skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome, very happy to see the Todoist founder here :-)

I compared several todo web apps several years ago, and found Todoist to have the best UI -- never understood why people liked "Remember the Milk" so much.

I haven't used it (or any other todo list) much lately. I decided I need to start maintaining one again, and considered Todoist... but decided on TaskPaper (native Mac app) as it can live separately from my browser tab farm, and input/viewing is about as quick & simple as it gets.
He paid taxes while he lived here. He doesn't live here anymore and doesn't plan to again.
Activating a single set of color pigments (red OR green OR
blue) is not enogh for yor brail to to really constrict
your iris or wash out your pigments (the gohst images you
see after seeing something bright).

Spellcheck.
Essentially, your pricing indicates that you offer only the crippled version of the application unless the individual or small group obtains the $199.99 per month account.

The pricing and usage limitations on forms for "personal" (one user / 10 forms / $19.95/month) and "lite" (20 users, 10 Forms, $99.99/month) indicate that you don't understand that full collaboration for both large and small entities is where you will find and grow your market of users, and that small groups are not going to be thrilled with crippled functionality.

I suggest charging only on a per-user basis and not cripple the application with limited forms. Make it easy for even small users to want to rely on the full application for all of their activity. They will tell everybody about your useful application, and won't advertise its silly crippled limitation. Let both small organizations and individuals grow into comprehensive and full usage without a big hurdle ($200 a month) for complete functionality.
When the United States stops spending its tax revenue bombing third world countries, maybe then you'd have a moral argument. Till then it's the duty of all right thinking people to minimize their collaboration with the federal government.
I don't get the fascination with Diaspora. StatusNet is distributed, open, easy to set up, established, and extensible, and already has a large number of users (e.g. on identi.ca). What does this bring to the table? Newness?
Since this is super handy, I will go off-topic and post the Windows equivalent:

start .

You can even type something like:

start mypicture.jpg

To open it in the default picture viewer.
Idle curiosity makes me wonder if this applies when the purchaser is deaf. I'm going to predict the answer is "yes."
SocialInternet.com - Development Partner Wanted
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Maybe he didn't ask in the most tactful manner.
Just curious, how hard is it to regain US citizenship -- impossible?
The whole chip and pin thing is pointless though, my company credit card gets used by plenty of people who don't know the PIN thanks to online/phone purchases, and in the past when I've forgotten a PIN, or just got a new card which I haven't yet received a PIN for, I've had no problem persuading shops to let me swipe them (magnetic strip) and sign for it instead.
They can't store the CVV2 either. Doing so, even encrypted, violates PCI-DSS.
Yes this is such a NY Times style headline - I don't know exactly how to classify them but they seem to always run headlines which fit this mold. I find them extremely odd.
Facebook Inches Into Craigslist Territory With ‘Highlighted Posts’
So if other systems don't have a feature, Linux shouldn't have it? Shouldn't Linux strive to be better than other systems? The attitude of "Windows gets along fine without it" just leads to a race to the bottom.
I always read employment contracts before signing them, too. Last time I did this, the contract said something to the effect of, "The company can modify this agreement at any time without notifying the employee." I immediately crossed out that clause and initialed.
Good point, thanks. I edited the post, and here's a direct link to the survey for anyone who missed it:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGRzR2d...
If I'm still worth more than a billion, no I would not give up my citizenship. When you're worth more than a billion dollars, as Bill Gates has said, money is of no worry any more. You would have to be an idiot to lose it all.
Interesting. It looks similar to the vim plugin fugitive: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2975
From what he says I agree that he seems either stupid or a liar, but I'm not sure about your premise, it's not hard to post an AMA that can't be linked to you.
I've experienced this before. Not that .pyc/.pyo files ever get into my repo, but sometimes Python will decide it doesn't need to recompile the files and I get old behavior from a piece of software I know I've just re-deployed.

My solution? Simple, I've got a a Fabric command that deletes all .pyc files in the repo after pulling.

def clean_pyc():
run('find . -name "*.pyc" -exec rm {} \;')

And that's that :)
Knock yourself out; I'm not in the US, I don't even know which side proposed it. I was just pointing out some benefits other than increased commissions, ones that could be observed from the scrappage scheme we had a few years ago.
TV makes ~$.20 per user-hour and no one ever clicks an ad.
Can you ask the math puzzle? I'm very interested. If you prefer to email, my email address is in my Hacker News profile.
HackingPot - 'graduation project' by Udacity CS101 student
as a 'graduation project' for Udacity's Intro to CS (CS101) I made a search engine for hackers/makers (http://hackingpot.com).
By inputing components/ingredients you can find projects/recipes (right now only electronic projects from Make:Projects, but in the future there will be other sources).
Anyway, I had little to no programming experience before this course. Udacity helped me realize this project.
I know there are many ways to improve this application. Any input would be welcome (it is Open Source so you can check out the code in GitHub).
I read the article. You mean the exit tax that "trapped" him in the USA, from which he just expatriated? I must have missed that part.
RMS: The only way I could justify this is if I began developing a free replacement for that very program. It is ok to use a nonfree program for the purpose of developing its free replacement.

Developing a free replacement software for a pacemaker is kinda pointless without the ability for the consumer to reprogram it.
I use F.lux. I find certain things about it irritating[1] and I don't see any signs of updates or improvements from the author. Unfortunately, it appears to be patented, which rules out the possibility of competition spurring improvement.

[1] screen dimming is way too fast, happens in sync with the sun going down even though I want normal colors til 9pm, odd behavior when waking the computer, no ability to create custom brightness curves (e.g. in the afternoon, the sun bounces off the building behind me, greatly intensifying brightness for about two hours).
You're missing a key aspect here:

Social Security.

While the US does indeed have tax treaties with many countries, it doesn't have treaties with everyone regarding social security.

I live in Israel, which does have an income tax treaty with the US. Still, for many types of employment and contracting scenarios, I must pay social security "twice"—once for each country. That's a hefty amount of double taxation.

Regardless, the cost of compliance is a real burden. I'm still filing my 2010 taxes. I have accountants on both sides. Figuring out how to correctly pay my taxes, how much to pay, and how to operate in order to minimize my tax profile is a gigantic pain in the ass.

FYI.
There are usually tax agreements with countries to avoid double taxation.
I get a 404 - Here is a link that works http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2012/5/11/prismatics-globa...
Whilst Richard Stallman and his GPLv3 would like it to be so, you're correct that this isn't the point. It's not supposed to be reprogrammable by the consumer, but the consumer should be able to know what code is running on it.
* About 20% of the users have good graphic cards, but are not sophisticated enough to install drivers.

* 30% of victims are Americans.

* 80% have an antivirus installed.

* An average income of $40 per day (bitcoin only). May vary up to $1,000.
Wow, this is a completely new level of fucked up. As someone who's just come out of a week with an IV drip in his arm, jeez... I'm getting over cancer, these guys are doing this to cram for an examination.

Just fucked up.
Windows, XP, SP3, Clean, 2012, Rus, original, оригинальный, образ, лекарство
Well, people wear seatbelts, helmets, etc. Do you knowingly walk down a dangerous street flaunting your wealth?
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Network transparency is been touted as X's killer feature for decades at this point. I've been using linux as my primary os for a very long time, and have NEVER used it. I find it amusing that the default way to do desktop share in ubuntu (and most of the other distros) is vnc not X.
30 years of beautifully designed Microsoft hardware
our photographer (aimee) is actually a fashion photographer by trade and would refuse to use digital during the shoot.

give her some love for being awesome! http://www.aimeebrodeur.com

#tragicallyhip.
My "Color Profiles" package does this: http://rpetri.ch/cydia/colorprofiles/
Stupore | Flickr - Fotosharing
and very excited at that!
IT's Poor Customer Satisfaction: Don’t Blame Developers
Thanks for those - I'll go check them out and see if I can bend them to my will. Cheers!
Regarding the second hint in the OP, namely,

>create a button that open a new terminal shell at the current finder location

as of Lion, another way to do it (a way that does not require creating a button) is to drag the folder icon in the Finder's title bar onto Terminal's dock icon.
> The US tax regime where expat US citizens still have to pay full tax to the US (except where there's a tax treaty that limits double taxation) is exceptionally harsh - almost no other countries do that.

This.

The US keeps taxing you after you leave. And for citizens, it is for life.
So what if you have to alter your product in 5 different, possibly incompatible, ways because 5 sales reps all sold something that you don't have? And you have to have it done by the agreed-upon delivery date (between sales and the client)? You wind up with a gigantic, unmaintainable hack.
There are billions of ways Linux could be better than Windows suggesting one of them is not worth the cost does not mean your in a race to the bottom.
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That doctor will not be able to authorize you to purchase restricted medications they recommend, or authorize your insurance to pay for various expensive procedures and test.
Discussion from two weeks ago - many, many comments:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3900711
Not only that but his other example (cars) is ludicrous. Cars are by far, without a doubt, cheaper, safer, better made, more reliable, and more feature-laden than at any point, ever. For $12k (roughly 1/4 the median income), you can get a brand new, pretty decent car.

Also, just about everything else (save maybe gas) is much cheaper and more plentiful today than 30 years ago. The Russian athletes and dancers who came here to compete/perform in the 70's and 80's told many tales of being awed by common supermarkets. I think if you took Americans from the 80's and brought them to a Costco, they might not be awed, but they'd be pretty surprised.
That didn't seem very cohesive or insightful.
screen dimming is way too fast,

F.lux has a preference for transition. Fast (20 seconds) or Slow (1 hour).

though I want normal colors til 9pm,

Change your location to a point two hours to your west?
The lack of social responsibility is what erks me the most about Saverin's decision. Saverin takes full advantage of the investments and sacrifices made by countless Americans and then when the country asks for him to uphold his obligation as a citizen, he leaves to save a few percentage points. This is a tactic for small thinkers.
You can use the "only 10% of users use it" argument on so many features. That doesn't mean Linux shouldn't have it. That argument might fly with a commercial OS like Windows or Mac OS X, but some OS needs to provide a long tail of useful features for power users.

You also have to weigh the utility of features. It may be that 90% of Linux desktop users would rather have fancy composting and a "cube effect" when doing fast user switching[1], but shouldn't network transparency win because it actually does something useful?

[1] See "Is Wayland replacing the X Server?" on http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_4
Ars Technicast Episode 2 - Internet: Huh, yeah, what is it good for?
I see there are "future" plans for cascading and scalding, I wonder if there are plans for regular map reduce / oozie workflow visualization. It looks pretty neat, I'd love to use it for those runtimes...
Hey Paul, it's Jesse. Go Maroons! :)

I'm helping DBC. It's the real deal. Email me at jesse@devbootcamp.com if you want more info.
Would this still hold for extradition?
There's been some discussions of similar (or identical) ideas:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=194028 29 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462278 26 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2830122 33 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3219747 no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3286693 86 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3347468 39 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3702070 99 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3948126 1 comment
Show HN: Chroma our simple web app to display color shades.
Just so it's clear I want to point out that the current Maps app isn't a Google developed app. The only part that is Google is the map data and base map, everything else is Apple tech.
To be fair, she did do an excellent job pulling the tooth -- she was just frustrated at having to spend half an hour on a 3-minute procedure.
It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Microsoft does it
> gets an education

and probably pays good money for it -> http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/financial_aid/cost...

service rendered and paid for, he doesn't owe you anything, wtf do you want?!

> he's also benefiting from the infrastructure, the business climate, the population, and more

i don't know his story, but if he grew up in the US, his parents probably worked there and paid taxes like everyone else that paid for those things.

also, there are other countries that have that kind of infrastructure, business climate, etc. give or take a bit of quality here and there. some of them have less regulatory capture, thus are both more effective and more efficient, and thus can provide equal or better services for less taxes.

it's completely legal to leave for greener pastures if you can, that's why freedom is a good thing. your faux moral argument smacks of either envy or socialism, can't quite decide which.

listen, the state doesn't have a "moral right" on your money, energy, or time. first, you're born somewhere but then you basically make a deal. most people enter this deal implicitly, but it's still a deal, it's got nothing to do with morality or ethics.
What does a 404 error mean? 400? 300? 200? 418? Learn 'em all
No their is no federal requirement to allow personal information for marketing purposes.

A doctor friend mentioned that even if the patient agreement allows "advertising and marketing", a medical practice still has limits on what they can do before the Medical Board would pull their license, or potentially feds busting them.
Fugitive is pretty great once figure out most of it.

Extradite is a wrapper around fugitive to provide a log view similar to tig's log view, but seemed a bit clunky to me last time I tried it.

https://github.com/int3/vim-extradite
We built it some time ago and I can really use some feedback.
It is also available as a Chrome plugin at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gefgglgjdlddcpcapi...
Could you try your code in some other JS-based Schemes for comparison, e.g. http://www.biwascheme.org/ ?
"Thanks for all the opportunity. Later, U.S.!"
The foreign income exclusion is currently $92k, but even above that, in any country which has a bilateral tax treaty with the U.S. (almost all developed countries), you can deduct the foreign tax paid from U.S. tax obligations. I'm an American expat in Denmark, and from what I've back-of-the-envelope calculated, there is almost no possible circumstance in which I would owe U.S. taxes, because I get a credit for Danish taxes on my U.S. taxes, and Danish taxes are always higher, which zeroes out the U.S. taxes. So even if I made $150k I would not owe U.S. taxes.

In fact I typically don't take the $92k foreign income exclusion, because excluded income isn't eligible for IRA contributions, and I'd like to keep contributing to an American IRA. So I report my full Danish income on the 1040, then subtract the Danish taxes, and end up owing $0 without even using the exclusion at all.
Cars are a bargain relatively. An example low end of the Mercedes line in 85 was a 190E about 30k. That's $58k in today's dollars. Current low end is MB C-Class MSRP about 34,800 (so you are probably talking a few thousand more with options but less a discount brings you back to that amount approx.).

A much better car for only a little more.
I don't care about network transparency, but the fact that wayland doesn't have a window manager in the traditional sense really bugs me. Plus, nvidia have said that they won't be supporting wayland at all. This leads me to believe that in the end we'll end up running everything in X as usual, and X will be a thin enhancement layer over wayland. There's way too much infrastructure in X to just brush it all off client-side.
Yeah, fair enough, it's legal and I'm sure he has the legal representation to abide by the letter of the law.

That said... if I wanted to present a highly sympathetic portrait of someone renouncing US citizenship because of the unusual policy of taxing citizens overseas, this isn't the case I'd pick.

I believe that Saverin benefitted tremendously from being in the US, as a US citizen, and that his earnings (ie., proceeds from the IPO) are a direct result of having been in the US for this time. When you work at a startup, you are essentially working for the prospect of future earnings (in a way, it's a form of deferred earnings, except of course it's highly unpredictable). He has found a clever way to be a US citizen while his earnings are unrealized, but not a US citizen once they are.

This is very different from the case where a person earning a salary in the US moves overseas and lives and earns a salary as a resident of a different country.

By the way, I've never read a real defense of the unusual policy of taxing US citizens who live abroad, and I am a little worried I'm overlooking something here. Does anyone know what the justification for this is? Or why it's justifiable for the US but not (essentially) every other country?
The original version was a bit more harsh and I had to revise it. I was fairly critical of people who went into debt over liberal arts degrees and argued that if you're going into debt, do it in a degree that's going to make a return on your investment.

Edit: the original article is here if you're interested http://jmtame.posterous.com/private/kjInGGicAa
That's a straw man. All features should be weighed against each other. Priorities and engineering choices should consider all potential Linux users, not just the current most vocal-crustiest.

For instance, I personally prefer lower latency and ease of programming over network transparency. Your bottom might be my top ;)
It's a state made up of 60+ islands. The largest is often called "Singapore Island":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore#Geography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Singapore
I really wouldn't be surprised. The security group at my university do a lot of stuff on banking security, and from what I've heard, this was one of the main reasons behind the switch to chip-and-PIN in the UK --- the user is now liable when his card gets stolen and used.
There is a rule - quite reasonable in my opinion - that if you were to renounce your US citizenship but then come back for more than 120 days (per year) during the first 10 years following your "resignation", you are considered a resident of the US for tax purposes. It is designed to deter Americans from giving up citizenship solely for tax evasion purposes, as opposed to actually moving to another country. I imagine one enforcement mechanism would be the denial of entry.
Who wants to set up the first quantum BBS?
Server Density removes Memcached because it's "too slow"
I lived abroad for years and was double taxed on part of my income. The tax treaties and exclusions are limited to certain dollar amounts. He's likely well above those limits.
PivotalBooster version 1.1.0.beta - what's new?
Installed as a Chrome app, you can simply type "chroma" in the URL bar
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at least for mastercard this is true: as per my banks tos i have to take care that nobody gains access my 'securecode' and i am liable for any unauthorized charges. (because the 'securecode' is supposed to guarantee that it is me who is using the card)
Isn't tax evasion speculation rather than concrete proof in this case? It seems that it was clearly communicated that the reason for giving up the citizenship was his residency in Singapore for an indefinite time.
Are there any business books for Hackers?
Are there any business books written for/by hackers that give data structure/algorithm analogies for understanding social/business processes ?
Both Brazil and the US have allowed dual citizenship for some years now, so he's fine on that front.
By infrastructure do you mean our military industrial complex? Subsidies for the agro and oil industries? Medicare, social security? Our welfare system?

Maybe our 3rd world quality public educational system? He didn't attend a public high school or college.
He's still going to pay taxes on billions of dollars. Just fewer billions than if he'd waited longer.
yes, that's what I get for typing on an iPad in bed at midnight! Done, thanks!
For the average cyber-stalker, that's true. But I'd wager if some government agency actually wanted to track him down (he's probably too low-value of a target), he's revealed more than enough bits of information about his personal life for them to do so.
NoisePNG -- Generate noisy PNG images with alpha transparency
TPP Deep Dive: Copyright and Digital Locks
Richard Clayton (etc) have lots of interesting stuff about bank security (and the lack of) - they've attacked chip and pin, which means that if someone does manage to defraud the card the owner might have some chance of getting the cash back.
> best case scenario is that I get the same jobs as my parents, only twice the workload and half the pay

Unless you're way out of the target demographic for HN, this is preposterous. Even semi-competent programmers are way under-supplied; you can name your price, location, and working conditions.
And the privacy invasion award goes to …