skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is windows tax really that bad? I mean I can get an OEM license for 12 dollars most of the time because of promotions.

So if I as a consumer pay 12 dollars for an OEM version, I would expect Lenovo to pay much less.

Also my first observation is that these laptops are far too big and powerful for my work with Linux.

I work full time in Linux but I focus more on weight and form factor than CPU and GPU because all my work is done in terminals.

The X280 or X1 are perfect for me. No dedicated GPU means slim form factor, light weight, and everything I need for my type of work in Gnome and Terminal.
> We seriously need a Github for 3D designs and electronics.

For what's worth, GitHub actually renders STL as a 3D representation, if you click on the file, e.g. here [1]. (Just a random example, I'm in no way affialiated with the project).

Of course, it's still lacking important features, e.g. search parameters, etc, but... it could work.

[1] https://github.com/iliterobotics/3D/blob/master/Justin/Uncom...
The current government (supposedly right-wing) has reformed immigration to the point it's easier to move there than to the US. Your whole family can work, you can get permanent residency in a few years, it's all good. Of course, having a college degree makes it a lot easier.

It's not very appealing for Americans because the work culture is pretty bad and pay is low, so you can't get out of student debt, but I met a lot of Asian immigrants last time I was there.
Mind backing that up?
Investigating and prosecuting would be more expensive than either. Plus proving intent over “oh I forgot to check all my taps before I went out, whoops” is difficult.
> but malice, where homeowners are possibly price gouging the rental market for greed, is pretty much the only reason that justifies government interference.

to you.

> Everything else is the government imposing what one does with their private property

But they already do that with "decades old law" - e.g. you (probably) can't run a brothel from your private property in LA. Why is this such a different restriction?
Are people really that scared of police in the US that they wouldn't return some lost property to them?

I'm Australian and the idea of that blows me away. Like a third-world country. I've seen all the videos of shootings and disgraceful behaviour but I thought those were probably all rare incidents in bad neighbourhoods.

Here in Australia, I've had nothing but professional interactions with our police. I wouldn't hesitate to call them if there was a need or take a lost object to them.

Our laws are certainly heading more and more in a scary direction however.
Not strictly Java, but Groovy is a great environment to prototype on the JVM. Prototyping was lightning fast and turning it into Java code was pretty quick too. There’s great IDE support for it too (IntelliJ’s Groovy scratches).

These days Kotlin is also pretty good. Perhaps not quite as fast to prototype but there’s little need for converting afterwards.
HTML Notepad looks really interesting...! Thanks for the tip!
Azure Functions PowerShell, 6 weeks after
Not really, but I guess sort of... I think it’d be fine. Maybe it’s because my family moved every 2-3 years my whole childhood, but I don’t think it’s your right to live somewhere forever just because you live there now. If there were no zoning laws, people could always move if they don’t like how the free market is changing their neighborhood. And housing would always be “affordable”.
It's moves like this which make me feel good about doubling down on Aurelia - https://aurelia.io and forgoing the latest trend frameworks and libraries that many seem to jump on and use because they're popular. I was disappointed when I saw Evan and Vue jumping on the "classes are bad, functions are good" bandwagon. There is a lot of misinformation out there about classes in Javascript. If you use them without inheritance (like Aurelia promotes) they're really useful and great. I also admire the fact that Aurelia itself has never had a major breaking change in syntax, I've got Aurelia apps that have been running since 2015 without issue.

I think this undoubtedly means that Vue's private prototype they've been working on will be thrown out and they'll be starting from scratch again, which means Vue 3 probably won't be out for at least another year or more. If Evan and the team proceed with these proposed changes, it'll be the end of Vue.
> Cmov is one of the methods to mitigate Spectre because Intel refuses to speculate loads in them.

Sure, this is what makes it good for mispredictable branches - data decompression for instance. If you can't speculate ahead, it's a waste of space in the branch prediction buffer to do it.

But I definitely wish it was a builtin function instead of the compiler generating it, because none of them can guess when to use it.
Freddie Mercury Sing 'Time Waits for No One' in a Previously Unreleased Video
...doesn't that analysis violate the premise of "if there's no statistical difference between them"?
> The people who adopted Vue are the ones who had first rejected the complexity introduced by React

I dont know if that's true, I think react is super easy, but I prefer the template approach of vue. I think a lot of people are just searching for a modern angularjs that's not the monstrosity angular 2+ is.
Indeed, it's worth noting that there's algorithms that can look at the waveforms of your smart meter and decide what appliances you have, often down to the make/model. It's called "disaggregation" in the industry.

See bidgely.com for one example.
Yup, typo.
OK, how about a fine. So big that you really feel it
For people who need money in something besides a bank, but don’t want the hassle of being a landlord. So not really profit, but something they feel will appreciate in value.
My guess would be twofold: adding delay if the source is not straight though enough to screw communication or diffusing the image too much if your focal point is not a point but a sensor.
Greater Los Angeles has a lower population density than Germany or the UK. It's densely populated for a country, not so much for a city. The County of Los Angeles is somewhat denser at about twice the population density of England. Los Angeles itself is fairly densely populated, at slightly below the population density of London, or 1/4th that of Paris (a city known for resisting skyscrapers).
I think Abramov said they habe over 38000 components at facebook, which is enough reason for Thema to keep backwards compatibility.
> working without a template will make nontrivial isomorphic rendering and rehydration way more developer-time intensive

What are you talking about? This is static HTML and static CSS. There’s no isomorphic rendering ir rehydration. It already is “rehydrated”. And it will take significantly less time to download than for dozens of kilobytes of JS to do the same thing.
Crypto Analyst: We Are in the Early Stages of a Bitcoin Bull Run
How will web components help with not copy pasting stuff around?
What's not explained is the difference between this latest miracle machine called ECMO and the plain old heart–lung machines (aka cardiopulmonary bypass or CPB) which I'm confident that most people have heard of. Note that heart–lung machines oxygenate blood just like ECMO. As far as I can tell, heart–lung machines are used only during surgery whereas ECMO seems to serve exactly the same function but comes in self-contained packaging so it can be used longer term outside of surgery.

Could someone with more domain knowledge tell us if ECMO really is an entirely new paradigm like the article claims?
You'd have to very closely define what precisely you meant by the word 'species', and go from there. It's a surprisingly slippery thing to do.

Even the commonly-accepted 'can have viable offspring together' isn't as cut-and-dried as you might think: https://www.sciencealert.com/darwin-s-finches-evolve-into-ne...

More looking at edge-case compatibility between germlines, in this case modern human vs. neanderthal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_...
Financial paperclip maximizers, you might say.
Ownership is a collective phenomenon. There is no such thing as private property. No matter what it's called or how it works, ownership is always embedded in a network of relationships and social and political transactions.

The myopic view that it's all about the owner is wrong to the point of narcissism.

It's never just about the owner. It's about the web of relationships in which these transactions and claims happen, and the effects they have on the rest of the web.
But at the same time you don't want to squeeze people who have lived in a particular location for a long time simply because the neighborhood is gentrifying. One proposal that I liked more than the LA proposal is to simply tax additionally properties that are not someone's primary residences (checked against address on the California tax, for example).
If we ignore the Apple keyboard for a moment, with DIY mechanical keyboards, you can customize travel length, travel resistance, and click. Getting the force and travel length correct, for me at least, mean I spend significantly less energy typing. My fingers and lower arms are tired if I'm using a regular keyboard for an hour.

Perhaps the optimum is not either extreme. Not an Apple like keyboard with almost zero travel, and not a keyboard from the 5$ bin, but something in between. And it's not the same for everyone.
I hear you, but the benefit of HTML (especially in a WYSIWYG editor like Seamonkey that doesn’t support CSS) is that your style sheet and basic page layout is already done. When you start writing, you very rarely need to adjust it.
I read (between the lines, and maybe mistakenly) that you consider yourself highly intelligent. With that perspective, the comment sounds like reasoning for why you aren't going to be a good leader and why that is a good thing. Also, it sounds like it might even be an excuse for writing unreadable code.

This perspective seems based on a premise of "intelligence" being a one-dimensional scale where everybody has an absolute ranking. I think this is generally a problem with the "IQ" concept that we've all agreed on. It seems extremely oversimplified to me, at least if we want intelligence to mean something like "brain capacity".
One of the widely available $20 garden watering timers that flushes water down the toilet.

I bet Melbourne already has entrepreneurs selling the installation of this "water surveillance solution" at value pricing: a fraction of the saved occupancy tax!
And that was out of the norm back then?
My 12 accounts are spread over a handful of providers, with emails going back to 2006 in some; While I agree thunderbird's search is inferior to gmail's, its global indexer is decent in capabilities and horrible in ux, whereas the "standard" search is horrible in capabilities and speed, but decent in ux.

I use the "expression search" addon, which is perfect as long as you only need to search on metadata; and the global indexer when I do. It's not perfect, but it doesn't make me want to quit in anger, and not even to surrender my privacy to google.
That comment refers to JingWang not the OS. If you were an individual forced to install it you are added to a registry. If you live in a particular city, it is mandatory. If you are part of a particular minority, it is mandatory. Refusing to install it or prove its installation if your national identity is in the registry is a crime and you wil be arrested.

Beijing is not Kashgar. Many Chinese will experience relative freedom and others live in city-sized prisons.
Assuming the patients were covered by insurance it's unlikely they paid anywhere near that amount. Those were the hospital's costs.
Nice spelunking! Yeah, this word means nothing really. Sigil, pragma, directive, typed comment, whatever. Feel free to call it "dohicky" if you'd like.
I'm sure they can get access to necessary documentation.

If anything it must be easier to do it without the distractions of the web.
This kind of tax exactly addresses the problem that Vancouver faced, that enough absent rich people bought houses that there were not homes for regular people and neighborhood businesses struggled or failed because few people lived there.
kind of a good and bad thing to call it really though, obviously even though they are dying no one wants a "Dying drug" but likewise "Living Drug" seems to offer a little too much, "Anti-Dying Drug" maybe? :P
Little-Known US Fault Lines Cause for Seismic Concern (2011)
I have been doing this for more this for 24 years now. Even developed my own editor (based on the Crystal Edit controls), which has navigation. Pressing F5 on a link, will open the file (when it is local) at the given location (following anchors) or send it to the default browser (when it is external). It has syntax highlighting with checks on matching tags and inline JavaScript. See: http://www.iwriteiam.nl/MySample.html
Who does that for anyone? The films of Jean-Pierre Melville
I remember reading this a few years ago.

Feels good to have read this again :)
One nerd is pretty much all it takes.
How could you run a paid SaaS without an email address? Phone number as a contact? I wouldn't give a phone number to a company I didn't trust with an email address either.

I could invisage a SaaS without ANY personal information, but if that even legal to do if you're taking credit card payments?
To get the perfect fake, just hire somebody to live in your vacant house!

Next up: captchas to turn on the stove. "We need to make sure you're a human that wants to prepare food and not just a weird property owner that wants to pretend that somebody lives here".
Me too! Have used it for 10 years now. Changed only 3 of them
There's some irony in ditching all the things in favour of none of the things when actually the likely answer is some of the things...

But the whole static site generator thing is hilarious when you look at it, and classic developer territory. "I'm gonna install a gazillion tools to write some words on the web" - fine if you're learning stuff by doing it but for god's sake don't go suggesting it's "easy"...
Besides the windows tax aspect there is also the aspect of a vendor taking a bit of responsibility around what the user experience (hardware support etc) is like when running linux on their hardware. Offering an option for shipping with linux seems to serve as a catalyst for that.
Legal and investigative fees are not “massive fines.” Those are optional. They could have admitted guilt 10 years ago and not had to pay them.

And, speaking of 10 years, they had that long to spread that billion dollars over. They’ve probably made $300B in that time. $1B is a drop in the bucket.
> Why is this such a different restriction

I'm a little confused why this question would arise. Use of property, private or otherwise, for illegal use is, well, illegal. Your example cleanly falls under the illegal classification.

I would like to note that the city council is penalizing private property owners under the assumption of malice, and not in good faith. They've unburdened themselves from proving malice, which is a sneaky encroachment of jurisdiction that they aren't entitled to.
There is a version of this that will be on the ballot next year, but with exemptions for all residential property, all agricultural, and for commercial property valued under 2 million.
Maybe, but most people who are using numpy are probably using their Linux distro's package for it (or the pip package) which means it's being compiled using GCC.
I am from Austria, but live in Northern Germany for ~10 years and it seems to work in both contexts.

It is close to hurt feelings but not the same..
I Denmark there are so many difference taxes. The most unfair of them all is "lejeværdi af egen bolig" which directly translates to "Rental value of your own house".

Short version. Had you chosen to rent out your house to someone else instead of living there yourself, you would have made a profit". You have to pay taxes on that value.

"But, hey stop wait a minute", you might say. "I am not renting out my house. I am actually living there all by myself."

Well sorry, that is irrelevant. You still have to pay taxes of that imaginary profit regardless if you live there or not.

The tax rule (in Danish)
https://tax.dk/jv/ch/C_H_3_2_2_2_3.htm

WTF? Yes, WTF but true.
No. Employees presumably hold a lot of the stock and would like some form of liquidity, as would investors, etc.

Making the stock immediately valuable is very important
Wow, he spent a year in prison waiting for his trial. That’s pretty awful for such a minor act. The gov security people really know how to overreact.

How is it breaking arms exporting laws when his stated intention was to create a video game, and not, you know, producing arms or working with the Russian government (who most certainly has long ago acquired these documents)?
Many cities have a hotel tax, and require short term rentals to pay this.
That's true, but many of them aren't in any way rational criminals. If you're a drug addict and your body tells you in no unclear terms that you need your fix no matter what you'll have to do to get it, you're not pondering the risk/reward. If you're a multi-million investor that is calculating whether tax evasion is a lucrative opportunity, you usually are: how much is there to be gained, how likely are you to get caught, and how harsh will the punishment be. If they can make an extra 10%, will get caught with a 50% chance and the punishment is having to pay back that 10%, many will do it. If the punishment is having to pay back that extra 10% + 100 times that, very few will.
> how much the leadership sets the culture for the company.

Over the years this is exactly what I experienced. And even if there are a bunch of employees and middle managers that are pushing for a different culture, for the benefit of the company (this can happen in a fast growing company where things haven't settled down yet), it is an uphill battle for those people, and they will eventually leave.
It certainly does explode to infinity as a series.

What's going on in the factoid (though I'm a bit weak in analysis) is that the series

zeta(s) = sum(k^(-s) for k in 1:Infinity)

converges for all complex s whose real part is greater than 1. There is a concept called analytic continuation where you compute the Taylor series for a function at a point, find its radius of convergence there, then formally extend the domain of the original function. You keep doing this to extend the domain as much as possible. (And if you are lucky, you do not get any contradictory values when you go around a singularity. Otherwise you'll need to deal with branch cuts, like with complex logarithms.) This isn't completely arbitrary: if you have some holomorphic function then restrict its domain to some small disk, analytic continuation will recover the original function---that is, even the smallest germ knows everything about the function!

For an example of an analytic continuation, if you were to start with

f(z) = sum(z^k for k in 0:Infinity) = 1 + z + z^2 + z^3 + ...,

which is a complex function whose domain is the open unit disk centered at 0, analytic continuation would give f(z)=1/(1-z), which has a much larger domain---all of C except for 1. We can "make sense of" 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + ... by plugging 2 into the analytic continuation of the original function, which is 1/(1-2) = -1.

Similarly, zeta(-1) would be 1 + 2 + 3 + ..., which doesn't make any sense by itself, but the analytic continuation of zeta actually takes a value at -1, which is -1/12. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Zeta%5B-1%5D
You're expecting the impossible. One person's uniform moderation is the next person's double standard; no two users will ever agree on this.

Actually, you're expecting several impossibles. Here are two others: that a large public forum can be remotely free of mediocre, uncharitable comments; and that human beings en masse can do anything other than reflect human nature. That's the source of what you're upset about, not this or that industry. Individuals can vary, but once you get to statistically significant quantities, the patterns are mechanical and don't change. If you want change, I know of only one thing that works: observe in yourself how you do the very things you object to in others.

> if you look at my comment history you can find so many of these that i've debated against just over the last few weeks

I looked at your comment history and unfortunately found many instances where you've violated the site guidelines in arguments. That's not ok, and we need you not to do that if you want to keep commenting here. It also adds more than your share of the things you're complaining about on HN, so that would also be a good reason not to do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Last time this was submitted, it only got 2 upvotes. That just wasn't good enough.
Who cares? Mansion for C$1k/mo!
Yes they are, BUT if you use stripe(or any processor) for monthly recurring charges or tokenization, the card data is permanently locked to processor. So what happens next year when you decide you need to use a different processor for some reason? Well you're out of luck and will have to force all of your customers to re-enter payment data to change processors.
How about letting employees choose themselves?

Certainly there are those who are super-productive in open-space, and those who are more efficient in closed offices, cubicles or working from home.

This is 2019, we have and enormous selection of tools that makes it possible to work from just about anywhere.
This is the way it will work in the future, so many diseases will one by one get treatments that are individualized genetic treatments. They will gradually get cheaper. You will hope to survive till a treatment for your problems get cheap.
Hmm, I live in Poland and once I found a lost wallet (no money inside, so probably someone stole it, almost every one has some small cash there, at least coins) and my first reaction was to mail it to the person it belongs to, there was a national ID inside and I did that.

It never occurred to me to get it to the Police station.
Probably because they never found my wallet when I reported it (and reporting it was a PITA, 2 hours of lot time).
Personally I have no desire to buy a license which is being shoved down my throat against my will. It's a matter of principle, not of the sum involved.
I mean, there's a substantial effort to developing the gaming platform on Linux. Maybe that's their audience?
Sure there is, they all just agree to ignore it.
Civic honesty and duty cover most of it, I think, in the UK for example.

When I was living in Saudi Arabia for a time as a kid I was told not to pick up money even on the street or I could have my hand chopped off. However much truth there was to that message, I suspect that mentality could colour the results and probably falls outside honesty and duty.
Worked at a company that did actually do this. It was because they were building the profile up as a lead to sell to service providers.

They got the legal compliance as a checkbox during the process. The whole process had 15+ steps and it was when I learned that we were all wrong about how many clicks and actions a user is willing to go through to get a result.