skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on, this CERT from Luxemburg project, if it would be some random Anon blogger I would not even open main page for such project without going through Tor.
A Heavybit fund could be a force in bringing continuous deployment to the rest of the world that just isn’t there yet, even though they want to be. LaunchDarkly came out of Heavybit and I love their message. Those interested might enjoy the ToBeContinuous podcast with Paul Biggar (Dark/CircleCI founder) and Edith Harbaugh who I believe is the LaunchDarkly founder. I find it insightful on the space.
For tax purposes most of those companies aren't even American.
Apple, Alphabet's subsidiaries, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. are companies registered in Ireland or Luxembourg, or the likes.
It's a sales tax. In the EU it's fitted into the price the consumer sees. From every sale Amazon makes 20% of that is going to the government.

You could easily argue every tax on Amazon is a tax on the consumer. If you increase the cost of Amazon doing business, prices go up.
That doesn’t follow.

Like this blog post points out, there’s a ton of postings out there with these absurdly low pay expectations. And yet, companies can, and do, struggle to fill $120,000 a year jobs.

It can simultaneously be the case that the majority of the market is willing to pay peanuts AND the average developer routinely signs for far, far more than that.

The majority of the market simply never finds any takers whatsoever for their “genius social media idea I own it you have to sign an NDA for, you do all the work, $15/hr”.
Yes, you could still be pursued legally.
‘Prince of Whales’ is a funny typo, presumably that’s why the tweet was deleted.
Thank you! It took 10 months so not sure if qualifies as trailblazing. The legal and accounting treatment was new for everyone, so can expect it to take some time.

There is no one year lock on the Reg A. The Reg D offering (which we did earlier in 2017) and which is limited to Accredited Investors has a year and a day lock. We do have a monthly unlock over 2-years but that was our design decision, not a regulation.

Really interesting question about no longer being considered a security. We spent a lot of time on this. There is an entire discussion about decentralization in the offering circular. Our stance is that this is a utility token and due to an abundance of caution we're complying with securities regulations. However, upon further decentralization of the network (and we discuss certain metrics for this) the Stacks token may no longer be considered a security.

Pasting relevant info from the offering circular:

"Blockstack’s long-term strategy is to decentralize development and governance of the Blockstack network such that no single entity, including Blockstack, is in control of the network. At some point when this decentralization process is complete and there is a healthy ecosystem of applications and users on the network, Blockstack PBC expects to develop new business models, which may include the development and commercialization of premium versions of open-source software, enterprise licensing for blockchain technology, and development of new applications for the network. Blockstack may also dissolve Blockstack PBC and distribute the Stacks Tokens in Blockstack PBC’s treasury to Blockstack PBC’s stockholders. We do however intend to continue operating for a minimum of two to three years and likely until one of the following occurs: the Stacks Tokens are no longer deemed to be securities, we are no longer deemed to be the issuer of the tokens, or the Stacks blockchain undergoes a hard fork without Blockstack’s consent that effectively results in Blockstack no longer driving the governance of the network. Blockstack also intends during this time to encourage independent entities to contribute to the development of Blockstack Core, the core open-source software governing the network as well as contribute to the growth of the eco-system."
I wonder this too.

Military jets have a "RESCUE" lever by the canopy to disarm the ejection seats. I wonder why cars don't have something standard and simple like that.

If every car model needs unique training on what secret cuts to make in what order, that's a fail.
The point is all that stuff (jenkins, k8s, ansible) is accidental complexity that, I presume someone at your company has-to/had-to think about. I think Dark's angle is it's stuff you shouldn't need to think about in order to solve the actual problem, and removing as much of that as possible is better.
> You can do 99.5% of what most non-technology businesses do via a combo of SaaS services.

What is is with tech people and pulling numbers out of thin air to justify their simplified straw man of users?
I don't understand this argument. I agree that they don't believe they're rich, and they're not intentionally deceiving themselves. But they are also wrong.
The main thing with making small demo apps while still a student is the data. You need to have a source of data you can use and apply whatever techniques too.

Novel business problems are often still unsolved not because making a ML is hard but because getting the data is hard.

So for your problems either use easy to get data and apply a new angle on it, or spend some money on mechanical Turk etc to generate the data you need.
> Zip bombs were designed to DOS companies...

Maybe today - but back in the day, Zip bombs were done as pranks on users of BBSs; upload one named something intriguing, and the hapless user would download it and unzip it to their tiny (then) hard drive, and a file that was supposed to 4 MB blows up into several hundred MB to gigs, filling their drive if they weren't paying attention.

> The mitigation is easy though. We kept track of the compression ratio as we were unpacking the archives and tossed out anything where it got too large. No legitimate content compresses 1000:1

Interesting and neat solution!
Amazon delivers stuff to my house. It uses all the local government run resources, like roads, to carry out that business.
Honestly thought this was something related to Tor Project[0], but is actually a site about science fiction and fantasy books. From their site:

> Tor.com is a site for science fiction, fantasy, and all the things that interest SF and fantasy readers

[0] https://www.torproject.org/
Considering only foreign ones (local ones are already covered), the first explanation I can find is that for most of them it would just be an expensive and pointless exercise.

The time and costs involved to setup, maintain and enforce such a system would be ridiculously high compared to what it would bring in.

Another answer (still only considering foreign businesses) would be that for companies making so little, the burden could be much greater, hindering their growth (and future taxability).

And that's just from the tip of my head
Especially when the thing that is being rewritten and refactored is not the software but the human processes that the software is meant to facilitate.

How many managers choose to enforce, say, an Agile methodology on their team, not because they are any good at Agile but because existing tools like JIRA support that workflow and it's easier to just go along with it?
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I know it's necessary for safety, but it always makes me sad to see cars destroyed for crash tests and fire safety testing.
Amazon commits $700M to retraining
huh. who'd of guessed that coal miners can't code?
The operator overloading is potentially huge. Along with the BigInt/Float extensions, it makes it a great target for scientific computing applications.
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It'd be super neat if he added a native `net` module. Then we could do node.js http/net vs QuickJS benchmarks.
His historical novels are great reads, for their irreverent take on American history, esp the novels 1876 and Burr. Burr esp, in the wake of recent Hamilton-mania, should be interesting, and also for the very swift manner in which revolutionary idealism gave way to political expediancy after the establishment of the republic, none of the major figures including Washington and Jefferson, Hamilton come across as good human beings in the final analysis.
An amazing intellect at work!
Regardless of our opinions on Donald Trump, there is huge potential for misinformation here, aka the “fake news” that Trump mentions.

I suggest everyone takes this with a grain of salt unless confirmed with other sources (ideally I’d like a reputable entity like the Internet Archive to release a similar service as so far they’ve been trustworthy and haven’t shown any political bias).

Full disclosure: I am a Trump opponent but I’m not into US politics based on what I hear in mainstream international media which I know might be biased.
So... Spotify and Microsoft are one single industry? That's an interesting definition, buddy.

And don;t forget that only the French sourced revenue is taxed.
I don't know honestly. Seems like a tough road to go down because there are legitimate ways for a business to have high revenues relative to their profits like low margin businesses and you don't want to stamp them out accidentally targeting this kind of dodge.
They do though?

>https://sellercentral-europe.amazon.com/forums/t/been-charge...

>https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/201748700?...
This reminds me of CorePOS's touchscreen interface. What do you use for Credit/Debit acceptance?

If that has yet to be fully integrated, take a peek at Pax & Dejavoo, I would avoid DataCap like the plauge tho.

Some Pax bindings that might be helpful: https://github.com/AccelerateNetworks/PHPax
By this, if you mean the carriers reported data usage: I can think of a way a 3 letter agency could get around this. If you mean running a RAN analyser: I doubt it.
Wouldn't be the first time Google's lied.
Buy, read, and enjoy "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" by Stephen LaBerge, PhD. It's the key text on this topic. A few years back I used the book with great success but I've fallen out of the "LD" world unfortunately.

Keep a dream journal. That's the first step.
What I had understood was that it was due to the fact that the French foot was larger, so he was 5'2" in French feet which sounds short to someone used to the English foot. I honestly have no idea what the truth is.
I often delete a tweet if I make a mistaek in the spelling. For some reason it infuriates me more than I expected. I think this is because when I tweet, I commit to a permanent public record and the tweet will be scrutinized by someone eventually (if not currently by my followers) - and the tweet will be read and judged at some point. This is why Twitter needs an edit button.
It's a shame this doesn't happen when people's IoT devices become botnet nodes on their "unlimited" wifi. It would totally change the DDoS market and IoT security for the better.

"0/5 stars. This product doubled my bandwidth bill."
Heads up, I had to unset CONFIG_M32=y on macOS Catalina. There are no headers or symbols for 32bit apps in macOS anymore, so this will exclude the *32 variant targets.
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You recruit people for testing and obtain their informed consent?

What do people here think how say medicine or research is developed?!
Which is why Pixel or Android One devices are the way to go.
Simply not true and a matter of opinion.
That is a very good point that I had never though about. I wonder what sort of contingencies exist in the contracts for those engineers?
Collapsing dev, test, and prod into one environment sounds like a 300% increase in efficiency - now that’s a number management can really get behind!
Personally, I would prefer that the overtly political posts with little to no tech angle would stop. I feel there are plenty of other outlets for those topics.
Thanks for the link to the forum post!

We conducted an economic audit and as a result of that study made certain changes to future supply of tokens. Details are in the forum post linked above.

The token economics 2.0 paper is not published yet but the bulk of the details are in that post. We outline the open challenges in the "adaptive mint/burn" mechanism for future token supply there as well. Basically researching optimal values for the "evaluation window" and if we should have a maximum cap on mints i.e., tokens that re-enter supply after being burned/used.
>Are you sure it's "an unfair advantage" and not just "an advantage"? Doesn't your position presume that the brick-and-mortar business model deserves special protection? If so, why?

Because it employs more people and pays taxes locally. It's perfectly valid for the government to ignore that and focus solely on the consumer side (i.e. minimize prices), but it's also perfectly valid (and economically sound) to do what France is doing.

>What is the implied incentive in this case? It seems like it's just incentivizing a brick and mortar business model

No, it is not incentivizing it. It levels the playing field a bit by applying more consistent taxation.

>Doesn't this all point to a fundamental problem with "corporate tax"? Wouldn't it be better (fairer) to reduce or remove corporate tax and raise sales tax or similar, such that it doesn't matter whether the business has a presence in the country in question?

I can be persuaded by that argument (economists do love consumption taxes for a reason, after all), but either way it's not for Amazon to decide. In France, it is for the French people to decide, via their representatives. Whatever positive or negative consequences arise are also theirs to bear.
You got me at the title but I've not used the Starbucks app... Are what you are doing similar for the end user?

Any patent issues?
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> Just make smartphones listen all the time.

Pixel phones already do that. The excuse is music recognition and ok Google.
But who writes "3 or 4" as 3/4?
Excessive vitamin C (at gram-scale doses) will also induce diarrhea. If you eat more than a kilogram of it, you might die, but anything between ~5 g and kilogram just blows out your colon.

The threshold for "excessive" is higher when sick. The dose that would send you to the porcelain on a normal day may be well tolerated with a sniffle.
The great lawless free market utopia that every libertarian wet dreams of
I know it definitely sounds ageist. Is a 45 year old fresh-out-of-university-to-start-new-CS-career going to be considered and hired by Shopify on a regular basis (i.e. not just hiring one and being like "see, we're not ageist")?
That's my impression also, another few decades and linux might get PF, yay...
But that is good change, tried picking up IPTABLES multiples times, but always go back to *BSD or dedicated hardware
Doesn't seem much different than the disclaimer given when calling into a company that the conversation is being recorded for "QA and training" purposes(more like performance and CYA haha).

I wonder how sensationalized people will get with the headlines for click-bait purposes. While "recordings" is technically correct, "interactions" may be a slightly more precise word to use in the headline. I'm imagining a ton of headlines designed to make people believe Google Home is making random recordings of home conversations and letting people listen to them.
It's easy to talk about "not preserving the option to behave badly" in the abstract, but actually doing it requires perfect foresight (predicting every way anything could be used for evil) and often a lot of implementation difficulty (because you need to completely foreclose on the bad options without impeding good or neutral ones).
I thought there was something official that would preserve presidential correspondence
Tax avoidance via jurisdictional arbitrage is certainly not the essence of EU.
It doesn't work for everyone. You need to have almost the same amount of discipline to work from home as you do to start your own company.

I've been working from home for the last decade and I wouldn't have it any other way. No distractions and I am more productive than when I was at an office. I also have more time during the day to spend with my family.

I have the option of working from an office (my remote client is 10 miles from my home), but I have found that when I actually go into the office, I get much less work done (random distractions from management, etc).
There is still such a thing as physics: having a continuous audio stream would deplete the targets phone battery in short order potentially alerting the target that "something's fishy". A plugged in device would not have such problems.
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I was thinking internal fuses for each cell, then you've nothing worse than a couple of volts.
I should have said: that is in 2016 dollars.
in Rust?
nice, a colleague of mine is working on something similar for his final thesis, I'll share the link with him
Two small suggestions:
- Make it possible to filter based on desired country. If i am hiring from a specific country it would be nice to know who want to relocate here.
- Set a size limit on the "tech skills" column
I switched to Galliano and Diet Dr. Pepper and never looked back.
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Now available also for Firefox (previously Chrome and variants) with new features:

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thats because medical research has real effects on people, someone listening to you ask google to the turn the lights on doesn't matter. at all. (save the omg well they might hear something important - no they wont, and no the person on the other end doesn't give a shit even if they do)
As long as you don’t enable that Google Home can listen for some seconds after you are finished. This is for follow up questions without the trigger, but then other voice are also recorded a while after.

Hope they don’ listen without the trigger word. Easy to check with Wireshark (or similar) if they are sending enough data to equal sound transfer.
Anybody checked this?
France has passed its new Big Tech tax–and the US is not happy
Crash reports include running processes.

What do you think the anonymous metrics are if the process list and open sockets are excluded?
Rocker panel.

Edit: Why is this down voted? It it literally the same thing. The firemen may call it a channel (and the sheet-metal is roughly of a shape that people in the metal industry would refer to as a "channel") but the terms are interchangeable, it's the lower outboard edge of the passenger cabin.
I think it’s the first time we see a president using social media so much so the regulatory framework hasn’t yet caught up.

This is probably one of the few good use cases for blockchain technology where independent actors (of potentially different political affiliations and in different countries) can help given they’re given a purely monetary incentive independent of any political outcomes.
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Or just go to Lake Louise or Morraine Lake. The colour comes from rock flour.
Or to put it a little simpler: Way fewer units would've been sold if consumers knew third world contractors would be listening to their private home conversations. If the way you make your meat is messy, you have an obligation to share that at the dinner table if you are a good actor.
And GI is linked to morbidity endpoints how?
Half the population would produce half the emissions and consume half the resources considering the same emissions per capita per country and equivalent population density per country.
I don’t recall any google home device informing me that conversations may be recorded. Informing the user is the difference - not the actual recording.
This isn't necessarily a fair comparison - card not present transactions have always had a much higher rate than point of sale transactions due to the increased risk of fraud. There's an open-ended question of if new entrants like Apple Pay can bring down those card not present fees thanks to their integration into your apple id, but tbd.
Apple also planned to sandbox all apps. But developers wanted bare metal performance.
Aren't blacks genetically predisposed to larger twitch muscles (faster reaction times, etc.)?
You're missing the point, which is that you can slip anything into a privacy policy or other long agreement, no matter how outrageous it may be, and nobody will read it. Putting anything there does not make it ethical or legally binding.
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> Just under half of the Country voted for the current president

Less than 30% of eligible voters (and an even smaller percentage of the country) did, actually.
was "mistaek" intentional?
What about the money the French make by using Google services? Desktop search traffic originating from Google is 90% - presumably for a good reason.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/220534/googles-share-of-...
I'm fine with an edit button as long as you keep a log of the edit and previous version. Last thing that cesspool needs is more troll tools, and mid-flame war edits are absolutely troll tools.
> Why have 20% of Taxi revenue (or whatever it is) leave the country if basically all of the service is provided in country, and the internet taxi company takes the large cut over a sustained period through a combination of first-mover advantage an network effects?

Because the value proposition for a service like Uber is the technology to efficiently broker transactions between riders and drivers (and hopefully we can avoid the predictable digression that this brokerage is trivial). The aforementioned 20% pays for that technology while the other 80% pays for the cost of the ride (the driver's time, fuel, car mileage, etc).

Also, I don't think the first-mover or network effects are particularly strong in the case of Uber. I have a hard time believing that the overwhelming majority wouldn't jump ship immediately if a competitor arrived on the scene who could offer better fares for customers and/or better rates for drivers. By comparison, an upstart Facebook competitor wouldn't be able to compete even if they could "outprice" Facebook (I guess "outprice" would be "better data privacy" in this example) because Facebook's product is the network. Of course, being able to compete with Uber (i.e. offering better rates/fares) is still prohibitively hard for most upstarts, but that's different than first-mover or network effects.
I think it is less "intelligence" and more "naturally physically talented"
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> probably the courts, would say

The courts are the ones that created the doctrine of "disparate impact." A criterion can be discriminatory even if it doesn't look discriminatory on its face. And, importantly, it does not require intent to discriminate, only impact.
So "3/4+" would mean what exactly? 3+ or 4+ years? 3 years or 4+ years? 3+ years?
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>so any type of tax is justified?

That's a straw man. You're leaping from "some type of tax is justified" which is quite a bit more reasonable than "any tax".

And if you want to say it's a slippery slope or some such, well, ever single action if extrapolated to the extreme can be a viewed as such. If 3% is reasonable and then it's proposed to goes up and up, fight the increase, not the initial reasonable action. Of course this may be putting words in your mouth, so I won't attribute it to you, only that I preempt a logical counter to mine.
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