skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you work in the US, and most of your clients will be in the US, most tax agencies (and probably IRS, but I'm not sure) will effectively presume you're a US-based company. It doesn't matter if your company is registered somewhere else, they'll presume it as a US company. The same laws apply in most European countries.

Why? Because otherwise all freelancers would simply register in the country with the lowest tax to dodge their national taxes. Obviously governments don't want that.

If you have the opportunity to physically relocate to another country though, then it becomes interesting to find places with lower tax rates. Countries like Singapore won't care if you're a foreigner opening a company and are never there. It's mostly about your personal tax residency what matters.

An increasingly common construction with people working remotely is a Hong Kong or Singapore company, and either no personal residency anywhere (e.g. traveling around perpetually), or a personal residency in a place with lower personal tax. Think Bulgaria or Panama.

If you're a US citizen, there's extra difficulties here. You'll be taxed for any income above $100K/y, even if you're not a US resident anymore. If you don't want to be taxed in the US, you'll have to forego your citizenship (!).

P.S. IANAL.
Depends on your definition of reliability I guess.

If I have two scripts running in parallel which both wants to install packages, using apt will cause one of the scripts to fail, because apt is already locked.

dnf however will be just fine, because instead of failing it will just queue and wait for the lock to be released.

There's small things like that all over which to me, as an end user, makes relying on dnf feel much safer.
Yeah, well. technically all tax rulings are retroactive. And while we're disparaging other nations: I'd also be weary of doing business outside the US. There's some 3rd world president-impersonator on twitter who's talking an awful lot about punitive tariffs. (When he's not preoccupied with the size of his wall/hands/genitalia)
All of the Perl bashers seem to be people who think that in programming the syntax of a language is the hard thing to learn.
Even crazier, they don't buy more than one nights worth.. so they make a trip to the supermarket just for ice cream every night. (It's just a myth)
Google was at the career fair at my university. I went and talked to them. They said apply online. I did that, did phone interviews and got an internship.

So at least for Google, they don't need to come to your college.
Good question. I'm not a lawyer; I assume edge cases will be decided by the relevant tax authorities. Speculating here, but if there's a single place where management decisions are made, say where the CEO lives, the corporation might be tax resident there. Otherwise, they might decide to tax you in place of incorporation.

For such a company, what address would it have? Maybe where you place its headquarters has some significance too.
Median, 2-bedroom rent in San Jose is $2,289. That is $27,468 annually. $15/hour wages is $31,200 annually.

After paying income taxes, there's nothing left. Even 2 minimum wage earners sharing a median priced one bedroom apartment would be hard pressed to also own cars and feed and insure themselves.

http://www.zilpy.com/rentalmarket/San_Jose,_CA_metro
False. If that were true, that interest rates were the only driver of this real estate increase, we should expect similar increases in other areas. Texas, Florida, and countless other states have had more inward migration with no increase.

The guest worker program for migrant farm labor is not illegal neither is NAFTAs integrated North American market.

Finally California has depended on agriculture for a long time, well before the current drought.
Interesting - so Slack offers external access (single channel guest) - is there any similar functionality? Given Teams is tied to Exchange groups, would it be expensive to add an external user?

We deal with external companies a lot where I work and having that feature is pretty useful.
I know that it is in preview, which is why I'm so upset about the idea of adopting it at this point. Seriously: I'm ranting about this product because it is unfinished and unpolished, but obviously the blame for adopting this thing lies in this company. I wouldn't criticize it that much if I'd be able to watch the painful first steps as a bystander..

You use the web client? I assume you mean teams.microsoft.com? The URL that I see nowhere in my notifications etc?
Every notification mail links to a landing page that wants me to download a "native" client (even if none exists for the platform I'm on). Notifications also never include any details: They say "Look, you missed stuff on our service. Come back!" instead of actually.. providing any information.
The web client has quite some bugs, a fun one is opening a document (which embeds a 365 viewer, I guess) and resizing the window. Last I checked the document view cannot grow. Lots and lots of issues like that.

That API site? Yes, I've seen that. I think last time I checked you had to submit your stuff to let MS decide if it'll be part of a non-existent future "app store" thing. At least for Office365 hosted instances?
>Is it for having a monolithic assemblage of computer monitor plus one-way modem that only works for certain data content streams?

Yes. Most people do not care to assemble their own little batch of boxes and cables just to make television happen. Most people would rather purchase a unit that makes video play in the living room, because their lives are filled with other things to do.
Look up the financial backers of Cato institute or heritage foundation and review their published work and you should have a clear picture.
I'm not sure how official it is, but I can pacaur -S slack on Linux, yes.

(As others said: You get just an Electron package, which isn't ideal. But.. you get something)
California isn't very densely populated. It's much less populated than UK, Switzerland, Italy, Germany etc.

Large swathes of the coastline are protected. That's not a particularly bad thing. But also, development in general is really wasteful of space. Spending time in California as a European was an object lesson in scale: everything is bigger than it needs to be, everything is spread out, walking places takes ages, roads are far wider than necessary, parking lots take up loads of space (legally mandated!), etc.
Do you think this is valid analysis? Or are you citing the reason for the belief?

I agree, this is the primary argument used to justify lowering taxes.
This seems extremely inconsistent with the numerous stories I've heard of crazy rent prices in Silicon Valley. Are a big chunk of some of these people commuting in on transit maybe?
> For the rest of us at least mainstream Linux distros are almost as easy as Windows if not easier in some cases (until you come to MS Office, AutoCAD etc which is a whole different story, mostly unrelated to drivers IMO.)

I.E. Unless you need to use mainstream business software.
And by "own cars" you mean "have freedom of movement" as Silicon Valley (like most of the US) has incredibly poor public transport.

And CA doesn't have $15/hr wages (yet). $15/hr is above minimum wage of $10.50. That's $21,840 annual gross.

I guess you can afford to live here with a lower income if a) you room (or even share a room), b) you live with parents or c) you got section-8 or something a lot less than market rate rents.
Hi @gkoberger, Mattermost team here. Thanks for the mention.

I'd share that Mattermost has gotten popular as a Slack-alternative recently. There's hundreds of contributors and we're now available in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Dutch and Russian--whereas Slack is English-only.

Also, the open source community has added many features Slack doesn't offer, like threaded messaging, multi-team accounts, markdown support, etc. See: https://www.mattermost.org/what-slack-might-learn-from-its-o...

Right now, Mattermost is most popular among IT organizations looking for an open source, private cloud messaging solution they can control and customize, and we're branching out from there.
Superset is a data exploration platform that is visual, intuitive, and interactive
It's actually worse. The numbers above do not include the cost of healthcare nor retirement past what FICA pays for in social security. Say we're working with the magical $100k number above. In my state, my healthcare premiums were $500/month, which are not tax deductible. That means, I lose another $6k in premiums, or 6% of the $100k. My out of pocket max was $3300. I never want to be in a position to not go to the doctor because of money, so I always budget for it. Though, the payments for qualified medical expenses in that $3300 are tax deductible. So, let's pretend that 3.3% is really 2% after tax savings. That means that I spend 8% of $100k income on healthcare. If I add that to the 45%, then we're at about 53% of the money gone. Again, the number is slightly lower because of graduated tax brackets, but, candidly, it's not that much lower.

I lived a few years in Norway and have my company registered out there as well. I paid less in taxes there and got more in services. Other than culture, it's literally easier to start and run a company is many socialist countries. Simply, the taxes are lower; the services are higher; and the risk is lower because there's a safety net to fall back onto. That said, cultural does count for a lot and American culture is supportive of taking a risk as a small business. The U.S. is also the home to some of the world's largest companies, so opportunities to make contacts and contracts here can be higher.
Most of the people I know drive their cars to work. I live in Santa Clara. I know there are people who commute from places like Tracy, but I don't know any -- I know plenty of people who live near me who don't make a lot of money and manage to live here just fine.

Outside of San Francisco, rent prices are only crazy if you want your own place. Single people can easily rent with roommates, and couples usually have two incomes. Two people making an average wage can afford a place to live -- maybe not a luxury apartment, but a decent place in a safe area.
The disturbing story behind Hagenbeck’s circus
Wow, thanks for the link.
Decompilers exist (like Boomerang), but it is more likely the author used something like IDA Pro, which has a code flow graph feature.

http://boomerang.sourceforge.net/
Hasn't that been disproven? Even George Bush called it "voodoo economics".
We're using Chargebee in our app since Stripe is a bit too simple when it comes to subscriptions.

I'm thinking something like Chargebee/Recurly should be open-source, with a gitlab model and with charts like chartmogul.com built-in as well to centralize all subscriptions info/reporting.
I'm not sure whether the open-source aspect would be enough to convince enough people to use it, but it would convince me at least.
Comparing median rent price to the lowest income earners is not relevant. Looking at the 1st percentile of rent prices would be appropriate.
Sort It Out. The Need for Customer Centric Merchandising Assortments
Why would folks making at or near the minimum wage live in median housing?
HMD Global launches first smartphone, the Nokia 6 in China
> A friend once asked me to watch a video with her that she was going to display on her computer using Netflix. I declined, saying that Netflix was such a threat to freedom that I felt uncomfortable with promoting its use in this way.

No Netflix and Chill for RMS!

> Rejecting streaming DRM is an ethical imperative because this streaming technology is intended to divide people and make them antisocial.

....eh?

> Every time you hear that some video is produced specifically by Netflix, it would be appropriate to feel a wave of disgust and anger.

Thanks, RMS, for explaining to me how I should feel. I was frequently confused in the past when a Netflix-produced video started, thinking "I'm not sure how I should be feeling about this" but you cleared that right up for me!

Don't tell me what to do, feel, or think, you pretentious prick. I'm happy to listen to your arguments, but by telling me how to react to them, you insult my intelligence, belittle my ability to do what is the right thing for me, and are finally no different from the very organisations you despise and rant against. Your version of "freedom" isn't very free at all.
I've seen and read lots of parables that end with the phrase "moral of the story" when distilling down the core lesson behind the tail for the convenience of the audience. Moreover, the term "story" doesn't necessitate factual content - it's generally used more to convey an entertainment piece of which the content could either be factual or entirely fictional.
Another (real) story of my own:

We had a piece of software that would present a dialog for the user to select a file, then parse and send the contents to an embedded device. This software was an internal tool and not very reliable, so it would crash if you selected a file with invalid contents.

Two engineers, Dan and Brian, came to me with a tricky problem. Every time Dan would open a specific file everything would work fine. Every time Brian selected the same file the program would crash. I was obviously skeptical and went to watch. We tried it 10-20 times and sure enough, it always failed for Brian and worked for Dan. I watched them perform the exact same steps.

Eventually I gave it a try myself and realized what was going on. Dan would click "open", select the file, then click OK. Brian would click "open" then double click the file.
Nifty, I know moovit has been doing this for a few years now as well as crowd sourcing route information for a bit. Transit has a pretty nice UI and a few interesting integrations. Fun to see some competition in this app space.
3D modelling seems to be the most difficult skill in order to turn noise into "productive-signal" in that set. Did he had prior exposure? If só, for how long? What was his method of learning? Congratulations to your friend. From an outsider's perspective, solo shipping a game looks like a very challenging endervour.
Words with multiple meanings will have multiple vectors each depending on context, and if you train your system without taking that into account the vectors will be averaged and the individual meanings will be lost.

With a symbolic approach, the right thing is to use a different symbol for each meaning, and disambiguate based on context (which you could identify either statistically or by using rules).
> This mostly puts you in the 25% tax bracket. We'll assume that there's also 5% of state income tax. For FICA, since you're both the employee and the employer, you pay 15.3%. All together, that means you're losing about 45% to tax off the bat.

Because tax brackets are progressive, it really does not make any sense to add the percentages up like that. No one making $100k/year is paying $45k/year in taxes.

> Your first $118,500 are brutal because you're paying an extra 15.3%, but after that FICA goes to 0%.

Only the Social Security tax (12.4%) tops out at $118,500, the Medicare tax (2.9%) does not have a cap, so you're still paying 2.9%, not 0%.

> However, money above that amount can be distributed to the shareholders as dividends. These are taxed at 15%.

This is grossly incorrect. S-corp profits are taxed as ordinary income (regardless of whether they are distributed to the shareholder or not).

> For example, if you can convince the IRS that the prevailing wage for your position is $120k, and you made $300k, then the first $120k gets taxed at 45% or so (see above) and the last $180k gets paid out in dividends and taxed at 15%.

No, the last $180k is taxed at ordinary income rates (which would be 33% given the example numbers). Do you actually operate an S-corp?
Yea it's not something I do commonly but sometimes my coding/terminal font of choice (FiraCode) just doesn't work if I'm say looking at a database dump or some other output and I've got to switch it.
I guess you watched the show Silicon Valley
Because the same income average is one of a "bazillion" things that affect home prices.

Pick a town with an average income in California compared to a town in Utah or Texas with the same average income.

What's different?

* Supply and Demand. Average income does not mean supply and demand are equal.

* Area (Coastal Desert vs inland desert... beach front property in California vs... Utah...)

* regulations (try to build stuff in San Francisco vs Dallas or Salt Lake City)

* available area to build (density of San Fran vs Utah)

* City/County/State Taxes (Compare property taxes for those locations)

* etc, etc, etc.

Hell... supply & demand ALONE would account for the difference price between California and Utah. THEN Add all the other bazillion differences...
Top tax rate is 45% + 2.5% 'solidarity surcharge' and that does not include healthcare, which is another 12%. Unemployment is another 3%, pension is around 20% (although you'll get it back eventually), "pflege" (nursing?) is 2.5%, VAT is much higher than most places in the US at 19% so that sums up to... 105.5% – the error being that most of these are only applied on the net that's left over after paying other taxes. And some of these are the marginal rates applied only to income above certain thresholds (that 'solidarity' tax get to 2.5% only on income > ´1.3 million) while others, like healthcare and unemployment, have upper limits.

The best way to measure this is probably government spending/GDP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending#As_a_perce...) which is about 46% for Germanys and 43% for the US, although you could argue that healthcare should be included in those numbers.
This is nonsensical if you don't already have some existing notion of a relationship. These are vectors, not concepts. There a loads of operations that don't have any intuitive notion, yet are well defined in the context of vectors and most likely yield useless results.
Punitive tariffs going forward are far less scary than going back. But for different reasons than you [1], I too am leery of tieing my future to the US. I don't plan to reside there long term.

[1] Trump is just a president signalling being a member of cultural out-group, I'm also an out-group member so I don't much car e. My reason for fearing the US is obligations exceeding ability to pay, a weak and sick culture, and also overbearing tax and regulatory authorities.
Employment law also makes it harder to hire employees. Every employee hire in places like Germany and such are huge risks to small corps, since it's very hard to fire bad employees who are net negatives, and they know it and abuse it. That is ironically probably the biggest barrier to starting a corp in Europe for me.

Health care insurance costs although should be tax deductible, and there are things like FSAs and HSAs that help make health costs even more tax deductible. Are you talking about the costs for paying other things in health care costs, like the $XXs per doctor visit and so on?

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America is ironically a high tax nation, but these things usually reduce tax and COL:

1. The mortgage interest tax deduction. That is easily a +$20k/yr tax deduction right there. There are other small tax deductions that can remove a few thousands here and there.

2. States like Washington or Nevada that have no state income tax.

3. Almost everything is significantly cheaper to buy in the USA

4. Sales tax / VAT is %0-%10 vs the common ~%20 that is common in the EU. Because the US is a mismanged mess governmentally, buying something online from another state is a common sales tax dodge.

5. Pay is significantly higher in the USA for software professionals. I once read it doesn't matter how much you spend, but really how much you make and that can make up for the tax rates.
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Antergos or manjaro. You get all the drivers that comes with an updated kernel, the AUR, the speed of it being a source-based distro, and all the latest software. Those who claim arch has breakage often draw from past experiences with vanilla arch. Vanilla arch his a complicated install process that results in an often unstable system. But antergos/manjaro is to arch as ubuntu is debian. Heres some reasons other distros are not as pleasant as Antergos/manjaro

Ubuntu:
the 6-month release cycle highlights whats great with rolling release distros. Youre greeted every 6 months with a broken system you have to reinstall.
Ubuntu LTS:
Alot of the packages are extremely outdated and you'll most likely collect a huge amount of ppas(a method of installing 3rd party programs in debian based distros) that will slowly but surely give your computer a decrease in speed and stablilty

RPM based distros:
Rpm package managers are the slowest you'll use. This will get to you eventually trust me.

Gentoo:
so difficult and impractical to use its a joke in many linux inner circles
The war on ticket bots is unlikely to be won
Agreed with Rich, it's a misconception that virtual-dom is faster, web browsers have made significant improvement to DOM. There must be a reason why vanilla Javascript is fastest than most virtual-dom.

Inferno-1.1.0 have an error at runtime, could not test JS Framework right now. Sveltejs works.
Has a nice list of IP addrs and hostnames... thanks!
Perl gives you plenty of rope to hang yourself with. That isn't a good thing in any language.
Agree, but even that seems to start thawing up as web based software spreads.

Right now I only miss MS Office and given recent moves from MS it wouldn't surprise if a preview is available within a year.
Your conclusion is theoretically false.

You can prove that L1 regularization is equivalent to taking the optimal unregularized parameters, setting to parameters below a threshold to 0 (the threshold depends on the regularization parameter), and penalizing the other parameters.
I haven't had time to write up my full explanation of the 74181's logical implementation, but I have a summary on stackexchange that you might find interesting: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/1489/what-is-...

The quick summary is the 74181 looks at first like they picked 32 random functions but there's a rational explanation why it has functions like AB PLUS (A OR NOT B). And the gate arrangement makes sense once you realize it's all based on carry-lookahead.
Nevada's another good state for incorporation for similar reasons, from what I understand.
No, user can't remove/change card data or cancel subscription. And when I contact their support, they don't do nothing. They promise "we will cancel soon" but nothing happens.
One thing I hate is when I say 'OK, Google' and my watch, phone and tablet all try and respond! I wish it was possible to customise the trigger phrase between devices in some standard way, e.g. 'OK, Watch', 'OK, Phone', or a shout-out to Radiohead with 'OK, Computer' and maybe even something like automatically recognising 'OK, ${HOSTNAME_OR_BLUETOOTH_IDENTIFIER}'...
Sorry if I'm just not getting it. is it compiling some nice language I write into some JS that runs compile time? Or is this a static website generator?

If I use Svelte to make my site, is the expectation that the data is being loaded in the cacheable HTTP call or is it a SPA?
considering the high internet speed in europe that would be needed to compensate for dnf's slow speed that makes sense
It still boggles my mind that sql injection is a thing in 2016, let alone in a modern codebase from a great software company with amazing engineers.

Somehow we (the programming profession) are doing this whole thing wrong, and I'm not sure why.
Nope. just read this entire thread and you'll learn why.
Hex-Rays is a pretty good decompiler plugin for IDA Pro: https://www.hex-rays.com/products/decompiler/index.shtml