skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope this helps. Basically my suggestion is retain your UK residence and take extended "vacations" in countries you want to visit - it'll be a lot less of a hassle then trying to immigrate.

You will want to be very, very careful with that. I'm neither a lawyer nor an accountant, but the tax rules for US citizens are very different from pretty much everyone else. Tax authorities will generally not be happy if you try to pay no tax locally and send it all home. The rule is typically that you pay tax where you spend the most number of days of that tax year. No idea what happens when tax years for natural persons don't overlap (UK has April-April, many countries have calendar years) - in my case I didn't earn any money in the interim so it wasn't an issue.

Within the EU, you'll probably need to register your new residence as the, or one of the company's offices where its business is conducted. You don't need to register it as a business of that country, though, unless you're a sole trader. Any salary or dividends you pay yourself will usually be subject to local taxes, social security, health insurance and possibly other fees. Your accountant(s) will need to tell you where the business pays tax on its profits.

You may also require a permit for operating a business in that country. I did (UK citizen, located in Austria), and although software development is usually not regulated in the way the medical, legal and other professions are, I did require a certificate of any record on the UK Police National Computer, or rather lack of any record. This took almost 2 months and cost 10 pounds. I managed to sweet-talk the bureaucrat in Austria into not requiring an official translation, but the rule is that you do - this will add extra cost and time.

You may also require a residence permit, even within the EU. That too tends to be a mere formality, but usually they want proof of earning enough to sustain yourself. Not a problem if you're a UK limited company, you'll be used to your income being a matter of public record anyway. I didn't need this in Vienna, but a German friend in another State (Lower Austria) got an unpleasant visit from the immigration police.

UK->EU specific, but: you can forget your E111 for anything but emergencies. You'll probably be forced to get local health insurance (in Austria they write to you and bill you as soon as you register the business) anyway.

Hopefully, you'll encounter less hassle - Austria is exceptionally hostile towards the self employed, and taxes are insane.
The Emperor Of Scent - Chandler Burr

I never appreciated my sense of smell until this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Emperor-Scent-Perfume-Obsession-Myster...
It's not necessary to roll your own affiliate software just for privacy reasons. There are plenty of products out there where you buy an owned license, install it on your server, and integrate with it using an API instead of using a third party system. Post Affiliate Pro and iDevAffiliate are the two most well-known ones.
Unix was the first IDE, they say.
This tactical approach will only work in existing markets with known customers and known solutions. War is only the tool to achieve the goal, should not be the goal itself.
touches on a few of the reasons I love emacs as well

ido-mode + tags for navigating my source code, syntax highlighting + indentation for any language I do, pretty much nothing on the screen apart from my code, easy hooks for programming custom functionality
http://www.sublimetext.com/

By far the best windows text editor (currently being ported to osx/linux)
Blah blah blah I'm so much better than my classmates blah blah blah.
Using GUIDs in Rails - Guidification
Their website looks like it was created by BlindDesign...

From the videos, they do have pretty killer technology, although they haven't even released it yet, and there are competitors aplenty. I'm curious, does anyone know what an "acquisition" like this usually amounts to in terms of money? At this scale, it's almost never talked about (ex. reMail's acquisition).
The Naked Ape is a fantastic read!
When I was at Apple, I could build Emacs from source faster than IDEA would launch. As a twenty-year Emacs user, that sort of turned my world upside down.
I use vim for simple things like bash or tex, but I prefer to use geany most of the time for WP because it's fast, versatile and easy.
Thanks for the great feedback.

Your spot on about the UI/UE, it is a serious weak point. It is a pretty big gap in my own skill set (which by iterating on this site, I am hoping to improve).

I think the core competency of the site is meme tracking for a given vertical category. Given that, the thought is additional features can be added that leverage the memes.

Some examples I am thinking of short term:

-Which memes are having the biggest impact on social networks (in terms of "tweets", "likes", "diggs", etc..).

-What media, such as videos and images, are associated with a particular meme.

Longer term:

-Given a list of sites and article I track on say, Google Reader, only show me the entries which are part of significant memes.

-What memes are my friends "liking", "tweeting", or "digging", etc...

-Topic search which returns memes rather than single articles.

The overarching plan is to release early, and often -- and hopefully to update the folks here at Hacker News to make a good feedback loop.
As soon a someone creates a tool simple enough for you average strip club owner to use.

That seems like a group willing to pay to make it simple.
Yes, just run the installer again (they always get the latest versions, regardless of when they were made). We're looking into building some sort of dedicated update checker too.

Glad to hear you like it.
I second that. Firsthand.

Life is generally very cheap here. Overall, you will feel like walking on eggs for the two first years but after that things will be just fine. Culturally, you will need to be able to handle huge alignments.

Honestly, there are ups and downs to this but you will feel alive like never before (this is a general statement about living abroad).

I would advise contacting a good lawyer to help you handle the whole immigration hell (yes, it is). In the IT business there are some shortcuts agreements with the government that can help. I can give you a good pointer on this.

More generally, if you can afford it; do it by all means.
zferral seems to be a good option for affiliates who will continuously market your product. I am looking for a system which can help me release campaigns to my existing users. For example, if they post about my product with my link provided on twitter/facebook or simply email it to their friends and their friends purchase the product, I should be notified so that I can provide the offer to my existing user.
Turing Crackpottery - Good Math, Bad Math
You can use 40| to go to the 40th column of a line. I typically use e or b to jump by words to reach the middle of a line. You can also 5e to jump by 5 words for instance too.

I would be curious to know if there are other shortcuts for doing this too though.
"You will want to be very, very careful with that."

You're right. You probably want to find a good tax attorney or accountant that is well-versed in the tax laws and treaties of any and all countries you plan on spending time in, especially if you plan on doing business locally.
There are not any HN meetups that I am aware of; based on the periodic "where are you" posts here I'm not sure HN density is high enoungh. But there is an active startup hub here, see http://www.techbrewery.org/ . In the community section, I think a2geeks.org is probably the most active site. There's definitely enough startup activity to get you going. Either show up for the "beer thirty" mentioned on the techbrewery's sidebar, or just stroll in and start chatting. Make sure you meet Dug Song.
There are quite a few differences between referral systems and affiliate systems, most affiliate systems are using cookies and are geared towards online marketing, a referral system can use different methods as well, such as email, print and other media.

Referral marketing uses your existing customerbase as marketing vehicle, affiliate systems tend to focus on other businesses that send you customers in return for a split, and as a rule you would find far fewer affiliates than you would have potential referrers in a referral marketing situation. Referral marketing usually centers around discounts, where as affiliate marketing centers around profit sharing, splits or one time fees for a sale.

The differences, even though there are many are subtle enough that it may be possible to use the one for the other.
Let's nominate Salman Khan to speak at TED
As far as tax goes, it differs a lot from country to country, at least with the UK, you don't have to pay their taxes if you are mostly in another country.

In some countries, merely visiting them for a holiday while being in charge of a business abroad is considered taxable.
Don't forget the fact that they both took their own lives with a shotgun to the head.

Also, if you consult HST's wikipedia entry, you'll notice Hemingway come up several times (and in fairly significant ways).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson
What IDE, language and platform is driving you to frustration?

I'm a long-time emacs user, but I have found Intellij IDEA to be a wonderful tool for working in java. Older versions were slow to start up and occasionally sluggish, but new versions on modern hardware are wonderful. I use netbeans for C++. I haven't found anything for Python that I like. (I find Eclipse unusable for anything.) If IDEA or Netbeans were taken away from me, I'd use emacs.

Actually, I still spend a lot of time in emacs. I use the IDEs for writing new code, reading code, and running/debugging unit tests.
You are not nearly the only one trying this - I wouldn't recommend it. You'll also need a big chunk of money to get started - HFT (which is a subset of automated trading) relies on low latency, and therefore you can't just use any old hosting. You'll also want to write it in a language with low and predictable latency (usually C++).
Ask HN: Subscription Based Service
I want to create a subscription based web service to facilitate sharing specific content that a user (subscriber) owns.

-The subscriber would have a specific page sub-directory of the website where admins would place their content, and the user would use to share with their friends

-The content or URL for a specific user should be able to be password protected. Meaning, if the content is private, public users would have to supply a password

- The content would expire at the end of the subscription and the page would be temporarily disabled, enticing them to re-up the subscription.

My question is this. I want to build the site by customizing a CMS like wordpress, joomla, drupal or any other good content management system.

For subscription based services like what I describe, what would be the best way to go? Ideally the customizations are to be limited.

I read all of your articles and posts. This is such a great community. I longed for the day I would either have something to contribute, or have a question to ask.

Thanks guys!
You can use repeat counts with the cursor movement commands. For example, 40h will move your cursor 40 characters to the right; or 5w will move it forward 5 words.

Alternatively you can use the search commands, '/' (forward search) or '?' (backwards search) with the text at the middle of the line as your search string.
Based on the recent Khan Academy lovefest, I'm finally doing what I've only talked about for a while -- actively campaigning for Salman Khan to speak at TED.

The online form only took me a few minutes to fill out.
Finite and Infinite Games
I never really understood this debate... as if all companies should go big, or all companies should stay small/medium. Every business is different. Businesses have varying amounts of potential for growth, varying numbers of possible revenue streams, and even varying numbers of directions in which to pivot should things hit a wall.

If you're selling people hands-on classes in underwater basket-weaving, it's probably not a good idea to make all your classes free so you can chase VC money. On the flip side, if you've created a social network that's on track to become the biggest website ever, it's clearly unwise to sacrifice that massive potential by cashing out early. One-size-fits-all arguments ("All companies should go for the gold!") don't make any sense, and are probably issued by people who have a direct incentive for their arguments to become reality.
It is probably true for platform companies, but in the end cash still rules. With respect, I think Facebook and Tencent are the only few "egoless" big players trying to stay relevant in the paranoid way. They will not give any chance to any threat in their game by copying ideas from startups fast. They know their games.
I wish that content aggregators could use something like Kerberos tickets to delegate authentication. That way Mint could have a read-only ticket to access my bank that didn't require my password.

I still use Mint though. I asked them about their security measures in this thread: http://satisfaction.mint.com/mint/topics/can_i_trust_the_sec... . Their response was that you're not liable for fraud if you report it to your bank promptly, and Mint's reporting features make it more likely that you catch the fraud early enough to report it. It seems like a good security tradeoff to me.
If I found myself in your shoes, i'd probably be planning an itinerary with one of the round the world tickets offered by the various airline alliances. They're really good value and allow you to see a heck of a lot of the world. And keep in mind you can use the round the world ticket to get to, say, Hong Kong (I love it there - recommended) and then use local budget airlines to hop between South East Asian countries over a few months, and then continue on with your round the world ticket to Australia or elsewhere.

The round the world ticket more or less forces you to keep moving as it'll only be valid for 12 months, and so you should be able to get by by just using tourist visas in each country. After a year of hopping around the world you'll be in a position to know whether you want to keep being a nomad, or if there was somewhere you visited that you'd like to go back to a little more permanently.

(Keep in mind that if you turn up to pretty much any country and say you intend to stay for 1 or 3 months as a tourist they'll want to know that you can support yourself - have your bank statements handy!)

But, yeah: go travel. Do it now before you start putting down roots. I once bought a round the world ticket to do 12 months of backpacking. 14 years on and i'm on my fourth country that i've 'permanently' settled in, with a fair bit of traveling thrown in along the way.
gm jumps to the middle of the screen in the current line.

[Edit: here's a nice cheatsheet of them: http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/qrc/vim%20quick%20ref... ]
Sorry, refusing to understand local tax law, or refusing to pay someone who understands it is terrible advice. Ignorance is not a valid defense.
Since last May I've been spending increasing amounts of time in Perú doing just that. Recently I've finally made the move more "permanent" as I've rented a house here in Lima and plan on staying a least a year.

The easiest way to go about it is to maintain your permanent residence in your home country and enter new countries as a tourist/visitor.

This officially means that you can't "work" in the country you are visiting. However, as long as your clients are not local and you get paid to your bank account in your home country, you should be ok.

I would highly recommend you review your tax situation for your country, and especially the country you will be visiting if you want to stay longer than their tourist/visitor visa allows.

I'm going through all this myself and have started blogging about it at http://expatentrepreneur.tv ... A lot of other people blog about the expat digital lifestyle. One I enjoy reading is http://exilelifestyle.com and he has links to quite a few others.

I highly recommend South America to you... it has a fast-growing tech/startup community (Chile, Brasil, Argentina, Peru) and there are tons of expats as well.

If you make it to Peru feel free to look me up!
HN now with free hyperbole.
I probably should have submitted this one first - here is a more general discussion of The Halting Problem he wrote a few days later - http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath/2010/09/12/the-halting-...
Vim used to have an edge when emacs was viewed as "bloated" for using 8 megs of ram, but now that's pretty negligible. On big projects I can get eclipse to use more than 2 gigs!
Could you be more specific about your online business?
Children are a Ponzi scheme - you have lots of children to support you in old age (either directly in 3rd world or via social security in the 1st)
This leads to over population - but screw them, you will be dead.

It's rather like some countries attitude to consuming natural resources, if we don't burn the oil first somebody else will
I don't feel you were rude at all; you have only stated the truth as it is :-)

I posted that link as a suggestion to browse the relevant parts (.vim/ and vimrc) as they are the result of a Vim newbie quest through several content on the Internet describing how to get some of the most requested features from IDEs (for example, intelligent completion) working with Vim.

As you might see from my .vim/bundle, I use relatively few plugins; they are pretty standard things like a file browser (NERD Tree), except for the custom "plugin manager", Pathogen, that I found as a reliable alternative to Vimballs and the like.
The US visa system is seriously broken.

Seems like it from here too.

If I were the OP I'd stick to the EU, Australia or New Zealand (both of which have fairly liberal immigration policies, especially for UK citizens).
Rather, would be interested to hear from entrepreneurs who cashed out and then regretted it.
Isn't it a users responsibility to obey copyright restrictions in this case, given that we never publish content unless the user does it? It's basically the same situation as hosting a website, if you upload and publish a copyrighted page, is the host responsible?
What Microsoft wants from Google
The google blog says it does...
Im totally for it. Let's do it.
Brilliant. Now change up the UI a bit, make sure you change the name to something like "CreepAvoider" and then it'll be marketable to the ladies :)
I don't even understand the debate:

Your lifespan, healthspan, lifetime happiness and ability to run a company will only go up once you cash out for 4-10 million or more. You've literally solved the money problem at that point.

Why would you risk that on a vanity billion dollar exit?
Just delete your account, done.

Real friends will contact you anyway. You might miss a few stupid pictures or something, but you can spent your time with more useful things anyway. It is no big deal, delete your account and forget about it. One time sucker less. It is really no big deal!
Another lovely counterpoint to Ayn Rand is "Sewer Gas and Electric" by Matt Ruff. It is absurdist science fiction that is hilarious and full of fascinating characters.

I really enjoy Atlas Shrugged as well, I've read the whole book twice, actually. But I don't believe it is a good code to live by. My favorite quite about her books comes from The Daily Show. On the back of America The Book there is a fake blurb from Rand: "just like one of my books, reading this book will make you an asshole for two weeks."

Her books are seductive because they intentionally oversimplify life. Her characters are not realistic and are completely binary. Everyone is either a superhero or a weasel. This makes for entertaining reading, but not much else.

Read "Crossing to Safety" by Wallace Stegner. It is a brautiful book about an intense relationship forged between two couples. It's my favorite thing I've read recently.
His social value calculations towards the end of that video are not to be missed -- it was quite the pitch.
I've looked into this myself to some depth and also have some friends based over in Asia and Sydney doing exactly what you are intending, from my conversations with them the most overriding issue they have complained about is the weakness of the pound, especially in Aus where it has gone from 2.5AUD/£ to about 1.6AUD/£ in a little over 14months.

That being said thats really the only grumble I hear, the quality of life (weather especially!) seems to outweigh these issues.

Some useful links...

http://everything-everywhere.com/

http://locationindependent.com/
They should account for men, too, and give more weight to places that have a larger ratio of women to men.
Don't know about UK, but in Canada one can stop paying taxes once all "domestic ties" are severed. This means closing all bank accounts, disconnecting all phones and selling the car and the real estate (or alternatively leasing it out for a long term). Even after all this is done, the tax agency (CRA) will not assume you to be a non-resident if you do not stay out of the country for at least 2 years. So it is a hassle. Can't just lock the house, hop on the plane and spend a year travelling.

Btw, the best thing to do for you at this point would be to talk to the tax planning advisor. Pick a big accounting firm with lots of experience and in one hour you will know if you want to do I or not.
Hmm, that's interesting... Another difference is that google is doing it by itself, whereas historious only stores pages that users specify and only publishes them when the user specifies it.

We'll have a chat with our lawyer regardless, thank you!
Could you specify if you moved, or are you a native over there? Also, is it possible that you write something more on the "pointers with the government?"
As a data point, my Emacs session is currently taking 75 mb RAM (on a 64-bit system). It's been up for a few weeks. That seems pretty typical.

While it's common to start and stop vi(m) frequently, Emacs is usually kept running, with shells, interpreters, etc. inside it. The start-up cost of loading lots of extensions amortizes over the total session. (And it just took about seven seconds for a new Emacs to start and load everything I use, FWIW.)
Absolutely don't buy a RTW ticket.

Definitely go around the world, but do it by purchasing a single one-way ticket. Travel overland as much as you can and when you hit the end of a continent, buy another one-way ticket to the next.

There's nothing worse than having a date on a calendar. It will mess up your trip over and over again, even if it's months in the future. Avoid dates at all costs. Get to the first place and let things work themselves out from there.

I've done 3 laps now, and the only regrets I've ever had have been things skipped to catch a flight or meet somebody at a fixed time/place.
Ask HN: Learning advanced math
I have an undergraduate background in applied math and have taken basic linear algebra, differential equations, mathematical statistics and multivariate calculus. I'm rusty though, and I've been considering applying for PhD programs in statistics. I'd like to put myself on a healthy math regiment and I was wondering if people had suggestions on books or other materials to work on advanced (linear) algebra and analysis? I'm more than willing to spend an hour per page and do all the exercises, but I would like good exposition. My end goal is to have a reasonable understanding of things to make limit theorems in probability (during the first year of my PhD), etc, easier.
Thanks. Can you elaborate on why you wouldn't recommend it?
Apparently after being acquired by Intuit, Mint started using the Intuit aggregation framework. They seem to have made the transition fairly transparent as I had no idea it had switched.