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It's not having balls. It's having a temper tantrum.

Many, many countries have repricosity-based policies for these things, but the "repeicosity" is applied in a very one-sided way by all of them. Policy that pisses them off will be emulated and applied to foreigners unlucky enough to be from whatever country offends them, but unusually lax or inexpensive policies won't usually be up for reciprocal treatment. Consider visa fees. All kinds of places will charge US and UK citizens extra, but few will give discounts to those from countries with extremely inexpensive entry.

I consider this sort of policy to be little more than an immature way to vent at more powerful countries. Sure it sucks that it's hard to get a tourist visa if you're Brazilian and going to the US (or Chinese going to Japan, or Russian going to Finland, etc..), but that's due to very high rates of people applying for such visas fleeing and working illegally. The risk of someone from a richer country doing so in a poorer country is far, far lower. Any sort of "repricosity"-based response to this reality accomplishes little more than hassling ordinary people who aren't at all to blame for the forces shaping the situation.
Poll: What login method do you use for HN?
HN offers the standard yet-another-password login method, but also a single-sign-on (SSO) service called Clickpass.
Always or almost always username/password
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Sometimes one, sometimes the other
http://blogs.fluidinfo.com/terry/2010/11/25/jsongrep-py-pyth... may be interesting...
Thank you for not only flagging it, but saying something. Supposedly that's against the guidelines, but if a community doesn't communicate in cases like these, how can the newcomers learn that articles like these are not hacker news.

One of my own guidelines for "not hacker news" is if it's an article that's designed to "raise hackles" in the sense of offending one's sense of justice or "how things ought to be". This clearly falls in that category. This isn't "intellectually gratifying", it's gratifying to your sense of righteousness / indignance. None of this stuff is at all new to anyone whose residence is not located under a rock.

Oh, also, as an aside:

> And please spare us the lame "situational logic" response of how <anyShit> is hacker news.

I think of that game as "7 degrees of hacker news". The more outlandish it is, the more 'fun'. For instance, an article about renaissance Italy could be hacker news, because Paul Graham has talked about the style of painting in that time period, and has compared painting to to hacking, and since Paul Graham is a hacker...voila`! Although, truth be told, that sort of subject matter might at least be interesting in the sense of telling me something I didn't know, rather than discussing current US politics.
Lots of people still like to take notes on them...
No, it's fine. Section 5.11.2 of the Mastercard agreement notes that "A Merchant may provide a discount to its customers for cash payments". What is usually prohibited is charging an extra fee for paying by credit card.

Reference: http://www.mastercard.com/us/merchant/pdf/BM-Entire_Manual_p...
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Indeed, it seems that some kind of 'backpropagation' does happen in the brain, in contrary to what was always believed. This might have impact on machine learning research.
Single page: http://www.slate.com/id/2285434/pagenum/all/
Working in the tech field often means travelling to the States. More importantly, since many hacker newsers are American, you should be aware that setting up shop in the States makes it more difficult for you to do business internationally, that travelling to visit clients/customers/suppliers is easier for you than it is for them to visit you. So yes, this is relevant.

And flagging an article because of a little easily recognized hyperbole?
How many/which banks do you support?

Also, I understand you're not storing login credentials on the server but are you writing the bank site-crawling code yourself or are you using a third party?
I keep repeating the import process because it syncs up correctly by ignoring the previously imported items. Now if I can just get a chrome add-on for google bookmarks that works like the Delicious one.
Because he received a reference from the Medici's (a very powerful family), and already had done some notable work by that time, if I remember correctly.

In any case upper class Italy was a small world at that time, and personal recommendations, as well as informal sources of information would have been much more important than resumes for conveying past achievements...

(but I'm no expert on da Vinci or his time, apart from an essay in my undergraduate years, common sense, and the general gist of a history undergrad...)

Anyway, the main point I wanted to make is that the information- flows that are not recorded are often more important, than those that are, especially in historic documents...
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When a man with a swarthy complexion and a huge beard wearing faded camo gear shows up at your border and shuffles through a selection of passports before deciding which one to try, then hands you one that looks nothing like him, you can be a little suspicious ;-)

Then again at another FSR border I was extremely drunk and insisting to the guard that despite what my passport says I was in fact Dutch and they just rolled their eyes and waved me through... I later bought a passport in that same country.
Actually, living in welfare housing may be cheaper for the state than living on the street. Welfare housing costs a few hundred Pound a month. The healthier living conditions, and thus reduced costs to the NHS, alone may be worth it.

(And in the USA that would be even more pronounced, because people without medical coverage often wait until their conditions become an emergency.)

There was an article a few years ago about some homeless people in L.A. or so cost the state so much, that just paying for their housing is cheaper.
Because someone emailed me and asked me to add them under that location. :)

Yeah, probably, I just haven't thought it through yet. I'm still not a rockstar programmer — I figured out that I can make a list in the model which would be referenced by the registration, search, and also apply to the property in the profile model. Initially it seems like having the same list in two different locations and slightly different in each seems like a bad idea, but also having random locations on the search list without results is too. Though maybe I could write something in the search view that will remove listings from the form if they don't have any profiles associated with them...

</n00b>
Business travel to the US is extremely relevant for anyone working in hi-tech. Esp. when carrying expensive/electronic equipment.
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It's kind of inevitable, isn't it? Atrophy rules the web, just as the rest of the universe. I don't know what their business model is, but I imagine that advertising will play a big part. In order to scale up ad revenue, they'll need to scale up traffic, which means scaling down quality.
Germany does not have a minimum wage (in general), but there are still homeless people.

I don't agree with minimum wage. But there are other barriers to full employment, too.
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You are confusing. This discussion is about Flash and JavaScript on the web, and you're talking about iOS Apps. One has nothing to do with the other. So, you decided to take the context of the discussion (Flash on the web) and change it (Flash apps), and then limit it to specific hardware (iOS devices, as you cannot run iOS apps on Macs).

On top of all of that, you are confusing how Apple is trying to kill Flash and replace it on the iOS devices (which is not entirely accurate).

So, while you thought you were clear, you weren't. You were confusing, incoherent, and frankly, even after I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt, I still find your arguments weak.

> This seems really, really simple to understand,

Context. You cannot join a conversation talking about something completely unrelated and expect to be understood.
That's a part of it, but the biggest part is the deep discounts they get from suppliers due to the volumes they buy. No one else can get the prices they can and a lot of places end up basically supplying Walmart exclusively.
Yes. How else am I supposed to enter the US?
You can tax wealth only so much, before it leaves the country.
I, for one, believe your resume has worked out quite well for you considering the publicity on HN.
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Ah its following me!

That's one of the more creative things ive ever seen on a "team" page.
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Does he really have to own the gun or does he just have to declare his camera as a gun?
I am a USSR born Australian citizen (I have Russian and Australian citizenships)

Last year was the first time I traveled outside Australia since 2001, but my Australian passport was issued about 5 years ago. So there was not a single stamp in it.

On my way to Russia I had a stopover in Amsterdam for about 4 hours so I went out to have a walk around the city.

The customs officer had a look through my clean passport and asked "Travel much?". We had a laugh and in a few seconds I was in Amsterdam.

I flew to Madrid from St. Petersburg and then drove from Spain to southern France to Rome and flew back to St. Petersburg. Well, when you drive from one EU country to another there is technically a border but nowhere I was even stopped. In the airports they generally ask you to open your laptop but that's it. The most strict one was in Warsaw - I think I had to take my shoes off and place them on the conveyour. And you walk through a metal detector, but if you put your watch and wallet on the conveyour it generally doesn't detect anything, unless you have a huge belt buckle or something like that.

Well, with a Lybian or Iranian passport the experience could be quite different I assume ...
I am an Italian, living in Brazil, my girlfriend is Brazilian. The only minor hassle she had was once in Portugal, when the officer asked her three times in a row what she was planning to do in Europe (probably because, from his point of view, she was a single woman from Brazil in her early twenties). It was an exception, as in my experience Portuguese officers are in general extremely friendly and professional.

She has also crossed borders in Italy and France, and was treated very well each single time; I am sure that the fact that she speaks Italian fluently and has an advanced level of French was a positive factor, but nonetheless she was treated just like any EU-citizen there.
"No interest categories are associated with your ads preferences so far."

Same here, but only adblock plus, and I have google history disabled. I've used ghostery for some time. I also delete all cookies from time to time.
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Make the mistake of entering Israel with a passport stamped for an Arab country and you will probably put the US second :) Perfectly civil.. but a LOT of questions, over and over and over.
What's seriously needed is an HTML5 authoring program that can be used with a GUI and zero programming skills. Otherwise Flash will be very needed in the future.
Step 1: Review investment terms with lawyer.

Step 2: Sign term sheet with investor but do NOT take the investment.

Step 3: Incorporate, assign equity to founders (at near zero valuation), sign employment & founder agreements, assign any past IP (if applicable).

Step 4: Execute investment agreement and collect money.

Doing it any other way means that you will be struggling with tax liability issues from day 1. Once the money is invested your shares have a fair market value and any founder equity you assign will create a tax liability for the founder (but without liquidity).

A good lawyer should lead you through all these steps for maybe $2k-$5k depending on the complexity of the terms and your location.
The most amazing thing about this (and other similar illusions) is that even if you know it's fake and know how it's constructed, YOUR BRAIN WILL NOT LET YOU SEE IT.
Am I the only one who thinks that actually looked creepy?
Doesn't an idea have to have been implemented for it to count as prior art? If not, there seems to be a problem for the future. When everybody blogs and tweets their most mundane thoughts, the chance that your new invention has already been described (but not implemented) in some form of media accessible by public is very large.
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Nobody; they too have a right to be included.
My biggest niggle about Batman is how he'd get to and from the scene, particularly roads near his house. Locals would see the batmobile on the same road repeatedly. Lovers in the bushes would see/be squashed by the car pulling into the tunnel. Word would soon get around.
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Glad you like it. I'll be adding a path-like syntax next. This was just a little one-day hackup to learn getopts.

You can do similar with -e a -e b -e c. Or just make your own wrapper with

jshon $(echo ".a.b.c" | sed 's/./ -e/g')
Ah the great resume debate. In fact there are 3 kinds of resumes that are appropriate depending on job you're looking for.

If you are applying for most jobs, the employer wants to know what you know. Get it all on one page in list format and be succinct, because they are probably sorting through hundreds of resumes quickly looking for keywords on who to call in for the next round.

If you are applying for some higher level jobs, like executive, some management, higher level engineering, consulting, then the employer wants to know what you've done. For these, you need to tell a story, because these resumes will be picked apart and read carefully. You're almost expected to have at least 2 pages, otherwise you look inexperienced.

The third kind of resume is for artistic jobs like design, then the employer wants to know who you are. Having a personal brand will set you apart from other candidates, and you don't need to follow the traditional resume format. Pages aren't so important, but a good designer can do a lot with one page.
However, I must point out, even if flawed there was a logic in the spelling, as I'm native of a planet called Italy in the gamma quadrant, where people are called "<planet_name>ian(i)".
So you think the $75M out of the $100M raised is a fair chunk to give to SF?
Found that, decided I did not want Spidermonkey on my server running untrusted user generated JS. Also, it seemed ironic to have Spidermonkey be a dependency for my "lightweight" shell scripts.
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Do they? I have to look for that, I've been sending all those to a server of mine for that purpose, but if that server goes down or shuts down or anything, my redirects will stop working. Thanks for the info!
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This. The GP got it wrong. The suggestion was to use something "sortof" gun-like to declare that the case contains a weapon, so that the TSA has to list (and treat) according to the rules for these things.

The one giving the advice said that he has a "starter pistol", which google explained as a gun that you use to start a race etc.. Not a real weapon. Others suggested a flare pistol (Dangerous? Sure. But not a 'weapon', but more a tool).

I find it sad that these workarounds seem to help and that they are deemed necessary. But "bring a gun" is not what they are suggesting here.
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Aye, and I thank Penny Arcade for that one. Even so I only hit kotaku once or twice a day now instead of practically leaving it up, which is probably good for me.
At the CV screening stage? - most companies get hundreds of CVs, printing them all seems like a huge waste, I can't imagine many companies do that.
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If the html file is self-contained, sure. Basically, if you can serve it from a static directory and have it work, it'll work on S3.
The B-1 Visa is a Business and Pleasure visa.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1262.html
> It would be unprecedented, as far as I know, for a company to be liable for taxes on the employee's on-paper-only gains, occurring some arbitrary time later at option-exercise.

The questions is ... would the same taxation be applicable in the reverse direction ? Say SF taxed you on big paper gains last year, your startup crashed and burned this year. Can you get a big refund ?

If not, then it would suggest a new avenue for arbitrage: trading stock in dead startups merely to offset gains in still functioning entities.
> In Aurphan there is an alarming bit of awk:

Senator, I know awk, and that is not an alarming bit of awk.
Nissan Leaf website looks like flash. It's not.
One difference is that Microsoft may have kept some clumsy APIs undocumented, but fundamentally had no power over distributers with respect to their usage of those same APIs, nor did they ever claim their public development tools were under NDA. Microsoft has a bad rap, but Apple is just downright bad.
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> the Jshon ones do not really seem to compose properly.

Could you elaborate on that a bit?
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There should be some sort of state law that preempts municipalities from pulling this bullshit. In SF, who gets to make up these municipal tax codes? The city council? How many people need to make up their mind one way or the other to levy what could be a gigantic tax? 10?

Letting such a small group of people tax have such a gigantic amount of power is dangerous.
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We still do until the <device> tag arrives in town.
Of course, that's why I lauged: it's so perfectly banal with respect to their history. The key concept behind plausible deniability is plausibility, after all.

So the most one can say is that this tells us nothing.

Well, no, actually there is enough in that article to demonstrate that plausible deniability is exactly what they needed to bridge their admitted desire to help with their admitted reluctance to be perceived as helping.

But no more than that.
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We don't have some kind of tourist visa?

(Ignorant American here)
The idea is that they might use a controlling interest in another market (mobile application sales and distribution; despite the fact that Android is or at least will soon be the dominant hardware platform, its application market sucks) in order to gain an unfair advantage in another market (digital books). The fact that Apple is not already leader in digital books is almost a prerequisite to make this claim.
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They seem to be making good money doing what they're doing. 65 million so far. Next round, who knows?
They're all the same people/team. A rose by any other name...
Is zynga making more money than facebook?
This does not matter... compare with Microsoft including a web browser as part of their operating system.
For a city of 815K, they have 11 people on their board of supervisors (http://www.sfbos.org/). Does that mean they only need 6 of them to create new taxes?
>One rather notable startup invester has gone so far as to state that if you tell him your idea it is perfectly acceptable for him to give your idea to another group of founders to execute.

Please cite a name so we can be sure not to go to such a clown.
Ugh, PDX. They treat Americans like crap on flights back from Asia, too. At least that was my one time leaving the country...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1682004
in Canada, Employee stock options, when exercised, are considered income for that year, and are supposed to be reported by your employer as such, and are taxed as such.

Note this isn't a capital gains tax - and the bad part is there isn't necessarily any income - the value you are taxed t is the fair market value or closing market value, I forget, but it's a simple calculation, based on the difference between the value of the strike price on your options compared to the market.
So if you have 10,000 shares at $10, and the market is at $10 or less, and you were vested, you could exercise all those shares, converting them to stock, and there would be no additional income tax. If the stock is now at $20, the tax man would view your conversion of those options into stock as a straighht up $20,000 gain from employment. Generally the move in this situation is to have your broker validate the paperwork with the company, and then ONLY exercise stock at the same moment you are ready to sell it - the broker will handle the whole transaction for you, even short the stock and then use yours to make up for it, whatever. This minimizes your exposure.

Employee Stock Options by thesmselves (in Canada) carry no liability. You can ignore them if you like.
You also have the option of, with some paperwork, delaying that tax burden until you actually SELL the stock. IF you did that, you'd still have the same $20k added to your income in the year you sold (you deferred, right?). You still pay capital gains on the difference between the market price on the day you bought (not the strike price on the options, which was what you actually paid) and the selling price - but that's taxed as capital gains.
This situation can protect you if you plan to never sell or the company goes bankrupt, if you keep your paperwork and ducks in a row - though there is another hitch if you plan to work and live outside the country (become non-resident for tax purposes) - in this case all kinds of tax obligations come smacking down on you as you are leaving hte jurisdiction. (THe upside, of course, is canadians are only taxed based on residency, not citizenship - so if we live and work abroad for real, not just a short job, but actually leave and don't have any fixed plans to come back, we don't pay or even report income to teh tax authorities in canada)

Disclaimer: My knowledge is a decade old - I suspect some of this may have changed. There was quite a bit of uproar, not about the tax itself, but the specifics that it was immediately considered employment income and that you had an immediate tax obligation. I think something* has changed, not sure what.
I'd post it with an inflammatory headline to reddit.
That's quite possible. I admit that the 20 or so countries I've visited isn't enough to say for sure that the US border controls are the worst, just the worst I've experienced so far. :)
Already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2234379
Is it down for me only?
No, the residents of San Francisco vote on the taxes.