skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd heard the term before but never looked into it – it was useful to have something to prompt me (partially because this article doesn't even mention what it is). It's when the government manipulates electorates to increase their chances of being re-elected. As someone in the UK this is something I've wondered about a lot over the last year.

If you don't follow UK politics, we have a government that was elected with 51% of the seats on 36.9% of the votes.

I found this article which explains some of the mechanisms used to manipulate the outcome of these elections.

https://medium.com/@georgetaitedwards/is-britain-now-too-ger...
There was a giant LCD billboard outside my window in Baltimore. Though it was quite some distance away, at night it shone into my window like a nighttime Sun. Destroyed the otherwise lovely view of Baltimore Penn Station, not to mention required pulling the blinds to be able to sleep.
>But Facebook is taking the piss.

Exactly, they take it from "mild annoyance about the state of the world" through to full-on rage.

I'd like to know whether - annoyingly - even if they knowingly bought about huge tax reform, whether the short terms gains of doing this now would still make it worthwhile. Sadly, I can't see any way that it's not worth abusing whenever possible.
Shareholders are generally pretty keen on the "existence" of a corporation when it comes to limited liability.
Common
which is the best solution for belly pot?
Why are you posting this? You realize this is yesterday's future dance music right?
The way road usage costs are determined doesn't really matter - it's enforced by a mutually accepted contract. Yes, that's theoretical ;).
Why is everybody down-voting the guy/gal. Can you at least give an explanation?

Nowhere in their comment did they write something negative about Naval. They just described their interaction, and frankly if this is exactly what happened, I would go out and call it "not friendly" at best.

One unfriendly interaction does not make a person bad, or take away from Naval. We have no idea what his context was, or what he was discussing at the time.

As for OP, I think it is great you shared this. If for nothing for the simple reason that you have just given him a chance to reflect on that and rectify it if it were a mistake.

Isn't this what we want? Honest feedback?
I wouldn't be so quick to condemn them. If you were running a business that had earned millions in profit for the financial year and were faced with the option of A) distributing it all out to your employees in the form of bonuses (which, of course, would be taxed) or putting all the profit in the bank and paying a huge tax bill, which would you pick? This seems like a good example of wealth trickling down to me, but it's painted as tax evasion.
Dell to buy EMC in deal worth about $67B
Did you even read the article?
Cortana does do simple calculations though. Even things like 'is X prime?' work. So I am hopeful that there is indeed an API that they plan to release in the future.
Right but presumably some of the money in the existing budget for said thing can be moved around. So, say you donate $10 to Professor X's classroom and his existing budget is $50. You bumped it to $60. They can just take $10 from the existing budget and put it elsewhere. Your $10 still goes to that class, and the total goes back to $50. What you really want to know is whether the budget has increased by the amount you and others earmarked, year over year. I doubt that level of reporting is given by schools or even requested by donors. We just trust or assume that "earmarked" means the budget increased.
Would be nice if it had a refresh timer or keypress - having to ctrl-c out and back again when you've removed some content is a bit faffy. Other than that, it's pretty useful.
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Growth Hacking and Profit Maximization the 500 Startups Way
Why bother with all of this? Why not just stop using Facebook?
The cap gain is only paid on the profit made when selling. RSUs are taxed as regular income when they are awarded. Most likely the employees are high rate tax payers so it comes out at 40-45% tax + National Insurance.
Facebook pays less tax than you do, and that’s shambolic
> Why?

... because we don't call out those that do, praise them and give them our custom.
>362 Facebook staff on an average salary of say £65,000 will contribute at least £7,230,696.60 in taxes and NI to HMRC.

Why should Facebook get to enjoy an advantage over 36 companies employing 10 people each at a similar average salary?

>If I had a choice between Facebook paying £4,327 in corporation tax but employing over 350 highly skilled individuals in the UK, or relocating to somewhere like Dublin due to aggressive taxation policies. I know what I would pick.

You'd prefer every large company to be based in the UK and not pay corporation tax?

Of course not.

Personally, I think we're long overdue another huge waste like DeLorean coming along.
Do you have a source or you're assuming? (except for ultralights, of course)

It is usually sent by container in cases, for example, where maintenance is needed

But even small aircraft can be ferried without many issues (beyond a convoluted path)
Interesting. So that means Gabe Newell owns essentially all the stock?
What about scrapping corp tax, and replacing with a higher VAT rate?
As much as the minuscule corp tax bills infuriate me, my logical half laughs and says income tax is silly, just use sales tax.

I know we'll never pass something along the lines of FairTax, but I daydream about it all the time. And yes, I've heard all the arguments against it and I still think it's a much better solution than taxing income.
Alexander Coward: 'My student evaluations for the two classes I had completed were the highest on record in the Mathematics Department'

Berkeley Mathematics Department: ".. I hope and expect that you will be able to align more with our standards for the remainder of this semester and during the next academic year."

Translation: Your students are doing significiently better than ours and therefore showing up our mediocre teaching performance and for that reason - you're fired ..

http://alexandercoward.com/BlowingTheWhistleOnUCBerkeleyMath...
This argument is not valid. Yes they are paying VAT and income tax. So what? They should also be paying corporation tax. A start up competitor would have to pay VAT, income tax and corporation tax.
You're Not in the Valley Anymore
Putting problems with containing hydrogen aside, it seems this would actually work. A structure made with 99.99% hydrogen (0.09 kg/m3) and 0.01% aluminum (2700 kg/m3) by volume would have an average density of 0.36 kg/m3. This is lower than air (1.29 kg/m3) and bit more than twice the density of helium.
>Would YOU pay more taxes than you have to?

Most people pay more tax than they need to because they don't have access to devious accountants who create excessive tax-avoidance schemes.

Most of these schemes are neither normal tax planning nor a bit of tax avoidance. They are aggressive tax avoidance that exploit the regulations in weird ways. They're legal, but only because the regulations were malformed (and will get re-made) or because the schemes haven't been tested in courts.

And the way UK tax authorities work is rightly to use courts as a measure of last resort, preferring negotiation instead.
They are not (directly) competing with restaurants, but with supermarkets. They have clear benefits above supermarkets, as they do not have to throw away food. They directly send it to their customers. Furthermore, their food prices are a lot higher than buying it yourself in a supermarket.

HelloFresh buys in bulk, so spices/nuts etc. are especially packed for one box. Which becomes really inexpensive if you serve the same kind of food world wide. This massive globalization is (or will be) their competitive advantage.
Why Every Country Has a Different Plug (2009)
People dislike pervasive advertising because it becomes clear that you are a pawn in the game. This grates, consciously or subconsciously. The dissonant suspicion that you're a bit-player in a game from which you derive no benefit (while others gain massively) underpins sentiment in a number of recent threads: the role of universities [1], the influence of money on research [2], motor vehicle emissions [3].

We don't like being played for fools, and some of us feel that pervasive advertising does exactly that.

But what of the "benefits" of advertising? Free access to content, for instance.

Well that's only "free as in beer". Ad-funded content on the internet, or in print, confuses "free as in beer" with "free as in speech". It assumes that if I can get something for free, then I'm happy to exchange it for something else; that I'm happy to accept content in exchange for my attention being drawn to goods and services that want my money.

Personally, I'm not happy with that. I never opted-in, and I can't (easily) opt out.

Billboard advertising is irritating because of exactly this reason: no opt out.

People who disagree (or simply don't sympathise) with my sentiments probably feel happy to exchange their liberty for advertising. Fair enough -- I don't wish to persuade or disuade. I would, however, like the capacity to make my own choice.

People who think we do have a choice -- it's very, very limited. It seems that every square inch of publicly-visible surface in major cities could be scooped up by advertisers. Risers on staircases; LED billboards on top of taxis; it's getting ridiculous.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372181

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372446

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10354127
Dell Buys EMC for $67B in Largest Deal in Tech History
I still find it hard to understand why fantasy sports that pays money to winners is different from bookmaking. Betting on players instead of teams is hardly different; all you are doing is narrowing the odds a little. You are still betting money for a chance to win money. Maybe people think it's more like playing Powerball.
> pretending its all a XOR between (2) and (3)

No one is pretending this. At least, I'm not, and the author of the article isn't.

You're completely missing the fact that I'm not talking about ethics here. You're arguing pro-CIE, and your arguments are fine, but trying to argue ethics is beside the point. I'm talking about ethical positions, a meta-level up; and I'm saying that you subscribe to CIE while calling CIE a straw man.
I spent two field seasons there in 1994-95. No deformities been found in mammals, whatsoever. We were not in Zone 3, however. But in Zone 2 (80-120 Ci/sq.km.)wildlife happily forgot what is the Homo Sapience thing, and just enjoyed life. Plant seeds and some fungi however showed stable high levels of Cs and Sr radioisotopes contamination. Which meant you could safely eat apples there, but dig down deep the remains of the fruits.
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Thank you for your honest feedback.
Maybe I chose my words a little poorly:

We have actually talked not only to potential users (a lot) but potential customers (a lot as well) to validate the basic need of enhanced website communication possibilities before we went on the build Talk About Jack. The need for chat communication especially in eCommerce (as well as general customer support) is growing and continually demanded by online customers (of our potential customers).

And yes you're right: people are mean on the internet. We have some (not yet implemented) ideas to handle this issue as well, but we wanted to give people a chance first.

Thank you for sharing your advice and experience with us. We will keep it at heart and greatly appreciate you taking the time to look into our product and the idea behind it.
You may already know this but you can double-click, hold and slide up/down on google maps to zoom in and out.

I have the 3D thing on my macbook trackpad (force touch) and I have it turned off. Unfortunately the click on the trackpad is triggered by the same mechanism, which means detection of the click is effectively handled by software.

The net result is that, unless you make distinct actions when moving between a zoom and a click, the OS can't tell when the scroll ends and the click begins. I work in CAD software where it's really common to zoom out and roll straight into the click and drag (pan) but it's an absolute nightmare on this trackpad.
The thing that large corporations should remember is the the UK is one of the few countries in the world that can pass retrospective legislation and then enforce it (this has happened on tax issues as recently as the 2000s). At some stage a UK government is going to claw back this money and I think it won't be pretty for anyone. (NB I fundamentally don't agree with the concept of retrospective legislation I'm merely saying the UK can do it.)
The browser's own memory footprint should be minuscule compared to that of the pages it loads and runs.
In every universe my friend.

I have no idea what the context was for Naval, but if someone walks to you and say "excuse me I hope I am not interrupting," REGARDLESS of your conversation (because you are in a public place), you stop and give them 15 seconds.

For how do you know they are not telling you your car is being towed, or your kid is being taken away, or you dropped your wallet.

If it were Obama who walked to them would they have stopped for 15 seconds? If yes, then what is the difference?

At the very least say with a smile that you are sorry, but this is really not a good time, but they can email you if it is not urgent.
YouTube tried this and it didn't fix anything about how awful YouTube comments were.
guess who lobbies the government for these type of loopholes to begin with?
Naked Objects is an example of a UI driven by the underlying objects rather than by the use cases thought up by a programmer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_objects
They didn't suggest "paying" yourself by loans from the offshore entity did they?
In general if we know about them (most people don't) we object to this just as much. NB the channel islands aren't strictly speaking a part of the UK.
In terms of providing social value, Facebook employees far surpass any government's employees. In just a few years Facebook has revolutionized how people connect with each other, whereas governments have, in general, barely been able to maintain the accomplishments of previous generations. This despite the fact that government generally force people to pay about one fifth of their labor, whereas Facebook offers its services for free. Governments should wither and die in favor of more socially beneficial organizations like Facebook.
You could call it "increased globalisation" but abusing transfer pricing was invented by the Vestey Brothers in the late 19th Century when they began importing beef from Argentina. They also invented the abuse of the offshore trust.

The legislative arms race that evolved was the UK tax office trying to tax the Vesteys, who went on to be one of the UK's wealthiest dynasties.

More info here: http://m.francisclark.co.uk/news-views/blog/the-vestey-broth...

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Nailed my personal experience. I wonder how many others of us there are?
Here is where IBLT was specified:

https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/e20c3b5a1d4b97f79ac2

More:

http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-...
This is a very brief but good read:

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letter-stitch-that-would...
Client-side certificates are pretty much a requirement within the U.S. DoD space. And the CAC (smartcard used for logins and ID) are widely deployed right now and used for authentication to such sites. To say that we need to do away with cert auth is a non-starter, given how much gov't buy-in and money has been used to roll these out. The real solution is to fix the support and standards in the various browsers to make all of these "issues" a moot point.

If you've got a TRUSTED certificate authority (your definition of "trust" may vary) and secure key storage (PKCS#11 smartcard, etc.) then certificate-based authentication gives you a tremendous amount of authentication security.
Here's the simplest explanation. Neither should be illegal, they made a law that explicitly banned one and not the other.

Also there's fundamentally a difference between playing against other players and playing against the house. If the professionals on draft kings / fan duels got to play the house in a similar setup it would be even worse for the people playing for fun.

Why are people allowed to go to the movies? In New York a movie ticket is $15 and 90% of the movies are, in my opinion, absolute crap. So that's $15 with a 10% chance of getting your moneys worth and a 90% chance of losing all of it and 2 hours your time!

I think the one reason why it's different for the leagues is that daily fantasy doesn't really create as large of incentives to throw games or rig games as much from the refs or players point of view (not that it's common, but it's definitely happened in the past).
Why '16 Personalities' test is totally meaningless
"Global coalition tells Exxon to Reduce Gas Prices, and suggests that Raisin Bran and Snickers are also Too Expensive"
Fair comment, I was going with the place I know.
A Bright Spot in Oil and Gas
Or, for Linux - Filelight:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filelight
First we were told to be nice to the rich and give them tax reduction, because we will be all happy for the trickling down pennies. And now we are supposed to give the cooperation tax relief because there is money trickling down from the employees?
These practices predate refrigeration, antibiotics, and -- believe it or not -- the stethoscope (which in its recognizable binaural modern form only dates to the 1850s, and took some years to catch on after being invented). With no easy way to detect a weak heartbeat, you don't want to leave corpses lying around unrefrigerated in summer!
http://strikemag.org/advertising-shits-in-your-head/
or just ncdu on command line? :)

http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372623

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10373842
A sale tax only system would be a nice gift for the wealthy.
Why is this using the md5 hash of the password to generate the key for the aes function instead of something like PBKDF2? Yeah I know the hash isn't stored anywhere, but still, using md5 in a security setting feels wrong.
If I didn't buy an iPhone, I'd buy a different phone. The VAT would still be there. If I didn't use Facebook I'd be using a different image sharing service, or chat service, or whatever. The VAT would still be there.

Because I have a budget to spend on entertainment, and various companies compete for that budget.

We pay those taxes, Facebook/Apple doesn't 'generate' anything, that money would be spent on a different entertainment. We pay income taxes, if we didn't work for Facebook/Apple, we would have to find a different job, perhaps start our own company, etc.

I want to make this super clear. Those taxes, including income taxes, are our contributions, not Facebook's. The citizens are generating that money. If Facebook didn't exist, there would be a company filling that void with an alternative entertainment which VAT would still be charged on.

Now, on the flip-side, it's not entirely zero-sum and Facebook does increase the overall wealth. They are generating new markets, new growth, etc.

But is it by the percentage of money its extracting from the local economy? Of course not. And worse still, that money's sitting in an offshore account somewhere, not even flowing back into the US economy, because they're waiting for a tax break. So instead of doing what it's supposed to do, which is spur more growth, it's doing the worst thing it can, which is being excluded from the world economy.
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I think you were being down-voted because your answer was mean spirited, that is your intention appears to have been to want to hurt someone verbally.

Besides their question is very legitimate. How does a directory spend $400M? I had to read the answers to understand they were planning to make some investments.
A couple of years ago I tried, vainly, to make that PDF into a more friendly format by splicing the pages so that they would form a PDF made of single pages. No joy, unfortunately. I haven't attempted an epub of it yet.
Bacteria may be survivors, but they don't have brains. We do. We've shown time and again that we can invent in a day what takes evolution millions of years. It's not unreasonable to expect we'll succeed, because we can adapt faster than they do. It's a matter of resource focus and not doing stupid things like feeding animals with antibiotics en masse.
Not if that competitor made a loss the way facebook has here.
It is official now, http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/secure/dell-emc-tran...
The FairTax proposal in the US addressed this with a "prebate" that was mailed out to every person (not sure the criteria) at the beginning of the year. This was a check that covered the taxes on base (poverty?) level spending. This was meant to remove the regressive taxation effect.
How I Used the Force to Save My Business
Ada Lovelace: Opium, Maths and the Victorian Programmer
When you have a doctor that you feel doesn't care about your problem -- no matter how small -- you find a different doctor. Not all doctors are good.
if you need to seal it, might as well not use anything in between, right?
This artist hacks your phone to expose embarrassing texts and photos
The laptop I have right now has a similar pressure sensitive Synaptics ForcePad, and I've never used a more annoying trackpad before. Just simply moving the cursor on the trackpad can be ridiculously error prone, with random clicks triggering whenever you let your guard down and push a little too hard.

The worst part is, I can't even use it as a regular trackpad with tap-to-click only, because the pressure sensitive clicks can't even be completely disabled.
Embed Linkedin profile page to see who visited your website
Tax regular car drivers more. There's simply no reason why taxi users should (indirectly) foot that bill more than car owners. If your tax were set up on assumption that taxi is a premium service, time to rethink it.
Yeah, Palantir is selling a product. The product consists of information about you. But they have no ads on their page, then this must be ok.
And worse still, that money's sitting in an offshore account somewhere, not even flowing back into the US economy, because they're waiting for a tax break. So instead of doing what it's supposed to do, which is spur more growth, it's doing the worst thing it can, which is being excluded from the world economy.

Not really. "New Data Show Corporate Offshore Funds Not “Trapped” Abroad: Nearly Half of So-Called “Offshore” Funds Already in the United States": http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/med...
True, but at least the price label in the supermarket is the final price you pay, no nasty surprises at checkout. VAT is already included in the advertised price, so you know exactly how much you'll have to pay. Apparently, the same is not true of sales tax in (some states of?) the US.

It doesn't say the VAT rate on the label, but you can figure that out from your receipt after solving a bin packing problem :) Receipts contain a listing of the different VAT rates (e.g. in Germany, x€ at 19% and y€ at 7%)
Mummies in cocaïne wouldn't surprise me either.