skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a progressive income tax, at least here in the US. Hard to argue that's not redistributing wealth, although I'd argue it's not enough :)
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See also:

https://github.com/crownpku/Awesome-Chinese-NLP

Very much looking forward Chinese support in SpaCy.
Or, maybe more directly to the point in this case, a communications regulator to control radio spectrum usage, in order to ensure that slices of spectrum are carved out for specific uses, and protected from excessive interference resulting from other uses.

Y'know, the regulation that makes the ubiquitous and reliable microwave, cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth communications that these companies' products rely on to be useful possible in the first place.
Because you can't verify a hash as you can a photo.

Otherwise I could hash and submit the Disney logo.
At that point they are committing a crime with little grey area for them to hide in, compared to a picture taken with consent.
Hey everyone, I'm Levon - Founder of Zeroqode. We are excited to launch today and I'll be around to answer any of your questions. Thanks!
Node.js was sth. I jumped on early. As soon as I saw the video of Ryan's talk, I tried it. I guess the first version I tried was <= v0.5. Then the community went... nuts. But it's quite different than what I view Rails to be.

Rails is like a culture. There are a lot of pre-baked things when you run "rails new blurb", but most of it is useful, and you'd create them anyways. But to a newcomer like me, that's a bit overwhelming. That's my lament about it. Wrt Node.js, that's just a product of lots of ignorance. All you actually need is a JS file, or a makefile with ".js.ps:\n\tpuppyscript -c $< > $@". But the wheel is reinvented with such pace and redundancy that it's a hell of a platform nowadays. Even its creator, which is a very smart guy, has said farewell.
There was a great detailed article on it many years ago, but since they've changed the site I haven't seen a new one. This is about as good as I've seen, and it's written by them.

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/4447/linkedin-...
> As official phones they're not used

I mean lobby for the ban on the sale of Apple products in Germany. As in, make it illegal to sell Apple products. And if you really want to put the cat amongst the pigeons, make it illegal to buy them.

> Boycotts almost never work

They absolutely can if they're popular enough. And they can in Germany too. If you don't believe me, check out the Shell boycott. And that wasn't officially sanctioned. I think it's reasonable to expect that a 40% reduction in sales in a market as important as Germany would cause Apple to think seriously about its position.

Now, I'm not suggesting for a second that a ban on Apple, or even a boycott, would occur let alone be successful. But that's kind of my point. No-one's going to call for it because it's just not important to anyone. It's posturing.
Go Rust!

Sorry, had to say that. Incredible architecture changes were made, but without the language to support them it simply wouldn't have been possible.
i think pressure should also come from apple ( and google and amazon..) employees. They work for an objectively "bad behaving" company, they should tell their management that they're not ok with it.
No, it’s not simple, but it’s a starting point.
I expect that the engineers developing this would go for a hash based on an abstraction of the image represented, not the actual bits of the image file.
Have a look at the Phoronix benchamrk of Firefox 57. Not really impressive. Still a lot of catching up to chrome.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=firefox-...
I think the brick and mortar pharmacy business is already being cut out by placing like Optum and express scripts.
That's past the middle ages though, isn't it?
Can anyone comment.on whether tree style tabs has been ported, or commented on if it will be?
Make sense of course but it can be difficult from a practical sense, not so much for Google Docs but for things like AWS/Azure. Reputation definitely matter here, I trust Amazon and Microsoft more than Google for sure when it comes to suddenly pulling the plug on services people are using.
Does anyone have any recommendations for NeoVim GUI client on OSX?

VimR is nice, but very buggy in my experience. I'm using Neovim.app at the moment after fixing a few bugs in it, but it's got plenty of issues.
I don't think getting rid of these foreign loopholes is as simple as you think it is.
1. What counts as a "US Company"?

2. So you're proposing that Apple pay the U.S. taxes on sales in Germany? Also that every country should do this?
I mean, his worries then are still worries now. Except instead of arbitrary actions from a 19-year old, I face profit focused actions from a giant ad company.

Not sure which is better.
Is there a sort of international tax agency (hopefully with the proverbial teeth) like there is the World Trade Organization [0] (WTO) for trade or Interpol [1] for policing?

With my colloquial/urban-legend-style understanding of the fear of being audited for taxes in both Canada and the US, I would be mildly entertained if I ever heard that the "Global IRS" was auditing a multinational corporation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTO
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol
I took about a day on one aws p2.xlarge (one Tesla K80) starting from a pre-trained inception model (trained and opened sourced by Googled on ImageNet data).
I'm not sure there's currently an open source version of something like PhotoDNA[1] that could run locally.

A normal file hash is probably not useful in this scenario.

[1]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna
More difficult to play videos in a VR experience (even on desktop now)
So making $110k now makes me a rich person with an army of accountants. Got it. Thanks.
I just love the idea of putting the very things you want nobody to see into the hands of the one company that already knows everything else about you.
Better hope you never, ever try to engage in a political campaign that fb doesn't approve of... m(
This is the problem with a complex and byzantine tax code: entities that can manage and manipulate the complexity profit by it. Entities that don't have those kinds of resources are stuck.

It would be good if folks from all political walks of life could come together for some kind of tax simplification. I highly doubt this will ever happen, though, as tax law is used as just another club by big businesses to beat down the small. They have the money, and they're willing to pay-off the political class to make various arguments about how simplifying things would be bad for the little guys. That's not changing. (This has nothing to do with current politics, by the way. I am not following the U.S. tax discussion and it's not relevant to my point. My point is that whether it's business, tech, or government, complexity itself is an enemy)
Well, North Korea did similar things five years prior, with similar results. Not everybody got the memo.
Well I'm sorry if I was wrong about that, but it being there kind of implies that I should use it, at when I don't know better as a newbie.
> But would self driving increase volume that much?

Absolutely. Not even accounting for induced demand, you'll see ~30% more vehicle-miles due to empty-vehicle repositioning.

As you say, accelerations and decelerations can be synchronised, accidents reduced, and standing wave behaviours eliminated, all of which will indeed help traffic flow more efficiently. But this is not by any means enough to compensate for empty-vehicle redistribution, much less induced demand.

> And like those futuristic car intersection scenes where cars dont stop at lights but all go through an intersection from every direction reducing traffic back-ups.

That's only possible in environments where there are no pedestrians or cyclists -- eg., segregated motorways/freeways, which already have no intersection conflicts. At best it represents a space saving, not really a time saving.
A single nginx instance on a lowest tier linode can withstand HN just fine. If HN is enough to bring you down, you're not even trying.
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You could rely on hashes if the downed images were themselves analysed for nude content. Given the state of AI/ML, this is fairly tractable (and has been for a decade with reasonable levels of accuracy).

Persons found abusing the reporting system could have their own trust revoked -- their hashes would be considered noncredible absent independent verification. Similar standards apply, e.g., in witness testimony ("impeaching a witness").
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Competition in business is beneficial to society as a whole, by providing better products and services. Competition in tax avoidance has no plausible benefit. It's spending resources to solve an entirely artificial problem. If the problem was removed then the resources could instead be spent on something useful to everybody.
Does this work for non-tech companies or other companies who really do have different margins in different countries? How do you decide who to enforce it for?
Looks like it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

I'm using Firefox Nightly and it let's me install it.
> most ordinary people won't see any problem with taxation while abroad beyond the actual inconvenience of filing a 1040 because the foreign earned income exclusion

Well that and most banks refusing American customers because they don't want to deal with FBAR/FINCEN reporting.

My American friends here in Europe have a really difficult time opening a bank account due to this rule.
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In other words: The solution to preventing strangers from looking at your nude photos is to have strangers look at your nude photos? Brilliant!
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Excellent update, great work.
In india two third economy was unaccounted. With demonetization everyone had no other option but to deposit it in to bank accounts. Which made a money trail.

-- 2$-3$ billion worth of old currency IT department last year.

-- The total tax base is increased. Evidence of this is that PAN card applications have increased 3x (Daily Issuance of PAN Nearly Triples Post Demonetisation), number of people filing tax has grown a lot [Income tax base expands by 9.1 mn people after note ban) and net tax collections is also significantly up. This is good for a lot of reasons. It makes the taxation fair and also can help government increased budgetary allocations.

-- Economy is able to run normally with 20% lower currency levels.Which makes it harder for households to hoard money. When money is not hoarded, it makes for greater efficiency in the economy.

-- Bank deposits have grown significantly

-- Digital banking became a way of life atleast in the urban India.
I'd assume that any matching photos would be manually verified to be of a nature possibly related to the subject at hand, "revenge porn", if the uploading user clicks the "hey, I should be allowed to post this" button?
I wonder if you can build neovim-qt for OSX. I don't see what would stop you, since Qt is available on OSX.
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So, how exactly this is helping to make things work 10 times faster?
I still need to develop, test and launch the application, right?
10 times faster sound like a bit of an overcommitment here
Trust me, I use "old" core 2 machines, right now on a 1st gen i5 and I regularly cringe at firefox, whenever I run chrome, something lifts off my mind.

I don't charge firefox, it was resetted non long ago, ublock origin and containers (I removed youtube extensions and the likes). Still twitter hungs enough for me to feel annoyed.

I'm not a speed addict, I even love slowness when done right [1], but I rate firefox nightly a little below chrome (stable or canary) at that point.

[1] I use an HP48 calculator, the thing was slower in terms of UI than all its competition but it was such a nice ux design you rarely care about it.
You raise some good points. But I strongly believe in the innovative solutions brought forth by the free markets. It's not called "the invisible hand" for nothing.

I am old enough to remember when whole IT industry used to be in the shadow of Microsoft (and IBM before that). Nobody could see a solution out of it! The government even tried to fix the problem and failed.

Ten years later, Microsoft is becoming a nice player in the industry, not even mentioned when in "largest sharks in IT" lists. The invisible hand of the free market at work...
> Some JR lines run at 4 minute headways during peak times and subways run reliably at 2 minute headways.

I was talking clearly about long distance trains. Not Kyoto to Osaka distance.
If you need your Prometheus data to survive, you're doing it wrong.
That's an interesting case to bring up. In the UK, it is very common (I'd go as far as to say it's the norm) for software contractors to start a single-person limited company and pay themselves through a mixture of salary and dividend in order to optimise their taxes. I wonder how many of these people consider that they are committing "tax avoidance" and "exploiting legal loopholes" too.
1. Companies which parent owner is based in the US. Companies are already paying taxes based on consolidated regime, it is just that they consolidate all entities within a tax jurisdiction. So the concept exists, it could just be extended.

2. You wouldn't have a double taxation. You would apply to companies what the US applies to US individuals. If you have a subsidiary in Germany and paying local taxes of 10, but that would be paying 15 if you had the same income in the US, then you owe 5 to the US taxman in addition to the 10 you owe to the German taxman.
Agreed, the only sane solution to this is a massive overhaul of international tax law. Shaming companies just isn't a scalable solution in any way. There's a massive opposition against this both from multinationals and tax haven countries though - this article is a good way to start making it obvious to normal citizens that this issue should be on the ballot.
The small business myth
Set extensions.legacy.enabled to true and enjoy. Do not know how long that will work though, but all mine seem to be working.
Sure on that point nobody can, but between no knowledge and mind reading there's a huge amount of stuff website can gather.
And that's the problem: if the tax law changes to be more "fair", Ireland gets screwed. Like you said, the Irish government is fighting the EU decision to give them more taxes because if companies were forced to do that they might leave Ireland.
Income tax is hard to collect. Sales tax is regressive.

Solution: sales tax with lump-sum redistribution to make it progressive. Forget income tax.
And apparently an insufficient one if this is a problem that has affected enough people for FB and gov't authorities to propose a ham-handed initiative. Note that I'm assuming that this isn't all a FB conspiracy to get users to send them their nudes because that is already what FB users are doing via Messenger on a daily basis.
It practically has, although they're still working on an API to hide the tab bar - until then, you'll have to hide it by editing a local CSS file.
Tree style tab has been ported, it's a version that's a bit rushed but it does the job.
Good reason to use Firefox then, and its ability to have side tabs:

https://imgur.com/a/L9plD
Sad, or fortuitous? I don't think even the founders realized this was a feature, not a bug. Big media loves Twitter because it forces everything into sound bites. Twitter would not have taken off having the same functionality as everything else.
That was my theory, maybe they don't after all..

(maybe Child is right, it's not real time data harvest but slower gathering)
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> As far as I can tell, your essential complaint is that Google is sometimes providing results that are too relevant.

My takeaway is that the whole thread of the first comment should be collapsed, which is usual for HN. Important topics get ignored or derailed.
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Or they could use image recognition to detect adult content, like Google's Cloud Vision API

https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/detecting-safe-search

EDIT: Just read the part that says a "community operations analyst" will hash and analyze the photo. That's terrible!
So you're saying humans will be verifying nude pics submitted by users? Because that doesn't sound better.
And in June 2018...then what?

Sorry - just very tired of people tossing out ESR as a solution to this problem. It isn’t - at best, it just kicks the can down the road. At worst, it’s continuing to support a company that’s shown utter disregard for a huge portion of its user base by the way they’ve handled XUL deprecation. No one’s saying XUL didn’t need to go - it did. What’s frustrating is the complete removal of it without before providing a viable replacement and the accompanying big shrug / middle finger to anyone who relies on XUL-based extensions and can’t switch to the neutered WE version (see Tile Tabs and Tree Style Tab).

As a long-time Firefox user, I’m extremely disappointed by the way Mozilla has handled this. I’ll use 57 for dev tools and bookmark sync, but Waterfox or Vivaldi will be my daily driver.
We got rid of that some time ago.
> as far as the US is concerned, you might as well never have been a citizen at all

I guess that's better than the alternative: being treated worse because you're deemed a "traitor" or "deserter" for giving up US citizenship.

> This means that when you want/need to visit the country, you can be denied entrance

This I can understand. You aren't a citizen anymore and thus have the same rights as any other foreigner visiting the US.

If there is no further discrimination against you for being a ex-citizen, I personally don't see why ex-citizens shouldn't have the same requirements as non-citizens for entry.

> the claim they'll use is that you don't have enough "ties" to your new country for them to be certain that you won't try to stay illegally.

Yeah, that's extra shitty.
It's not a terminal though, so you can get GUI features that terminal nvim can't do.

Personally I use terminal vim not any sort of nvim (maybe I should change over but then I potentially have to maintain two sets of plugins, one for nvim and one for vim. ).

No if you want to call this out, I'd call it out for the lack of features. This only supports code completion in JS and TypeScript. I have code completion plus snippets for a lot more then that with vim.

Honestly if you want to wow me, someone should build a GUI configuration tool for neovim/vim. One big benefit of GUIs is that you can generally see all the possible settings with tool tips and explanations, and I can see that being useful for vimmers, especially if it did the right thing, like using ft-plugins to do filetype specific settings, instead of a bunch of one line autogroups based on file extension.

Yes there are vim config generators, but the neovim api means you could programmatically query the current configuration and display it along with the options, meaning you could have interactive configuration modification.
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Not only do they get tax cuts and cheap real estate from governments, they also get direct money.

When google decided to create a data center in Sweden, the Swedish government gifted them $20 million in "establishment support". Money sent from the tax payer directly to the bank account of Google. Reason? So that google would pick Sweden. The politicians argument is that Sweden grain prestige if google has their data center here so its worth spending those millions. Its a bribe in all the sense of the word except that its a game between nations.
I've tried a simple sentence

> How are you this fine morning?

and didn't recognize anything - I was expecting "you" and "(this) morning" to be highlighted - but perhaps I misunderstood the example.

This https://demos.explosion.ai/displacy/ looks really nice though. Just the UX of horizontal scrolling using mouse is horrible (once you figure it out).
> Wasn't he like 19 when he said this?

Isn't the point of Facebook to keep such kind of comments forever in each individual profile? I don't see why Zuck should be immune to something he benefited from in the first place.
> I can't evade from my country tax system.

You can however use different tactics to minimize your tax burden which is exactly what Apple is doing.
This is a concept and the article mentions that many of the technologies do not yet exist.
What's with all the auto-playing videos these days? I don't even know how to turn this video off....
It's tough when the "only sane solution" also happens to be a enormous task to even begin talking about. I agree with you, but I also struggling to imagine a time when that overhaul could take place.
The Nighty version will always be the best version ;)
No, it should probably work like this:

1. User submits hash.

2. Other user submits photo, which matches the hash, which is detected by the system.

3. Facebook employee is notified. Looks at photo.

4. Photo is removed.

This way, the employee only looks at the photo if it was actually submitted. If (2) never happened, then (3) never happens.
Nobody's denying the contribution of the govt $$$ to the creation of the PC. But I've seen computers build by governments. They were slow, huge, power hungry, expensive behemoths. They sucked.

We're a long way from there. And free market brought us all the way here.
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I find it a bit disturbing that you value entertainment on TV as "great" and "state hospitals" and "schools" as crappy.

In fact, overall, it seems like you value as "great" everything around you that don't implies interacting directly with other humans, and as "crappy" about everything that does.

So if the free market purpose is to value antisocial products while making every social bonds look crappy, well, I'm not so sure I love it.
What about that article suggests that he has or hasn't changed? It seems to seeks to stir up outrage, that it's somehow sinister to expect that when you tell somebody something in confidence, they keep it confident - and if you don't, you get found and fired, because keeping confident things confident is a condition of employment, and not a terribly onerous one.
Amusingly, it seems neither you nor the grandparent comment have the interface set to `compact`.
> But there are these big companies which can afford to create offshore companies/holding just to evade some tax system, and lower their tax rate.

I wonder if there's actually a correlation between how ruthlessly a company evades taxes/cuts other corners and how quickly such a company becomes big enough to enable even more tax evasion/corner-cutting?

Or to put the question simpler: Was the tax evasion there first or did that only start happening after reaching a certain size enabled tax evasion?

Imho there's always opportunities to cheat, not all of them are big but many small ones can still add up to a lead. Most of us just chose not to cheat thus don't even notice these opportunities for what they are.
Nothing about this idea is unrealistic.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2015/09/15/modifie...
Paul Erdős: Mathematical Genius, Human  (In That Order) [pdf]
Most html mail I get just links to a jpg poster in crappy resolution.
> To be clear, if Google stayed how it currently is, I'd have no problem at all. I'm just worried that google can go from strange to malicious at the flip of a switch.

What evidence do you even have that they didn't go malicious? And how could you gather such evidence if you don't have any?
Ah that makes more sense. I was thinking he was saying they would have to fork for a technical reason not political.