all these familiarities used to game the system are only valid if only a minority of the people use them. One people finding this trick is ok, but big companies being able to buy these tricks is another scale.
Only if you have another citizenship to turn to. Being stateless isn't an option.
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There are actually things like the expatriation tax and "name and shame" provisions which discourage people from renouncing for tax purposes.

Also (note that I am not an accountant or lawyer and this is not advice), most ordinary people won't see any problem with taxation while abroad beyond the actual inconvenience of filing a 1040 because the foreign earned income exclusion (https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...) allows you to exclude foreign earned income up to $100,000 from US taxation. Since ordinary people pretty much all earn less than this, they only have to pay taxes to whatever country they are actually in. Only people who are rich enough to hire accountants have to worry about double taxation, and they can probably avoid it by other means that are well-studied among rich peoples' accountants.
Thank you for providing such a great tool, I'm excited to try version 2.0. I've also played around with Prodigy. SpaCy was my start in NLP, I really hope it is going to stay around.

We've developed a great product for our customer with SpaCy, it wouldn't be possible without SpaCy.
Unless you want to scale. I'm all for the rule of least power, but as soon as the app is exposed to multiple users I would ask and be sure about the expected number of simultaneous users before going with SQlite instead of going with a Client/Server RDBMS. Still, the bound is pretty high if you keep your transactions short.
It’s the hypocrisy that the richest and most profitable corporation doesn’t have to pay tax while the rest of us do.
Never use pure black (Hex value: #000000) for text, but instead, a range of grays.

This irritates me greatly. I can understand somewhat the justification against pure white (a poor attempt at compensating for monitors being set by default to insane levels of brightness), but pure black? It doesn't make sense to reduce contrast this way.
Good luck with that, fee has increased significantly and you may be required to pay an exit tax:

"The Exit Tax is computed as if you sold all your assets on the day before you expatriated, and had to report the gain. Currently, net capital gains can be taxed as high as 23.8%, including the net investment income tax."
GDP per capita doesn't seem like the best metric to track the growth of "Ireland's Economy" if it doesn't translate into more jobs/taxes/etc. though. Would you happen to know whether these development incentives have actually befitted the Irish people?
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How would this possibly work? Just throwing out the word 'startup' doesn't solve anything. The only way to reasonably take this comment seriously is as subtle sarcasm.
A summary:

Small Business -> Small government tax breaks and benefits

Medium Business -> Token government tax breaks and benefits

Large Business -> Vast government tax breaks and benefits

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Poor people -> Small government tax breaks and benefits

Middle class -> Token government tax breaks and benefits

The Rich -> Vast government tax breaks and benefits

---

It is quite astonishing that in 2017 that we are still astonished by this.
Well, the flip side of this is that the society we build and paid for with income tax has become a huge risk because of automation.

We’re wealthier than ever, but we can’t use the wealth to society, because we’ve moved it from the masses to the few.

Now this probably isn’t a popular thing to say in American contexts because it sounds like socialism, but historically the levels of inequality we’re seeing now have lead to only one violent outcome.

We’re not in danger yet, the middle class isn’t starving after all, but if we don’t radically change taxation to match modern society then we’re going to be fucked in 25-50 years. Because we’ll desperately need a model for society where not everyone has to work.
How else would you sell global taxation to people? People try and find all sorts of reasons why they're paying taxes to their home country when living abroad, while others aren't.
So I live in Poland and it's not really a secret that small companies can and do optimize their taxes by registering in the UK (mostly self-employed professionals) or Czech Republic (small companies / family businesses). It's not like you can avoid taxes, but the difference for a self-employed programmer is non-trivial, like getting a 13th monthly salary every year. The Czech deal is done mostly for simpler tax code and better handling of car-related costs. I've seen many luxury cars on the roads with CZ license plates recently and I can guarantee it's not because a sudden influx of Czech tourists :) There are probably more schemes I am not aware of, but these two are popular enough that you get tons of adsense ads when looking for them (i.e. there are companies / accountants specializing in setting this up).
There is a lot of double think today around issues of fairness and justice, most of it lends towards enabling ideas consistent with movements towards centralizing powers, and authoritarianism. Small business enthusiasm--consistent with individual determination, responsibility, democracy, and consumer rights & choice--is just passe. No one is tweet storming about "small business rights."

Or, let's just go trip over all the homeless on the way to work in the Bay Area while tweet storming about the imminent dangers of mansplaining to society.
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Really nice work. Is there a bitcoin or PayPal donation page for the spaCy project?
I have been having the exact same argument with a friend on Facebook (I know, I know)... There is something about this whole thing that people seem to rationalize. My friend's ultimate argument was "well they pay more tax than I will in my lifetime anyway so what's the big deal". I had to give up in the end.
Monopolies are granted by governments. The free market has a natural solution to monopolies, it's called competition - startups.

Big Cos will always lobby governments to add rules and regulation to raise the barrier of entry on their market and thus reduce competition.

They, in fact, buy their monopoly from the government.

Solution? Take away the government's ability to grant monopolies.
Link to novels, pls. :-P
Reading the headline, I thought they used iPhone users, but it turned out to be actual sheep with cameras.

Anyway, like the article says, it is mostly a PR stunt, and I'm not very impressed.
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The Trump administration would never make a mistake like that, would they?
What happens when you sell your startup?
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Does Javalin have support for REST endpoint versioning?

I.e. does it support any of versioning types mentioned here: https://www.troyhunt.com/your-api-versioning-is-wrong-which-...
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crickhowell-welsh-town-...

However, most of these techniques have a high fixed cost. For Apple paying $1m fixed cost to reduce the percentage tax to zero is economical, for a corner shop it isn't.
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Lots of small things can add up to a lot of work though. A few extra percent per feature of complexity will ramp up quickly.
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I've been on Firefox Nightly for a while now and the difference to my FF56 vanilla install, it behaves much more like chrome and has become my daily driver.

It can and has fully replaced Chrome (after the KeepassHTTP Connector was ported) in all matters (development, daily usage, hackernews).
All companies are supposedly equal in doing business, but some manage to compete better than others. Taxes are just another area of competition.
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Frankly, I'm not convinced I should be taking design advice from people who made this landing page. In some parts the page looks borderline broken [0].

[0] https://i.imgur.com/Lsz19Zl.png
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Mine is 57.0 as well. If you go to preferences there is a "restart to update firefox" button. Whack that after installing the beta and you get the release version.

I really like this. I've dumped Chrome and Safari entirely from daily use.
Why is the burden not on both? Both Apple and the graduates are profiting from the subsidised education.
Maybe these are silly things to complain about with fellow techies, but the things that prevent me from switching to Firefox:

The menu bars are enormous even on a compact theme. Bigger than on Chrome. I only have so much vertical space to spare.

When opening a new window, the address bar isn't the first thing to receive focus, unlike on Chrome. With Chrome, I just bang out WINKEY + C + H + R + ENTER + part of query + ENTER and I'm pretty much there
Unless Apple are running a break-even charity they are making money on each employee - which I would guess is due to a combination of the employees skill (gained in some way through this "free" education) and the business as a whole. In what way is there no obligation on Apple the company to pay back to society? One of the whole points of being a full time employee (as opposed to contracting under your own company) - is that the company pays taxes on your behalf to the state.
Oh, sorry, I'm not saying it's _good_ that this is the case, just that you'd be surprised by the number of small companies pulling this kind of shit too.
The charitable interpretation is that large companies create demand for services in the community where they are located, thus functioning as an economic stimulus. The demand may entice smaller companies to co-locate in the same neighborhood.

With this interpretation it would make sense to entice large corporate entities to arrive and/or stay put.

Of course, the path from economically motivated kick backs to pure cronyism is not too long, so cynicism is always warranted.
FreeRTOS supports as much use of the MPU as you wish.

The use case for essentially 3rd-party modules that I've come across are basically all of the same form which is generic 1st party (trusted) code running 3rd party blobs for specific customers, examples being smart meters, Bluetooth devices, vending machines, etc.

The thing is... in most of these cases, the best approach is to sandbox purely the 3rd-party code, not your code (which hampers and slows development).
Although its nice in theory to also have your own subsystems protected from each other, in practice, the resource constraints prevent that being done well.
Putting tight controls just around the blobs on the other hand is a much easier thing to do.
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This is a reductionist view that ignores economies of scale, real barriers to entry, the actual requirement for regulation for most markets to function, not to mention basic safety.

Or are you campaigning for the abolition of patents as a concept?
The use case for essentially 3rd-party modules that I've come across are basically all of the same form which is generic 1st party (trusted) code running 3rd party blobs for specific customers, examples being smart meters, Bluetooth devices, vending machines, etc.
The thing is... in most of these cases, the best approach is to sandbox purely the 3rd-party code, not your code (which hampers and slows development). Although its nice in theory to also have your own subsystems protected from each other, in practice, the resource constraints prevent that being done well. Putting tight controls just around the blobs on the other hand is a much easier thing to do.
I fully agree with your first sentence but I don't think the amount of people who want to go to space is a good measurement here, since most would not qualify for the job anyway.

So with all due respect, to me that means your second sentence may well be replaced by "If you want to make the disclosure of medical records a requisite to be an astronaut, don't expect too many qualified applicants to show up for the job".
Good luck Apple selling iPhones in Jersey. They'll need to sell everyone hundreds of iPhone X's there to keep profits up.
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The "poverty line" is a joke. It's pegged to food when the largest expenses for most families are housing and medical care. I know I probably spend about the same on groceries as I spend on health insurance, without taking into account what my employer pays, deductibles, etc.

I doubt many families have 10% of income to spare.
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At least here in Canada, indeed.com (actually .ca) has noticeably better selection than LinkedIn and Monster, the sites I've used before.
But you have to look at the effective rate after deductions, which are very significant in the US.
I hope it's OK to jump on the bandwagon here.

I'm a German CS graduate[1] in desperate need for some professional feedback/assessment and maybe career advice.

I have three years of experience in not very code-focused tech companies that work with legacy tech stacks where I feel no employee learned anything new during the last 5-10 years, so at work I never had anyone to learn anything from or even consider a "mentor" in any way, so I just tried to learn as much as possible by myself in my free time.

Unfortunately I have similar impressions of many of my professors (being stuck somewhere many many years ago) and fellow students (not at all being interested in recent tech).

I don't have active accounts on either GH, SO or even HN, Reddit or Twitter, I don't have a blog and I don't have any real projects/products to showcase.

I'd love to be able to just chat with someone experienced and get some feedback on where I do and don't feel skilled - even if it's really only for a couple of minutes.

I set up a mail address which is [my HN username]@outlook.com

Thank you very much in advance.

[1] I'm writing the thesis for my B.Sc. right now and will graduate in a couple of months. In German you call someone writing their thesis "graduate", I don't know if you also do in English.
Well, they couldn't steal everything from the greeks, right?
Yup. The less I need to keep my mind on how to type, the more I can keep my mind on what. Hunting for punctuation/braces is slooow, and not much else is happening while you're doing that. Given the density of punctuation in code, that's a lot of context switching.

Steve Yegge talks about it some: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirtie...
I have a simple solution:

Create a business which behaves and acts the same way as Appleby but for small enterprise of lets say 30k revenues a year only. You provide the service on a almost non profitable way to attract the vast majority of enterprises in this revenue sector. Ultimately, governments will see the effect of lost taxes and act accordingly.
I think the argument is stronger than that. It's not that tax avoidance is morally justified, it's that corporations have a fiduciary responsibility as stewards of their shareholders' investment to maximize the return on that investment (within the bounds of what the law allows). That includes reducing costs and, yes, that includes reducing tax burden.

Tax avoidance within the bounds of the law is not just morally justified - it's morally required.

(For the record, I think tax avoidance is a major problem, especially because large corporations end up being the only ones who can afford the accountants, lawyers, and international subsidiaries to facilitate it. Small business ends up getting shafted. But the way to solve it isn't to whine about Apple doing what Apple is supposed to do. The fix is to reform the tax code.)
Well, turns out that it is in fact worse, not better.
All they are doing is arbitraging loopholes in the tax systems. Politicians have been trying to solve way too many problems by taxes (taxing differently x and y) or giving tax gifts to donors and various organised interests. As a result it creates an arbitrage-able tax system. I wouldn't point your annoyance to those who are optimising their taxes (after all this is merely their fiduciary duties to their share holders) but to the designers of this tax system. Create a flat tax and pretty much all tax avoidance schemes disappear.
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I think you can't get a Mac, iPhone, or an Android phone as Google has similar tax avoidance schemes. (Although maybe this one isn't viable anymore?)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/28/business/Doubl...

Unfortunately, that's not really a tenable position for many users here.
https://i.imgur.com/hWl9YR8.png

A screenshot from my screen just now, running FF58 and Chrome side by side. Firefox's menu bar is smaller.
Well, yes: I think that's the point (or at least, the debate). How do you translate such a multifaceted word when there is nothing with the same collection of meanings and implications in the target language? It's a brilliantly ideal word for its purpose in the original Greek, and impossible to capture in (say) English without footnotes.
I'm a bit confused as to what SpaCys revenue model is. Didn't it use to be free community edition / paid enterprise support model?
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I used to love SF. Now I'm not sure how much of it is the city is going downhill, versus being older and bothered by different things. Then again, in the 90s people said the new crowd in the Marina were taking things downhill.
Being objectively wrong.

Philosophically wrong is using technology that limits the web from being what the interpreter expected, as in this example (there's still a rational reason in this case to do it the "wrong" way and it's based on personal morality).

Objectively wrong being trying to make a website out of custard.
>and you get the release version

Apparently that's not the final release version. Despite not having a beta/RC version is not the final version, that one will come next week.
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Not true. Apple pays on the profits made in the US. The trick is to move the patents overseas and charge a lot to use those patents. Thus the US profits are small but the overseas patent royalties are huge.
There is a world of difference in the moral intent of claiming tax credit that the government itself publicises in order to help the people in their society and the likes of "Double Irish" tax schemes. It saddens me that this argument is always rolled out. As a global population (not thinking about individual countries, however unrealistic) - it depresses me that people try to justify these blatant abuses of legislation.
I still use the Firefox ESR for the dev tools, the new dev tools are missing things like the network response preview, the debugger is not working right for me, and the Chrome look does not appeal to me, I prefer the old dev tools.
Other then this as a user I like the fact the Firefox is moving again and in a right direction most of the time. I hope they respect the user privacy more and the new privacy invading feature should be opt in.
I've recently switched from Chrome to Firefox Developer Edition and apart from a few UI niggles, I'm really happy with it and I can't wait to start recommending Firefox to people again.

Congrats to Mozilla and the folks who contributed to this! The web needs Firefox and this is a massive improvement.
A flat tax on income would help, but it's still a tax on income, and so you can move that around with clever transfer pricing etc.

Land value tax works even better: it's physically impossible to move or hide land.
> All you need next is to build A near B

That will never happen. When my car can drive itself, I'm moving further out of the city.
You don't just pay taxes to get back the same amount. Taxes also include redistribution of wealth. In the US, a significant amount pays for social welfare and health insurance for the poor and elderly. That companies with healthy profit margins pay for this appears fairer than if it's just paid by small companies.
They do, in income tax.
It's probably a subjective proportion thing. Pure metrics aren't necessary what people "measure", maybe the border above tabs is not seen as wasted space. Same for perf, Firefox might be faster in tests, but chrome has an overall feel of speed is "better".
I was going to rant about this idea but it looks really good and not at all like gvim.
I can't recall the number of simultaneous connections it provides, but you could try loader.io.
In any free market, the giant incumbent will either buy out or copy and squelch startups that threaten them unless restricted by anti trust. Witness how Facebook treats competition in the social space. Or how Oracle treats the database space. Or how Microsoft funded Apple's survival and Intel ensured AMDs.

If there are sufficiently few rules and an lack of power in the government to enforce (Korea, Japan, Italy), giants may use corruption or organised crime to achieve this.

Less powerful governments are rarely a good solution to protect the small man. The right solution is to build checks and balances between the different wings of the government that make it difficult to "capture" all wings.
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