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The book talked about in the article is on Springer Link. Luckily my University is subscribed to Springer Link, so I just had to login to my University's VPN and I was able to download this book for free; score!
> Ireland's corporate tax rate is 12.5% which is in the lower half of the table of EU rates but that's no basis to brand it a "tax haven".

Things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Apple_Inc.#Tax_pr... are.
I'm slightly wary about this "90 day disclosure timeframe". There's no way 90 days should be THE standard. Coordinated disclosure should be highly dependent on the situation.

90 days is far too long for most issues. I get why the industry likes that; a generous timeframe makes their bug fixing efforts look better. But I'm not sure that it's in anyone else's interests.
> (it just occurred to me that pin+tip might be a tall order, the pin protects the amount too)

Where I live, the card machines show you the total and ask you to type in the final amount (including tip) before you enter your pin.
As other's have mentioned stock sales are planned.

And why is it surprising that Zuckerberg has sold lots of Facebook stock. (1) He owns the most and (2) he has previously gone on record as saying he will be selling stock to finance his charity.
Considering the time scales we're playing with here, 3 months is more than enough time to delay reporting and let 10b5-1 sales trigger to salvage as much value as possible.

Shoot, Stamos had apparently been nagging them for a while leading up to the December reorg, and we're only just hearing about it.
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Interesting that Hacker News allows links to pirate sites... This will probably get removed soon
Most of my friends loathe social media and only use it in fear that if they don’t, they might be less attractive to potential employers..
>...buy reducing demand and by taking away the best deal.

Are you suggesting a completely free market without any government constraints at all?
Ah, so Telegram history sync works so well that not only you have your history instantly available, but everyone else does as well :)
Serious question: how are speed limits enforced (or not) in the USA? From what I read on the internet, it seems like they are 90% unenforced, 10% arbitrarily enforced by cops who choose who they want to pull over from the masses who are routinely speeding.

If they are mostly unenforced, how does the system work? Does everyone implicitly add 20% to the posted limit, or do they just go whatever speed feels right to them given the road and the conditions?

(In my part of Australia, speeding is fairly common, but not speed limits are not a joke. You can expect most people to stick within ~5km/h of the limit, and if you choose not to then there's a real chance you'll get done by a hidden camera. The idea of everyone ignoring the limits sounds terrible: of course they are a bit arbitrary, but that's unavoidable for any unambiguous law, and the alternatives of arbitrary enforcement or no enforcement seem much worse.)
There is no walkway in that center median. Source: I live a few blocks from there and drive on that road to my office every day.
I have used both CoreML and MPSCNN in the past, the pain point is typically how to translate a cloud-based model to run directly on the phone. Caffe2 to CoreML is good so far, but issue is CoreML is a black box and crashes are often not decipherable. I'm looking more in a universal flow that can port models trained in TensorFlow or PyTorch and at the same time some way to debug intermediate results. Or better yet, if there are existing mobile models that can be used is best. Just reached out!
I mean, straight up subsistence farming populations. Not "building Facebook for cats."
Both links contain facts not stories.

You came up with the idea that there would be a conspiracy. You are the conspiracy theorist.
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Civil penalties are a good call here - you cannot trust prosecutorial discretion in this case, as prosecutors who go after cops for lying on the stand find their jobs very difficult afterwards.
Re: American colleges have an anti-asian bias

I don't think it's an anti-Asian bias but more of a pro-diversity bias. Colleges often want a good mix of ethnic groups such that having 60% Asians when the US population is about 8% Asian won't get them the mix they want. Whether the goal of "diversity" is more important than the "fairness" of raw merit is a complex moral and philosophical debate.
No. The top feature of an IDE is the call tree: Show me all the callers of this function and all of their callers and so on. This is a game changer. It means that you can reverse engineer someone else's code (or even your own). And in practice, that's what your spend most of your time doing if you want to make changes that are congruent with the whole system. Eve claims to have tools to help with this despite not being statically typed. If I get time I would like to try it because the querying and matching parts of the system are very attractive.
An accident might have been unavoidable, but fatality is the big question. The risk of pedestrian fatality jumps by ~4x between 30mph and 40mph.[0] So the question is - did the car start breaking as soon as possible?

As an aside, that statistic is why I never speed in pedestrian zones.

https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/relationship_between_speed_risk_...
Well, usually this comes from written statements right after the event right? It's not like there's a several week gap between the event and the report.... right?
shouldn't this keep javascript from facebook domains from loading?
Is this something like Streisand [1]? Where it just configures a server to run a VPN service.

[1] - https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
The last commit to the file is on 4 Oct 2016. So you could expect that.
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Self-driving cars are still a fantasy. I don't want the AI to be comparable to an average driver (who collectively get into 6 million accidents) . I want the AI to meet/exceed the skills of the best driver. There is no way anyone would trust an "average" driver to pickup their kids, more than themselves.
The EC ruled the tax deal illegal and forced Ireland to collect $13bn which Ireland denied to do. The EC thus put Ireland to the ECJ and started implementing alternative tax rules, with the 3% revenue tax being the result. Paying 0.005% taxes by evading the system? The system will be changed.

"The ECJ will decide the case and unless the EU wants to undermine the entire system of transfer pricing which is the basis for international trade, they will side with Ireland and Apple."

Transfer of profit to the lowest tax destination is not the basis for international trade. Evading taxes will result in tax laws adapting.
The article doesn't present any evidence at all, it's all just speculation.
I'm not "rambling" at all. Instead very much I'm responding quite directly to the OP. I'm responding point by point on just what the OP concentrated on, the business idea, what constitutes a promising business idea, the founders, technical founders who could write code, the code, minimum viable product, the "team" of founders and the point about a sole founder, and venture funding, in particular, YC funding. Those issues were all central in the OP and also in what I wrote. So, I'm right on topic. And I went point by point and didn't "ramble".

And to be more clear,
I illustrated with a project I know well, my own.

Then from my example, readers who are a natural audience for the OP can see some likely important points: (1) Getting a promising business idea can be less obscure than suggested in the OP. (2) Getting a "team" that can do the work is easier than suggested in the OP, e.g., some sole, solo founders can do all the work from the business idea through the code ready to go live. (3) Venture funding and/or YC funding can be much more difficult to obtain than suggested in the OP.

Then I made the point that the OP didn't say much about the "operations" from the running code ready for production to good earnings -- there's more to say there, too.

And for the potential of a sole, solo founder, I gave some arguments and examples why that is not unreasonable.

You noticed how what I wrote was really a direct response to the OP, right? Apparently not. What you wrote about my post makes no sense. So, your concerns must be elsewhere, and a strong suspicion has to be that you do have some bitter reactions to what I wrote but not like anything you wrote.

So, you don't know me at all but want to mount a personal attack on me. Okay, I understand.
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The article title (not the HN title) is "Productivity in the US Continues to Decline" which one could interpret as "productivity is declining" because that's what it says.

But you're right and they should've been more clear about it in the article. Thanks for the proper HN title.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16626054
For iPhones, enterprise management will allow you to set things like /etc/hosts. I do this with my phone.

I don't know what Androids do.
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Expensive, I guess you mean.
Using Spacy to Build Conversational Interfaces for Alexa
No discussion and few points, so not a duplicate
Yeah except Apple does not pay the 12.5% Ireland rate but 0.005% because of a system of tax evasion. How could anyone deny that this system must be changed?

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/30/how-apples-irish-subsidiarie...
Why would they be afraid of going to jail? None of them have gone to jail so far. You only face consequences for reporting misbehavior, not for engaging in it.
It's deniable afterwards, but not during. At some point you reveal to the voter a way to map their vote to an anonymised 1 or 0. That point is vulnerable and that point will be where someone expects you to show them something.
"Police lying raises the likelihood that the innocent end up in jail — and that as juries and judges come to regard the police as less credible, or as cases are dismissed when the lies are discovered, the guilty will go free."

I'm not sure why the police protect each other when there is wrongdoing. When that stuff eventually comes to light it reflects badly on the entire group. Sure, we can tell people it's just a few bad apples, but that doesn't really hold up when the group continues to support bad apples. They're being complicit.
>Why do you think the US would stay the same if it became closed like China?

I didn't suggest "closed like China", I said "treat them how they wan to be treated". Every country treated equally on their own rules.

>...US assumed moral high ground on several geopolitical fronts.

How is it not the moral high ground to "treat others as they want to be treated"? That is straight from the mouth of Jesus.

Edit: I misquoted Jesus... It's supposed to be "Treat others as you want to be treated"
have just taken a SIBO breath test. First hand observed the rise of breath hydrogen and methane. The biological machinery is that [bad overgrown] bacteria in the gut produce the gas with some of the gas making into the blood and after that into the lungs. That rise as usual coincided with small attack of coughing, running nose and a bit of anxiety and loss of concentration (was trying to work during the 3hr test). When it happens at night, it does makes falling to sleep harder. Anyway, passed the test with flying colors :) - hit 78ppm hydrogen and 29ppm methane levels (at 40 and 60 minute marks, ie. before colonic response, etc) where 20ppm of either alone is already enough for SIBO diagnosis. So it isn't just imagination.
>Off the top of my head - if you declare bankruptcy to evict student loans, you are ineligible for retirement account contributions like IRA and 401ks for the 7-10 year window. Additionally you take a 5% tax increase for the duration of that window.

Why don't we just do that for everyone, and make higher education free. This works for the absolute majority of students. Provide an opt-out for the few that can pony up the cash up front.
I don't disagree that most people are terrible about summarizing and acting after meetings, but just to bring up a contrary stance: Occasionally this approach can be the result of a problem on the opposite side.

For example: Due to circumstances outside your control, you must work with someone who is ineffective, too busy, or simply can't wrap their head around whatever is going on. So you end up having to baby-sit.

In certain cases that will feel a lot like what you are complaining about, particularly when the opposite party is in denial/don't understand that they are the source of the problems.
The intel ceo case is incriminating because the intel ceo dumped as much stock as contractually allowed by Intel, with the plans to do so being filed well after Intel was informed of the security flaw. It's not incriminating solely because he sold stock (in fact he regularly sold stock that was granted to him, but never this much so quickly).
> However, in practice if you express any reservations about police testimony you will very likely be struck from the jury by the DA

That's not my experience, and mere reservations about the credibility of police wouldn't usually justify a challenge for cause, and prosecutors have a finite number of peremptory challenges. (Now if you say cops are all liars and everything they say must be disregarded, sure, that’ll probably get you tossed.)
Not at all. NoScript does way more than just blocking JavaScript by domain.
Man, that person put in some effort. That’s a lot of good lists.

Scrolling through them it’s really interesting to see the other sites companies own.

I always forget WhatsApp is Facebook.
This possibility is not lost on me, and I have made an informed decision to accept that.
It was a 3-lane highway. It wouldn't really make sense to break if the system detected a immobile object in a different lane. The problem is more that the system failed to detect the woman moving between lanes.
I wouldn't think Hacker News would be in any trouble with this one. The link is to a noteworthy site, not to any infringing content; you'd have to take action and use a specific search term to find copyrighted content. And the implication of posting it is clearly that people should find it interesting and discuss it, not that they should use it to download articles.
So many startups... am looking forward to track their progress using http://yclist.com/

It would be interesting to analyse the categories of startups that succeed and fail.
It was a memory hog though, particularly when you have 2 or 3 separate CORBA servers running.
Only whitelisted sites run JS in my browser. If by 'boring', you mean vastly less annoying, yes, it is terribly boring.

I'd likely never look at the bulk of commercial websites if I had to render them the way owners intended them to render.
Hardware manufacturers are removing game brand names from AMD products
Have you ruled out psychological factors (which are probably more likely)? It's impossible to know for sure without doing a placebo controlled trial on yourself.

I have found that removing HFCS from my diet (basically, fizzy pop) and eating probiotic yogurt seems to mostly cure my mild IBS. I still get IBS due to stress, but don't seem to get it during non-stressful daily life any more. Of course, it still could be the placebo effect...it's hard to know for sure. It never affected my sleep though. The only time I would get anxiety would be due to an imminent bowel movement.
There Is More Than One Opioid Crisis
Curious, how many startups does a YC batch have?
Show HN: Titan - invest like a hedge fund
I see this attitude a lot, but it seems strange to me. Of course any hard line will be somewhat arbitrary, but we need to draw hard lines if we want unambiguous, consistently enforceable laws. What's special about speed limits that makes it okay to ignore them?

To me they seem analogous to age-of-consent laws, which of course are not perfectly chosen for every individual -- and of course there's no magical change that occurs on a person's birthday -- but the law reflects society's best judgment of the balance between (protecting the vulnerable and allowing people to make their own choices :: safety and efficiency).
I'm quite outraged by this!

Offtopic: Tweakers is one of the most respected news site in the Netherlands and Belgium for Dutch IT news. That's why i used Google Translate, but kept the link.
It's hard to overstate this point.
It's a conspiracy theory to state or insuniate that Zuckerberg is committing a crime in order to save some money.

Especially given that the facts are that (a) selling stock involves a lot of people, (b) Zuckerberg has gone on record saying he will be selling stock, (c) he has plans for politics/philanthropy which will depend on an intact reputation and (d) he will be so rich i.e. multi-billionaire regardless that it seems strange to risk jail time for a few hundred million.

If you make claims. Then you need to back them up.
This stock is still well above where it was a few months ago. I sold my FB at 140 because I felt it was overvalued. I wouldn't blame Zuck for thinking his company was overvalued at its current price.
My setup: https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate
That’s not a fair comparison. You don’t pay corporate tax based on a percentage of turnover so your rate has nothing to do with corporate tax rates. They pay Irish corporate tax on profits generated by their operations in Ireland which are understandably a tiny fraction of their sales in Europe. The rest is taxable in the US and in fact Apple have recently started repatriating foreign profits to the US and are paying US corporate tax on them.
why is it like slack? I don't get it.
That's why I mention sending them to jail if the test is failed. Society gave them a chance and they failed - now they go through the usual process.
Ok, fair enough, WhatsApp is trash. But you didn't convince me on the matter of chat history and e2e.

First off, as long as I have any device with chat history online — it is possible for my new device to inherit it as well. It's fine even if I have to confirm manually that session keys are equal or whatever.

Second, note that history can be stored on Telegram servers in encrypted form, I only need to have some secret key that is never sent to Telegram. This way "backing up the history" wouldn't be any different from "sending a message". And being responsible for taking care of my security keys is entirely reasonable.

Third, remember that primary Telegram credential is your phone number — something I abhor, but as long as this is true, I do need to have my phone to log-in on a new device anyway. By the way, I never tried to see if it actually works, but I would rather not being able to access my history after losing my device at all, rather than accepting that anyone who will get in possession of my phone number will be able to read all my chats. "My phone number" is not "me", for fuck's sake. (Yes, I know about 2-step auth, but we are talking about defaults here.)

And, honestly, I guess I would be fine with anything more or less usable, all I really have to know is that "normal people" do use WhatsApp and do find its usability ok. This means they would accept secure chats by default in Telegram as well. How long is it since you lost all your devices that can host Telegram at the same time, anyway? It is rarely the case that anyone's I know devices are all off at the same time, let alone lost.
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The whole conversation, without having read into everything here in absolute detail, seem to be very tool oriented. Am I the only one here overwhelmed by the sheer amount of domains involved?
If you deliberately build a system that requires trust when it's possible to build one the doesn't, you are doing something wrong.
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Right, so now she's crossing three lanes. So that's about 9 meters. At 1-3 meters per second for her, and 17 meters/second for the Uber SUV, it should have seen her 3-9 seconds (50-150 meters) before impact.

That's a pretty clear fail.

I wonder what the Uber's field of view is. At what distance should it have detected stuff about 9 meters off track?

But she did likely walk out from landscaping. So perhaps she initially "looked" like waving branches or whatever. And there must be some mechanism to suppress such false positives, or vehicles would brake when it's windy.
The article has no data. Here’s an article with data which says young people are the most frequent users of social media

http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/03/01/social-media-use-in-20...
> did the car start breaking as soon as possible?

“braking”; “breaking” is something else, and not a desirable response.
How did you integrate scholar in sci-bay ? Does scholar have an API ?

And about the future, how do you see google responding?
what features does it offer over umatrix?
> If they are mostly unenforced, how does the system work? Does everyone implicitly add 20% to the posted limit, or do they just go whatever speed feels right to them given the road and the conditions?

Usually people go limit + 10mph on major freeways, and "whatever feels safe" in city driving.
You're thinking of Google Contributor. It seems likely that these are teams working in different parts of Google.
Yes, but a lot of data transfer happens on the backend without the client being involved.
Especially since Zuckerberg has very big plans post Facebook.
>why does math work so well?

This question really really bothers me. Why can I completely describe gravitational attraction (at certain distances) by just solving for f=g(m1*m2)/r^2? It's truly disturbing when you start appreciating this for the first time.
He made an impassioned plea on the social network of his choice.
Cambridge Analytica Suspends CEO Alexander Nix After Video’s Release
Bull. They might not use public social media quite so much, or demand end-to-end encryption. But social media is here to stay.
All taxes are paid by the consumer of the products, always. This is trying to fix the gap in taxes companies have to pay. Why does Amazon pay less taxes than a 3-person book shop? Do you deem that appropriate?
The fact that in most cases the human has to do nothing means that it is unlikely that the human is anywhere close to being as vigilante as an actual human driver. The fact that the human is clueless isn't surprising at all. In fact this is the real danger with systems like Tesla's autopilot. You still ned to be vigilante, but you are so bored that it is hard to be.

The safety humans here might as well be hood ornaments.
We moved most of the comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633267, which is the thread about the actual sale.
I hear you. Yea, I never got round to using Clipper but was on track, especially the possibility to create standalone applications as front-end clients in a client/server setup was interesting. It was bought and botched by CA before I got round to it though, at least it looked like CA mishandled it from what I could see.

A fun related fact albeit OT was that those DOS applications were orders or magnitude faster to keyboard operate than the GUI applications that came after ... I'm sure some of them are still in use for that reason.
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#createFacebook before you can read #deleteFacebook
There definitely exists a sort of pre-cognitive human quality to traffic.

Sometimes you just slow down on a subconscious hunch without any information on that particular situation. Or you might be very conscious not to slow down if you're driving a motorcycle in Asia in heavy traffic trying to make a turn with a huge truck barreling behind you.

There are massive differences in road cultures between countries, and it takes a while to adjust to local habits. Somebody who doesn't know these invisible rules is a very accident prone driver even if they can drive safely in another country.
Eliminating protections for students with disabilities was one of the first things on Devos' docket upon taking office.