skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the case of Amazon there's a clear protectionist argument to be made. It will kill local businesses and send a bigger share of the profit to an American company. Replace jobs in those small independent businesses by underpaid corporate jobs at Walmart 2.0. Amazon is in a position where it can sell items at a loss for years just for the sake of killing small competitors. Granted, maybe it's the role of antitrust laws to take care of that rather than taxes, but I'm generally in favor of slowing down Amazon, if only to give other players a chance to grow before Amazon takes everything. The problem with antitrust laws is that they will come and slap Bezos with a tiny fine 3 years after Amazon has unfairly killed competitors.

If you want to tax and regulate Facebook, etc., I think the argument is much less clear, especially if those regulations are just going to cement Facebook's position against possible newcomers.
Good question. When a phone stops working, people want their money back. Guess where most people in most markets buy their phone from?

Further, who do you think customer's call for support?

Now you know why carriers are hesitant about frequently updating a product they've already made a sale on. If an update breaks something, guess who pays the price?

Not defending them, and it's not the only reason, but it's a big one.

Whether or not they should have a say is a great question. Now that they do, I'm not sure it can be taken away without them simply choosing the next os that they do have more say over.
DuckDuckGo also uses Bing and they don't send the IP AFAIK
The monitoring app is a hoop I guess. I would hate it too because it's a form of control over the work.

I once had a client who, at the negotiation of the contract, wanted me to work from an "office" (an in-laws quarters) for a specific set of hours each week. His desire for that was because he wanted to make sure he was getting his money's worth; that if I said I was charging him for 10 hours, I was spending 10 hours on the task.

I told him that, along with other stipulations, would qualify me as an employee. He and his fiance/business partner insisted it didn't. That was troubling because his fiance was a lawyer.

I declined to take the project.
"What public resources did Amazon, a US company, use from France?"

off the top of my head, I'm sure there are lots more:

- a large set of well-off consumers who got there because of free public education, parental supports, et cetera

- a safe society so drop shipping is possible

- roads & infrastructure for shipping

- a justice system that protects Amazon from cheating buyers and sellers

- a stable, accepted currency

- no need for large numbers of armed guards at warehouses, protecting shipments, et cetera

- a functioning health & welfare system so can get away with paying employees & contractors peanuts

- a pool of employees and contractors who were supported by society growing up

and much more, I'm sure.
US University access is extremely unequal
Take the dates with a grain of salt.

Nobody ever got a grant or a paper published for revising towards a younger date. No discovery in that.
Understanding climate change from a global analysis of city analogues
I echo your sentiment as well (also from a background of having ran a Shopify app with thousands of installs).

There's a lot of misconception of how much hard work it is amongst beginner Shopify merchants in order to generate sufficient traffic. Amazon, at the very least, provides an audience -- which solves a very major problem for any business (to get traffic).

There's a lot of success stories running on Shopify, but these companies would have pretty done well creating their own custom solution.

At the end of the day, it's a piece of software (ie. shovel) to sell to people who want to try and make money online (ie. the gold rush).
It might be me being legalistic, but technically it says accepted, not accepted and enter. I think because they mandate you apply to the core program, that I am wondering about the technicalities.

I get that if you do enter the core program, you don't also get the $15k, that makes sense.
You seem pretty confident that this will work as opposed to occasionally falling in the wrong state and, a rare instance multiplied by a large number of uses, happen to somebody.

Somehow despite this pocket dialing still happens.
Define "living." As a US citizen, I've gone over to the EU, including the UK, for multiple weeks to attend multiple conferences, have customer meetings, etc. I've never been anything but 100% upfront in answering any questions about the purpose and duration of my visit honestly and have never had an immigration official so much as blink at my answers.

I know that some countries (such as China) do require business visas for attending a conference and I've to get letters of introduction, etc. in order to get my visa. But it's never been an issue in Europe.
Is that what YC has observed?

My theory is that people are looking for people to start a company with ASAP, rather than 4-5 years in the future after they've worked together for a while.

But I could be wrong.
> Even for technical users / developers, their time is better spent than fiddling around with 10 different tools.

This might or might not be true. Fiddling with 10 different tools often gives you are much larger level of control. If you need some control that you get with 10 different tools that the single source doesn't do then you are stuck with 10 tools. The downside of course if you now need to fiddle with 10 different tools.

Make the correct decision for your situation.
As I get older, my inner communist really starts to envy the European schedule (eg: France's 35h week and 6-8wks holidays).

I spent the entirety of my career working in the US and Canada, and to me it seems that no more than 80% of our collective effort goes into creating and maintaining the wonderful advanced society that we enjoy. Instead of stopping at 80% so that we can enjoy our lives, we work the extra 20%, mostly so that the rich can get a bit richer.
I use DuckDuckGo and StartPage.
StartPage uses Google's result without sharing user IP(https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...).
I think ecosia can do something similar to that and I would be extremely glad to switch.
There’s always some “ackchyually” asshole ready to flex their sophistry muscle to defend the indefensibly idiotic thing people have unanimously identified as idiotic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mPGYeuU2Oc is the "When Cheese Fails" commentary of the 2011 game I mentioned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbfIVf49zXA&t=530s is Day9 commentating on Ketroc doing something similar, but now aggressively, for a "FunDay Monday" (Day9 fans are tasked to play SC2 in some particular way, partly as training mostly as amusement).
The graph displaying repartition was done only on a subset of all pictures. Not all of them are classified yet, and so, these stats were extracted from only a sample of this (quite big) dataset.
Second thing is that these stats are computed BEFORE removal of all "bad pictures". Which means that what you have in the folder has not exactly the same ratio/statistics.

Concerning the "other-not-illegal", if the website was none of the other labels AND not illegal, it was usually tagged as "other-not-illegal". For instance, personal websites are tagged as "legitimate" and a Tor Wiki is tagged as "other-not-illegal" and "wiki". General information about Tor, websites allowing to do some calculation online (tools to hash things, calculator, ..) or online games (without money involved) are labelled as "other-not-illegal".

Anything related to finance - even if it can be legal - is not labelled as "other-not-illegal", for example.
Indo-Germanic is just the old term for the Indo-European language family.
Sometimes still used, but partly out of fashion / discredited by politicized Arianism.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Indo-Germanic

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages
> the dataset contained ... demographic attributes like race ... to predict actual work performance

Regardless of the original intent, that's a request to launder a protected class into an opaque "work performance" metric. Also, while they are not on the unfortunately short list of protected classes, using demographics like age is probably going to create similar discrimination problems.

If you want to know about job performance, use data that is at least theoretically related to someone's performance. While machine learning is going to find some sort opf signal in whatever pile of data you feed it, that doesn't mean it actually predicts something complicated like job performance. When you feed it a bunch of general demographics, it's going to find one of the signals that we know are present throughout existing demographic: the institutional discrimination and similar problems of the past.
Purpose-built UX, Docker images, Kubernetes support, future plans to add LetsEncrypt automation. There are ways to make "ssh" work through a corporate proxy, but normally it's banned. Websockets over HTTPS usually goes through without being blocked.

Multiple upstream sites are supported with ease as well as multiple exit node domains. If SSH is working for your use-case, then I'd say stick with it.
You’re right. My apologies.
Windows 7’s July 2019 Security Patch Includes Telemetry
I can grasp the differences just fine, thank you very much. Chess requires you to think several moves ahead. This is why it can take minutes until a player makes their next move. Try this in Starcraft! The game instead requires you to switch to a conpletely reactionary style of play where all you can do is make split second decisions based on huge tables of prepared heuristics in your head.
Those large tech companies can make money in France because the french government provides all that is necessary for a free, fair and functioning market. How could Google make money in France if there was no french police force, education system, market regulation, court system, contract enforcement?

All money made on the white market in any country is facilitated by that government, and taxes are paid on all profits to pay for the services which allowed the profit to be made.

>The other theories of taxation is that it should be used to raise revenue from the best means possible. I disagree with that framework but applying taxes arbitrarily hardly seems fair or the best way to raise revenue.

It's not arbitrary to expect businesses to pay for services they benefit from.
If you see strange charges from Spotify on your bank account, you aren't alone
Why Am I Getting Spam from My Own Email Address?
I don't think it's that far-fetched.

Visiting sketchy sex-related businesses or doing drugs is pretty par for the course in both Eastern and Western business culture as a form of trust-building between parties.

I can definitely see the level of "sketchiness" increasing as you climb the power ladder.
Does it ever say how much the participants were drinking?
Seems also they bet on Bitmain, not on Bitcoin, which is arguably recovering better.
"just pay for this tool" - it's free, OSS and accepts contributions.
Why would they purposefully reduce their profits?
Metaphorically. On the first day airbus got about 100 orders and Boeing got none.
It’s literally in the conclusion section.
"Pebble was losing money, with no profit in sight." - discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13161832
Give inlets a shot if you get time and let me know how you think it compares.
How, they would also tax big companies "hidden" profits ? Some US citizens are asking for this already, the French tax is not target at a country.
tl;dr OP accidentally left a survey unfinished for the client, this a dispute was made. OP completed survey, client was okay to pay, but OP hadn't logged hours with always-on webcam thus money was refunded to client.
I believe the consensus was that he was approximately 170cm (5'7") which was, contemporaneously, fairly average. There is a surprisingly large number of Google hits relating to why he was perceived to be short but none that offers a definitive answer. The most compelling is that he was constantly surrounded by large bodyguards which gave the public the impression that he was not tall.
True. But this dataset is "safe". I could ensure you to download it and show it in front of any public, without that much concern about shocking anyone (maybe one or two pictures may not be friendly for everyone, but nothing as bad as you could encounter on the "true Tor"). That's precisely one use of this dataset : showing what is on Tor without have a 200 heart beat because you don't know on which page you'll land next.
If there is Docker/HPC/AWS support in the system through its local commands, there will be support.. Check the cluster mode setup in guix documentation (https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/guix.html)

Edit: adding gnu guix manual link
Yeah no. No kind of spyware is reasonable.
If you don't click on ads, or have an Adblocker installed, you generate no money for Ecosia. Thus, no trees get planted.

I think it's important to point this out, because in their marketing, they make it sound as if searching alone is enough. There's also this little counter in the upper right corner. 45 searches (on average) are required to plant a tree. Of course, only if you click on an ad.

You could even argue that you cause more environmental damage, because Ecosia is then just an unnecessary wrapper around Bing consuming energy (although it's probably not much).

Edit: Added second paragraph

Edit2: Source is their FAQ: https://ecosia.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/206019452-How-d...
Non-mobile URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
Indeed, thank you very much. I listen to a lot of podcasts while commuting and exercising, and I'd wondered about how the business end worked. I receive an extraordinary amount of great content for nothing more than the price of ads (which I skip a lot of; sorry but it's true).

I have gone out of my way to purchase products that advertise on podcasts: I'm typing this as I eat a lunch flavored with hot sauce from FuegoBox.

I don't know how well most podcasters do from that. You had a wonderfully lucrative target audience; most of what I listen to has a larger market but with less money. I don't know how many Casper mattresses and MeUndies they can possibly buy. The impression I get from the IHeartRadio-branded ones hint that by the time the marketers and support get their cut, it's poverty-level wages.

Again, thanks for the look behind the scenes. That was incredibly informative and very well written.
I was wondering if there are any problems with uranium dating
A Chicago Suburb Became a Center of ETFs
Apple pushed the carriers to allow it to update its own operating systems over a decade ago.
First I’ve heard of Dark. The blog post is cool, but reading it I felt two main things: (1) no pull reviews would be terrible for a team, and (2) everything being instantly live in prod and automatically versioned etc sounds like a nightmare once you move beyond a simple program.

Reading on Darklang.com I see they kind of address this. The ecosystem they’re building is training wheels for developers, a way to make “coding 100x easier.”

I can see that working in a sense, and being an entry point that a lot of people use to make neat toys. I could even see it being a gateway that people use to get interested in and learn about programming. But I can’t imagine wanting to build a business with more than one programmer, or any kind of scale on a completely black box system like that.

I will also say, there’s a problem when it comes to entry-level systems, trying to teach people to code:

The struggle with the complexity is actually important. Dark isn’t actually making all the work of building and running a web application go away, it’s abstracting it all into a platform such that you can’t see it.

Suppose a person gets into coding self-taught and learns to work this way. The knowledge isn’t going to be very transferrable - ie when they look at other languages or systems they’re likely to struggle with problems like “what does prod versus dev mean, I just want my program to run for the world...”

You usually move knowledge between ecosystems by translating “I did it this way in (toolset A), so what’s the parallel in (toolset b)?” The more you have an idea of the underlying principles the easier this is to figure out.

That said, Dark certainly looks neat, and I imagine the implementation is quite cool.

The only other nit I’d pick is the name. To me, its not really a language, but maybe a development environment, or framework. I suppose it had a language in it, which I’d probably call DarkScript or something.
DNS66, Works without root by creating a local VNM that it then runs its own DNS (with blocklists) on. End results are all the banner adds on most apps will not show up etc.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/
All of those can be applied to any company however. By this logic, they should add a +3% tax on every foreign business.

None of this is true. It is a protectionist / anti-tax evasion measure primarily. It can be justified considering the threat that amazon poses in local markets
Does anyone know the answer to this question?

If I am going to drink a soda, which soda am I better off drinking? Coke or Diet Coke/Coke Zero?

I know that neither option is good for me, but which would be comparatively better or is the science still out on that?
Hold on, metro/subway capacity isn't the issue being addressed by the parent comment.

You raised the problem of metro stations being further than a walkable distance on either end of the commute.

If a subway or train service is at standing room only capacity right now even before you help new people to get to it then it's kind of a moot point anyway; you need more capacity before you can add more people.
Would I get paid per search when I use Google and per post when I use Facebook?
If you do that, I would recommend looking at writing an extension first to see if there's any way to do it without a fork (maybe using the same technique that things like ublock origin have)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
https://www.commonwl.org/ is pretty good and supported by several workflow engines
How, did you forgot how big US is? We are reminded here on HN how big US is, so it is natural that some US companies will also fall into that tax laws. What will Trump do? tax smaller companies so non US ones are hit harder ?

Off topic, did the China tariffs had any good side effect so far?
Very true.
Most of them are just biblical extracts. I haven't seen any "sect-related" content.
Is anyone verifying these claims?
Well, then comes this: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/07/look-at-this-spider-man-co...

Some costumes require custom mechanical props. Spiderman's eyes in recent movies have the mechanical-quirk. So reproducing that mechanism in real-life is certainly a Cosplay + Maker thing.

There's a lot of Cosplayers using LED Lights for highly color-accurate "glowing" effects (common for high-end Overwatch Cosplayers). Some cosplayers are just sewing / stiching things (which is fine: that's still a skill), but there are other cosplayers who are putting serious effort into their electronic components of their costumes.
A Trans-Atlantic Artist, Recognized at Home, at Last
> We cannot commend them
> Why are we dependent

Why are you using "we"? I for one am quite happy how Apple manages Gatekeeper.
Oh no, won't someone please think of the U.S. software.engineers.

And oh no, access to a market also means legal and tax responsibilities?
Would something like this make sense for defining machine learning/data science processes? Like obtain, clean, reformat, split (train/test) datasets.
No matter how the law is written, if the result is that the exceptions only apply to French companies and not to the US, it’s bullshit :).

They could pick arbitrary ways to bisect the set until they get the desired result.
Let's say it is. Why would that change anything? France's government isn't trying to target or punish anyone (whether Ireland or Google), it just wants to stop the corporate tax avoidance it sees as unfair.
Isn’t this tax on ad revenue already a good proxy for the value of user data?
I really wish US companies would take a more forceful approach with these rogue governments. “You get off our back or we pull out of your countries”
Being just a dumb data pipe means you aren't differentiated from other dumb data pipes, making it harder to compete with other carriers on anything other than price (reducing revenue) and service reliability/speed (and we all know how awful ISPs are at building out better infrastructure). This does make it much harder to be profitable.
I suppose it's just like how the tax law changes in the US were not designed to hurt high-tax liberal states more than low-tax conservative states, but that the high-tax liberal states were just taking advantage of the standard deduction.

Unfortunately in these cases, perception is just as important as the nominal reason.
This isn't really surprising. Until we get some kind of advanced GAI that has flawless object recognition, there just aren't really any consumer use cases for AR beyond a couple games and momentary gimmicks. That's why Microsoft completely pivoted HoloLens to be a business tool despite initially promising all kinds of consumer applications, and Apple presumably came to the same conclusion and realized there's no customer experience in AR worth offering right now.
How to Take Advantage of the Social Side of HubSpot
Sure, if it is correctly regulated to have no more leverage on our lives than a fancy marketing strategy.

If not then I see a lot of problems with handing even more power from democratically elected governments to the corporate black box.
Most startups selling physical goods fail. Hardware is much harder to manufacture at scale. The logistics involved is crazy. Even the vaunted Tesla is a money pit.
Their value proposition is planting trees and not privacy. They get a cut of the Bing ad revenues and a cut of that is invested in trees. Its a simple model. I learned about it 1-2 years ago and was expecting more of these ‘feel good’ labelled search engines.
Pure speculation, but: I imagine the processed nature of the fiberless fruit juice (with all the other ingredients/preservatives/crap they add into it) adds to the cancer risk. I'd also guess that were one to juice the fruit themselves, that would be better than the processed kind, but you're still drinking liquid sugar and bypassing the benefits of ingesting fruit in the first place.
I literally just looked at home prices in the bay area. I found a literal handful of homes/apartments available in that price range. One was a 300 sq foot apartment, most of the rest were unbuilt lots. I'm not sure if you're talking about auctions or foreclosures, etc. Can you elaborate on that? I can't even get a home in my much lower cost area for that price. I can tell you $1k/month for a family of three in my area is typical grocery expenses before eating out. We can certainly cut back but bargain basement is about $800/month unless we're eating nothing but ramen and cereal.
There's often no fiber in "fruit juice". It's just sugar-water derived from fruits instead of sugar cane.
...how much profit do you think a search engine makes per user?
Taxes make sense to pay for the court system that's enforcing contracts, just to name the first thing that comes to mind.
Very true. Most of the finance or market-place websites are scam. Not all of them are labeled with it (because there is a SCAM label ! Can't truly test all websites by ordering the stuff) but clearly some of them were scam. In particular techno-stuff (IPhone etc.) marketplaces are usually scams.