skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. You are trading uncertain gains of tax avoidance (to cast it in the nicest possible terms) for the certain cost of complications and distraction.

You will certainly incur several thousand dollars in immediate costs for legal advice, filing fees, etc. You will have to pay a registered agent in a foreign country, etc., on an ongoing basis, which could be several hundred to a few thousand dollars per year for effectively forever.

You will also have potential issues with having to answer questions about whether you hold any financial assets offshore in the future. If you are, or become, a U.S. taxpayer, you have to disclose if you have aggregate of over $10,000 in overseas holdings. Including the holding company. You can guarantee that this makes you of much more intense interest for audit. If you lie about it, you set yourself up for penalties and possible criminal charges.

It will also just look weird to investors, company auditors, etc., if some offshore entity holds the shares instead of you. It won't be necessarily suspect, but it will be a distraction. Unless you have a substantial personal fortune already, in which case you likely already have estate-planning or tax-planning advisors and entities formed, it will just look bizzare.

In general, for a U.S. entrepreneur starting at zero and concerned about tax minimization, making sure you get long-term capital gains treatment and get your 83(b) election right is the most important. Next is trying to get Qualified Small Business Stock treatment.
"that's an error and they mean regardless" = "additional mental parsing"
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Are you really that surprised that Google shut down one of their products?
This works better for me personally when there are a few high-walled cubes or offices opening into a shared area. I have Billy the Kid syndrome and really, REALLY hate having my back to the room or door.
Works for me.

And the mobile web is web tailored for mobile devices. Come on.
Based on what Google's implying with this Glass news, seems it wasn't happy with the product and wants to change course. Now that it's an actual product division and they're killing the current iteration, I'd expect we don't hear anything for a long while until there's something new.
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The fourth amendment was written in the simplest possible terms because it was meant to be interpreted by us. The moment we stop interpreting this constitution right for ourselves, and let politicians and lawyers interpret it for us, is the moment we surrender our freedom. As part of the constitution, no other law or ruling can supersede it, no matter how much some bureaucrats and fear-mongers may say otherwise.

No matter what policy the NSA comes up with, it cannot trump our fourth amendment right, nor our right to interpret it.
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It's pretty bad; it seems Google is sunsetting the product. We just don't know if that means it'll turn off the servers that support it too, yet.
Does anyone know how flash cookies are handled on cell phones? Is there any way to block or clear them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_shared_object

This add on is good for clearing them using firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy...
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This iOS currency recognition app is accurate and easy to use. If only more visual recognition apps were this easy, or there was an open-source recognizer library for this functionality:

http://www.looktel.com/recognizer
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and we're off!

..this MC is intense
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> that I may also help encourage more torrent sites to provide archive downloads of their torrent database.

Could the underlying archive be managed with git? For distributed versioning, sha verificiation, etc?
At least you could justify Chrome's bad design decisions with "that's what's good for Google". And that's what makes it even worse for Firefox. US$311 -->MILLION<-- a year ("not-for-profit"), lot of developers working for free on it and they can't come up with a decent web browser, shame on them, and shame on the guys that believe their bs.
Typical big-company clumsiness. The store-opening expert didn't get the memo about a possible bankruptcy filing. Or if it did arrive, our go-getter decided that the best way to avoid getting fired was to be right in the middle of a project that couldn't be canceled.
It doesn't have to have intent to be dangerous thats the problem. Just like you don't mean to step on an ant but probably have often done that.
Sometimes, technology is simply ahead of its time. Honestly, I don't see a fit for Google Glass in society right now. That will likely change in three or five years, but right now, I feel there needs to be some kind of evolution to where Google Glass is considered "normal." It has already started with wearables - smart watches, fitness bands, etc. But it needs to expand in a more logical way before Glass can be included in that list.
One of several problems is that for many of the organisms with a short enough generation time to run an experiment like this (see Lenski's experiments with E. coli: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_exp... ) the notion of a "steady state species" in terms of your thinking (Baboon vs. Human vs. Gorilla) is entirely false.
I don't understand how moving it from (a highly public) R&D to a product division means that we'll be hearing less.
So some speculation (since we on the outside can never be sure, and when I worked at Google it was always interesting to see the difference between what was reported vs the reality inside the company.)

I've always felt that consumer products were going to be really hard for Google to pull off. It reminded me of Intel trying to make an LED wristwatch in the early 80's. Too much consumer 'hands on', too much industrial design. Neither of which Google are strengths.

I expect glass is dead, all the money they might have invested in making it real they spent on Magic Leap, and now its up to the Leap guys to be the 'visual interface to Google.' The small android experience will fold into the IoT part of Google (Nest) and that will be that.
I haven't had a lot of interaction with them, but my opinion is that CPS attracts very empathetic people -- people who are attracted to a job of "saving the children".

These people are then exposed to a continuing stream of addicts, criminals, the mentally ill, etc, who are actively harming children.

Preserving your empathy in such a situation is very difficult. I suspect most just protect themselves by shutting it down.

Not to mention the fact that to everybody you interact with considers you the "bad guy".

I was at a party once where we everybody was trying to outdo each other describing the most disgusting thing they'd ever seen. There were some whoppers there -- there were farmers, doctors and vets at the party.

The winner was a CPS officer.
Slack should be handled by effective management. Having clearly defined deadlines and checkups on progress prevents people from wasting time in a detrimental way. Instilling fear in your devs by threatening to expose them when they goof off is not how you should treat professionals.

So I goof off. Perhaps I don't even work for an entire day. Am I meeting the schedule laid out for me? Am I producing as much as expected while being happy and carefully managing my output?

Forcing engineers to work nonstop is a good way to create buggy software.

There needs to be a shift in the industry to respecting what people get done rather than how many hours they spent working on it.
I don't have a mobile device, so I can't really tell what's going on. Can someone give a brief overview of what this is about? It's supposed to be a new way of browsing news, right?
That's a head-smacker. Some guy somewhere must have actually painted that on the trailer - does that guy not think "Hey, this doesn't really make sense. Are you sure they didn't want somebody to translate this to Arabic?"

Or maybe he did and his boss told him to shut up and do as he's told. Or he thought - "Screw this, I wanna go home on time. I'm not gonna bother to find an Arabic translator now. I'll just paint exactly what it says, and they can't get me in much trouble for that."
20/250 vision is... really good. Able to use a full 80x24 terminal with ease. Able to drive as long as you're not too picky about legality or reading signs. Able to read facial expressions in a conversation. I'm very curious about the details of 'equivalent'.
The original point was that a police officer get paid "crazy money." Without a segue into your new point I didn't recognize that you were starting a new conversation.

How many software developers retire as software developers? How many police officers retire as a first line supervisor or higher?
The title is sensational and meant to be clickbait. It does not focus on the fact that by moving Glass to an actual product division, Google is expressing commitment to the ecosystem and the product.

Edit: "Glass at Work has been growing and we’re seeing incredible developments with Glass in the workplace. As we look to the road ahead, we realize that we’ve outgrown the lab and so we’re officially “graduating” from Google[x] to be our own team here at Google. We’re thrilled to be moving even more from concept to reality."
https://plus.google.com/+GoogleGlass/posts/9uiwXY42tvc
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But this is all extremely hypothetical. Nobody knows what the real scenario will be, if something like this ever comes up - it probably won't be one person sitting in a room with a chat terminal and a "Release" button, under pressure to make a decision on the spot.

This contrived experiment is being done in the name of research, ostensibly to arm humans with the tools we need to deal with this situation if it arises. If the AI's reasoning can't hold up to a wider analysis, then you can only conclude that it's a trick of some sort, and hopefully when the time comes we won't rely simply on the testimony of one tricked person to make such a critical decision.

I have a lot of respect for Yudkowski but it honestly baffles me that he thinks this particular exercise should be given any weight whatsoever. It's totally unscientific, relies entirely on the unsubstantiated testimony of one individual, and if he weren't the one holding the keys I have to feel like he would be highly critical of it as well.
The main issue I have with Clojure is the stack trace ... If you've ever hate yourself when an error in Java popup and you have to trace 30 lines of stack trace in Java, it's far worse in clojure.
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Yea, my wife and I have had a run in with cps, luckily nothing bad came of it. For a while though I was constantly thinking of the kids that actually are in an abusive situation and haven't been helped by these cps jerks who would rather waste their time threatening to shatter everything I live for. And yes, I tried to stand up to them and they threatened to remove our kids. Wtf? How can it be so easy for an entity to just do that? Something really wrong with that.
I think you missed my point - perhaps you should irreinterpret my comment.
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Right.

Because no intelligent, technically competent person has ever had a reasonable criticism to make about Glass, or the track record of the company making it, in regards to privacy and participation with NSA surveillance, or of the potential downsides to adding even more ubiquitous, fine-grained surveillance to the modern world.

I mean, Glass is no more ominous than cellphones. It's just a cellphone strapped to your face and pointed right at everyone you're looking at. No one would be creeped out if you held your cellphone out in front of you and recorded everything going on. It even has a little light that shows when you're recording, which is controlled by perfectly trustworthy software.

Bunch of Luddites, they all are.
I'm not sure "grandeur" is a word I'd use to describe the United States. Glitter, perhaps, and certainly bustle, but I don't see much grandeur in our lives. I think it's both interesting and relevant that the word "pompous" could once describe a positive trait; frequently, Handel's music was praised for its pompous solemnity.
I'm in the same boat. I'd be more likely to help if it wasn't real-time (but still quick enough to be helpful).
As a remote worker, I sometimes work at my desk, I sometimes work at coffee shops, and I get a nice blend that way. Sometimes I log into IRC, sometimes I don't, and again, I'm able to find the balance which works for me personally.

Background noise is up to me. Interacting with co-workers is up to me (to a point, of course).

Some of my rent will be tax-deductible for me personally, none of it will be an expense for my employer.

Meanwhile, none of the existing research supports open-plan offices. Yet it's the norm in the industry.
Tallinn, Tegmark and Bostrom are long-time MIRI supporters, so this probably won't be positioned as a competitor.

It also seems that there was a not-very-advertised AI conference in January, with pretty much everyone in the AI-risk scene attending, most of MIRI staff and Elon Musk included.
It wouldn't be YCombinator then. There are residency programs elsewhere all over the world for people to participate in. It's about the human capital and the location. So no, let's not move YC to be a franchise system, because it'd lose a lot of what makes it great.
I wouldn't want to speak for other explorers, but if a next gen commercial product can build on the potential, create a better product, and create a way for developers to make money, that's a great thing. The current iteration and program seemed to have reached the end of its ability to generate new insight.

I'm happy with my participation, it was a chance to play around with a bit of what the future could be like. It was like owning a Nokia internet tablet back in the day. You could see what it would be like to make (skype) calls , stream music, and use apps on a connected computer in your pocket. But that didn't mean that one didn't think it was a great thing when the iPhone came out, and pushed the vision at consumer scale.
I think computers killed off Braille, particularly among the young. Both Windows (with the right software) and Mac OS X (straight out of the box) are surprisingly (it suprised me!) usable by blind people.
SharpKit has a 3+ year head-start selling and supporting their solution (available commercially and under GPL3). I have no doubt they have considered transitioning to Roslyn as well; it is a tough decision for all those who had already built a C# parser. (Note that those using Mono [Saltarelle for sure] will wind up stuck unless they follow along to Roslyn.)

The biggest part of these projects is the re-implementation of the .NET CLR in JavaScript (for example, Saltarelle began life using the Script# runtime with a few tweaks). The more production usage the runtime has seen, the more useful the translation tool becomes!

http://sharpkit.net/
I don't know how good this is, but I got to know from someone that Microsoft uses a similar thing for their internal uses and their version had a very poor debugging.
Also "isso" which in German is colloquial for "Ist so" and means "That's it" or "Exactly". When in Brazil I always found it funny that they use "isso", short for "isso mesmo",
in much the same way.
Programmers work in multiple modes, for me they are:

Mode 1: Preparing to program
Mode 2: Programming
Mode 3: Reviewing my code

The mix varies among projects and even days, but I usually spend more than half of my time in Mode 2: Programming.

With a few exceptions, I can do Modes 1 and 3 almost anywhere, and sometimes they need to be done with others, so an open office/meeting room can be great for these.

But for Programming with any quality, I must have silence and no interruptions. I have never found this in an open office or cubicle. I can only do Mode 2 in a private office or at home.

Programmers want offices because they could need a safe haven for Mode 2 at almost any time.

If you're in an office, you can always find another place to be with others, but if you're not in an office, you constantly struggle to find a place to get into Mode 2.
I don't use Internet Explorer. I use Firefox. If I have Do Not Track set (which I do), it means that I have explicitly requested to not be tracked, and that such a header is explicitly representative of my wishes.

The sooner we have a full list of all companies which are doing business with Turn, the happier I'll be, since that would provide me with a better target for my (admittedly excessively) strongly-worded frustration.
"calls end to" apparently equals "moved to another division for continued development on different timeline". Linkbaitish title.
Well, yes.

But typically, the sort of people who blithely compare the US to a police state do so by invoking the Nazis. I wasn't going to credit such arguments with that much subtlety or self-awareness, since they seem to come from a sense of prejudice and knowledge of pop culture rather than history. Although you're right - there are a number of recent police states and dictatorships which the US does not resemble.
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I'm not sure why the parent was downvoted; limiting an AI's computational capacity is considered a stunting method, and although such methods are not in and of themselves solutions to the control problem, they may be tools that assist us in developing a solution.

For example, we may desire to first study AGI by restricting it to levels of intelligence slightly below that of a human. To accomplish this, we may employ various stunting and/or tripwire methods to ensure the AGI develops within our parameters.
I suspect he meant something a bit more holistic/behavioral ("In a study of people who promised to X...") rather than in a purely mechanical/metabolic sense.

If the person is only thinking "exercise will make me weigh less", that outcome is unlikely because modern society makes it deceptively easy to wipe out all your gains with a "small" snack, and because the conversion of fat to muscle doesn't show much on a scale.
Disclaimer: I never tried glass. But the actual product screens I saw never seemed to come close to the slick marketing demo they showed with the parachuting guys.
I don't mean to defend the Latin crowd here, but your argument is flawed.

It's true that English historically comes from the Germanic side of the tree -- starting with Old Frisian with later Old Norse influences. However, the last millennium has been a long process of romancification:

* post-Hastings, all of the English ruling class spoke Norman French for centuries

* the Latin church, which was for a long time the main source of literate people

* a heavy dose of classics in school meant that the educated classes would consciously turn to Latin (and to a lesser extent Greek) when coining new words and phrases

You're right that English is Germanic by heritage. However modern English vocabulary is probably as close to French than anything else. Knowing some rudimentary Latin does let you decipher a lot of etymologies.
Not really. Even AT&T doesn't do this (they did at one point, but were apparently called out on it and stopped doing it), and they're pretty damn scummy.
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Faster/working download of what I think is the same document.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/harvarde...
I was scrolling down and the page went back to the front page.

My gripe with secondarily calling your site "mobile web" while you primarily set it up as an "app", has its precedence in how Internet content increasingly being sold as a product by going after a specific market, all at the expense of the overall Internet itself.

That's a turn off actually.
What is the reason this is sold as a SaaS instead of a traditional program?

A traditional program would have many advantages for the user:

* No limit on documents per month

* works offline

* Reports (which may contain company secrets) are not uploaded on a third party server

While other SaaS offerings always have some kind if advantage like having integrated support, I'm wondering whether a document converter (this is basically what it is) is the right software for a SaaS.
I think it really depends on the context and tools. I've come to believe, for instance, that trying to do logging configuration any way other than just using a standard log4j.properties file is a path to madness; at the same time, Lein profiles are a potent and idiomatic way to do certain types of environment configuration.

The biggest argument in favor of more friendly config files for me is that they're easier to toss in a jar, though. Nobody wants to fight against configuration in their production environment.
The irony of this is it's not hard to conceal cameras on people

The idea that something is technically possible but socially unacceptable is not irony. Concealing something socially unacceptable is not ironic. Expressing disapproval of someone openly breaking social norms is not inherently ironic. The idea society runs on trust is not ironic!
I think their expansion was actually quite brilliant. The store ended up selling just the high-margin items (cords, accessories, etc) that stores like Best Buy and Circuit City would upsell to offset the cost of low-margin, big-ticket items.
Sadly it'd probably be quite easy for Turn to ignore headers like those coming from non-Verizon IP space
Then, Sir, I encourage you to get thee quickly to this Partially Examined Life podcast episode[1] with Nick Bostrom[2]. Only came out on the 6th of January and it makes for super interesting listening. It's based off of the text with his 2014 book in which he's gone to great lengths to think philosophically about this very existential threat -- in his opinion, man's most pressing.

Part of his reasoning goes like this. Any super smart goal oriented entity is going to desire/construct its own preservation as a sub-goal of its main goal (even if that goal is something as mundane as making paperclips) because if it ceases to be its goal will be put into jeopardy. To that end this super smart entity will then figure out ways to disable all attempts to constrain its non-existence. A lot of conclusions can be logically reached when one posits goal directed behaviour which we can assume any super intelligent agent is going to have. He talks about `goal content integrity'.

Bostrom argues for an indirect normative[4] approach because there is no way we can program or direct something that is going to be a lot smarter than ourselves and that won't necessarily share our values and that has any degree of goal-oriented behaviour, motivation and autonomous learning. Spoiler alert: Essentially I think he argues that we have to prime it to "always do what _you_ figure out is morally best" but I could be wrong.

There are also (global) sociological recommendations because, humans have been known to fuck things up.

[1] http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2015/01/06/ep108-nick-b...

[2] http://www.nickbostrom.com/

[3] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199678111/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...

[4] https://ordinaryideas.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/indirect-norm...
I'm assuming that upper management wants things to be "business as usual" until the filing, otherwise the news would leak.
Sadly the video stream has dropped out for me. Is anyone else encountering this?