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I know, right? It says right on page 673 of the manual not to click that button twice without at least six intervening seconds - and it's even in bold!

More seriously: yes, what they are complaining about is that the IRS is finally trying to collect. So one could claim that "they are complaining because the law is finally being enforced", and be technically correct. The important point here though is that the law (as with many American laws) is somewhat nonsensical, and therefore relies on the enforcers to use their own best judgement (cringe) and not do anything brain-dead and/or clearly outside the spirit of the law (which was meant to keep then-millionairs, now-billionairs from leaving the country to escape back taxes).

Additionally. In general, you can hardly expect the finest citizen to have an understanding of the law even approaching what one might reasonably call "adequate". Aside from the bloated body of legislation passed by Congress (where previous laws are often modified by lines like "replacing the word 'as' of section 4, subparagraph 3, with the word 'of'), one must also contend with case law (i.e. precedents set by courts - harder to understand and arguably more important), regulations (have more of a direct impact on individuals, are thankfully somewhat easier to comprehend, but there are /way/ more), and the occasional executive order (500-word sentences, anybody?). And that's just at the national level - state and local governing bodies are their own legal morass. And, of course, if you leave the country, you get to deal with extradition treaties and, quite likely, whatever treaties are most relevant to your "crime" - and therefore the relevant regulations (on both sides) etc.

So, when Americans complain about enforcement of laws, it's because the laws were never actually meant to be enforced. And it's a symptom of a broken legal system, but one that is unlikely to be fixed in the near future. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

(Yes, I just stuck that last part in because I felt I needed a profound closer.)
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You pass by our Main St. service center daily; would you like to schedule an appointment?

you don't think that would freak most people out?
She failed to file tax returns. Likely she never owed any money. How is the IRS supposed to know she falls below the collection limits if she never filed?
And what do you think would happen to a politician who tried to change the laws which allowed them to get away with that?
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Because, understandably, everyone wants the very best (usually equating to the most expensive) health care services & products available. We would self-limit this to reflect our income, assets and credit limits, but as that still doesn't buy the care we want/need/demand, we all pool our resources into insurance funds so those of us needing more than we can afford can buy it (trust me, I know, having gone from "you need heart surgery" to the O.R. in 10 days flat). This increases the demand for expensive services, and the ability to pay for them. By sharing the costs, we all can access more expensive services as needed - and, by the way, we find the overall costs rising as a consequence.

It's the natural supply-and-demand consequence of spreading costs to achieve manageable payments, same as mortgages (would you buy a quarter-million-dollar house for cash? how about paying over 30 years, plus a little interest?) and student loans (would you sign up for a degree program if you couldn't pay for it now? if you could pay over 20 years?) People make arrangements to pay for what they otherwise couldn't afford (thank you, accountants), which has the natural consequence of raising the prices since more people can now afford limited resources.

Prices keep going up until the supply-and-demand equilibrium is reached, which changes every time there's a new way for people to finagle payments so they can get what they couldn't before.
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The other caveat is that you need that much practice to become an "expert". It's not clear to me exactly what "expert" means, but it can't be relative to others because others could just as easily put in 10,000 hours of deliberate practice.

So at the end of all this, he could end up a magnificent golfer, but still not win any PGA tours because the other golfers there are also magnificent players. I still have high hopes for him, though, and can't wait to see how it ends up!
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Isn't it exactly the answer that finally clarifies the idea vs. execution debate?

You can't build a product to meet a vision if you don't have a compelling innovative idea, regardless of how good you execute. And the opposite is true in the established market.

Trashing ideas just seems so wrong to me because the history proves otherwise, and now Bezos has made it profoundly clear.
This might sound a little weird, but try putting an large ice-pack on your head while you're lying in bed, ready to go to sleep:

http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/17/tip-for-insomniacs-coo...

I've done it a few times and after about 10 minutes, any racing-thoughts in my brain dissipate, and it becomes much easier to go to sleep.
Some more large american companies with large offices in Ireland:

Microsoft: http://maps.google.com/?ll=53.276525,-6.207876&spn=0.004...

Intel: http://maps.google.ie/maps?q=leixlip+intel&hl=en&ll=...

IBM: http://maps.google.ie/maps?ll=53.332712,-6.241581&spn=0....

Oracle (and/or Sun): http://maps.google.ie/maps?hl=en&ll=53.358473,-6.227601&...
Fwiw, best explanation I've found of currying and partial functions is in Learn You a Haskell (Chp. 5) by Miran Lipovaca. He's one of those writers that is exceptionally good at explaining technical concepts.
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I think the word you're looking for is totalitarianism, not communism.
The data structure is not better than a normal hash table. It is a different trade-off.

For instance, you don't have to do a rehashing step, which is important for real time applications. Memory usage is also very deterministic at 2*(n-1) words in an n element table (with 2 words per node).

If none of this matters to you and you merely want a map with fast lookups then a simple hash table is probably a better choice.
This doesn't restore my faith in the CA architecture behind SSL (by this point, I'm not sure anything can), because there isn't a doubt on my mind that it could only happen to a small CA like Diginotar. Considering that about 86% of the market is shared between the top 3 CAs and 91% by the top 5[1], that's really not worth that much. On the bright side, at least we now know that the rest, between 14% and 9%, are being held accountable. Baby steps.

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[1] https://ssl.netcraft.com/ssl-sample-report/CMatch/certs
Good stuff, really useful to see what Twitter considers to be 'Scala: the Good Parts'.

But no mention of Actors or Akka in the concurrency section? Why not, out of curiosity? Actor model doesn't fit your use cases?
I think it's pretty great. As a tattooed hacker, I'm glad that someone else wanted a code related tattoo. I've had the idea for a while, but like yourself, when I googled for others and inspiration, came up with very little.

My current plan is to get a portrait of Ada Lovelace. To me, she represents the general concept of "programmer" without being tied to a particular technology.
One interesting case is Michael Gogulski who renounced his US citizenship and is now a stateless person. See http://www.nostate.com/1227/press-release/ , excerpted below:

"Gogulski, 36, renounced his citizenship on 8 December 2008 at the American embassy in Bratislava, surrendering his US passport and culminating a two-week process and months of personal preparations. He currently awaits a Certificate of Loss of Nationality of the United States confirming his loss of American citizenship. As Gogulski has no other citizenship, he is now a stateless person.

'I was disgusted to be associated through citizenship with the most dangerous gang of criminals in the world, the United States government....'

Gogulski says that when he receives the Certificate of Loss of Nationality he will apply to the Slovak Interior Ministry for a Travel Document – similar to a passport – under the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons, which Slovakia signed in 2000. He says that he has no plans to leave Bratislava until then, and that he recognizes that his life without citizenship will be more difficult, especially with respect to travel...."

[1] 1954 Convention - "(Article 29) Upon request, Contracting States shall issue travel and identity documents to stateless persons within their territory." - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Convention_Re...

[2] CLN - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Certificate_o...

[3] CLN Form - http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/81609.pdf

[4] He recieved the mentioned travel document. See http://www.nostate.com/1614/back-in-the-village-again/
No way. Most people live paycheck to paycheck. 50% of Americans are unable to raise $2,000 within 30 days.
As long as we can help get promising students and community contributors to the Conj that would otherwise not be able to attend — I'll definitely do what I can.

I have no idea how other fundraisers will impact the results of this one. I'd hope that the success of the 2010 effort and the merits of what we're trying to do helps this time around. :-)
And one more resource... here are the slides from my launch presentation of Storm:

http://www.slideshare.net/nathanmarz/storm-distributed-and-f...
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That's actually not true. As the son of an American, my parents filed for US citizenship papers for me after my birth in Canada, where I've gone on to live my entire life so far.

I file tax returns with the IRS every year, but I'm not eligible to vote in any federal election, because I haven't lived in any state for more than 6 months, so there's no state's electors to assign my vote to.

For some of us, this quite literally is taxation without representation.
For some reason you are really working hard to insult the author. Why is this?
I'm not even sure it was wise for his dad to disclose information, even if it was on the Discovery Channel. Just because something goes public, it doesn't excuse you from your obligations.

I worked on TS stuff and would see highly-classified stuff in Janes publications all the time. These days, I see a lot of (perhaps formerly) very classified stuff on Wikipedia, Google and so on.

Summary: Always keep your mouth shut.
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One point i'd like to make. I think its great that people get tattoos that mean something to them, and i'd totally get a code tattoo too, but i dont believe tattoos HAVE to mean something to get them. All the tattoos i have dont have any meaning behind them other than "just because i like it" and while a deep emotional connection with a tattoo is great, dont talk yourself out of getting a tattoo if theres no meaning behind it, if the only reason is, "because you like it", thats a great reason too.
Hehe. Tis similar in Ireland. My partner moved over from England and took a while for him to adapt to things not fulling linking up and the state not always enforcing rules (e.g. avoding paying car tax is much easier in Ireland than UK, etc.).
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This presumes that all overseas citizens ever lived in the US, which isn't the case.
I'm sure they have a way to reactivate it thus still have a connection.
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I've added one now: https://github.com/treyhunner/resume/blob/master/resume.pdf

I hadn't thought to add example output.
Unfortunately, no matter how successful he is, this is still just a single data point.
How is this a scam? FreeConferenceCall.com isn't lying to anybody. It seems like it's taking advantage of a regulation to charge telecom companies rather than consumers for a free service.

With poor customer service, really anti-consumer behavior in Washington, all benefiting in part by government granted and supported monopolies, I have a hard time feeling sorry for large national telecom companies having to give some of their money to local carriers in Iowa, and the companies smart enough to partner up with them.
There's a linked article (http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/07/book-review-7-08....) and at one point it asks why Bill Gates appears to support patents, given how bad they seem to be for large non-pharma / chemical firms. My guess is, big companies don't want to argue against patents, because that would create an even worse PR storm when they sue their competitors for patent infringements, and could possibly give competitors some kind of protection through Estoppel (I don't know, and I'm not a lawyer, but I'd imagine there might be some kind of legal risk to talking down patents then trying to enforce them).
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Stop worrying about votes and karma. And if you can't stop worrying about it, at least stop posting about it.

Sorry. If you think that's what's going on then you've completely missed my point.
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Not only that, but basically think of the $2,000 as a marketing expense. There aren't many $2,000 marketing campaigns you can ever hope to run that will get you the kind of publicity Disrupt will get you (if you're successful there). It's the kind of money you will fork over when you're serious, your product is solid, you're confident in your team, and you're prepared to make a potentially big debut.

Companies that aren't ready will see the $2k as exhorbitant. Companies that are ready will probably see it as cheap.
The bottom 5% of households in the US still earn about the same amount as the top 5% of households in China. If we were talking about the top 1% it would be totally different, but still China is overall much poorer than the US - even in the cities.

EDIT: Also contrast it with Brazil, where the bottom 5% make about the same as the bottom 5% of China, while the top 5% make almost what the top 5% in the US make.
I'm not sure about its space applications, but synthetic aperture radar has improved shockingly (I don't use the term lightly) over the past couple decades.
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I should try this, I'm stuck in Platinum @ StarCraft II.
Hello HN.

We were occasionally running into issues where our scheduled tasks would not start when expected. There were many reasons for this (environment changes, lock files not being cleaned up properly, etc). So, we created a simple application to monitor our scheduled tasks, and notify us if they didn't start or finish when expected. Now we're notified immediately (via email or SMS) when a scheduled task isn't kicked off when it is supposed to.

The app also keeps track of the run times for past task executions, which has been useful in tracking down unexpected changes in task run times.

Proby is currently in closed beta, meaning we're letting people in slowly. It is currently running on a VPS with a few other services. We want to see if there is an interest in the app before purchasing better/additional hardware.

Use of the app is currently free. At some point, when it is out of beta, we may begin charging a small fee for the service (although I'd imagine we'd have a free plan of some sort). But, all of that is still up in the air.

What do you think?
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Yes, but getting all celebrity junk into the timeline would sort of kill all the fun. It may just go the myspace way.
I've found my poor sleep correlates with how late I'm working on a problem. I try to go to bed around 11pm. If I'm done working by 6pm I'm more likely to sleep ok. 8pm is pushing it. Any later than that the problem won't be out of my head by the time I lay down, and it stays there all night.
Oh my god this app is amazing!! How did I not know about it!

It's midnight here, I was feeling bleary-eyed and wide awake, switched on F.lux, and now I feel like I'm being bathed in the warm glow of a nightlight..

three thumbs up.
If you have worked overseas or are an immigrant or otherwise a reside of the US, you may be unwittingly in violation of this law, and at risk of penalties so extreme that it defies belief.

In some countries your employer is required to open and contribute to a retirement fund similar to a 401(k). In Canada, it's called an RRSP, in Australia, Superannuation. If you have such an account, it's considered a foreign account and subject to FBAR - nevermind that you can no longer contribute to it, or benefit from it until you are at retirement age. In some cases, the law in the foreign country prevents you from closing or withdrawing from this type of account until you are at retirement age.

If you forget to report one of these accounts, or had no idea that you were supposed to report it, you face a $100,000 fine, seizure of the account, and jail time. If you cooperate with the IRS you might "only" lose the account.

This law was designed to target off-shore tax shelters, but the way it was written, the definition of "account" is vague, and the threshold levels so low that it affects millions of people. There is simply no justification for a law this broad and sweeping which such harsh penalties - it's an example of legislative overreach if I ever saw one.
It's kind of sad, I thought the y combinator was beautiful until it became a brand name.
A lot of people will gradually leave because of such junk.
Indeed, there are people who have never set foot in the United States but the U.S. is claiming they owe income taxes on every cent of income they've ever earned.
I wonder how people of india are so happy when compared to developed nations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Planet_Index
"If you roam around any of the cities in India, you see nothing but a third world nation, with rampant poverty and horrific infrastructure."

Yes, I've done just that. Hollandale, Yazoo City, Holly Ridge, Bentonia, Greenwood, ..., er, India you said?
You might find this interesting as a testbed -> http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php?puzzle_id=17
I am no master myself but I will take a stab at it.

* "compose calls the second function and then the first function."

I would not call that wrong or inaccurate just very empty and not clear. What is the first function the left or right? Whatever the definition, it may as well be a tautology. If I was explaining composition I would explain it in a way that pulls from prior knowledge but also does not hamstring the learner.

In particular composition need not follow any particular direction. What matters in composition is in the ordering of the types, the outputs must fit the inputs. That is you can have f : B <- A and g : C <- B then h = f o g is a function from C <- A that is identical to a function formed by first applying f to its argument and piping that to g. Composition is a way of making new functions from old ones, kind of like multiplication for functions.

* "Maps - It can hold basic datatypes."

I don't know what that is supposed to mean. But Maps in functional languages tend to be immutable tree based key value data structures.

* "foldRight Is the same as foldLeft except it runs in the opposite direction."

This one is dangerous because it is true in a sense they are dual to each other. But applied indiscrimnately you could end up with different results unless operation with respect to the values is commutative and associative. remember the associative rule from school? Is 5 - (8 - 5) = (5 - 8) - 5? You can think of foldLeft as an accumulating a value and foldright as reducing to a value. foldRight is also less space efficient although you can write it in terms of foldl. However in a lazy language foldr has the additional distinction of being able to work with infinite lists since it works straight from the front of the list, it doesn't have to recurse to the end of the list first like foldl.
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Task Warrior was mentioned http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596158 a while back on HN.
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here in Italy is that people care a bit more about the rules, and obeying them, or changing them

Wait.. what? Not American nor Italian here, but I've been to Italy and judging from the driving there isn't a great amount of care shown for the road rules anyway.

Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi
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Huh. I guess I'm getting out of touch.
Unetbootin can be slow since it unpacks the ISO and copies all the files over to the USB drive. Also, this will always grab the latest for the distro's servers.
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> Which passport would you wave around if you were stuck in Cairo?

The Canadian one, obviously. For the same reasons as numerous Americans sew Canadian flag patches to their backpacks when traveling in foreign countries.
a. Why not just unsubscribe from it if it bothers you so much?
b. Facebook is not afraid to change stuff that isn't working, so I have confidence that they'll tweak that feature as the usage patterns dictate
Ah, that one's trickier. It looks like, for 19 states, but not the other 31, you can register in the state if your parents would be eligible to register (i.e. because it's either where they currently live, or where they last lived before moving abroad): http://www.fvap.gov/reference/nvr-res.html
Here's some advice:

If you are an American citizen, file your tax return.

Easy as that.
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Its a problem because if you don't ask for a bribe, you're selfishly throwing away money you could you use help out your cousin just out of fear of getting punished. And in India you probably do have some cousin who needs the money because their car broke down/their child is getting married/whatever.
There are a lot more ways for product development. Actually most products aren't in these categories.

A lot of products are a sum of little innovations made by others. Combining the right elements id the key. Just one of these elementd id the market.
There are a lot more ways for product development. Actually most products aren't in these categories.

A lot of products are a sum of little innovations made by others. Combining the right elements is the key. Just one of these elementd id the market.
Isn't it exactly the answer that finally clarifies the idea vs. execution debate?

I don't think this provides the definitive answer to anything. It think it is just a very good taxonomy that people can use to be more clear in their thinking and communication.

You can't build a product to meet a vision if you don't have a compelling innovative idea, regardless of how good you execute.

I had a tough time parsing this. "a vision" implies "a compelling innovative idea", so I think you are saying "You can't build a product if you don't have an idea, regardless of how well you execute". Which is true.

And the opposite is true in the established market.

I don't think this taxonomy has anything to do with whether the market is established or not. There can be aspirational innovation (products) introduced to established markets.
Yes. And, talking about wild hypotheses, your argument could also be a lot more relevant or even have some point.

The fact that 3.x is not on phones doesn't make an iota of difference on whether Google should have opened it or not.
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It doesn't look like they attempted to figure out how many firms were simply never started, so the costs may be much higher.