skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, you wouldn't actually pay double-taxes (I think -- if you make more than $100k, it depends on if the Germans and Americans have a treaty over it, but most countries do, I think). You'd have to file twice, but the US side would consist of forms that say you don't owe the US government anything because you already paid more to the Germans than the US would have charged.
Major banks in the Czech Republic will not issue checking accounts to US citizens because of the costs of FACTA. This leaves expats with large, bureaucratic, formerly state-owned banks, like Ceska Sporitelna, which charge exorbitant fees and have dubious customer service. FACTA is a big problem. It is comical that major banks in Europe have a "No Americans" policy because of this stupid legislation; it needs to end.
Oh I understand it. People aren't sensitive to other cultures, so they need to be re-educated. We've seen from sites like reddit and 4chan that "freedom" only leads to degeneracy. Those that say things that are inappropriate should be censored because they create a culture of abuse.

The 1st, and 4th amendments to the constitution of the US need to be repealed so we can shape and mold a non-abusive society.
'All 11 terabytes of our LIDAR data (that’s roughly equivalent to 2,750,000 MP3 songs)' or a stack of paper 513 kilometers high :)
Also in Greg Bear's Eon series, where as I recall they were referred to as picts.
I do think that legislation should be avoided if it's not necessary. If complaining or boycotting gets the job done, then that should be the first option. I'll never understand people who think we shouldn't complain or boycott. Surely this is just an exercise of one's right to free association? (Not saying you're objecting to them. But a lot of people seem to think that it's somehow wrong.)

On the other hand, if an issue is important and legislation can get the job done, we shouldn't shy away from it. To describe someone as "a perverse sadist" for wanting to legislate pseudonyms on social networks is bonkers.
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There is a similar dataset available for The Netherlands. A potree point cloud visualisation can be seen at http://ahn2.pointclouds.nl/.
Make sure to keep in contact with old coworkers, especially if they've moved on to other companies. I've gotten contract work from former coworkers and actually got my first job because my boss' boss found out that I did some development and he was working with another startup that was looking for a junior programmer.

Otherwise I've had some success with recruiters, but the quality of the recruiter does matter.
Taxing us isn't really the issue. The bigger problem is that they've made the reporting requirements so onerous that many foreign banks no longer offer accounts to American citizens on any terms. This makes longer-term living in a foreign country very problematic.

This law may have been well-intentioned but it has some very toxic fallout for innocent people.
It's remarkably hard to find any recent discussions if libressl is ready for production. A comparison on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreSSL seems to indicate libressl is less vulnerable.
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Plenty of traffic will be traveling at 35mph which is fast enough for the majority of impacts to be fatal.
Dude. Pakistan is just next door...
Why do you believe this to be true? Emojis convey meaning, often more concisely than other written language.
No worse than giving the Nobel peace prize to someone like Barack Obama, who has not advanced the cause of peace and fraternity, but has done much to destabilize the world and create conflict...
Not necessarly disagreeing, but when you say "many" (And that 266% increased made headlines everywhere), I feel it needs some context:

8.7 million abroad.
3,417 renounced citizenship.

Or, .039%.

I'm going to take a stab at this and guess that's some of the 1% right there who had millions stashed abroad. Maybe the tax law was painful to them, but for the rest, it's hardly a crisis.
It appears the first $100,000 you make overseas is tax exempt by the FEIE[0].

As far as I understand my rent details as well as bank accounts overseas are reported to the IRS. This extra work can be seen as a burden for both parties.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Fore...

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Presented like this, it looks like a spam post, but actually it isn't. Interesting design. Work on the presentation...

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> I suspect that the U.S. taxing its citizens abroad has a lot to do with it being the world's richest country and not wanting people (billionaires and such particularly) to be able to easily escape their tax burden by moving abroad.

Interestingly, the US relatively high tax compliance rates, compared to other large/industrialized countries [0]. Presuambly the wealth you refer to is what results in the absolute dollar amount of evasion being higher, despite the relatively low rate of evasion.

[0] http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-johnston/files/2011/12/GL...
Back then, I found it strange that people would cheerfully exchange stories such as yours, stick Dilbert strips all over their offices, swap dailywtf links, and just carry on. I was never able to compartmentalize enough to be happy while also admitting that I live in some Kafkaesque version of Office Space. I remember being told by my seniors that I'll grow up and grow a thicker skin, and that I will accept that this is just how things work.

Now, I'm happy to find out that that is not indeed how things HAVE to work, and I'm a lot happier and less conflicted. And now that we have many prominent examples of more functional and humane corporate and engineering cultures, I'm sad for all those people still toiling away in dilbert-land.
> Rightly or wrongly, the US position is that you need to pay taxes to someone. I think the intent of the laws is at least arguably reasonable, but the execution isn't great.

You do pay taxes in (for example) Hong Kong. It's just not as a high as the US rate.

> Making it more like $200k would allow more highly paid "normal workers" to avoid the penalty, while still hitting the very wealthy purely looking at the tax dodge.

That would certainly make sense. Personally, I think a more thorough analysis of income sources is also in order: if you're genuinely working for a foreign company as a foreign employee, I think that should be treated differently than a wealthy person who is just avoiding US residency for tax purposes, despite the majority of their income coming from US sources.
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My friend just told me she was trying to get an Airbnb in Norway. She was rejected and the host wrote "I am not able to take unmarried couples". Is this allowed?
It really doesn't make sense how the US is the only
country which insists on taxing their citizens, no
matter where they live.

Brit here and I disagree - the American system seems a lot fairer.

Taxing on residency rather than citizenship creates a bizarre system where if you're a millionaire you can enjoy all the benefits of being a British citizen, but you can be "domiciled abroad" in Belize, Seychelles, Monaco, or other tax havens.

Then you can be British enough to donate millions to a political party, receive a knighthood - but pay far less tax than a middle class office worker.

If you want to be taxed like a citizen of Seychelles, it makes sense to me that you'd be a citizen of the Seychelles and not any other country.
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Also source codes available on github:

http://github.com/arguman/arguman.org
I really find it hard to feel sympathetic about rich Americans (only applies to income of 100k+) paying no more taxes than if they lived in America (live in a country with higher income tax, pay US nothing, country with lower tax, pay US the difference.)

This seems hardly worth 'denouncing' American citizenship. Can you explain?

I feel like threads like these really illustrate the difference between someone on HN and the average person.
I actually talked with an accountant in the US my first tax year living year, and her advice was "don't use an accountant". I have no idea if this is true or not, but according to her, the IRS's view is basically, "we know this is complicated stuff, so do your best, and if you make a mistake, no big deal", whereas if you hire an accountant and get something wrong, the assumption is that you're trying to avoid taxes.
You have no idea what you're talking about. It isn't just about taxation it's about countries being forced to report to the IRS. If you have a foreign account with a balance over $10k and you fail to report the account (in a filing separate from your tax returns,) you are fined $10k -- no exceptions. If the balance just goes above $10k for even one minute, you are on the hook for reporting that account for as long as you have the account. Except for Eritrea, no other country has citizenship based taxation. Additionally, you can't even open bank accounts overseas as an American with many banks. You also don't seem to understand citizenship law. There are millions of Americans who have never even been to the US, yet must file taxes and report bank accounts. As far as that blue passport getting you on a C130.. That doesn't happen anymore. The State Department routinely leaves Americans stranded in war zones while the French actually send the military to get their people out. US consular services abroad are a joke. I've lived overseas for about 8 of the past ten years and I routinely deal with consular nonsense. Finally, to your point about being 'rich enough' to pay taxes; the exception is only about $96k -- however if your working in Paris or London or Tokyo, that is barely a survival wage for a family. That aside, you still are subject to double taxation as well if you're in a country without a tax treaty. Frankly, I suspect you've never lived as an expat nor do you understand the facets of the law that make it so onerous.

I've worn te uniform of the US military and paid my 'dues,' yet to imply that an overseas American is any less American is offensive. When I am outside the US, I do not consume a single taxpayer funded service. All consular services for the most part are self-funded. If the time comes when I need the Marines to come bail me out, send me the bill and I'll pay cash; otherwise the IRS can leave me the hell alone. I am a proud American, but I despise the Democrats who passed FATCA along with the class warfare rhetoric that led to it. To Democrats, overseas Americans are presumed to be money launderers, drug dealers or tax evader. I am neither yet the burden of proof is on me. Did you know when Insend money to the US, I must provide proof of the fund's origins? I have to prove my innocence in order to use my own money! FATCA is worse than the NSA -- it's a license to violate my financial sovereignty.
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Meanwhile in the UK, Hinkley Point C is in trouble for requiring far too much subsidy (guaranteed price of £90/MWh): http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2420378/report-hsbc-rai...
It's not just Germany either. Norway doesn't allow dual citizenship unless the other country doesn't allow you to renounce your citizenship, doing so would require you to put yourself in danger, or if the fee is high enough to be considered unduly burdensome - more than 4% of your general income.
UML, if you don't want to generate code from it, is nothing more than boxes and lines. You just use a common set of lines and boxes, so that anybody else who knows about UML understands your doodles.

Nobody forces you to use software to draw UML diagrams and nobody forces you to include every aspect of your objects in the UML diagram. The basic idea of UML is pretty sane, many people just overdo it.
What annoyed me and made me switch to Last pass is that once I had all their apps, they released new versions which I had to pay for, again.
You know what's ridiculous? I totally agree that WndProc was horrible. But the web community is now reinventing it so directly that all I can do is bang my head repeatedly on my desk.

Have you seen Facebook's Flux/Dispatcher framework, for example? The Dispatcher is usually a massive switch statement that takes a single argument, which will be a record field that corresponds with the event type. It's exactly like switching on uMsg and then casting lParam to the relevant struct. And this is considered one of the absolute best web frameworks available right now.

On the bright side, I suppose we can look forward to equivalents of message crackers, OWL, and MFC for React soon enough.
This is amazing. I love that they mention Minecraft as one of the use cases:

"LIDAR data – some surprising uses:"

"Computer games: Minecraft players have requested our LIDAR data to help them build virtual worlds: the data could be useful to anyone creating realistic 3D worlds."
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The quote from Microsoft in the article suggests this is only for insider preview installs?
> attribute his lack of sympathy to apathy

I wrote "the Average Joe cannot think", not "the Average Joe doesn't want to think". Other than that, I agree.
OP's link is for a draft version.
Final version can be found in several places (e.g. Google Scholar). Here's one of them: http://dspace.mit.edu/openaccess-disseminate/1721.1/75360
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Can anyone recommend any 3d viewing programs for this data? This is all new to me but I'd love to try experimenting with it. The download zipfiles contain .asc files
Haven't emoji been huge in Japan and neighbouring countries for a long time now? They already are a language, but now it's spreading to western culture.
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[pedantic]Using what encoding, font, font size, margins, etc? [/pedantic]
Has to be very long-term then, given the fact it's 11 terabytes. Of course, you probably won't need all of that data / resolution and would have enough of 1/20th of that.
It seems AMD's Kaveri CPU implements HSA.

Some HSA benchmarks from AnandTech: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-a10-7800-kaveri-apu-...

Note: the tests seem to use OpenCL and while they mention, "Looking at the HSA-based results..." I find it strange they are comparing the numbers against an Intel Core i3.

It might be more interesting to compare OpenCL HSA vs OpenCL non-HSA.
Unless you actually read through and understand your open source alternative line by line you aren't really running anything safer

Of course there is the argument that since it's open source it's safe since someone has "audited" it, but many times that's not true.

And even then unless you spend a lot of time trying to break it so you understand it completely you are way better off just writing your own solution, but that takes time and effort
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I have occasionally wondered if "often misdiagnosed as "your kid is lazy/stupid."" combined with "Confused and ashamed by their struggles, girls will internalize their inability to meet social expectations" results in schoolgirls doing statistically worse than schoolboys in (insert STEM field class that requires deep concentration). And not just failure when attempted, but also results in signing up for fashion textiles class instead of calculus knowing that calculus is "for boys" when in reality its pragmatically "for people without untreated ADD" which may at this time boil down to "for boys".

If (as a physics style thought experiment) the disease happens at the same rate in two populations, but is only diagnosed and treated in one population, then you'd naturally expect the untreated population to be, on average, somewhat less successful in attention-mandatory academics; math, sciences, computer programming... This would seem to be internally consistent, like a conspiracy theory, which is a heck of a long way from being proven in reality of course.
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I'm not dismissing the study. Seems like good work to me. It leaves a fascinating question unanswered, but that's always the case. My complaint is about some of the reporting.

The press release says in part "Our study overturns current thinking on the health risks of sitting and indicates that the problem lies in the absence of movement" etc. But the Guardian then writes that the study "casts doubt on the value of sit-stand work stations", which is another thing entirely. That's something the Guardian could write if the study looked at whether spending the day in one position or varying makes a difference.

Sit-stand desk reduce the maximum length of time you're encouraged to stay in one stationary position. That may be helpful to your health, or not, but the study doesn't look at that dimension.

(Also, FWIW, I personally don't have a sit/stand desk because of health concerns. I just like them. Maybe I won't die a little earlier or later because of my desk and its motor, but I do have a more pleasant working day.)
> You do pay taxes in (for example) Hong Kong. It's just not as a high as the US rate.

Then you'd pay a proportionately lower rate for your US burden. The overall amount of tax owed should be relatively constant.

> I think a more thorough analysis of income sources is also in order

I suspect the issue here is the manpower required to do it and/or the potential for extra loopholes. Could I start a company in Singapore that just happens to derive all its income from US sources and has me as its sole employee? Taxing by amount makes a certain degree of sense in that regardless of shenanigans, if you get money at the end, we tax that money. (Though of course, we don't actually do this in the US with things like capital gains.)
Let me use the example you have.

1. Clean RESTful URLs like the one you have doesn't make it easy to fetch { article, article.author.name, [user.comments.commenter] } in a _single call_. GraphQL let's you define the Shape you want.

2. Updates spanning multiple resources aren't a good fit for a Resource Oriented pattern like REST. a) How do you delete multiple comments (Ids 1, 34, 44) in one shot? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7511195/rest-architecture...

3. How do I edit /users/200 and /users/201 in one single call? Imagine a Grid with a Save Button. Also, this could be a transaction as well.

The above is doable with REST, but it is kind of a grey area and loses some of the obviousness seen in clean URLs such as in your example.
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Related to this sort of thing, Jerri Nielsen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerri_Nielsen - was a doctor wintering over at the South Pole who had to operate on and treat her own cancer back in 1999. I listened to her associated book, Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole, several months ago and it was an absolutely fascinating account not only of the medical work involved but also what it's really like to live at the South Pole for several months in close quarters with other people. I think a lot of people here would enjoy it.
But is it accurate enough to say "you're drunk driving"? IIRC at least on this side of the pond, if you're caught you either get fined, or you're taken to the station for a more accurate breath test or a blood test.
You can also subpoena a list of bugs that have been fixed, and procedures they use to test the software.

"So, how many bugs are left in your software?" might be a good start, too . . .
Fair point :) Will learn based on this experience and try to simplify the documentation. Thanks for your feedback!
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To sound like a joke, as in everyone will find it funny and immediately know it is a joke, and to sound like one specific obscure line that is a joke in some film, and that people don't immediately get. They both sound like a joke, but here "like a joke" means two different things.
I must be missing something. I don't understand why not having nation wide election prevent the U.S. from having congressmen to represent those living abroad.
What bout HSAIL / LLVM: https://github.com/HSAFoundation/HLC-HSAIL-Development-LLVM

(HSA Intermediate Language LLVM support)

It would seem an IR is already available and it's already integrated on an existing LLVM branch. From skimming around it seems AMD has been working hard to do what is necessary to get things merged into LLVM mainline.

<quote>
My highest priority is to get the backend upstreamed as soon as
possible, so I would appreciate feedback about any kinds of blocking
issues on that.

Thanks

Matt Arsenault
</quote>

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2015-May/085545.h...
Haha yes, this is so on point it makes me laugh and then want to cry a little bit. Also, they host conferences for these things, where the kool-aid is a-plenty.
A list and description of the "top ten self-surgeries:"

http://listverse.com/2008/12/09/top-10-incredible-self-surge...

Dr Rogozov's figures in at #4 by their accounting, but I would stick him at #1 as he's the only one to finish the job himself and make a complete recovery without outside medical intervention.
An almost complete LiDAR scan of Spain is also publicly available. I wrote about it here and included a few samples: http://wechoosethemoon.es/2015/09/05/lidar-espana-3D/

Sadly it is in Spanish but I hope available areas and pictures of expected results are clear enough! LiDAR data is provided as 2 Km x 2 Km squares of RGB-colored points in *.laz format. If someone is interested I can translate into English or point to the sources.
Anyone know how burial mounds/roman roads are found? Would love to see that reproduced for the non-academic world.
It's not about America per se - I would feel the same way about any country. I live and work in UK while being a Polish citizen. If Poland now asked me to pay income tax in Poland based off my income in UK, I would be very very upset - I already pay income tax in the UK, so paying it twice sounds absolutely ridiculous. On the most basic level - Poland has absolutely no "right" to any of that money. I would denounce my Polish citizenship over this if that was the case.
And US feels like they do have the right to the money of their citizens, even if they made it abroad. Every single person I spoke to about this said the exact same thing - the US tax system is stupid, and it's the example of US behaving like it owns the world and its own citizens. Just because it only targets "rich" people doesn't make it any less stupid.
These always seemed a little intrusive and came at odd hours which was annoying.
Citing the article, "while a decrease in symptoms at puberty is common for boys, the opposite is true for girls, whose symptoms intensify as estrogen increases in their system". IANA doctor or chemist but if there is interaction with hormones, it's probably different on a chemical level.

By which I mean that the brain chemistry is affected in the same way by ADHD but interaction with sexual hormones changes behaviour in different ways.
I use the freely available FugroViewer, and manipulate the data with LAStools. If they are ASCII files you can use any program like python with matplotlib to make a 3D plot.
Hey Jorge, thanks for sharing! I would be interested in a translation, since I'm based in Barcelona and would love to do some experiments with the data, focused on Barcelona.
That is right. That differs of course from early microprocessor designs, but still it is valid, since today's processors also rely heavily on microcode that is simply stored in ROM or similar areas.

I think, you can not give this design a negative, because it is much simpler than early microprocessors.

I forgot about the ROM, and apologize for it.