skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The employer picking up 100% of the premiums (which, in a self-funded plan like this, are paid into the plan trust) just makes this kind of stuff even more likely. If an employee or employee's covered spouse or dependent has health issues requiring $XXX,XXX/year of treatment, getting rid of the employee will directly save the company $XXX,XXX/year. Quite a powerful incentive for scumbags, even if it's completely immoral and illegal (ERISA 510).
Meals, travel, vehicles, basically everything a regular person has to spend out of their own income to survive, these people get away with expensing as business expenses.

That's actually not true, and is in fact the point of the IRS auditor. Namely, that people are expensing these items as business deductions when they are in fact normal living/lifestyle expenses.
IIRC accounting is still one of the basics of MBAs. Because what company runs without accounting?

Here's a question, what business runs without information systems? Do modern MBAs require understanding of computing basics as they do accounting?
> a) fines should be a percentage of your net worth

Not an easy process to determine net worth of anyone let alone someone like Vinod. Most likely he does not even know his net worth.

For one, things that you own can vary greatly in value. Now multiply that by hundreds or even thousands of things that are owned by a wealthy person (I don't mean the furniture in the house either).

And it simply does and should not work that way. Because what that means is that someone who is poor and has nothing does not get dinged much because they are poor and have nothing (hence they have 'nothing to lose'). Sure you could adjust the penalties but just the same simply not the way it works.

Even Elon Musk, so big deal $20m fine for someone worth billions (non liquid of course). So what is the correct 'fine'? And what if he was in bankruptcy? Then what is the correct fine?
Show HN: Hide Telegram stickers in web client
America has something like that right now. It's called civil forfeiture. How would your idea not end up as a similar trainwreck?
A Firefox (+57) extension to troll my Telegram contacts when they use those ugly stickers.

Stickers (i.e. PNG images) in chats are replaced with some HTML code.

I ain't no javascript developer, so it's bad code.

But it was fun learning something new.

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The Privacy Storm
No love for Bondy & Murty?
A new polymer paint promises to cut air-conditioning costs
Minification is typically referred to "the minimum amount of code changes needed to make code as small as possible".

Obfuscation is more like the maximum amount of code changes possible while keeping semantics.

Writing an unminifier is pretty feasible and the only real trouble with reading the resulting code is the meaningless variable names. Writing a deobfuscator is intentionally hard.
Which is really what infuriates me to no end. I'm not saying Obama was perfect, but he was engaging in good-faith dealmaking, hoping to get everyone on board. But the Republicans weren't. And now, everyone seems to think that Mitch McConnell is a super effective Senate leader. But at what cost? Republicans seem to be plagued by a lot of short term thinking... Precisely what the Senate, with its long tenure, was supposed to avoid.
I will actually give more credit to the Executive programs because they require prior work experience (normally 5 years). People are much more likely to remember and be able to use the concepts they have learned in class if they can immediately apply them to real world situations that they have been in.
Let's take a moment to examine a similar incentive system and hopefully learn from it: Civil asset forfeiture by police, who can seize money or other assets and use them for the department.

So far, the results have been widespread abuse, especially targeting people who don't have the means and clout to fight back using the legal system.

No thank you.
> You are the middle class! I'm helping you!

Oh yea? Stop stealing 30% of my income if you really want to be helpful.
I'm currently on a x200 and would like to upgrade to a newer ThinkPad. Unfortunately this has a processor that has Intel ME. When will hardware companies start caring about user privacy?
Browser market share in September 2018
Yeah. I worked in banking during the crash. Upper mgmt literally told us to pretend we were XXX small bank (on a list of banks) if someone called and asked about it. Even though we were just large bank 1-4 that bought them.
The military has a pretty good idea just how long they can keep people awake, and what the best combinations of stimulants are to keep them in warfighting condition. The Wehrmacht in WW2 used an awful lot of amphetamines, and dexedrine has been in common usage for a long time as well.
What you propose creates the same incentives that pervert seized-asset finding of police: Big, easily-siezed assets become the priority, rather than gravity of the original offense.
To be honest even after I had seen that the charges being described to me on the phone were indeed on my account I was still running through scenarios where this could be a fraudulent call. However, I eventually came up with the logic that somebody had already managed to put the charge on my account, and once they'd gotten that far, I couldn't think of any reason for the scammer to call me. Basically, scammers had visibly already won prior to the call, so the odds of the call being fraudulent were low.
Sounds a lot like civil asset forfeiture, which has become a decidedly perverse and unjust mechanism.
> I usually laugh at them and tell them they they are the unverified party in this phone call, not me.

This is one of the related reasons why I finally got my ducks in a row and switched away from Chase three years ago. Their potential-fraud-has-happened outreach department was, in my experience, terrible about this. It didn't help that their potential-fraud-detection department was similarly bad. ("You used your debit card at an AM/PM in Washington State!!!!" Yes, I know, it is about 900 feet from my house; I go there regularly.)

Point being, I got quite a few calls from their (real) fraud prevention department about (supposed) fraud. Each time, the rep who called me would get mad at me for not handing over the last four of my SSN and my complete address to the calling party. I pointed out, each time, that they were the ones who called me so I should be verifying them. "But, sir, WE are the bank and you could be anyone who just answered your phone."

The credit union I now use just presents a message with their name and a request to call back. "We may have detected a fraudulent purchase; please give us a call at the number on the back of your card and reference case number [digits]." Fortunately, their system is much better; I've only heard this message once.
Real-time CRUD guide: Back end (part 2)
Yep, you are right. But the point of this enterprise is not RnD or anything, and "doing the dumb, expensive thing" with hope of making it being less so, is the very raison d'etre for the Chipforge
High profile / high demand games actually were a bigger problem than your stating. However this solves other problems.

Reduced floor space usage. Better breath of inventory. Better customer service, you'll always have every title in stock.
Just wanted to say this is an _excellent_ name for a security company.
The thing is, that difference between outright tax fraud and loopholes is having enough money to lobby and for lobbying to be worthwhile.

On some level it feels like punishing the poor for trying to emulate the wealthy, and the merely very wealthy (an interesting way of putting it) like lawyers and doctors often fall into the poor when you break it down to those who are truly rich or not.
As one of those former professional services providers, I can count on one hand how many former clients out of hundreds that had done "absolutely nothing wrong" and of those few clients, I can't name any that spent anywhere close to hundreds of thousands of dollars to deal with the audit.
I didnt get the impression that anyone on this thread thought differently.
Even without the theoretical impossibility of the task, the implementations we are seeing are amateur comedy, at best.
To be honest, police are often booked for homicide in the US. In fact a great deal of an officer's training is in how to conduct themselves in use of deadly force so that they don't end up on charges.

If you want more information on the legal use of deadly force in the United States, there is a great book called "Deadly Force - Understanding Your Right To Self Defense" by Massad Ayoob talking about this sort of thing. A lot of the case studies are about police officers.

Edit: This is a good article on the subject too https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/amber-guyg...
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> Then there were about 30% of students that actively chose to pursue an MBA. These students almost all had actual, real-world experience and actively chose to get an MBA because of specific needs or circumstances they had.

Coming from the UK my assumption was that MBA degrees were only open to those with some type of actual experience. That is based on my own research around 2002 where I found that Master's in Finance, Management, etc. were the only options for someone with limited real-world experience.

Is this a case where the entry requirements have shifted, or is this a regional thing? I went down the Master's path, but found an opportunity to come to the US on an H1B so I dropped out. I found what I've learned to be incredibly useful, but given how far I made it through I can't justify an MBA for reasons other than the credential or networking.
You want a business who has revenue of $100M and expenses of $150M to pay taxes?
> It’s an accurate term.

A term cannot be accurate. I understand you're trying to suggest that "censorship" is an accurate way to describe this particular scenario, but that's your own subjective opinion, which IMO, is incorrect. Censorship necessarily implies an intentional effort to squelch a particular person or idea.
In addition to the comments below, I quickly looked at

* Bubble.is – UI looks great, but this is a full stack solution that requires hosting by them.
* Lightning app builder – only runs on salesforce platform
* Bobile – confused about this one, but it seems to focus on a special kind of sales mobile apps, and analytics.

* I _thought_ there were some UI building tools (ala balsamiq) that exported the UX into code.

Maybe I should just give up and deal with the FE UI directly in code. Even in GoogleAppMaker, code maintenance of larger deployments is not so easy. At least, it's easy to accidentally duplicate code, and hard to search and replace over all code snippets spread across all events and triggers.
Nothing there was a measure to spend money improving security of voting systems but Republican's defeated it. Meanwhile one of the largest manufacturer of voting machines openly came out for bringing in the votes for the Republicans and at least one developer has openly asserted that he was asked to enable fudging the vote.
>> What you're proposing is basically a police state

I take it you have never lived in a "police state". I have (middle east). Deterrence is how law works in a modern society. We cannot catch everyone and so must rely on a bit of fear. Fear of being caught it why we obey laws with which we disagree. I personally may think the speed limit on a road is ridiculously low. But that limit wasn't created by the police. I obey it because I don't want to pay a fine, not because I live in a police state. In a police state rules don't matter. I'd get the speeding ticket regardless of how fast or slow I was driving.

A real police state is one where the police both enforce and write the rules, where they are no longer under the control of legitimate government. The IRS is nowhere near that. It remains totally subservient to the elected government. Its budget comes from an external source. Allow it to self-fund and that leash is gone.
All true, but lowballing would be effective enough.
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Have Tether ever even provided evidence they have dollar backing like they claim? I remember they hadn't in the pump last December and I stopped paying attention after that inevitable pop, so maybe they did at some point. Otherwise though, it seems pretty irrelevant whether the bank that doesn't have the money they claim it does has other unrelated money.
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Well, we pretty much all agree that Downs Syndrome exists, so I think we knew going into this thread that there was some genetic component.

It's not begging the question, if you're going to concede the point that it's not a question of if, but how much. Are you also in denial of genetic, epigenetic, and in-utero biological factors affecting behavior in large mammals and highly intelligent animals? I should hope not. Are you in denial of biological factors affecting social organization behaviors in such animals? Are you asking for a special exception to all the above for Homo sapiens for reasons of ideology? In that case, I'm not the one begging the question here.

I'm just not interested in your politics, sorry.

If you're politicizing science, then you are interested in such politics. So is your position now that the effect is nonzero, but it can't be much larger because of ideological/aesthetic reasons?

What I'm asking for is less politicization of science. Science has gotten politicized in the US and much of the west, to the point where people can be un-personed for wrongthink. Ideas should be tested and bad ideas should be debunked. Suppressing words and ideas for the sake of feelings is the real danger. Incitement and other real harms are ultimately fueled by strong feelings combined with de-personalization, not by cold rationality.
Sleeping too much is also a common symptom of depression, as the user abuses sleep to escape their life.
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iCloud runs on Linux and open-source software. Learned that from an interview with Apple in the datacenter group.
Do you have reason to believe the second article wasn't written by him? It doesn't seem like it was written by a professional writer to me.

Neither of those articles cast him in a particularly good light, but I cited them because I think it goes to show that he's suffering from his own decisions which he could free himself from by compromising, but his uncompromising trait is getting in the way.

In other words, I think this would be a very complicated PR play for pretty poor PR.
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Am old. Not hurt. (Nor rich, I might add.) But when one side is constantly taking shots at you, and the other side is welcoming you with open arms, well, it's hard to ignore.
They already took a baby step in by acquiring TestFlight. It's a more dev/QA-centric product, but it overlaps with MDM. Google is already in the MDM space for Chrome devices. Apple has already been remarkably successful in the enterprise space despite seemingly never going after it. Vendors like Square are deploying thousands of iPads to retail spaces. I think there's a huge opportunity there.
>>[...] also a lot of companies will pay back your tuition when they hire you.

By all general measures, company sponsorship in any significant manner is shrinking[1]. I believe the US employer education assistance tax credit is limited to around $5,250[2] per individual per year. Companies that will foot the entire bill for an executive MBA program seem to be few and far between.

[1] https://poetsandquantsforexecs.com/2014/07/22/how-to-get-an-...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/tax-benefits-for-education-info...
Paper writing is hard. Adding more material - even supplementary material just slows down the work of good people.

On the other hand, I do feel like there should be websites where papers can be annotated by readers, who can provide missing details etc. Though this does require a lot more papers to be open access.
If you didn't know, he has a blog (http://www.dvorak.org/blog/) and is a co-host of the No Agenda Show Podcast (http://www.noagendashow.com/) and DHUnplugged (https://www.dhunplugged.com/)
You can do that with a couple minutes of Googling.
Oh, did you mean legally?
Generally those discussions follow a certain pattern. Opponents object to the conclusions drawn from the data, and the proponents accuse the opponents of not accepting the data.
After Florida 2000, a lot of us take our sweet time double, and triple checking that we're marking the right box, and, in the case of paper ballots, very carefully filling in the box fully, but not too full.
Yes, this appears to be the date google shows next to the search results.

Every time I write a blog post, I submit manually via webmaster tools "Fetch as Google" so that it gets indexed immediately. That way, the date google shows matches the date I published the article.
Why "minimum amount of code changes"? I would have thought the goal of minification would be to make the code as small as possible even if it requires a lot of changes.

> Writing an unminifier is pretty feasible and the only real trouble with reading the resulting code is the meaningless variable names.

Reviewing code with meaningless variable names is still several orders of magnitude harder than reviewing the original code though. I agree code though an obfuscater is another step up however.
It seems fair to say that there are two stratums to the phrase then. One for the working class, where they can take full ownership of their working lives and one for the super rich where they can ignore or abuse the legal and political system to their own gain.
Are you looking to hire any graduates this December?
? I fail to see the relationship between a billionaire getting away with something, and my sense of rule of law. It simply means new Zealand has equal rule of law power to every other first world country...
i was ready to roll up my sleeves, expecting “and here’s a walkthrough”.... and that’s how i felt.
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Easy solution don’t answer phone calls from those not in your contacts.
This article is horrible and is just click-bait or trying to induce panic. The $5m volume on Kraken is peanuts to the size of tethers ($2800m). Not only that but looking at the chart, it only moved the price by 0.5% and the volume was not irregular.
How about available jobs? I suspect a lot of people are trying to determine which language to invest their time in learning.

Another relevant measure would be ALL jobs, not just available. Some people may not care if a million people are using language X if they're not getting paid for it.
Setting up Mobile Device Management itself is not particularly onerous, it's definitely best practice to create a new Apple ID for that purpose, however. A technical individual can already do this easily enough with the freely-available Meraki MDM. The Device Enrollment Program I believe is more complicated and inaccessible to individuals (haven't dealt with this personally), and is quickly becoming a prerequisite for many of the more invasive and useful capabilities, like the kext signing and deployment mentioned on the MicroMDM homepage.