skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I'm in favour of a system where it's done both ways. Most countries have a bicameral legislature in which one branch is a bit of a joke. My idea is that there should be a "House of Representatives" and a "House of Taxpayers", both of whom need to sign off on any bill.

In the election for the House of Representatives, everyone gets an equal vote. In the election for the House of Taxpayers, everyone gets a vote precisely proportional to how much tax they pay.

That way, the interests of everybody are balanced -- the folks who are affected by a new law and the folks who have to pay for the new law have both signed off on it.

It's a pipe dream, I know, but it'd be nice to see a country where the most competent citizens are appreciated rather than punished.
People sign contracts in their daily lives and in a variety of situations. Particularly hackers who are likely to work on a contract basis.

The valuable lesson here is that one should not feel shy about calling attention to the contents of a contract nor suggesting a change.

I remember years ago I was looking for an apartment through an apartment finding service. That wanted me to sign a contract that stated I would would be "fined" if I were to rent ANY apartment outside their service. I quickly called attention to it and asked them to print out a new version. They agreed.
As an example to this tutorial, 'Sketch' is a great example of an application that utilizes WebGL for drawing. http://www.webgl.com/2012/03/webgl-application-html5-sketch/
Well, clearly this guy's moral compass is a bit out of whack, but the IAmA does offer some fascinating insights into this world...
The article says he actually gave it up last September, so the numbers might have been fuzzier then. Regardless, he's protected from tax on any subsequent rise in stock price. You can't escape past or current tax, but you can "escape" future taxation.

On the ten-year tax shadow: How would that even work? If you were no longer a citizen, what claim would the US have on your money?
Verizon Refuses to Identify Alleged BitTorrent Pirates
I switched from Chrome to Firefox a few weeks ago. Yes, Chrome is noticeably faster for every rendering task. In particular, it's nice that single tabs don't slow down the whole browser.

In the end though, both work fine and I don't mind the difference in speed too much.
Interesting, since the old "X" versions of Bing looked exactly like Google, with a pretty background.

Except the result page, which generally doesn't look like Google at all since Google's results I can generally use.
Very good point. In Switzerland, if you have a US passport, it is pretty difficult to open a bank account and/or get financial advice. Apparently bank/advisors can get into trouble for reasons I am not well up to date.
I love TotalFinder, http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/ , which adds Chrome tabs to finder, dual folder view and other nice things.
Yea, it seems like this is a pretty market position if you ask me -- if you need DB like tools, why not just use a DB? This product would have to be an order of magnitude easier to set up and use to get people to use that instead, IMO.

Could be wrong though -- would be great if something like this could improve the data/analytical literacy of the general population.
Does anyone else find this style of headline odd?

I've noticed it a lot lately; mostly in the NY Times.
Quantum tunneling refers to the observation that because we can never know position and momentum exactly, there is always a nonzero probability that an particle directed towards a barrier will breach the barrier. E.g. we cannot accurately measure the position and resistance of the barrier so can't say for certain what will happen. This results in sometimes observing subatomic particles on the other side of thin barriers.

And that is how a scanning-tunneling microscope works.
In any language, you have to know the rules in order to be able to evaluate a statement. If the rule says that the result is undefined, is that more complicated than if the rule says it's defined in some arbitrary way?

I suppose you could argue that an acceptable way to learn a language is to try some code in the interpreter/compiler and see what it does. If that language and its behaviors are guaranteed to be consistent across all implementations, that might work. But, I don't think any of the mentioned languages fit the bill.

I doubt you can ever really answer a question like this by trying it to see what happens. It doesn't matter what language you're using; you have to know the rule. Even if the answer is "undefined," that doesn't make it a trick question.
Your assumption on #2 is not correct. Americans living abroad get a tax credit (almost $100k currently), so in practice average-income US professionals living abroad are US tax-exempt. Above that, there are many rules designed to prevent double-taxation.

Also, US citizenship is not a "trap" in Eduardo's case. It was his choice to become an American citizen in the first place.
>>I would bet that the reason housing prices have outpaced inflation is due almost entirely to the popularization of rent-seeking activities and real estate speculation (not including the relatively recent distortions due to late 1990s deregulations that led to CDS and other financial "innovations" created to derisk the asset class beyond what was rational).

We've got a heck of a housing bubble in Canada, and we don't have those fancy financial instruments. We have the CMHC, which shifts the risk of mortgage default from banks to the public, and an interest rate policy not unlike the US' ZIRP. Also, 2008's 0% down 40-year mortgages kind of propelled this thing into a frenzy.
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>> I still don't see any reason that I would not give up my private information on a server in order to protect our country and thousands of lives.

In the case of the service disrupted, that private information on the server could be what's protecting other lives in a country where basic rights are being disputed in blood.
Immigrant who only sought US citizenship for financial gain, renounces US citizenship for financial gain. This is not terribly surprising.

There is a subset of Immigrants that move to the US, not because they believe in its ideals, but because it is financially advantageous for them to do so. Sometimes it works for the benefit of the US... as in this case. Other times... not so much.

On balance, I believe we generally gain more than we lose. Though I have no data to back up that assertion.
Looking Back on Reactions to "A New Kind of Science
Most of what he says is obvious stuff and the emphasis he puts on how much he modifies stuff makes me assume he's someone that just runs programs and doesn't have any unique insight, but he does make one interesting point:

> Try to use "Verified-By-Visa" and "Mastercard-Securecode" as rarely as possible. If only your CVV2 code is getting sniffed, you are not liable for any damage, because the code is physicly printed and could have been stolen while you payed with your card at a store. Same applies if someone cloned your CC reading the magnetic stripe or sniffing RFID. Only losing your VBV or MCSC password can cause serious trouble.

Does anyone know if this (using verified-by-visa, mastercard-securecode remove any payment protection if you get key-logged etc) is correct?
Just call it Rapid Magic! Instead of Tragic Rage
He's 30 now, right? So he arrived at age 10 and was a citizen sometime before 16. The rules are (as they should be) a little different for minors.

Edit: dumb math error.
The interest on college loans in the US is largely subsidized through the government while students are in college.
Has something happened in the past few years that would give programmers a reason to trust them that I've missed?
"Isn't this an event instead of a task? "

Depends on the priority for me. If I have go meet some people just to maintain social ties and I am not really interested, it becomes a task for me because I have to make an effort. If I am interested and looking forward to it, then it is an event.
My knee-jerk reaction is: What an ass. He comes here, gets an education, co-founds a company, and gets rich from it. And yes, he's spending money and creating jobs -- but he's also benefiting from the infrastructure, the business climate, the population, and more. And when it comes time to pay his tax bill, he skips out. Not cool.
I don't understand how these people sleep at night. The whole notion I didn't make the game I just play the ball is just hilarious.

Furthermore those guys don't understand that eventually they're hurting the web. All that will bring stricter legislation and governments will start enforcing rules like IP identification for just about anyone out there.

I can understand organized crime exploiting the cyberspace. But for individuals its just plain stupid.
The fact that this guy even posted an AMA shows that it's either entirely fake (doesn't seem it), or he's way too cocky. I suspect some trouble may be coming his way soon. He seems to think that he's infallible and that he won't catch a charge for running a botnet.
Haven't seen, or known, anyone close to that in 10 years of being a DoD contractor.

But weirdly this discussion had absolutely nothing to do with being a DoD contractor. I don't know, or honestly care, what a DoD contractor makes. The numbers you have indicated, however, are very low in the general market. That you are oddly holding them as exceptional is extraordinary given that they are exceptionally low.
Probably referring to government subsidized loans (Stafford Loans).
They are providing low interest loans for people who wouldn't otherwise qualify. The extra risk that the government takes on (that private banks otherwise wouldn't) is the subsidy.

Basically they are making money available that wouldn't be there without government intervention.

Not to mention that they are directly subsidizing the interest in many cases.
Go to any interntional company's office in Singapore, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur and note that it's filled with Brits, Australians, New Zealanders with very few Americans; this is why.

Americans are exempt from the double-tax up to $91,400. Since I imagine most expat workers are earning under this level, I don't imagine that taxation is what's keeping Americans at home. Personally, I've found it difficult to even be considered for work abroad, usually due to visa issues. Other countries seem to have reciprocal working holiday visas for young people, and I imagine that this allows people to develop the specialized skills that justify the visa sponsorship or permanent resident status necessary to continue working abroad.
The NY Times has a habit of running themes of headlines for a while; I've noticed this one too. The other big one from about a year ago was the, "X is the Y, except when it's not" - they had (what seemed to me like) one article a month like that.
The guy I was talking to was amused when I actually read what I was signing while purchasing my car. It asked me to sign saying I had received something, which was going to be printed next. He said I was the first person to refuse to initial/sign the paper until I had seen the next item on the list.
Middle name is with "L":

http://www.thecrimson.com/image/2005/2/24/connectu-founders-...
The CVV2 is not recorded in the mag stripe.
We should be burning the financial system to the ground... well maybe not literally but pretty damned close.

The despicable thing is that the insanely rising cost of education is just plain class warfare under a veil of financial hocus pocus and it takes aim at what I see as developed society's achilles heel. Education is the root of everything that underpins our current and future society. You kill that and you are tinkering with killing just about everything of social value in X years. Look at any country that has a weak education system and the correlation is extremely clear.

Our current education system is/was a very very good one that now is largely unaffordable and increasingly inaccessible. Complaints about the impractical value of certain degrees has merit but on the whole the US education system has provided an environment that has fostered a class that by enlarge has been one of the most creative, productive, and compassionate of this past century.

I really fear that our current trajectory in the opportunities for one to receive rich educational experiences is going to inevitably lead to our society being stagnant at best.
Just to clarify, your link refers to the income limits that qualify someone for the exit tax (i.e. the tax that you have to pay the IRS upon giving up your citizenship).

If you remain a U.S. citizen but choose to live abroad (i.e. pay taxes in another country), you also have to pay income tax to the IRS, but you can exclude the first $95,100 of your income from being taxed.

Source: www.irs.gov/businesses/small/international/article/0,,id=97130,00.html
The most obvious answer would be to talk about Federal Subsidized Student Loans (like the Stafford). Additionally though, while not a subsidy, per se, there's also the fact that when you take out a student loan, you typically don't make any payments until six months after you stop being a full time student. This feels a lot like a subsidy.
Lot's of tech in any smartphone (not just Siri) comes from military offshoots.
Network transparency is not a "crucial" feature. 90% of Linux desktop users do not use network transparency. The other 10% can (assuming Wayland is successful) use Xorg, do without, or use VNC (yes, I know it is not the same thing).
Additionally, though (and I think you're saying this), it's not just how you come up with a solution from a technical/procedural standpoint. It's more - how do you react in situations that are outside of your comfortzone? And as you said, being rude to an interviewer is a sure way to stay outside their company.
This isn't just citizenship. This is giving up the ability to obtain a visa: http://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/22CFR/HTML/22CFR/0-0-0-1/...

So, if the US government cares, this person could be denied entrance to the US.
Credit card fraud is actually a fairly small problem in the US. Wikipedia tells me that the total cost of fraud is 0.07% of the transaction value. And I suspect (without evidence) that the bulk of this is made up of remote purchases, not swiped activity.

Really, the chip things are an example of security theater. Yes, they're more "secure" in the sense of being harder to defeat. No, they're probably not actually worth it in terms of the cost of upgrading all the infrastructure.

A serious upgrade would need to look at things like two factor authentication, c.f. Google Wallet, etc...
Make your own Beat Box songs only using drag and drop
Here are 3 songs I made:

http://www.incredibox.com/en/#/?music=4FAD52CD8EA23
http://www.incredibox.com/en/#/?music=4FAD3079C45AD
http://www.incredibox.com/en/#/?music=4FAD1B088D847
would be interesting if G+ ended up being a Yammer competitor instead of a Facebook competitor.
Are you talking actual measurable real world damages, or damages as assessed by a court? The latter has nothing to do with reality, like the recent RIAA cases and the obnoxiously high damages per track.
مسلسل غريب الدار الحلقة 19 
مسلسل غريب الدار الحلقة 19

غريب,الدار,الحلقة,19

http://tv.3uz.com/11612.html
It's legal to give up your citizenship - he plans to live in Singapore and he must still pay the exit tax. This is what the law says and he doesn't break it.

If you want to discuss this emotionally, try to see his point of view as well: US is the only nation in the world (ok, maybe with 1-2 other exceptions from Africa) where residency doesn't determine the tax authority you're subject to. He plans to live and have his residency in Singapore and pay taxes there but US would still like to have his tax money, who's the ass?
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Do you trust G+ enough for that? It doesn't encrypt your data.
Anybody know what blog that is? I've read 3 articles today on different domains and they all use that blog engine/theme.
> "The amount of water in all the Earth's oceans is a miniscule proportion of the amount of water in the solar system, though"

Not only in proportion to the entire solar system, but also just in the context of our own planet. We think of Earth as a wet place because we keep hearing that two-thirds of the surface is covered in the stuff. But it's an incredibly thin coat.

At its deepest points the ocean is what, eleven kilometers deep? From there it's another six thousand kilometers to the core.

We're more a rock with a thin sheen of water than we are appreciably 'wet'.
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Yes! I'm going to add some color shading here for items with no entries as a visual guide.
Late applicants
When can a late applicant expect to hear for the summer class?
I have a bond with naturally occurring English words as product names. I don't think they should apologize, or feel bad for having a name that people don't know.

I would HOPE that people would learn from it, and end up with a slightly better vocabulary, and be thankful for it.

On the flipside, it's NOT a commonly used word, so SEO for it (at least for the name) should be drop dead easy. A search for Diaspora should contain either a wiki link to a disambiguation page, or an article about them. That's about as good as you can hope for, SEO wise, though I obviously have to concede that the name fails the obvious pronounceability test, but as more and more of our interactions are relegated to clicks, that's becoming less of an issue than it used to be.
Wow - small world. I wrote the second hint on OS X hints over a decade ago and had forgotten about it myself, and now here I am reading it on HN!

Incidentally, you can do the inverse (open a Finder window for the current Terminal directory) with:

open .

Nice article - thanks for reminding me, and for the other tip. :)
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I'm no gun expert, never even fired one, but it seems there are many guns that would fit the bill. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOoUVeyaY_8&feature=plcp in particular, watch at about 5min point to see the (lack) of) recoil, put slugs in it and I would think you'd have no problem stopping a bear. This guy's You tube channel in general contains a lot of things that would not have a problem stopping a bear. That said many are not your average hunting equipment either, but I don't think anyone goes out with the plan of getting close enough to a bear to use a shotgun.
Except, I'm not a lawyer... so if there is something, then I probably wouldn't catch it either. At some point, you have to trust professionals to do their job.

Buying a house is a bit different though, because you have the purchase agreement and then you have the contracts you sign at closing. We examined the purchase agreement in depth with our lawyer, since that is what sets the context for the rest of the transaction documents. However, once that was out of the way, there was no need for us to read anything - so long as our lawyer signed off on it.

It also depends on how much you trust your lawyer...
I am seriously hoping that was intended as the punchline to my joke.
Ooohh.. so that's why those websites ask for it. Learn something new every day :S
Possible security breach at BoardGameGeek, RPGGeek, and VideoGameGeek.
My feedback: The survey link shouldn't be buried under "what you think". I would gladly take a survey of yours, but I thought that would be an email or contact us link.
Beautiful. Well done. The rest of your work is also very sharp.
I'd love to use that, and a few years ago I did use something like it, but found it was't very stable.

Do you find TotalFinder stable / memory friendly?
Yeah, I though he was, too.

but ...

"Average family after-tax income back then was close to $50,000."

1984????

He's got to be adjusting for inflation in some cases. (or he is an idiot)
I see you've never dealt with the government. I wouldnt be surprised if it grew a couple % each year.
Small suggestion: Add a stronger CTA (I was thinking after the 3 steps and before the 'next steps'). At that point I was ready to sign-up to try it out but wasn't sure what to do next.

FWIW I think this is an interesting approach. We're trying to approach one specific use case in our own product (I'm in agreement that smaller companies need an alternate solution to larger CRM tools). Good luck!
Some languages have one thing, an expression, and you compute the value of an expression by computing the value of its sub-expressions in a defined order. Thus, JavaScript does not define the result in “some arbitrary way,” it defines the result in the same simple way that holds throughout the language, the same way that Ruby and Lisp and a jillion other languages compute the value of expressions.

C has two things, an expression, and a statement, and you cannot compute the value of a statement by evaluating its sub-expressions in a defined order. trying it out in the interpreter or compiler is dangerous with an undefined result, because you could get one result today and another tomorrow.

It’s a “trick” in the sense that the simplest explanation of what should happen is not what happens.
And yet almost all businesses/organizations that facilitate human social activity extract some sort of profit: the postal service, telephone companies, ISPs, bars/pubs, and churches (for the cynic), to name a few.
How did you determine that network transparency is a crucial feature? All other GUI environments I use (Windows, Mac OS, Android, iPhone) appear to get along pretty well without it. It seems like a pretty complicated requirement that may be blocking desktop Linux progress.
Towards the end of May.
Cloud Stockholm Syndrome strikes again. Try GFS2, OCFS2, StorNext, etc.
I'm only guessing, but I'd say with the release of Github for Mac 1.2.
He didn't "spite" his dentist. He wanted her to explain the risks of the procedure - which I think is reasonable.
Specifically whether or not there is a mass value which would be a modestly stable liquid?

I'd say "probably", but answering that question definitively would involve breaking out some fancy planetary modelling techniques and looking at the phase diagram of water. Make it too small and it'll sublimate away like a comet, as you say. Make it too large (ie approaching Neptune mass) and the core will be in some non-liquid phase (either an solid or a non-molecular plasma type phase). I'd guesstimate there to be a decent range of values in between, though. Smaller than Earth with a thick non-water atmosphere? Might work.
Why the Campaign to Stop America's Obesity Crisis Keeps Failing
Why single-out the taxpayers? Do you also need a house for the poor (they surely are impacted by laws)? What about minorities? Etc.
How much of the code you've ever written is still in use?
Honest self assessment: what percentage of the code you've written throughout your career is still being used?
> The other 10% can (assuming Wayland is successful) use Xorg...

That's not very convincing. Assuming Wayland is successful, Xorg may vanish; that certainly seems to be what a lot of people are hoping.
It's not something you can legislate away, unfortunately. It requires a sea change in societal perceptions- apprenticeship programs need to come back and be viewed as just as worthy an alternative to going to university. (Germany is an example of a country that still values apprenticeships) Companies to need to offer more paid, meaningful internships need to be offered instead of unpaid menial makework. And whatever happening to IBM's traditional idea of training someone to become a programmer?