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Whether it’s two seperate entities or not, the disincentive is still the same. Investors who want to start a business in the US have to pay > 50% of their profits to taxes before they receive them.

And the high US Corp tax rate isn’t nominal, it’s real. Apple appears to pay a lower rate, but that’s only because of most of it’s profits are earned overseas.

If it paid 10% on two thirds of its earnings earned overseas, and 40% (state and federal income tax) on the one third earned in the US, it looks like only an 19% total income tax rate.

But when it returns the foreign earnings it pays another 40% state/federal on them, for a blended rate of 43%. And shareholders owe dividend and state taxes on top of that.

Tax deferral isn’t avoidance. Even if Apple gets a 10% repatriation holiday, their blended rate is still over 30% and total for shareholders over 40%.
what was that video about?
Yep, buy a container of carbon nanotubes and you can't move for warnings about wearing a mask and wearing gloves. 5g of SWNTs, and about 5kg of paper with warnings on :)
True value or Real Value are stabilized values in the market directly proportional to usefulness of the commodity or currency. If people wanted this much ETH, it would be worth that much, but saturating the market with that much more ETH would drive prices down. It's like the meteor that was made of Iron that swung by the earth "it's 5 quintillion dollars of iron ore!" well, with simple multiplication that may be so, but the assumption is that this material would be absorbed into an economy that can use it effectively. Nobody is actually going to hand you 5 quintillion dollars for the meteor.
Well, everyone including darling tech giants in California wants to milk the PR opportunities like homelessness, high cost of living, immigrants in limbo status etc.

Sadly, good numbner of people are naive enough to not see past the fracas.
Open source isn't synonymous with hobby!

I develop open source systems in my work, partly for internal use but also to help grow the ecosystem our firm is in, and to make a name for ourselves.

We don't market heavily right now because our documentation is sparse so more users means more support.

I think working seriously on documentation is the primary way to market open source, actually.

That means not only API references but appealing and well designed READMEs and changelogs, tutorials, blog posts, etc.

Also having a chat where people can get involved and ask questions.

Beware that users are not only fun to have. They're also a liability in that you kind of have to help them and care about them!
Uber is working with NASA on flying taxi project
Index funds have long predated ETFs.
>Hang on. Are you claiming the real estate market's collapse wouldn't have affected stuff like Realtyshares? How so?

Some impact sure, but let's take an average Fundrise investment. They buy an apartment complex for $20 million and it is at 90% occupancy. They plan to sell it after holding for 10 yrs. If the market was terrible at that time they could hold it a bit longer, and in the interim it is still at 90% occupancy and generating income.
It _is_ incredibly positive how the world economic system has been improving poverty in some of the most impoverished areas in the world. However, I don't think we can look at an average number and ignore concerns at the top end of the curve where many life quality measures and wealth accumulation have been going backwards.

The world economy isn't homogeneous, and what we may be looking at is that the current system is pretty good at taking people in economic/industrialized state A -> B, but bad at going from B -> C. If that's the case, sooner or later more and more people will arrive at state B and we will have a problem. It's even more of a problem if we get to B and it has people slipping back to state A in life qualitative measures (irrespective of imperfect quantitative measures like GDP...).
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I share them, but I don't think they need to be synthesized.
Intel used gasoline to drive cars. Intel used Brother copy machines. Intel used Tyson chicken to feed their engineers. Go complain to Conoco or Brother or Tyson.

Intel used sand that God created in their Silicone wafers. Blame it on God.
Frankly speaking, I would prefer a fair amout of income inequality to that.
Unless store closings have higher order effects, like making it difficult to finance the operations of the stores that don't close.
Please don't editorialize titles on HN. The impact of Google's proposed changes has much wider implications. The specific concern regrading AR might make an excellent comment when expanded beyond 80 characters. It might raise an interesting discussion about AR as well.
> You consider the fact that there is no spec other than "how the current implementation works", so no way to know if the code than works on version n will continue to work on version n+1, and no way to produce an alternate implementation, is a "complete nonsense reason"?

Yes. Sqlite is among the most stable and mature software in existence. I challenge you to name a single browser technology or API that has been anywhere remotely as stable as Sqlite, especially as implemented. As mentioned elsewhere ITT, Hwaci has contractual commitments to support backwards-compatible Sqlite3 for at least the next 35 years.

At that point, if I had to guess, "web browsers" won't be around any more, the web itself will be a dying or dead legacy technology, and companies yet to be founded will lead the tech sector, while Apple, Google, Microsoft and most likely of all Mozilla will be IBM-style dead letters or Digital[1]-style dead.

Sqlite was primarily written by one person and is maintained by three people.[2] If for some reason Mozilla had to fork or take over maintenance of Sqlite, it wouldn't even be worth noticing in their budget. It would, in fact, likely cost considerably less developer time than they spent designing, implementing and lobbying for IndexedDB.

More likely, if Sqlite3 were no longer being suitably maintained, all the browser vendors, plus the hundreds of other major tech companies that use it, would jointly endow a Sqlite Foundation to take over maintainence, which might cost Mozilla 5 grand or so a year, ye gods.

Even if Mozilla felt compelled for some reason (avoiding dependencies?) to rewrite Sqlite from scratch, Sqlite is 125k lines[3] of ANSI C compared to Firefox's 18 million lines[4] of C++, so Sqlite represents roughly one month of Firefox development time.

Firefox, Chrome, IE/Edge and Safari all make very extensive use of Sqlite internally, including to implement IndexedDB, so, obviously, Mozilla does not actually consider dependency on Sqlite and its API to present a meaningful risk.

Further, as things stand (and as they stood in 2010), Sqlite's massive footprint in the Firefox codebase means Mozilla already must rely on Sqlite remaining maintained, just the same as if WebSQL had been standardized.

> I also believe that it wasn't just Mozilla, but also Microsoft that scuttled this. Mozilla was the louder voice, but Microsoft never supported it either.

MS, especially at the time, ordinarily tried to slow or stall the standardization process for web technologies in general, so IE wouldn't fall too far behind. I expect better of Mozilla.

Mozilla was also by far the loudest (really the only) voice against WebSQL; MS barely participated in the conversation and was mostly noncommittal when it did. It's unlikely MS would've objected at all if Mozilla hadn't given them the opening.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation

[2] https://sqlite.org/crew.html

[3] https://sqlite.org/testing.html

[4] https://www.openhub.net/p/firefox/analyses/latest/languages_...
Most of Santa Monica isn’t that bad, and even Venice can be reasonable away from the water. There are plenty of places in SF that exceed high end places in LA for rent, and they are similar or greater in area to boot. Let’s at least compare apples to apples.

It isn’t just SNAP, google is big in Venice as well. Many tech startups are in the west of LA. I just don’t a year in Westwood. It was pricey, but not SF pricey. And ya, you need a car, which is also true for much of the Bay Area. (Well, we didn’t need a car until we had a kid, Uber + bus worked well enough before child car seats became an issue)
Apple plans to have augmented-reality headsets by 2020
It's a fair point about which screenshots are shown where, however it should resolve itself fairly soon as the new zyn-fusion UI will be entirely (vs. currently partially) open sourced by year end.

With the whole fltk/ntk vs mruby-zest(zyn-fusion) powered UIs situation the user can either be presented with a complex piece of information on the landing page or an oversimplified version. So far based upon general feedback it seems the oversimplified version is less confusing as when more information was put on the front page people didn't reliably read it.
A modern forum system is a culmination of all these features and many more.

And each feature always seems trivial on the surface. That you pick on this feature as an easy one makes me chuckle and shake my head slowly as I recall the hubris of my past self.

I once made the mistake of thinking that building a forum would be easy, so I can relate.
With TenCent having the pull that they do in China, I wonder if this could mean Snapchat possibly being unblocked in China soon.

The cynical part of me thinks that when a big purchase like this happens, the buyer knows something we don’t.

Then again, they bought 5% of Tesla as well this year.
What would you do if you could count the life you have left?
This piece focuses on Google's attempt at removing ME 11 code and replace it with something they are more comfortable with. The others drove discussion towards numbers, security issues and a third one focused on the license (BSD) and its effects.
You did not respond to my point: would Disney have changed their way should there have been no PR fire storm? Nothing you are saying disagrees with what I am.

> The company I work for likes to decrease short term profits for long term ecosystem health, because a vibrant system is fundamentally more valuable than extracting the maximum wealth in a straightforward way.

And I bet if those profits stayed constant people would change their attitudes.

Additionally, if you are going to insult me I do not find it worth my time to respond to you again. Please try to be more cordial in your conversations here. I'm glad your company has backbone but in my pointless anecdotal evidence working for large companies, money speaks louder than any other point.
Letters are not icons.

"Letters are things, not pictures of things." -- Eric Gill

Github did a great writeup on the perils of using fonts for icons. One reason was the one mentioned here, users overriding them with their own preferred fonts.

https://github.com/blog/2112-delivering-octicons-with-svg
Median instead of Average would be most illustrative
I dont know. If I knew, I'd be working for Tesla, or working on a startup that'd compete with Tesla, similar to how the head of battery engineering at Tesla did. :)
For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deb...
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It's built into the agreed upon protocol. Votes in the future may change this, but that would compromise the value proposition. I don't think we can say that until over a hundred years from now in 2140-2150 when the last block is mined and people scramble for alternate ways.
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2 -- since when is "might makes right" == liberty? I find this position odd especially considering the build and gym habits of most tech Libertarians I have met.

Shouldn't, for it to be true liberty, one of those people own that food by virtue of a piece of paper stating a government granted monopoly over it because his ancestors enslaved the ancestors of the other, and be allowed to call an army of police with guns to take it no matter how small and weak he is? And perhaps, if he sees fit and deems the other person worthy, the owner will rent a fraction of it to the other to plant as a seed and keep the yield for himself, divvying out exactly enough food for the other to barely survive and continue working?

This is exactly liberty, no?
imo this comes down to centralization and the popularity of "big box" stores. People generally don't want to go to a specialty store anymore, the toy section at Walmart is fine.
You are describing what happened on the soccer field.
Neither is MINIX.

In the end, though, they're all Unixy enough.
Sometimes I wonder whether IRC really does have an advantage over richer media communications.

I do not know or care about the identity of someone who helps me with a tricky question in #emacs beyond their current nick. This lack of information is, in many ways, an asset.

I think the only place it goes wrong is that eventually you'll have to interact with people in the real world, and the easiest assumption to make on IRC is that everyone i'm talking to is basically me, but smarter, and there's some guaranteed weirdness when it becomes clear that this is not the case.
Ok; what if a dependency forbids that?
Just a heads up, the http://primercss.io/buttons/ link is broken for me.
>Getting angry at Apple et al for following their incentives rationally is silly.

That logic doesn't work because people do get mad at things they view as wrong even if they are currently legal (or were legal when they happened). In this case, people thing Apple has done wrong regardless of the legality of the action.
I think he deviated from topic he should be addressing. A guy like Tanenbaum should not be exicted or engaged in marketshare debate. His article yesterday was showing more excitement than his rant over intel keeping it secret and this article goes the opposite way not addressing real issue. Minix is BSD license the very same license that lets us tinker with code; choosing license is not the issue. What I feel happened is that AT finally got a chance to declare his superiority over Linux or Torvalds I will say and he used that opportunity (although I don’t believe Intel is still the most used processor out there let alone minix).
That's wildly untrue, and to the extent that people think that we are at risk of economic collapse.
This is why I am so sad to see CodePlex going away. Something about Github seems to encourage this practice of terse project descriptions. Maybe it's the fact that the code view is the default view as opposed to the wiki being the default view.
Mods, please fix the title. "A Clash of Cultures" is very broad and says very little about the article's contents.
No karma is better than good karma om.
At what cost though. Boutique retail seems to be growing but at the cost of malls and large chains.

You might be able to satisfy our retail needs with 1/4 the staff.
The question is about tracking and storing individual events (logs) with arbitrary per-item detail vs. dimensionally limited aggregations (time series / metrics). In either case, I think we agree that the data should be recorded in a structured way, and when I say "logs" I just mean a record of individual items, not of sampled/aggregated metrics.

Given that, you need both logs (individual events) and metrics. Logs give you crucial insight into individual interesting events such as single requests that bring your service down, but logs are orders of magnitude more expensive than metrics in tracking, storage, and processing. So that's why you use metrics for a much wider scope and for longer time periods.
Not to mention the network effects. If half the stores in a mall close with no new ones opening, that whole mall is going to go under, and it's going to damage all the stores in the process.
Intel most likely would not be allowed to buy AMD, something something monopoly, although a real lawyer could probably tell you more.
I'm still pretty new to event sourcing but when I looked at Kinesis it seemed less than ideal for ES due to it's finite retention (max 168hrs). How do you get around that?
Came here to post this. I guess the author never read the Torvalds-Tanenbaum debate :).
I use v56 and I've disabled even checking for updates. I'd like to have the performance of v57 but it will break or severely downgrade most of the extensions I use on a daily basis. That's a dealbreaker.
I googled to find out who Dale is, and saw that he issued an apology over Twitter and linked to the open note on Makezine: https://makezine.com/2017/11/06/open-note-to-naomi-wu/
The mechanism used was a retraction notice, however there was no debate that the research was legitimate and valid, so it could plausibly be said that the retraction mechanism was used to censor the radiology journal that had published the paper.
Obviously, but 1) the data are not the same then so it's possible the algos just learn that featureset and not the actual patterns, and 2) I'm more talking about the meta-pruning and algorithmic balancing quantopian uses to determine which bot wins, which fundamentally can't be trained on the past.
Would it help if you considered that if over 6000 stores closed, it is very likely the majority are small stored and not big chains? From what I saw in Bloomberg article it was 550/6000 are chain stores. That leaves significantly more to small shops that are trying to provide employment and selling worthwhile goods to their local communities.

For example here in buffalo we have small stores for spiritual goods that also serve as community centers for such spiritual practices.
Please don't blame your failings on your membership in a heterogeneous group of people.
What I would prefer is context sensitive filtering options to let you refine your search after you have performed it. For example, if I search for "ruby", there will be results related to the programming language, the gemstone and for people named Ruby, and Google is guessing which one I want based on what it knows about me, so why not give me visibility into which one it is picking and let me switch to the others?
Tried Firefox recently. Works fine on Linux and macOS, but hangs my Windows 10 cold after a while, requiring a hard reset. Apparently I’m not the only one, and the fix is to disable hardware acceleration.

Leaving aside the fact that Windows is garbage, browsers that hope to increase “user happiness” should not do that. Chrome does not.
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I'd bet this 12% stake is actually a behind the scenes loan in the form of buying stock. No way would any smart investment company have genuine long term interest in Snapchat at this point. Older people are not using snapchat, and younger people will grow out of it within the next 5-7 years. Snap is still a major short imo, will be under $10 a share in next 6-8 months
I get that. But my opinion is if you only have 500-5k you shouldn’t be investing it at all. Ok maybe in liquid low risk ways. But because of other life risks if that’s all you can afford, you need to just continue saving it until you have a cushion and can real estate. It’s actually a pretty low barrier of entry
Robin Sloan did a great bit of fiction about what truly superb Google personalization would look like. No search bar, no results list, just the "I'm feeling lucky" button. You click it, and then the relevant thing happens.

I think about that every time I go off to incognito to make Google stop hobbling my results and give me the thing I was actually trying to find.
I'm the author and the only maintainer of Bt, Java 8 BitTorrent library: https://github.com/atomashpolskiy/bt. As of today, it has received 1136 stars.

I've started it quite literally to scratch my own itch: after having upgraded to a newer OS X, I found out that my favorite torrent client does not launch anymore. I've already been thinking about starting my own OSS project for some time (I contribute to a number of OSS as part of my job), so the decision came naturally to me.

It was clear to me upfront, that at some point the project will become too large for one person to take care of everything, and I will have to look for co-maintainers. So from the very beginning I've been spending a lot of time writing documentation, examples and polishing README, and of course paying a lot of attention to overall design "quality".

All of these things paid off, and each posting, be it on Reddit, StackOverflow, Quora or HN, received some attention, stars and downloads. People have started to post bugs and questions, and this contributed considerably to my motivation to continue working on the project.

In August I've added a GIF animation of the CLI component to the README and submitted a yet another ShowHN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14911372. It was a blast! The project received several hundred of stars over the course of two days, and the feedback was also very insightful and helpful.

> do you think it's unfair to just work on something you like but never take the time to get the word out

I honestly believe, that this is in fact an obligation for the author to get the word out, IF the project might be of interest to someone besides the author himself. Otherwise, why make this software open source in the first place?

I'd also recommend the following read for a more step-by-step advice on marketing of amateur OSS projects: https://blog.cwrichardkim.com/how-to-get-hundreds-of-stars-o....
>>> junk that i both do not want and think is largely superfluous anyway.

I'm reminded of an article I read last year about parents buying presents for kids at Christmas. In the 90s it was easy. The kid wanted a thing. A gaming device, a dress, or a car... there was an object that the kid wanted to own. That object was sold at a store. But today's kids don't want things. They have the iPhone. What they want is 50,000 likes on facebook. Their happiness is tied less directly to things than social acceptance. Often having the thing leads to that social acceptance, but increasingly not. Your seeing the junk as superfluous, and mentioning it here on HN, fits with that shift away from retail goods and towards social acceptance via online communities.
Yes, those countries with low corporation tax are so much like Somalia ... I think you lost the argument at that point. If Germany stops trying to tax companies that aren't German it won't turn into anarchy.
Pornography is easy to find on the Chinese internet, it actually comes up on innocuous searches there (no safe search, because all searches are supposed to be safe when in reality none of them are). They don’t really care about porn, quite the contrary, it drives their business as long as they don’t cross invisible lines. Just don’t get into politics...
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Yelp increasingly cracking down on ‘review solicitation’ across the internet
How barbaric!
A button that appends that querystring parameter to your search query is a "premier feature" that a multi-billion dollar company is hesitant to maintain?

They already have a button that would cause far more confusion if accidentally pressed (Feeling Lucky) since it results in a page that isn't a set of google search results.

Sorry, gotta say that those are pretty weak counterpoints... I expected something about how Google's business interest has everything to do with personalized search and each non-personalized search would result in less revenue, or something like that.