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I am a US citizen who works overseas. You get to deduct your foreign tax obligations on your US tax returns (if you don't go for the standard foreign income earned deduction). Oh, well, some "taxes" aren't really taxes in the US sense, like taxes on health insurance, or what about social security contributions? And then there are weird situations where a US citizen goes on a business trip in the US and is on the hook for both Chinese and US taxes.

Believe me, US citizens working abroad and US companies doing business abroad suffer through similar pain when it comes time to file tax returns. Resolving differences in two completely different systems is very hard.
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I think that's a neat idea, but I personally would be nervous about smearing grease all over my tablet, or spilling fluids on it, or dropping it -- something that happens to almost every other tool at one point or another.

As a reference away from the garage, it would be cool, but I would still want something I would feel safe having by my side as I work on the car.
What would take Node integration in Emacs to the next level would be to do something like the various Lisp implementations and their Emacs modes (SLIME, Geiser, etc.) do: Talk to a running program to get information.

When I develop Scheme with Geiser, it knows which module I'm working in currently and it knows how to jump to the definition of any symbol by inspecting the source information attached to any Scheme object. I can quickly jump to the REPL or evaluate arbitrary expressions. No ctags/etags or other static analysis tools, just a REPL. It's a really productive way to write and debug code.
VAT isn't flat. Since it does not apply to monetary instruments, a VAT is regressive.

I still think that VAT with offsets is the best taxation form available (and universal income the best offset form). But it alone is disastrous.

And, while we are at it, make sure the VAT is really a VAT, not a sale-value tax. Because it usually is, and it's the one tax form worse than a VAT.
You can buy goods with it, but you've sacrificed liberty to do so. Governments derive their power from the consent of the governed. Since our society is governed by money, accepting anonymous money is consenting to everyone's power, which few people actually want to do. They do it today because it's the default.
I use helm-ag for the same purpose, but it still generally isn't as fast as CMD-b in webstorm. I should hook up something to do helm-ag for the symbol under point...
While I agree with some of your points, I must take issue with your implication that white people ran Africa better.

http://diglib1.amnh.org/articles/kls/

Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain did a good job illuminating how people tended to think this way, all the while forgetting that the people under a heavy thumb might not agree! Some things may have been better organized when white people were in power, but the German concentration camps of World War II were also "better run" by some definitions than a bickering gaggle of democratically elected disagreeing men in nearby European countries, and I don't think we'd really use them as an example of better run. I grew up partially in Nigeria, the target of many jokes, and no matter what issues they have there I know that many Nigerians who would never wish for a return to British rule.
Is someone using WebStorm debugger successfully with Babel? I've never been able to make it work correctly (breakpoints in ES6 code, ES6 code in debugger, etc.) and it's infuriating. Any tips or guides?
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10967578 (101 points, 23 hours ago, 31 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10964902 (37 points, 1 day ago, 28 comments)
Fair enough, I hadn't really thought of it from that angle, but I can see the value there
I would recommend reading the 4-hour workweek book from tim ferris. http://www.amazon.com/The-4-Hour-Workweek-Escape-Anywhere/dp...

Great advice for time management, works well for IT positions.
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I am quite sure that I do not feel attacked.

Also, parent admitted as much: "histrionic", "the article violated my perceived personal belief space", "I am an angry and unpleasant person."
No, more like disqualify them for specific tax breaks, or slightly increase there tax rate ~1-5%. Don't forget China for example is very hard on foreign corporations, yet they are generally happy to jump though hoops for such a large market.
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Razor is really quite different from React.

Razor seems to have been born out of a frustration someone had with writing

return "<div>" + model.name + "</div>";

Razor is basically a DSL for C# string concatenation, where everything not escaped with an @ is a string literal to be concatenated. This means it's fairly unopinionated about structuring code. React, on the other hand, forces you to define components- ideally, pure functions from properties to JSX (which is just sugar for JS). This means composition is the default solution to everything. Razor doesn't place nearly as much emphasis on composable components, and the mechanisms it has for doing so, like helpers or calls to RenderPartial, are clunky and worlds away from the first-class component support of React.

While it's technically possible to write Razor code with a React-style focus on composition, the syntax and architecture of viewmodels/templates actively pushes you away from doing so. In my experience, most Razor ends up like a C# translation of PHP, and I think that's really the paradigm Razor inherited. Razor has been around since 2011, which significantly predates the Cambrian explosion of clientside js frameworks, so it makes sense.
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I think the part that is hard to grasp for people without a technical background is the danger of automated attacks. It's hard to explain that even if nobody is interested specifically in their computer/email/Facebook, they can still be a victim of a dragnet kind of an effort.
I think the guy was going for "big company something something Open Source", and not knowing what they actually were
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The EOL on squeeze-lts is next month -- listed as February 2016 on https://wiki.debian.org/LTS.

It's unclear if that's the beginning or end of the month.
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Mad man talking.
I audited a class on policy at the Harvard Kennedy School in October of 2015, and instead of going to class one day, we listened to a speaker (Jaron Lanier). After the talk, I stuck around in the front row and eavesdropped on people asking him questions. Eventually, one person came up to his side and asked "are you going to Marvin's house tonight?" I thought this person may have been talking about Minsky! So after Jaron responded with a "maybe" I approached this man and asked him if he was. And he did mean Minsky!!

This man and I started talking about intelligence, ML vs. symbolic, and more... he truly knew many intricacies of AI! Eventually, for some amazing reason, out of nowhere he asked me if I wanted to come to Marvin's house that evening! Of course I said yes! At the time, the only paper I had on me was ironically Patrick Winston's thesis printed out in my backpack, so this man wrote the name "Henry Lieberman" (a colleague of Minsky's) on the cover and gave me Minsky's address!

I went to Marvin's house that evening, and it was simply wonderful! We talked about SoM, and I was included in these discussions and was treated like a colleague. Marvin answered all my initial questions, but only created more within me! He engaged me! I really felt included. It was one of luckiest days in my life.

I'm sharing because I'm reading other stories about people's encounters with Marvin, and while I was reading them I didn't feel as sad. Perhaps mine might do the same for someone somewhere.
> they usually show it is actually less "toxic" than alcohol.

That's not saying much. A jab in the eye with a sharp stick is less toxic than alcohol, but it's not a good idea.
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At least in the US, I think monopolies are part of the problem. Every once in a while, you see a story about how a big telecom lobbied to prevent a small local broadband ISP promising gigabit internet from taking off.
Google Hangouts has a feature that sounds a bit like Comic Chat. When you type in certain phrases an animation will briefly play at the bottom of the window. Certain triggers I've noticed are "merry christmas", "happy birthday", "happy new year", and "lolol".
Does anyone know where/what that continuous glucose monitor that gets implanted is?
Is there anything I can read up on this? I hear the population of Baltics halved, sounds like a rather drastic effect.

Although I didn't imply immigration restrictions are the only problem either- indeed the language and other cultural barriers as well as our tendency to form bonds that are painful to break all work against mobility.
Does anyone have a bookmarklet for collapsing comments?
I was using this one http://pastebin.com/raw/mQn2e73u but it stopped working once the interface added an upvote arrow.
The only improvement I'd like to see is a way to know when I've already visited the link, i.e. purple/light gray links.
This is why long-term support is less cool than it might first appear.
it's been a long time that corporations have more rights than proper citizens in the us.

the aclu or some org used to have in the 90s several "challenges" for people that could apply corporate benefits to individuals in court. i don't think any prize for claimed ever. but I'm not recalling the correct program name to be sure
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Well, in that department I think that NPM got it better than anything else — although I dislike Node.js and don't have a lot of experience with it apart from a couple of hobby projects.
So you're saying chubby people are descendants of peasants, whereas skinny people have noble blood? /s
So your reasoning is simply broken here. The word dangerous is indeed not tied to a specific danger, however it is not simply a binary label that is either true or not true about a specific noun. Dangers do in fact vary in type and in relative degree. That is how the word is used in English. Words draw their meanings from their context as well as their definition.

It seems you're upset about something I said that you disagree with and are using hostility instead of reason.
Relevant part of this comment: "I am no brain scientist."

You probably could have had the same effect from a sugar pill.
Scanning this list of topics, it seems that currently progress is being made on quite a couple of them, though maybe in a more fuzzy way than Minsky envisioned at the time of writing.

One aspect on which the progress seems to be low is planning. All the work I have seen in recent times involving planning (chess, etc) was basically using an off the shelf tree pruning planning algorithm, and the novel stuff was in using neural networks for improved cost functions. Does anyone know of explicit planning work using modern deep/recurrent neural networks?
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Could always go the China/India route of basically not letting foreign companies do business in the country without some sort of joint venture in place....

I'm not recommending this path of action.
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I agree completely. But I also think it is helpful to understand how others who may have focused on this issue more than I have to date are approaching this. I see a fair amount of discussion regarding how we can do a better job of introducing math to children, but far less on what we should actually do. Should I just start playing around with LOGO or Scratch myself?
Could you elaborate more about type systems? I don't have a definite opinion about Go's type systems so far, and it surely has it quirks, but TBH, I like the concepts. In particular, the complete separation of data types (structs) and behaviour types (interfaces) is something that I've never actually seen before.
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Hmm I was under the impression that since it's currently in Aurora it's likely to be in the end release? Do you have a source on this?
SourceForge used to be okay though already looked a bit dated, back then. Slashdot and SF were owned by the same company. Though adding adware to binary downloads is downright incorrect and alarming. SF doesn't even host the binary files themselves, they just provide an interface for various open file mirrors like HEAnet. HEAnet and co should block SF and we would need an open community website that links to the mirrors to replace SF.
It is what brought all the big tech companies to Ireland in the first place but yes it is being phased out. The latest seems to be another loophole where companies register a subsidiary as tax resident in an actual 0% tax haven and then pay royalties to said subsidiary. This gives them zero profit and therefore zero taxable income but there is very little Ireland can do about without shooting itself in the foot (such as taxing revenue and ensuring Apple et al close up shop and take their business elsewhere).

If they decide to be tax resident in Ireland the 12.5% corporation tax is hardly a 'tax haven' but it's still better than most. Another big draw is the amount of money the Irish government puts up to attract FDI through their Industrial Development Authority (IDA).
A shorter recent news story: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/energy/2016/01/16016-cond...
Yes, they are, being a US citizen working in China I know that very personally. So if the US goes the China approach, we only welcome foreign companies that we can screw something from, like IP or expertise, and block the rest out (foreign social networking websites? create a great firewall).

The US benefits GREATLY from its open market while China's semi closed market in turn hurts it a lot. Ya, foreign companies still operate there, but only with an expectation that it will open in the future, not given today's situation!

Having a different tax rate for foreign companies would basically destroy the WTO, all those treaties that benefit the USA in lopsided ways go away, and we will just lose a lot of wealth in one swoop. All the other countries will retaliate of course, taking a significant chunk of global GDP that relates to trade down, almost probably causing a few wars and such.
I've noticed a strong pop-psych trend these days of referring to one's own feelings or experiences in terms of neurotransmitters. e.g. "I'm hooked on the dopamine rush of such-and-such activity," "I'm feeling blue today, my serotonin must be low," etc.

This drives me crazy. It's pure pseudoscience, and I hear it from people who should know better. Scientifically, we have very little idea what chemicals are actually behind different subjective feelings/moods/whatever. Everyone would love to believe that the brain operates in a simple, intuitive fashion, with one chemical for joy, one chemical for sadness, one chemical for anger, etc., but the reality is way more complex and nuanced.

For example, even something well-studied like dopamine, which has been strongly linked with the brain's addiction circuitry, doesn't necessarily stimulate any sort of direct pleasurable feeling as people often infer. It seems to work in a much subtler way, modulating learning, attention, and goal-seeking behavior. A recent study found that it doesn't even necessarily spike when good things happen, but tends to increase in response to unexpected events, good or bad.
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First outline what you need to learn.
From there look at the time commitment and curriculum for both aspects and see which one would fit your schedule better.
I have a very high metabolism. Some envy me, others find me too skinny. What troubles me though, is that I don't have weight as a heuristic in regards to my health. I sometimes worry, as everything else is quite ambiguous. Energy levels depend on sunlight, sleep and so on. How often I fall sick is equally dependant too many variables for it to be a reliable indicator.

I would love for something like this to be reliable/easy/cheap so I have something I can turn to when I feel uneasy about my health.
> I once had a client who wanted an EV cert, so the company name gets "shown nicely in the address bar". After explaining about encryption for half an hour, the only question was why should I care. It was a simple website for a company. Contacts and about us mainly.

What does encryption have to do with EV specifically? And why did you care? I'd happily help a business client get an EV certificate for conducting business, that's exactly why they exist.
somewhat related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10973077
People keep going to this home looking for their lost phones and nobody knows why
Saw a form recently with search-as-you-type that included a fake button that when pressed would write "Search Complete" to the screen, but had no other function, for users who didn't comprehend search as you type.
thanks, appreciate the response. I had a hunch it was with d3, but wasn't sure.
It's not at all that simple. The next candidate is then, during the election, free to position themselves however they want on the issue, whereas the President who chose to circumvent Congress and unilaterally implement a policy would be a much riper opportunity for attack in the next election cycle.

Liberal Democrats can then feel better (via recency bias) about a party that continued the Patriot Act, Gitmo, whistleblower prosecution, etc ad nauseam, while the next candidate can appeal to the moderate right that "hey, that was the last guy."

My point though was that it would be a misconception that an outgoing second term President doesn't have to weigh the impact of their decisions on future elections, even if they themselves will never run in one again. They aren't truly free to just drop whatever policies they want with no consideration for how it will impact future elections.

This one is getting done precisely because it can work with that agenda, unlike other possible policies that I'd bet, deep down inside, he has to know would also be good for the country - e.g. rescheduling marijuana or ending the war on drugs - but that would have a larger negative impact on future Democratic candidates.
Because corporations use _and require_ a disproportionate amount of government regulatory protection/oversight and bureaucracy, as well as government spending.

For example, our navy is mighty and far-flung across the globe, and it's not because we're proud of our maritime traditions but because the force of the US Navy ensures stability for commerce.

The average American benefits to a small degree from this international commerce, but the corporations (and by extension the wealthy who own the corporations) benefit far more. This is why we have progressive taxation schemes where the wealthy pay more, at more levels. Or they're supposed to, at least.
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There are two ways to do that. Cutting the road and then patching the asphalt is cheaper so that's what companies want to do. It's impossible to do that without leaving a bump, however, so it's an externality imposed on all drivers for the useful life of the highway. When it makes commercial sense to do so, companies can be required to drill horizontally under the road. When they came through my neighborhood with some fiber optic lines last year, that's what they did. When (the company claims) that doesn't make commercial sense, regulators have a choice whether to allow the asphalt cut or not. In most cases I wouldn't fault regulators who protect the road.
That's great! :)
Definitely. But even without LTS, Jessie would be without upstream SSL patches starting 2017. Stretch might not even be released by then. And I wouldn't call the Debian release cycle unreasonably slow.
I'm not sure that is what he means with a "cognitive map". I believe, he means that children need a better understanding of what is possible to do with, and what the point is with math.
Are the VIm mode issues he mentioned improved? I keep moving back to VIm because while all of these tools make excellent IDEs none of them are great editors.

The other thing that drive me a bit nuts is the multiple versions. Webstorm vs Rubymine. I build on Rails, but do most of my UI work with Angular+JS+Webpack. So which should I use Rubymine or Webstorm?

It's all too confusing.
It matter because if the comment about causing brain damage to babies wasn't sarcasm, then it was extreme and a false dichotomy, so your accusation against my rhetorical style would apply there equally.

You have chosen to label it as sarcasm to make your attack on the style rather than the substance of my point look reasonable - that's what I mean by it 'suiting you'.

I don't actually believe that the point about brain damaging babies was sarcasm. I think the poster was being serious because that is one of the harms caused by malaria. I don't at all see how this could be construed as a sarcastic comment.

If sarcasm was irrelevant, why did you base you use it to account for the false dichotomy?
It varied from patron to patron similar to how it varies VC to VC. Some would directly commission work, others would work to establish connections with people who would commission work, and to some it was similar to being on retainer.
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Source? In most places, the opposite problem exists. Cities can't get private companies to build gigabit even after actively trying. http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-fiber-internet-ca.... That's why municipal fiber is the current battleground--private companies don't want to build those networks.
"Doesn't the fact that GitHub makes the enterprise pay for usage make it more likely that GitHub will be around longer than Google Code?
"

No.
Seriously.
It just makes it more likely they screw up private companies as well on the way out!
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What about OCaml and concurrency ? what are the options out there ?

after reading :

http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2013/09/28/ocaml-objects/

the language sounds quite interesting. Does it support something like channels ?
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