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I know nothing about India but the "family-centric" stuff is easier to understand as a problem if you phrase it "clannish". And that is actually a huge problem in some areas.
I would consider anything on the path of providing you with your end result billable by the hour. Especially spending time setting up her environment according to your specifications. If you're not providing her with detailed instructions on what you want done (ux / ui design), then you're asking her to come up with the design, which takes time.
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Also can be used as coaster for coffee cup.
It applies to accounts of $10,000 or more (I don't know if you consider that "big"). But note that's "in aggregate" not a per-account amount.

From the IRS FAQ:

Q. Who must file an FBAR?

A. Any United States person who has a financial interest in or signature authority or other authority over any financial account in a foreign country, if the aggregate value of these accounts exceeds $10,000 at any time during the calendar year.
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Usually when they refer to the size of the economy they imply the leverage it has on the world stage because of its collective wealth.

From the average individual's perspective, it's more about per capita GDP.
Certainly. But the hope is that if the core keeps some sort of energy going that other people can join in when they can. We'll have to see if it can gain any momentum at all.
I don't think you've been to either country.
Headline: "Harvesting 'limitless' hydrogen from self-powered cells"

Content excerpt: "However, the team added, the current cost of operating the new technology is too high to be used commercially."

If the cells are self-powered, and the energy that can be extracted is limitless, this implies an operational surplus that could be harnessed and sold. Any technology that were truly "limitless" and "self-powered" is, by definition, commercially viable.

I don't really have a point other than the fact that I feel compelled to flag this just on the principle that the content completely and totally fails to follow the headline. Terrible editorializing. I expect more from the BBC.

It's difficult to tell from the confusing manner in which the article is written, but it sounds like the bacteria produce free electrons while they are "breaking down organic matter". Not much talk about that though.

The author quickly moves on to completely different device that sounds like reverse electrolysis. Add fresh water and salt water, separate them with a special membrane, and you get electricity.

Neither of these technologies are limitless or self-powered. They require either "organic matter" or a supply of fresh and salt water.
As I read it, they examined 130 different time series. The article did not say how many observations were in the sample for each time series.
GE did pay fair taxes. They did what the law allowed them to do. Would you not?
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Jon Finkel sounds like an awesome, passionate person. Glad the guy dodged that bullet.

The best part of being 30+ is that we don't give a fuck any more.
I'll be interested to hear comments from fellow hackers. Reactions from colleagues have been... varied.
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I've been watching this story develop over the last few years, and while I think that the current impact is overblown, I don't think that reduces the importance or the future impact of the story at all.

The way this story gets spun is that the law is for big tax dodgers and the IRS has better things to do than pursue the little guys. I think that's a bit of misdirection. The problem is that, as far as I can tell, every ex-pat is guilty of something and that the U.S can come take large amounts of money from them. It's just a matter of whether they want to or not. It's usually said that the amount of money is just too low and the politics of abusing so many people abroad are idiotic.

After 9-11, that doesn't wash with me any more. If citizens living in the states are subject to draconian security measures and it doesn't much seem to matter what sorts of protests there are then it's only going to be worse for people who are more out-of-sight. People in the states can easily be made to feel like every ex-pat with a dual citizenship has something to hide. If you can treat folks who live here like they do, folks living overseas are nothing but a bunch of numbers. Worse yet, we'll see monetary laws made for terrorism being brought to bear in the process.

Which leads me to my conclusion that the only thing slowing down the IRS is data processing. They're plugging more and more into the international banking community and will begin automating collection and processing on all of these opportunities. I understand my opinion is just guesswork, but there it is.

I think you have two choices. Either collection is a political activity, in which case you're saying that your wealth and freedom is basically dependent on political connections, the optics of the processing, and the mood of the IRS -- a terrible situation to be in. Or you're saying that collection is owed and it simply costs too much to pursue, which I believe to be the case. If this is true, collection is only a matter of time.

I'd love to see a U.S. politician stand up for ex-pats, but I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon.

P.S. And don't even get me started on the fact that if you're a corporation you are allowed to make money overseas and keep it overseas without paying US taxes, but if you are a regular citizen any money you make could be subject to US taxation on top of local taxation.
That's fine, but I'm worried what would happen when the health care industry realizes they can charge whatever they want, and the government will tax people to pay the bill.
From the paper that brought you

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-10-28/man-w...

Should a woman marry her rapist?

KALPANA SHARMA, Oct 28, 2010, 12.00am IST

When a rapist offers to marry the victim, one would think it's the perfect solution. But isn't this victimization of the victim all over again?
I've never understood why extradition treaties don't kick in here. I know when my parents set up their swiss bank account they were repeatedly told "Don't do anything illegal" by the representative, and were informed that any income from the account would be reported to Canada.
everything else would be just plain wrong (both from a tech and a capitalist standpoint)
If effort has been made to obfuscate code, then it's not free software. Free software doesn't hinder your ability to share, run, modify and or share modifications. That's what makes it free.
Yep. It is illegal for a US citizen to travel abroad to solicit sex with a child. But I'm not sure the concept is so outrageous; I think most countries illegalize certain behavior overseas, like smuggling, weapons or person trafficking, or corrupting officials.
I don't think he cares about open source. He's saying it isn't free software.
Did you already forget about that whole debt crisis thing 2 months ago?
Stand up for ex-pats how, exactly? They owe taxes, that's all.
Thank you for the references. I wasn't trying to debate the point, only offer one perspective on your question. To elaborate a little more, the reason why philosophy prior to 1859 is not relevant is because philosophy is the study of human thought (and the answers it produces to philosophical questions), whereas the origin of the organ which produces human thought was fundamentally misunderstood without the evolutionary framework. A good analogy here is alchemy; Darwin's results implied prior philosophy was the wrong approach as chemistry implied the confused results of alchemy, and all the latter's results were reduced to no more than historical curiosity.

As an addendum, the reason why philosophy has been unsuccessful at producing answers is because it assumes human thought or language or existence as something fundamental. As Eliezer points out, rather than ask "do we have free will?", the productive perspective is to ask "what sort of algorithm does our brain run which makes it believe such a question is meaningful or answerable?" Have you read the Less Wrong series on rationality? It's a good exposition of the thinking process of someone like me.

Certainly the attempts prior to 1859 were brave, but it was quackery. Much like Erdos's comments on the collatz conjecture, we are not yet ready for such questions (although neuroscience will get us close in the next century).
This reflects my experience with my clients. I develop for iOS, Android, and WinPhone7. I've lately gotten quite a robust bit of WinPhone7 contract work coming through my doors. And it's not because there seems to be some huge explosion of demand for it, but rather that nobody else locally seems to be developing for it. So due to the scarcity of local developers, I'm getting a larger proportion of Phone7 work, and I'm having to raise my rates.
Well yes, and "free over-the-air TV" isn't free either; it costs quite a bit of money to produce and broadcast. It's free in the sense of no payment at the point of receipt. Same with, say, a "free" library card or county park.
The photos of that interviewer are ripe for a image macro. Based on the first photo:

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Well. I love it, at least.
Well, broadcast TV is free to the recipient. But most people getting "free" healthcare are also paying for it.
Macports is still the winner for me. They recently acquired a build server and have started distributing binaries some of their packages.
"Yet when I step back and actually look at what I read every day I’m faced with articles that can be easily labeled as fluff."

Kind of like this blog post!
Why not link to the original source?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/sep/19/android-fre...
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The writing in this article strikes me as a lot more "repugnant" than Richard's.
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> "Where did you get THAT notion of the Tea Party? "

I'd imagine based on the behavior of the representatives they sent to congress. In particular, regarding the debt ceiling fiasco in which the position of legislators the Tea Parties endorsed, supported and voted for was quite clearly: "the government may have agreed to buy certain things on the nation's credit card, but we're able to block payment of the bill, so we're willing to force the country to default unless you come up with more spending cuts".
This is not only affecting the expatriates but also foreign people who work in US temporarily (like in a h1b visa). Most of them were not aware of this rule and now they have to pay 25% of the money they have in bank accounts in their native country.
The most common use of the -f switch for me is when deleting directories that have git repos in them. If I do "rm -r project", it complains about every single object file in the Git database being not writable. I need to "rm -rf project" to get it to actually delete the directory without having to punch "yes" a thousand times, and "man rm" doesn't offer any safer alternatives.
"Like BB, Moodle was not designed nor developed for learning or teaching. Education was an add-on to this 1990's moo (aka mud)".

Moodle has absolutely nothing to do with MOOs or MUDs, and was, in fact, designed from the ground up as a learning management system.
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> No, this was a feature. It had been safe in the days of static libraries, it became a problem when the LD_something family of variables was introduced.

So? Still a bad design in the telnetd's part. If it wasn't LD_ variables it would have been something else eventually.

> So there definitely exists a family of exploits that rely on bypassing the usual checks on LD_PRELOAD (_and_other_similar_variables_)...

Yes, ofcourse, every issue of environment mishandling would lead the exploiter to utilize LD_PRELOAD, it's the easiest but not the only way. Even without LD_PRELOAD, those bugs would still be a liability for compromising security or normal operation of the system. And just like any part of any OS, ugly bugs will come up now or then.

But it is far too much to compare the casual use of LD_PRELOAD to the brain damaged/stupid handling of dynamically loading libraries Microsoft's Windows have. Actually, LD_PRELOAD is a needed feature (eg. for binary package distribution) that at least provides one layer of protection, it is the opposite of blindly loading any library found in non system folders.
With a little work from an old 'Make' article you can also use it as a target for shotgun practice---cheaper than clay pigeons and they have that 'ooh shiny thing' going for them.
You don't understand the issue. The IRS is going after people who owe nothing in taxes but haven't filed. Some are senior citizens and may be totally unaware that they were supposed to file. The US gov't is bankrupt and desperate for money and they don't care who's lives they ruin. They're trying to squeeze as much money out of anyone they can lay their hands on.
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To support just ONE country requires one set of lawyers. Supporting the second country DOUBLES the number of lawyers required, while adding only a fraction the number of customers. Once you scale it up "most of the world" the economies of scale kick in and the lawyers aren't so expensive anymore.

Of course, "lawyers" here is shorthand for several things. Complying with local law, handling local language, dealing with local customs, etc. "Lawyers" is a convenient shorthand because it points out that some of the things actually MUST be dealt with. Google doesn't prohibit the use of their payment system because they dislike having customers outside the current limited list of countries, they do so because they aren't smart enough to figure out how to handle every country!
The Blackboard '138 patent was shot down both in court and by the USPTO reexamination.
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I.

This is a case where Stallman pushes the notion that software freedom === individual freedom. This notion, while defensible, is not necessarily true, and so the assessment that Android phones can't be said to respect my freedom sounds wild and passionate but while being hardly informative.

Freedom is one of those words which go deep with most people, but which for the same reason have come to mean a bunch of different, oft-contradictory things. (For some definition of freedom, the GPL can't be said to respect my freedom either.)

II.

The problem here is that Google had commited itself to releasing Android's source code. Withdrawing from it is exactly the same kind of thing as Sony's withdrawing multiboot from the PlayStation: they sold us something and now they're taking it away.

In that sense is Android not respecting our freedom: some of us chose Android because of something that was being offered — something Google was commited to — and now that we've voluntarily locked ourselves into that platform, Google takes that decision factor away from us.

Stallman has this weird ability to get cherry-picked for his most passionate quotes. Although I not always agree with him, it's important that we go a bit deeper and try to figure out his actual reasoning.
Canada might be left our nuclear submarines in the national equivalent of a will:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort

Whether you would want them is another question!
And you still have space for the y combinator tattoo!

- http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/02/17/y-combinat...

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=58027
Another MitM attack using the browser's inability to force you to only use SSL for a given domain. We need a function in our browsers to specify domain XYZ only should use SSL. I know it sounds ghetto, but I would love to force domains matching "ssl.* . *" in my browser to only work with strong SSL on port 443 and nothing else (by default).

I know, why not just use https:// ? But it's hard to train users to act a different way and understand what's going on under the hood when they leave out a single letter in the protocol prefix. Just giving them a new address which they type in verbatim anyway seems like an easier fix. Plus, you disable all unencrypted connections for that domain and you don't need to worry about complex attacks like the current one and previous ones.
> There are a set of people who constructed a set of financial products with intent to defraud. They took our country to the brink of ruin, then got off scott free, even with multi-million dollar bonuses.

I have a feeling this movement would be much more effective if it could actually name names and link to evidence. "Read Taibbi" isn't enough. I've read all of Taibbi's pieces, and it's hard to see a real criminal case succeeding out of what he presents. Some of it might seem outrageous, but investors were aware of the risks in CDOs well before the bubble burst and wanted them anyway. Claiming a little marketing spin from Goldman Sachs is a criminal attempt to defraud doesn't pass the laugh test for me.
It’s meaningful to him and that’s what matters. At no time did he say his goal was to impress us with his coding wizardry, so it’s irrelevant whether I think it’s clever, pedestrian, elegant, or tortured.

Its stated purpose is to motivate him and remind him of what is important to his own happiness. Given this clearly stated requirement, the code as presented, and his statement that it is motivating him, I give declare that this code works as designed.
we got that notion from Team Party leaders' actions during the debt limit debate this past summer.
You could use "yes | rm -r project", I guess.
It's the "without comment" that is the poison here, IMHO.

The dilemma here is that most people don't want to read petty squabbles. So if a poster says something you think is really stupid and offensive, commenting is likely to devolve into a back-and-forth that earns a pile of downvotes from everyone else.

I realize there's a difference between a single downvote for a post and a series of "punishment" downvotes, but the same idea applies.

It occurs to me that a nice feature for hacker news would be to have a comment box on the user profile page which would allow the equivalent of private messages. That way instead of the alternatives being (a) downvote, (b) public response and sometimes (c) email; you could resolve the conflict with the person via private messages.
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What they owe is tax returns reporting zero income. The fact that they didn't file these on time causes them to owe penalties, that may now be crippling. All for not reporting 'ZERO' every year.
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I understand the issue perfectly well, thanks; particularly, I understand that it should hardly motivate histrionics.
Hmmm.. "We interrupt this surgery to bring you the following important messages from our sponsors.."
... and I'll be around, so ditto! (I'm Ambrose)
According to you, exactly who owns the money? Does the US gov't own a person's income or does the person who earning it?
Ohh modern economy... It's fun when Nobel prizes go for those that insist in doing what is clearly not working... And just some weeks ago, a notorious Japanese economist says in a interview they figured out how to deal with the stagnation.... (Permanent stimulus!)... Don't they think the japanese are ever going to retire and need a large chunk of this money borrowed to the government? Without positive demographics it's impossible to keep postponing the balance sheet correction forever...
if only I could figure out what this disrupts...
You're right, it's on the cover. I have jumped right into the book but haven't read anywhere in there claims that Lean will cause success. It's pretty modest in the claims. I find it interesting that it's blatantly on the cover though. I'm not convinced this would let me succeed but I am convinced it would help me from driving off a cliff into a disaster of a situation where I have wasted a lot of time and effort on a product that it turns out the market doesn't want.
It applies to most quantities that can be represented in multiple units or where no unit is a natural one.
Note: I now have a draft of their paper but haven't read it yet.

I think it's open at this point that BEAST is substantially based on Bard 2004/2006. What's not clear is how much they've improved upon it. This is important for more than just assigning credit, it's important so we can decide how much resources to invest in reviewing the severity all over again.

* Rizzo and Duong have produced a working exploit. This is something Bard did not do. It's one thing to show something is possible and let the world forget about it soon after. It's another thing entirely to actually do it.

* Bard's papers, especially the first one, spends too much time talking about trojan browser plug-ins and Java applets. This minimizes the fundamental attack. Obviously a user who installs a browser plugin is pwned in far simpler ways than this.

* Rizzo and Duong have made some important improvements to the attack. It looks like Bard was heading in that direction in 2006 but did not get all the way. R&D are better at manipulating the underlying HTTP.

(Of course they need to go ahead and go public with the details already!)
You are right about most of that being available in the US (except emergency response - but I don't know how quickly you will get rescued in rural US places, or even parts of NYC if you read the papers)

But you are wrong about most of this not being available in most places in India. Maybe sewage isn't great and emergency response sucks, and phone is wireless not landline. But there is definitely postal service and TV! You must be kidding.

But the main point --> a few bits of infrastructure like what you list does not make people happy, comfortable or rich. You can be very poor and miserable here in the US and many millions of people would be much better off if they lived in Mumbai, where at least stuff is cheaper to buy
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> Wastefully compared to what?

A competitive marketplace.

> Do you know of any other organization that provides essential social services to hundreds of millions of people?

I would categorize food, clothing, furniture, and housing as essential needs. They're all provided for by competitive markets.

There's nothing unique about health care, education, fire, power, water and roads that these couldn't be provided by competitive markets, too.

> Do you have actual facts to supply here?

I think the price tag on the Middle East war(s) is over 1 trillion dollars. This expenditure is done under the umbrella of "defense."

If your local security company told you they think it will make you safer if they expand their operations to the Middle East to seek out shady characters, and oh by the way, we need to charge you 10 times as much to pay for these new operations, you'd take your business elsewhere.

The inherent danger in government programs is that there is no effective check on expenditures save the restraint of the government itself.

There is certainly waste in a free market, but in a free market the waste is isolated to individual firms. If they lose money, they go out of business.
Break a law, pay the price. Pretty simple. I knew you should check your tax status while living abroad when I was 16. I find it hard to believe that this is something people living abroad shouldn't know.
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But then you have to deal with parallax from nearby objects on the ground. That would limit its usefulness in hilly, mountainous or urban environments.