skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're interested, you can estimate the profit on revenue in all countries relatively easily by multiplying the country revenue by the overall margin.

These numbers tell you how much profit _Apple USA_ made in those countries.

Say Apple USA typically makes $300 on an $800 iphone sold in Germany. Where should this $300 be taxed?

To me, it seems perfectly reasonable that most of it is taxed in the US, since the iPhone was invented, developed, engineered in the US and ultimately the business and product was created in the US.

And indeed this is how international corporation tax works by decades of rules on transfer pricing and how corporations are allowed to assign expenses and value along international supply chains.

If you demanded that Apple pay full German corporation on ALL of the profits made by Apple in Germany, then you are claiming that the innovation, engineering and design that occurred in the US contributed ZERO value to the iPhone.

And even if you did that, it would not change Apple's tax liability (much) as it would just mean shifting corporation tax rights from the US to Germany.

It's not strange that all the European calls for shifting the right to tax corporates from the countries where they do the most work/create the value to other countries only seem to apply to "internet giants" but not "car giants" or "aviation giants" or "food giants" which whould result in European countries having to give up large amounts of corporation tax income to other countries.
Nurture can trump nature, though: There are matrilineal societies where competitiveness is considered a feminine trait.

As is often the case, it's not simply either/or.
I genuinely think Win10 has made huge leaps in many areas compared to Win7. It's just that they make so many bone-headed design decisions across the OS that detract from it. I wish I could recommend Windows 10 wholeheartedly, and generally I do recommend upgrading to it, it's just a ... problematic OS.
Doctors prescibing antibiotics for viral colds should have their licenses taken away, it's pretty simple.

Countries where antibiotics can be had over the counter for people with viral colds should be shut out of international trade.

Countries where giving antibiotics to healthy livestock is allowed should be shut out of international trade.

These aren't even controversial measures.
What about property tax where you pay % of your property valuation without having any revenues, how is that fair?
"The http://mozilla.org tab discussing the importance of Privacy loads in the background, bringing along with it the Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics. Hello, Google."

Loved that part.
Yeah, they keep making trivial things harder to do for no reason. You used to be able to right-click the icon and go directly to the classic control panel. Not anymore. The whole start menu is a failure and they need to overhaul it.
Been doing marketing for a while and only just discovered that "Time to Interactive" is a more important metric than "First Meaningful Paint” in Google's eyes.

I see a lot of sites loading in 3rd party scripts such as Intercom, Hotjar, Segment etc ... (killing their Time to Interactive metric)

Once I found such an elegant solution (waiting for a scroll event before loading) I thought it was worth sharing.
It’s “Très mauvais” :)
But I agree and would love to see more work done to take advantage of animations to teach math concept (e.g 2blue1brown) game is also cool especially with unity (cf on YouTube : codeadventure)
That article is completely bullshit. As the statistics it is based on...
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Here is an answer to your question:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-discovered-new-john-locke-m...
> paid for in US dollars, never the Haitian gourde

Presumably the government is getting paid in US dollars too, which is a nice fx source

> Haitians not employed by Royal Caribbean cannot enter.

Can Haitians generally roam free on private property?

> Caribbean countries are “basically giving away parcels of land”

What now? Do we call all foreign private ownership "giving away"? Poor article from The Economist telling us nothing other than rich travelers to Haiti don't want to deal with the downsides of it, which is a story as old as time.
The same ex-opera people was the master minds behind the netinstaller tracking :) I was not implying that Opera is any more adware/malware than any other software.
Disable JavaScript and Twitter magically becomes...almost useable. You can only view one image at a time. Other than that, proper conversations are readable. As someone who visits Twitter approximately every other month, it works for me.
> I can remember that I was introduced to sine and cosine through game programming before it was discussed in school.

I was introduced to it slightly after I was in school, but unlike school, gamedev is what made me actually understand it. Then the whole trigonometry, and basics of vector arithmetic and matrices. School for me was boring repetition of arbitrary tasks forced top-down by unpleasant people. Wanting to make my own game, that gave me huge motivation.

(Then I went to university, and on the first year's physics lab, I was asked to solve something on a whiteboard. It was a simple thing involving a vector cross product, so I proceeded to write out the formula and calculate the result. TA looked bewildered and asked me what the hell am I doing? Turns out, I was supposed to first do a whole dance around base vectors and 3x3 matrices to derive the appropriate formula, which I simply memorized when I was 14, having implemented it in C++ half a dozen times. Turns out, gamedev-driven education can leave you with holes in theory.)
That's untrue. The EU is a great system and Junker is a great leader. Please educate yourself
It makes me unreasonably mad that he includes a screenshot of the beautiful looking game undertale with the implication that his games look is even remotely in the same ballpark.
The irony is that nobody bothers to look at things past their face value but then claims to care.

Mozilla has a custom contract protecting your privacy while using google's software:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14
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That's quite an assumption. I really don't know if they are any better, worse or just different because their environment is different. I really don't like dissing things just because they've changed. Can you really summarise an entire generation so easily?
The implication there was patented. Linux for example has been developed all over the world, yet am sure the administration would happily claim it's American as well, just because of where the Linux Foundation is located, but that doesn't matter as long as it's open.
>An economy isn't a bureaucratic organization

Yes, in the real world it's a loose not very well coordinated association of bureaucratic organizations (i.e large enterprises - Dilbert is less comedy and more journalism), monopolies, advertisers, clueless consumers, media and politicians paid by corporate interests (or pursuing their own over their duties), financial schemers, speculators, and rent-seekers...
> Doctors are going to be very, very, conservative about how they prescribe.

Conservatively is how most strong opioids should be presrcribed. The general rule is that they should not be prescribed for chronic non-cancer pain.
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In January I built a personal project on the web with Rust and had the positive experience I was hoping for. The efficiency of execution plus the cleanliness and memory safety of a modern language was the draw.

It took me a week of battling with the compiler to understand what I was doing, but afterwards it felt fairly natural.

My biggest hurdle was I went all in on async (the bikesheded, nightly feature). But a pet peeve of mine is that desktop apps were all async in the 90s and here we have webservers hoarding processes and threads, simply waiting on IO.

I quickly ran into the limits of Rust's async ecosystem. Hyper is an excellent library but there wasn't a webserver framework on top of it at the time. Now there is warp, so I intend to switch over to that from having rolled my own, but I hear some rumbling on reddit that it can lead to compiled size explosion, so gonna watch out for that.

For sql, I'm using mysql-async, but it seems like a single persons passion project. It's quite painful because even with the good libraries (serde) it feel broken to do so much hand writing of sql given the rich type information available in my structs. Everyone seems to use diesel but afaict it's incompatible with the async approach. This is my only real pain point right now.

The whole async ecosystem is still nightly and in flux all the time. Though, amazingly, it's worked quite well. It's clear the community has rallied behind it as most projects are on the bleeding edge. But hiccups happen such as mysql-async not yet supporting the new, nearly-stable version of futures.

Another pain point i've run into is there aren't great crypto libraries. Some very incomplete pure rust stuff. Some poorly documented wrappers of c stuff.

Finally, a third party web api I'm interfacing with doesn't have a rust library so I had to roll my own.

For other random needs I've been surprised by how often I find a great library. AWS libraries, for example, are surprisingly good.

My conclusion is that for web backends rust isn't plug-and-play yet (especially if you want to go all async). But it's pretty darn close.

And yeah, it's crazy fast. Like working in Modern C++ but with iron clad memory safety.
And their 'report a problem' link goes to a 403 page on form submit...
Thx for the tip!
The point was not the "other people were also bad back then" the point was that, the Chereokee themselves were bad people back them.

Chereokee were oppressing the other tribes before the arrival of the Europeans and then fighting along the Europeans in order to dominate other tribes.
So studying the musical theory of say "strange fruit" (Meeropol) rather than including the historical context?
You can get reasonably far with Trello, if all you're doing is item tracking. If you're trying to do anything more than a free-for-all workflow, or wanting to do reporting, it's less good.
I really hope that these ships will get banned in the next 10 years.
Good lord. That page is like something out of the late 1800s. I expect some guy with a tophat and a waxed mustache to pop up saying “What you got here is a bonafied, superfied, securitized login experience.”

SQRL may be great, but presentation counts. Presenting documentation as giant PDFs with no internal linking?

But I really got turned off when I read that it only does single-factor login.
Agreed. I don't believe programming should be taught in school until late, but the use of games to bring maths alive, to give maths a relevance, would be fantastic. I, like most people, don't work in the abstract and need a framework to a) interest me in things, and b) to make them relevant. Without that it's so much harder.
Well, what kinds of changes would you propose to do in order to attempt to reach this state where the increases in standards of living matched increases of productivity? Does it have anything to do with taxes, social programs, and regulation? Because I have a known historical set of of those things which led to outcomes that are at least closer to what you want than what we have now. Can we not recognize that the last 40 years of changes were a failure, so we should move back to the better state and then move forward from there again in the hopes of doing better this time? Or must we continue to add on to 40 years of failure?

Because if you're expressing a concern about wealth/income inequality, and you're not willing to try to recreate the state which created better wealth/income equality, then you seem dishonest. Frankly, it seems like you're speaking exactly in the reverse of your stated goals. You say you want equality and that taxes/regulation/social programs are the means. But you are acting the opposite, that taxes/regulation/social programs are the goal and that complaining about equality is the means.
> Are you seriously suggesting consumers of Google Ads (entities, worth on average, a few thousand euros) will go to court against Google (an 800bn dollar company)?

No, Google will sue them if they don't pay and the amount is large enough. That's a fairly trivial process in most legal systems. If you do use the legal system, that is. If you don't, you need to pray that your contractual partner keeps their end of the bargain because you cannot enforce the contract.

> Consumer contracts are enforceable due to reputational concerns and goodwill, not the legal system.

That's wrong. It's easy to enforce a contract, it happens all the time.
Ahem... Do you know about Anne Fasto-Sterling or Donna Haraway? They are both highly credentialed biologists and pivotal figures in the development of women's/gender studies.
With self driving cars you have no idea what they would do when presented with an edge case they may have only seen very rarely before. With humans, you can in most cases assume the driver would do something reasonable, especially if there is enough time to think through the situation.
> mozillians don't have enough workforce and/or assets to control infrastructure to roll their own analytics platform

That's hardly an excuse when you want to differentiate on privacy, is it?
Hey, I recommend her to try interactive coding course at BitDegree. It is suitable for absolute beginners. This was my first completed coding course. It is very engaging and easy to learn. Hope she will love it too. Here is a link: https://www.bitdegree.org/course/coding-for-beginners-space-...
I feel guilty for laughing when he said "to have a friendly chat with HR". It's certainly not a good month for him, as apparently his wife recently left him as well[0]. Bit sad (and perhaps demeaning) to see the video cut mid-way for a message from the sponsor.

But yeah, as jacquesm also said, there's no reason to expect any better from Facebook, is there? It's rather a mark of consistency, being unethical both outwards and inwards.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fssFXlNk6vw
exactly, there is a difference between the "right" way and the "way that works"
I don't think so. Heard educated musicians perfectly play music that left me indifferent. Musicians that create music that touches me are often self taught.
I'll get a video to you in the next day or so - thanks! :)
Instead of asking would you fire them for their own good, rather ask, do you employ them for their own good?
Oh, but they do. The same way a group of muggers does when they stop you in a dark alley and say, "we value your money".

(Hell, they'll likely offer you an option to consent or proceed without consent to receive reduced experience.)
You're a bit late to the party…
Any possible chance of supporting third party sync? I'd love to have Brave (my primary mobile browser) sync natively with Firefox (my primary desktop browser).
Glad to see there life beyond python for corporative AI usage.
Some of these features might be solved by VSCode + extension. Have you tried it?

We're not building new IDE but trying to improve some workflows that happen often in programmer's workflow. Focused on web development for now.
First word, third world clash in the service industry is real but you should not react with emotion only.

What you need to consider is the opportunity cost for those workers. Opportunity cost = (return of best alternative not taken) - (return of a chosen option). If the work at cruise company is the best opportunity for the low paid Filipino worker, you should just be generally horrified how hard the life in third world is. 14-16 hours of hard work per day in a ship may be better than even harder lower paying work in some factory.

This is separate issue from pure exploitation and abuse where even the low wages are not paid on time, agreements are not kept and more work is assigned without extra compensation.
-1) rip out street parking or a lane on all arterial roads and install a bollarded buss lane.

0) remove single family zoning in the city of los angeles and remove height restrictions on parcels a 10 min walk to a metro station

1) enact an actual property tax to fund transit

2) 1% sales tax on cars and luxury goods to fund transit

3) watch the egregiously inflated housing prices tumble to rational levels

4) buy property and build elevated rail above

5) enjoy the lack of smog
A few years ago we migrated from Jira to Gitlab. To use their project-planning features (Epics, etc) they take a massive preḿium if you're not interested in the other features.

Still, the basics are sound, and even without epics and a few of the other neat but expensive features, it goes pretty far.
> If you demanded that Apple pay full German corporation on ALL of the profits made by Apple in Germany

That's just complying with the law. The rest of your comment is irrelevant and is not how taxation works.

This is solely an issue of accounting and tax rules that allow an international company to effectively be taxed wherever this suits it best, i.e. where the rate is lowest, be reporting no or very low profits in countries with higher rates because 'profit' depends on many parameters which an international company can tweak.

This is very difficult to prevent legally because the rules companies use are reasonable when running a business and thus cannot realistically be removed.

The only solution left is therefore to tax what cannot be tweaked: revenue.
Okay, what does this have to do with what she said?

> We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.

She's not saying that biology is the sole factor that determines how we behave. She's saying that we need to understand it and integrate it into our understanding of cultural, psychological, sociological artifacts. Or more importantly, we can't understand them without taking into account biology. I don't see anything wrong here.
How is Brave shady? Or are you just trolling?
Is there any way to easy run webkit on Windows?
Ask HN: Biggest Problems Regarding Travel
Hi guys,

I'm building a product that will revolutionize the travel industry.

What are the biggest problems you are facing regarding travel?
Or perhaps he would put some serious effort into seeing how their work life could be improved and would work on improving the cruise’s environmental footprint
Note that all of your examples had working prototypes; it just took 20 years to make them affordable/scale them (along with some incremental improvements).

With self-driving cars we have no such prototype and I would not expect one in the next 20 years. Unless we are talking about driving on specially equipped roads/lanes or in some special situations, where we might see them much sooner.
I have daughters 6 and 8 years old. When talking about math with them, it mostly revolves around arithmetic calculus. But then there are plenty of tricks that can be learnt by doing calculations in ones head. Maybe it is not very fashionable these days, but calculating in ones head certainly is a good training and is often a disguised way of doing factoring/expanding.
Did you try the "New Jira"[1]? It has been pretty decent for us.

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/the-new-jira-be...
AFAIK, MacOS licensing requires running on Apple hardware.

Notice that you'll find cloud providers offering Linux and Windows, but almost never MacOS virtual machines.
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I must say it looks very eat from the point of view of usability. Are the training data sets open? Do you see feasible for small app coders (who don’t have thousands of examples to train) to use Duckling as more or less NLP parser without getting too much deep into the NLP and AI theory?

Are the trained sets mean to be used by different client code or languages?
I've used Phabricator (https://github.com/phacility/phabricator) for years. It's a bit rough around the edges, but it's robust, straightforward and well maintained.
Ended up evaluating bunch of different Saas services last year and the best I found for the team and our use cases was Wrike. The UI was quite slick and didn't come between the developer and the task too much. Had quite good reporting and support for project hierarchies etc. Wasn't the most expensive but wasn't the cheapest.

Currently using Jira with "next-gen" project. It's slicker (but still slower to use than Wrike) to use and admin but lacks lots of useful features and is buggy. This morning our project lost epics for few hours without any explanation. Fffuun!

But yep, almost everything is better than Jira if you have the possibility to switch.
Honestly, for the amount of flak they still get because of it, they really should've dropped GA by now and wrote their own analytics backend. If they're serious about valuing privacy and preventing tracking, that custom backend wouldn't need to be complicated.
Until, for some reason, one of them wants to, but he can't, he's stuck in his current situation, and that's called "reduced social mobility".
What was this information used for?
Yeah although we would probably have said "two eight zillion" not "twenty eight zillion", and in the kind of conversations we'd have, it wouldn't really matter.

"Where is the stack base supposed to be?"

"O X 8 zillion"

"Oh, the system crashed with stack pointer at 0 X two eight zillion, something must have gone badly wrong!"
Checkout gitlab. They have issue tracker and wiki along with everything else DevOps.

You can also have a look at https://clubhouse.io
I realise this might sound like a circular argument, but: Any fine imposed on a rational company for criminal conduct must be insufficient, because had the fine been sufficient, a rational company would not have engaged in the criminal conduct.

In other words, if a company gets hit with an $X fine for Foo, the options are:

1. The company determined the profit from Foo was greater than $X multiplied by the probability of getting caught.

2. The company's governance meant decision-makers on Foo received bonuses for its profits, but were insulated from the costs/fines, and acted in their personal interests but against the company's interests.

3. The company underestimated $X or the probability of getting caught.

4. The company or its employees were irrational.

And if you're the efficient-market-Homo-economicus type that believes 3 and 4 are impossible, that only leaves 1 and 2 - requiring fines larger than $X irrespective of what $X is or personal executive liability respectively.

Of course, the downside to this argument is the results if you transfer it elsewhere in the justice system; by this logic, every crime should have infinite punishment - but an automatic death penalty for speeding is an absurd result.
Measuring UX with Heart ️
Some free alternatives:
1) Trello (already mentioned)
2) Remember The Milk (free for 2 people)
3) Todoist
4) PivotalTracker
Where a company books revenue has pretty much nothing to do with corporation tax which is based on _profit_.

This discussion has no chance of being productive if the distinction between profit and revenue is constantly blurred. It wouldn't matter if Apple had booked $120bn revenue in France as it's only the _PROFIT_ booked in France which is taxable.

What France wants to do has to be compatible with the decades of building international consensus and rules on taxing supply chains that span the globe. Unless they want to see their car, aviation, food, etc. exports subjected to revenue based taxation in international markets.

Taxing revenues of imports is a called a "duty" nothing to do with corporation tax.
Correct, I use that. However, it is jus one image and without anything else.