skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is truly abomination in my view. Everyone knows how graduate students live on shoestring budgets and that in itself is non-incentive to take graduate studies. Today US thrives because of its research output and lead in technology. This singular measure can change that. On the top of this, the bill makes religious education more accessible.
I don't want to be too pessimistic, but I'm doubtful about those initiatives.

Tax experts seem to be 10 steps ahead of legislators, not to mention lobbyists.

I really want to believe that tax havens could be solved, but if you think about it, it's a very hard problem and nobody has enough political capital to solve it. Even people who are in power have little interest in trying to improve the situation, and I doubt that voters would really give any damn, not to mention that there are many small businesses who already benefit from tax havens too.
Of course code being data in Scheme you could easily write program that processes scheme code and transforms it to a different syntax. I would assume this would be harder with Python code.
You butchered my original comment to a point where I could only assume malice. As for "hints", my bad.

In 2017 they're going back to the 800lb gorilla of search and browsers for the bulk of their operating revenue, and I'm supposed to just accept that as "independence" and back off? There is a disconnect here that I'm obviously not going to bridge, so fine, they're independent! Go write their non-profit-for-profit chimera a check and "take back the web".
Apple’s most valuable asset is its brand. The brand values include good citizenship, disability awareness, eco-friendliness and diversity. Appearing to be money-grabbing corporate assholes could cause them real damage, so protests absolutely can have an effect.
Try this game
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Especially when they are subsidized by the federal government.
>But it does discriminate — often favoring female applicants, international students, and those with backgrounds in finance, says the report by Adam Allcock, a Stanford business school student from the United Kingdom who found and analyzed the data.

The comments about the rich not needing aid isn't entirely true, having rich parents doesn't automatically mean the child is rich. I would want to see the report in order to draw my own conclusions.

The over looked point - if this had been favoured against females or internationals, you can sure bet there would be massive public outcry, calls for people to quit their posts and protests at the University.
Drive to go through pregnancy and childbirth, not drive to reproduce.
According to [0] it was 15 gigawatts in 2016 Q3. Very nice wind at the British isles.

That's nominal capacity, rate of generation appears to be 24 % of nominal; what can effectively be utilized is then below that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_Kingd...
This is France. A bad day, certainly. But the only lost income is for the company, and I doubt it is "much needed" for Apple
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As predicted in the past, this is the end result of lots of shady behaviour from WoSign/StartCom.

Some previous discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12582534
Is this worth getting? I would like to spend a little time with Phoenix, but I'm not sure if this content is up to date or if it's well written.
To be clear this is rover landing planned around March 2018. This is not landing man on moon.
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Breaking the spirit of the law, but not the letter.
BinaryEdge does something like this but also for IP addresses and then security rates them https://blog.binaryedge.io/2017/11/23/organization-mapping/
If people want to discuss this again that's fine but I think it's important to point out previous discussions because the author (phkamp) participated in them: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=lost%20bazaar&sort=byPopularit...

Reading phkamp's comments in those threads adds more context to the ACM essay.
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Actually I thought that as well when I first saw it was an option, but these are numbers comparing the official images to these images we built using the standard Python benchmarks. Not compared to say some code we wrote or run in production.

We did 10 runs of each on a large AWS instance and averaged the results.

The build info and benchmark results are up here https://github.com/revsys/optimized-python-docker if we’re wrong about something please let us know.

However, definitely agree that any optimization like this could have negative performance consequences for certain specific bits of code. But that’s likely true of any build to the next.
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This capability is already available to lots of large organisations.

Making it available to everybody just sheds light on the problem, it doesn't create the problem.
> Public companies have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to maximize profits

That does not automatically mean taking advantage of tax havens. Warren Buffett says Berkshire Hathway can save tax using such tax havens but he does not do it because its not the right thing to do.
Probably not the intention of parent, but if you could mine the uranium that is released on the oceans by the earth's crust each year you would have an effectively renewable energy source that is nuclear.
Is it legal to repost job posts on open/closed FB groups to other channels?
I want to use job posts posted on closed/open FB groups, posting them on a single site where people can find them easily. Is it legal to use content generated by others? Who owns the copyright?
That's exactly what I thought open source meant. How can a source be open if not everyone can read it? I didn't get your comment.
The parser. Once for properly parsing HTML content, for a search engine, and the other for a framework used for saving pages (For an Instapaper like service). So it wasn't a big deal, but in both cases, a DOM was constructed and operations were executed against the DOM.

Nothing about that or the JS engine is impressive really. That was my point, more or less. Of course, there's a difference between building something that works, and something that works exceptionally works etc etc(all the stuff on top of that), but all told, I still don't think building a browser justifies assembling such a huge org, even if there is no reliance on third-party technologies.
After a bit of reading, this is how it appears to work:

For a coherent state the uncertainty relation is certainly affecting the system behaviour. In this case, the standard deviation of the position times the devotion in speed/moment is h-bar/2

However, the effect in this case is evident in a Heisenberg limited momentum, as the spatial dimension/position of the condensate becomes well defined by the physical dimensions of the trap.

Sources:
* Wikipedia on Heisenberg uncertainty for Coherent states ( BECs exhibit a close to ideal coherent state )

* Observing Properties of an Interacting Homogeneous Bose--Einstein Condensate: Heisenberg-Limited Momentum Spread, Interaction Energy and Free-Expansion Dynamics https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.7081

* Guesstimations and extrapolations.
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Because Edge and IE11 exist, that's why. It's a fantastic standard that would make things much easier for many real-time apps. Even the dev tools in Edge are subpar compared to Chrome and Firefox.
What do you melt your own glass for? I have a vague interest in almost all crafts, but can't see any obvious applications for custom glass?
They have net worth of $500m. They invested 2% of their net worth in to bitcoins. This is not savvy, it's just simple diversification that probably everyone in this net worth level is doing. The article reports it incorrectly that they are "first bitcoin billionaires". If you had $1 billion net worth you probably had at least a million dollars (0.1% of your assets) invested in such exotic things that would have high risk, high rewards.
Can I erase sensitive data on an old hard drive with Neodymium Magnets?
Similar to DNA that has evolved to create living organisms. Each evolutionary step was selected because it worked, but the result is in no way optimized to be understood by human brains.

There's a hierarchy of systems:

* non-working, random, chaotic

* working, but not understood/understandable

* working, and clearly understood by at least 1 human brain

Clearly, each step in the hierarchy is less primitive than its predecessors. Also, since human brains are the greatest intelligence we know of, the 3rd bullet point seems like the pinnacle.
The issue with taxes is that they are proportional to how much you make (and for Apple, how much they sell), where as a lot of things that make you more "green" are one-offs.

If Apple's sales go up, but they're having to pay higher taxes to attract those sales, there won't necessarily be a net gain in after-tax profits.

As a contrasting example, installing solar panels is primarily a one-off cost, will probably end up saving you money in the long run, and if it drives sales, the costs of operating those panels don't increase proportionally with your sales.

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Or, alternatively, maybe Apple wants to be green because that is something the upper management actually care about on a personal level. I don't think it's likely that Tim Cook feels the same way about increasing the French government's tax revenue. Why should he? He's not French. Which, coincidentally, might be the real problem with multi-nationals - at the end of the day, corporations actually are run by people, but most people won't care about more than one or two nations in their lifetimes. Hell, many studies indicate that the average person can't be emotionally engaged with more than a hundred people, much less a hundred countries full of people.

I personally have lived in four different countries, but would say I only care about the success of two of them.
I thought Nasa suddenly stopped going to the moon since 1972 is because they found an alien base on the far side of the moon. That or we are in a computer simulation and there's not enough processing power to simulate another planet.
Actually, given that lawmakers are in effect captured by large corporations, and Apple are the largest of all, what they think about tax law actually really matters. Tim Cook has spoken out about cash repatriation several times and the debate seems to be about where the tax is paid.

If a phone is sold in France, a corporation is making money from the French market, so given that that market has fixed infrastructure costs, shouldn’t actors in that market contribute to those costs through taxation?
> I'd respect activism advocating for simplified, hard to game tax codes more.

The problem is: the simpler the tax code, the easier it is to game. There's a reason why tax codes are universally huge and complex, and it's not just because of politicians giving tax favors to their donors.
It's a phase change, so yes a "suddenly different state". In the lab the BEC part and the thermal part are pretty easy to tell apart when you let the distribution expand (by releasing it from the confining potential.
I think what you enumerated shows that "America"'s culture is immigration. Von Neuman was Hungarian, Arno Penzias (big bang) immigrated from Germany, Borlaug's ancestors came from Norway etc
USA had influx of people from the beginning, both voluntary and forced immigration. It was "New World", where those who didn't like the old one or wanted to restart went. And it's ironic to see now Trump trying to cut off immigration.
A big problem with his thesis is that I see just as much ugly crap in proprietary codebases where there is a clear structure of who is responsible for what.

The problem is often that the economics does not favor the perfect. I'm working on a project for a client now where I know there are lots of ugly warts in the backend because we've been building abstractions in parallel with building the rest of the system and have not always had the time to go back and revise the old code.

I would love to go back and sort that out. But to the client it is an extra expense now, both in terms of money, but more importantly in time spent now, vs. paying for it increased maintenance costs for people to - hopefully - clean it up over time later.

But there's also often the other cost of learning and determining if a shared piece of code is appropriate.

E.g. there's about half a dozen Ruby gems for handling ANSI escape codes, but for a recent project I ended up writing my own, because none of them seemed to cover what I needed, and it's not clear they should. A lot of code duplication happens because the cost of trying to avoid it often far outweighs the cost of maintaining code you know is doing exactly what you want it to.

I do agree with his hate for the autotools family, though.
And here's the arxiv version (no paywall): https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03421
Could you elaborate what you mean? Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfe... I would think that esp. ModelViewSets are pretty RESTful
Ethereum had an ICO, back in 2014:

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/07/22/launching-the-ether-sal...
In the UK (except Scotland, which no longer has them), a coroner must be either a doctor or a lawyer: so here, too, we have coroners with no medical training.

But the office may have different responsibilities: here, their main function is to determine how someone died when there are questions about that, in the first instance via an investigation delegated to appropriate professionals and then, where necessary, by presiding over a judicial inquest.
They have that domain so that nobody else uses it.
Dear Berkeley U.: Students don't have income. Also 40% of lowest paid pay $0 taxes.

PS. Is it OK to post right articles on HN, or no dissenting allowed?
Ex: Would this make it to the home page or nah? Asking for a friend.
http://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/933013221824397312
Warren Buffett is Warren Buffett. He's an icon, and Berkshire Hathaway has been making consistent profits over decades.

Any enterprise which does not make consistent high profits eventually gets scooped up / controlled by "activist investor" scum which then demands profit extraction to shareholders at any level possible: tax evasion schemes, loading up the company with debt which then gets distributed to shareholders or other financial tricks that only benefits the shareholders, often at expense of the workers and society.

The only other exceptions to this rule I know are Amazon, Google and the various companies of Elon Musk - which are exceptions only because of their extremely charismatic and successful leaders.
Are you implying that you’d be happy for a corporation to pay minimal tax, as long as the amount paid sounded like a large number?
As an Irish and European person, I want you to know that your comment is misinformed and misleading. Global tax avoidance and evasion by multinationals has no relation to the formation of the EU, and the Irish government are at a gigantic economic loss (not advantage) as a result.
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It’s a heckuva improvement on “clean” coal which produces the most greanhouse gases per BTU of any fuel. Nuclear still suffers from the distributed waste issue without a permanent storage facility or closed-loop reprocessing. Solar and wind are the ways to go long term. Solar especially, considering insolation gives a median daily recovery potential of about 1 kWh / m^2.
Or after seeing Veritas Data Insight? [0]

Data insight is targeted at more user oriented unstructured content repositories (CIFS, NFS, SharePoint, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Box), but the fundamentals are very similar: content classifiaction, data profiling, risk scoring, access pattern anomaly detection, access control remediation.

[0] https://www.veritas.com/product/information-governance/data-...
Wow, we need to improve this idea and put technology on new level. https://blendberg.com/pl/gotowe-bazy-wedlug-miast-bytom/
Those that are worth less than $1000 to the seller.
Surrogacy is illegal in some places and countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogacy_laws_by_country

Adoption on the other hand can be a risky path, leading to a different kind of problems, and some are very hard for parents. Everybody wants their sons being healthy and able to have a normal life but this is not always guaranteed with adoption. Some countries use shady practices and lie to the parents to obtain an emotional (not logical) choice. The cheaper the worst. Systematic racketeering is the minor of them. "Forgetting" about some important condition or omiting relevant medical information is much worse.
Rust and Servo doesn't have much to do with Firefox 57/Quantum, it is still mostly Gecko inside.
I can think of only one crash in the best part of a year of using Firefox Nightly exclusively on my phone. (Firefox Nightly on my laptop has been far more heavily used for a number of years and has had a handful of crashes and a few other issues, but still fewer crashes at least than I get the impression production Chrome has.)
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I homeschooled my 2xe sons. I served as Director of Community Life for the TAG Project for a time. This was support for my ability to homeschool my kids in a situation where no school, public or private, was qualified to adequately accommodate them at both ends of the spectrum at the same time, which was what they needed. My oldest has two conditions which can each lead to a neurotic relationship to food severe enough to require in patient intervention. He has a healthy relationship to food because of my approach to handling his issues.

There are an awful lot of things that can go wrong in a child's life that can potentially lead to a need for enormous resources at state expense from medical to mental health to behavioral, which can go very differently if there is a sufficiently knowledgeable full time parent to handle it before it goes so very wrong.

You are in error. More education is not wasted on raising kids. Your opinion sounds incredibly ignorant to me.
Using state machines in the UI layer is good idea, but problem with trying to present everything with pure state machines is that the state space easily explodes when you have a lot of different potential events and interdependent systems affecting the UI.
I'm not convinced. There's not-terribly-bad polyfills for SSE that go down to IE8 or so. Admittedly they don't support all details of SSE but they support a good chunk. I've used SSE pretty extensively in a number of projects and I can't say IE/Edge is why I stopped using it. It's just.. there's better options out there :-)
How do you measure research output? If you measure it as papers published per capita (admittedly not a very good metric), several european countries lie above the US. The EU in general also has the highest amount of scientists/researchers per capita.

We tend to be biased against results from outside the major ivy league institutions because ivy league results are reported in the press as "harvard professor finds X" whereas the rest of the world has its findings reported as "researches discover Y", or if they are lucky "scientists from country X discover Y". This leads to the extremely superior branding of the top US universities which everyone can name, while they struggle to name 3 of the best institutions in Europe.
On Thomson computers also, it was "BASIC MICROSOFT 1.0" as standard 'OS', provided as cartridge on TO7 and included as ROM on MO5 (and later, on TO8), if I am not mistaken.
"Where’s your professional integrity is what I’m asking."

There are millions of happy Uber drivers and 10's of millions of happy Uber customers, it's beyond pale for you to even ask this question.

Uber treats is drivers reasonably well or else nobody would be driving for them.

"to mess with people’s lives in likely illegal ways?"

99.9% of Uber is just connecting drivers and riders, that's not 'messing with people's lives, likely in illegal ways'.

Facebook, Google/Youtube and Twitter are literally active channels for literal terrorists to promote mass murder - and you're worried about Uber?
Yes, because they would need to allow write-executable memory pages. Disallowing those closes the risk of executing non-verified code.
While I'm no biologist, I do think Dawkin's Selfish Gene gives a good blueprint for what motivates "life" in general: Spreading itself no matter what.
The vast majority of life is being kept in check by geographical and other constraints, but we humans mostly have managed to bypass those constraints, at the cost of massive environmental long-term debt.

So the smart thing to do, as supposedly the "smartest beings on the planet", would be to come up with another, maybe even sustainable, reason for existing than merely "propagating ourselves" like there are no limits to those finite resources we are mostly wasting to do that, at least right now.

In those rare cases where we decide to agree to "live for bigger and more complex reasons" we often manage to build amazing things; Like whole Empires, a "Land of the free" or space stations zipping across the skies at 17.000 miles per hour.
Imho that's one of the reasons why people like Elon Musk can have such an, sometimes nearly cult-like, impact: He offers visions for a "unified humanity goal" without using the clutches of religious dogma or much nationalistic fervor.

His ideas appeal because they still hold true to your original "biological cause" for existing: Colonizing Mars would be an epitomal achievement for "terrestrial life".
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Tell us who is getting 'screwed over' by Uber?

It's 100's of millions of riders who come back day after day for more rides?

The drivers who actively come back to work for Uber but could stop at any moment?
A couple of things about native iOS apps. These are all a result of Apple controlling the walled garden and wanting to increase its revenue:

-Apple limits what your app can do, e.g. apps can't spawn processes (FU Apple, this is bad for security/pricacy), can't do JIT compilation, can't download code, etc...

-Apple rejects apps that compete with their own.

-Apple removes apps that some governments want to have removed.

These are all things an open web avoids.

Now the fun thing is that nothing prevents Apple from turning the web into a walled garden since they don't allow any other rendering engine other than their own.
The iOS ecosystem is really a beauty.
.IT (Italy) neither.
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Next big ui paradigm would be ditching all these messy JavaScript ui frameworks and going back to real tools we had for implementing desktop applications. At the moment we’re switching the tools every 6 months and the next shiny ones are of course no better, just broken or incomplete in different places. Web apps are crappy replacement for professional desktop ui
"Everyone knows how graduate students live on shoestring budgets"

Actually, people do not know this, because a lot of people have never met grad students. That is one of the reasons Republicans can get away with this: their base has no clue what this is about and will probably not be affected by it.
Pun intended? QuIP would be as nice name.