skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Explain why you believe that's a negative? If you use Bing normally they would know your IP as well

I'm a bit uncomfortable in letting MicroSoft associate my IP with what I search daily. I use GitHub and Linkedin and most of the time I'm logged in to at least one of those services. Now I don't know for sure if Bing associates these searches to my account based on the IP(someone can shed some light on this?). StartPage and DuckDuckGo both use third party searches but they don't share user IP(https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...)

For other details like search term, country etc... I absolutely understand that they are needed to be send. I just quoted them as a sentence.

If it wasn't for the IP sharing, I would be a happy ecosia user :)
No, of course it isn't; I'm not sure why Trump's obstruction of Mueller's investigation is being brought up here though?
Where the taxes are coming from and what they are used for do not need to be in the same industry or sector. Maybe it's different where you live?

E.G. An oil company being taxed for the revenue it made during an oil project does not get ear-marked for oil-only usage by the government.
That is a crucial distinction.

Matt Levine wrote about this yesterday - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-10/jpmorg...
They would tax digital companies doing businesses in the US.
This study seems to very clearly indicate Diet Coke/Coke Zero is much healthier than Coke.

There are tons of studies like this that concretely show how bad sugar is for you, while most studies show that artificial sweeteners have no (or minimal relative to sugar) adverse health effects.
> 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.

Economists have known for 100 years that land value taxes (LVT) are by far the most efficient way to raise taxes. After that consumption taxes are the next most efficient. Corporate taxes and taxes on investment income are one of the least efficient, most distortionary, forms of taxation.

Yet policymakers and voters show no sign of changing their opinions, despite how much economic evidence continues to pile up. LVTs are extremely unpopular, because home ownership is fetishized by the middle class as a vehicle for wealth accumulation. Even in progressive polities like California, there's always tremendous political will to keep residential property taxes artificially low.

VAT taxes are almost just as despised, especially in America. Meanwhile higher corporate and investment taxes are supported by large majorities. Despite the fact that they impose serious drags on productivity and growth. If your goals is having a more progressive tax code or increasing income equality, the much better strategy is to combine high LVT/VAT taxes with a UBI, rather than explicitly try to target poorly designed tax schemes at rich people.
Gonzo journalism at its best
This is a little disturbing; nsd is kind of a big deal, and afl on zone files is a pretty basic test to run. Kudos to the author for doing it, but why haven't the authors of nsd done it already, and what else haven't they done?

There is really no good reason for DNS servers to be written in C anymore.
I don't think it's worth a downvote but what you list out is one of the worst examples of "why use SaaS? this convoluted self-assembled mish mash of randomness already exists" I've seen.
How Location Intelligence is changing the business landscape
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20409591
Interest in VSCO has tripled in the last month on Google Trends
These 'low end computers' are $1800. Dell's low end starts in the low hundreds.
If anyone is interested in a 'Shopify for SaaS' I am in private beta with one, my platform is an open source app store for web applications with developer registration and payouts through Stripe Connect. Developers can code single page apps on the website or import their servers by URL. Users can install the creations for personal or organization use, imported or freely subscribed or paid subscriptions.

My email is in my profile if anyone is interested in participating in my beta.

Example of a web app on my platform -

https://github.com/userappstore/integration-examples/blob/ma...

Case study for how that app, hastebin, was ported -

https://github.com/userappstore/integration-examples/blob/ma...
When it was time for me to get a new laptop I put my old macbook in the office scanner, got a high-dpi scan of the whole thing.

Then I ordered a custom full-size sticker for my new macbook that has all the stickers of my old macbook. Then I kept stickering on top. Final result: https://photos.app.goo.gl/VQ75mPshvzs6ubf87

I am very happy with it, even though it doesn't look half as nice as what this person did. The combination of old and new stickers on the laptop is fun, and the whole thing took me 30 minutes to do.
A cellular phone is also a network terminal.

A misbehaving device can cause unreasonable load on the network, a disruption to other users, or at least interruption of the service on your device.

When Apple does screw up and iOS update will leave you with no data, the operators will attempt to make it work; they won't do that for every random manufacturer though.
That might be a good deal or not. Search doesn't generate much profit per user (don't forget overhead). From that profit you need to buy trees - somewhere between $.10 to $50 each. Then you need land to plant them on, which can be expensive. Then you need to plant them and water them to ensure they grow - there is a lot of labor in this last one that needs to be paid somehow.

Of course you can cheat. Plant a tree that is dead, dig it up and replant it again and again. I doubt they are doing this, but it is something to watch for.
But when I'm using it as a portable computer, the portable computer paradigm should prevail, which is what happens on Android: if my screen was off, I get a full-screen notification to swipe up on. If my screen was on, I get a notification at the top of the screen with buttons to accept or decline.
Hello, just to clarify I am specifically talking about how XML was used in the 90's for web development, i.e. SOAP.
Top 25 tricks for Python's pandas library
"So what did you do in the South Sea conflict?"

"I was a submarine toilet operator, first class, serving aboard the USS Deuce"
Taxes in France (and in many other more [than the US] socialist countries) are not just about paying for the public infrastructure that you use. It's about contributing to the development of the society by taxing very lucrative businesses and individuals (and also taxing not so lucrative businesses sadly). If you are an individual in France, and you are well off, you will pay much more taxes than what the state pays in infrastructure for you, why do you think it should be different just for internet businesses?

You may not agree with that philosophy, in which case you can decide to stop doing business in France. Considering the amount of cash GAFAs make, I would wager they will continue doing business in France and pay that 3% tax rather than miss 65M wealthy customers.
Many ways. Even a tax would do, as long as the tax collector gave it back to the users proportionally to the time spent on either site.

E.g. facebook could be forced to give you discounts for your card or sth.
It could potentially share the backend -- track only those people who are on the free version, but keep everyone on one network.

Also, no. Social media existed before the current big general-purpose networks. See Usenet, email lists, IRC, forums, etc. A single big network with no particular purpose or common interest provides different benefits, better in some ways and worse in others, but niche networks still have their own worth.
It's the same response like the one when dropbox released. "It's trivial to spin up a server, set up a file sync, blah blah blah, why do we need dropbox".

I'm the same as you. The whineyness exhausts me. Let the market decide. I just want shit to work.
The 777 is a rather old plane at this point, and was made before the current management era at Boeing. The 787 is the one to worry about; there's been lots of reports of production issues with it.
That's easy... make the batteries easily replaceable... oh wait.
Instead of taxing companies because it’s an easy method to steal money, maybe France should focus on enabling their people to create a company like Amazon or Facebook and actually generate wealth instead of taking it?
I've seen this exact situation, so weird that you point it out. Team full of Yale/Penn grads and then a self taught developer from the midwest who got a late start in life. The tension was palpable from the onset, the company ended up firing the midwest programmer even though he was the best one they had. Beyond technical and job ability, there was a camaraderie among the ivy graduates that was largely closed to academic outsiders. Seen this across multiple companies.

One thing I have picked up on is resentment from academic elites who work in small teams with non academic elites. They often feel like the achievements they have from the past entitle them to positions that non ivy graduates should not have. This is really common in finance
> I think it's important to point this out, because in their marketing, they make it sound as if searching alone is enough.

Thank you for pointing that out. There is no point using it for search if you are using ad-blocking software.
What was meant was moderation. Shopify works with developers to ensure the plugin's code will be compatible/quality more similar to how Apple does moderation.
ecosia financial reports: https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-financial-reports-tree-planti...
Click-tssssssssssss there pops another delicious Coke Zero.
That's not the case. Per the article:

About 30 companies will pay it - mostly US groups such as Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft. Chinese, German, Spanish and British firms are also affected, as well as the French online advertising firm Criteo.
> It's never good enough to excuse the behavior.

The behavior of click-bait ads isn't terrible in a way that should cause someone to question their own ethics. You may disagree. So what? You aren't going to fix the human condition by drawing a line in the sand, nor would it be moral to do so. The price of skepticism is uncertainty and the price of certainty is extortion (in terms of clicks and attention).
Sorry

Warburg Effect on wikipedia if anyone is curious.
Tell HN: I had an idea to mitigate the risk of being framed with a fake video
If you're a public figure, there's a substantial chance that someone will publish a video of you doing something incriminating. If it looks plausible it's your word against a third party's. What can you do?

One starting point would be to wear a device that takes pictures 24/7, geotags them and uploads a signature to a blockchain. Then, if and when a video surfaces of you doing some unspeakable act, you can issue the following challenge:

- When and where do you say this was?

Then the attacker would have to guess a plausible time and place. It must be one in which there is no other footage of you to contradict the account. Let's say they say: this happened on July 4th at 3pm, inside a room at the Grand Hotel. They know you where there because they saw you check in. If you were wearing this device, you could produce a trail of pictures spaced one minute apart, geotagged and verifiable. Of course it's not perfect, but it's a start.

It's pretty clear that videos and pictures are no longer proof of anything, so I believe these types of preventive steps will be a matter of necessity in the near future (at least for public figures).
This is a stupid move. The tax is not payed by big tech giants. Not by both, either. It's complicated and depends on who needs whom the more.

If there are no alternative to AWS, Google Adsense, or an American SaaS in France; the French people will be paying all of the tax. The big tech giants will just slap them with a 3% surcharge for being in France.

This is different from US-China tariffs. If the US can source from other suppliers, the Chinese will need to lower their prices. Effectively making them pay the tax. It is a complicated and messy situation.

The big tech giants are named that way because they are big and dominant. This makes them able to make the rules and circumvent the current ones. You'll need the whole EU (or maybe the EU/USA) to get them in line.

France has been digging its own graveyard for a while. It seems that they didn't learn their lessons and now going full speed. If you are a French startup, you'll be less competitive. People hate paying more and it's not clear if they can deduct this tax (like VAT).
The carrier wants your phone to work on their network. A software update could change brick the radio (or just disable the channel they are using) if done wrong.
Which is why I prefer to buy my phone independently from the carrier service.
Arguably the China tariffs are resulting in manufacturing being distributed to other countries. This could be considered a good side effect from a fault tolerance perspective.
An attacker could very well use a GPS jammer. Treating the navigation problem as a graph problem, placing these jammers where's needed in order to make the truck to follow the signs alone.

Your line of thinking is really good. A well-crafted attack is hard to execute and little things can very well ruin an attack sequence. A subtle the difference between academic research and the real world.
It's really not that simple. They don't use any of the country infrastructure or workers. If I make a video game and sell it to a person in France does it mean I do business in France? It seems to me it should be treated the same as French person coming to my country, buying my game and going back home. We've just skipped on unnecessary traveling.
Those things are subject to debate and power struggle but it's clear that: I sell it to you so I do business where you live isn't story-ending argument. In fact I think it's both not very consistent with general tax law principles nor practical as the burden of complying with regulations in every country you sell to even if you don't have presence there means many companies dummy won't sell at all to smaller countries.
>I disagree with that framework but applying taxes arbitrarily hardly seems fair or the best way to raise revenue.

There's nothing arbitrary here, in fact they're attempting to partially address a perverse incentive to take all your business online and do some jurisdiction arbitrage to minimize corporate taxes. This gives you an unfair advantage over, say, a brick-and-mortar store or a physical ad agency in Paris that's trying to compete online.

Taxes are not just about revenue, they are often about changing incentives (for the better if used well, for the worse if used without regard for unintended consequences).

>Much of the edge Amazon has versus local retailers is that it is more efficient.

Much, but not all. This addresses an additional edge Amazon has versus local retailers.
Not to refute your point, but they surely already charge VAT. However, this is commonly described as a tax for the buyer, not the seller.

On the other hand, most revenue is probably B2B and business reclaim their VAT.
Study results are always skewed/faked based on who funded the study. He asked for answers, not propaganda.
> It makes me wonder how they avoided running afoul of the law just collecting/viewing it for the purpose of scrubbing it, but IANAL. It'd keep me from being involved on any project like that, though!

CIRCL is the Computer Emergency Response Team of Luxembourg. They ̶a̶r̶e̶ work very closely with the law.
This "what if this goes wrong" thinking is vital for large scale systems we use DevOps for. (After reading this, if I ever designed a submarine, I'd try to make sure that such spills wouldn't get into the battery.) That said, I bet a large amount of such "thinking" actually happens by investigating what goes wrong after the fact.

The same sometimes goes for exception handling code.
The concept that emotions are irrational is itself irrational. They are a physiologic reaction to environmental conditions that is a byproduct of untold generations of evolutionary development. To dismiss them out of hand for the sake of deifying a comparatively infant-like intellectual culture is not reasonable. Emotions are Us, not some inconvenient creature to squash for the greater good.
Why do companies like Facebook and Google resort to advertising?
Is there a way for companies like Google and Facebook to make money that doesn't sell out their customers? Do they really make that much from advertising that it's not even worth thinking about alternatives. It's gross.
Shopify reported 50% yearly revenue growth which helped the stock price, and gov of Canada/provinces used shopify exclusively for their online marijuana ordering starting last year too. That said their lack of net income is a problem https://www.fool.ca/2019/05/07/where-will-shopify-tsxshop-st... and their hiring process is ridiculous even by modern meme hiring standards meaning it's going to get harder to hire people when they can just work for FAANG which are all opening offices, or already have offices in Canada and don't have the same very long process starting with telling a recruiter 'your life story' for over an hour.
The fact of its author and its extremely recent release date give this library significantly more credibility than any other similar "embedded JS" library. It may possibly be the best one available to date.
Who said it was only targeting US companies?

26 companies fall under the required threshold. Not all of them are US based and there's even a French one (criteo).

Here is the full list [1]:

• Sales of goods: Alibaba, Amazon, Apple, Ebay, Google, Groupon, Rakuten, Schibsted, Wish, Zalando.

• Services: Amadeus, Axel Springer, Booking, Expedia, Match.com, Randstad, Recruit, Sabre, Travelport Worldwide, Tripadvisor, Uber.

• Advertisement: Amazon, Criteo, Ebay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Verizon.

[1] http://www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/2019/03/20/20002-20190320...
I don't understand, maybe due to a language difference. Does 100% fruit juice mean the store bought 100% fruit guice (the premium brands?) or literally freshly squeezed orange, immediately drank? Wouldn't also eating fresh fruits be linked?
This is very typical for Upwork. I have entirely stopped using their platform.
I think the issue with understanding CORS is that you first need to understand same-origin policy and exactly when it applies. CORS is simply a method for bypassing same-origin policy. You also need to understand how a CSRF attack works.

Once you grasp both of these things, then you have the base for how and why CORS exists. Until then it's mostly an annoyance.
I'd bet money that by average customer use, the classic telephony functionality of iOS phones accounts for less than 1% of phone usage. They're used as computers first, second, and third and as a phone a distant last.
> And the last one would be a lie considering Bing can see it.

How would that be a lie. They protect from eavesdroppers, as in someone intercepting the connection and trying to extract data being transmitted within a system. Bing is part of the whole system, not a third party trying to eavesdrop.
Finally, they say they don't allow anyone between you and them - which is different from allowing between them and a third party, but I'm sure they would use an encrypted connection even when communicating with Bing.
I remember there was a link on HN which had a list of sites similar to this which are greener in general (i.e. which plant trees, or which use only green energy like solar, etc). I've been searching for it but couldn't find it. If someone has it, can they post it ? Thanks!
Well Damian's program actually reports "Use of uninitialized value of type Any in numeric context" which the programmer can choose to be a warning or an exception.
Diet drinks seem to not affect cancer, but the jury is still out on heart disease.
Not at all. Maybe for low paying jobs.
I don't think they've detailed that yet, at least not that I've seen.

But it is one of the few steps the Dark deployment process retains (see the diagram near the end of the article), so it seems they will support it (hopefully reasonably well).
Looking really cool! Hope there will be talks about implementing this and the benefits that it will bring.

Is this also coming to IOS or are there app store regulations that would prevent apps including Hermes from being uploaded?
This would incentivize competitors in France. That’s a good thing for France.
> There is really no good reason for DNS servers to be written in C anymore.

I’m a little behind on docs, but we have a pretty decent start on one in Rust: https://github.com/bluejekyll/trust-dns

We still need an AXFR, IXFR, or replication solution.

Also, I haven’t had time to fuzz the zone parsers, so I can’t guarantee we’re resilient to the above yet, but the packet parsers are getting pretty widely used across multiple Rust projects now through the trust-dns-resolver library.
Could you please review the guidelines? You've been breaking them quite a bit and eventually we ban accounts that won't stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It`s important to note that they add a 2%/1%/0.5% transaction fee on top of your processor fee with Basic Shopify / Shopify / Advanced Shopify plans, respectively.
Jeremy, I think you'll wan't this job
>>One starting point would be to wear a device that takes pictures 24/7,

and someone hacks into that and leaks much more damaging "actual" videos/images than deepfakes.

Remember celebrity iCloud fiasco?
> Taxes on $200k are gonna be less than $25k.

No, no they're not. I make less than $200k, and I paid an effective tax of ~25% last year. (CA's state income taxes are pretty high.) Extrapolating to $200k, I'd pay ~$50k in tax.

> food might be as high as $1000

Way too low. Finding lunch in SF is easily $10/meal, especially with the extra surcharges a lot of restaurants (and I mean that in the "fast lunch eatery" sense, not the "host-seats-you-at-nice-table" type, though those too) are now charging. I'm doing ~$4k/yr on food for two, and we rarely eat out.

I think your point is sound, but I think you're going to have closer to $60-$65k/yr. You also need to account for PMI & taxes on any home purchase. (The PMI will likely depend on how much you've got. Most people who are looking to buy homes probably won't have enough as they're too young, IMO, but then, they're also probably not experienced enough to pull $200k, unless maybe they're in a nice spot at a FAANG, but not everyone is.) You do mention this, but 401(k) savings is going to further reduce that, you probably want to put some in an investment too, and I think you'll find that $60k disappears rather quickly.
Feel free to check which amount of money the bitcoins addresses you can find online have received .. And you'll figure out :)
> If your goals is having a more progressive tax code or increasing income equality, the much better strategy is to combine high LVT/VAT taxes with a UBI, rather than explicitly try to target poorly designed tax schemes at rich people.

Effectiveness of UBI is still an area of much debate and research. Early results of this research based on a few pilots is decidedly not positive.