skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too turned off notifications on gmail a long time ago. However, I've setup some filters looking for words like "urgent", "emergency", etc without telling people that I have. They're all labeled accordingly and that specific label makes a noise on my phone. It seems to work pretty good so far.
Overclocked CPUs will only run hotter if voltage is increased beyond default.

Many CPUs can achieve a significant overclock without raising the voltage.
"The fee to cover the average cost of incarceration for Federal inmates in Fiscal Year 2011 was $28,893.40."

That is at least $1,500,000 million dollars. Very expensive.
The 2015 Swedish Funding Analysis
It seems rather strange to rescind citizenship because of tax issues, aren't there qualified tax advisors that can handle all of that for you? At least here in Germany they are quite affordable and usually pay for themselves because of the tax savings you get due to their advice. If you consult one you can also be rather confident that you don't accidentally forget about some new regulation.
I use it almost everyday, it's even more convenient to search an article in Google Scholar and then download a paper thorough Sci-Hub, than to use Scopus.com or Web of Knowledge's search engine.
I use a git repository, cloned in .myconfigs, with a script that create a symlink for any file in it (apart from .git and a couple more)

https://github.com/riquito/configs

The usage is

git clone git@github.com:username/configs.git ~/.myconfigs
cd ~/.myconfigs
./reinstall.sh

Whenever I update the repository, maybe adding files, I run this in the other computers:

cd ~/.myconfigs
git pull --ff-only
./reinstall.sh

which simply refresh the symlinks (I should remove stale symlinks now that I think about it, for removed configurations - never happened yet)
Yes: http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare_CPUs/Intel_CM8066201919901,... – Trusted Execution in this case.
Actually, no. The US has tax treaties with roughly 1/3rd of the countries in the world (source: https://www.irs.gov/Businesses/International-Businesses/Unit...). If you're not in one of those countries, too bad.

Further, these tax treaties differ from country to country and don't always offer the same protections. Here, read the 42 page US/France tax treaty (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-trty/france.pdf) and try to figure out how you'd be impacted if you were living in France.

We expats don't just have to hire accountants to do our taxes, we often have to hire international tax lawyers, EVEN IF WE DON'T EARN ENOUGH TO PAY US TAXES!

Studies have repeatedly shown that the majority of expats are abroad to find a job, to teach, to volunteer, or for love. We're taxi drivers, waiters, English teachers, farmers, computer programmers, and so on. We're normal people who are being massively screwed by rhetoric in the US.
Right. Imagine if every financial form had 200 extra checkboxes -- dictated by the Mongolian Treasury, the Namibian Treasury, etc.

But that's not the case. Only the US imposes financial regulations on every bank in the world.
qihoo is a nortorious company of building spyware. I will not use anything related to opera anymore.
> but there are indeed aspects of American life and opportunity that don't currently exist in the EU.

Indeed there are. Many in the EU would consider the 'life' part of that sentence a good thing.

As for opportunity, I've never really felt that the EU limited me in ways that I would find less in the USA, but that's just anecdote, not research.

Not all of life revolves around start-ups, and plenty of the upsides of the opportunity in the USA come with associated downsides.
You need a tax advisor/accountant who is qualified in both the US and Germany and has knowledge of cross-jurisdiction issues. These people are expensive. Until now, only big corporations needed such advisors.
Trolltech (now the Qt Company) did manage to maintain its staff across a few acquisitions and split, some of the most senior staff still remains active at the company.

I'd rather say this is not just Opera side has moved on, many people left Opera before the several rounds of layoffs, and some choose not to stay even when they are offered a new position (myself included).
> The guy gives crazy amounts to philanthropic causes instead.

This. As a someone who leans libertarian, folks give me the "you must be greedy" look when I mention that I have an issue with income taxation. Not at all - like your friend, I'm rather selective about where I donate my money - to causes that matter to me. I'm a generous person and consider the coercion of the state to be neither altruistic nor efficient.
What is the algorithm used for JSON synchronization? Operational Transformation, CRDT, diff/patch?
That list is out of date - there's an updated version on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_(document)#Visa_restricti...

Not sure if "powerful" is the right word either. It's more of a list of the best passports to have if you want to go on holidays. "Doesn't require a visa" usually means those countries don't require visas for short non-business trips (anything from 14 days to 6 months). E.g. you can visit the US with a German passport for 3 months for a holiday but it's extremely difficult to get a visa to move there indefinitely.
Angular 2 application architecture – Building Flux apps with RxJs and FRP
What sanctions are available to the USA in case of non-compliance if you do not ever return to the USA?

Personally I find all this 'citizen as property of the state' stuff to be rather revolting, and in direct contradiction of such sentence fragments as 'the land of the free'.
Yes, text reflow is essential and it's the reason I'm using Opera on my phone and tablet. It's much more important that pinch to zoom: zooming is useless if you clip out half of the text you're reading and you have to start scrolling left and right.

I wonder if Opera added it to blink as a patch or if they're working on an upper layer of the software. If it's a patch it would be nice to contribute it to the main repository.

BTW, it's at https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink/+/master
Just because one drives on government roads does not mean that they believe that is how things should be.
It's amazing why they don't just do this. Part of the reason why is that ad blocking is so easy, so most people will just do it... especially if it has the added benefit of removing the 5 second delay on YouTube videos due to ads.
I have seen CPUs bricked from moderate air-cooled overclocking. And it is still possible to kill a chip by feeding it the wrong voltages as long as the motherboard allows it.
Can you write a blog post on your workflow? I would love to learn more on how you to use it :P
> I don't even have to click to know what this is about. God damn government wants to tax me despite being overseas.

So turns out you don't know what this is about. It's not about the century-old citizenship-based taxation, it's about the additional legal and bureaucratic overhead of FATCA on both the citizen and the structures around them e.g. non-US banks refusing to deal with US citizens because they don't want to deal with the legal and financial risk of FATCA.
yeah, my thoughts exactly... scientists looking for empathy in animals are exposing their own lack of empathy for those very same animals...
'Operator' is a font designed to make coding easier
> There is no reason why we can't have fast, low fee, micro-transactions via the Internet.

Perhaps, but I wouldn't bet your company on that.

Feel free to accept Bitcoin and alternatives, but it'd be suicidal to not accept credit cards.
Income: $50m
Cost: $14m settlement, $6m lawyers (guess)
Result: $30m profit

Nice business model.
‘A very pro-consumer’ reform could make minimum sizes for airline seats a thing
Are microcodes written to a writable part of the CPU? I have always assume it resides in the BIOS or equivalent on the motherboard.
I've been doing this for years but sparingly and in my blog (in fact my blog's heading reads "because I forget simple little things too soon"). Never occurred to me to git it as that makes it effortless to record just about everything. Thanks for the idea.
How to Solve MCQ – Tips to Succeed in Multiple Choice Questions
The major portion of today`s examination is multiple choice questions and how to solve MCQ papers conveniently plagues the mind of any individual.
https://www.facetofacestudy.com/services/strategies-to-solve-MCQ
Gravitational waves: Scientists might be about to announce detection
I have a little Makefile that symlinks everything (WIP) https://github.com/trengrj/dotfiles/blob/master/Makefile.

I was previously using an automated Ruby script but found it inflexible and so have switched to a hand coded Makefile.
Could you explain how this works? Won't this be putting the .bashrc in $HOME/.myconf/.bashrc, which won't get picked up by bash? (And similar for other dotfiles)
The Maths Revolution: The number of US teens who excel at maths has surged. Why?
Show HN: SlidesCamp – slide library for your next Pitch Deck
The article is clear that the purpose of the research was not empathy study, but pain study.

"Though he hurts mice for a living, Mogil says it's not for a lack of his own empathy. He research is about understanding why two people may experience pain in different ways, with the hope of developing better pharmaceuticals for managing it. "My sympathy is mostly reserved for chronic pain patients," Mogil tells me. For decades, Mogil and his team have conducted experiments testing the pain threshold of mice in order to see what role genetics play in pain tolerance."

There are human studies on pain reception where people are exposed to cold water, where extreme cold water is reported to use similar pain receptors as heated water but cause less damage to the skin. Researchers also injects subjects with capsaicin (Mythbusters did this on camera in one episode), and I wonder why vinegar was used here.
Want control over your cable bill? Move to Canada
Detection of gravitational waves would open new window on universe
I still use Opera Mobile, they might be dead on the desktop but I've used their mobile offerings for a long time. This doesn't bode well for that product :(
FORTH/BASIC Microcomputer, 1985
The US State Department's own numbers show that it is not the 1% relinquishing citizenship, It's normal Americans living and working overseas for long periods of time. These people are prevented from basic logistics required for having a life like opening and using a checking account.

I think of it this way: how insane would it be if my wife, a Russian citizen and US permanent resident who's lived and worked in the US for 12 years, could not open a checking account and was required by law to file taxes to the Russian Federation for her American high school teaching job?
I've had great success using Brightbox's Ruby PPAs https://launchpad.net/~brightbox/+archive/ubuntu/ruby-ng. Might want to give them a try first.
Not sure that example works. We have states "legalizing" marijuana which is illegal at the federal level.
Currently if a conflict occurs it’s reported back to the client that triggered it and its up to it to resolve it. We are currently working on configurable merge strategies on a per record level
I'm an American living in Europe. I report my income to the IRS every year, like you. Reading your comment gave me a scare -- what exactly would trigger the $20,000-80,000 fine or asset seizure?

Is it a failure to report income taxes at all? Or do you make so much more than $100k/year that the double taxation is killing you?

I'm just trying to figure out what, other than their already-reported income being audited, has got all of your expat friends so spooked...
Many people have problem telling identical twins apart, so under that metric it's true that human faces aren't globally unique. There's even a project to find "twin strangers", which has had some success (see the images at the bottom of https://twinstrangers.net/ , though they also had the same makeup applied, which makes them look even closer).

> how can fingerprints not be unique?

How can the hash of two different strings be the same? It's all part of the Birthday Paradox, combined with that it means two identify two physical objects as the same thing.

Now, at some point no two human-scale objects are the same. Even with two mass-produced objects, there are slight variations in production because of non-zero tolerances. For example, two sequential $1 bills differ of course by the serial number, but also contain minute differences in the paper.

So as you say, we need to distinguish between how fingerprint analysis is done, vs. the most detailed possible analysis. And we know of several cases where fingerprint identification has been incorrect. One is Brandon Mayfield, a US attorney who the FBI believe, on the basis of a fingerprint match, to have been one of the Madrid bombers.

As a result of that case, and similar ones, people have started to ask the police and others for data which shows that "all fingerprints are unique" is really true. This myth started over 100 years ago, but was based on a small sample size. There's never been the analysis needed to figure out the actual error rate, especially if there are, say, 100 million entries in the system.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint#Validity . And notice how that Wikipedia page also includes "No two fingerprints have ever been found identical in many billions of human and automated computer comparisons.[citation needed]". Where is that citation?
From the comments section of that G+ post I found this Dijkstra essay with really good arguments for zero-based indexing.

Not only does it have sound mathematical reasoning but also some anecdotal evidence of problems caused by one-based indexing in programming languages.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF
The Princeton Textbook on Bitcoin Is Available Free of Charge
Those supporting AMD should remember that they did a similar thing after it was discovered that some processors could have entire cores re-enabled.

On the other hand, if I remember correctly one of the mobo makers soon figured out how to use both the new microcode and the old one to get the best of both worlds; it might've been AsRock too...
Web.skype.com is down
It seems that someone has hacked Microsoft web.skype.com
Microsoft will stop hiding what's inside Windows 10 updates
I tried a couple of times, but I never could wrap my brain around the Blender video editor. I was completely lost, wasn't even sure if I was doing something video-related or drawing polygons which I think is something you can do with Blender? Never managed to find a decent tutorial, either. I'm sure the interface is great once you figure it out, though.
This is a web page. (2013)
thanks, I was just about to quote the same paragraph. Totally ludicrous.

Every time a misguided journalist writes about the "underground drug-web", which is shaped like the underneath of an iceberg, and 1000x larger than the "real" Internet, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a tear. /s

Please make it stop.
Looks like "deep" is new "cloud" :)
An overview of how Redux apps can be built using a dispatcher and an application state observable, both build in a couple of lines of RxJs
heheh :)
Main complain to Google or other big company. Stop putting email in spam that doesn't have reverse DNS set. Why should one IP be tight to one email domain?
When many expats came abroad, the rules were rather lax. They didn't have to file US taxes due to their low incomes.

Later the rules changed, and they had to file taxes. Those who didn't know about the change ended up having to pay a big fine.

Lately, a new requirement was the need to file FBAR forms for every foreign bank accound and security: https://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Emplo...

Many people didn't know about the new requirement, and they had to pay big fines.

What will be the next new requirement that startles people who don't have any contact with the country? No one knows. That is the risk, the uncertainty that there might be a requirement that you don't even know about...
You could add a symlink in your $HOME folder
And this is why driverless cars will never (or at least not soon) attempt to optimise trolley-problem-style for number of human lives saved or similar. The algorithms chosen will optimise for one thing and one thing only: Legal defensibility for the car's actions.
Yup totally agree. Everyone's interpretation of the quality of life is going to be different, and therefore the debate will be never ending.
Bulma: a modern CSS framework based on Flexbox
I think that was the joke.
My ~/.config directory is a git repository. I use some environment variables for utilities (like vim) that do not support the XDG spec.
That is a bit ambiguous, but it seems to be more of a reporting requirement and not the same thing. Anyways, even us expats are effected by it if we stay for more than 5 years without a 1 month break.
Same here

https://github.com/qznc/dot
I'm confused - you can add files that are in a parent directory?
Judge and jury can then be algorithms, too!
While that's true, Japan aren't unique in that respect either. For example most of the scandinavian countries have a lower percentage of arable land as well as a smaller land area size. Yet, bar Norway, they've adhered to the whaling ban.
I just rebuild them by hand whenever I need to.

It helps weed out the crap I've accumulated since the last machine rebuild, and makes sure I don't end up with an ever-growing hairball of dotfile madness.
I skimmed the docs, but I'm unsure about the semantics. The pubsub, what happens to slow clients? The same for synchronization.

Basically - how it behaves when the clients are not behaving.
nobody mentioned mackup? https://github.com/lra/mackup
Ahh, thanks for the explanation (and the link). Much appreciated.
A new release just made.
Features:

1. Undo/Redo
2. Actions on multiple nodes.
How to create email field in customer module?
If comcast could charge $2350 to cancel, they would.
Well, now we know who stands behind Umbrella Inc.
So you took advantage of a system paid for by others and then decided you wouldn't contribute back. That's fine, but also pretty much the definition of greedy/selfish.

Regardless what your "hardship" story maybe, it would have been harder if everyone acted the way you do now.
Thank you for sharing this! Thank you!
> which means he's now stateless

Knowing some people who are involuntarily stateless, I can't imagine why someone would ever voluntarily give up their citizenship.

It makes traveling, financing, and generally living incredibly citizenship.
They have a favourable taxation system (I'd love to be able to only pay tax on the money I haven't spent; instead I pay on my revenue...).

A quick Google so far reveals:

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/civil-liberties/repo...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/19/corporations-over-peo...

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

Political contributions and lobbying, things like the TPP, TTIP, the IMF, etc. etc. are all pretty much set up to think about businesses over human lives.

EDIT: This is a good one...

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-b...
Node.js HTTP Response Splitting (CVE-2016-2216)
That's an amazing story. I never knew those details.
How much are modern trains vulnerable to hacker attacks?
Well other countries could try, but banks wouldn't really care because of limited exposure and inability for most countries to collect.
No, since the config alias runs git with the option "--work-tree=$HOME", which tells it that the working directory is your home directory root, i.e. where config files (used to) live.

Anyway it's the proper root for config files, since if you use a .config directory (as seems to be the modern choice) that needs to live in your home directory of course.
Records use a version number for every update to keep track of missing messages. Events are currently unversioned and won't be queued etc. while a client is offline.
I would guess that just like any physical trait, some emotions will be conserved by evolution and some will be unique. For example, emotions from the primitive parts of our brain like fear may be conserve across much of the animal kingdom. Empathy, which I define as a shared emotional experience, may be uniquely primate (but the article seems to indicate otherwise?).
Show HN: Sitestencil, a new way of building websites with flexbox and gutters
I have seen SMI pauses for almost 5 seconds!
Train control centre passwords revealed on BBC TV
"The US Treasury worked tirelessly to address many of these problems, and most have been resolved. If there are still problems with the law, then I believe Congress should hold hearings to see how it can be improved."

I bet they are wondering how to stay motivated on this one. Well a minor update to the legal system should fix the problem:

Welcome to Congress, we have now designated you a "US Congress Person" for filing purposes.

Being or having been a Members of Congress will require you to file all forms that could be requested of any "US Person".

In cases like FATCA you will also be required to disclose all accounts in your country of residence to meet our test of equivalence for "US Persons" abroad. Banks in the US will now be required to follow all procedures for FATCA for the special case of "US Congress Persons" or face 30% penalties. If Banks are unable to establish whether account holders are "US Congress Persons" they shall pay 30% penalties on all US sourced income.

The penalties for failure to file any form as a "US Congress Person" shall be no less than the highest established for other "US Persons".

Being convicted of some crimes and failures to file may limit your time in office but does not change your status and obligations as a "US Congress Person". If (Ex-)Congresspeople would like to renounce their citizenship they will automatically face the maximum 10 years of continued filing with the IRS as provided by the current regulations. "US Congress Person" like "US Person" can not be renounced separately.

Children of US Congress Persons shall inherit all filing birthrights of being a "US Congress Person".

(edit- fix mis-attribution of renunciation/IRS filing issue to FATCA)
This is a recent development. How long ago were you in Singapore?
Agreed, backup is great, but only if you are backing up the right stuff. Sometimes, not backing something up is the right call.
if you spend any real amount of time on a bike interacting with traffic you quickly come to realize that 99.5% of the humans behind the wheel shouldn't be driving, so it's hard to see where there would be any noticeable difference in quality of operations between human and autonomous.......
This is the most interesting system I've heard about for dotfiles. How do you organize the org files? Having a single org file with all my dotfiles in it could be interesting but probably unwieldy. It could be interesting to use code block expansion for keeping secrets out of the dotfile source.

I keep my emacs init in org and I can't believe I've never thought of this.
tar, scp, and a VPS server I've had for longer than I can remember (it's still running Lenny, if that helps -- its OpenSSL was too old to be vulnerable to Heartbleed...). Every new install, I scp the tarball and extract it to my home directory.
Americans and their trend to wire everything and their dogs aerial.

One snowstorm or one drunk idiot crashing his car into a pole and it gets expensive as hell to get everything working again. Not to mention the looks of dozens of operators (cable, electricity, telephone, fiber, private networks, traffic light controls, ...) hanging their cables on poles alongside the street.
You get close to the same number by spending any amount of time behind the wheel as well.
Obsessive Compulsive Directory
http://wiki.eater.org/ocd

It is a very simple system for keeping your dotfiles (and other files) in Git.
Why would you need some complicated algorithm for this?
"branches for different computers" sounds tedious if most changes are for every computer.