skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually have a hypothesis that US citizens are actually less likely to even consider going abroad to work because of this filing requirement. There are many other reasons too (the US is a large market in its own right and has been for many years now), but it'd be interesting to compare and contrast the local population count of other developed countries with their expatriate population count.

A follow on hypothesis would be that a country having a larger percentage expatriate population compared to another all other things equal would have more global outlook e.g. the local population is more favorable towards immigration and free trade, and has a more accurate knowledge of the details behind world events.
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And how is this gonna prevent them from taking your photos via hidden camera?
IM transcripts that occurred 12-13 years ago, when he was 19 and when Facebook didn't need a COO or other corporate structure since it had a userbase of ~4000: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb...
hopefully typing

&pws=0

at the end of the query still turns off the personalization.
The reason behind your motivation to start off things looks super-motivational to every aspiring entrepreneurs. BTW it seems like you got pissed off by the HR executive. :P

One fun question, is that HR guy still surviving at your previous organization for provoking you to start your own? :D
I think you could probably create offshore accounts even as a small company.

I was offered (and declined) to have part of my salary as an IT feelancer paid into an offshore account. All I would had to do was to say "yes", and I would have been in the game.

So I think it is probably not very difficult to do. Still risky and possibly illegal, though, so I'd personally advise against it.
Why not just send the hash?

Anyway, does this mean that I can take down other people's legitimate photos by submitting them to this service?
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People can work on very tiny objects. Look up Diorama for a world devoted to creating intricate tiny objects.
Black money largely isn't held as large stacks of suspicious looking cash - that's a Bollywood trope.

It's invested domestically in real estate, art, gold, or other assets, or held offshore, either in the form of freely convertible currency or other assets, which is why 98.96% of the cash was returned.

I strongly doubt a significant number of criminals openly advertised their possession of black money by returning it themselves.

Modi's ploy was an unmitigated failure.
I'm looking at writing some apps in the sport area right now. It's quite tricky for rights reasons to get decent coverage, but being able to manage spoilers better would be interesting, and in fact isn't just useful in the domain of sports: TV series, film series, books (by the chapter), etc.

Hmmm.
> People bought each server box for $5000 and server capacity used is only at 15%

So why do they need 2 servers?

Also, I'm pretty sure VPSes and shared hosting were available in 2000.
Apple cannot exist outside of the "ecosystem" of infrastructure and institutions maintained by the State, i.e. ordinary taxpayers. Good luck getting your iPhone without roads, or keeping it without a police force. Tax evading companies like Apple and Google justify it by claiming that they create value in a vacuum, so should keep all of it.
Does anyone have a first-hand source detailing this project, and especially its privacy and accountability principles? This is almost surreal to read:

> A community operations analyst will access the image and hash it to prevent future instances from being uploaded or shared.

How long before the first community operations analyst begins selling the images they access? How long before the first one uses it to blackmail an already terrified victim? And when -- not if, when -- one of these things happen, what price will Facebook pay (I mean, with corporate accountability being what it is, we all know what price Facebook will pay, but it would be useful to at least have a fine print...)?
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I think he is talking about the big impact large companies have on climate change (due to products and product parts transportation), for example.
Also the fact that a lot of phone's components are made from minerals that fuel conflicts in third world countries. A small company like FairPhone, which tries to combat that, can't evade taxes like Apple do...
It's not a simple problem since relationships are not simple.
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What part of that screenshot supports the claim of targeting journalists?
Okay, I'm stupid. For some reason I never even tried to uncked _all_ of them. Always been keeping Google, thinking it should be there for search in the url bar to work.

Thanks!
Why don't they just compute hash on user's side?
FTA (emphasis mine):

> The technology was first developed in 2009 by Microsoft, working closely with Dartmouth and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to clamp down on the same images of sexually abused children being circulated over and over again on the internet. There was technology that could find exact matches of images, but abusers could get around this by slightly altering the files – either by changing their size or adding a small mark.

> PhotoDNA’s “hash” matching technology made it possible to identify known illegal images even if someone had altered them. Facebook, Twitter and Google all use the the same hash database to identify and remove illegal images.
This can be framed as the requirement for photos to be nudes in order to be blocked from the platform. I'm assuming that there are checks on uploaded images to see if they are actually nudes before they are added to the dataset of images to be banned. Otherwise I could use the system to prevent any photo at all from being uploaded to Facebook by submitting it to the system. This might actually be a good thing, for me, but not for Facebook.
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They would have to operate a pharmacy, they won't just dump expensive drugs into their fulfillment system.
> I thought it would be easier to implement self driving trains than to implement self driving cars. Who is working on that?

We already have self-driving light rail systems (London's DLR for instance).
Sometimes you just want the top results by PageRank, like in 1998 when Google was miraculous. I don't know how to get that anymore. I want information from out in the world - I generally don't want the contents of my own head reflected back at me.
Certainly not the case as far as opening new tabs goes on my machine, an 1.9Ghz with 4Gb RAM. Firefox opens the new tab instantly while Chrome has a noticeable delay. The same with closing tabs, especially heavy ones. Also Chrome takes just a little bit longer to start than the latest Firefox, although I didn't actually measure this.

I think the general perception that Chrome is fast is more a group-think at this point, fostered by a few years of sub-par Firefox performance combined with aggressive Google marketing. There's no real difference since the last few versions of Firefox vs. Chrome.
They aren't, for the most part, doing anything illegal though. They are using the existing laws to their best advantage.

The fix for this can't be trying to appeal to their morals. It would have to be something else that just limits the legal choices.

Edit: If you disagree, are you saying that shaming them into not doing this solely on some moral compass is the right fix? Does that scale?
> I'm surprised more tech people don't use it, considering the tech communities love for power and the ability to customise things.

I used to be pretty fanatical about Firefox. But when it got so slow that simple scrolling started dropping frames, I had to switch.
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That's what it's like being in a democracy and living in a society. Maybe you'd prefer to live in an anarcho-libertarian state but many people seem to enjoy benefits of a modern democratic society with all its safety nets.

There are ways to work around that to a certain extent though, for instance you can donate to nonprofits for causes you care for and get a tax rebate. That effectively means that you decide where that share of the taxes gets invested personally.

But beyond that there's not much you can do, you'll never have a government you 100% agree with on all subjects, at some point you have to accept to compromise and vote for the representatives that best represent your viewpoint and interests. Or leave I guess.
My understanding is that there are literally hundreds of qualified, passionate applicants for each spot. I've met a few. If we are spending billions of dollars to strap that particular person to a rocket, I think humanity should be able to benefit as much as possible. I don't think its unreasonable to have as a requirement for that service that certain health records might not remain private. Just like it would not be unreasonable to require certain high level public servants to divulge their tax records, as long as it was understood as a requirement beforehand.
That is what they argue now, they argue their margin in EU is almost zero. But because they transfer costs internally in any way they like (abusing the IP laws that they need to do business in the first place), they can make the profit appear in any country they want.

If countries want to stop missing out on these taxes, I think they should just stop accepting the whole argument. If companies really accept lower margins in some country, they can also afford to pay a bit more taxes.
I feel the other solutions is obvious in that we need to align tax law to meet the global mobility of money, in the same way we aligned trading laws. Something like;

1) A group like the WTO/G12 get together and agree to minimum tax rate for any corporate/country/individual that wants to do business and or have access to these economies/nations. Any company/individual that earns income in lower tax rate countries is fine to do so but must tax equalise to the minimum or they can not do business or visit these countries.

2) Citizens of the above group of tax aligned countries must declare overseas assets and incomes and equalise tax payments if below a set minimum. Should undeclared assets/income be found the assets are forfeit and the person gets 1 year jail per $1mil. And anyone who provide information to create asset forfeit or additional tax owned gets 25% of that.
Similar services exist. If you're a foreign short-term contractor in the UK it's common to use a services company to setup a company in Jersey for you, setup the bank account and then run payroll for you.

I could see something like Stripe Atlas but in an offshore jurisdiction - they set you up with a company, bank account and merchant account which you can then process international credit card transactions out of (ie. transactions that originate from countries other than the one you're based in)

The other application is for entrepreneurs in developing nations where there are regular occurrences of businesses being shaken down (or outright taken over) by corrupt officials. Using local banks can often tip off the wrong type of people as to who is wealthy enough to go after
> How did you count 30?

Counting paths from the first node to the "NO" node rather than just counting total edges leading to the "NO" node.

Many of the conditions you mentioned are themselves determined based on various other conditions, and/or only triggered if certain paths (but not others) are followed.

> You can check these conditions sequentially and if any of them match, return false.

Not so.

For example, you could have the 'notification preference for device set to "never"', but there are paths through the flow diagram that evaluate to "YES" without ever going through the path that checks for the global device notification preferences.

Therefore if you are just sequentially checking each of the conditions you mentioned, then you'd be returning false (because that one statement matched) instead of true (because the flow should never go down that path).
I am not an economist or a sociologist. These are my personal observations.
Ordinary citizen is not a monolith in India. Ordinary citizen can be subdivided into (with overlap)
1. Middle Class
2. Salaried Class
3. Farmers
4. Daily Wage Workers
5. Unskilled, Semi-skilled and skilled working in Unorganized sector.
6. ... and so on
Different people were inconvenienced to different extent. Middle class salaried category was inconvenienced to the extent that there was a cash crunch and India being a cash economy buying stuff became difficult for a few days.
The ruling party the BJP won a major state election with record margin just 4 months after demonetization. Probably a large majority was not too much inconvenienced. BJP also re-aligned with a political ally in another major state. Had ordinary people being inconvenienced as some stories in media and reports suggest BJP would have become a political pariah.
A lot of money has come back to the banking system. How it happened is another long story. This has reduced bank lending rates. Banks are offering housing, business and other loans at a lower rate.
Apple isn't increasing suffering by creating laptops. They are increasing suffering by not paying taxes. It is possible to enrich lives of some people, and increase suffering if others at the same time.
Wow, "Let them eat cake" is the first thing that sprang into my mind upon reading your comment. Yes, having good phones and laptops surely is something great.

But we're talking here about a vast and growing gap between the rich and the poor, and if you're slaving away in your shit-town on your minimum wage job you don't give a damn about how awesome your life is now thanks to the iPhone.
Sure, but it actually changed 2 times, so some intermediate font was loaded in between.
How does it even work - how can they sell stuff for Billions in Germany and pay only 25 Millions in taxes?

I think if the German government is unhappy about that, they should change their tax laws.

There is of course also competition among countries to attract top companies. So just assuming all you'd have to do is tax some company and you'd rake in the billions is foolish.

As for "democratic duty to pay taxes" - meh. I didn't vote for my government, and given the choice (and money), I'd probably prefer to give my money to other charities and projects than the government would. My government would use the money to fund gender studies, botched government projects that waste billions, and so on.

In Germany it is actually legal and encouraged to pay as little taxes as possible (looking for "loopholes", as left wing media would call it).
Hmm, Apple should probably stop paying any wages to any factory workers and force them to sleep in the factory and work 18hrs a day. As long as they keep making those nice phones and laptops...

I mean I guess it would be better if they didn't do that, but then again have you seen the next competetors laptop? The world would be a worse place if we had to use that.
> This pictures reminds me about what one's can see under psychedelics. All sensory input basically begins to break down to that kind of patterns

The neural structures in human brains that recognise edges/textures/surfaces are the same ones that generate trippy images when exposed to psychedelic drugs (or flickering light: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jou...): http://www.math.utah.edu/~bresslof/publications/01-3.pdf
No, it doesn't format the code, but it does support syntax highlighting.
However, it isn’t a condition of their employment.

The argument that suppression of medical records harms scientific progress applies to all people and all records and all scientific inquiry. Your argument needs to be more specific.
I believe the future of surveys are conversations! With 68% of emails opening in Mobile devices the surveys should give more messaging kind of experience
I switched to the beta a couple of months ago, and it's just better than Chrome in every way. It's both faster and seems to have better memory usage.
The only question remains is: does it _really_ matter?
That is a solved problem. Online sales also pay VAT somewhere already.
As if I didn't already need another reason to absolutely distrust Logitech.

I've already seen the company's failure to honour warranty obligations.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/5y-ggnul129j7mogblrsmg
Why do we expect Apple to be altruistic instead of expecting governments to have sensible tax policy?
You really think the PC is a good example of something "created by a free market" not the result of the govt pouring millions into R&D in the decades previous?
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... and almost all my extensions will cease to work.

16 legacy, 4 ready for 57. a few of them i use very often: automatic save folder, save file to, video downloadhelper, downthemall!, search by image for google, image zoom, copy links
I like your idea better. For an SV darling like Facebook (and especially since this is Facebook), what the article describes sound incredibly manual and low-tech.

But what really bothers me is

> ... a community operations analyst will access the image and hash it to prevent future instances from being uploaded or shared.

Of course, this community operations analyst will not stash those photos in a flash drive somewhere, right? Because the humans FB hires are 100% trustworthy. /s
Are you running Linux by any chance? For some reason, huge paddings are now very popular in GTK applications with... the result you mention. All GTK3 applications seem to have huge widgets for me, even with compact themes. Frankly, I stopped trying to solve this.
F6 works as well in all OS's I've used (Linux Mint and Windows).
BJP winning election in UP with huge margin is an indicator.
What facial recognition technology do you have in mind that would not face the burden of frequent false positives (nevermind false negatives) and could scale to do this efficiently on an on-demand basis?

Then there's the issue of how your proposed system requires FB to show users the porn that other users are privately viewing.
>Google "takeaway pizza [place of residence]".

This isn't nearly as straightforward as it sounds. It may be the pizza places in all the bordering towns deliver to your location but the pizza places that are located in your town are all on the other side and don't deliver to your location. And you don't even know the names of the border towns. There are places where the pizza place address doesn't match up with the town name because that town doesn't have a post office.

It's usually just not straightforward.
He was an amazing pitcher.

http://www.espn.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/84592/roy-halla...
However, it isn’t a condition of their employment. Nor would it meet ethical standards for research set since WW2.

The argument that suppression of medical records harms scientific progress applies to all people and all records and all scientific inquiry. Your argument needs to be more specific. I mean WW2 is the counter argument do yours better be good.
Well, in a sample size of 1, it doesn't make a huge amount of sense to discuss correlation -- the two facts both happened, and so have 100% correlation on that sample size. (But this is a basically useless statistic for making any inferences.)

The question was if we expect, given that it happened together here, we'd see it happen together more than random distribution would predict -- that is, that we see personality differences align with a split in limb control.

Since they're both changes in the manner in which one interacts with the world, and my experience of the world changes in subtle ways when I, eg, use my left hand for certain tasks or sit in certain postures, I just find it unlikely that the alignment of limb control and personality are unrelated.
Submitting your nude photos to a cloud company, what could go wrong.
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Edit: Ugh. The witchhunt above was unrelated to those IM messages. Apologies for the mis-step.
Hey Zuck, Are you concerned that your nude photos might be used against you at some point? Please post them here so we can know to take them down if someone ever uses them against you. Gee, I guess that doesn't quite make sense does it?
> In Vietnam, the houses are really thin because property taxes are based on width.

Really? Interesting. Can anyone explain how taxing the width of the house was established?
The terms and conditions were clearly laid out for you when you signed up. Google was already well-known for being primarily an advertising company. It was well-known that Google implemented scanning of all mails, both for spam filtering and for advertising purposes.

This is not a "could have, would have, should have" type situation. You deliberately and unequivocally agreed to terms and conditions that very specifically lay out what Google does when it comes to the handling of your mail.
I was referring more to people who mentally edit what they want to say before they even start typing because they know it would be too long.
Maximized browsers on wide screen monitors aren't very usable though, you end up with loads of pointless whitespace. The browser works best with a roughly square viewport on 1080p, or tending towards portrait on 1440p.
Lots of discussion last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15609402
I'll go out on a limb and say that hidden-cameras represent < 1% of revenge-porn.

As such, the parent comment goes a long way towards protecting you.

Think of it like a padlock: it keeps honest people honest.
Yes, that note was misleading. Thanks for clarifying :)
see, that's why they need to "manually" verify the photos. convenient, isn't it?
While it's going to be a great release (have been trying the Quantum beta on side), I'm very sad to see many of the extremely useful extensions that will just stop working as soon as I switch.
If the system allowed users to send the hash, then yes, it would allow users the power to arbitrarily take down photos. The point of the users having to post these images from their own account is so that a FB employee can confirm that the content breaks FB rules and that the content is associated with the user.
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I wondered the same thing a while ago and I would think this is to ease dragging the window with the mouse, which you may want to do easily when the window is not maximized.

I'd really like Firefox on Linux to hide the window title bar (at least when maximized) and put the close / maximize / reduce buttons in the tab bar (or make it an option). The tab bar does already allow one to move the window, at least on KDE. Then, Firefox could adopt the same kind of behavior as Chrome for this.
You can switch to Firefox ESR to keep using your extensions and give the extension authors more time. ESR 52 will be supported with fixes until June.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
As an individual person, if a law has a loophole, is it ok to exploit that? Say you found a loophole that allowed you to legally get away with murder, is it now ok to commit murder as long as you comply with the loophole? I would argue that what is right and what is legal are never fully aligned, and that the excuse "it was legal" is not a valid defense for committing immoral acts.

Corporations are social constructs, they are entirely made of people. Those people don't stop having a moral imperative to do right by others just by having an employee badge. Just as we require individuals to remain "decent human beings", regardless of what they can legally get away with, we need corporations to remain "decent social citizens". While it is not illegal to maximize profits through tax evasion, it is anti-social, and therefore we shouldn't encourage or applaud that behavior.