skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being stateless is not a good thing. It might seem that because you're member of none you are superior to all but having citizenship is not just a tax burden, it also allows you to partake in a lot of activities (such as travel, commerce and so on).

Getting bank accounts and other goodies when you're stateless is rather troublesome.
That is what I used to say when I was living in Madrid, with the lower temperatures in winter being 2-3 degrees under 0(celsius), but sun most of the year.

But living in Germany was a completely different story in winter going under 30 degrees under 0, 3-4 hours less daylight than in Spain or Portugal, and cloudy all day.

It is extremely disgusting to breath fast, like you need when in the bike when the air is so cold. Somebody should invent something for it.

On the other hand, in most of Spain you can't go around in summer with your bike, but it is great in Germany, Austria or Switzerland.
Perhaps important could mean an opportunity or threat to business revenue?

Anecdotally I've seen cases where companies can win business by simply listening to people asking questions on Twitter (e.g. Visiting Dublin in April, any recommendations on where to stay?)

I've wondered of the value of floating something into the either in Twitter Vs a direct email, possibly users hope for increased visibility and 1 to many reaction? and businesses have an opportunity for discovery that wouldn't exist if the user didn't send an email directly to them.

Certain industries have embraced it (airlines lead the way), if your customer is there and talking about your business/market then you need to be there too, or at least aware (in my opinion).
Are Intel still disabling random features in the K versions of their processors for market segmentation reasons? Figuring out what processors had what features locked off was getting truly ridiculous.
You may have made a valid observation about causes of dishonesty in politics. But that conclusion does not follow from the study. In the study dishonest behaviour is shown to be an effect of winning. Not a cause of winning.
>He doesn't want his hard earned wealth pissed away by clueless bureaucrats.

Yeh, but guess he likes driving on roads and making use of many of the other public services taxes pay for
"
Jane has lived and worked in France for 30 years drawing what she calls a "humble" salary. She has filed a tax return every year even though she earns significantly less than $106,000 a year."

Hardly the 1%
Agreed. And the fact that it's only in use in a UI mocking tool is a shame, I'd kill to have this tool in Sketch or something similar!
> they weigh about the same because of all the stuff they've added to them

Buy a decent frame and build your own bike. I have three bikes -- MTB, hybrid and one I made myself. The homemade one is easily my favourite, and I think it's the better bike. You get to decide what's important to you rather than the manufacturer. Road wheels with bullhorn bars and 3 cogs at the front? No problem, I can do what I like.
I'm quite sure the other measures are in 3/4 time. Here's[1] a fairly typical notation (first from google image search). The previous measure would be the descending D-B-G quarter notes with the lyrics "birthday dear" (two beats for "birthday", one for "dear").

The next bar, which is notated in that image as a F-E legato slur only notates the E as a quarter note. If that was played as it is notated, the part where you say the person's name would sound very rushed. We probably started holding the E to allow time for longer names, and it just stuck.

(I find it interesting that this image doesn't even include a fermata[2] on the E; it includes the triplets on "hap-py" which is not in the original, but rushes the name.)

Also, there is a slight syncopation-like effect when she says "4" - that's the triplet effect where three notes are played in the time of two (in this case a dotted-eighth + sixteenth taking (2/3 + 1/3) of a quarter note in time). That's after the extra beat.

[1] http://abcnotation.com/getResource/downloads/image/happy-bir...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermata
Or something like a prion that isn't alive so isn't really an infection?
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You're a permanent resident until you formally renounce permanent residency at a US embassy or consulate. Some may permit mailing in your green card, others require you to appear in person. However, the process is or was free when I went through it.

I think there are other ways of losing permanent residence, but the only guaranteed ways are when you renounce or when the US takes it from you. Either way, you better have written proof.

If you're a long-term permanent resident (8 years or more), then you're subject to the same expatriation tax rules as US citizens. The IRS agents that I spoke to were all friendly and helpful, but unfortunately none of them knew the expatriation rules. It wasn't as bad as it may sound, but it wasn't fun either.

You also have to file a preliminary tax return before you actually leave the country (informally called the sailing permit).

Anyway, just leaving the US isn't good enough when you're a permanent resident and until you're through the process you're on the hook. And don't forget to meet FACTA requirements for the year in which you gave up PR...
Drones recognise and follow forest trails in search of lost people
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Show HN: A monad transformer library in JS
// This code is licensed under CC0.
// A copy of the license can be obtained at https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
// May you forever catenate in peace.
#define strncatm(dest, sz, ...) strncat_multi((dest), (sz), __VA_ARGS__, NULL);
char* strncat_multi(char *dest, size_t dest_sz, ...) {
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for (src = va_arg(srcs, const char *); src && dest_off < dest_sz; src = va_arg(srcs, const char *)) {
src_sz = strlen(src);
copy_sz = src_sz < (dest_sz - dest_off) ? src_sz : (dest_sz - dest_off);
memmove(dest_end, src, copy_sz);
dest_end += copy_sz;
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if (dest_off < dest_sz)
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To complete the description of the workflow (for others), you can replicate your home directory on a new machine using the following command:

git clone --separate-git-dir=~/.myconf /path/to/repo ~

This is the best solution I've seen so far, and I may adopt it next time I get the itch to reconfigure my environment.
Vi Hart makes a good case (in my opinion) that there is a change in time signature. It's clearly an extra beat, not a "hold of indeterminate length".
I struggle with the telepathy argument. I think it's just a placeholder explanation for something a little less sci-fi. Such as scent, body language or just dumb coincidence.

However I do like the "Falling Skies" (a Sci-Fi drama starring Noah Wyle) explanation for telepathy; which was communication over the electromagnetic spectrum in a frequency that humans wouldn't normally detect (long waves IIRC)
Well, "drugs, weapons, and child porn" are better clickbait than "resisting censorship and repression", no?
the dolphin browser on android used to be able to reflow like opera, but i think since they upgraded to the new chrome engine, it no longer does it properly.

Sigh - just never update the opera app and you'd be set!
To my knowledge there's treaties with the vast majority of countries to avoid double taxation if you're not making more than a very large amount of money ( filed taxes last year and ended up with a giant goose egg)
Same pain goes for matrix calling etself aether (or vector, i forget..)
There are other measures and rankings elsewhere.

In addition to the additional metrics you mentioned, perhaps yet another to take into account is how hostile natives feel towards you when traveling in certain parts of the world--up to and including harassment, kidnapping, and (in limited locations) beheading risks.

In places (even here in Europe) where people tend to by default assume good English speakers to be American, I get better treatment by managing to convey that I'm not.
Intelligence chief says US agencies may spy on citizens using IoT
From the abstract: Studies 1 and 2 demonstrate that winning a competition increases the likelihood of winners to steal money

So while you're not wrong, it doesn't mean my above post is wrong either ;)

> Being voted into office doesn't cause dishonesty. It's the reverse: dishonesty helps with being voted into office.

This makes intuitive sense (and I even agree with it) but I fail to see this stated in the abstract (didn't read the PDF though)
I don't know anything about the specific event.

However, regarding your question of how to programmatically handle partial failure scenarios, I would reduce the trust in individual components (eg. satellites, receivers, receiver firmware releases, etc.) via redundancy and a voting-type mechanism to evaluate individual component outputs and their changes over time versus probable reality. Such a system would possibly include multiple offline clocks to match prior signals and thus maintain increased fault/drift-tolerance.
Pay off the current generation of truck drivers and tell the next generation to not pursue a career in truck driving. That ways we won't waste millions of dollars arguing with them when what they really want is to be paid (but they'll make up bullshit reasons for about how automated truck driving is bad).
I work at a fortune 500. Most of the dev team I am on work in the same office, but there is zero benefit to going into the office as most customers and project members are remote. The grey cubicle shreds my sole anyway, I love working from home.
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Citizenship is also not a tax burden for most citizenships
Why would the French agree to that?
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I share the dislike of and militancy against ads evinced by some of the posts here.

I started reading the piece thinking "Oh, another marketing guy who's drunk the 'relevant ads are good for people and everyone apart from a few contrarians really likes them' kool-aid.

So I was surprised to read what seems to be a rare example of sane thinking in an advertising person:

The truth is: we don’t care if our users use ad blockers on Stack Overflow.
More accurately: we hope that they won’t, but we understand that
some people just don’t like ads. Our belief is that if someone doesn’t
like them, and they won’t click on them, any impressions served to them
will only annoy them-- plus, serving ads to people who won’t click on
them harms campaign performance.

Yes! I will never click on an ad that somehow gets past my ad-blocking stuff, it is just a big fat waste of money serving me the ad that I will never click on.

Isn't it a bigger waste of money, though, serving me the page that will never monetize because I will never click on the ads?

Let's assume that the only reason for the existence of the site is to make money. Then by blocking ads, I'm signaling my intent to frustrate this purpose. Shouldn't the site just not serve me any pages at all since my intent is clear?

Interestingly, the site-owner's view of the intrinsic (i.e. non-monetary) value of their site figures into this calculation, it seems.

If the site is (at one extreme) disposable click-bait with no substantial content that can't be found at a dozen similar sites, then it's a reasonable assumption that if you disable access for ad-blocking users, they'll just go and get their meaningless content elsewhere rather than enable ads. Since their ad-blocking ways are a good indicator that even if they enabled ads for whatever reason, they'd probably never click on the ads anyhow, it makes economic sense in this case to just dispense with the users.

At the other extreme, if your site is (let's say) a premier source of useful information in some sizable field, it's a good bet that if you force ad-blocking users to enable ads they will often continue to visit your site, either participating in an ad-blocking arms-race that makes it increasingly expensive for you to circumvent the blocking, or capitulating by loading the ads but just never, ever, clicking on them, costing you more money either way.

So even from a purely financial POV, the strategy of just not caring about ad-blocking looks like a win, without having to invoke the nobler-but-woolier considerations about wanting to "make the world a better place for developers."

Other ad-ops people in charge of intrinsically valuable web estate would do well to follow SO's thinking, IMO!
To say that animals can't be empathic because they have selfish motives is bizarre - empathy is selfish, as it's a social survival and ingratiation tool, whether you care to admit such or not. both sides falling into an anthropomorphic trap.
What rights do companies have that human beings do not?
Cysignals: signal handling (SIGINT, SIGSEGV, …) for calling C from Python
Yes, but the legal risk is that if you don't fill out the forms right, then you have your assets seized and you get a huge fine. It has nothing to do with how much you pay and everything to do with how good your accounting is.
See also https://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/cysignals/ for history and more background.
Ask HN: How do you manage knowledge base in your startup
I'm the CTO of a small (40) people startup that does cloud consulting. Looking for a solution to manage knowledge (best practices, templates, forms) etc for our employees, Wanted to ask how do others manage this, any tools products or conventions you can recommend.

We use Google Apps for internal documents and also RedMine for ticketing and task management.
Well, I guess that he cannot avoid the taxes on fuel either.
> Being stateless is not a good thing.

That's wholly a matter of individual preference. I know Mike Gogulski personally and I can attest to him being quite happy having made the choices he did, and no longer being part of what he perceives as an evil empire. The tax question never factored into his decision, it was moral questions that preoccupied him.
She isn't the reason this article appeared in the BBC (it's effectively a reprinted press release, cf. Paul Graham's submarine).

She also earns a good salary and is dropping citizenship basically in order not to have to fill out a form once a year.

Either that or she's expecting a pay raise from her "humble" salary and will have to start paying a small amount of US tax.

Either way, my sympathy dial isn't moving.
It's definitely a fermata.

Arguing otherwise is like saying the national anthem changes to 15/4 when singers hold "land of the freeeeeeeeeeeeee."
Text reflow is something that seems obvious. It's beyond hilarious that other browsers don't implement it.

Maybe Steve jobs needs to wake up from the grave to implement sensible browser features.

Simple font size option is absent in IE for WP. The contraption they put in its place requires changing the don't size for the entire operating system - just because I want to increase the font size of a single article.
And many countries have collaboration efforts going where one countries consular services will aid the citizens of another (usually neighbouring) country if they have no representation themselves.

For instance many EU countries embassies will give aid to the members of other EU states that do not have local representation.

One of the most important things embassies do is to give aid to citizens of their countries charged with crimes abroad.
> Good thing is we can load old microcode on Linux

You cannot load old microcode anywhere. The CPU won't let you.

The OS feeds the CPU a blob, the CPU checks that it's signed by Intel (to prevent modifications), and it additionally checks that the version number is newer than the currently-running code. If it's not, it won't be loaded.

If you have a CPU with the old microcode versions, you can keep it around, but if you update your BIOS you'll find it will bring the new microcode in and you can't downgrade after boot. If you're lucky the BIOS manufacturer wasn't too careful with signing their BIOS and you can replace the microcode blob, but that's a huge hassle.
I use Homesick (https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick).

It's basically a dotfile manager. Symbolically links your stuff and runs scripts.
Actually, doesn't own a car, and spends most of his time in third world nations doing said philanthropy - but I'm not here to talk about his relative merits, just that fatca is ineffectual.
There are treaties with some countries, but most of these treaties have "reverse loopholes." E.g., on any freelance income, a 15.5% Social Security tax from the first dollar, with no exemptions. Also, you pay the higher of both countries taxes for each kind of income. E.g., if the US has lower taxes than the other country in general, but higher taxes on cap gains , you pay the US the delta on the cap gains.
Hoover was a pretty amazing man and a pretty miserable president. A mining engineer who made his pile working in China. He claimed he was literally first Stanford University student (he showed up days early when the college first opened and he stayed in the dorms by himself.)

He and his wife (who was also a geologist) were fluent in Chinese and would speak in it if they wanted privacy.

He became known for international humanitarian missions during and after the first world war. He became a national figure by directing flood relief operations during the 1927 Mississippi Flood, which catapulted him into the White House a year later.

He was a much better humanitarian than he was a president. And pretty good geologist and linguist too.
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Every form I see about financial matters here in Italy has a checkbox that I must tick to state I'm not a US person. No financial institution wants to deal with them because of FACTA. An unintended consequence for sure and I hope they'll fix it. Still it's telling about the general attitude of lawmakers all around the world.
The US economy and quality of life commands that premium.

Note - My fiancee is British and I've lived for 4 years overseas in the EU (UK 3 years, DE for 1). As the tax code as an American begins to squeeze more and more, I've become more reluctant to "pay" that premium, but there are indeed aspects of American life and opportunity that don't currently exist in the EU.
I keep all my dotfiles in a repo at ~/cfg, and have a script to perform tasks such as creating symlinks (e.g. ~/.emacs.el -> ~/cfg/emacs.el) and installing brew, antigen, etc.

https://github.com/andreis/cfg
The first priority should always be your occupants. Hardcoded.

Otherwise, can you imagine the first incident in which some passengers died because the code prioritized the life of someone else? Would anyone want to buy an autocar after that? "YOUR CAR COULD CHOOSE TO KILL YOU", the headlines will say.

The second priority should be the safety of pedestrians who are off the road.

Until we have computational power at the level of divine prescience, I don't think you can do much else in scenarios like the one you described, other than have a chain of basic priorities that falls back on "stop everything."

Eventually though, powerful-enough AI may be able to simulate all outcomes down to a very granular level, such as the difference between outright killing someone or just injuring their limbs to the point of crippling them for life.

Many factors will need to be considered then; who appears to be the weakest individual among the unavoidable targets? Are there any acquaintances of the owners among them? Is there a hospital nearby that could tend to their injuries? Does it look like a suicide attempt?
Quite agree. I've ranted about this before https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/12/do-all-google-employees-hav...

Chrome used to have this, but removed it for no good reason. Wish Firefox for Android had this.
I don't think madaxe_again is disagreeing with you there.

> and the evaders keep on evading
Great idea. As someone who suffers sometimers, as opposed to Alzheimer, I tend to forget. I'll know I knew that at some point, and this list would be just the ticket.

I tell people my memory is excellent but my retrieval tends to suck bad sometimes. Random access memory?
Cause that's robbery.
No, this is NOT primarily about taxes. It is about expensive reporting requirements -- the sort of paperwork usually done by billionaires and big corporations must be filled out by every American, even those with low-incomes.
I lived in Singapore for 3 years and managed without a stock trading account.

It's one of the easiest places to open a bank account, actually.
I applaud the mans morals but I foresee some practical complications in such trivalities as child-birth, hospitalization, estate planning (and eventual execution) and so on. None of those may apply to him and he's apparently thought this through very well but the wheels of government have a very annoying habit of grinding on with or without your consent and by placing yourself purposefully outside of the system you might find one day that this can backfire. I sincerely hope he has a back-up plan if he ever needs to be part of some formally recognized entity again, it's easier to lose a citizenship than it is to gain one.
I wouldn't say that Yahoo's reputation has improved over the last few years... In my mind, they have gone from a completely forgotten also-ran of an earlier era of the internet, to an example of Keystone Cops-level bumbling.
Does this also affect H1B holder that are temporary living outside the US?
Lambda only supports Python 2.7 for the momment, and getting postgres drivers working is a nice royal pain in the ass..

https://github.com/jkehler/awslambda-psycopg2

https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/3on09a/using_psycopg2_...

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=680192
I have a US child and I don't believe he's ever had blood work done.
Plenty of Americans travel abroad pretending they're Canadians, large maple leaf flags on their coats and all...
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And that's just not true.

There would be no negative press for intel. Everyone with the shlightest knowledge about overclocking knows that overclocking can damage your parts. And like stated, parts breaking without voltage increase is highly unlikely. But still: Assume I buy an Intel Non-K processor, base-overclock it and it breaks. How on earth would I be able to produce negative press for Intel by publishing that?

It's simply a profit optimization. K-processors cost more, people who want to overclock had the option to buy non-K, that reduced sale numbers of the K line. Also the i7-6700 is clocked way below the i7-6700K, it was a nice option to get the cheaper version and up it to K level, saving 100€ for some time (prices changed).

Behavior like that is why I buy AMD.
Because that makes no sense? Why would the french state give part of its (perfectly normal and standard) income tax back to the US for no reason?
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Wonder how this will affect Chinese citizens that have used and trusted Opera Mini to bypass censorship and the great firewall of China in the past. What browsing history is kept by the Opera Mini servers?
I wonder.

You can lose your PR status simply by:

> Fail to file income tax returns while living outside of the United States for any period. [1]

But they do require you report your loss of PR status to the IRS.

So I wonder if failing to file thus losing your status would count as good enough to the IRS.

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/after-green-card-granted/ma...
For most tax forms, the IRS says "you have to fill out this form so as to pay the correct taxes."

For FATCA, the IRS says "FATCA targets tax non-compliance by U.S. taxpayers with foreign accounts." https://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Corporations/Foreign-Account-...

In other words, FATCA treats all Americans overseas as a priori criminals -- the form is being filled out to "target non-compliance."