skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How can this still be possible? Shouldn't all tax legislation be such that if you break the spirit of it by having internal transfers (royalties, fees, interest) to a low-tax area, then you are still taxed based on the business that you had in the country in question, and based on the net sum (i.e. zero).

How would that even work? The costs are actually costs.

Imagine it was actually a dozen different companies. One of them is in California and it develops software on contract, one is in Germany and it develops hardware on contract, one is in China and it manufactures hardware on contract, one is in Ireland and it has the original capital which it pays to the first three in exchange for copyrights, hardware designs and hardware, one is in Spain and it buys product/services from the Irish company and sells local advertising, etc.

It turns out the company with that owns the copyrights makes the most money. That's how it honestly works whether the companies are separate or not. If you made the Spanish company liable for taxes on the profits of the whole supply chain, every company in Spain that uses Google ads would owe taxes on the money paid to Google (and the same for anything they buy from anyone). In other words you would have enacted a sales tax. Which is fine, but isn't an income tax and isn't a tax on Google.

What you seem to want to do is to identify that the companies are actually owned by the same party and do something different in that case. But five seconds after you require that, they would separate. Specifically the company that exists in a jurisdiction that cares about that would become independent. You don't need to own the stock of a company to capture all of its profits when you're its only viable supplier. So now there is an independent contractor in Spain that pays Google Ireland for ad space and resells it for just enough money to pay its own bills and makes no profits.

The problem is fundamentally that income tax makes no sense across borders. People will move whatever it is you're taxing into the country with the lowest taxes if the cost of moving that thing is less than the cost of the taxes. The cost of moving profits is very small. You have to tax something which is harder to move, which is then no longer an income tax.
Well, I can't get to the site now, but I've seen seam carving before. What's impressive about seam carving is the bang-for-the-buck... it's a rather simple algorithm that has quite spectacular results. But it's certainly not perfect. When you're taking an image like that and throwing away information, there isn't a definition of "perfect" anyhow. Information is being discarded, so, information will be lost. The question is what distortion the image will have, not whether the image is distorted.
How to Break Open the Web
>So basically Google inc (in a tax haven) makes Google Spain pay for the use of the Google brand 8 billions. Google Spain never makes a profit since it needs to pay a fee for using the brand, thus never have to pay taxes on their huge profit, that's how they get away with it.

I've seen you post this several times. Do you have a source that I could read up on this?
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In your post, when met with feedback about your own behavior, you point to outside issues. Be open to the possibility that your behavior is actually an issue.

Consider taking time to reflect after interactions. E.g. after a meeting, how did others (likely) feel? Were there any "off notes"? Think of how you could have improved what you said - how to further your agenda and also have others coming away positively?
Don't drink caffeine 4-6 hours before midnight.

Install F.lux or reshift. They adjust your display's color temperature automatically to nightime.
Native advertising is also scummy and often bordeline illegal. Where I live ads have to be clearly distinguishable from other content, and the native ads which are often in the form of feature articles with some slightly different background color etc., are often found not to be, resulting in fines.

I just want print ads online. I want them to be simple, static, non-trackable and non-targeted ads that clearly stand out from the rest of the content. Targeted ads should be limited to showing boat ads on a boat site, or golf gear ads on a golf magazine site.

Sites with a broader audience must simply accept that just like in print they are forced to show broad brand building ads.
Political? There isn't even a government right now.
That was my thought as well. I'm glad someone spends the time required to refute a claim like this, because it did seem more long-lived and potentially within the realm of possibility than your run-of-the-mill claim that violates known physics.

If we never take the time to explore claims that violate our current understanding, our understanding will stop advancing. Too many scientists are overly dogmatic.
> I think publishers are welcome to create adblock-blockers, and I don't have any interest in working around them.

And i'm fine with that as well. If you want to block ads that's cool with me, but don't expect to get the content as well.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12005149
Yeah, just hit this now.
I agree that is an advantage of the goods-to-person robots but shuttle systems do the same thing and are a better use of vertical space.
They most likely would be less taxed than un-taxed. My old boss used to say 'if you went looking and paid every tax you found that you might owe no one would be in business'. Of course there should be some middle ground.
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Disruptive idea, Congrats!
And if they paid that tax in the US (which would then allow the US rate to be lower for the same revenue), how would that help Spain and France? The US would just be what Ireland currently is.
There is no maximum transaction size, other than that imposed by the fact that it has to fit into a block. You would additionally need to hard-fork to add a new transaction size limit. More info here: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015...

Note that that is just one potential problem that we are aware of. I think a conservative approach is reasonable. Look at what has happened with Ethereum and the DAO.
Uh, self hosted ads get blocked too - just check a popular filter subscription.

Any moderately popular news site will have filter authors going out of their way to block their ads in the filters regardless of URL domain.

I feel like there's this myth that adblock is just trying to block "bad" ads, but the evidence shows most blockers really try very hard to block all ads. Trying to stay one step ahead of that is a losing proposition for media companies.
Hide the source. "Mary liked this" hide all from HuffPo, "Steve liked this" hide all from Energy Crystals Whatever, "Joe liked this" hide all from Sue McWhoever (you've never met her anyway).

My feed is much more manageable since I started hiding just about all the pages, leaving it pretty much solely picture and text posts of people I know.
>Native advertising is also scummy and often bordeline illegal

True, but in a very different way. Native ads don't serve malware and assault your senses.
There is a back log for short periods yes, but if you pay a high enough fee your transaction will go through earlier. When things quiet down or more blocks are mined in a given time the back log goes down.

It's a supply and demand issue. If you want to use the blockchain to process transactions you have to pay more the higher the demand until demand levels out.

If you didn't pay high enough a fee and get stuck at the back of the queue you are stuck until a proposal that will let you increase the fee for an existing transaction is implemented or the queue goes down.

The segregated witness change will increase the capacity by 40% which should be enough to last until lightning nodes take some of the strain.

There is no centralized-decentralized fork in the road. We need to have both.
LA INFLUENCIA DE LAS FUERZAS TELÚRICAS AL ABRIR UN NEGOCIO -La Salud Del Hábitat
I guess one can think in language although it's not the main way we do it but it is the most observable and you can write it down easily unlike the non verbal but more important parts.
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>Accepting one of their free offers, and rejecting another of their free offers is not the same thing as "just consume ... without paying"

There's a bit of mental gymnastics there, but I get what you are saying. I still don't agree, but I get it.

I just feel that if you asked, 99% of content creators would not see it like that, in the same way a store isn't "offering you a product, and the chance to pay for it".
Yes. I was out for 2 years, but during this time, I pretty much lost contact with everyone not in my work circle. Even some family members on different cities.

So I got back. I rarely browse the timeline. My phone only has the Messenger installed.

And as I said in an earlier comment, small business pretty much depend on it where I live. People don't browse the web anymore, they just use facebook (and it's sad and pathetic..)
Since when has HN let fluff on the front page? The article presents dubious claims with tenuous support. There's not even a mention of how many people were studied in the linked abstracts.

Yet so many here are taking the article as fact.
This link is basically a summation of this Vice article: http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/hacked-private-messag...
I didn't know this context. Thank you for taking the time to write this.
Mozilla involves the community in its “open-source” rebrand
Low impact in the short term, potentially huge impact in medium term (1-2 years). The pattern for other AWS services is that they will drive down price until they are low price provider and quickly close feature gaps. Adding inbound to SMS seems like a natural next step.

Also, SMS is a substantial part of Twilio's business. Even though Twilio has been adding new extensions to their product, the majority of usage is tied to a small set of API calls.

Twilio now has a company with a huge developer audience going straight after their core business. One that is willing to be very aggressive on price to win share.
I agree. They do it the same day they publish a list of the biggest debtors, and 4 days after elections.

http://es.reuters.com/article/topNews/idESKCN0ZG1E6
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There are dedicated and volunteer teams that work on the internal tools and a strong testing and accountability culture. Everything is built from source.
At the very least, if we can't figure out why it doesn't really work, we're likely to learn something new proving it doesn't.
https://youtu.be/Pn10cEm8X_E
But how does not licensing IP make sense? That creates a whole set of new problems, i.e. why should affiliated parties allow IP to be licensed for free, where the same expenses would be tax deductible for unaffiliated parties?
oof.no humor allowed . got it.
I wonder how many meetings are getting cancelled because of it :).
Isn't that true for almost everything though? The laws are so complex that no normal citizen can understand them. Even lawyers seem to disagree now and then.
Kinda. Depends on who you ask. :)
The Agile process of software development is often perverted by sick politics
I'm not sure I agree. Depending on how we define 'crash', I've certainly seen ads render pages unusable or prevent my access to content. Infinite request loops, script crashes that take down desired video content, improper loading covering content, and more.

The obvious example would be sites with mediocre mobile pages fighting to serve ads. It's pretty standard to hit broken redirects, script issues, and all sorts of other crash-like behaviors visiting those.
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Pure speculation, but it's possible you are both correct. They definitely scrape the link for a preview when you paste (or if someone's already shared it, maybe just re-use the info from a previous scrape) but probably it's not stored in their database (and thus available through the Graph API) until after it's been shared. (Or clicked on?)
You're thinking of traditional large satellites in geosynchronous orbit, which is 35 km above the surface (ping time of about 250 ms). SpaceX's plan is to put 4,000 small satellites in low-earth orbit, 625 km up. That gives a ping time of about 4 ms to the satellite.

SpaceX can do this far cheaper than others because they can launch the satellites for "free" as part of launches that are happening anyway.
Really nice to have precise SMS delivery reports automatically pushed to Cloudwatch Logs. Makes it fit very nicely into the whole AWS offering (eg. automatically trigger a Lambda function to act upon a failed delivery).
The fact of the matter is, if I can wget a website, and run it through some regexps to strip whatever I damn well please out of it, it's really not justified to get high and mighty about me doing the same thing with a web browser.

So long as I have control of my internet connection, and am responsible for paying for the bandwidth that it downloads, I have the right to block malicious or simply unwanted domains and ips. No, I do not consent to download your 8MB uncompressed ad images, or your 35 MB auto-playing videos, terrible website.
Every company says what they are doing is legal until someone figures out it's actually not...
I'll definitely try and get around to it sometime soon. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the situation is the same... After all, the KeyMaster module was initially only meant to keep encryption keys on the device, not to safeguard FDE.
"what is a 'moderate muslim'."

WOW! How do cope with such a high level of paranoia?
> No, they're not. None of my friends that care about current events really use Facebook

you are really lucky
My hunch is that the majority of revenue was forward looking with foreign governments and large clients. This revenue was used as the basis for raising at extremely high valuations. Investor diligence was weak and the exact terms of these contracts was likely not understood in detail. When shit hit the fan with the software/consulting services and the value was not realized (and or budgets were cut, key champions retired etc.) ... contracts got cancelled. When contracts got cancelled the house of cards started to fall. The issue with huge contracts is that it's very easy to lose them. This is why a broad revenue base is crucial.

Now they know that hundreds of employees are going to go blow the whistle so they have to pay them off with buybacks while they figure out an exit strategy.

My 2 cents.
I'm not going to convince you, but in my experience I find it to be true. The more I am focused on the present, the more the choices I do pick appear to be the obviously good ones. The other choices merely clouds my life, like the OP, trying to pushing things through faster, experiencing gridlock, and then getting labelled as toxic. If we know that's what the consequence of a choice is like, it'd be obvious not to pick it, none of it is enjoyable. It so happens these obviously bad choices in hindsight all happen to be picked when I am too attached to some future outcome, and all the good choices I do make, I was not attached to the future, I made them by being immersed as the present, picking the obviously good choice.

By good choice I mean one I would never regret no matter what the outcome was, and instead would have regretted if I never made it.

That's what I mean by choices being merely an illusion. All I can pick is the present, or the illusion of being in control of the future.
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> In the United States, one of the biggest powers of the Federal government is its power to regulate interstate commerce. No one in the EU is willing to give it so much authority.

To be fair, if the US is the model, you can imagine why they wouldn't want that. I don't think the people who wrote the commerce clause were imagining federal micromanagement of local schools or the War on Drugs.
You could frame it as an "original contribution of major significance in the field." The adjudicator would want to see (1) your original work, explained in plain English, and (2) the work that others have created, based on your original work.

In this situation you're not necessarily proving popularity, but the influence of your work on the major creations of others.

This could be a good foundation for an O-1. You'd have to show at least 3 of the 8 required elements, so you'll need a minimum of 2 more (media coverage, awards, judging, authorship, etc.)

HTH
It was fine when I lived in Baltimore. It's pretty spotty on the train between Baltimore and DC. It's potato out in the VA suburbs where my parents live. It was rocking in Philly. YMMV.
I would also not be surprised to find that some of the financial department sorts of people Google employs are exceedingly old school or ordinary.
So, I'm not an expert in tax evasion, but if you give false statements to the tax office, why would you keep statements that can bring you down on paper in your office?
ARA?
Google reporting "service disruption" for calendar: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
I honestly haven't hit either of those, so it might be my own little bubble here is why I feel this way. I hear about them a lot when talking about advertising, but I've never seen them personally.

But if I did get an audio ad, or a redirect ad, and they were consistent enough that it became a problem, i'd stop using that site.

I mean, on a scale of bad things, having an audio ad play once isn't really all that high up the ladder. Yeah, it's not ideal, and it shouldn't happen, and if it happens a few times i'm going to stop going there, but it's a sound on a website. Removing an entire chunk of income from a news website because I'm afraid of hearing an audio ad (something most trustworthy sites also don't want in their ads) seems over the top.
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Efficiency is not your friend when it comes to cognitive growth. In order to keep your brain making new connections and keeping them active, you need to keep moving on to another challenging activity as soon as you reach the point of mastery in the one you are engaging in. You want to be in a constant state of slight discomfort, struggling to barely achieve whatever it is you are trying to do
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Then working in IT (aka being in a constant state of noob-ness) is making you ever smarter.
if you pay a high enough fee your transaction will go through earlier

How high, out of curiosity? How do these compare with banks and other traditional fund-transfer services?
'Usually'

But when it is...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12008365
I see no reason they shouldn't be arranged as such separate companies and I think the multinational corporation should be banned.
Yes, that is what is suggested by one of the experimenters at the end of the article.
As with other areas of cutting edge research, most non-experts often have little choice but to resort to woefully inadequate simplification. 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic', and all that.

The best way I've come up with to explain the current state of AI is, "we can do tricks by hiding multiple immense databases behind the scenes and having supercomputers run complex searches among them, but we probably won't be able to fully model even a mouse brain for at least 10 years... and at that point we'll likely have learned enough new things about brain function to push it another 10 years out."
How a Czech 'super-spy' infiltrated the CIA
The castle looks exactly the same... what was "redesigned" ?

Original: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Broadway...

Seam carved: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Broadway...
An interesting idea, but it would be difficult at best to prevent false positives on sites with dynamic elements.
On a grander scale one could put solar plants in the sahara and use their power to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. To transport energy, that is.
Sounds a bit like Fermi's quote:

"If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery."
Google Calendar service disruption
yes Calendar and Hangouts https://twitter.com/GoogleforWork/status/748516307235143681
I think we should now expect that Amazon will copy any successful service like this, even if it doesn't materially help its bottom line.
Language basically seems to have two main evolutionary purposes: The first one is the obvious one that we use it to share a common concept space with one another. The second one I am not so sure about, but it seems that language also greatly enhances our thinking. We can exploit the phonological short-term memory in shape of the inner monologue essentially as a scratchpad to efficiently keep track of recent thoughts, and grammars are a great way of combining concepts, so that we can just plug different concepts into the same grammatical structure and obtain new thoughts that might still be grounded in reality due to intuition about the way concepts are typically combined. Moreover, we seem to be able to better verify the soundness of our thinking using language. Oftentimes a thought becomes much clearer when encoded in language. Perhaps grammatical structures are very efficiently linked to causal experiences such that we can very swiftly debug language-coded meanings. The efficient code might also reduce the cognitive load such that we process longer chains of reasoning at a time.
Why can't Spanish (and French) authorities simply subpoena any info they need from Google? Is Google able to shield relevant data by keeping it in Ireland or the US?
direct link to incident:

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=847...
I would love to see a police force bursting in, and smoke immediately starting to rise from every computer.

I mean, you could do it it software too, but it would look cool and send a signal to the officers. :-)

Or you could keep the door locked.
CraftCMS vs. WordPress vs. other CMSs
We're considering a new CMS for our huge 10-20,000 page site. We are not currently using any CMS, but have individual html pages with the content embedded(!).

Our site is mostly 'regular' content types, with a few discussion boards and some document handling. We also have a number of news sections/blogs and some profile directories.

We have few developers with limited coding skills and even fewer coders on the team. We've considered WordPress (which we're already using for a few sites) and also CraftCMS. CraftCMS seems more fitting to our needs because it's flexible and lean; we're impressed with what we've seen so far but are concerned that it's not open-source and that it's so new. WordPress seems cumbersome to the coding developers as much of the system is 'out of the box' and requires loading lots of plugins and things that you don't 'need' for a page.

Are there other similar CMSs that people can recommend for us to consider? Please don't tell me about your favorite CMS; please DO tell me about a CMS that you know of that may fit our needs. Comments on the CMSs mentioned above in the context of our needs are welcomed as well.

Thank you.
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"We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Calendar. We will provide more information shortly.
Users of Google Calendar see 'Server Error' page intermittently."

from: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=84...
Advertising is not intrinsic to media content, it's one possible revenue model.

The metaphor isn't to driving a car, it's traveling from A to B. Which means that it's the false dichotomy that self-driving cars and mass transit are trying to break.
Don't click on them either; they might be altered.
Agreed. But I'm sure the next logical step (after raising money?) will be to make it more intelligent & boost its already impressive 64% success rate.