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Ask HN: Legal/tax issues while hiring remote workers from outside US?
For those companies that have hired full time remote employees from outside of US, is there any specific legal/tax related processes? Do they need a US Tax ID? Is the process any different if you are paying them cash + equity?
I'm not aware of any government regulation to enforce convenience. If given a choice, most people will choose instant convenience if they are not aware of the long term effects of this decision.
Hence the lack of education part.
> Beans and grains are cheap.

Side note: grains are not a healthy food.
> If you already have a computer in your house, then you've
> already got a much, much more powerful version of a
> raspberry pi.
> If you have a friend or family member who is interested in
> an introduction to software and hardware engineering, or
> electronics, then they'll be MUCH MUCH better off with one > of these: https://www.seeedstudio.com/Shield-Bot-p-1380.html
> and an arduino uno.

Biggest win for Pi is IMHO the combination of the two, you get both a linux box and an arduino-like platform with HW pins access and kit hats, all in a small package that can easily be fit anywhere - and at the same time it's cheap and simple enough to allow you to play freely without worries.
Tying yourself (and your job and income and status) to one company or one platform for years on end seems like a terrible choice. It doesn't seem to matter much what the service or platform is: Youtube, Twitch, Airbnb, Uber, Monsanto, etc... who cares? If you need that platform for your career then that platform owns you.

Every company is going to cut costs and converge more to the safe mean over the long term. The history is pretty clear on this. Why would you tie your whole life to a company and then spend every day complaining about that company?
Huawei has been seen as a shady actor for over a decade now. It was during Obama's term that the House Intelligence Committee deemed Huawei a national security threat.
>I'm really not convinced that providing a cheap / free platform for anyone to amplify their message was actually a net good.

Only people you agree with should be heard right?
To have 2 cameras. 1 the raspberry pi camera, the other the usb webcam.
What's wrong with that though?
> And there’s zero-indexing (as opposed to indexes that start at 1)

What, and that's exactly the part I dislike about both Matlab and Julia! The amount of "+ 1" and "- 1"s in matlab indices you need when subdividing matrices into multiple equal sized parts is horrible.

Weird, I thought mathematicians would know better what makes sense and what not. Starting with an offset of 1 is clearly what does not make sense, you start at distance 0 from your starting point.
Thank you for posting a physical marker; I was afraid I was the only person that's done so.

I've been known to use Post-its and the frame of my monitor as a marker. Both are much easier with how prevalent dual-monitors are these days.
Imagine if Google is next
Extremes and Records
This is hilarious. Yes, it turns out making constexpr into a general-purpose C++ emulator in the compiler is really fricking slow.

Maybe native code-generation isn't so bad, after all. Maybe we can just redefine "constexpr" to nothing, then compilers can just dump it all in a file, compile it, run it and there we go, the blazing fast integrated code generation pipeline we all seem to want and need.
Virginia is among the only states that deactivate an E-ZPass for inactivity
Racism is still okay, though.
Plants don't have consciousness because.
They.
Don't.
Have.
Brains.
good for them. of course cuban citizens may figure out to do the same to bypass their govt...
Exactly. Nobody behaves worse when they know they are being watched.
And if you want headless access this passphrase will be stored unencrypted. This is nothing more than security Kabuki theater.
You have the encrypted cookies. You can't use the encrypted cookie to login with gmail.

It might only encrypt some of the cookies, but encrypting cookies in such a way that you need to be able to log in or unlock the screen with your password is a thing. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22532870/encrypted-cooki...

Otherwise there would be no point in such projects as node-keytar.
I hope not.

But in some countries many small to medium businesses use WhatsApp extensively for communication with their customers. For many people it's as bad, arguably worse, than their main ISP going down.
They posted the full unedited video. It doesn't reveal anything deceptive about the editing of the first edited-for-time video.

EDIT: Going to the substance - you really think Google employees don't want to prevent Trump's re-election? Because every possible indicator (campaign donations, personal speech, company policy) says that they do. The Veritas video is part of a massive pattern of evidence pointing to the same conclusion.

They've got a dog in the fight, and there is no mechanism to stop them abusing their non-accountable, opaque, non-democratic power over the modern mediums of communication.

Another question - If this isn't enough evidence to convince you, what would be? What's the standard or proof? Would you apply that same standard to accusations that, say, Trump wants America to be just white people? Or are you just using an isolated demand for rigor [0]?

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demand...
I had a eerily similar experience in the Pikeville, KY WalMart: Stopped in to pick up some last minute groceries for a weekend excursion to the Russell Fork. While walking around I heard a voice over the intercom that I literally could not understand a word that was said. I looked at my wife (both of us born and raised in KY) and said, "What was that?". She also had no idea what was said. It was a different language, not really English.
Joseph J. Ellis, in his book "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation", makes the case that it wasn't till the 1810s and 1820s that Americans began to argue about the origins of the country, and increasingly settle upon July 4th, 1776, as the starting point of the country.

It's an unusual decision, because most countries base their holidays around when the first battles occur. The French celebrate Bastille Day, which is July 14th. But in the USA there are no celebrations on April 19th, which is a bit surprising. The heroism shown at the battles of Lexington and Concord are forgotten, whereas a bunch of men signing a document is raised to the level of something epic. And it is said that the USA began in 1776, instead of 1775. If the French followed such reasoning, they would say that the French Revolution began on September 20th, 1792, because of the Battle of Valmy.

To suggest that the USA begins on July 4th of 1776 represents a victory for Thomas Jefferson, and for the factions associated with him. The key thing is that Jefferson's factions were very popular during the 1810s and 1820s, when Americans were making up their minds about how they should understand the origin of the country.

https://www.amazon.com/Founding-Brothers-Revolutionary-Josep...
I like this work and their approach but there is a third risk (in addition to the two they mention) which is the risk of skew in the compile time and runtime interpretation of certain constructs.

Obviously when this happens it's a bug; the real question is "if such a bug occurs (i.e. the semantics of the program is affected by the use of constexpr) will it confuse the developer?"

Lisps (which have always intermixed interpreted and compiled code as long as lisp compilers have existed) have often struggled with this problem even though they have in many ways a simpler problem to address.

And since I'm writing about C++: I really love c++ but I hate the keyword "constexpr" as it's actually "const_statement". the distinction between statements and expressions, and the concomitant problem that expressions aren't first class, is a c-inherited botch on the language IMHO.

Edit: s/similar/simpler/
You seem to be willfully ignoring the demonstrable harm he causes. You're promoting a false balance. You're saying "Alex Jones robbed a bank, other people eat their coworkers' lunch, so who are we to judge?"

Absolute nonsense.
I believe it is W for Washington
I can answer that. For money! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiJPsOI61qE

(quote from a tv show where the anti-hero destroys an intergalactic empire by setting the value of all money from 1 to 0; in the scene is the alien "white house" having a discussion what to do without money)
Second this, with my DigitalOcean VPS's. DigitalOcean posted an incident report yesterday. They say "global networking issues" were caused by a "major provider", but unfortunately there isn't much more detail than that [1].

[1] https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/qvdcj7yx4030
This video was made by the collaboration of various popular youtube content creators. It's about how Youtube is applying its rules inconsistently and in favor of big media corporations. Many say they'll leave Youtube, possibly moving to LBRY for a decentralized version of Youtube.
Youtube is making the case for IPFS. I didn't think it would happen so soon but here we are.

This is great news for the project and should drive more work on the convenience layers that need to be built above the IPFS layer.
Exactly. It reminds me of that PostgreSQL CVE issue recently discussed, where the security breach was that someone with admin privileges on a PostgreSQL instance could execute code as the postgres user.

People fail to consider the threat model in some of these cases.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19659684
They may not have the original source. They lost quite a lot of the original Starcraft Assets and they were only later found by lick in someone's garage or loft well over a decade later IIRC.

I have a lot of code myself (mostly perl scripts, very old .NET and Java code) for old systems that are deployed that weren't in any sort of source control until recently.

This may surprise some but until 2006-2007 most source control systems were by today's standard terrible.

I've been through the torture of working sometimes with Accurev and Microsoft Sourcesafe and tbh you are better just zipping up your source code and putting a date and time on the archive name. Even more modern systems like Team Foundation Server are painful.
The easy and correct solution is to... not make incriminating posts.
Ippsec is still up, wonder what the line is
Or I could just save my data to my computer?
> "If plants have no consciousness, does that make them any less worthy of care?"

No it doesn't, but that's not what's at debate. The fact anyone needed to be told plants aren't conscious is kind of crazy.

There's an insinuation that level-of-consciousness is the measure by which we should judge the importance of organisms. This is an anthropocentric view of life, and a shallow one at that.
I can see two possibile outcomes named after the stereotypical age of the reaction. The "child" outcome where it is accepted as the norm or the "teenaged" one where they tear it down and call previous generations terrible/stupid people for being responsible for it.

Essentially that seems to be the pattern of resolution of changes - sometimes applied recursively in a cyclic way. One example is baroque vs austere in church design and iconoclasm.

I am hoping for teenaged ones to gain dominance since the people who look at the surveillance and say "What the fuck is wrong with you - you are literally acting like antagonists in a young adult science fiction dystopia!" seem to be a minority in influence currently.
I think you missed his point (whether it's strong or not). He's saying there's an irony in the idea of focusing on proper appearance to the person on the phone when the boundaries of what's appropriate for loud speakerphone calls in a public environment have been lowered too far. Like worrying about whether you look nice while walking off a cliff. I think that's the point, whether one agrees with him or not.
Presumably OP was referring to big companies skirting around data laws and heavy lobbying by said companies. W would be the US government or similar.
cool so who’s got some links to non-youtube videos? i’m trying to learn
This is a fallacy all humans experience, however, what is the probability specifically that all these problems are unrelated? At what probability is it mathematically impossible that these problems are unrelated?

AFAF
Maybe it's just me, but if you left off the "(of xkcd fame)" I would have been much more likely to click on that.
A thing being alive (collection of cells being "not dead") and sentient are two different things. If we assume sentience is some kind of concentration of information, then I would assume regular plants' synapses are not complex enough to create a relevant feedback loop of consciousness. Mushrooms and their networks (interconnected myceliums) on the other hand may be a different case.
I suppose you're alluding to issues like Cloudflare dumping literal Nazis off their service. The same issue still applies with all of those entities. Political party is not a protected class and nobody is guaranteed any internet service until internet service is deemed a human right. Until that time, Nazis are free to preach and prattle on physical town squares instead of virtual ones.
There's no such thing as a free speech absolutist and YouTube was never a free speech platform.
Hacking is not only not necessarily a crime, you can actually get a job doing it responsibly (red team security professional). I'm looking forward to seeing Amazon refuse to sell the Red Team Field Manual because it's about "hacking".
Please don't use trollish usernames. That means trolling every thread the account posts to.
I've considered replacing parts of my lawn with creeping or wooly thyme. I'm not certain how it will do over the winter in Eastern Pennsylvania, so it might be something I test along paths or in flower beds first.

I've decided to avoid killing the clover and broadleaf "weeds" and want to plant as much as I can to encourage honeybees to live near me.
What is it that you don’t like regarding CoC?
The idea that a single group of people should be 'auditing the identification of truth' with no transparency, no diversity of viewpoint, and no accountability is frighteningly Orwellian.

We are headlong sprinting towards a dark future of corporate control over human expression and democracy itself. And you're helping the megacorps consolidate power because the already convinced you that the people criticizing them are icky.
Is there a more trustworthy study we should look at?
The truth is it isn't there ability to hand it out as you would find out if you did wrong. The issue is they don't care if it doesn't go against their fucked up social order.
LibraCoin reference? haha
Sure, because children don't have personality or autonomy. You only get that when you turn 18. /s
In 1981, it was 4.5. In 2016, it is 2.2.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_union_ter...

In 1981, population was 700 million vs 1.3 billion in 2016.

World population in 1981: 4.4 billion. World population in 2016: 7.4 billion.

2.2 replacement rate is still too high for India.

China stats are at a more slower rate due to the one child policy. It wasn’t perfect and that’s why we need to incentivize rather than act punitively.

If the US or China or even Europe or Africa has the accepted 2.1 replacement rate, they can manage due to land mass and resources..India is tiny and we are already bursting at the seams.

While the US can claim to reduce population because it’s a ‘problem’..it’s a full blown crisis in India. The future generations will suffer. I can’t see the rationale.

When one compares the quality of life benefits to low density living, it is baffling that current generations want their descendants to suffer and perish.
Being from Kentucky, Justified was a laugh-a-minute for us ... it's very authentic, if authentic means filmed in California with the best looking hillbilly's and rednecks anyone has ever seen.
Thats why the feature is usually called "shuffle" rather than "random". Then if you stop to think about it a bit, the expected meaning is reasonably clear.
Ok, so Google is acting like Inqusition, banning some domains of knowledge... Guess humans haven't evolved much since Middle Ages.
This is a great strategy when dealing with a corporate entity that isn't actively evil.
I don't quite understand your point or its connection here. What are you arguing?
And how many times (ACORN, NPR, etc.) have the full versions of those videos shown something different than what the edited versions portrayed?

It's been six days since the "initial reveal"[1] of the video and documents (which, if you read them, are incredibly unbiased). Care to share a link to the entire unedited footage of these new interviews?

[1]https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/24/insider-blows-whis...
We used to use Email Octopus and switched to Sendy. We like Sendy's interface a lot more.
Yikes. I see it the opposite way. My title has evolved from UX Designer to Product Designer. A lot of organizations have started to understand the value of design and are now giving us the power to think through everything, rather than just the optimization of a web form.

Technology is evolving and expanding so quickly that there's exponential need for good design. I'm happy to hear you're getting out of UX though. I wouldn't want to go to a doctor who blatantly calls the whole medical industry a sham.
By this definition my air conditioning system is conscious.
For now. Wait till some superintelligence gives them skrodes.
What in the world could possibly be the reason in that first story for the 'file' program to look for the string 'Tue' and change to the Jam filetype? That's gotta be a very niche case, right?
Open source medical devices! Is this a first? There is potential for some genuine health concerns where QA and security are involved.
In that case I think you can easily see my point. Numerical computing has done pretty well since the fifties using just "multidimensional arrays".

[Edit: You may care about vector algebra but 99.999% of the users of numerical arrays do not. I just think that the proper term in a general discussion about data structures in numerical computing like the one here is “array”.]

[Edit2: in case you’re really not familiar with the abuse of the term, people do now often use the word tensor to talk about multidimensional arrays that have nothing to do with the mathematical entity called tensor. And I don’t think either matlab or python pretend that they have tensors.]
> Do you suspend half the kids in the classroom because they're causing a disturbance for the other half?

Yes, you do!

> that school is a great mechanism to teach kids to interact with each other and learn to solve problems.

What kind of utopian school did you go to? None of my schools did this, at _all_.
I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV. This isn't legal advice.

There was a case Biederman v Domo, http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/complaint.p...
Where, Biederman, a former employee requested financial data to value his shares, as consistent with Inspection of Books and Records Pursuant to 8 Del. C. § 220 - which applies to many DE incorporated, funded startups, but has restrictions.

It's my understanding that Biederman prevailed. He was able to inspect the books and was not muzzled, as per Domo's initial requirements. However, I can't find the decision.
This is actually a really interesting comparison. From what I have studied, mushrooms behave similar to a neural network. This is one of the reasons they are so good at revitalizing forests and are seemingly unaffected by viruses. Not to mention their benefits on immune regulation in primates.
> At the most abstract interpretation I think consciousness can be defined as a closed system that contain both input and output, in which information is gathered and alters some component of the system itself.

This is very similar to the definition I was given for "robot" in an embedded systems course.
I imagine many of these content creators are not "tied" to Youtube, but have alternate income streams like Patreon. I know at least one youtuber that has talked about how they've diversified their income.
The country fought a bloody war 160 years ago to settle that dispute and it was pretty resoundly settled.

Not only that but there isn't a country on the planet that doesn't have equally horrific past. But that's horrific to us only because Jefferson and the colonists won. And their philosophy won. There's nothing inevitable about the destruction of monarchy. We might have been ruled by Kings and lords for another 2000 years. Who the hell knows?

The people aggravating other people for celebrating American heritage have sick aims. No amount of time or human sacrifice will be enough until all pride in U.S. is snuffed out. And then, what are we left with?
Further complicating things, lots of people will say they want 1 or 2, but really want one of the others, because they don’t really understand what randomness looks like.

Lots of music players started out with true randomness and then dialed it back because people complained that it wasn’t very random.
Jefferson raped a 15 year old girl till she got pregnant. I hope he's burning in the hottest rings of hell, where he belongs.
Well, if I had subscribed to PS back then I would have spent like $500 by now.

I just don't use it nearly enough to justify paying a subscription. I might not even use it for months at a time.

Affinity cost me like $50, once. The mere comfort of just being able to use it whenever you need it is worth that money to me.
Since it is also herritable, why would that be surprising?
That story is entirely fiction: http://www.throwcase.com/2014/12/21/that-five-monkeys-and-a-...
Is there a line? I fail to see any difference.

I also don't understand how a video teaching how to make your software more secure is different from a video teaching how to exploit insecure software. For all I know, they are the exact same video.
What specific action(s) did he encourage/advocate? Hate is an emotion, and an incredibly subjective one.
Yes, lack of RAM. First mp3 player I ever worked on consisted of a PIC driving an IDE hard drive over I/O pins, and an mp3 chip over I2C, with 2k RAM for the whole shebang. If you want to support more than 256 songs, you'll need 2 bytes per index value, so 2k RAM just for the shuffle table if you have 1000 songs. Then there's the hard drive controller, the FS driver and file I/O interface, the LCD driver, the send buffer to the mp3 chip, etc, etc.
Consider peertube instead.
What's your opinion on a sales tax but simultaneously making food and medicine tax-free?
I have migrated apps from one database to another several times. The decoupling was very helpful.

I have also seen instances where the decoupling helped us abstract out differences between different versions of the same database product during upgrades.
Insiders claim Google's internet-fixing Jigsaw is a toxic vanity project
I would like to encourage people to join a local community garden program and also let others know this option might exist in their hometown. I found it to be an invaluable way to grow healthy food and meet people from all walks of life. We grow veggies in our backyard too, but the public gardens are where you actually meet nice people outside of your economic class, which is far more rewarding on a personal level to me than driving around in an expensive car to an expensive mall to buy expensive stuff.
Well no, I think the parent is agreeing with the GP actually.