skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I think it's bad when powerful entities (whether people or organizations) externalize their failures such that they have to be paid by weak entities (whether people or organizations).

However, I'm not convinced that this is the case with powerful corporations and the tax code. In this instance the tax code is broken and we're hoping that everyone just "does the right thing". Unfortunately, it's not obvious what the right thing is. Should Amazon take advantage of no tax laws for their benefit. Or maybe only some of the tax laws. When does it become unfair for them to use the system as is written to their advantage.

This is like having a computer server that has a massive security vulnerability and fixing it by saying, "Let's just hope nobody sends malicious requests to the computer." Nobody would think that is acceptable.

ONLY this is an incomplete metaphor. This is like a computer server that exposes a database directly without any restrictions as to what anyone is allowed to do with or to the database. How would you know which data you aren't supposed to look at. To use it you have to perform your own writes, but how do you know which tables aren't supposed to be written to or which columns are "not cool" to modify.
Alas, I cannot code at all.
...because we paid only the lowest bidder, there was no incentive for people to overstate what they would have to be paid to stop using Facebook.
The attitudes of men changed? Women's attitudes wouldn't have to change at all to produce that graph.
How about an AR ad blocker for real life? Removes bilboards, commercials, branding and ads from real life spaces and publications.

It'd also be interesting to replace ads with other stuff in general. Imagine being able to replace a print ad with a random article from the publication's website, or a TV commercial with a YouTube video in your subscriptions list.
Love? Isn't it more about dependence?
All populations are inherently valuable, to whom? Every business values every population intrinsically? How do you decide how valuable they are? Do you need to hire as many Maori from New Zealand and as many Inuit from Alaska as their world populations would dictate, or are their intrinsic values allowed to differ in any capacity?
A difference is that most common mixers are not collision-free. For some applications of runtime hashing using ordinary hash functions, where pseudo-randomness is important regardless, being able to prove the hash function is collision-free enables useful optimizations without any prior knowledge of the keys to be hashed.

The genesis of this was database internals, which have many use cases for strongly randomized bijective function for integral types. It is used in places where most people would use an ordinary hash function.

This particular hash is not trivially invertible, since internal AES state necessary to reverse it is discarded.
> pleasing stockholders

Are you for real? That's exactly what they're doing and nothing else. They're still growing and judged based on that. The stock price is going up so that means that the stockholders are pleased.
Don't think we have the legal infrastructure to invest in Indian companies right now, but definitely could invest in a company that used Stripe Atlas to form a US entity: https://stripe.com/atlas
A lack of prosecution does not necessarily mean that the conduct is legal. It could mean that we have deficient prosecution.
True, but it also shouldn't be misleading. How many will just repeat the headline as a blanket statement but not read into it further?

The title should be changed, as it could be doing more damage than good...
U.K. Doctors Call for Caution in Children’s Use of Screens and Social Media
So long as pirating music stays at 20 years, society should be fine.
Olympic Games Museum
Why in the world should we tolerate people or companies acting badly just because they can?
I have worked with many teams at large companies where clunky applications, usually just database facades / CRUD, have been in place. In almost every case these 'database interfaces' never fully satisfy the users' needs.

Instead, I have found much success in slowly deprecating these applications and, instead, giving these users direct read-only access to the database and teaching them SQL. SQL is not a tool only for 'technical' people. Most of these users have mastered the 'dark arts' of Excel so they are capable of learning other tooling. These users can then query the data in any way they want and export it in any way they want. There is more to this, like ensuring to only give them access to reporting databases. The application then can focus on being an interface for updates / writes and not for data exploration.
I have a very difficult time understanding any of this. I mean, yes, for most of the SME 50 mio dollars would be some money, but for Google? Peanuts. Who cares if they messed up? If this is the penalty for it, bring it on... It was cheap school for them (not on how to do GDPR properly, but how to get better at avoiding penalties in the future).

Seriously, I hope EU can do better than that. We could really use some real privacy protections, especially from the likes of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon,...
Not appropriate to say that is a stupid question.
Is the claim that journalists should only write about crime?

Are articles (assuming they meet your aesthetic criteria otherwise) allowed to mention anyone who does things in line with prevailing legal policy, yet might be problematic?

I, personally, am really sick of reflexive whining when the media dare be critical of certain firms.
The percentage of women that likes video-games/programming is lower than the percentage of men. That's just a fact. You can try to correct that with lots of outreach and exposure but it's only going to work for some people.

Anecdotally. I've worked at a (hard core strategy) gaming company. Even there, Most of women that worked there, that I knew, did not like gaming at all (if we're being honest).
I am surprised we don’t have the equivilent of AMT for corporations.
Database changes have been painful for me in every job I have worked at. They often took me longer to write, longer to test, and longer to fix when I introduced bugs. In my experience, doing things in the database is great for simple actions, transformations done in huge volumes, preprocessing large datasets, or logic that is unlikely to change. It's bad for doing things which don't have those properties, especially the last property due to database changes being painful.
you can download the training set here https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan#resources it's based on 70k high resolution flickr images. try interpolation on the colab link above so you can be convinced its capturing the features rather than just memorizing
Accounting is a little more complex than your math would suggest. I'm sure Amazon followed the law here. Blame the laws, not the company. You wouldn't voluntarily pay more taxes than you're required to either.
>This article really just emphasises the need to hold congress accountable for their actions...

That's hard though, because ideology gets in the way. Everyone has this, almost "quasi-religious", devotion to their politicians. So it becomes a lot easier to say, "Hey, look at all these rich banks and wealthy companies taking advantage of all their tailor made tax laws!", than it is to say, "OK guys, we have to sit down and get a list of everyone who voted for these advantageous tax laws that these rich companies are using."

The one is more "sound bite"-y. It's easier to get people behind such a twitter storm. The other requires a performance review of each of our political leaders, which is just not the way we as Americans have typically operated. Not to mention the fact that it requires further action. You have a list, now what do you do with it? For instance, game theoretically speaking, it may be better to hold it over the current politician's head, than it would be to get rid of him/her immediately? Or maybe we just want to send a message, and get rid of all these men and women as soon as the law permits? I mean, it just opens up a lot of questions about how best to proceed.

The other option, you know how to proceed. You just join in on the twitter storm so to speak.
It's "fair" in the sense that they had losses prior to 2011 that the IRS allowed them to deduct.
The company I work at has many PCI compliant systems. I asked a security officer why they were still doing certain things the old way. He explained they very well know it’s the old way but in order to be compliant they must do it.
To quote someone else on HN:

> Why is it desirable to transfer money from job-producing companies and investors to the government?

The government is a money pit. We're long past "essential services". I'm happy to see companies paying 0 tax into the waste pit.
they probably follow the money instead of trends.
Cops can get tunnel vision. If there's anyone capable of walking right up to but not crossing the "insider trading line" it's going to be a lawyer that specializes in insider trading. If there's anyone that's going to be arrested as a false positive for insider trading it's going to be someone walking right up to but not crossing the line.

I dunno if his lawyer is just very optimistic but “We look forward to defending him with respect to these allegations,” is lawyer speak for "I have a mountain of evidence that is going to make these people look like fools."

IMO whether he's insider trading or just barely not it's a stupid risk to take either way.

Obviously this (and every other comment around here) are just speculation at this point since we have no good details.
Great concept. But Why is there nothing about the team behind it? It feels less trustworthy.
Install one of the many 'click to remove element' browser plugins and then you can zap the header and footer with a couple clicks.

I used to open dev tools and add the style: visibility: hidden; but that got old fast.
> Nobody cares.

Except georgebarnett and jarym.

Or perhaps that was the point, that PostgreSQL isn’t doing much! :)
"Offline" doesn't necessarily mean "unpowered", though. An airgapped system that iterates through a carousel of SSDs and runs drive/filesystem checks would be pretty neat.
I do the same for games in StumpWM: I just switch to an unused virtual desktop.

I don't really see the issue once you're used to it.
This is more of an old web, and because of bad design: keeping state of the app on server, rather than in the browser (or are you referring to limiting open in new tab?).

But yes, I hate the new web too (sometimes).
I was thinking more along the lines of an RPG with generated town population. Indie devs usually don't have resources to draw hundreds of portraits and record tends of hours of dialog, but if they could use ML to generate portraits and synthesize decent speech, it would allow them to create much bigger, more immersive worlds.

Also, this stuff could be used to take a hand-drawn portrait and animate it with different expressions without rework.
Yeah, though I've tried and failed to keep a consistent practice multiple times over the years. My wife independently decided to try it also, so we've been able to motivate each other on off days. If you're just trying to practice daily by yourself it can be easy to make excuses on a day when you're tired or busy, and if you have too many of those then eventually it falls off.
Meanwhile those who control companies with virtually limitless resources successfully lobby against changes wanted by individuals. It's unethical, and unfair. Sickening articles like this are necessary to raise awareness about how imbalanced the system is.
Paying taxes is not patriotic. We started this country by throwing tea into a harbor over a 3% tax increase.
I'm one of the creators of the tool. Happy to answer questions about it. Cheers!
I like to bind meta-1 to meta-9 to switch to the nth app on my desktop bar. This means Discord (which is always meta-4) will always a keypress away for me, while Firefox (meta-1) requires me to find the right window and the right tab.

(Also, I routinely close browser windows I am not using by force of habit, which means I'd need to wait a load time every time I want discordapp.com.)
The reason this is important is not the really the few % savings in fuel weight.

Any small improvement in exhaust velocity of the engine makes a huge difference(sort of exponential) in the amount of payload it can take to orbit. In this case the 2 pre-burners also make relighting the engine in a vacuum a lot more reliable.

For more on the math:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
Good for them.

This is why politicians say they want to help the middle class. They are always paying the majority of taxes.

The politicians hardly ever live up to promises.

The important thing to remember is that, fortunately we don't live in a one-world government so the US is forced to compete with Ireland or other countries on taxes. There is a ceiling on how much you can tax before companies say F this I'm going else where.

The "problem" is small US businesses can't replicate easily.

The obvious solution is to level the playing field and make the US competitive on tax rates or drop taxes all together.
Yes it does suck how corrupted people become when they wield power. It almost puts into question the entire idea of a representative democracy.
Hey, I'd be fine with Slack being completely unavailable for Linux. I don't think any of the places where I have to use it currently would use it in that case.
So?

"Stop driving drunk or you'll go to jail" is a threat. It's also a perfectly legitimate, legal one for a judge to make.

Same thing here. "Act ethically on your own accord or you may see regulations/laws change" is a perfectly fine threat in public policy.
It's hard to believe that tptacek knew that already, but did not say it clearly 3 days ago, when the company was described as a "crypto startup". Why would he waste everyone's time with such rhetoric games?
Getting Started with GraphQL and TypeScript
Windows 10 does have memory compression, so maybe that helps in low memory situations like this?
It's effectively emulating a Windows Update client to retrieve all the update bits. Then there's some hoop jumps to bake an ISO.

It's also important to point out Insider builds are free for use, with some restrictions, providing a cheap alternative. [1]

[1] https://insider.windows.com/en-us/program-agreement/
I've read the audit and basically it was done by a guy with no clue about the automotive world. He compared the code with the one made at nas. In the end they indeed did not find the root cause, but they had to say something as they are the "experts". So they pointed at "bad practices" like global variables.

What if i tell you that a pretty big chunk of the cars on the road are running software which are using global variable as means to exchange data between modules ? Well, that's how it is done and it isn't less safe. The last SW i worked with had 20000 global variables and 60000 parameters that the calibration guys could fiddle with.

Serious suppliers are applying safety standard and methodology and are not rushing the FMEA. Countless times my customer cursed at the safety guys for postponing the SW because they were not finished with testing, but this very same customer never had to stand in court for a safety issue with the SW, and so are many other carmaker.

When the Toyota pedal issue came out, we just could not believe that Toyota did not have the gas pedal override by brake safety in their SW.
Despite Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia unlikely to lose U.S. investments
I don't think the Berkshire Hathaway site has changed much:

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
this is a weird article. I learned stick on a Miata. Here's how it went: I didn't know how to drive stick. Somebody described the principle, gave me the keys to a miata, I hopped in, and immediately drove around SF, including hills. I proceeded to buy a miata, and put over 100K miles on it, never had any problems with the clutch. Dumped a huge amount of strain on it and the transmission (stop and go in SF, engine braking etc) without problems.

The analogy would have worked better with a car that didn't have an amazingly nice clutch like the miata. and knowing how a clutch and transmission works has made no difference in me driving automatic cars effectively.
There's no reason to demonize companies that try not to pay tax they can legally avoid paying. Many of us do the same: take available deductions, possible tax harvesting (if we invest), etc.

Companies are legally obligated to get the best "deal" financially for their shareholders they can. Purposely paying tax would be in breach of their fiduciary responsibility. Blame stupid politicians, not companies.
Lobbying is not the problem, the problem is the system that allows itself to be lobbied.
> upper middle class

The US is a long way from having its entire white population in the upper middle class: http://www.nccp.org/media/releases/release_34.html
For what it's worth, I did not misinterpret the title as you suggest, although I had enough background to know what's going on. What title would you suggest in roughly that amount of space?
Greed is a wild thing!

Reading through the SEC complaint while he was a very senior executive, he was a very amateur trader.

The risk-analysis in hindsight aka - why risk jail / fines / everything to avoid a $350k loss on $10m+ of shares - is stupid.

But I'd say he clearly overestimated the risk / reward in a very amateur / fear based way.

For instance in one session, he bought ~$1.1m of stock expecting a large pop, and then sold a few days later for a net profit of only $4,500!

That should cover about an hour of his current legal bills.

Lots more detail in the actual complaint:

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2019/comp-pr2019-1...

Eg:

- Oversaw their entire corporate law division of 30 - 50 - "Levoff was responsible for Apple’s compliance with securities laws, including providing legal advice in connection with Apple’s SEC filings and financial reporting . . . "

- Apple had a long standing "blackout" policy where insiders were cautioned NOT to trade at all that he clearly ignored / broke multiple times. Including after he sent the blackout notice updated with "the first sentence of Levoff’s February 24, 2011 email stated: “REMEMBER, TRADING IS NOT PERMITTED, WHETHER OR NOT IN AN OPEN TRADING WINDOW, IF YOU POSSESS OR HAVE ACCESS TO MATERIAL INFORMATION THAT HAS NOT BEEN DISCLOSED PUBLICLY.”
One thing I think I noticed is that the children's faces have older looking skin than would be expected.
Building GUIs in Java is a massive pain in the butt. Building GUIs with HTML and CSS is a breeze. That's a major difference.
Because we've already spent those tax dollars by allocating them to some spending program. In other words, we can't stop taxing corporations and based on current sentiments going around....the taxes on businesses are only going higher.

I agree it is stupid to tax businesses due to how international our economies are getting. Foreign companies can ship product into the USA but pay no taxes in the USA so they get an economic advantage by being in the lowest taxed country. The only tax they pay is import taxes.
Don’t waste your money on Office 2019 (says Microsoft)
Mitochondrial Dysfunction May Play a Part in Fragile X Syndrome
> Saving over $300k is sizable, but selling $10M in stock seems pretty risky. Wouldn't this be a huge red flag, especially for someone who works at the company? Seems to be lots of risk and not that much (comparatively) saved.

He couldn't have known the size of the loss in advance. He probably expected the loss to be larger.
What you describe looks like the "install PWA" (Progressive Web Apps) feature coming to Chrome. It is available already in Chrome 72 if you enable a flag (#enable-desktop-pwas) - then, when visiting a PWA site (try https://mobile.twitter.com) you have a menu option to install it like an app.
Do you have to have the heft of an Amazon to take full advantage of loopholes, etc.?

Can the existing tax law be fed into some software which will outline an appropriate path to owe $0? Its all just a bunch of rules, sub-rules, etc., likely with thresholds. If it is similar to personal taxes (e.g. claim medical costs if total is over 7% of adjusted gross) then this is something software should be able to handle.

Or is corporate tax law an area that only can be done with a large team of humans?
No, the primary issue with flash was that people used it to make unmutable autoplaying music and unskippable splash screens that took 10x longer to load than the actual page.

Every technical complaint was trivial compared to that.
I believe Win10 license price scales roughly with processor power, so it might be fine.
> to write their representatives and senators

Do you have references to any articles that evaluate the efficacy of this? It seems like an effort in futility to me.
Is this related to statically linking? HOW are alternatives like Electron? can you bundle your Electron app into a big binary file ? From my experience in year back when doing desktop apps there was never a pressure to combine your dependencies into 1 big binary
Any idea the total number of investments you are looking to make a year? Handful, dozens?

Is there a limit on the term? Let's say you invest $100,000 in a $3k MRR business. Unfortunately it does not grow, or maybe even MRR declines. What happens to the investment obligation?
More and more people are adopting new definitions for racism and sexism -- "prejudice (against a certain race/sex) plus power." Combined with the concept of white male privilege, these new definitions imply that only whites can be racist, and only males can be sexist.
Figures that New Jersey (home of the perpetual NIMBY and corresponding high housing prices) would be leading the charge against these buildings.
But how much would they be willing to pay to continue using it once they make it a part of their daily life?
I am not imagining problems that don't exist in the application domains I work on.

If your environment is so relaxed that aspects like signedness of an integer don't matter, so be it. But then you are also far removed from a domain where software correctness is non-negotiable.
Show HN: TV for Reddit
Note: I'm not trying to be an ass, or start a fight, I'm literally just asking...

Does it only generate white people? I've been refreshing for a while but don't see any people of color.

Edit: No, I finally got someone who wasn't white, it just seems to have a helluva bias.
Or the answer is, "Because the last guy who didn't do X got fired."
Why is this only a civil SEC investigation? This should also have an FBI / criminal component. Perhaps it is coming later like it did with Theranos and Experian.
Early-stage biotech VC Atlas Venture's 2018 year in review
Just for interesting discussion: What kind of reasonable activity would you suggest would fairly negate a corporation's tax obligation? I.e. What can corporations do with their money—instead of giving it to the government—that would benefit the people as much or more than actually giving it to the government.
Is the score and game over message part of the automaton? Couldn't quite tell from the debug pixels output.
Jobridge: How to Lose $20,000 Building a Job Board
GovWifi: connecting your organisation is now easier than ever
excuse me? "almost every economist"?

taxes serve as both revenue and incentive generation. turns out that when you have 0% corporate tax you lose the ability to incentivize corps via taxes. there are externalities e.g. pollution that one can no longer incentivize via taxation.

you're also bound to hear the same excuse, can't afford to pay the labor now that their tax rates are higher, guess we'll move somewhere else!