skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody had to convince Apple or any other company to do anything. The repatriation is deemed, i.e no company has a choice in it. And while you may believe it was "proposed" by Trump, it has actually been in the works for years by both parties in Congress and by Obama [1]. They could just never pass a bill (because what else did you expect with Obama in the WH and Republicans in control of Congress) because Democrats wanted to spend it on infrastructure, and Republicans wanted to cut taxes for corporations, which is what they ended up doing. The repatriation of Apple's overseas cash would have happened regardless of who became President.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-budget-tax/obama-targ...
In creative ventures we tend to try artificially limiting ourselves. I know that is easier said than done but if you can say something like "I will only use five instruments" or "I will only read books that are non-fiction" or "I will only listen to (genre) of music" or something you then have a focus and it's no longer just an overwhelming list of white noise!
3 car payments on 2 rent payments in a lot of the country. Its like the folks poo-pooing the Youtube folks earning a couple hundred off their channels. That little bit helps quite a lot.
Onion (and its relatives) and horseradish (and its relatives) store the components of a sulfur-based binary chemical weapon to deter being eaten by animals. When the tissue is ruptured, the chemical deterrent is formed and released. However, the compound breaks down with time, oxygen, heat, etc.
Technically, the structural components for an Apple corporate office are likely to also come from Corning.
I agree we aren't talking about the same apps.

I don't know if folks much consider vanilla JS / JQuery apps Single Page Applications.

I think (but am not sure) that all SPAs are built these days with Angular, React, Ember, Elm, Vue, or some other framework I haven't paid attention to.

Usually tied into Restful webservices that don't do any templating server side unless it's via Isomorphic JS. Maybe I got it all wrong though.
They're counting app developers, who may be working full-time for themselves or another employer.
Despite their claimed improvements I believe they're still only supporting every other Go version. Fingers crossed for go1.10
Definitely on my "listen to later" list now, thanks.
They are also probably considering a number of indirect jobs (say, waiter at a restaurant near their campus) so that 6% figure is incorrect
> accidents can give people interests and/or repetitive behaviors that allow them to develop skills

That and a bit of time off, perhaps.
Ok, fair enough. I was worried that there was some precise definition I had missed, but if that's not the case, I agree there's no point in debating it.
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Giving someone a financial incentive to murder me in my old age is not a good retirement plan feature.
So I have to wonder if they have tried their test suite on Mesa's drivers, specifically the driver for (Qualcomm) Adreno. This could be very beneficial CI for Mesa.
I have encountered code written by people just psycho enough to think that's a clever way to handle just that scenario. They were not wrong it was indeed clever. It was also terrible.
If it cost $5 and took less than 10 minutes to set up, would you?

For apple, the effort is worth the benefit. For you, it may not be.
It isn't a feature, but its an established trait of crypto.

But not only that, its not even that volatile compared to other things like startup stock. IF employees were able to sell their options/stock at their company you would see startups also fluctuate insanely like this on each little announcement.

Its a relatively small market, with no central figure to make the rules. Its what it is, but once you accept its volatile, a 50% jump is not significant, specially on such an incredible upward trend.
Trackman Marble. USB. I have been using this forever and swear by it.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/trackman-marble?crid=...

I was alarmed by your comment and had to go to the website to confirm it is still for sale.

Also: I switched to this because of wrist issues. I really think having this large marble trackball at your fingertips could be helpful to a lot of people. Give it a try! It's cheap.
Which ironically isn't really any faster than PHP7 in the real world outside of benchmarks.

7 was a phenomenal release, I saw 50% reductions in processing time across the board and on old array heavy systems 5-10x memory reduction.
That is a ludicrously high number. Are there entire companies, entire offices, staring out of the window waiting for someone to do some IT? Or are they managing and sure an IT guy/gal would be nice to have, but no big deal to do without?
Is there any fast alternative?
Oh, my-my, a blast from the past—the KP-29 exactly as I remember it. We had a few 026s as well but the 029 was the much preferred machine.

I remember many late nights coding FORTRAN statements on those card punches until university security chucked us out of the punch card room. Those IBM punches were very nice machines, they were exceptionally well engineered and very reliable, and they worked very well.

Reckon we were some of the first hackers too. Back then, time was so precious on our university's IBM360 that we students were only allowed a few seconds processing time per job. Some of us figured out a neat solution to the problem which was to raid old discarded fan-fold printouts from garbage dumpsters at the back of the Electrical Engineering School that the computing department had used for its own purposes. On them, we'd find 'secret' $Job control codes that we put onto our own $Job control cards which we'd then insert surreptitiously into the batch job, this enabled us students to alter/increase the time given to any job within a student batch run.

Back then, no one in authority seemed to think we would ever get up to such mischief.
The idea I think was to lower the corporate tax in general which will also give companies an incentive to stay and pay taxes here. Don't know how that will work long term. Maybe it will, until there would be another tax haven country advertising a better tax deal.
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I don't understand it. What determines the carrier frequency of the computer? How does he change the amplitude of the signal?
That's fair. Perhaps what I'm thinking of is how to prevent abuse of plea bargaining -- allowing the police to bypass examination of the evidence by threatening an extreme punishment.
It looks like he hit some kind of limit from accessing too much/too often.

I get linkedin is evil, but I've never run into this issue myself.
Defeats the point right!
GPG has a terrible user interface, and it's really hard to script too. It takes a complicated workflow and makes it unbearable.
> Are those because of the tax incentives?

Decreasing taxes on retained profits increases the incentive to cut any activity that is a short term loss rather than trying to turn it around.

Because business expenses are deductible from corporate “income” taxes, they are functionally retained profits taxes.

So, yes, the tax cuts incentivized the layoffs.
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> I'm only saying that it would take more effort and place more burden on a developer to figure out how to do all that in their programming language rather than just implement a function

But the average developer isn't going to do that, and won't need to. Within a week there would be more than one framework up on github to do the binding in their favourite language for them. Look at how many web frameworks there are.
(author here) When I've been involved in this it's been using a traffic sniffer (tcpdump or iptraf or wireshark) to watch the customer's traffic and see what they connect to.
Who said it's not their problem? But it's also relying on someone else to fix something that you could fix. If I need to get somewhere it doesn't matter if my car's engine is broken because the company stabbed it with bolts I just need a working car. I can sit around whining about how awful the car company is but it doesn't get shit done fast.

Extreme ownership of problems. It's a really helpful concept. You'll stop trying to blame people all of the time for things that you can control and find solutions for them instead. On top of that, if you can't control it you can let it go as something that you can't fix.
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That's a fair point. There are certainly technical challenges involved in bringing this to other domains.
A short term domestic investment for a long-term tax benefit. The headlines made immediately after the new legislation is passed are what will stick with people the most.

I'm not saying this is definitely the case, and I would love to be proven wrong. I just don't see how a tax cut would have corporations scrambling to return jobs to the U.S., instead of having both a tax cut AND cheap foreign labor.
you couldnt pass this bill becuase liberals didnt want it , because liberals dont want to see this kind of legislation. You have it now becuase liberals have less stopping power.
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No. These types of investments don’t simply wash away - they go to building long term value for the corporations that make them, which creates good jobs, demand for housing, etc. Further, as long as this tax plan remains in place, corporations will continue to allow international profits to flow back into the US. Even if Trump is unseated in the next election, given the positive reaction among corporations to his tax plan, it may be politically impossible for the next Administration to return to punitive tax rates despite their predilection for them.
What about Walmart also increasing their hourly pay? [0]

[0] - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/11/walmart-to-boost-starting-wa...
You need to put a centralized pooler, such as pgbouncer, in front of your DB and have your lambdas connect to that.
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What do you think a "significant percentage" is? Is it 10%? 1%? 0.005%?
This is true and these are the things to be asking when planning to develop a SPA.

How do I manage state? How do I handle offline and intermittent?

Btw, http://hood.ie is one good option.
> I find it fascinating that a tax plan proposed by a President reviled throughout the Valley is the one thing that finally convinced Apple to repatriate much of its overseas cash and invest it here in the US.

Why is that fascinating? It's the tax holiday the tech megacorps have been asking for since the last one in 2004.
The opening sentence of the article gives the reason "why":

"One could be forgiven for assuming the blockchain tech and crypto industry is a male-dominated field."
Egads! Why must we watch this pattern unfold over and over again?

1. Startup launches useful service

2. Service amasses huge user base

3. Pressure to monetize service degrades usefulness over time.

4. Service eventually becomes utterly useless, and never would have been successful if it had launched in its current state.

5. Inertia keeps service going until a worthy competitor in its 'eschew profitability and grow user base' phase arrives and the cycle repeats itself.
I'm not convinced of the quality of this course material. I thought I could try it out, see if I could fill some gaps in my knowledge. I tried out some of the quizzes and they were just bad. Course 1, week 2, for example, asks you to match items to where they go on a motherboard. This quiz is flatly wrong. It asks you to match a PSU to the rear Ethernet port, and a SATA cable to an IDE port. Being so obviously wrong about something so basic gives me serious concerns about everything else. I quickly cancelled the free trial.
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So... yet another ICO dressed up with an old-timey financial term as its primary buzzword.

It isn't entirely clear why the new coin or the new company issuing it is necessary. If they can reduce the 15% overhead of insurers to 1%/year overhead of their system, someone else could make it into a smart contract that only costs the amount of vespene gas required to keep it running.
I would say training a CNN from scratch or even fine-tuning one takes a lot of domain knowledge and best practices which often are not standardised yet. Besides, we don't even know why they generalise in the first place! See: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03530, https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11561
I think Slack notifications are really nice to see what's going on right now but not so great to see the state of dozens of service, i.e. what version is deployed to what environment.

Then there is the issue of linking the Git release/tag with the corresponding changes, say from a ticketing system such as Jira. That can be helpful to communicate changes to other people within the organization and to users.

How do you define dependencies for releasing new versions to service? Likely going to happen at some point when you have non-trivial changes to services.
John Thorne's books are good for reading just for fun, whether or not you plan to cook anything in them, or go try the things he's tried.

One of my favorite essays of his is on banh mi (Vietnamese sandwiches), where he's just totally baffled about how they even do that. Lucky for me, I live in the Twin Cities, ground zero for the best banh mi in the world. The essence of banh mi is basically experiencing every sensation your mouth can experience, all at the same time. It's warm, cool, crisp, chewy, greasy, sweet, sour, salty, spicy, fragrant, and ALL AT ONCE.
This! A small dev team with an AWS account and a git repo will run circles around the IT team in terms of speed, compliance requirements and scalability. Traditional network infrastructure, virtualization, security, DBMS, etc. are all on the verge of extinction.
"... thanks to SNI, this doesn't give us any privacy."

Assumption: All sites use SNI or will use SNI.

True?

Experiment: List all domains posted to HN (pages 1-20) that require https on any given day. Try accessing each one without SNI.

Result: Most do not require SNI.
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Also, they are ambidextrous, so you can switch to left-hand mousing when the right wrist is starting to hurt.

They are indeed everywhere: https://imgur.com/1toYn6A
Great info thank you! And thanks for the link back. All great info and I've had a lot of questions from people outside the US which is unfortunately where most of my experience is so these will be great resources to hand out.
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> the decision/cost to bring the money 'into the US' depends on a variety of factors

No it doesn't. Apple has been lobbying aggressively for years, including during most of the Obama Administration, to change the backwards US global tax policy (the US being one of the few countries to utilize such an approach) and or to arrange a one-time repatriation holiday. They finally got what they wanted and they're repatriating the money immediately thereafter.

It depended on one thing: getting a low enough rate to make bringing the cash home modestly punishing. Apple was always clear about that, Tim Cook spelled it out in numerous interviews over several years.
> Ancient UNIX (Seventh Edition, including 32V, and prior) are permissively licensed under a BSD-style license[1].

Ancient UNIX (Seventh Edition, including 32V, and prior) are NOW permissively licensed under a BSD-style license[1]...

lest anyone learning about these things lose track of the Unix wars, UCB vs USL, and what really happened to Unix (aka it was forced to call itself BSD)
Yes, a .txt file on a domain you control is the new trend.

Easy to link to, easy to copy and paste, fully responsive, straight to the point, no frills.
Not only out-of-band, but also in-band interference from local and remote transmitters (whether direct by transmitters operating on the same channel, or indirect via out-of-band harmonics transmitted by low-cost radios).
"Discretion" is just not going to happen when it comes to estate donations. People are already feeling a huge loss, and the last thing they want is to feel that the decedent's possessions are also now just trash.
That's a pretty good point - sounds like the movie Jackass, which did pretty well across the board, critics and users alike.
And yet nobody gave it to them until now, which resulted in trillions of dollars that should have been benefitting the US economy sitting unused in places like Ireland.
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"...and 11,350 square feet of insulation made from recycled denim, equating to approximately 4,500 pairs of jeans."

That's a lot of jeans!
SpiderMonkey has an interpreter too, in addition to the two JIT tiers.
I think the limit is developer talent. It's hard to find people with the right background to train an AI model.
The article doesnt describe "your recruiter". It describes some random person calling you asking you about switching jobs.

MY recruiter is often somebody i have a working relationship with, i trust to some extent, and I've vetted. The author seems to not understand this dynamic.

I love my recruiters i work with. I make sure they understand and specialize in my industry, have a good reputation, have good connections, i can't talk honestly too, and other intangibles.

Of course a recruiter isn't trying to get you the very best offer in purely numeric terms, and neither should you. But both of you have the same problem and your incentives are aligned: you shouldn't take two more months to secure and extra $5000 since you are giving up way more in foregone salary.

There are a lot of bad recruiters out there, but you need to make am effort to deal with good ones. Don't treat your resume like buckshot and spray it everywhere. Work with good recruiters and you'll be fine.

And stop the recruiter hate. If you treat your recruiters as enemies, instead of valuable business relationships, I expect you'll probably have problems.
If you're talking about Walmart, they announced a one-time bonus of up to $1,000. Walmart estimates that it will cost about $400 million [1], and they employ 2.3 million people [2], so the average bonus is under $200. Meanwhile Walmart will save about $1.8 billion a year in taxes, every year, thanks to the tax cut.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/wal-mart-...

[2] https://www.google.be/search?q=number+of+employees+walmart
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I'm rather sure your criticism is ill-founded: the money they're talking about moving to (US) Apple Inc is actually profit of other companies also named Apple homed in other countries, of course related to (US) Apple Inc and set up by the original, but with profits already taxed (your point: at questionable rates) in those home countries. They could just reinvest those profits in THOSE countries rather than the US. I imagine folks in those other countries might be sore that Apple <Other Country> isn't locally investing.
Well, IMHO It's F#. F# is really good due to it's better tooling and you have access to the plethora of libraries and framework of the .NET Ecosystem. Unlike Scala or Kotlin, F# retains a lot from it's functional roots like
- Automatic Currying
- ML Type System

Plus it adds some really innovative features like
- Type Providers which allows you to lazily/automatically generate Types for real world data/systems which is pretty cool.

Ultimately it boils down to the Runtime/Tools/Ecosystem which is also true for Scala and Kotlin but it retains a lot from it's OCAML Heritage which makes it lean more towards FP than it contemporaries

PS - I didn't mention clojure as I don't consider dynamic languages a good fit for building large codebase backend systems
He edited his comment. He had previously said "sell" not turn off.
Relative to the tax savings those companies will enjoy and the fact it's a one time payment instead of salary increase? IIRC Comcast will end up paying about $150 million in bonuses which will only be a fraction of the first year tax savings for them.

If that's what this big hoopla ultimately amounts to then it will be highly disappointing. The fact that we are celebrating $1000 bonuses from corporations that have been enjoying record profits (for the most part) recently is disheartening. Something is better than nothing I guess.
Sounds reasonable in isolation but you can pretty much apply this line of thinking to all of capitalism.

Health insurance can be divided into the healthy-young-professional-who-pay-premium-and-never-get-sick package and the old-sick-people-costing-us-money package. Now one group is subsidizing the other and the premium the sick people package would have paid is so shit it makes the current premium look like winning the lottery. What to do? Drop the weakest performers.

Airlines make most of their money from first class which is essentially subsidizing all coach tickets? What to do? Just get rid of the average rider.

Politician X spent 1.2B$ campaigning for presidency and most of that money didn't come from private citizens? Now you have a rich voter coalition and a normal citizen coalition and the new normal citizens' influence on politicians would be so shit that the current resemblance to democracy start to look like normal citizens winning the lottery. What to do? Just get rid of universal suffrage.
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It gets difficult when you are determined to be mentally competent to stand trial, but you are clearly not mentally competent enough to make legal decisions.

> State psychiatric experts found McCoy mentally competent to stand trial.

> McCoy suffered from diminished mental capacity

> people who represent themselves in major criminal trials often have enormous mental health problems and imperception of reality.

It is a very, very high bar these days in order to be found mentally incompetent, and as there is no social safety net, the mentally incompetent are disproportionately prosecuted via the legal system.
Originally, gasoline was a byproduct of kerosene (lamp oil) refinement, and simply thrown into waste (even dumped into rivers). The man best known for getting rich by utilizing this byproduct was John D. Rockefeller.
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Agreed that this is a better solution but the point of the site is to get from 0 to 1 customer as simply as possible and setting up a DNS server adds a complication. Another HN user recommended opennic, though - I might change the recommendation from Google to something like that.
But those avenues are far less profitable than drugs, and easier to stop.

Lets look at a historical example, after prohibition did human trafficking and kidnapping jump up enormously because the gangs were going to make money somehow?

Or did the number of violent crimes and influence of gangs drop off because there wasn't a huge river of cash flowing into their pockets afterwards?

Sure we have an issue with legitimate drugs. Decriminalizing will not stop our drug problem, but it will reduce our, and especially mexico's crime problem. And I, and I bet all of north mexico would rather have a drug problem than a crime problem. (For one drug's only directly affect the user, but crime affects everyone)
> maybe 0.5% over the course of a day

But how does the trader know it's (on the order of) 0.5% by looking at the graph, if it doesn't start at zero? Now they have to look at the absolute value on the Y-axis, estimate the fluctuation in the graph and divide.

PS: appreciate your lengthy reply.
Sometimes, it might be robotics companies whose products Apple uses to test their devices. You can't really name them because maybe you're not the target market for those products.