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> They are screwed.

That's true if you think the solution has to come from more legislation and/or more taxation. Those approaches will simply encourage companies to move more of their operations to other more favorable jurisdictions.

If there's a way to save money, and companies have a responsibility to shareholders to be as profitable as (legally) possible, they'll do what they need to in order to save the money. We need to stop expecting some kind of moral accountability above what the law demands. There are plenty of natural incentives for companies to be morally responsible above what the law requires, but anything less isn't illegal unless it's illegal.

You can continue to play cat and mouse with laws and loopholes, or take a different approach...

Instead, if you consider the option of lowering taxes (on all companies) to compete with those other countries, you'll actually provide an incentive for more large companies to keep their businesses - and their taxable profits - in the US. It may be a lower tax as a percentage, but it would actually increase tax revenue in the long run, in addition to boosting the economy.

The music industry can provide a fairly good analogy: when (the original) Napster became popular along with other file sharing networks, the music industry wanted to solve the growing piracy problem by throwing people in jail and pushing for stricter laws. In the end, that did nothing to help the problem. What did help? When iTunes actually provided a decent, legal alternative to piracy, it took off and hoards of people who had been pirating music actually spent money obtaining music legally because it was reasonable and competitive (in terms of convenience) with networks like Napster. The lesson: you don't fight widespread behavior with legislation; you steer it with aligned incentives.
The other big technical reason to self host Google fonts is wanting your website to load in China. The Google CDN is blocked there, in case anyone here is unaware.
It is not "lost forever": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15644454

They can do a hard fork and this money will re-appear.
If in Europe: please contact your local consumers organisation or legal assistance insurance and go get your rights! We need case law to go all the way up, even on the smaller losses usually involved in consument product conflicts.

Irregardless of small print, if it's not clear from the outset there is some part of 'lease' (of certificates) involved it seems pretty straightforward to annul your agreement of purchase once the product stops working within the period you could normally have expected it to function correctly. (Even if it is clear from the outset, the day my Philips Netflix-integrated TV With Netflix Button (R) stops showing Netflix, I'm going for it.)

The nice thing about annulment is 100% money back. The less nice thing about anulment is that it is the store that has to pay you back, not the companing producing the product. They need to sort out liability among themselves. It's producers thinking this is acceptable behaviour that starts it. The retailer is only the middle man.
Not the same. At least pre vim 8. I don't know if this has changed.

https://geoff.greer.fm/2015/01/15/why-neovim-is-better-than-...

Example for python from the post

import vim

# Show current directory in Vim
cwd = vim.eval('getcwd()')
vim.command(':Explore %s | redraw' % cwd)

Technically it's python, but it's a shim.
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> The license model for Prodigy is pretty simple: permanent per-seat licenses, with pricing that compares pretty favourably to other developer tools.

Can you be more precise ? Because I don't want to invest time in a tool to discover that I can't afford it months later ( having a research student budget and all, i.e my "budget" is my own money ).

:(
More features = more resources.

You need a culture of cleaning up tech debt to reduce resource usage.

With so many holes in the ship, the company is going to be focused on features to drive up RPU.
you imply that when someone that is not a programmer, and say works in the rare stones industry, goes to google to search for ruby gems, that they are not shown a bunch of programmer garbage?
>What would the cost be of all the lost productivity?

What if it was a productivity app that you were spending more time in or interacting with more efficiently. Or what if it was a fitness app that got you to do extra stretches throughout the day? Is that just economic dead weight?

Disclaimer - I'm the CEO of Dopamine.
@dang, can we get the title changed for this story? The original was "Facebook’s testing a new method to prevent revenge porn that requires uploading your nudes" which seems more descriptive and helpful.
I've worked with customer's on different clustering algorithms but, in all cases so far, they have proven unsatisfactory. We always end up with just a lot of points on the map instead.
My response was about the article the topic of which is the perception of the tech industry. How is that an ad hominem?

You calling me a trumpist on the other hand...
This is after a month - http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/10-i...
So they write "We're bricking the device you paid for, but hey, why not pay for another one from us?" What kind of idiot would accept this offer?
Whenever I put any of those fancy grayish sites side to side with a printed magazine, the ink on the paper is more black and the paper is more white than what I see on the screen. No wonder paper is easier to read. Then I open the developer tools, set color to black and background to white and the screen is as readable as the paper. It seems that they are missing some basic usability tests.
1. Tracking is not really effective if the user agent caches the font aggressively.

2. Subresource integrity takes care that at least the file cannot be modified freely without you knowing.
So there is only the case that the file either is there as you expect, or it is not available. Does that leave room for malicious intent?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
You tax things you want less of, not more if. Taxing corporate profits is a tax on investment. Apples actual income tax rate is in excess of 60% if they repatriate.

First, they have to pay corporate income taxes in all their foreign countries. Then, they owe 9% to state of California on what’s left. Then they owe 35% to the US treasury on what’s left. Then they pay the remainder as dividends, and shareholders owe up to 10% to their stars, and then 15-20% to the federal government.

We could likely generate as much or more in tax revenues by eliminating the corporate income tax and treating individual dividend payments as regular income (taxed at 28-38% normally).

This way reinvested profits aren’t taxed, leading to more investment, which leads to more profits and more dividends. And the return on investing for individuals increases, leading to more investment. More investment means more jobs, higher productivity and higher pay.

And hundreds of thousands of corporate tax accountants can now actually be switched to work that benefits society.
Depends on what time zone you're in; I'm a recent nightly convert, and am currently in a very different TZ than usual. I had gotten used to around when updates would come through, but now I'm all screwed up :)
Yea, as nightmare fuel some of that is fantastic. But the larger problem is YouTube autoplaying and automatically recommending it to a naive audience. And the larger processes that incentivize people to make this stuff for children.
I won't be able to continue to use my favorite extension, tab groups, so I don't think I'll be updating in the near-term.
an alternative (which i m not sure is better, but...) is to have absolutely zero tax across the board. Then every possible service any entity requires is paid for in a user pays system.
so why not stick to ie/safari?
In the US, school buses are typically 70-80 seaters; when I was in high school ~4 years ago, I rode a Blue Bird Vision (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Bird_Vision). These will get around ten miles to the US gallon of diesel and cost around $110,000 US. The lifespan of these buses is typically around 20 years; each school day, they might be driven a hundred miles or more. $1m over 20 years seems reasonable.
Cool, is there any tool like this for NHL?
Government funded R&D has led to many great "free market" products.

We have for profit hospitals and they are a terrible thing overall! We also have for profit prisons which are also a terrible thing.
I am very happy to see i am not the only one noting that every nyt article posted has been a neg pr piece on silicon valley.

For a while i felt like i was on crazy pills
The way Ethereum, its programming language, as well as its "smart contracts" work effectively ensures there will be an infinite amount of such issues in Ethereum's future (assuming Ethereum also survives indefinitely, despite all of these issues).

If Ethereum is the "internet," then all of these incidents are kind of like "data breaches" that have happened and will continue to happen for the entire life of the internet/Ethereum network. And if the number of data breaches throughout the internet's life is any indication for what will happen on Ethereum, there will be a lot of "hard forks" in Ethereum's future, too.

Ethereum devs signed-up for this when they decided to make its smart contracts Turing complete.
No, that's not what happens. This is a classic situation with a stable Nash equilibrium where the best for all competitors is to keep the price high. They know the current price is affordable enough that people will keep paying.

Think about gasoline prices back when crude oil prices suddenly fell off a cliff. Did gas prices at your local station drop? No, not one cent. All of the competing stations kept the prices roughly where they were and raked in increased profits.
SMO was an expansion. They're still in Venice too.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/venice+snap+locations/@33...

http://www.laweekly.com/news/snapchat-leases-more-than-20-pr...
Because this bug was predicated on both a specific large number (the address of the wallet that happened to serve as the repository of the library code), and a specific sequence of actions, you would likely have to fuzz-test for a very long time before finding it.
As with most things, you'll only find mediocre products if you don't look very hard. Most people would scoff at a keyboard that cost more than $50, and so almost every store stocks keyboards that cost less than $50 and are as mediocre as they come.

I would also encourage you to look into the broad range of keyboards and pointing devices that exist out there. Mechanical keyboards are more than just Cherry MX switches. In terms of pointing devices, I use a CST Trackball for instance, and it's borderline industrial.
I use :x all the time, and I haven't used :wq, at least in a while. Also, I remapped ctrl-s to :w, which is easier especially when control key is my capslock key. But I do get a kick of seeing the ":wq" joke/sticker, which is funny but only Vim users can understand.
Fonts are one of the dimensions of design. If you've ever enjoyed, for example, one of Edward Tufte's books on visualisation ("The quantitative display of data" etc), part of their appeal as excellently crafted books stems from the choice of fonts. The same happens on the web. See, for example The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com.

Obviously everyone is free to block fonts, just like you can block all images or use a text-only browser etc. But to categorically deny even the possibility that well-chosen fonts can enhance the experience for some people seems disingenuous.
How should they have handled it? Called the police? What if it had been the Dropbox folks playing pickup and a family had rented the field for a birthday party and the Dropbox folks refused to leave? My guess is you wouldn't be criticising the family even though the only difference is the identity of the players. That speaks loudly to your biases.
Could be one of those job listings Hacker News provides to YC companies?

https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
I live in a small city in the midwest. I've never heard people complain about "tech bros" here, probably because any we might have are basically invisible, but there are a lot of people who really dislike and distrust the companies and some of the people mentioned in the article (Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Uber). The article actually does a great job of capturing what regular folks think about SV.

Bill Gates (I know, not SV, but still tech) is another who is still despised by a good number of ordinary people here, though he has done a good job of aligning himself with Warren Buffett in their minds. For some reason, a lot of people around here admire Buffett. Gates' Q rating has risen accordingly, I'm sure.
>API Doc: http://goo.gl/EEvqon

I'm not falling into this mate, unshortened link is:

http://assistly-production.s3.amazonaws.com/91626/kb_article...

https://linkunshorten.com/
It's obviously comedy but the sentiment remains valid, Bill Burr's response to "That's what the law says"

50 years ago the law said I could beat you with a mtop handle, didn't make it right.
Sure but let's differentiate jackass tech CEOs from jackass engineers. Because face it, yes many tech CEOs are pseudo-psycho jerks, but then again so are most CEOs, it's just for whatever reason the CEO of comcast doesn't get personally attacked the way Zuck does.
Ever heard of NASA?
What if they've done that already though.

What if the reason big companies avoid tax is that the shareholders ensure someone values fiscal results over supporting the country they earned the finance in is in the directors chair.
I think hashing pictures and storing the results to compare with future uploads is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. This is the same thing that is done with CP pictures and for much the same reason.

The only thing that makes me nervous is the actual uploading of pictures in order to be scanned. It should be possible to create a client-side image processor that generates the appropriate hash but doesn't involve uploading your pictures to a server somewhere. Perhaps a Javascript processor in-browser or even a native desktop app.
What could be more thrilling than driving a car that randomly bursts into flames? Makes sense to me.
What bothers me is the attempt at omniscience. Give me an option! Let me have a checkbox for "tailor results to my location". Heck, turn it on by default. Just give me the damn choice.
Even though I don't believe that articles like this would make the slightest bit of difference, I sincerely admire the sentiment of people who write them.
The chances of the font already being cached by a first-time visitor is actually quite high for Google Fonts since their use is widespread and they are not versioned.
Accountants keep on recommending this method for some reason but honestly if you do the tax calculations yourself you realise that you are not much better off.

It used to be the case that you were better off but the last 5 years the options for UK limited Company contractors have been reduced to a point where the running costs of the company combined with the taxes bring you to effectively the same amount of tax paid as a permanent employee.
>But this looks just like a customized Vim in a terminal with what some may consider bloat

But we can chose to ignore those "some", just like they can keep using whatever works for them.
Less than Hollywood, which is considered a progressive industry.
I have really bad vision; -7.0 to -7.5 in both eyes. Without glasses my focal point is about 3 inches from my face. At that range I can see quite a bit of fine detail that you'd never notice from even a foot away. In the past, before corrective lenses, I imagine 'fine jewlery maker' would be one of the few careers open to me, and that I'd be pretty good at it.
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>I don't understand this

Severe security vulnerability that they'd rather keep under wraps than admit to and patch? Hard to imagine what else would be worth the ill will from consumers, I'd characterize Harmony is one of Logitech's flagship consumer product lines. Is this a Galaxy Gear type situation, but with something that would be a poison pill for IoT and is maybe even effectively unfixable/compromised at the hardware level? March 2018 seems like a long time to wait in that case, though.

Edit: According to a user on Reddit, Logitech's had the Link products on "fire sale" a number of times over the last 6 months, with a 3 month warranty. So they've run the inventory out, with warranty terms that exclude the buyers from the replacement program. It seems like the most plausible reason is greed.
Subresource integrity is a double edged sword because when a third party updates a resource then your page breaks. Of course you can build fallbacks by loading from your domain in case of errors but then you just doubled engineering effort and have rarely executed code paths in your source.
> I’m sure Firefox 57 will also get a fair share of sour feedback and comments written in uppercase. That’s inevitable.

[citation needed]
Which would be fine if there were EU regulations about taxation. Now it's just multinationals playing out different EU members against each other to get the best deal, look at Ireland and Luxembourg. I can imagine a EU fiscal policy would be heavily lobbied against by the companies that use these back doors, as it would shift power back to the politicians/people: either you have access to the EU market and pay taxes according to these rules, or you can't sell your product here.
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There was probably a time when it did matter, but I believe (without much evidence) that the benefits of CDNs are less now.

* Hosting on decently fast machines is a lot cheaper.

* Overall bandwidth is increasing

* HTTP2 makes serving up resources cheaper and faster even without other changes. Before a page might request 100 resources and the browser would download them 8 at a time due to having a maximum number of connections to a server.

* Browsers are getting smarter about loading resources in general

* There used to be only a few big Javascript libraries that everyone tended to use (jQuery, etc). So your browser would download them once from the CDN and cache it for multiple sites. These days there are a lot more. Same with fonts. With hundreds of fonts available the chances of your page's fonts being in the cache is small.

The only resources that I think might still be worth offloading to a specialized third-party would be video files, which are still too large to be easily hosted.
I have no stake in this debate, but "the trumpist playbook" remark was unnecessary. There's no need to politicize this, and Trump does not have a monopoly on ad hominem attacks or fallacies in general.
Same thing with the internet. Government spending got us super expensive connections between a handful of universities. Free markets took that and brought it as what we know as the fast, cheap internet to our doors. Although regulations in the telecom/cable/ISP markets are working hard to impede that.

Yes, govt made the highways. Did not really repair them afterwards (at least around here) but it was definitely a good thing.

However, when judging by the bottom line, the number of good products created by govts is incredibly small compared to the amazing breadth and diversity coming from the open markets.

That logically makes me trust the market system overall and to prefer a small, limited government role.

But I am afraid we are moving into quite the opposite direction...
don't forget the Blockbuster streaming deal involved ( a may have been originated by ) Enron of all things. It never had a chance in hell.
LVT sounds good in theory, but a large number of rich people _are_ acting as rent seekers (they own property, and extract value via rents on people who work/produce actual value on it). It would not be politically feasible, unless the gov't is prepared to fight against those powerful land owners.
Cassandra is a wide-column or column-family database, which I just refer to as advanced or nested key/value. Unfortunately it's commonly mixed up with column-oriented or columnar tables and database.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_family
No, I still have sufficient faith in the regulatory apparatus in the US.

Especially for something where the businesses have set the regulator up as a gatekeeper.
How about something that proudly states "1970"? That would be cool!
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I am not sure how your link disputes the title. A hard fork to a new currency still means that the past currency is unusable forever, and in the world of crypto, that means lost forever.
There is nothing wrong with renting things, as long as you're aware of what you're doing.
Is the windows GUI advertised in any way, like screenshots, feature lists, etc?

If it wasn't for your post, I wouldn't have known this even existed. Now that I do know, I'm wanting to know more before I bother trying.
Would you not make use of a tax break even if you taking it harmed your neighbour? Everyone's response would be "It may suck for you that you can't leverage that loophole, but that person is not breaking the law." It's like the difference between claiming mileage vs. claiming vehicle rental/gas for work trips. You're not breaking the law by claiming one over the other, you're leveraging the framework to greater effect than some others are able.

It doesn't make it morally right, but at the end of the day, everyone leverages the opportunities they have. You can't blame someone for that. They are working within the confines of the framework defined for their circumstance. If that framework had loopholes that could be leveraged by that individual, they would take them.
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Love the analogies.
All of Twitter's problems stem from its being taken over by marketing wonks who drove out the techies. This led to naïve attempts at monetization (such as closing off the API), and naïve monetization is always user-hostile.
That’s true, but it’s hard to fit “would be lost forever if this stuff actually worked how its proponents claim it works” in a headline.
You missed the fact that GP was making a joke about a typo ("Nighty" vs Nightly) :-)
If these concepts aren't constrained by what is currently (or ever) possible, why not make it capable of spaceflight? Or teleportation? Or a "submarine mode" a la James Bond's Lotus? Supercapacitor body panels seems positively dull in comparison.
Could you please specify what model of Samsung TV?
The funds may be locked away forever unless the Ethereum network "hard forks" by adding a consensus rule exception that specifically releases these funds.
> Apple's accountants say Apple Paradise Inc. made the profit

... because they offset all local profits to expenses incurred in licensing the brand.

> When they sell a cool computer for E2000, they have used their brand to sell it, and there tax is collected.

But tax is supposed to be collected there and it's not, because Apple accountants immediately declare all profits as debits towards AParadise, so there is $0 profit. That $2000 laptop is now sold at cost, so there is nothing to tax - unless you start taxing expenses, and good luck with that (you'll kill half the economy overnight). All profit goes to AParadise, and the European economy is now at net negative: it pays for the roads that Apple trucks use to deliver their China-made wares, it pays for the social security that frees disposable income for Euro citizens to buy laptops, and in exchange it gets a big fat $0.

The solution is to do away with the "IP licensing" regime altogether, or tax it at absurd rates to discourage these moves. Otherwise you might as well give up and turn into Somalia.