skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that 1) the law involved is tremendously complex, that 2) enforcement and compliance actions by the IRS are hugely underfunded and undermanned, and 3) that corporate and monied America has an undue direct influence on the legislative process, including tax legislation, then I'd say that de facto fraud if not de jure fraud is an open question.
Yeah, there are three types of J-1 visas. Internship, Trainee, Summer Work Travel. They're all pretty much tied to your student status.

I'm curious how the OP is finding the process, whether he's managed to secure one, etc.
That is interesting, although I can't help wondering if it's overkill here. I'll try it out and see if it makes things simpler.
Getting a browser warning and am unable to use/view your product using firefox 12.0
Binding a NES pad to a keyboard with an arduino
I'm not sure why so many people seem to think this is such a big deal. It happens everywhere around the world. Companies like Shell and bands like U2 do the same. It's called tax avoidance and it's not illegal and personally I wouldn't even call it immoral or unethical. Business has little to do with morals or ethics as far as I'm concerned. It's the task of the lawmakers to decide the borders of morality / ethics and make clear laws and business just has to abide by the laws.

Personally I strive to pay as little tax as possible as well. I can't blame businesses for trying the same.
Brazilian expat here and I left mostly because I got tired of fake institutions.

This looks like the Mafia going after the smaller criminals in the neighborhood. The Brazilian Senate bosses are among the biggest gangsters in Brazil (e.g.: José Sarney, Renan Calheiros, Jader Barbalho, Demostenes Torres, etc.)
That edit is an important caveat: the Starstreak is not a kinetic killer, but a kinetic penetrator. Half its weight is explosives, and after those detonate, the rest would turn into very small bits.

Of course an intact Starstreak submunition is very definitely something you that wouldn't want landing on your roof. But fragments from half a mile overhead? Not such a problem. Certainly not pleasant, and possibly a bit dangerous -- but probably no more than things that London drivers do hundreds of times every day already.[1]

[1] NB: I'm not a weapons engineer, but I do live in London. So to that degree, at least, I know of what I speak.
Either will work - but they need to learn about ad serving a little bit for it to make sense.
Countries without these sort of provisions tend to be... "unstable" at best.

Could you explain what you are talking about here? Will the geriatric hordes smash their walkers through the glass of Apple's cube stores if they don't receive trillions in tribute?
This is an example of something I've been wondering about for years.

We have cryptography and cryptanalysis. But while we have machine learning, we don't really have an established science of "anti-learning" -- creating examples that are hard to classify correctly, in order to thwart snoops.
How are the US and the UK not macho cultures? Without clearly delineating what a macho culture is, this article is meaningless.
The problem with public sector pay is currently an open topic in Europe as well, exacerbated by a generalized crisis of confidence in political classes post-1990.

On one side, you have a private sector that is dramatically widening the income gap thanks to globalization processes and technological advances that lower expenses, increase productivity and maximize revenue. On the other, you have a public sector that basically cannot compete for talent unless they try to align to private-sector pay levels, because in a post-Soviet "capitalism-uber-alles" world, public office does not grant much social status in itself. It's a vicious circle: the more we disparage civil servants, the less people are attracted to those jobs, the more you have to pay for lower-quality applicants. The same goes for cutting entitlements, by the way.

If you can't make public office appealing in itself, you have to pay civil servants in line with any other similar job, or suffer from corruption and "revolving door" effects with a private sector they're supposed to effectively rein in.

This applies even to the most high-profile positions (presidents, senators etc). Remuneration levels for US presidents or British Prime Ministers, for example, are so ridiculously low in real terms, that the office is basically seen by most career politicians as an introduction to the moneyed "conference-speech" circuit, or as a past-time for millionaires. It also makes them ripe for corruption: when somebody earning £ 150k per year has to deal with multi-billionaires, it's easy to predict how it will end.
Well the usual catch is network effects. For instance Twitter is putting increasing amounts of ads into the feeds, but because everyone's there people will stay on for the time being despite the ad-free alternatives. I've never used Instagram so I'm not sure how strong its 'social' ties are.
It's cute. How does it calculate each statistic?
Monday night? Maybe tuesday?
Pub? Starbucks? Pizzería?
The expulsion of the population was for establishing a US base on Diego Garcia
Your initial post is the distraction. It doesn't address the main point of the article at all, it should have been posted in the NYT thread.

This heart of this post begins at "But to my promised personal reflections"
So how are you calculating my (horribly low) score? I am guessing each accepted pull request counts ten, or something but I am interested in the algorithm.
Corporations are not people and money is not speech.
> But look how far we've fallen.

I dispute this statement. For one, more people alive now can read than could read back then.

Also, we no longer engage in the sport of bear-baiting.

> Wonder what he thought of that fiction book [Moby Dick], generally considered to be one of, if not the, best English language novels written.

He likely thought it was crap, because the British reviewers thought it was crap, because they got a mutilated copy to review. It wasn't until Melville was dead that the book actually got a fair shake.
The main problem is that it means sort-by-unicode-codepoint puts things in a ridiculous order in japanese/korean. I kind of wish UTF-8 had the latin alphabet in a silly order, so that western programmers would realise they need to use locale-aware sort when sorting strings for display.
How to do SSL on the Rackspace cloud
Hi thank you for the feedback. There is a small issue with Firefox MAC users we are working on fixing.

It works on chrome and safari as of now. In a week or two that will be fixed.

Sorry about that, but thanks again for comment!
What an empty and contentless post!

It isn't that we should dismiss the unique contributions of people like "Einstein, Edison, daVinci, Darwin, Picassos, Michelangelo, Galileo, Freud, Mozart et all". These individuals certainly made contributions beyond what be measured by a number-of-manipulations-per-second IQ test and some of these approaches can even be somewhat systematized as "lateral thinking", "wholistic thinking" "getting outside the box" and variety of others.

But lumping these high-performing individuals together with the single glittering generality "genius" leaves us less enlightened for the trouble. Edison and Einstein, for example, were worlds apart and while we can find commonalities between them, we can find commonalities between any two people. And there we are. At another logical level, a "genius" confronted with some given problem might say "what do these things have in common" yes but a moron, an opportunist and a lazy thinker might do the same. One more try folks.
VIM Adventures is a puzzle game that teaches you how to use VIM
I wrote a blog post about how I found a number of bugs in Gmail.

http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2011/12/14/hacking-google...
Not stooping for pennies is of course a sign of the bubble. If huge returns are available, normal ones are boring.
such a technology will invariably be a nightmare for medical and law enforcement communities

This is very true, and the article leads me to imagine home-meth-printing labs. However, if 3D printing does revolutionize the availability of psychotropic drugs, it could be a watershed event that could lead to a rational discussion of drug policy in the United States.

...oh wait, hoping for a rational discussion of anything in the United States is in vain. We are the society of the spectacle.

All the more reason to donate to erowid.org today.
summer work and travel program, just waiting for job offer
Lazy Loading Social Widgets
The "geriatric hordes" have sons and grandsons. If the State doesn't support Granny, it's Father who will have to, which will leave less money for Junior, who has enough free time to go out and loot if necessary. You see where this goes.

If that family was made of civil servants or (god forbid) military personnel, you'll also have a strong feeling of resentment-fuelled rage as a bonus.
SWTOR Slicing - Gathering Crew Skill
The post discuss the Slicing crew skill for SWTOR and how it can be combined with crafting. Furthermore it presents Slicing Leveling guide, short, but worth reading.
The game I'm playing, this is post for Slicing, gathering crew skill. The post discuss the Slicing crew skill for SWTOR and how it can be combined with crafting. Furthermore it presents Slicing Leveling guide, short, but worth reading.
You need to write your own web framework
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_Diego_Garcia and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia, there's a Wikileaks document about creating a Diego Garcia marine reserve for the purpose of avoiding the return of the Chagossians.
> Social Security is not in trouble

This is a fringe viewpoint at best. With our current policies, the Congressional Budget Office predicts SS will become completely insolvent between 2036 and 2038 (p. 54 of http://cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/06-2...). The "easy" fix will require significant payroll tax increases, which seems politically unlikely considering we just REDUCED the FICA tax by 2%.
Does not work on Firefox 13.
The score is calculated in three parts.

1) The reputation score is a count of the number of followers you have.

2) The contribution score takes into account the number of repositories you have. It factors in the number of watchers for each repository as well as the number of forks. It then doubles that score if you are the original owner of the repository (rather than the repository being a fork itself).

3) The gist score takes into account the number of gists you have as well as the comments on those gists.
I can't think of a more usable productive language from the 60s that still survives. It's got a lower barrier of entry than C, and it's miles better than BASIC. It's more friendly than BASIC in fact, while still being faster, and is way more accessible than FORTRAN or COBOL.

You want to do FizzBuzz? I present the shortest FizzBuzz in almost any language other than APL or Perl:

f i=1:1:100 w ! w:'(i#3) "Fizz" w:'(i#5) "Buzz" w:'$x i

Or, in pseudocode:

for i=1:1:100
print "\n"
if not (i%3) print "Fizz"
if not (i%5) print "Buzz"
if not x_pos_of_cursor print i

Ah, yes, and don't ever use dot notation as above if you plan on wanting comments on your line, i.e.

for
. blah
; some comment here
. foo

foo here won't execute. Instead this works:

for
. blah
. ; some comment here
. foo

Tripped me up the first time I dealt with that... however, these days with Caché ObjectScript (the most popular MUMPS dialect) it'd be written:

for {
blah
// some comment here
foo
}
That makes it even worse, to be honest. They're pillaging talent and resources from across the world, and not paying their fair share anywhere.
You might consider looking for companies that really interest you, and you can directly email their recruiters. As a student who has had my fair share of internship hunting, I find it more reliable to go hunting for what interests me rather than hoping something interesting happens to show up. Opportunities do just show up(linkedin recruiters sort of thing), but it's just a far lower chance that those turn out to be as interesting as companies that I scouted out on my own.

Some places to start:
http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
Or these: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3783657

And if you wait two days from now, it'll be May, and you'll find a fat list of companies who might want to hire you two as interns in the 'Who is Hiring, May 2012' posting.
All these comments seem to be missing the point.. Sure these aren't the traits that make up 'genius, sure 'genius' probably can't even be quantified or reduced to this level, but nonetheless these are all qualities we can learn from and adapt as we pursue our own paths.
looks like some people are having fun with a case sensitivity bug (:
Holy shit, your app is great!

Congrats!

You did all by yourself? Drop me a line
The corporate and personal tax rate in other countries such as Germany and Belgium are higher than the US.

I heard Germans and Belgians are "more decent" than Americans. ;)

Who's more "decent"?

The company that pays taxes, pays dividends to shareholders (pension/retirement funds, universities, charities,etc.), created 500,000 jobs in the US (which in turn pays income tax), spends billions in R&D, donates to charities, etc.

or

The big government with massive deficit that overspends on useless government programs, wars, etc..?
I spend last summer in California on a J-1 work travel visa (Irish student). I had no job lined up before I went over and the visa was very easy to get. Agencies do all the work for you for a reasonable fee.
"It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expence, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion."

- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Claims like this are exactly the reason why we will still be stuck with multiple useless encodings in 2030.

I wonder how long it will take until people find their balls and decide to move towards the right direction.
I'm sure it was the intent of the framers of tax law that large corporations should funnel a third of their income to a different country as part of "the amount the law requires".
I believe that VisionMedia own the place !
Ask HN: Linux laptop distro of choice?
Disclaimer: I respect people of all distro beliefs, just looking for a hand finding my own.

Since Ubuntu seems to be devotedly jumping the Unity shark and has started releasing software a little closer to beta than I am comfortable with, I'm looking for a new daily-use distro. I have heard good things about Arch and Mint, but I am mostly looking for usable system which emphasizes stuff like having flash and wireless just work and has reasonably modern compiled versions of most packages (the reason debian has not been my default). Bonus if the community already tested this distro for MacBook Airs.

(Just running X11 on OSX Lion is not an acceptable solution for me, Lion broke a lot of my X11 stuff and it is very tedious to compile them anew for Lion)
I like how it's really straightforward but have some objections regarding the terminology.

I wouldn't call "the thing processors run" opcode but machine code or something like that. Also, the usage of "procedure" in the context of assembly is a bit unusual.
Given how I'm in the field, I've met several, so, no, I'm not surprised. Just because mathematics then, and CS today, is the obvious path into the field, that doesn't make it the only one.
If stuff like length and indexing depend on the actual underlying representation, the implementation is broken regardless of the actual format used.
I don't think this theory can fully explain the large valuations of these small companies at acquisition. Couldn't the McGoogles get that same publicity and pay a price that better reflects the product they're buying, even of that product is basically advertising as you're describing?

Also, I don't think the McGoogles are having any trouble keeping users (or even attracting new ones).
I have a PhD in physics. Most physicists cannot avoid doing some coding, and will tend to focus on simulations and numerical algorithms. Most physicists I know that have left the field are in the high-tech world.
If you have successfully completed a physics degree, you have picked up a way of looking at the world, and you will have an attraction for simple, elegant solutions. If you are an experimental physicist (this distinction only comes into play if you work towards a PhD) you will develop an ability to deal effectively with the practicalities of limited resources and time.
If you want to compete in getting a job, have some coding experience you can show, spend some time boning up on algorithms. Younger technical interviewers will focus on algorithms and whatever they are having a problem with at the moment. They are the ones you will have to convince. More experienced interviewers will be looking at how you think and solve problems, and a physicist won't usually have a problem with those.
While they could, in theory, hide the actual encoding, the APIs all refer to UTF-16 code units as "characters;" so while they could use UTF-8 as the internal encoding, you need to use and understand UTF-16 in order to interact with them properly. When you ask for the "length" of a string, you are told the number of UTF-16 code units. When you get a character at an index, you get the UTF-16 code unit. That's what I mean when I say the APIs use UTF-16; everything in the API that deals with individual "chracters" is actually referring to UTF-16 code units.

The same is true of JavaScript; while you could technically implement the strings however you want, the APIs are all oriented around UTF-16 code units. And the Windows API as well, is all built around UTF-16 code units.

The problem with all of these APIs is that they make the mistake of conflating characters and code units. They all make the assumption that a character consists of a single, fixed width integer, of some given size (16 bits in the case of UTF-16). It is better to distinguish between indexing in code units (such as bytes in UTF-8 or 16 bit integers in UTF-16) and indexing in code points, or glyphs, or whatever higher level concept you are talking about. Really, for anything higher than the code unit level, you should be dealing with variable-length strings, and not try to force that into fixed length units. With UTF-8, there's no temptation to treat a single code unit as being an independently meaningful entity, as that assumption breaks down as soon as you get past the ASCII range; while with UTF-16, it's easy to make that mistake, since it holds true for everything in the Basic Multilingual Plane, which contains most characters you're likely to encounter on a day to day basis.
I am a Korean user (K in CJK), and no one, I repeat, no one, care about Han unification here.

I heard that it is different in China and Japan though.
Keep in mind that the points in the second are the same as the points in the first, just with a different perspective.

I think this mostly works OK except for one area: package format. The disparate package management in Linux is indefensible because it weakens the entire development ecosystem. One thing that hugely hurts the package management in Linux is that package format disparity means that the tooling for package management is far inferior to what it could be. The Linux package managers could be the single greatest tool for developers, but instead we have increased fracture over the entire ecosystem.

One of the biggest problems is the inability for the package managers to integrate with language-specific packages. Gem/pip/cabal cause an extremely obnoxious fracture because they all have dependencies which can't be tracked without an OS package manager but at the same time the OS package manager can't integrate with them. If Linux could decide on a single package format and packaging tool then we could all start working on tooling to support integration of the different language packages. However, as long as there are still 3-4 major package formats and packaging tools that's not going to happen.

Added to that are the package managers reliance on specific OS constructs. Homebrew works but we really shouldn't have to use different package managers just because we're on a different operating system. Either the package supports that OS or it doesn't, but this shouldn't say anything about the package manager.

Aside from all of this is the difficulty in actually constructing the packages. Arch PKGBUILDs seem the closest I've used to an easy source->binary package but they're not mainstream. As far as I know debs still don't support natively bundling the source with the binaries and the RPM SPEC system is the single unfriendliest system I've encountered to quickly make a portable package. Moreover, the ties to shell script just continue to harm OS independent adoption.

I'm not sure what the answer is but I'm starting to think the only acceptable solution is a complete severing of Linux distributions with package management.
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I really like the point that there are often more than one possibly "right answers" and many people look to give the same answer everyone else is giving.

..others, look for other, strange, non traditional right answers. I like those people.
They pay full US taxes on all of their income generated in the US, in case that wasn't clear
What's clever about it? It's pretty straightforward. Despite the fact that they are a global retailer and they manufacture electronics which are pretty much impossible to manufacture outside of Asia, the majority of their employees remain in the US.
I'd love to hear about a PERSON who routinely funnels their income tax through a different country so that they pay less tax, despite not really living or doing much business there, nor stamping Designed In Different Country on everything they make.
I believe all the existing iOS browsers are just wrappers around a Safari web view. While Chrome and Safari do have a lot in common through their Webkit heritage, I doubt Google would bother shipping a build of Chrome for iOS, if it was limited to being a re-skin of Safari.
Primary motivation: I want to see as many people as possible use something I built and know it has improved their lives in some minor way.

Secondary motivation: I want to have the freedom to work on things I enjoy and care about, as opposed to working for a paycheck.
He is a pretty prolific programmer and spawner of all things Node.js related.
Jeebus Chrysler, VAT is the most regressive tax ever invented, please do not even mention it as a solution to anything. It's a flat (!) tax on non-avoidable consumption that is fundamentally unrelated to real wealth; it doesn't touch capital activity or in-activity, which means that rich people (whose wealth is sheltered as business capital on paper) simply don't pay it. It was a terrible gimmick invented by European governments to raise taxes on low-income individuals without telling them.

I hate to say this, but the only solution I can see to rise of worldwide corporations is... worldwide government, exactly like the answer to the rise of "national companies" in the XIX century was the creation of national governments of similar size. We can discuss about implementation details (the current arrangements -- going through WTO, WMF, UN etc -- are ineffective, opaque and/or fundamentally corrupt), but I don't see how else we could ever get out of this mess.
Here's a collection of pagerank values based on the followers graph from two months ago, if anyone's interested

https://raw.github.com/clayw/Github-pageranks/master/github-...
Why Google Is Wrong To Obsess About Facebook
Seems broken on my Chrome Dev Channel - lots of JS errors and a blank score
I've overpaid for goods and services that I thought were exceptionally good.
See also http://web.archive.org/web/20071016092851/http://jojodi.com/...

Unfortunately the original domain seems to be offline for while.