skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US government is forcing all companies to pay a mandatory tax of 15.5% on all overseas profit that was designated as "indefinitely reinvested" under the previous tax regime. This is a mandatory one-time tax as part of a shift to a territorial system. Multinationals can do whatever they want with the cash, but considering that they've been lobbying government on a repatriation bill for over a decade specifically to be able to do domestic M&A, pay dividends, or do share buybacks, it's pretty obvious that all of that cash is coming back to the US. A business that wants to reinvest all their cash internationally is free to do so (and in fact the previous tax regime incentivized it), but they're going to be paying US tax on what they've accumulated so far.
>a potent biological toxin

A toxin is a poisonous substance produced within living cells or organisms [...]

Toxins can be small molecules, peptides, or proteins that are capable of causing disease on contact with or absorption by body tissues interacting with biological macromolecules such as enzymes or cellular receptors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxin
Kodak climbs on the blockchain bandwagon
D3D optimizes a lot before producing the byte code, see /O0 - /O3 fxc.exe switches.

I don’t have much experience with spir-v but I’d expect something similar for Vulkan & OpenCL.
Yep, everything is Totally Normal™ in American politics!
Are You a White Collar Zombie? Be Honest
So now your trackball takes two USB ports? No thanks.
Fast base64 encoding and decoding
The most predictable worst case scenario of all time.

I’ll be shocked if it comes in under $15B.
KMS-Based Encryption Now Available for Training and Hosting in Amazon SageMaker
I'd love to see something that included the lifespan of food too, ideally in terms of when it tastes good, tastes passable, doesn't taste the best but is usable, and needs to be tossed.
Thanks! Yep, LogRocket is HIPAA compliant though we usually suggest that clients scrub all PII before it leaves the client.
There's also a website; pleasekillme.com which is tangentially related. At least the authors seem to be involved with the site to a large (but not exclusive) degree.
The stock market rally started on election day. Clearly it was not based on what Trump had done, but anticipated what Trump with a GOP Congress would do. The expectation of a large corporate tax cut was certainly there throughout 2017, and may very well have had a large influence on the Reno decision.
Or even

yourname.tld/resume
According to the article pretty much everybody else in this project said that it's going to cost $10B, and only the guy in charge was still living in the fantasy land where it could be done for $6B.
For most uses, database connection pooling (or, more accurately, keeping a connection per container), is the right practice to follow in Lambda. For many databases, creating a connection is expensive and slow, and amortizing those costs over multiple container uses (see https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/container-reuse-in-lamb...) helps reduce latency and cost. Lambda allows you to configure a per-function concurrency limit, which you can use to make sure that the number of containers doesn't exceed your maximum database connections.
I was forced to take a position very similar to this out of a need for an income (interviewed for full time, told it was contract-to-hire when I walked in on the first day). I left after six months once I had some money saved. Researching a bit for a few days after I left revealed that the company had a history of taking first generation college kids (like me) and working them on contracts for time periods of a few months to a few years (depending on when the kid realized that he/she was being ripped off, from what it looked like).
I am very interested in this. Making it dead simple to set up an ISP would be a very awesome thing.
> to repatriate much of its overseas cash and invest it here in the US.

Where in the article does it state that they will invest the repatriated cash in the US? The only concrete number is the $38 billion tax payment upon repatriation, which is a direct result of the tax plan. If you read carefully they state nowhere how much of the repatriated cash will be invested instead of simply returned to shareholders. They just added up what they were already planning to invest anyway in the next 5 years. It might have increased slightly with the tax cuts, but not a whole lot. They weren't constrained by cash before, only by meaningful investment opportunities.

Keep an eye on their quarterly and yearly reports to get the real story. I expect a large chunk of the repatriated cash will be used to pay off the debt they took on to finance past dividends and share repurchases. The rest will be used for future share buybacks.
Another vote for Kensington. I've got several of the wired Orbit trackballs with the scroll ring, I'm very happy with them. I've used the Logitech Trackman Marble as well but I think I prefer the Orbit. The scroll ring feels very intuitive.

https://www.kensington.com/us/us/4493/k72337us/orbit-trackba...
In Japan, I think there were like ten bins, with clear instructions on how each should be used (eg take the label off the plastic bottle before binning it). It was a bit stressful before I got used to it.
The article says the cost is ballooning from $6B to probably $10B.
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2004/08/28/the-economics-of-soft... seems pretty prescient given the glut of open source we find ourselves enjoying today. I do agree a lot of it can be credited to the GNU model, that is aligning on values over other things, but once more and more companies started understanding the economics that was immensely helpful too.
I'm not personally looking for the insights myself, just an observation from working with SMBs trying to leverage data science more generally to improve their businesses.
.. or just make all balloting mail in.

Though I think you'd see an increase in turnout if return postage was paid.
Of course there is no Apple cash hoard, it's all invested. The difference is it being invested in foreign countries, or invested in America.
My latest frustration with LinkedIn are the growing number of people who post every day with "controversial" first line like:

> I absolutely never take a bath.

or

> I was devastated at what she said.

And then a video of them talking straight to the camera for minutes on end.

When did LinkedIn become a vlog??
Yes we now have more higher level Python developers, but fewer C/C++/Assembly level developers.

If the trend continues there will be more configuration/customization roles in higher languages and fewer Python level devs too.
That's a great explanation, but I still don't understand why he says that the principle of least privilege is _fundamentally_ wrong. I fully agree that POLP could lead to an illusion of security or doesn't ensure user's security requirements, but that doesn't make it fundamentally wrong. The correct point is, that you shouldn't over prioritize POLP over code correctness. Maybe he is just arguing against the very strict implementation of POLP I could also agree, but in general, I would argue that POLP is fundamentally true and necessary, but that doesn't mean you should implement complex fine-grained solution with a lot of administrative overhead.

As soon as you build non-trivial systems, you have to contain error propagation with POLP, although you are striving to build simple and secure systems.
And I'm not discrediting the work or the fact that this is progress... I just don't think that the title of the post is entirely accurate. Mostly with respect to the "every" part.
How to secure your website with Nginx and Let's Encrypt
Your username is awesome.
Growing up in the frozen north gives a nice impression of this.

As half the year makes it impossible to farm, the winter months consisted traditionally of anything that could be salted, dried, and/or pickled.

But these days we can pick up fresh strawberries in the store year round.
That's ageist, racist and sexist.
It is often illegal to vote via absentee ballot if you are physically present in the jurisdiction on the day of the vote.

Many people who followed your advice would be "guilty" of voter fraud.
I guess my take is simpler than a lot of the arguments floating around here. if the current price tag is not acceptable, what price would be? Or, are we really saying that we'd rather spend the money elsewhere?

Biodiesel has some advantages, and many disadvantages. To me, I could see this being a part of a energy mix, but it doesn't seem like it is worth the money we are spending on it today, given that we could get better renewable energy/dollar in several other ways. If anything must be spent here, it seems we need some research to figure out how to do this better.
I don't understand the implicit vision of World War III that underlies this rationale. Is it supposed to be a multi-year total war affair between major powers, but strictly non-nuclear, like WW II before August 1945? All of the world's major military powers and a few minor ones now have nuclear weapons. And even if they didn't have nuclear weapons, conventional weapons have radically improved effectiveness because of radically improved targeting. (Most of WW II's bombs were wasted destroying random patches of nothing-in-particular instead of the factory or airfield that was being targeted.) The probable timeline from initiation of total war to comprehensive devastation has been heavily compressed since 1940.

If there were total war again between major military powers I could see a brutal spasm of months of using conventional weapons followed by nuclear murder-suicide from whichever side is losing worst. Perhaps a negotiated peace if the winning side doesn't make the losing believe it has nothing left to lose. I don't see it going on for years either way. Preparing to fight the next World War as if it were going to be as protracted as the last one is strange.
"Flippers" would be the term you're looking for.
First, thanks for taking time in checking my profile and comment history, m quite honored that you have devoted that much time before replying my comment but usually when somebody does this is because they are trying to appeal to authority or a plain ad hominem.

Second, i didn't said TDD/CI is trendy, i said "you don't need them", probably should have add "at all times" to clarify.

Each year it's becoming a increasingly difficult to keep jr's from wasting time implementing TDD+CI+Slack+Hot-New-Thing on all the projects, wasting resources and time from devops for the projects that do need them. Not all the projects that you built on your lifetime need the same amount of bureaucracy as those that clearly are business-critical.
Edward Snowden Talks to Daniel Ellsberg
Just shows how supply side economics doesn't save jobs.
> What do you intend to take over maintenance of your database software if it is abandoned?

Yeah. Unlikely I'd be adding any additional real features or anything but why not? It isn't magic. I'd also expect a lot of other people doing the same and we can share the maintenance load.

There is also a lot of functionality that is obviously backed by very nice code a lot of people would like to see and potentially use other places. But knowing you can do necessary maintenance and tweaks, even if it is while you rewrite your whole db layer to work with another product rather than a permanent thing, is a serious benefit.
No, simple thermodynamics ensures us that when no significant mechanical work is being done by the rig acting on the environment, and no significant exchange of mass between the rig and the environment is happening, all net electric energy going into the box will come out again as heat.

The reason why mining rigs aren't sold in the space heater aisle is that people usually don't buy $2000 space heaters.
Prior to the bill passing, pretty much every single Democrat-leaning publication tried to spin it as an evil Trump/Republican plot to give Apple billions of taxpayer money, with the figure calculated based on the difference between what they'd pay if they repatriated all those funds at the full tax rate (which wasn't ever going to happen) and the amount they'd pay under the bill. If people associate this bill with Trump and the Republicans, it's because their opponents fought hard to make that association.
Can the trains be upgraded (faster) over time or do the tracks also need to be swapped out?
... or lets realize its not 1950 and we could vote electronically.
Oops, sorry about that! I should have some time to renew it tonight. Thanks for the heads up.
It's also controlled by users. You can configure which categories you have and shuffle your mail around as you like-- I file blog posts under "Forums".
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin – Tales from the Crypto
Was bitconnect cheating though? I totally thought it was possible that they were a ponzi scheme until I ran my own bitcoin trading bot.

But, don't take my word for... if you look at bitcoin trading bots that you can run yourself (many example on youtube of people running their own), bitconnect's return rate was significantly lower than typical bitcoin trading bots.

So, if bitconnect was getting typical returns (and it's safe to say they should be getting at least 2%, which only puts them in the top ~60% of bitcoin bot operators), they could have been taking more than 1% for themselves and still returning their "high" level of returns -- without running any sort of ponzi scheme!

Seeing my own bitcoin trading bot in action led me down the path of investigating stock trading bots and high speed trading within banks. The more I learned, the more I realized the real ponzi schemes are the national banks. That sounds crazy until you realize that with fractional reserve banking, they can take (for example) $1000 that you deposit and lend out 90% of it -- they only have to keep 10% of deposits deposits in reserve! Yet, most of them pay you less than 1%/year in interest. If I can make 4%/day on $1000 in my basement, how much do you think giant banks can make with your $1000?

I would highly recommend running your own bitcoin trading bot if you've got $1000 to spare. I'll refrain from recommending a specific one for fear of sounding biased, but it will completely change your outlook on what bitconnect could be. More importantly, it'll probably make you a decent chunk of change that you can cash in at anytime (unlike bitconnect's CD model).
As much as I dislike LinkedIn purposely hiding information (this goes for paid and free users), it has been incredible for people with wanted skill sets to connect with possible employers.

It has made a public resume something to be expected instead of a red flag by HR that you’re looking to leave. Only a decade ago it was mostly job boards like Monster/CareerBuilder, and Dice for the Tech focused.

It’s a wealth of information on how companies are structured, and great research material for what accomplishments people have in roles/companies you want to be apart of.
I can't read the article, but the title is something I've been considering since last year. Our current politics is very similar to the fanciful corporate dystopias of the 80s Cyberpunk movement. There's a real chance to make something that's going to feel fresh and relevant even revisiting and old genre.
I've done an absentee ballot several times. It's a bit of a pain. If it wasn't so easy for me to vote in person, I might not vote as often.
Cyberpunk feels increasingly comedic and dated to me. My catchphrase for the past couple of years has been “This (is/is not) the cyberpunk dystopia I was promised”.
Are Dapps as decentralized as you think?
>> Even 50 years ago, chicken was considered an 'occasional' meat.

Hoover promised voters 'a chicken in every pot' almost 100 years ago. 50 years ago, yard bird was a very common meal for Americans of every income level.
I own three sets of casual clothes (jeans, t-shirts, nice shirts), one suit, one pair of black dress shoes, one pair of tan boots and a pair of hiking boots.

All the clothes I own would fit in a single bin bag, I can nearly wash everything in one wash cycle.

Just never seen the point in more, I buy good stuff that lasts and that's about iy.
I find this complaint very surprising - in my experience CI generates simplified, sometimes oversimplified, recipes for most things. They are geared towards easily accessible ingredients and minimal techniques, after all.
Not only is this unnecessarily snarky, but it's wrong for many jurisdictions. In those, you cannot vote absentee unless you are actually going to be absent and unable to make a trip (within reason) to your designated polling place.
Trouble is, a lot of companies disallow election day requests for time off specifically to disenfranchise their employees.

Yes it's quite illegal, but that doesn't matter if you can't get a lawyer to assert your rights, or don't have the bargaining power to get another job after they fire you for making a stink.
Yes, throughput vs latency is a very important distinction. An airplane is always faster then a train, but if what you are measuring is throughput, a train can be more performant. It depends on the context, but that's fine. There is no such thing as a made-up word if the word has a meaning, and is regularly used by a group of people.
From the article, it sounds like the biggest obstacles are "land buys" and "delays relating to land buys".

We need to strengthen eminent domain for transit projects so that we don't end up wasting tons of money appeasing corrupt landowners trying to hit the jackpot.
Big items in the United States are incredibly expensive to build. Nuclear reactors, high-speed rail, etc.

China, for example, has almost 18,000 miles of high-speed rail, and they're on target 23,000 miles by 2025. They are going to finish another 2000 miles in 2018:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2126548/full-...

China has hit been hit with delays in nuclear power, but they are nearing completion of their first AP1000 reactors:

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/UF-Chinese-plant-produces-...
I downsized from a maxed out 2015 15" MacBook Pro to a maxed out 2016 12" MacBook. I've owned an 11" MacBook Air in the past as well (~2012).

I thought there would be a large step down in power, but it's not really noticeable for my workloads (native mobile and full stack web development with Docker, some graphic design with Sketch, etc.). The only time I've ever really felt it made a significant difference is when I have 100+ tabs open in my browser (bad habit). You can get 16GB with the 2017 12" MacBook though, so if you're buying new, that's not a problem.

The battery life between the 12" MacBook and the Air is roughly the same, from memory. Maybe newer Air models are better, but both are good.

I'm not really sure what makes it a weird proposition. The MacBook having less power than the heavier, more expensive MacBook Pro is to be expected, isn't it? And the Air is just the cheapest model they keep around for the students. The 12" MacBook is for the average person.
The intentions are good, but right now it looks like an incoming traffic source (and since it's on HN's front page, it might have succeeded).

It enumerates the Top 10 Most Critical Security Risks, but doesn't explain what each one really means, gives examples of where and how they're exposed, or how to mitigate them. Things that OWASP does.

Now, you might say that it's just the beginning and they iterate. Fine, but without any detail on these Top 10, this document is not super useful.

It would have been better to wait until it had more "meat".
IMO you won't truly understand a piece of music until you play it. It's sort of weird, but I think there is something in the way it forces you to pay much closer attention to details.

In some ways, it is kind of like how learning programming can change the way you view a computer.
I'm using HIR to refer to instructions like bv-f32-ref while MIR to refer to instructions which are introduced to "explode" that instruction

By having both, rather than choosing between the two as is discussed in the blog, one can have the decision be more akin to a compiler's inlining heuristics
I don't really see the difference between having a legal obligation to act in your shareholders best interests and an obligation to maximize profits. Given that profit is most shareholders only interest in owning the stock. Now that does mean that companies should maximize long term profit, perhaps at the cost of short term profit. But I fail to see how paying taxes you don't have to is ever in the best interests of their shareholders.
You vastly overestimate our agility, but we will take the compliment :)
How is it a straw man? Maybe it's the right way to go. I honestly don't know.

My point is that encouraging a behavior where the country sets a rate, then many celebrate the reduction because they get a short term gain, risks leading the US farther down a path that neglects its obligations.
@sjrd is talking about limitations for JS not other languages.

C, C++, Rust and others already have their own DOM/JS support.

WASM is exciting for statically typed languages especially. JS is not the target. It might eventually benefit from faster parsing but that's not the motive now.
Walmart employs about 2.3 million people. At $1000 per employee that's $2,300,000,000 going back into the economy.

Now, if Walmart gave everyone who worked there a $1 raise. With about 1.5 million full-time employees working around 1700 hours per year (US average 2016) that would mean about $2,550,000,000. So that bonus is almost equivalent to a temporary raise in terms of benefits.

That is just for full-time employees. A blanket $1 raise would probably come out to about $4,000,000,000 each year that Walmart may not have if the tax cuts are removed by the next administration, which they very well could be.
It's an attempt to inoculate against the charge of practicing law without a license--which might seem incredibly unlikely, but that's how they got Ulysses Everett McGill.
Toronto's Wattpad raises $51M in funding round led by China's Tencent
Plan for HyperBitcoinization
I'm able to sync some of it using SyncThing. But I ran into enough sync conflicts, than I've ignored a lot of files in my profile. So not much actually syncs anymore.

sshfs would work if you are on the same network all the time. I have yet to get dynamic dns working for my home connection, so when I'm at work I doubt I'd be able to access my home sshfs share.
Depending on your state it can require an hour drive to a polling place for the 4 hours it is open on a random Thursday to get the ballot and provide a valid reason (doctor's note) why you need an absentee ballot.
I question this validity a lot. Most people I know try to sync company holidays with their vacations.
Thanks, you and all other comments below really made me want to get that ASAP
Look at the trends:

https://ourworldindata.org/hunger-and-undernourishment

Even in sub-Saharan Africa under nourishment has gone from ~35% of the population in 1991 to ~18% today.

It's a problem that is being solved.
And that's just for 119 miles of track in the Central Valley. How much will it cost once they get to populated areas?
Agree we have a cultural problem which fights for life no matter the cost (cost in $, cost in QOL, etc).

But if you got a great and empathetic doctor, they would not advise treatment against terminal cancer.