skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's largely how VAT (value added tax) works in theory: A company collects VAT on what they sell, and counter that with VAT on what they buy, so that they effectively pay a tax on the "value added".

The problem with all of these things is that when you can pick and choose jurisdictions, then playing them up against each other becomes easy: Sell said phone for 690 from a low tax jurisdiction to the Italian company, and the "value added" on that 700 sale is 10.

This is one of the tricks they also use to avoid income taxes: Shift the revenue to a low tax country by applying trickery in terms of how subsidiaries shift products and revenue between themselves.

But this example also shows why you can't just tax people on the total value rather than the added value unless the tax is set very low:

For the majority of companies that don't control the whole value chain, the margin between the import price and the price the product is sold on to retailers at might very well genuinely be <10%. Any such tax on the total retail value that makes a dent in the Apple's of the world is likely to bankrupt large numbers of local companies.

If you were to apply such a tax at every step in the value chain, it'd very quickly become a big problem.

And while it might seem "easy" to instead e.g. put such a tax only on final products sold to end users in some product categories, it'd lead to a massive complexity in trying to create rules that are not trivially easy to evade with small changes to the way the products are sold.

In other words: The idea is good, but creating rules that are possible to enforce and not full of loopholes is where these thins tends to fall apart.
> Or an unending number of other interpretations

and when someone joins the team and raises endless arguments with you about how what is already working isn't REST, because their interpretation is different, you have problems.

and when you have a client that insists that you're not following REST conventions because your endpoints take POST for everything and don't take actual PUT commands, and they are not going to retool their interpretation of REST to match yours, you have problems.

These problems would exist anyway - interacting with other people usually brings some problems with it - but putting things under this banner of REST implies that there is some 'right' way of doing things which contributes to the interaction problems.

Just acknowledging "hey, this could have been done 4 ways, this is the way that was chosen, deal with it" - regardless of whether the REST acronym is involved or not - should be the way to go, but an implied 'standard' creates more hurdles.
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Your battery gets full and you drive off, having essentially stolen energy (more properly, parking-socket-time, which is the resource Tesla is trying to conserve) in violation of your contract.

It's the same answer you get for "OK so I stuff this candy bar in my pocket and walk out, then what?". Shoplifting is trivially easy too.
I know a lot of Americans from all over the place and have never met one who pronounces those two words the same.

At least not in the same way "pen" and "pin" are homophones in parts of the country. Nor how they're / their / there is for everyone.
VAT only applies to consumers, not businesses. To be fair, that seems to be where our corporate tax system is headed anyway: zero rating for the companies, and consumers pay all the taxes.
How does Rust make it any easier?
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Apparently not! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incline_elevator

It seems the distinction is that funiculars operate in balanced pairs, while elevators are independent units.
> Your argument would be stronger if you didn’t resort to epithets.

No, an argument is strong or weak regardless of whether you like the words used to express it.
I wonder how Capsule nets can evolve using Attention model like this
>cosmetic changes that can be easily done by less expensive means

The less expensive means (contacts, hair dyes) are temporary and require maintenance. The benefits of a genetic treatment is that it is permanent (no cleaning of contacts, no subsequent salon visits), but should also be reversible
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Oh, that is fascinating! I had never heard of anything like that, and that actually sounds like a wonderful idea. Especially for areas where there are underserved regions (rural areas that might not have a high enough population to support a fire department or police or something like that) that could be supported by conscripted people. And unlike with military training, the training would leave participants both with a willingness to help their neighbors and skills to do so. I'm going to have to read up more about nations which do mandatory civil service rather than just military.
Uber has (somewhat correctly) predicted that the feds are so slow and the penalties so small, running things like the mob will pay off. After all, their whole "disruption" is "how about we just ignore all the taxi legislation". See also, AirBnB with "how about we just ignore all the hotel legislation".
Banning a word like "evidence-based" implies - don't look at the evidence - just believe what I say. Thats the Trump method. It's not the scientific method. This ban goes against freedom of speech.
Internet browsers have text to speech built in. It's really helpful for me.
> Paying by the drink (ie paying the $0.60-0.80 + margin that it costs to operate a car) will never be a good deal for the consumer.

The economics of this are the opposite. Having cars sit unused in driveways and parking spots, and be maintained by non-experts, is highly inefficient. Just like cloud infrastructure, it is more efficient to centralize and rent out capacity as needed.
Having implemented many web service APIs in both SOAP and REST I have the same opinion.

XMLRPC or JSONRPC seem to be the happy middle ground.

The posted article hit home with me as I had to re-implement working SOAP services in REST because you know, management buzzwords and new shiny.

I quickly found, as the article articulates, as soon as you enter the land of verbs and workflows REST starts to stumble and becomes very network chatty. And when that network chattiness is backed by other network chattiness the grumblings of why the hell you can't just return a deep object graph of data from an endpoint ensue.
Buying Intel is not that simple and would be disclosed far in advance of the actual purchase.
There is an extra claim that clarifies the contradiction: Elon Musk is trying to achieve that 10x reduction reducing the tunnel diameter. The author argues this won't work. What I understood is that, if the company indeed was trying to catch up with the international state of the art, they could actually achieve their goal, but the problem is that Mr.Musk is not only ignoring it, but calling them idiots.

So, I do not see any contradiction. But that is just how I interpret the article, I do not have a personal opinion in this issue.
Okay sorry, yes this comment is over the top, but it reflects my feeling lately on HN.

I tried several times, but it seems constructive criticism or criticism isn't wanted. Proposing changing the voting system to up voting only, and create a report button. The downvoting makes a lot of bad things possible.

Several people sent me mails recently, responding that they fear they would get banned if they write as open and free as I do, and free speech isn't a thing on HN. Well, unfortunately it seems they were right.

And if you verify all the HN news that got moderated/hidden that don't suite your world view, it is appalling. (I don't know if it just the view of two moderators (dang, sctb, maybe a third) or of more people behind.)

In a newspaper I read recently that HN forum is a kind experimental model for Democracy 2.0, and featured as negative example were unpleasant comments get hell banned. Sounds more like communism of the 1970s, than what our country "is" and "needs" as model.

Anyway, I would like to see HN as news site for startups, VCs and SV. Not boring things from corporate IT and PR for them. What's the goal of HN? Cater all, or cater the startups and VCs and Ycombinator? Hint: there is already Reddit, for the rest. Please focus on the first, and move the offtopic stuff to a new "page two".
Because it’s an absurd idea. He’a trying to solve an already solved problem with an inferior consumer solution. When you look at the commuter trains of the major metro areas you’ll notice some very well off people that could afford to drive, but choose to ride in a comfortable train and focus on reading or catching up on email. Driving is an inferior mode of transportation. And before you yell, “but driverless cars!”

Consider that many folks don’t want to buy a car in some of these bigger metro areas or to pay for the parking to maintain one. For so many reasons, beyond technology, traditional mass transit is the superior option.

I couldn’t care less whether Musk achieves his technological goals with the Boring Company. It’s hawking an inferior product even if he does.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15930796

If MySpace could employ people to sit around looking for the wrong pornography, Etsy could employ people to look through their marketplace for the wrong stores. This article explains exactly where we are at: solving the problem technologically hasn’t worked yet, and you have to have actual people look at it.

Some knock-off mass produced junk is just as jarring when set amongst handmade art as pornography is when set among family pictures, if you’re an artist. People paying Etsy hundreds of dollars a month for their stores deserve a clean marketplace, and Etsy could hire a dozen human reviewers for the cost of one or two engineers.

Of course, since my time, Etsy has slowly expanded their rules so that many of the things that would not be allowed six years ago are now encouraged.
With automated driving systems you can put the vehicles really close together with high speed and get throughput equal to train systems with single passenger cars. These same tunnels can also have vehicles in them with higher density seating (call them buses, if you like). If you put these vehicles close together you get a train. With this system you can have both cars, buses and trains running all in the same tunnel. Charge each by how much space they take up and vary the price so there is never a backup to get on. Seems like a transportation dream come true. Everybody gets the system they want to use.
I think saying luck has no part in playing games is ridiculous. I have many times spammed deflect and killed someone in Goliath.
I was suggesting they should voluntarily resign, in the current market they will have no shortage of opportunity. It would send a strong message to Google (and others) that the behavior is not acceptable.
Define precise.
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That is highly dependent on the language you are using.

Many languages support auto generation of consumer and producer code based off of WSDLs.

And AFAIK, most languages that don't have the auto gen tools do have XPATH libraries for easily manipulating templated SOAP requests.
Plus corporate taxes are already very low. The highest nominal tax rates in Europe are around 30%, but that is misleading. The actual real tax rates are somewhere from 5% to 10%, because every country has these "ifs and buts" clauses, that they use to lower corporate taxes, and effective act as a tax haven, while pretending they are not.

Coincidentally, I just checked this statistic on OECD: corporate tax revenue is just around 4% to 8% of total tax revenue. I wonder where these corporations would be if the normal people weren't contributing ~90% of tax revenue for upkeep of state infrastructure, that enables the existence of these businesses in the first place.

https://data.oecd.org/tax/tax-on-corporate-profits.htm
Tunnels are dangerous. Elon is proposing to build really narrow tunnels that are hard to evacuate and then allow every random vehicle inside it. Yes it's on a sled but who is certifying that my fellow tunnelgoers' vehicles won't leak fuel, spontaneously catch fire, or find some other special way to kill me?

Elon has some good ideas and some stupid ideas, this is of the latter category.
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You caught me. 1:23, close enough for illustrative purposes. Besides, the age group record is 1:09, 1:19 isn’t that fast.
Worth pointing out that by 110% they mean the rise/run fraction. 110% is around 50 degree incline.
Aka JWZ's Cascade of Attention Deficit Teenagers (CADT).
Corporations don't pay taxes in any meanings sense anyways.

Individuals always pay for taxes. Owners (lower profits), employees (lower wages and fewer jobs), and consumers (high prices and fewer products) all split the tax burden imposed on a firm.
This is such a low-hanging fruit yet so rarely done. I’ve been getting good github mileage out of submitting PRs that just losslessly optimise images with ImageOptim.
It will be great to have Fargate as a provider for the virtual kubelet along with Azure (and I forgot to mention Hyper.sh). Do you know if AWS plan to build a virtual kubelet provider themselves or let the community?
He’s specifically calling out the goal of reducing tunneling costs by accelerating the TBM. The other projects that have reduced costs have done so through boring old sound construction management practices (the article pointing out the labor and stations are actually the expensive parts of these projects, not the tunnel by itself).

Also, if you read the rest of the article he literally predicts your response of appealing to the authoritative win of SpaceX as a completely invalid counter argument (and he’d be right, appeals to authority is on the list of logical fallacies, last I checked ;) ).
The author is also noting Asia. Countries where labour costs, govt subsidies, currency cost, etc is superior. Comparing costs in US to another place is not a good comparison
yo thanks for the tip i'll check waterfox out for sure
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That would, in fact, be an extremely steep slope. An 80% grade is steep enough that if you fall you do not stop until you reach the bottom.

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/01/30/5-most-dangerous-sk...
The title right now is "MSU Scholars Find $21T in Unauthorized Government Spending". Did it change?
I could say the exact same thing about RPC. API design is difficult, largely in part because programmer types often refuse to acknowledge the "design" part. REST actually improves this by providing a sane set of ideas to base your web API design off of. It only makes it worse if you want it to.

REST has plenty of nice advantages people ignore too, like for example, often with REST APIs, ACL and authentication can be handled much easier because you can use URLs as a primitive for permissions.
I'm not the gp, but at least in downtown Toronto there are several providers offering uncapped fiber connections at reasonable prices:

https://www.beanfield.com/residential/
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Have you done anything else other than making a nice bundle of software (called 'a distro')? The title makes it sound like you actually developed it (and that made me excited because I used to be a hobby OS dev) but that's not the case.
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>Why is REST so popular? Because it's easy to implement and works for lots of use cases.

Could have given the exact same non-argument for SOAP -- which in its time dominated corporate services.

Whether it's "easy to implement and works for lots of use cases", it's a moot point if there would be something even easier to implement and worked even better for real use cases.

Why stop at "easy" when you can have easier AND more coherent?

Besides, REST is anything like easy. Case in point, almost nobody ever correctly implemented the original REST spec -- that's why everybody calls their implementations "REST-ful", they are some loosely inspired deviations that cargo cult a lot of useless junk.

Supposedly the "real illuminated REST" (like real communism) doesn't even concern HTTP, it's a philosophy beyond web services. And yet's it's all the web related garbage part of the introductory examples that everybody follows (or tries to).
> Yet if you're a male, you can still end up falsely accused of sexual harassment

Historically, this is exceedingly rare. Nobody wants the negative attention that comes from exposure of a false allegation.
Just saying, there are simple ways that don't involve deep statistical analysis of driving data.

Incidentally this is a reason I'll probably never buy a Tesla. I don't care for the manufacturer of my car to be logging every trip I take and every location I visit.
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Guy Verhofstadt is a MEP, they are elected directly by the people.

Peter Mandelson was a commissioner, they are nominated by member countries.

Jean-Claude Juncker was the President of European Council, to become one he needed approval of most of its members which are heads of government or state of member countries.

The fuck is EU supposed to do with them then? Tell voters a MEP they directly picked in an election is thrown out, tell UK their chosen commissioner is thrown out and tell over 20 country heads in European Council the President they chosen is thrown out?
Let's turn it into some folk wisdom: "It's a rule: if you're a rapey kinda fool, stay out of the pool."
They've always been clear that the intention was to help people on longer journies, not provide free power. There's been all sorts of stories about them challenging perceived abuse of the system and I'd assume they have some small print from day 1 to support them in enforcing this.
There was a group of communist soldiers fighting against Japanese invaders in northeast China Manchuria when KMT didn't officially do anything about that. Actually Chiang attacked communist army even when they were fighting together against Japan in later years. When it comes to Seige of Changchun, why KMT didn't go out fighting and just stay and rob people's food? Why didn't they just surrender or went out start to fight? Why waited to surrender in the end but with poor people had nothing to eat. That was a shame indeed. It was a cruel civil war, I cannot say which side is strictly morally superior, given innocent people got starved . Mao was a complicated person, there are people who thank him throughout life and people who hate him till death. He has done good and bad, he got rid of land lords, get the country united again, push hard on public education and extreme equality, but he also conducted the great leap and destructive political battles. it'll wait for probably another century that some historians can have some better estimation.
It actually does say that the Army spent over their budget:

Skidmore got involved last spring when he heard Catherine Austin Fitts, former assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development, refer to a report which indicated the Army had $6.5 trillion in unsupported adjustments, or spending, in fiscal 2015. Given the Army’s $122 billion budget, that meant unsupported adjustments were 54 times spending authorized by Congress.
The Shader version doesn't work for me in Safari 11.0.1 but the other three did work. I found that I couldn't run any of the others after I had tried the Shader version. I reloaded the page and then I could select between the JavaScript, asm.js, and WebAssembly versions without issue.
It seems to me REST offers no real advantages over other specifications/protocols from a server side perspective. And the reason for REST proliferation has been about the rise of SPA JS frameworks.
Modern DAB/DVB receivers are usually zero-IF, the wanted band of frequencies is mixed down to baseband and filtered with a sharp cutoff Surface Acoustic Wave filter then sampled with a fast ADC. Selectivity is then dependent on DSP.

On the transmit side, you have to carefully combine the outputs of your various transmitters with a complex filter network, which at high powers looks something like:

http://admin.mb21.co.uk/tx/userimages/8448proc20120403120238...
Not my decision sorry. If you are using them for some kind of server side tech then you’re probably in the clear, but if you are distributing any eBPF code you write to a consumer (think IoT) then you’ll have to think about it.
FTA: "Instead of 'science-based' or 'evidence-based,' the suggested phrase is 'CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with [sic] community standards and wishes,' the person said." [Emphasis added.]

Assuming this is accurate, we should contact the Nobel Prize committee, because clearly the Trump administration has figured out how to make viruses and bacteria also take "community standards and wishes" into account.
The federal government steps in and collects taxes from the corporations directly instead, right?
> I hereby advance my theory that it is rather simpler than that. 'If you are in a position of power over the other party, then you should keep some social distance'.

> If you find there is only two of you left, then go home.

This seems dangerously close to the Pence view of not socializing alone with women.

Is your view actually stronger? That a person should not socialize alone with anyone they have power over, rather than just women?
All clauses are defined within curly brackets like C so indentation has no meaning and you can let tools take care of that.
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You’ll need to shoot for constitutional carry. Here in KS (least gun laws in the nation) there is statewide open & concealed carry, no license required, at schools, bars, university. Though there would be a trespassing charge if you refuse to leave if asked. Still need a CCH license to get around federal Gun Free School Zones. No NICS if you have CCW.

The recent Firearms Protection Act says firearms and accessories (suppressors) made in KS are exempt from federal regulation. Though a couple of guys lost their federal case when they built a suppressor and sold it; at least no prison sentence.
I recall meeting him at a Royal Society Christmas lecture when I was a teen. I was sat in the front row - and he asked for a volunteer. Needless to say, muggins volunteered - to stick his naked hand in a flask of liquid nitrogen, it transpired.

And this is how I first experienced the Leidenfrost effect, and understood just how effectively boiling liquids can self-insulate.

He was an astoundingly good teacher, and an inspiration, to me, at least.
I worry that this is something that can be applied to programming in general these days.

Back in the day of the C64 etc, programmers had to worry about the underlying hardware as they were for the most part working with assembly.

But as increasingly abstract languages have come to be (most modern ones use virtual machines and garbage collectors), the programmer never have to consider the hardware their code has to interact with at some point. End result is all manner of bloat and memory leakage.
Fraud is a small problem compared to not having Score Voting.
"than" is usually unstressed, which means it's going to be largely reduced to a schwa. "then" would also be reduced to a schwa if it were unstressed, but it doesn't seem to be as frequently unstressed. When trying to transcribe the spoken thought to written text, the unstressed schwa is a lot closer to the 'e' in then than the 'a' in than, which probably explains the predilection for choosing "then" when "than" is meant.

(I know I have a major tendency to write "then" when "than" is meant).
"In light of the recent X, we have decided to enable tracking using these cameras, so we can help prevent it in the future."
I wouldn’t call Hollywood “progressive”.