skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if this applies to Holland, but generally countries with high taxes implement Controlled Foreign Corporation (CFC) laws which force you to pay local taxes even if company is registered offshore.

Whether a company is considered to be CFC depends on many factors such as double taxation treaties between the two countries, the amount of shares you own and the level of taxation in the offshore country.
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Did you imply I'm downvoting? I don't even have enough karma (or whatever else the limitation is based on) to downvote you -- not that I would see any reason to do so in the first place.

> And it is still people behaving as a child when they should pay for education that will further their careers.

See? That's the problem right there. University in Germany (originally) isn't about career advancement. It's about education and lifelong learning. This is what I tried to explain. You can say this ideal is silly, but that doesn't change the fact that this ideal exists and a lot of students protesting the fees (and BA/MA, and so on) were genuinely subscribing to it.

That aside, in Germany most job education (Berufsausbildung, as in, an internship at a company coupled with classroom education) is government-subsidized and you're paid for it. So it's not like tuition fees were about making people pay for learning a trade -- it was exclusively about universities (under the assumption that university degrees mean higher income -- which is ridiculous if you consider the job market for nearly all of the degrees that aren't in high demand or relevant to any career, e.g. linguistics, cultural studies, philosophy etc).

> I hope they have fun using overhead projectors that are already 40 years old for the next couple of decades!

The government reducing their spending on public education is irrelevant to the debate of tuition fees. If the universities need more money to do their job, the government can increase the spending. This already exists, tuition fees were the new thing, not public funding. And the reduction of public funding was decidedly not brought up as an argument when the fees were introduced -- in fact it was claimed this would not have any effect on it.
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From the article:

The deal with Apple placed restrictions on GT selling the sapphire screens for use in certain applications, according to the company's regulatory filings.

GT gave Apple an exclusive license for certain applications of its sapphire glass technology, but the iPad maker had no obligation to buy the glass, according to the filings.

I could see how contracts like those could really hurt the cash of the business and filing for Chapter 11 would be a good way of getting out of those executory contracts.

The end result of all of this might be sapphire screens on other non-Apple devices?
:-/ Idon't get it
What an offensive, restrictive, and anti-free software license! Too bad - this might have otherwise been a useful piece of software. The current license renders it toxic.
Anyone who places any confidence in references from former employers is kidding themselves in the first place. Most employers wont give a negative reference on any employee, the liability risks are simply too high in our litigous age.

Not sure why Reddit's CEO thought it was cool to put one on the Internet for the entire planet to see.
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Thanks for sharing. I love Lua. First worked with it about 10 years ago. Still saddens me that it hasn't seen more widespread adoption.
It helps but it's not necessary. It's a game of shifting centers of rotation.[1]

Kick the backend :: upward tilted lift, center : ~back wheels.
Quickly slow the frontend :: upward tilted lift, center : ~front wheels.

[1] it requires suppleness in choreography, that's why any kid can do it, they're swift; the window of execution for both steps are very tiny. And they ask you to uncouple your mind, your feet and your center of gravity. Mind altering leap of faith it is.
I was born and grew up in China in the 60. Cuba now is like China under Mao before embracing market economy. Personally US embargo has little to do Cuba's economy development difficulty. Without US, it can still trade with Canada and rest of Latin America. Like China in 60,70, It is the central planning aspect of economy that is killing any incentive for normal people/organizations to be productive.
Personally, before I decide to try something like this I would be interested to know how the app collects data from the user. I participated in https://www.trackyourhappiness.org/. If you aren't familiar, it surveys you multiple times per day (it was configurable I think). The survey's were short. At first I was happy to do it, but over time the surveys got more and more annoying to the point where I stopped doing them altogether. It got too annoying for me personally before I completed enough surveys for them to compile a full profile for me. Has this app improved upon the data collection process at all?
I appreciate my experience is anecdotal, but I'm pretty sure issues used to be read and responded to by technical members of your team - it doesn't feel that way in the last year or so - but the acquisition may have been unrelated of course!

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The obvious answer is that wall street has never been in a state of no regulation; at least, not for a very long time.

When you have a bunch of poorly thought out regulation, much of it designed to exclude competition, that's when things go bad.

The cool thing about the internet is that regardless of what you or the SEC or John Q. Public thinks is a bad idea or improper, people are free to experiment with it anyway. Technology has outpaced the ability of governments to proscribe voluntary interaction.
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We're over manual tracking too, and trying to remove all that friction. Most of the data we collect is passive - you connect a service via OAuth and never have to think about it again. Just keep using your Fitbit, or last.fm, or making events in your calendar.

The one exception is mood tracking, where you reply to an email every night and manually rate your day.
That is a really good question, and a question that people agonize over constantly.

When Zen was associated with swordsmanship and Bushido in Japanese culture they simply used to wait until the battle was over. Who ever was left standing was clearly a master. Those who got stabbed obviously didn't know Zen.

But not all Zen masters know how to fight. My recommendation to anyone interested in studying Zen is to track down and read biographies of celebrated Zen masters. When you're reading them look at how these celebrated masters challenged their teachers to prove they were worthy. These people are constantly messing with each other.

A part of what fascinates me about studying Zen is its ability to impart useful knowledge via anecdote and narrative. History probably added some embellishments, but that's part of the fun.
Right, so my question is, why would anyone opt for a policy more strict than this?
That isn't really a counterargument; it's just a factoid. A counterargument would be something along the lines of "Regulation hurts small players more than large ones, and the scarcity of small players has been the biggest problem with Wall Street over the past decade because _____, therefore the problem with Wall Street is too much oversight."
definitely an interesting video - thanks. I wonder if the detailed visual information necessary to detect those changes is actually stored but very hard to retrieve, or simply not stored.
>I don't remember Linus ever sending death threats to anyone. As for the people who did send it to the OP, I think most people agree that death threats are not OK under any circumstance and that whoever did do it is an outlier and not an example of how the community behaves.

In this statement I was referring to the issue being discussed in this particular thread, not to Linus. Sorry, should have been clearer.

> I think it is since public shaming tends to be effective in preventing whatever behavior was shamed, as per the racist/homophobe/sexist argument.

But as I said - it doesn't change behavior, it only changes whether or not one publicly displays one's thoughts. And even then, it's a temporary effect at best.

> I don't follow why it's doubly lousy for software in general. Software has its fair share of opinionated debates that are more about differences of philosophy rather than careful cognitive consideration of problems. And as for it being the opposite of what fear inspires, I'm not sure I agree. The educational system world wide uses fear effectively and it seems to mostly work (despite whatever problems you may have with it), so I don't see what would make programming special in that regard.

It's lousy because it doesn't inspire real change. People don't change their opinions because they got chewed out, even if it was rightfully so. They just learn to resent the people doing the chewing out and oppose them more subtly.

You use our education system as an example - but I don't know that I'd say the education parts of the system (as opposed to the discipline parts, whose effectiveness I would frankly dispute) aren't fear-based. They're generally built to be merit-based (whether they succeed is outside the scope of this discussion).
I agree with your point, but I think the Nazi rocket scientists are a counter example.
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Here's mine - http://imgur.com/a/gRiyk

This is pretty awesome, but could definitely use persistent data so we can just share the map. Could also use off-client/background processing - might be working on this piece soon...
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If you are familiar with iMacros, BuildABot Studio is essentially the same, but allows much more control. For example, you can use conditionals, and compile your scripts into standalone exe's.
What is ownership of a piece of land, precisely, then, and how does it differ from ownership of the radio spectrum? My understanding is that ownership of a piece of land simply means that you'll (or a proxy, whether private entity or Government, will) use violence (or threaten it) to keep other people from using it without your permission.
Yep - had a similar experience with our little start up about one and a half years ago. I would have saved a lot of time and second guessing by making them put their cards on the table at the outset. Instead I dicked around providing info and data and eventually we came to the conclusion a deal couldn't work - but only after I'd spilled my guts thinking I was about to land the big one...
*You still have

Grammar people, grammar.
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lol, women in stem is just an annoying meme to be downvoted to these people.
S.A.C. performed background checks on prospective employees, but it is not known whether the firm detected this blemish in Martoma’s record. Of course, S.A.C. could have learned of it and hired him anyway; forging a law-school transcript and mailing it to twenty-three federal judges demonstrates impressive comfort with risk.

It sounds as if they got exactly the kind of employee they wanted. Really, though, how did he think he'd get away with that, in the late nineties? By that point in time it was well-known that transcripts are provided by the registrar's office, not by students. Maybe it would have worked in the seventies...

The insider trading seems much the same. The sheer volume of those trades, coming less than a week before significant announcements of previously-secret information, was bound to throw up red flags. Did they have to short the stocks as well?

If this is the sort of thing that gets caught, there are bound to be billions of dollars of slightly subtler insider trading going unpoliced. The only thing I can think of is that possibly the really egregious insider trading crowds out the less aggressive sort. That's a reach though, and unless there's a good reason to believe it's true, why do we even bother policing this?
Hm - I visited Peru (Lima, Arequipa, and Cuzco) 15 years ago, and with the exception of sopa criolla and some good fish, nothing was especially exciting. Cui (guinea pig) was interesting.

But then, it wasn't that long ago that one's decent choices in London were mostly Indian/Pakistani, and the situation's much improved now. So good on Lima for evolving.
I'd be interested in how many people do not know Ada Lovelace but do know Charles Babbage.
Why should people on wall street be forbidden from doing whatever investments they want to, insofar as they are contractually allowed? If you don't like how someone is investing, don't invest with them. If you think certain banks are behaving riskilly, don't give them your money. What are some counter-arguments to this? I.e. why is it a) moral and b) desirable to regulate the activity of wall street traders in addition to the laws they are automatically subject to (like anti-fraud laws)?
All languages are not equal, but "better" or "worse" depend on the opinion of the person asked much more than you're implying.
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To get conversations started..

Lapis[1] on Openresty[2] is one of the most simplest, documented, and performant full web framework stack out there, yet almost no one knows it.

Hello World Open[3] - 2.5k teams, only 17 ( < 0.7% ) teams used Lua. This is an open competition, which means people can use their favorite language instead of Java, and less than 1% uses Lua.

The lua community really need to start doing something about this.

1. http://leafo.net/lapis/
2. http://openresty.org/
3. https://helloworldopen.com/teams
Pork can easily carry diseases that humans are susceptible to. Not such an issue these days with modern food processing. Bacon and other processed/preserved meats are loaded up with sodium nitrite, which also helps.
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It's really not. It's business and this is potentially very bad for the business. Rather than an ex employees AMA being discussed the discussion has turned roundly onto the response of the CEO. Rather than talking about the $50 million in investment or what they plan to do with it everyone is busy talking about Yishan and his response to this thread, how he mishandled the relocation mandate to their employees and other things he's mishandled recently. Honestly if I were an investor in Reddit I'd be concerned about who's steering the ship.
The commit messages are usually in the format of: Bash-<version> patch <incremental number>
instead of something more descriptive.
May be forgotten now, but when I went to college in the 80's and 90's, Babbage and Lovelace were all referred in the intro courses as the fathers of computing...
You essentially can't evaluate that in isolation (looking at their past interactions with the infosec community may help).

It gets better: you can't even depend on the large players generally getting it right. If a large organization makes a bad decision with their first infosec hire, it's not a self-correcting problem - the next hires will be cut from the same cloth, and unless something blows up, almost nobody will know.
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It's an exciting prospect to trade financial assets on a decentralized, trustless network. Definitely the right direction.

But I'm not psyched about having to think about Counterparty's internal XCP currency, even if it isn't used for most purposes. It's an annoying barrier to have to transact in an altcoin to access certain functionality.

Other implementations use pure Bitcoin only, and are much less overwrought with complexity than Counterparty: https://coins.assembly.com
> my wife, a physical therapist, says that lack of flexibility in our 30's and 40's is highly correlated with likelihood of falls when we are elderly.

I think this is why a lot of people get injured as they get older. You just don't realize how much less time you're putting into something you used to be able to do really well, then you try something that used to be easy with less flexibility and bam. problems, heh.

I ran an obstacle course recently after having not done it in awhile. I was actually pretty surprised at how coordinated I still was (I'm 31, so I don't have all the issues I could yet), but I felt the tightness during and was sooooo sore the next day

I really need to start doing consistent balance drills and flexibility training
This is a heap of feel-good nonsense. You are simply referencing the meme of home cooking and artisan hand crafted instruments without juatification. Furthermore, the aforementioned items are all highly subjective and strictly for human consumption so it is no surprise that human involvement is paramount. What is the correct/best amount/type of human involvement?
Its not that bad here. Saturdays aren't work days anymore for most professionals like they were in the 90s.
>It's rather that the initial smack or pop of the tail against the floor makes the board fly upward, which you can reproduce by just by stamping on the tail of your board. That was my first insight.

I see this repeated over and over. Maybe I'm misinterpreting your comment, thought I've definitely seen it elsewhere such as this comment on the article:

>It actually looks like he "bounces" the board while starting the ollie, which provides a portion of the initial upwards velocity of the board.

Think about that for a moment. This is patently absurd. It's like trying to get several feet of air by crouching down and hitting the ground with a hammer. The collision is too elastic.

I think the confusion might arise because a really strong smack of the ground by the tail coincides with more torque (torque, right?). Of course, you can easily ollie if your tail hangs over nothing at all; it's probably even easier because you can rotate further.

IMHO, Terr's guess is exactly right. You get all the lift from pushing down the nose / dragging across the grip tape.
thanks for breaking it down! I'm adding it to the snazzy new gallery, and implementing Lissajous curves is going to be my new region of exploration
I wonder how this compares to http://gwan.com/
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Hey Peter,

Swiftly lead dev here. Just wanted to say this is very cool!
I was a little bit surprised to see us in your examples.

We've been looking into improving our end-to-end testing tools, but it looks like you guys have already taken care of it. Nice work! ;-)
GCC hasn't had "a" maintainer since the late '90s, when RMS stopped being sole maintainer. It's now maintained by a whole bunch of people: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/MAINTAINERS
I've received suggestions for domains that have already been registered. How does the tool determine whether or not a domain is available or not?
Not usually. In fact where I live (NH) the taxes work against it. Your annual fees are based on cars value. I was previosly doing a new lease vehicle every year (two vehicles on 2-year lease terms with staggered renewal years).

Now we buy and hold vehicles for 5-10 years.
There's a lot of insight here, but I question whether "Maker excitement" vs. "non-excitement of traditional crafts" should be attributed to gender. The way I see it there are plenty of crafts like woodworking that are less "gendered" than jewelry-making and knitting but still wouldn't gather any interest with a Make magazine readership.

The overall point though, that electronics were in particular made obscure at some point in the 80s or 90s, seems pretty spot on.
The propaganda of the Cold War is breathtaking in its effectiveness. The USSR are the bad guys, comic book villains out to destroy the world. The US are plucky do-gooders, fighting to save the world from evil yet again (after single handedly winning WWII). There is no room for nuance. There is no grey area in perhaps the greyest of all conflicts since the Great Game. Both the US and USSR inflicted terrible damage to nations all over the world through proxy wars, intelligence agency coups. The ramifications of those conflicts are still felt throughout Latin America, the Middle East, and South East Asia.

And that all gets swept aside by "The USA was a champion of liberty that pursued strategies intended only to defend the free world against the USSR." Read the Wikipedia article on "Covert United States Foreign Regime Change Actions" [0], and see how many of those nations benefited in the long run, and how some incredibly brutal regimes were installed or propped up throughout the third world, simply because they weren't communists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_re...
Maybe you think pigs are dirty as they wallow in mud? This is because they lack functional sweat glands, and can't pant like a dog can. They wallow to keep cool.

I'd be curious to know if "savaging" (eating/killing their young) occurs outside of factory farms. I imagine if it does, the likelihood is a lot lower.
Please. I lived in Soviet Union and United States for decades (in each). Not it wasn't a totalitarian evil empire. It was an empire. It didn't tollerate criticism of its government but:

* It provided free healthcare

* It provided free housing

* Crime rate was law

* It provided free and quality education (from kindergarten all the way to the highest degrees)

> The USA was a champion of liberty that pursued strategies intended only to defend the free world against the USSR.

Wait, are you being sarcastic. I am confused. Poe's Law in full effect here, ladies and gentlement.
"hey have been looking at offering a service/product similar to ours" - that's called a competitor... and they can do whatever they want with your IP - patents or not - you're gonna sue them? Good luck with that, they'll bury you.

I'd finish the product, launch, then talk. Your value isn't going down between now and then, and this is just a distraction.

Just say 'see you on launch day, bring a check".

Background story - we sold our 2 person company (Big Brother) to BigCo (Quest Software)... little did I know that our free product was killing the sales of their $50K a pop product... ohhhh... so that's why they were so interested....
They think they are though and convinced themselves and many others that they are.
That's a great point. Better thought-out and written articles are always going to be welcome here. Those are not coat-tail stories, and the algorithms need not to identify them as such.
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