skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Between the broad nature of the GDPR and now this, it seems like the EU is really just pursuing legislation that disproportionately affects foreign tech companies and making up reasons as they go. Obviously that's entirely conjecture but it's hard to take the justifications for these measures at face value when EU specific scandals like the Volkswagen fiasco result in slaps on the wrist by comparison.
I think, they have enough of muslims immigrants, looks like people are desperate.
Sure, and those are all benefits to the company that enable it to make profits elsewhere, but that doesn't mean it's making any profits in the UK. (Though you could make the reverse of the upthread argument about charges between sister companies, that this suggests the British subsidiary is undercharging the subsidiaries that are making money.)
> but wealthy people have more

You'll need some data to back that up!

> share of capital gains income

Low income people have an advantage because they don't pay capital gains taxes.
The difference between a VAT and sales tax is easy to understand in simplest terms:

Sales tax is a percentage of the final sale price of a good or service.

VAT tax is a fraction of the profits / revenue of every business involved in the production of a good or service.

VAT is only complicated for businesses that sell things, but it also is not because the business basically writes off their purchases when they then sell them again to an end consumer. Between their purchase and sale they added value, and that difference is the tax passed on to the final consumer. All the government cares about is strict bookkeeping on how much stuff a company pays for and how much it makes from selling that stuff again in order to check that the VAT is accurate, and those figures are already required in most economies due to corporate taxes and / or payroll taxes.
I am a South American in a member country of Mercosur, while I'm not happy with Facebook et al doing every tax evasion trick in the book, it doesn't mean that what Mercosur countries do isn't populist... (see: Brazil randomly blocking Whatsapp whenever they want).

I was also thinking in terms of business strategy. It's like negotiating with terrorists.
I don't think that's a fair way to measure "worst year yet". If your agency's sales drop by 20%, it doesn't console you to know that the industry overall is much bigger than it was in 2000.
Why waste 2s/0.5s of your life? Use fswatch instead ;)
Keep in mind the context of another sentence earlier in my post:

> A manufacturing job used to buy you a house, car, and help you raise your 2.5 children. Now, it barely gets you an apartment and a bus pass.

The message was more about the lower buying power of a manufacturing job and minimum wage of today versus a few decades ago.
I thought the point of the new tax was that Google pays next to no tax in Europe. Can you explain the current income taxes Google pays now?
Just tell them you don't have a cellphone ?

I wonder what they would do about it.
I don't see an actual EU angle in this? It seems like a proposal that the French want to present to the EU council of ministers. At which point it will be dropped as it is simply a tarif in everything but name and has almost zero chance of attracting unanimous support it would require in the council.

I'm European but it amuses me that it is always the revenues of American tech companies that seem to provoke such irrational outrage in Europe. I never hear the same outrage caused by the fact that German companies don't pay corporation tax on their sales to China or French aeronautical companies can sell their stuff all over the world without having to pay local corporation tax.

If I was cynical, I would suggest that it's motivated ugly jingoism but I don't think it's the case. I've argued with friends and acquaintances about this and they simply refuse to accept that there is anything comparable between American tech companies selling stuff in Europe to European companies selling stuff all over the world.

The inconsistency is that my friends will claim to be broadly in favor of "free trade". It's as if the rules of free trade are fine for "old" stuff like cars and aeroplanes, pharmaceuticals, banking, legal services, wine, etc. but not for modern tech/IT.

I mean I can understand your position if you're against free trade in general. In that case, putting up tarifs on "foreign" imports is a consistent stance.
> True, in that it would better to fix the underlying problems that allow companies to pretend they have no profit.

This is the core problem, but it's also very difficult to solve.

Google makes money in Europe by selling advertising to European customers. It moves money out tax-free by claiming that much of its income is used to pay for the worldwide tech infrastructure and brand usage to its parent company.

But this is not entirely fictional. To run its business in EU, the local branches do need the infrastructure and Google brand, and paying for it is a valid business expense. The problem is calculating a realistic price for it. How much does Google UK benefit from the "dinosaur game" in Chrome, or how much should the Google Germany share of its development cost be?

Coming up with a fair and loophole-free formula seems impossible. It might be easier to just put a lower tax on revenue than a higher tax on profit.
Why do we extrapolate 4d based on 3D volume, and not surface area? For 2D->3D we use area. Why would we then use volume in 3D->4D when surface area is an option?
it would be interesting to try to constrain / regularize this problem such that the solution is palatable. User could answer some questions about ingredient preferences to build approximate set of weights for the LP objective. Also easy to add some constraints that prevent huge amounts of one food. Tools to allow the user to "critique" the solution which generate new constraints or modify the objective.

Also would be interesting to run the same LP over historical ingredient price datasets and see how the optimal diet changes as ingredient prices fluctuate.
Because they have now a disproportionate amount of power, compared to the average citizen, to influence the lives of all of us, to hurt other people, to purchase power and influence to enrich themselves further to the detriment of others. That is not a fair arrangement.
All those who you get in contact with then ;)

Those numbers also don't have a correct representation of English speaking business owners and English speakers ( first language). Since your numbers mention "English as foreign language".

Same wiki :

The language is also a required subject in most European countries.[3] Thus, the percentage of English speakers is expected to rise.
It's true, NYC cabs are great relative to cabs in most other cities. I still find them generally more convenient than Uber when I visit.

Or are you talking about "used to excel"?
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That statement was substantially more accurate 24 months ago when we didn't have organized groups of individuals marching in our cities literally chanting Nazi slogans.
Why is GDPR disproportionally a problem for foreign tech? You really think there isn't tons of work to do for many local companies as well?
"the sound alone would kill anyone standing at the launchpad during liftoff."

Didn't know you could die from sound. Curious as to how that works.
Not all public water is fluoridated by the government in the US. The reason being due to naturally occurring fluoridation. China is the same. They just don’t need to add more.

So no, you’re not being overfluoridated in the US.
Not even 18 inches in some places - more like 5 inches. You can get through it with heavy equipment - something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7720jUW_aIk
Why do you assume it would almost exclusively affect US companies? They are the names that are usually floated around with this topic, but this doesn't sound at all like it would only affect US companies.
The vast majority of Europeans do not speak English at all.
The ‘pithy’ version of this idea is that most of a high-dimensional orange is the peel.

It’s from this excellent article by Pedro Domingos: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~pedrod/papers/cacm12.pdf
FWIW, my gym instructor proposed that the gym could be the new church - a place for people to come together. I don't feel it works out (he he), but it might be an interesting place to start thinking. I posted this list of suggestions earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16425522
Thanks for digging up the source material for my original statement. Not sure why you're getting downvoted.
>pay special attention to the two and three star reviews.

I find that's often the case on Amazon as well. On your typical book review, say, there are a lot of 4s or 5s that are gushing praise because it's someone's favored author or genre or whatever. 1s tend to be "It sucked. Read 10 pages and threw it out."

2s and 3s as you say are more likely to be along the lines of "Really tried to like it because it had good ideas and I've liked author X in the past but this book was just too disjoined and confusing to recommend it."
Well your personal experience doesn't at all match mine. Family, friends, coworkers, most of them are fairly 50/50 on which partner earns more. I don't know exact earnings, of course, but I have a fairly good idea - I know job titles, experience level, and places of employment. In my experience women looking to marry "into money" are very, very rare and people don't respect them very much. I'm in my mid-30s and live on the East Coast.

I knew going into the dating world that I would probably make more than most of my potential partners due to just numbers, I was unlikely to meet someone who I got along with that makes more than me because I make more money than most people. Since I already have/had all the money I need that didn't bother me in the least, either way I was looking for human companionship not a bank account.

I ended up marrying someone who has a good career but still earns less than I do.
The issues with Redux Sagas and etc. was unavoidable, because Redux didn't take an early stance on how to handle actions which weren't ready right away, something the article author calls differed actions. It's not because of the overabundance of boilerplate, but the LACK of guidance in the existing boilerplate.
That's probably why they built it in the UK and not in Belgium or any other EU country with insane taxes for that matter.
Seeing how the debugging process actually went, though, is also useful at times, to give you more examples of how other people work through problems where the cause is not clear.
I believe that today's standard of living in the US is substantially higher across all income/wealth deciles than it was in 1950.

I also think that the engine of capitalism is a substantial reason for those gains, even as it has created a wider spread of income inequality than in past eras.

Do you believe that the 25th percentile of income today has a higher standard of living than the 50th percentile person in "the golden age" of 1950? I do.

Today's 25th percentile person is likely to have air conditioning, refrigeration, internet, a cell phone, a microwave oven, an HDTV, and a reliable car that needs very little routine maintenance and has air bags and antilock brakes. It's almost unthinkable that they wouldn't have hot and cold indoor running water and bathrooms even in rural areas.

Today's 50th percentile is beating 1950s 75th percentile adding easy, affordable, safe, and reliable air transportation and living in a far larger house than their 1950s half-again higher counterpart.

Today's 75th percentile is beating the 95th percentile in 1950...

All of them have better health care options, and a longer life expectancy.
Same here. I tend to use https://rateyourmusic.com/films/chart more often these days. Less bots than Imdb, no metacritic/rotten tomatoes "professional" critics. Also rateyourmusic gave me lots of hidden gems. The UI is from 90-th, but i can live with that)
Its also arguable to want to collect taxes at point of sale, IE, whenever the person with the phone making the purchase is, or more reasonably where they live. Which is what this proposal is, after all.
Have seen a couple interesting articles[0][1] highlighting the weirdness of building Chromium on Windows, so hopefully this LLVM improvement will be a step towards a smoother process.

[0] https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/02/25/compiler-bug-li...

[1] https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-and...
Walmart gets a lot of flack for moving into small towns and ruining the existing stores. But the 1969 New York Times excerpt in the article mentions how Walmart was dominant in small, rural towns but was facing competition as "the industry's big guns are moving in". ("Big guns" being K-Mart, Gibson and Arlans. K-Mart declared bankruptcy in 2002, Gibson in 1996, and Arlan's in 1973.)

It's kind of mind-blowing to think that in 1969 Walmart was the local store needing to fight off the big chains. But now it's the exact opposite.
I imagine the sound pressure would liquefy your organs.

Just speculating here but a "sound wave" at those energies could be similar to a shock wave from an explosive.
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Actors are computers and computers are actors. The mapping from actor to physical computer is sometimes one-to-one, sometimes many-to-one. An actor is an entity capable of handing input, changing its internal state, sending output, and potentially creating new actors.

Whether we use it explicitly or not, the reality is that many of our systems can be modeled as actors in this sense. Whether you're using erlang (very explicitly based on the actor model), or C with pthreads and mutexes, you can model your system as actors. The specific mechanism of communication is irrelevant. And this is where I find it useful. My day job is in embedded systems. We have clear actors (multiple radios communicating over a protocol) which we treat as actors from a design perspective (of that protocol). Internal to each radio we have a number of physical computers running concurrently and communicating over a bus which acts like a shared memory. For this internal part, actors are not how it's coded. However they offer an effective model for how things work, as we can isolate the communication parts to a handful of modules (per application running). So from the internal part of our application it is as if we are sending messages (though the reality is we're writing them to a shared memory and setting some flags) and it is as if we are receiving messages (though the reality is we're reading from a shared memory when some flag goes high).
Is this context, "virtue signaling" usually means "there's more media focused on black/female/queer characters and I'm angry about it."
Clearly he was not optimizing for overall individual welfare - there are strong diminishing returns for any single ingredient.

Culinary and psychological satisfaction is a valid target for optimization, otherwise the individual will drop the diet and endanger the quality of nutrition, given a limited budget. Or he might outright commit suicide after the second week, not healthy at all.
What struck me about the article was the throwaway line:

listened to your brief and vague report that he seemed
to have trouble sitting still in kindergarten,

Where I live, where my three boys went to kindergarten (barnehage her in Norway), pre-school is all about physical activity and socialisation. It's not like school, there are no lessons to sit still for; instead there are things to do, painting, cooking, laying tables, climbing frames, mud to be crawled in and puddles to splash. The children are of course expected to not be disruptive and the staff will work with the children to ensure that they behave well.

The end result seems to be, on the whole, self-confident, well behaved children who can be taken anywhere with little or no risk that they will be disruptive.

As far as I know the kinds of diagnoses that seem common in the US are rare here.
He may not have claimed it, but when you stand in front of a jury and say something to the extent of "I'm an expert in knot analysis. This is the analytic system I employed to reach this particular conclusion" the implication to a jury of laymen is that you've employed a scientific method of some sort.
> A manufacturing job used to buy you a house, car, and help you raise your 2.5 children.

There was maybe a very brief historical moment when that was true, but I don't think it was ever the case; industrial capitalism has always been strongly grounded in the economic insecurity of the working class.
The assumption was that the screen real estate would be equal, minus the notch.
Precision of language is important.
Except exponential, log, log-linear, sqrt, the time or space complexity of pretty much every problem in CS...
Those numbers also don't have a correct representation of English speaking business owners.

The language is also a required subject in most European countries.[3] Thus, the percentage of English speakers is expected to rise.

Added a quote from robinson7d:

> That citation is for "English as a foreign language", and if you read the end of the paragraph you see they are excluding UK and Ireland.
English as a first language accounts for 13%, which when added to the 38% leaves you with 51% (or, "most")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio...
Are you talking about theverge.com or rottentomatoes?
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That citation is for "English as a foreign language", and if you read the end of the paragraph you see they are excluding UK and Ireland.

English as a first language accounts for 13%, which when added to the 38% leaves you with 51% (or, "most")

http://ec.europa.eu/commfrontoffice/publicopinion/archives/e... (Cited at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio...)
> So gambling is your solution?

Gambling has a mathematical downward bias. Investing has a mathematical upward bias. (That's my definition of the difference.)

I find it rather unfair to argue that wealthy people make money off of investments, but that non-wealthy people shouldn't invest because positive returns are not guaranteed. Well, they aren't guaranteed for wealthy people, either, but they invest anyway.
It boy has the control and influence it’s member states grant to it. The EU can’t unilaterally impose rules on its members, hence Britain’s ability to negotiate exceptions to any EU policies or initiatives we didn’t want to be part of - Working Time Directive, Schengen Agreement, Euro Zone, etc. Tax policy is something EU member governments want to keep to themselves and don’t all agree on, and as long as that it so the EU will have a very limited say in it.
This is how most myths are born - by winners retro-actively rewriting history and including things like predestination, God's vision in their dreams (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Milvian_Bridge), being The Chosen One, etc as the reason for their success.

Today of course those are not appealing, and just sound crazy, so it is something like "I was just returning a late movie", "I was coming back from my yoga massage and had this idea...", etc.

The important part is that only after winning and looking back the history is rewritten. The boring things like plain luck, or maybe persistence, or enough resources (say because of inheriting money for example) to try some business idea multiple times, failing and try again until one sticks is just not a cool story.

Even more interesting is that not just the myth is born but anything the company did, all practices, rituals etc end up promoted as the cause of success. Anyone notice this? It's the cargo-culting of methodologies. Successful startup did some crazy development practice, but as soon as they become popular everyone starts copying that thinking "surely that is the main cause of their success". What if the successful startup could be have been even more successful without that practice, or maybe it had no impact at all.

How about copying personality traits. There was once a CTO I knew. He fancies himself to be like Steve Jobs. Except instead of copying persistence, intelligence, attention to details and design, understanding what would work and what won't for users, he just copied the part of being an asshole. The idea was that Jobs was an asshole, and look at Apple, that's how I'll have to act to make my company have the same success. It ended as well as you'd expect. Developers who didn't want to deal with that simply left and projects started tanking.
But much better comments!
If you are dealing with physical goods then establishing where a taxable profit was made is relatively straightforward. For tech companies which only distribute their services over the internet it's much more difficult to determine (from an accounting perspective) which parts of your costs belong to which revenue streams and where exactly a profit was made (geographically).
Vice Media itself is a creature of the old media. It may successfully transform itself into a new media company. I've noted a lot of Far-Left ideological bias there, however. In my estimation, it's the 2018 equivalent of Fox News, just on the other side of the political spectrum.
We're using volume the whole time. Area is just the two-dimensional equivalent of volume. The two-dimensional equivalent of surface area would be perimeter, which is relatively rarely used.
Capital doesn't have borders. You may have people willing to build products, but can you get the capital you need to execute if those same investors can send their money to another country and get a better return?
While you are absolutely correct that people will think you are weird - what does it matter? Having small talk with someone in line at the grocery store is not to create a lifelong friend (although that really is a potential), it is to spread social kindness and communal feeling. The upside, real interaction with individuals who value it, heavily outweighs the downside, a stranger thinking you are weird (you need not do more than dress 'out of style' for this to be the case, really).

My experience is largely against what you describe, however. At least in the major city I live, I have literally been thanked, with a genuine smile - one of those real smiles that begins in the eyes - and gratitude, by cashiers when I ask, before they speak to me, how they themselves are doing. Literally countless times. I see these people quite often, as they work at places I frequent. They remember me and we, over time, learn more about one another. May aim was not to be their friend, or even acquaintance, just to build a sense of community.

Small talk is the fastest way I've bootstrapped myself into outrageously diverse social circles. Plenty of encounters with closed off people uninterested in me? Yes. Plenty of encounters that went well, spread some smiles, with people I've never seen again? Yes. Plenty of people I have sustained contact with, who are now close friends of mine? Not plenty, but a handful that made all the other encounters worth it.

And regardless, what is the alternative? I have to find my friends, acquaintances, strangers interested in similar things, love interests, and mating partners online? No thanks, call me a weirdo please.
In fact it basically is:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/objectivec/objecti...
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Last time I tried to build Chrome/Chromium I had to mess about with this build system called Ninja. (Which worked well it was just awkward to set up on Windows). Is that still in play?
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The political statement a piece of art is trying to make is a part of its intrinsic beauty or quality. Art does not exist in a vacuum, it always exists in a human context. Politics are inescapable, in art and in all other forms of human endeavor.