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Unfortunately, "hard work" is not something that inherently deserves a reward (or is it its own reward?) in the business world. You can work really hard on the wrong thing. I hope the developers were compensated well for putting out a good product, but I wouldn't associate their getting laid off with how hard they worked, but that the company miscalculated.
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Travel insurance is an extremely important aspect of any holiday, almost as important as netting cheap airline tickets. It is much better to spend few more pounds on insurance and be safe than save some money and be tentative throughout the trip.
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I'm in this exact same position, having left the US when I was one/two years old.

With dual UK/US citizenship, all my bank accounts are in the UK (having lived in the UK for the last 13 years). I was not aware of the FBAR filings requirements and with a potential fine of $200K+ for not filing I'm in a bit of a pickle.

I have been in touch with a few accountants, and it seems that the penalties are quite real, but hopefully they will take into account your total earnings when calculating the fine. But there is a chance they won't and if this is the case and I get landed with a massive fine, I'm not sure what I'll do. Even renouncing citizenship, still leaves you liable for the fines.
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Does anyone know if there's any universally recognised way to cut off all connection to some country? It might be of course impossible if you have citizenship of only that country - but for people with dual citizenships it seems like there should be some way...

IANAL of course, but how is USA saying "you cannot renounce your citizenship" different from another completely unrelated country saying "according to our laws you are our citizen now"? Why is it binding if you do not have and do not want any relation to that place?
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> Nobody can explain why the IRS has suddenly decided to enforce this law, which is aimed at money-launderers with offshore bank accounts. I guess the Americans need the money.

I don't think the law is necessarily aimed at criminals. The law is primarily sold as targeting people who try to avoid or evade taxation by keeping significant wealth and income overseas.

In any case, the reason for renewed vigour in enforcing the law is clear: the federal government is spending record amounts of money and needs to milk every source of income it can.

edit: fix typos
Good idea but your landing page looks like a domain for sale page. The content is not of high quality.
India has structural problems in its' economy that will inhibit its' growth going forward. Japan has been stagnating for decades now and has shown no signs that they've figured out what the problem is. They've become the most indebted industrialized nation in the world paying for stimulus after stimulus while at the same time the Keynesians are telling them they haven't done anything to stimulate the economy.
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"Understanding our reasoning capacities as the outcome of a natural physical process leads to my agreement with Dawkins's claim that any philosophical result prior to 1859 can be disregarded."

I'm sorry my friend, but...no. I'm open to a lot of ideas and directions that a discussion may take but this is just a non-starter, a laughable example of exactly the sort of benighted, willful ignorance that dooms fruitful discussion. This is the kind of statement you can only make if you haven't read philosophy written before 1859. I mean, of course, _The Origin of Species_ was a watershed to be sure, but there's certain philosophical freight even Darwin can't carry.

I think underneath this is a problem of false analogy. Philosophical insight is not the same species as math, and doesn't "build" the same way, in a scaffold of proofs and deductive confidence towards an inevitable conclusion that, once reached, can be accepted on its own terms without understanding of the prior movements.

I'd suggest reading a bit further and broaden your engagement. As a mathematician, you might appreciate Pierre Duhem's views on religion and history, Whitehead's ideas on the history of science, and in particular I'd say check out Hans Jonas' "Is God a Mathematician?". All of those pass the 1859 smell test as well, so, bonus!
Just like you can link a bunch of smaller telescopes on the ground to compensate for air distortion and get a significantly higher resolution, it should be possible to do the same with a bunch of satellites looking down.
I'll just chime in and say I quite like your reading of it and think it's a great point.

Regarding my intent: that video is the example to zoom in on the uncomfortable feeling of allowing someone to misunderstand you while you get to where you're going (which in the comedian's case is the punchline, the entrepreneur's case is better customer understanding).
>So it's not a solution for these American-born-Canadians that were not aware until now that they were required to pay tax in the US.

They knew. I know! and I've never been out of the US for longer than two weeks! It's not some secret or trap the IRS has set. What they are complaining about now is that the IRS is finally trying to collect.
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The Canadian government advises you to go to a British consulate if a Canadian one can't be reached while abroad. I think it's the only benefit of having the queen on our money left.
World Trade Center Tragedy Photos from Space
World Trade Center Tragedy Photos from Space, Frank Culbertson still remember what to do when terrorist planes hit the twin towers of World Trade Center in New York, 11 September 2001. He took a video camera, and then find a gap to best record the horrors of outer space.
How is this different from a trie? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie)
You are right.
Times of India is not a newspaper you would consider as 'sensible'. They love sensationalism and hyperbole.
You've managed to stay vitriolic for a year just because this man might have bumped people from their stay in a Bed & Breakfast?

Seriously?

Secondly, as he said "the dollars did the trick". It's not bragging at all to say "this great guy had no idea of and still doesn't know of my blog".
Hmm, burning a bootable ISO image to a USB stick seems more reasonable from time to time.
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> the real threat to open systems is not so much the obviously closed systems like Apple but the almost open systems like Android

bullshit. this is factionalism and letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
>Citizens don't get military support so I don't understand that point.

Except when they do.

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2011/03/ap-us-to-evacua...

http://www.businessinsider.com/senior-us-marine-says-multipl...
Doh, you're right. I really didn't compare apples to apples ther.

Still:

1967 - 59,236k households, GDP 3.9T ~= 65k / household (2005 dollars).

2010 - 117,538k households, GDP 13T ~= 111k / household (2005 dollars).

That's something like 1.2% GDP growth per household, while median household income is going up at 0.5%.

On one hand, there might be less dependents per household, but on the other hand, there's a lot more women working. Despite all the housewives burning their bras, forgoing large families, putting their kids in childcare and getting a job, household income still hasn't risen.

Maybe there's a lot of low-payed single women, dragging the median down. That doesn't convince me that everything is OK though.

Let's look at incomes of income-earning over 15s:

Between 1960 and 2004, the salaries of white males went up 0.068% a year. White women's salaries grew at 2%, probably because they were working much greater hours. Black men did well, and black women did even better. But overall, it was a 0.74% per year increase. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_S...

People are better off, but mostly because the women are working longer hours, they don't have kids. Soon, they will also be working more years, as the boomer realize they can't retire. It's a lot better if you're black, but not because of productivity growth trickling down to median workers.

I could track down the numbers, to find how many workers over 15 there are (or maybe how many people there are over 15, or between 15 and 65), but I just don't think productivity growth is <1%, like median income growth. If productivity growth is <1%, then we have another problem altogether.

OK, here we go, real growth by percentile (1960 to 2007):

95th: 1.86% / year.
80th: 1.58% / year.
60th: 1.4% / year.
40th: 1.1% / year.
20th: 1.05% / year.

Arguably (as pg says), this is a good thing, because risk-takers and innovators are being rewarded, driving growth. But it's not as simple as high inequality = high growth, and that doesn't explain why inequality is growing. pg says it's because corporate structures are becoming more efficient, cutting out deadwood managers. Whatever. If this is the case, why isn't GDP growing at a higher rate than the 60s? Has our society simply reached the point where technology no longer drives growth? That's scarier than greedy executives, compliant governments, self-serving boards of directors looting society; but I don't think it's happened yet.

China had huge inequality in the from 1750 to 1950, and stagnent growth, low inequality and moderate growth from 1950 to 1990 (with a few hiccups, notably the Great Leap Forward, and Cultural Revolution, but communism worked a lot better than their previous system of capitalism + corrupt feudalism), then high inequality and high growth from 1990. While inequality might be a requirement for high growth, it's not always a good sign. It can just mean that the rich and powerful are screwing the poor, which makes it harder for a poor innovator to take their idea from rags to riches.
Overseas U.S. citizens can vote in federal-level elections, including for Senator/Representative of the location they last lived in the US.
Being open-source and wanting to control the experience are diametrically opposed ideas. When you choose to be open-source you are choosing to allow people to hack your code in whatever way they wish. That includes hacking it in a way that some might consider to be a poor experience. The fundamental value proposition of open-source is that some people will use your source poorly, but that on the aggregate good stuff will bubble up. If you don't believe in that, you don't believe in open-source (which is fine).

I don't see anything in Andy Rubin's resume that suggests he's an open-source advocate. I'm not aware of any of his previous projects being open-source. Please call me out if this is incorrect.

Android is open-source in this same way id Tech is open-source. The current version is not, the previous versions may or may not be (in Android's case the 3 latest versions are not open-source). But eventually they'll open-source it, by the time it's no longer commercially viable.
Your point is very valid. The Wired article seems to suggest that placebos are genuinely effective. We shouldn't consider the medical researchers studying the placebo effect to be idiots however. Unfortunately, focusing only on hard clinical endpoints is not a luxury medical research has, and would involve excluding most psychiatric research, most palliative care research, quality of life analyses in cancer patients etc etc, in other words, lots of important stuff.

So if you still want to try and make people feel better, the placebo effect has to be dealt with.

I do agree with you though this being a poor article. Some additional points:

1. Placebos can have adverse effects. For example, it is quite common for patients to experience nausea and even vomiting when taking a dummy pill in a clinical trial. So they aren't universal panaceas.

2. Sometimes placebos can be the intervention arm, not the control arm:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...

This study compared simply administering air versus oxygen to patients with a terminal illness who were short of breath. Giving air was as effective as oxygen for relieving shortness of breath.
This isn't the placebo effect getting stronger, this is just realising that doing less but doing something works perfectly well.
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So the solution is don't be a US citizen. Jesus Christ, what insanity.
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True if you consider global goods. But for things that are produced within India PPP is relevant. Then again - it doesn't make sense comparing PPP when you are trying to rank economies on size.
Which leads you to wonder...525 people were assigned to hardware development? Really?
This may be true on the outskirts, but in the cities, China has made huge advances, especially with infrastructure, roads, railway, etc.
Of course, this is not true for all of China.
This is why I excluded high demand and new products. New products are shipped in higher quantities to meet retailer demand (ever been in a store that has exactly one new item?). But once the supply pipeline is flowing its much easier to estimate demand and produce enough to meet it.

This is something that Apple has been terrible at despite great marketing.

But all companies will parade the numbers that show them in the best light. Samsung isn't producing a lot of tablets just to dump them in landfills and retailers aren't stocking more than they can realistically sell in <1 months time. For the retailer it ties up money and floorspace. Apple owns all it's stores and can tell you exactly how many iPhones they have sold, they won't tell you how many Apple TVs they've sold even though they know that number. Samsung might be able to tell you how many tablets sold. But numbers shipped is more palatable to investors and developers. If they were getting a lot of returns (and early android tablets were) they wouldn't exactly parade them out.
It's not so much that you cannot renounce your citizenship, but it is severely discouraged. After some high-profile cases of wealthy individual renouncing citizenship, congress passed laws to make sure that if you want to renounce your citizen ship you need to have paid all of your taxes. Additionally, you may need to pay an additional "exit tax" if you have had significant income or have significant wealth.

As far as becoming another country's citizen, that gets to be fairly complex. Some nations recognize dual citizens, others do not. How that exactly works out depends on the particular circumstances. In any case, the U.S. generally likes to keep its citizens within its grasp.
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Once again the Facebook scammers trying to generate the users curiosity by claiming to watch a rare and shocking video "Man in wheelchair falls down the elevator shaft". Just like in the previous Facebook scams, clicking on
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That's a remarkably silly analogy. Researchers do not introduce vulnerabilities themselves, they are not "farming bugs" to game the system.
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This indeed made my gloomy Tuesday morn a little bit brighter... I love Thief and I love game engine renderers. This reminds me to bust out my old pc and play it again.
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Radiolabs had a segment dedicated to such analysis. It appears the IRS/accountants use Benford law patterns to audit tax evaders.

http://www.radiolab.org/2009/nov/30/from-benford-to-erdos/
That was me:-)

I was amazed at how far and wide that tweet was spread.

https://twitter.com/#!/davidnwelton/status/99849223884906496
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I have heard that during the fall of the Roman Empire, the tax collectors were so brutal that Romans living on the outskirts of the empire sometimes welcomed invaders because they were thought to be better than dealing with the Roman Roman tax collectors.

Similar situation now?
Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany, Mao's China: all examples of states who have exemplified Dawkin's anti-religious secularization and education in the utmost extreme. Thought-policing and religious intolerance have always lead to the massacre of countless thousands.
To be fair, the first paragraph after the video is pretty straight forward and very clear as to the point.

That being said, your interpretation of the video is an equally interesting look.
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You don't think these US citizens in Canada ever vacation elsewhere? Did you see Canada deploying troops to Egypt during their revolution to evacuate Canadian citizens?

Canada issued a travel warning. America deployed Marines. Which passport would you wave around if you were stuck in Cairo?
The article discusses the guy who has both citizenships - that's why I mentioned this case specifically.
The guy usually makes sense, but he doesn't here.

You can't breed bugs in programs. You can't earn more money by creating more bugs in your browser. You simply don't have access.
One point many commenters are missing.

Yes the country is plainly less rich than Japan and the first world, and it shows in big cities. Even comparing big cities in China to India there is a big gap.

But here is what you are missing: as total wealth in India is growing there are indeed some places (which the casual tourist driving around will not see) centered in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi that are super rich. One way to spy on it is visit one of the "five star" hotels like JW Marriots etc -- they are numerous, massive, and full of quite rich people with loads of servants and fancy places to live.

By the way, you can find loads of disgustingly miserable poor places in the rich USA too. Maybe they all have sewers and electricity but that's about all that separates parts of the rural US (deep south) or bad urban poverty (right nearby me in NYC) and some villages in India.
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I think the whole idea of an aggregator is that some users will prefer the new submissions and some will prefer the aggregated results. Neither is best but the "new" section is required for the model.
GDP and GDP/capita are two different things
Yes, you will certainly get artifacts at the top of what you can expense. You will probably also get distortions at the bottom where you'll have some threshold of "not worth expensing." There will almost certainly be distortion around the boundaries, but as long as you have a big enough range you should be able to see a Benford's law effect in the middle.
You're right, it used to be only the big accounts -- before 2008. Post-2008, that's not the case anymore. They have become very, very active since then on all earning levels.
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Funny, and somewhat related. A lot of the materials work for the Skunk Works projects (and some of their own) occurred at a small division of the Lockheed facility in Marietta, GA. My great uncle worked there, and used to provide me with copies of a publication called "Lockheed Horizons", which I would devour at every opportunity. He told me that the name given to the top secret development division was "Possum Works".
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The long awaited version of Aspose.Network for Java 2.3.0 has been released. It includes the iCalendar component; iCalendar is already part of Aspose.Network for .NET, now you can generate dates according to the specified recurrence pattern in Java. Moreover this release also includes support for creating, loading, editing and saving appointments in ICS format. The main new features added in this release are listed below

•	iCalendar implementation - Generate dates according to specified recurrence pattern
•	Create new appointment and save in ICS format
•	Load and manipulate ICS calendar file

Below is an example to generate dates based on a recurrence pattern:
Yup. I clicked through, expecting to read an article with some evidence (however flimsy) that developers were intentionally introducing bugs in their software so that their partner could report the bug and claim a bounty. What I actually read was just weak.

The common term for this is the Cobra Effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect but a quick google doesn't bring up any leads on the veracity of his South Africa / rat-farming variant.

EDIT: more googling doesn't find any source for this other than Dubner himself. Looks like he might have just made it up.
Microsoft's Windows is stable, I tell you! I've never once had a crash! All those BSODs that people complain about are their own damn fault!
Perhaps they should give people the option to take on someone's US citizenship that they want to renounce, if they pay their outstanding taxes for them. The US gains people who pay, and lose those that don't.
Either he's explained something really badly or someone has this exactly 180 degrees wrong.
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It's a particular kind of trie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie#Bitwise_tries
With a track record of comments like this --

> I realize the Sanfran wannebe hipster-crowd here like their shiny iGadgets and want to reaffirm their own worth by appraising the company which they have attached their identity to, but this is getting a little bit out of hand and quite frankly, rather silly.

-- you should feel dirty.

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2924758)
What's the best source for City names?
Where do most startups get the city names from?
We use Facebook for user registration and management.
Facebook has its own id for locations. Some of the locations come in City/State format and some in City/Country format.
I downloaded a dump from Geonames, but it is difficult to map these to Facebook city names. Also, GeoNames has London, UK and City of London, UK. It will be difficult for users to distinguish between the two. Same with Delhi, India and New Delhi, India.
Users come from various sites and mention where they are going. This will come through a post string and user will not be able to select from a drop down list. It will be very important for us to get the city right.
I wonder if anyone has a suggestion.
Thanks
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I disagree. Larry and Sergei wouldn't have been on stage demonstrating PageRank. They would've been on stage demonstrating a brand new search engine that returns much more relevant results faster than anything out there. That would've been exciting and held people's attention. PageRank was simply the technology that helped power it. Therefore, I think the moral is, know your audience. If Larry and Sergei were to demo to others in Computer Science they may focus on PageRank and the technology around it. If presenting to news outlets and VC's you'd better find a way to show the power of your technology in a way that they can comprehend the value of that piece of tech.
Hmmm, lots of REPL input/output, nearly no informative descriptions. Besides that some descriptions are wrong or inaccurate, three randomly picked examples (and I am not a Scala programmer):

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

* "Maps - It can hold basic datatypes."

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

I'd recommend friends to buy a good, well-edited book.
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