skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...Obama has a propsal to tax entrepreneurs?

Rant time: I despise what political discourse in this country has become. Rather than talk about policy we've trained everyone (like marshallp here) to regurgitate sound bites about how this or that politician is "gonna go all out" to do whatever evil thing sounds fun this week. Look: tax policy is a bunch of boring laws. You can read them if you like. You can look at proposed laws and make suggestions, and argue with the specifics of what our government is doing or what it proposes to do.

But slinging around loaded terms like "taxing entrepreneurs" or "lazy government workers" is hurting us all, and helping no one but the spin doctors. Stop it. Try to be smarter than that.

Edit: more spin terms from the reply: "out of our wallets", "my money". Spin if you want, but if you try to argue about policy using language you got from cable news, you'll merely perpetuate the current policy situation (designed almost exclusively to cater to the attention spans of cable news viewers).
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Great example! Although it looks like if you click Add Task and then click cancel it adds a value of "null".
Anything beyond the exceptions listed in this link?

http://personalinsure.about.com/od/health/a/Hipaa-Definition...

I'm not really sure what you're referring to but I am curious.
Could you elaborate? I'm interested in knowing more. Where were you, how much did it cost, what services were provided?
Not sure if he reason is tax related, but I will say this...I'm not starting a company abroad without renouncing my US citizenship. I've been living in and out of the US for the last 4 years now and the fact that we get taxed when we are outside of the country is ludicrous to say the least. Are we really that arrogant?
IIRC, it is impossible to renounce citizenship (and have it be recognized by the US government) while in the US (being inside a US embassy is I believe not counted as being in the US, and is indeed required). Expatriation is assumed whenever you are talking about (American) citizenship renunciation.
I think the potential of something like RubyMotion is that it facilitates very high-level abstraction so that building application with very common themes - like an app showing only a list/detail view - could be done in less than 10 lines of code. Think jQuery vs manual DOM manipulation instead of CoffeeScript vs JavaScript. These days I don't really know how to manually manipulate DOM or read document on getElementById. Similar, you could imagine a new group of iOS programmers not reading official Cocoa documentation and instead rely on a higher level abstraction totally built on top of RubyMotion. For that to happen, RubyMotion needs to grow its own ecosystem instead of relying on people from Objective-C wanting to save some keystrokes.
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Well, basically, most applications that you want to write are basically 90 percent rdbms with a thin layer on top for the views (usually php etc.). The 'power' of lisp isn't relevant. Other types of applications are usually performance critical and written in c etc, or glue code written in languages with libraries tcl/perl/python etc.

So basically the traditional niche of lisp, complex apps, has been replaced by sql.

There are apps written in lisp, like this site for example, but that's just for vanity mainly (pg is famous for his lisp books) - it would be have been easier to write it in sql.
After experiencing burnout many times, i've come to the following conclusion: if you want to avoid burnout stay away from toxic, crisis-mode management. Take things easy, and remember it doesn't matter if things take longer than you expected.

Given the realities startups however, this is not always an easy thing to avoid.
A startup founder is a designer.

The entire purpose of a startup is to redesign some aspect of the user's life. A startup takes some experience in the world that has low usability, and makes that aspect of your life more usable. Having a founder with a design background, meaning someone who actually understands usability and how to simplify experiences CAN fix your broken business, assuming that the purpose of your business is to simplify some experience and make it more usable, which is what pretty much all businesses are. Additionally, the UI is not "just pixels" any more than a song is just "a C and a D chord" or a table is "just wood". The interface is the means through which the user problem is solved. From the user's perspective, the interface is the app -- the entirety of the app -- nothing other than the interface exists. And the user's perspective is the only one that matters.

Now, does this mean you can have a founding team without a developer? No, of course not. You need a technical founder. You should have a designer, a developer, and a hustler/biz person, but those don't need to be three separate people; one person can embody several of those qualities.
HIPAA stands for "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" there is nothing about privacy in the name.
Singapore is one of dwindling number of countries that rejects the idea of dual citizenship, so it could be that they just wanted to become Singaporean citizens, in which case they have no choice but to renounce their US citizenship as a condition of doing so.
Agreed. I'll go ahead and burn the karma on an overwrought historical analogy right now:

C++ did to object-oriented languages in the 90s what the Church did to Europe in the medieval period. Thankfully functional languages (the Islamic world) preserved a lot of knowledge through that period so that it can now be re-introduced.

Smalltalk is, of course, Constantinople.
> some countries like in US while pulling up your name they can see all nationalities you have

How does a third world tell US which are its citizens. Doubt there is a global citizenship database? Is there?
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They've already embraced it. Major retailers devote much less floor space to DVD than they did in the past. The entire industry is well aware DVD is on the downslope.
Be a U.S. citizen but don't live there. That is the best option of them all, and one I took.
I think the problem is in the tax law. Even if you live abroad, you have to produce a tax declaration of your worldwide income. Check this site: http://www.taxmeless.com/page4.html

So it seems the only way to not do this is renouncing citizenship.
Actually, according to this article, certain kinds of insurance are less effective at optimizing happiness, because we are psychologically equipped to adapt to new (bad) circumstances:

http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/DUNN%20GILBERT%20&%20WIL... (page 6 for remarks on insurance)

Obviously, certain kinds of disaster pose a greater threat to happiness than others. For example, health insurance may be a worthwhile investment for some, while property insurance may not.
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Because then I'd have to open an image in PHP just to output it right back out. More work than just having Apache serve it.
I could be wrong, but I believe a Schulze method would solve that. The compromises could remain independent pieces which pass or don't pass depending on a preference matrix.
I'm taking that info from the article. It was proposed as one of the reasons that piracy over seas is so prolific.
India does not allow dual citizenships. Rather people of Indian origin get the equivalent of a lifetime visa should they choose to be citizens of other countries, but this can be in no way equated with citizenship.
It does an I love that site but unless I'm mistaken I don't think they grab often enough to track fast moving news events.
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Why not spend a few dollars and double or quadruple your memory?
Thanks, very good info.
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Ok, how about using the message event to receive data from the app? Not only return values, imagine an app updating the browser as data changes like:

<a href="wallst.com?ticker=AAPL" action="stocks" onmessage="update(event)">

Kind of server events attached to the message event of an actionable link. Everything scriptable.

You know, just throwing ideas to the wall to see if something sticks.
Too bad they didn't provide a node.js API closer to the mongo command line utility. See https://github.com/marcello3d/node-mongolian.git. The official driver is modeled after Ruby API.
It's the whole discussion of CoffeeScript vs pure JavaScript imo. Except that RubyMotion doesn't play nice with existing libraries. Or does it?

Just make up your own mind. I'm thinking about just learning Objective C just because I would definitely use those nice existing libraries.
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Assuming it's true that he's dodging taxes, why would he want to rub everyone's noses in it? I wouldn't expect it to be a particularly well received blog post for example, not to mention potentially endangering his ability to successfully expatriate - since I believe you are not 'officially' allowed to do so for tax reasons.
So basically a thin sliver of what an sql rdbms provides.
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My wife is Indian with US citizenship. As far as we've been able to tell, India does not allow dual citizenship (a quick google turns up many references to this, including Wikipedia). An Indian who becomes a US citizen can become an "Overseas Citizen of India" (OCI) which is not exactly the same as citizenship (you can't vote in India on that status, for example)
The band Rocket from the Crypt did this, except with free admission to shows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_from_the_Crypt#Formation
The idealogically pure idea of stateless citizens working in harmony of their own free accord is a fantasy that doesn't mesh with reality and just as dangerous as any Marxist Communist fantasy. In the right here and right now states are far from perfect, and we are in the middle of a period where lots of forces are pushing for greater consolidation of power in the hands of the state. But the benefit of having governments (some of them at least) still outweighs the extreme dangers of not having them.
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I'm using Selenium's Firefox driver from inside a Django app. There is Python binding that's slick once you figure out a couple timeout related workarounds that are necessary. Their forums helped me over that hurdle.
We should probably start calling "purely functional" code "referentially transparent" code to help avoid confusion.

Also, I think you mean "first class functions" rather than "first order".
Ideally I'd like someone affordable, competent, and somewhat available

I'm competent at general sysadmin with CentOS, and definitely so with general development. My freelancing doesn't leave with me huge amounts of free time, but there's often a few hours, or a couple of days in the month.

Drop me a line, I'd be happy to discuss your requirements with you further: tom@tbbpolska.com :)
> I'm an Obama supporter but I dislike the idea of taxing the entrepreneurs more to fund the lazy government workers

So is that like a very mild dislike or something? Otherwise, that sentence makes zero sense.
Thats it, Derek Sivers is renouncing his citizenship so his hard earned money doesn't go to lazy people like school teachers and firefighters.
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If only it were that easy, sadly human brains are all different and they are all affected by the environment in which they are operating, so you cannot know if this person in this job will be a star or not, unless you try them.
Why not be Canadian and not live in the USA?
I can send you my routing number if you have a few to spare :)

But a larger point is that I disagree with the trend of using more hardware for doing less but taking the same quantum of running time , especially so when there are easy non-onerous alternatives. Much that anyone may want to manage my expenses, doing it this way frees up money that I can spend elsewhere, where I am more keen.

This box of mine is not worth spending more money over, but useful enough that its a loss if I junk it.
Avengers was shot on Alexa at 2K resolution. It's digital through and through, though there's a few 35mm prints screening out there.

I saw some clamoring to see it on 35mm, which is a little ridiculous in this case.
I didn't even know actors did that. That can't be the cause of delayed showings.
But then you still have to pay taxes on worldwide income right?
To be fair, the "light grey text on a grey background" criticism is valid. Your blog should be readable in most browsers and on most monitors. This blog fails that test. I've looked at it on both Windows and Linux and on a couple of different monitors. It's hard to read in all cases. I shouldn't have to fire up Readability to read a blog post.
Hmm. Not sure if it would make a difference but maybe:

(1) Try this URL instead:
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/

(2) Hit the URL by date: http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/yyyy/mm/dd/

Example: http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2011/12/03/

You can also use this URL structure to get the Homepage back several years (2001) as it was around midnight of that date.

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2001/01/01/

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2001/09/11/ (Notable)

Not sure if this (or any other section) is of interest too:

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2010/12/03/todayspaper/

(3) When you scrape the page find out the link it provides to the Homepage and then try that. I had some success doing that.

What I really want is THIS:

"Reward - NYTimes Login Script"
http://donohoe.tumblr.com/post/10723388191/reward-nytimes-lo...

which would get around that problem.
Just a stoopid straight call with Selenium's Python bindings.
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Normally these are collected along the way while "moving on up in the world". Start in some poor country. Get citizenship in another slight better country and so on. Now "better" is subjective and defined by the individuals. For example, most people would consider Belize better than South Sudan.

Some just optimize based on the most travel permissive citizenships. Like, say the British passports let you in quite a few countries without a visa, so does an US passport but the countries are different.
These guys at least are totally doing hot stuff - and global by the way:

http://highsoft.com/
If we erased all governments and rulers from the Earth in the next second, by 2013 there would be a panoply of tyrants, warlords, and all manner of governments imaginable. There are only so many ways that people self-organize, and the perfect ideal of a peaceful anarchist commune is not one such method that is stable or practical with our current level of technology.
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I appreciate your perspective and reassurance, and I agree with nearly everything you said, but wow, that's a pretty damning view of things. You made it sound like I've missed the boat that left in 2006! I do feel a bit antsy that once we have a high-profile collapse of a company like Groupon or Zynga that the rest of the startup ecosystem will be dragged down with it.

After reading your comment, I ought to clarify a few things:

(1) I have in fact been unemployed for several months, mostly because I needed the break and have decided that I should be more careful about where I choose to work next to avoid going through the same nightmare again. Even so, I'm not in a hurry to get a paycheck and am willing to take the time for finding a good match. But I'm aware that many employers look upon this rather negatively and will be rather "curious" about what happened.

(2) The "bureaucracy" aspect I was whining about was not so much dysfunctional relationships as it was pure cluelessness and red tape. Think 6-month wait times for a 15-minute procurement job, or crappy tools that were "standardized" in the company based on some sales pitch delivered at the VP level. I'd imagine it's this type of situation that is more easily avoidable at a startup.

I have a vague hunch of what you mean by "VC darling" and am taking all mentions of high-profile backers with a grain of salt, but I'm curious about what you consider "Real Technology" -- in what ways are the technical challenges, from usability to scalability, of a social media "joke" startup substantially different from those of a business that you'd take seriously?
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cool, dropped you an email.
Did anyone find any interesting sites with this vulnerability? I found a Chinese exchange program and an 'ask Army' *.mil site that has since been patched.
And that figure's been on a downward trend for the last several years. Take out military and it's been on a downward trend for a decade.
What on earth are you talking about? Are you a SQL consultant or a professional Troll or what am I missing here?
A cursory glance at Wikipedia also suggests that "Since 2010, Saverin has lived in Singapore."
Actors attending local premieres -> local press coverage -> increased local buzz -> increases ticket sales. It does help.
Close to nothing, honestly. If the only reason the users are signing up is to win a free iPad (especially with the odds being only 1 in 1,000) I severely doubt that any of them would convert to paid customers.

Now, if you could send 1,000 paid customers my way in that time, I'd be extremely happy to offer you 65% of the initial revenue generated.
Sorry I don't follow - why is it petty to charge people for listening to TV content?
I believe HighSoft is hiring:

http://highsoft.com/

EDIT: the deadline was in april; but not sure the position has been fulfilled yet
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A quick look at US federal records searches pull up at least 3 living "Derek Sivers". Is there any corroboration from "our" Derek Sivers that this is indeed him? Otherwise it seems disingenuous to post this on HN under the assumption.
Seems like there might be a market here for an app which acknowledged receipt and publication of a message to the target's phone, coupled with a service which escalated to a phone call to the target if it times out waiting for the acknowledgement.
The associated press release, with more detail: http://www.f5.com/news-press-events/press/2012/20120508b.htm...
The theaters and PPV outlets would never agree to that. It eats into the post-opening-week time where the theater gets the bulk of the ticket price.
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You can become a canadian citizen, live in the Bahamas and pay no personal income tax. Canadian citizens are only taxed where they live, and thus, Bahamas doesn't collect personal income taxes as most of their money is made from tourism.

cheers!
Yes, if you go somewhere that's dangerous, the local embassy will usually warn you to leave asap if something is going down. It's not a free pass to get out. If you want that, become a diplomat.
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Okay this sounds really cool, but I am a little confused as to how to implement it. How do I use the console to interact with my app in the simulator?
> For the life of me I can't comprehend why someone would do this. Loss of citizenship is permanent. Your kids lose it as well. Why would derek would do this to his kids.

Maybe he doesn't want his kids to have to deal with the U.S. I.R.S. every year of their life, regardless of whether or not they live in the U.S.? Just one of the possible reasons.
Oh, I see. Thank you!
They are on the World Wide Web. If they aren't intending a world wide customer-base, they are missing one of the major features of the web.
Woah, the /indexes/ url just blew my mind; so it just gives you the last update on that date?
Spare me. Everyone is in it to manipulate the government to their benefit. We need a tax policy and a government policy in general, that stays out of our lives and out of our wallets. That way, policy wonks like you have less of my money to spend on your pet peeves. Spend your own money on your hobbies.
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I have been working on a project for a while and I have a few meetings that will come up where I need to have some kind of prototype of an
app that I will need developed.

I work with some great programmers, but they are in a very specific field and I am having a hard time finding someone I can hire to help
with the app development, first the prototype and then full scale if/after I land the contracts.

So, here it is... I am Looking for
ideas on finding app developer to do a basic app prototype for the Android OS...bonus points if you can do IOS too.

App is essentially 5 screens taking user through a transaction and would use potential client's graphics to minimize design work:

Screens: (1) Potential Client's Icon (2) Choose product (3) Choose product delivery method (4) Opt out of additional product features (5)
Capture user selections in a 2d barcode capable of being scanned off a cellphone screen.

I think this is fairly straightforward, but am not an expert so I could be missing something.

I really need to know where to look to find the right person and greatly appreciate any pointers. If anyone has suggestions or is
personally interested please contact me at projectmail7@gmail.com

Thanks
And the F35!
Same for Japan unfortunately. Although there is a growing trend of just ignoring the notifications and being careful with your passports... it's been fine for a number of people I've talked to, but I'm still curious as to how easy it would be for customs to find out.
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Not really. Obama's foreign policy is better than the republicans and he genuinely cares about people so healthcare and welfare policies would be better, but his support base also consists of the unions, which I disagree with.
I love 3D, but with Avengers the 3D actively hurts the experience in places, and adds little.

It's a post-conversion- it was shot 2D and 3D added in post. This almost always results in useless 3D at best.
I'm not sure what your application does, to be honest:

"Persona gathers the stories behind each photograph of your life and personality to create a visual collage, much like a fingerprint, that is wholly, and uniquely your own."

Why? To what end? Who's going to see them? It looks pretty, but I'm not sure what it does for me.

Grooovy is a much easier concept to understand: "meet people within a 20 mile radius of you for drinks, a snack or food."
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Apple shouldn't block them. Eg iPhone Wax, a Lua environment, is fine for submissions.
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Dotcloud recently changed their pricing plan: http://beta-pricing.dotcloud.com/getting-started/pricing-details/

Heroku now also has Django support. Which one do you think is a better choice? I'm also having hard time comparing them in terms of price.
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