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> unconstitutional

God forbid we think outside the realm of what the Founding Fathers wrote down.

> fly directly in the face of democracy

Except the U.S. has long been classified as a flawed democracy.

The problems you list can "simply" be solved with a comission akin to the FTC. A small business can complain to said comission which would solve the matter.
Aren't they from the app?

>Instead, I went with a free phone app called Move. It buzzes every 45 minutes and assigns me a random exercise: say, 20 body-weight squats or 15 push-ups. These alerts initially drove me crazy. (Again?!) And their commands can be cloyingly phrased: “It’s time to move it, move it.” But eventually I welcomed the interruptions. I noticed that I felt refreshed when I returned to my desk, like I’d rebooted my clogged circuitry.

BTW, the original article:

https://www.outsideonline.com/2113351/always-be-moving

is more than 2 years old, Sep 19, 2016 ...

... The Guardian "selects" doesn't specify the date ...
Anker SoundBuds. I've had them coming up to a year now and use them daily with my Ubuntu laptop with zero issues whatsoever. Sound quality isn't the greatest but they cost next to nothing so I'm not complaining.
>There are more than a dozen companies operating public transport systems in Tokyo alone and it's all interconnected. They don't only seemlessly interconnect (via PASMO or SWICA smart cards), but they also share common designators for their station labellings.

Perhaps they are more culturally motivated to present customers with the best experience unlike trying to fleece customers for every dime in America. Just saying.

There's a chance if you don't integrate your transit with the other guy, they may pay more to use yours and spend 2 hours traveling. Win!
Modern fluorescent lamps are surprisingly efficient and the electric ballasts seem to be more reliable than any LED bulb I've seen so far. The tubes do fade eventually, but the tube itself only costs 1-2 Euros and the environmental impact is pretty low of these where the mercury cycle is closed.
I've only read a couple of history books about India, one by William Dalrymple and the other by Ramachandra Guha. I'd highly recommend both of them. In case you want to know about the last decades of the freedom struggle, Gandhi After India is probably what you're looking for.
The intent here is good, but I don't think you can do that? Can you define "lobbying" in a way that encompasses all (or at least most) of the bad activity but doesn't encompass acceptable activity?

What even is lobbying? A broad definition would include most any communication with a policymaker, a narrow one would exclude lots of activity that is obviously meant to influence policy.

If you want to reduce the influence that moneyed interests have over politics there's only one answer: take their money away.
Stateful Kubernetes with Saad Ali – Software Engineering Daily
Was funny seeing the BBC article on "Office Space" yesterday talk about the switch to open offices without mentioning the backlash. Was sure HN would be up in arms.
The EU has some rules that companies need to follow, same as any other democratic country does. Like it or not, EU regulation usually does a good job at protecting consumers from untamed companies, as happens in other places.
Video Game Companies Are Getting Clobbered on Wall Street
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> Have I won the lottery?

Yes.

My experience with Bluetooth and kids while driving:

1. Dad, my headphones aren't working.

2. Ok, did you try turning them off an on again?

3. Yes

4. Did you turn BT on your iPhone on/off?

5. Yes

6. Did you "forget" the BT connection and re-establish.

7. Yes child rages

8. Are they ... charged?

9. Child now fully enraged: YEEEESS DAD! I'm not an idiot!

9. Ok ummmm, did you try steps 2, 4 and 6 a couple of times each?

10. child continues to rage, stops asking for help and proceeds to frantically toggle everything on/off/on/off while "tapping" their phone aggressively.

11. 10 minutes later ... Dad they're working now!

11. Awesome, so glad we got you those BT headphones.
>You can `openssl req` a self-signed certificate, and as long as whatever device you want to talk to accepts it

Device? We're talking about browsers. Browsers are getting increasingly hostile towards self-signed certs. Ironically, Google doesn't trust third-party root CAs, so they became one themselves. It's good to be the exception to the rules you push on others.
> at least some portion of the money comes back into the system.

Apple is a fairly decent point to the contrary; they were able to let money sit around doing absolutely nothing at all because they didn't want to touch it until they didn't face stiff repatriation taxes for doing so.

Generally speaking, though, I agree with your later points. The first one- corporate taxes are charged for a reason- I'm less convinced that the reason is a good one. It mostly seems like a feel-good way to bury the tax so people don't realize that they're ultimately paying for it.
This is a different thing: more of a tax regulation.

This thread is about reducing tax payable. The intuit story is about making it harder for citizens to file taxes.
I think just finally getting rid of unsafe languages, particularly at the bottom. This will I think increase "productivity" of the world at large, by reducing the number of crashes and security holes they have to contend with every day.

I feel like we have finally arrived at the time when more people accept no-one (or at least, no-one outside a tiny set of people) should be using languages with undefined behaviour, or unsafe memory accesses by default (looking at you C and C++).

If "we" want to be taken seriously, and as more of the world relies on computing, we can't be building on a foundation of sand and saying "Oh, as well as every programmer is clever enough, all the time, we'll probably be OK".
So it seems like part of this answer could be that the age statement could have changed even if the bulbs did not. After a dozen or so years on the market they have learned to promise less.

The article goes into how the color and brightness degrades naturally over time, so it may also make sense that they counting more of that behavior as failures rather than the traditional "burn out".
Agreed. It seems typed languages are adding a lot of features that made dynamic languages interesting. You can see the same in databases where SQL engines are adding features from NoSQL.

Overall I feel there is much more language development going on now compared to may 2000-2010. I am not a big fan of JavaScript but I feel its rise has put pressure on other languages to keep up.
Mark Zuckerberg still thinks Facebook has made the world better
To add, your typical laptop these days has a 45W or 65W power supply, which will not be fully loaded most of the time!
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As much as I hate the painful wait to see action on these fronts, I understand the desire to be careful and cautious before potentially irreparably destroying a business. But the penalties need to affect the decisionmakers personally. If Sundar Pichai was risking jail time to abuse Google's power, you'd better believe it wouldn't happen.
chess/go are very different games to starcraft in terms of incomplete information, realtime nature, and micro/macro strategy. It looked very similar to the first version of OpenAI's Dota 2 bot. Their first iteration only played 1 v 1 and did so very well. The next year they expanded it to 5 v 5 and it still did very well (even though it lost to the pro teams, it beat the semi-pro caster teams).

I think skepticism is a fair reaction, but perhaps not a fair first reaction. I (personally) am optimistic about the role of AI in the future. My first reaction to the bot given its need to develop macro/micro understanding and react to incomplete information was "wow!" even if the follow up reaction was "well, its mostly god-mode micro".

Props to AlphaStar and the team that developed it.
It is more productive. Taxes always result in some amount of deadweight loss. $10 million spent in the private sector is mathematically more productive than $10 million paid to the government.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deadweight-loss-of-taxa...
Far easier to virtue signal than to actually work towards solving the shortage of housing.
>> Congestion pricing with a fee on all yellow & black car rides for origin and destination within CBD

If the goal was to reduce congestion in CBD, I'd support that goal...and zone-based pricing fixes that. CBD has extensive and frequent subway service, so that makes sense, esp since congestion pricing can be turned off on non-peak hours when subways dont seem to work.

However, what the city actually did was put a blanket cap on all Uber/Lyft across all boroughs at all times of the day/week -- seems like a move to intentionally hurt Uber/Lyft while not directly solving the above goal (reducing congestion) ...and plus...applying a regressive cost on poorer people.

Further, yellow cabs are much worse than Uber/Lyft pool services w/r/t congestion.
It is that simple (in the sense of the parent's post): you need to know the specifics of why they were paying no taxes. If, as in the comment, they were carrying over losses, then there's nothing really objectionable. You lost $10 million last year. You profited $10 million this year. Over a reasonable horizon, you weren't profitable.

Did they get a specific exemption against the public interest that no one else got? Great! Let's talk about that!

Did they deduct 100% of their costs for sham "IP licensing" from a foreign subsidiary? Great! Let's talk about that!

But you need to know the why before you conclude there's something objectionable going on.

Edit: More generally, every headline of this form comes with an implicit statement like "By my model, <company> should be regarded as having a profit of X dollars, but tax law views them as having a taxable profit of Y < X." That necessitates a good explanation of why you think X is the right value.
I think the problem is people in the US co-opted the term Libertarianism from its traditional use for those on the "left" end of the political spectrum. Please see what I mean here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Prominent_curre...

In my experience, libertarians in the US are of the "right" variety, and not so much the "left"
A primer on Canadian privacy laws
My spouse and I were wanting to visit NYC last spring. A hotel + flight package for three nights was listed as $800 per person because of a last minute sale. Okay so $1600 plus maybe another 10% in tax?

Nope. By the time you’re really settled on this is where you’ll stay and this is when you’ll fly out and return and your spouse is excited, the final price is more like $2500, not counting a daily resort fee of another $35 that will go directly to the hotel once you get there.

So from $800 a person to $2600 for two people. Yeah no thanks.
Income that goes towards expansion (read op-ex like salaries, or cap-ex like infrastructure) is not taxed, it is "tax deductible".

Income that doesn't go towards economic activity (salaries, expansion) but goes back to profit does get taxed - mostly because dividends and capital gains are so much harder to tax for the ultra-rich due to loopholes on offshore tax residence, inheritance tax uplifts, trusts/foundations. The alternative would be to tax dividends and capital gains worldwide at income tax rates -- a great idea but impossible to implement against the resistance of every US millionaire and billionaire (also operationally quite difficult).

Tax evasion is evil morally because every dollar they don't pay, others have to pay so they are stealing money from millions of other people. The legal kind of tax evasion is called "tax avoidance" instead, it is still morally wrong if loopholes are created and exploited in a very obvious fashion for the sole reason of avoiding to give back to the society that enabled the profit. For some reason the US and many other countries don't have General Anti-Avoidance Rules where bad-faith tax avoidance structures can be outlawed.
You and companies do pay tax on expenses typically as some type of indirect tax (global defn, not the US defn) such as VAT, GST , excise , import/export duties etc.
If everyone who is an employee of the company must pay taxes on their income anyways, then what's the point of taxing companies themselves - so they can be taxed for the company income on top of the taxes already paid on operating costs on top of more taxes for employee salary? What rationale is there besides wanting to give the government more revenue? Shareholders might have gained a lot, but whatever they make on their investment gets taxed anyway, so what's the big deal?
The US isn't a "flawed democracy", it's intentionally not a democracy.
> Lobbyist being experts is something I've never heard before.

Lobbyists often are, and, whether or not they themselves are, are almost invariably supported by, domain experts.

> They are salesmen

Yeah, but they are salesmen who do the public policy equivalent of technical sales, and it's a field where selectivity is high because you are selling to a very small number of very high value customers.
Trickle down economics eh? When did that ever work?
This. The biggest weakness to encryption systems isn't the math, it's the guy in the uniform who has tied you to a chair and keeps strapping your feet with a rubber hose.
None.

There is no silver bullet:

http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~xswang/Research/Papers/SERelat...
More steady progress: Icaros 226
CFLs are everywhere, but came with a lot of downsides. My personal observation was that they were never more than 50% of the bulbs in a house (that I ever saw).
This is going to be a very unpopular opinion, but if you want threading / topics, self hosted, searchable, then consider looking into NNTP (what usenet runs on). It is the oldest threaded messaging system. It scales really well. Most importantly, it is not a chat system. In other words, distractionless! The downside is, the number of daemons that support TLS are few. For a while, AD supported NNTP and used AD authentication. I think they may have recently dropped support for it.

phpBB is great. You can delegate control of boards to different teams and there are addons for just about everything.

Slack and other chat systems are very distracting and have become highly complex vendor lock-in to API integrations that essentially relay command & control between companies. Being a 3rd party, there are legal limitations about what data may flow through those systems and I predict that will be a major source of contention in the future.
Right, but with CSS-in-JS I'm still fundamentally dealing with all the complexity and subtleties of raw CSS, just with better access to variables and such. Bootstrap is a much more disruptive rethink of CSS (ditto flexbox), but they only disrupt a small portion of the CSS surface area.
Good luck with that. How do you have any idea its running in Australia or belongs to an Australian?
The EFF, trade unions, the aclu, the southern poverty law center, all of these are experts and all of them lobby policymakers.
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The line between programmer and dev ops will be moved with more responsibilities on the developer. Cloud services will continue to decrease the barrier of entry while entering a price war, and every team or individual will have a set budget inside the cloud. Integration with IDEs and improved online UI and CLI tools will make these tasks very easy for everyone. We can also expect better/easier/cheaper support infrastructure for these applications. Imagine one click upload of a web app from IDEs with load balancing, monitoring, analytics, and profiling.

I'd also like to see some improvements on programming paradigms to take advantage of multicore CPUs. There are lots of ideas in this space, but no clear front runner ideology. I expect we'll continue to see improvements in this space, and hopefully a winner will emerge.
Yes, it's entirely a function of voltage. But the safe limit for DC voltage is lower for two reasons:

- A shock from a DC supply will cause heart fibrillations at lower voltage than AC, because of the way muscles receive signals from nerves

- An electrical arc from a DC line will burn continuously, while an AC arc tends to self-extinguish at each zero-crossing.

So in practice, 120 VAC or 48 VDC are the limits for household wiring.
Be careful, Clojure people might call you entitled and let you know that Cognitect/Rich Hickey is developing Clojure after their own needs, not yours.
When I was in high school in the late 90s, it certainly wasn't a popular opinion to be an atheist, the few times I brought up that religious organizations were questionable, or seemed to do a lot of backtracking through history, it did not go over well. I kept my atheistic beliefs to myself. This wasn't bible belt territory either, we are talking about a suburb of NYC.

I read Nietzsche on my own in high school, and just felt so relieved that I wasn't alone with these thoughts and wasn't just some weirdo. The internet was nothing like it was today, chatrooms were the forum for discussion and there might have been some geocities pages devoted to atheistic belief, but it was still in the dark corners.

It amazed me when I saw that /r/atheism was a front and center thing when I first started going to reddit. It devolved over time into a version of /r/IamVerySmart, but that IMHO was an amazing outlet for those having doubts about all the crap being shoved down their throat their whole lives. It would have saved me a lot of anxiety growing up.
That's an issue that's mostly irrelevant to the law, though. Even if you were to receive XOR'd data (or something encrypted), simple possession wouldn't be illegal if you reasonably weren't aware that it could be interpreted that way, or (as someone else pointed out) at least in the UK you didn't have the "knowledge or tools" for such a decryption. Intent obviously matters here, among a host of other factors. That was really my point all along - viewing this as detached from the actual workings of the law and situations is a fun mind game for hackers, but is ultimately irrelevant when it comes to human judges interpreting human laws.
Even were you correct, have you considered that this will also happen the next time socialism is tried?

That said, I will admit that there are almost certainly such attempts as you say, but I deny that they are the actual cause of the problems. The problem is that socialism doesn't work. The rich just give you a nice comic-book villain to explain away the real cause of the failures.
Ok, and the context of this post is that the mayor in question is complaining about other people exercising the same exact right that he is exercising.

That's the point. The mayor's opinion on the matter is ridiculous. Both the mayor, and other people, have the same right to express their opinion on legislative matters.
This is hardly surprising given Google's tendency to evade taxes and exploit loopholes in taxation of international corporations.
I don't see how that's implicit in the article at all.

Also, I don't see why we need to keep pitting languages against one another like this. Sure, there is a market, but can't we be happy that there is a diverse offering pushing language design forward? Not every language needs to become Java in terms of adoption.
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February 9, 2017.
The expected life of incandescent bulbs follows power laws with pretty big exponents: w.r.t. intensity its to the third power, w.r.t. voltage to the sixteenth power. So if you e.g. put a 230 V bulb on 110 V power, it will be dim as hell, but boi will it last!
It does not smell inside. It has a small vent fan that runs 24/7 that prevents odors and helps reduce the moisture content. Even when emptying it there isn't much of a smell. It's kind of earthy.

I believe having a urine diverter like most commercial composting toilets have is a must. Urine will make it smell.
> I've voted in every election I since I turned 18 and nothing seems to have been done about this and many other things.

It is also possible that the majority doesn't feel (read: vote) the same way about these issues as you. Would that mean that the system is flawed?
The goal in my thinking was to eliminate a complex or costly power supply at the point of consumption. Higher voltages require a beefier step down (isolation, caps, whatever) and AC requires a rectifier. I wanted to eliminate it all.

Sorry, I was being a little too loose for HN. Also, I'm not an EE but I play one on the Internet :).
I would argue that congresspeople are not experts in general in most (all in some cases?) domains, and make generally totally uninformed decisions that are designed to pander to a political base.

And lobbyists aren't experts either, they're simply paid to bribe people to get a result.
Wow, interesting video. Thanks for sharing!
A colleague and I published a related idea [1] last year: Weaken the encryption just enough so that a government can (barely) afford to do the brute force if they really do care about it that much. (Hint: They almost certainly don't.)

Please note that we're not seriously suggesting that encryption providers should adopt this -- not as long as there are other options. But if you're legally obligated to do something, this is the "f*ck off and leave me alone" approach to compliance.

[1] C.V. Wright and M. Varia. Crypto Crumple Zones: Enabling Limited Access without Mass Surveillance. In Proceedings of IEEE European Symposium on Security & Privacy, 2018.
https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/EuroSP2018/program.php#euro...
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~cvwright/papers/crumplezones.pdf
You mean acting as a paid representative on someone else's behalf to stand before a government official? Isn't that what lawyers do?
> Except many of them clearly are.

How many? And I think it's particularly telling that the folks you managed to find are newbies to the political arena and not career politicians, a class of individuals that can only exist thanks to the absence of term limits. Also telling is that in Foster's case, his expertise is completely useless in a political context. Let me know when he gets around to drafting a major particle physics bill.
Agreed. There is limited leverage in the customer space. The main balance are regulatory agencies and your state district attorneys. Something that will get a company's attention in a hurry is when a district attorney or a regulatory agency calls.
We're all DNs, most are located in Asia, while a couple in Europe
I'm confused by the PPS:

A few weeks later the reseller informed me that the authorized repair shop accepted my headset as defective and replaced it with a new one under warranty. I guess I am going to auction it off for the benefit of the local foster home institute.

So was this another lie, or was his headset actually defective?
The EU allows a couple of its countries to act as tax havens. Ireland and the Netherlands are probably pretty pleased that EU citizens seem to direct all their outrage at the companies that do the obvious thing instead of at their tax laws.
PPS- I'm SO SORRY for exercising my right to freedom of association, aka voting with my dollars, which must always be subsumed by Freedom Markets™ and the obligation to respect all opinions equally. Because corporatists have feelings too.
I think the Java standard library docs fall in this category. It's always been one of my favorite part of working with the language.

(I guess the library design is controversial, or rather, it is now... Collections are looking rather outdated just to cite the obvious. But as for the documentation, it's still killer.)