skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Panama Papers revealed Siemens dodging taxes, that's why I chose that example. http://www.dw.com/en/paradise-papers-expose-tax-schemes-of-g...

If the EU wants to pay for social infrastructure, they need to tax money made within their borders and encourage the development of their own economy. I support Google, Facebook, Apple, and other companies paying taxes on the business they do in your borders, and harmonization of tax rates and laws across the Atlantic, but not some kind of unilateral "Marshall Plan" of taxation without representation. This kind of tax scheme is just going to lead to retaliation, just like tariff trade wars.

Do you really think the US Congress and Administration will sit idly by and let the EU slap, in effect, a global 3% tariff on US corporations and not retaliate?

I fear a real storm on the horizon with all of this growing nationalism. You've got right wing movements cropping up in the EU, you've got nationalism in the US, EU, and China growing.

I don't think trying to claim extra-territorial extra-jurisdictional revenues is a legitimate tactic. And I'm pretty sure you've lose your mind if the CCCP imposed a 3% global tax on your local companies for money they made that was unrelated to exports to China.
I'm not sure how we draw the line. But it should at least feel ethically itchy if ppl can use data you collected to statistically infer things normally considered private information.

This puts Google on the wrong side of the line, wherever it is, next to other big offenders - fb, twitter, linkedin.

To waffle less, I would absolutely be very cautious with who you give access to your gcal. You can tell a lot about a person knowing their schedule, who they meet with, where they meet, when they fly, etc. Lots on a calendar
I disagree with you in the burden that GDPR places on a company. If a company takes data protection seriously handling such a letter would be a matter of minutes because they already have the processes in place. The GDPR is almost two years old now and it's just an update of the DPR which has been in place since the mid-90s: nobody should be caught by surprise by now except companies that deliberately decided that making sure you're compliant with the law is something that should be ignored right until the cops are knocking at your door.
Since the article starts by citing the battle of the Teutoberger Forest (in the photo caption), I'll say this:

If you can read or understand German, and you don't know the 19th Century satirical song "Als die Roemer Frech Geworden", you're in for a treat.

Every recorded version seems to have a different choice of stanzas, but a comment to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-z2Nmu4okI seems pretty comprehensive.
> If anything, if they really are a monopoly and increasing prices could have got them more revenue presumably they would have done it already.

A company cannot arbitrarily raise prices in isolation without risk of alienating customers. The difference here would be that both Google and its competitors would be subject to the same price hike.
I wonder if in the long view we still live in the Roman empire.
Please don't purposefully oversimplify things and engage in whataboutism in an effort to downplay their importance.

You should read this:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistl...

Three particularly important points:

The guy who was contracted by CA to steal the data is from Russia.

He had previously undisclosed funding from the Russian government.

CA later tried to do business from a Russian oligarch.

Choice quote:

"There are other dramatic documents in Wylie’s stash, including a pitch made by Cambridge Analytica to Lukoil, Russia’s second biggest oil producer. In an email dated 17 July 2014, about the US presidential primaries, Nix wrote to Wylie: “We have been asked to write a memo to Lukoil (the Russian oil and gas company) to explain to them how our services are going to apply to the petroleum business. Nix said that “they understand behavioural microtargeting in the context of elections” but that they were “failing to make the connection between voters and their consumers”. The work, he said, would be “shared with the CEO of the business”, a former Soviet oil minister and associate of Putin, Vagit Alekperov.

“It didn’t make any sense to me,” says Wylie. “I didn’t understand either the email or the pitch presentation we did. Why would a Russian oil company want to target information on American voters?”"
Did you already try/start to learn it?
-> Yes. I am enrolled in Deep learning nanodegree at Udacity but haven’t started going deep in it.

Why do you need a mentor for learning it?
-> I have a strong background in Comp science. I can learn CS concepts about DL. I want to leverage mentorship to know whether I am going correct path and how can I leverage DL in daily applications.
> I don't think trying to claim extra-territorial extra-jurisdictional revenues is a legitimate tactic.

Taxing revenues derived from users in your own country is not extra-territorial taxation.

> I fear a real storm on the horizon with all of this growing nationalism. You've got right wing movements cropping up in the EU, you've got nationalism in the US, EU, and China growing.

As a nationalist in the US (which does not make me right wing, merely empathetic to my fellow citizens first), I fully support the EUs efforts to enforce taxation on foreign tech companies who have been taking extraordinary efforts to evade taxation.
Not that you don’t have a point of sorts, but such a simplistic consideration of taxation seems dangerous to me.

There are many theoretical possibilities left unconsidered including some obvious ones, such as fewer EU users of the American services, which is a reasonable goal in many ways, including the interest of the citizens.

Also, not sure where you think tax money goes but, when a government is maintained to some extent by a concerned populace, taxation serves the collective interests of a society.
Out of curiosity, is there any European tech company that has 750m in taxable annual revenues?
Title correction: "Patrick Collison AMA: Stripe CEO, technologist, builder of economic infrastructure for the internet (on /r/neoliberal)."

(Providing the much needed context, "who is Patrick Collison?")
I have only ever seen the neoliberal label used as an insult against the Democratic party for their lack of real progressive policies and for basically being the pawns of big banks and global elites.

Perhaps self-identification is the next logical step for Democrats? Instead of rigging the primary against a likable progressive candidate like Bernie and causing internal backlash and resentment, maybe they can get Democrat voters to support and embrace a named neoliberal doctrine. Maybe they too can get people to passionately vote against their own self-interests just like the Republican voting base.
People are up in arms about China as well, and IMHO, the US and EU should take them to the WTO over unfair trade practices.

But stop focusing on Google for a moment, and consider poor Twitter. Can they really afford this tax? If you're already losing money, or breaking even, why should you have to pay taxes on $$$/user earned in the US or Japan?
He is defending allowing companies with significant capex to collect rents, with the justification that if the rents were not allowed then the capex would not be expended.
What about the huge surplus value that Google's search engine provides society? I say we should confiscate money from everybody and give it to Google as a subsidy, because they're underpaid for what they do.
Quick, what direction do you go to get from 123 Main Street to 456 Birch Street?

Quick, what direction do you go to get from 12.34567N, 12.34567W to 56.43210N, 23.87654E?

Not being able to immediately determine direction between 2 addresses isn't a failing.
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The distinction between "implementing" an interface and "inheriting" a base class is largely just a Java-ism.

To some extent, it's a distinction without a difference - at a semantic level, Java only distinguishes between interfaces and purely abstract base classes because one allows multiple inheritance and the other doesn't, and the separate "inherits" and "implements" keywords flow from there. Other languages (like C# and Kotlin) distinguish between interfaces and overridable classes for the purposes of deciding when to allow multiple inheritance, but use the same syntax and terminology for inheriting from both interfaces and base classes. Still other languages make no structural distinction, but still use the word "interface" to refer to base classes that don't include any implementation, and therefore aren't so susceptible to the diamond inheritance problem. TBH, I think the Java-style treatment is the least conceptually consistent, since it's entirely possible to "inherit" a base class without inheriting a single bit of information, either because everything it declares is abstract or because everything got overridden.

There's a pretty decent coverage of all the grotty details of this concept space, and how different languages treat it, in the beginning of the gang of four book.
why would I care if someone is faking confidence any more than I would care about it if someone is faking feeling energetic or silly?

I mean, I guess I would feel a little weird if I thought you felt you needed to fake confidence around me, so there is that.

Is there an optimal level of confidence you can project to get the optimal social response from me, and is that optimal level other than the lowest level possible? Yeah, sure.

My main point was just that my reaction to people who are too confident is immediate, negative and extremely strong. I do my best to ignore it like all other bits of personality that aren't relevant to the role, of course, if it's a role where confidence doesn't matter... but I am human, and these things leak.

I was just bringing this up as a counterpoint to the "humans are hard wired to favor displays of confidence" because, as I mentioned before, I am human, and have a significantly negative (and difficult to consciously suppress) response to levels of confidence that seem to be normal in the marketing professions.
The reason why there was such a small effort on optimization in the first place is that this isn't meant to be a revenue generating site, or one that focuses on "ultimate performance" - it's more of just a personal, online resume. Any time I needed something new, I'd just throw it in, because "it worked and looked good on my machine". If I found a cool js snippet that needed an entire library, I'd just throw it in. An argument could be made that that's part of what's wrong with modern webdev, and I wouldn't necessarily disagree, but this wasn't trying to be the fastest or most efficient site out there. I think there's a pretty distinct difference between making a scalable, well optimized webapp and just making a personal site as an online resume.

This was me documenting my updates - I just revised the article with a few more updates, and the total site size is 250kb, 99kb without images. This still isn't great, but total page speed is pretty quick (js execution takes ~70ms on my 2016 MBP).

Thanks for the feedback!
Well, any companies that just squeaked out a 3% margin won’t be too fond of it.
That is what will happen as it does with VAT. But it does end up reducing the divide from brick and mortar outlets. Though they will still be cheaper as they avoid the local business rates or local country equivalent, which really add up.
> By GMOs we mean transgenics, a gene transfer process that is markedly in a distinct risk class from conventional breeding and other "modifications".

...the "other modifications" including radiative genome modification, used to
achieve the very same genome as developed for GMO, but since the former method
is used for more than half a century (close to whole century, I think), it's
much more difficult to suddenly make it scary than it was with genetic
engineering.

It's funny how the modified food we've been eating for decades
suddenly got (vaguely) dangerous in the last twenty years, and only if the newer
methods were used to modify it.
>I don't see how any of this argues against the linguistic and sociocultural similarities between subsets of early Europeans and subsets of early Indians which point towards shared ancestry for these two subsets.

I'm not arguing against the similarities, but arguing against a central singular expansion of some group of peoples that just so coincidently called themselves "Aryan". That is there is no evidence for a singular people/civilization that originated the whole "indo-aryans". The only "Aryans" are the Vedic era nobility that has its roots in India/sanskrit.

That is the word "Aryan" is a gross example of extreme racism, prejudice, and cultural appropriate to further a racist model of human history.
Additionally the difference needs to be a std deviation or two away from the normal population. ADHD in particular has effects on specific sub-tests in IQ exams. It’s quite a clear pattern which emerges as the ares of IQ dealing with multiple conflicting inputs tend to be standard deviation below the rest of the sub-tests norms for a person. Unfortunately I don’t know the appropriate literature to cite. Another test which is used is response times to an onscreen test.
Tough statement. I doubt you can rehabilitate a such negative term in not even 2 years.
Those are mostly sales offices, not corporate HQ. Do sales offices need to physically exist locally for internet service sales? Something to ponder.
U.S. Debt Clock
I just thought there is a pattern on the "Are Older Than Scientists Thought" part to make a discovery exciting (it seems to be what is indeed exciting here), a quick search on "are older than scientists thoughts " you get

Universe Older Than Thought...
The moon is older than scientists thought..
Land plants are older than scientists thought...
Written zero 500 years older than scientists thought -...
Your dog is 10,000 years older than scientists thought...
Human Species May Be Much Older Than Previously Thought ...

Some [adjective] [commonly known subject matter/celebrities]'s [attribute] is/are [older/newer/bigger/smaller/...] than scientists/we thought.
I don’t have a problem with taxation, nor a problem with revenue taxes which is essentially what a sales tax is. All I’m saying is the targeting here is obviously political and designed to hurt the American companies.

The result will be that the EU receives more tax revenue, but it won’t being coming out of Google and Facebooks’ collective pockets.
By your logic, any country can make up a law, go to my US website, and demand I follow it.

Demand all you want, this is the point of national sovereignty.
R.A. Lafferty brought this event to life in his fiction.

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/l/r-a-lafferty/fall-of-rome...

”Rome's demise was not a simple case of fierce barbarians sacking and subduing a decadent, crumbling city. The author has skillfully balanced the turmoil and illusions of a mighty, dying Empire against the vitality of the aggressive Huns, Vandals, and above all, the Goths. The result is one of the most perceptive and stimulating historical accounts ever written.

This is history told and read for sheer pleasure: exciting, splendid and complex. The Fall of Rome is a story of the men and women who made things happen, who were as awesome, poignant, and in some cases, as savage as the era itself.”
> consider poor Twitter. Can they really afford this tax?

If they can't afford a simple tax on their business in a region then they shouldn't be doing business there or at all. What do you mean, "poor Twitter"? It's not a person. It doesn't have emotions or feelings. We don't need to treat it like a poor little snowflake and make sure it never melts.

If Twitter can't handle being taxed then Twitter should die. That's capitalism. You don't get to reap the benefits of a region unsustainably and not aide in the development and growth of the region. Twitter in the EU without a tax is a parasite, not a business.
Somebody Else's Dream
The bug tracker and Twitter account are pretty good about responding, from what I've seen. I'm not familiar with the email.
Also the followup podcast "The History of Byzantium" if you couldn't get enough of late antiquity and the middle ages!
The fall of Rome is complicated because people like to match it up with their pet theory as to why our current empire will collapse real soon now.

But the Romans just ran out of things to steal. Taking foreign lands meant not just immediate booty but ongoing tribute and advantageous trade and promises of farmland for soldiers. That strategy could only go so far. Then when they lost their great early prize, Carthage, which supplied grain to Rome itself, the empire was finished. Local gangsters took over from the distant gangsters and so they had feudalism.
Thus giving companies a strong incentive to clean house and make sure they have a good amount of control over your private data.
Glad I could help. But I would like to caution you that it does require quite a lot of commitment and time.

You can't treat your blog posts any less and try to be done with it in one evening and then forget about it (it won't show in Google or generate traffic or signups yet most people think of blogging that way only).

Sometimes you may have to spend days researching / writing an article, graphics and PDF while spending $500 on your graphics, editing, proof-reading, etc. It requires the same type of effort you would put in creating a product.

Then the outreach is the worst part where you have to convince other people in your niche to add your articles as a resource (Brian Dean has some great advice on this btw).
Remember that PR/marketing is about spending time with the public in order to be seen. Blogging is one of many ways to get attention. But maybe your time is better spent on something else then blogging ? Think of something that might be news-worthy. It doesn't even need to have anything to do with your product.
Sorry, sounds like a drop in the bucket.
you need to put it in the "about" section. Otherwise, others can't see it :)
This website is inherently an egregious GDPR violation. It collects the most highly protected data category, political views, stores it forever, shares it with everyone on the internet, makes opaque automated decisions related to ranking, vote weighting, and anti-spam, and provides no mechanism for takeout or deletion. Because it's publicly available, an unlimited number of unregulated third parties can obtain your data and process it for undisclosed reasons without your opt-in.

Can anyone explain how it's possible to be positive about GDPR and HN at the same time? I'm not surprised that some people like it. I'm stunned to see them commenting here.
"Incapable of working in a modern corporation." Holy hell man, this is some 1950s era able-ist nonsense. "Oh no, they have 'something wrong with them', it's sad that they'll spend the rest of their lives in a living hell they can't escape, unable to contribute or function in society."

I can point you to a zillion people with ADHD who hold high positions in modern corporations, and a zillion more who do excellent work. ADHD is just a different way the brain works, there are many highly effective coping mechanisms to deal with it. And ADHD does have some real benefits as well, such as hyperfocus and creativity.

Also, I should note that there are a ton of people who don't even know they have ADHD simply because they don't understand what it looks like, and they naturally developed coping mechanisms that allowed them to be highly productive. ADHD doesn't look like the cartoon pop-culture version its portrayed as. It's not like some uncontrollable child bouncing off the walls and unable to concentrate on anything.

For myself, I didn't realize I had ADHD until I was 40. Why would I suspect? I graduated college at 20 (with a degree in Mathematics), I learned about turing machines in high school on my own time, I read textbooks for fun, I love science and math, I can get lost in good books or studying quite easily. But those are, actually, signs of ADHD, which is a horribly mis-named condition, it's not about a deficit of attention it's about interest-based attention. If I'm interested in something then I can immerse myself in it quite easily, dedicate hours to study, churn through dense written material, iterate through "boring" repetitive tasks, etc. But if I'm not interested in something then forcing myself to do it can be like pulling teeth.
Maybe Google will leave if they're taxed? Not the worst thing that could happen. The best thing the Romans ever did for the Britains was leave.
Thank you, that's nice of you to say. The ability to contribute honestly to this sort of controversial discussion is exactly why I have a pseudonymous account, so sadly I won't be able to take you up on that beer, but I do appreciate the thought.
A better way to care for dementia patients
You're joking, right? Raspberry pi is a toy computer — which is entirely related to why it was unaffected by speculation leaks. It does not fulfill the same needs as full size x86 chips.
$10 Walmart shoes will ruin your legs though. They are fine if you want to sit in a chair/car all day.
I don't agree with you on this.

I think that the existence of the AMA itself proves that at least in some circles you can.
Thank you for tip. Was not aware of that. Added email in "about" section
More like a fan-fiction reboot.
Even more in many countries
Resonance is an amazing thing. I was fixated on it for a while because it was something that fascinated Tesla. There was a story where he attaches a small hammer to a building which is tapping slowly and it shakes the building to its foundations. The Mythbusters have done a couple of shows on it as well (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZD8ffPwXRo, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xODgR2FEKo)

Things I learned were that the crystal (and steel) structure are important because every bit of compliance in the system absorbs energy and turns it into heat rather than reflecting it back into the structure. Bricks work too if they are hard fired.

Finding the exact resonant frequency can be difficult as it can change as the system begins to vibrate. Sometimes the harmonics are better than the fundamental frequency. If I were doing this today I'd probably clips a strain gauge to the material and use a feedback loop to localize to the peak energy absorption frequency.
Yes, the timing belt or timing chain is inside the engine casing and it can be bad when it or subordinate parts fail. Though a timing belt/chain failure causing a catastrophic event for the engine itself, I don't think that's very common. What I'm referring to is called the serpentine belt and is often accompanied by what's called an accessory or AC belt.
Insurance fraud. Fleet vehicles and taxis have high insurance requirements and people can get payouts.

I've seen videos of people putting their car into reverse to force a rear end collision to make it look like the driver behind is at fault.
> It turns out that most recursive functions can be reworked into the tail-call form.

This statement in the beginning is not entirely correct. A more accurate statement would be that all recursive programs that are _iterative_ (if they are loops in disguise), can be rewritten in a tail-call form. That is, there must be a single chain of function calls.

The inherently recursive procedures cannot be converted into a tail-call form.
perhaps i misunderstand, but these things you list seem to be compatible with libertarianism (at least the right-libertarianism most commonly encountered in the US)

> privatization, financialisation, tax cuts, the retrenchment of social welfare