skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet another reason to use a password plugin like 1Password or Keepass or whatever: because they memorize password-per-domain, they do not attempt to fill in a password when the domain is merely similar to a known domain.
One of the cornerstones for Socrates' defense of the rule of law was that any adult who did not like the law was free to leave, without being taxed for doing so.

I find it interesting that there are clearly so many in this country who have very deep disagreements with the law, but so few seem to leave. Of course I do not blame them; simply moving somewhere more agreeable to you is not as simple as Socrates may have you believe...
<cynism>Is that schizophrenia or bipolar disorder? I'm sure it must be something! Let's medicate him as that's waaay to disturbing.</cynism>
You get paid for your time by your foreign employer and pay foreign taxes on that income, but the US won't let you deduct that as foreign earned income since you were in the US at the time. Even if you take a holiday to the US you are reducing the amount of foreign earned income that you can deduct for the year.
I purchased a fair number of TSLA when they IPO'd, for a bit lower than the actual IPO price of $17. A little over a year ago, my brokerage offered to borrow my shares at 4% annual interest (paid on a monthly basis). I was told that I would retain the ability to trade the stock at any time, but I gave up my shareholder voting rights while the stock was "loaned" out.

I had never heard of that happening to small individual investors like me, and at that time I looked into it and learned that this was typically done because there was a lot of interest in short sales for the stock and there wasn't enough borrowable stock to cover demands.

I renew the loan agreement on a monthly basis and in March 2013 I was offered an increase from 4% to 6% interest for the loan of my shares, indicating that short-sellers were very eager to get their hands on TSLA stock.

I'm curious to see if today's activities cause my June offer to drop my interest rate or if the offer just expires altogether. I would guess that at minimum I'll see a lower interest rate.
Any chance someone saved a copy?
Link seems dead from here
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Excellent analysis as always, thanks. I was going to facetiously suggest you start billing HN for your services, but I then thought it might be an idea for you to throw a bitcoin address in your profile in case someone feels like sending you a tip.
Closest you'll get is turning on the AC. Because the car's so quiet, I can hear (and feel) the rumble of the compressor running when I turn down the temp in the car.
There is no 'Why' in Sentiment Analysis
FTC Can Use Facebook to Serve Papers, Judge Rules
Vim is [can be] a terminal-based text editor. The claim here is that emacs is big, ugly, and slow and vim is smaller & faster.

Ahem.

Not to start any flame wars, but Emacs can be run inside a terminal as well. As a matter of fact, that's the only way I run it.

"Ugly" is a matter of opinion for sure, as beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. Emacs can (and does) make use of terminal colors, fonts are freely configurable. I can't think of anything else that would be relevant for a text editor, except of course if by "ugly" you refer to its architecture, editing model, or something like that, rather than its appearance. If not, Emacs 24 allows you to install your favorite color scheme (solarized, zenburn, dawn, etc.) right through the built-in package manager.

Re: "fast" - Emacs does not show any perceivable lag in everyday use, and my main computer these days is an old netbook. Still, Emacs feels fully reactive. If you refer, however, to startup times, then you may not be aware of the 'emacsclient' feature, which is the way a lot of serious Emacs users run their editor. You basically start an emacs daemon to which you then connect with thin interface clients, but I don't even feel the need for it, possibly because the usage model for Emacs is different from Vim: I usually open one editor window on a dedicated virtual desktop that stays open all the time, and where I live most of the time, while with Vim, people tend to quickly open a couple of instances in parallel. (Maybe these patterns have established themselves in the olden times where Vim clearly outpaced Emacs in terms of startup times, i.e., on older machines, and before 'emacsclient'.)

But you're certainly right about "smaller". As I said, I'm using an old netbook most of the time, but even on this limited machine, Emacs does not take up considerable disk space. Times have changed, and disks have grown. As for RAM, I've never noticed it, the hogs are usually others (I'm looking at you, Firefox!).

Vim is nice and small that you can install it even on very limited disk space, say on your stone-old mobile phone. (Enjoy using it there, too.) But that's not a typical scenario any more, diskspace is not longer an issue in modern computing, at least as long as we're talking about text editing..

I would still say that Vim has one great advantage over Emacs, namely that it is pretty much ubiquitous. You can log in to pretty much any server, and you can be quite sure that there's some variety of vi installed. That's really great. But if that was something the author of the original post referred to with his "analogy" is questionable.

That's why I wasn't sure I could follow :-)
There are shitloads of lawyers who pick up malpractice lawsuits on contract, saying that they'll do the case for free if they get x% of the winnings.
> Aren't all laws ultimately enforced by the threat of violence?

Just the ones created by a monopolistic force on violence.
I ain't a nationalist, but I am a regionalist :)

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... (EU pop. is .5 billion btw and a rounding error off global #1 in GDP terms)

We'll survive without your business methinks.
One of details that makes Coursera amazing is the ability to speed-up lectures.
If I manipulated HN, I wouldn't know how I did it. Just luck of the draw I suppose, although there was much more traffic related to Paid today than there was last night.

I don't know who the person is that submitted this.

Why?
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Hi All, Houston programmer looking for PHP and SQL developers to meetup and collab on projects. I've searched up and down Houston Meetups and PHP/MySQL is slim pickings.

Anyone Hacker News peeps in Houston who want to collab on projects? Not chat and smile - but have our laptops out, dry erase board getting all sorts of mistreated, going over problems and working through code.
If you're doing a lot of convoluted business dealings, I imagine it could be a hassle, but for a regular professional expatriate employee I have not found it complex. I earn a salary; I pay Danish taxes on that salary; I deduct the Danish taxes paid from my U.S. tax obligation as a Foreign Tax Credit; and the net result is negative so I pay no U.S. tax.

It would be even easier if I spent less than 35 days/year in the U.S. and qualified for the $95k foreign income exclusion. But even though I don't (I spend ~2 months/yr in the U.S. in an average year), it's still easy enough.
With all due respect, the linked article should be examining that. You assert it "could be many times higher", which is fine. I assert, with equal justification, that the relevant expats are destitute receivers of the EITC and that the IRS revenue will increase.

Wouldn't it be nice if someone out there, maybe a web site with journalists and stuff, might do that research for us and give us the results?

I'm not saying there can't possibly be an issue worth talking about. I'm saying that this article isn't worth talking about.
> Health care must be rationed. It is a finite good.

Instead of FWD.us initiative of bringing over competent technology people from abroad, maybe we should instead try to attract more doctors/medical professionals from India/China into coming here.
Doctors have no idea how much a procedure or test cost (and they don't care or want that burden)--that stuff is generally insulated by insurance. In my experience, they are vaguely aware of the price of different prescriptions (after insurance) because that directly affects the patient. The economic forces are all out of whack. I'm not blaming doctors--the information should be more easily available to them to provide to the patient.

I'm not in the medical industry (but my g/f was seeking out her own insurance recently), but I would guess that the ER would work similar to a car mechanic. Where the paperwork you're already signing upfront includes a flat price you're paying for diagnostics. Then after the diagnostics (or possibly at the same time you signed the diagnostic paperwork), you agree to a price range for treatment/tests. It would itemize the fixed costs and estimate the variables. If things go outside of that range, there's an amendment. You walk home with the bill.
>It literally saves lives.

Authoritarianism does tend to save lives. That doesn't make it a good thing.

>If healthcare was left as a completely free market I dread to think how many people would die as a result of cut corners and rushed diagnoses.

As if that isn't the case in the most heavily bureaucratized healthcare systems today...

The free market doesn't result in "cut corners;" it results in optimal middle grounds between cost-saving and quality of service, tailored to individual market groups.
Ugh, this article again? It crops up every quarter without fail.

If one of these could actually provide some sort of analysis or evidence for their conclusions, that'd be pretty great. Each time it's published, they relay a few anecdotes about 1 or 2 mildly famous people renouncing citizenship. They then give a trend in absolute numbers without addressing population changes, and finally go on to blame taxes or whatever else for the trend that they assure is happening.

Is expatriation increasing? Maybe? Who knows with this quality of reporting.

The question of how to treat international taxation is almost entirely separate from expatriation. If people aren't taking the easy step and relocating to different states due to tax differences[1][2][3], I doubt it's the main reason they're renouncing citizenship.

[1] - http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/_media/working_papers/Va...
[2] - http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3556
[3] - http://publicassets.org/press/press-releases/new-study-jobs-...
yeah, and that's called inflation and is the direct result of the Government actions and not your employers fault.
Sweet, I was quoted in that article.

Seeing short squeezes in TSLA and GMCR aftermarket.
That's only an interesting counterpoint if those people more than counteracted the taxable assets/income of the ones leaving. I would not take that as a given.
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Kind of. "Mr Wilfred alleges he is a victim of a CIA conspiracy after he had acted as a whistleblower to expose alleged corruption in the agency."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&obj...
I'm in Atlanta and get gawked at pretty much every time I go out. While we've got a very active group of local folks on Facebook, they're still relatively rare to see around here, even in the heart of upscale Buckhead.
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Free market doesn't really apply for emergency medicine. "Oh excuse me sir I am having a heart attack and dying please bring me to the hospital 30 minutes away because its 10 times cheaper"
Unlike the Arcimoto, the C1 seems to understand that if you're going to be a motorcycle, you should be able to lean into turns.
It's not going to be the least bit inspiring to send people to Mars and plant a flag, or ride around in a rover. Find a reason to go there and stay. If we could at least colonize it that would be some motivation.

If you want to drive the cost to get to Mars down, game it in some way. The X-Prizes seem to be an effective way to get lots of people working on various problems.

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/

This technique has worked for centuries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_prize

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orteig_Prize
Unfortunately this change didn't help. I thought it said "Alan Greenspan" until I started reading the lawsuit, saw "Think Corp", and went back to re-read the HN headline.

I agree with pedalpete, the headline really should just say "Think Corp".
And that's awesome if they can talk about it like intelligent people, but drive by downvotes are more the domain of some other news site.

Of course, it's probably because I mentioned status... which is the third rail of Bay Area niceness; I mean it's an absolute meritocracy; right?
I read some articles by a company that helps facilitate this, and their claim was these people tend to be expatriates that over time have had less and less connection to the country of their birth that the citizenship and taxation issues have become more trouble keeping than dropping.
Fair enough. We cant stop it. Its done. It always was. Might as well stop the "chock and horror" thing, and just accept it. In the US, both political parties love being able to spy on us, and in the UK we see the exact same thing. No main stream politicians or law enforcement will ever, ever give it up.

So, have to ask, again, why the hell is any one wanting privacy from the authorities, who we know don't have our best interests at heart, still using electronic communications? It never was, isn't and never will be secure from them. If nothing else, almost every "terrorist" trial features some electronic communications evidence. Doesn't that tell us enough?

Look, just ask your self why organisations like MI6 still use old skool drop boxes in Moscow.

Tor? Its got government finger prints all over it. I trust it as far as I can throw it.
Weird, I must've had a different Google Finance tab open at the time? Thanks for the correction.
I dunno about "instead of," but not granting citizenship to any qualified doctor who wants it is pretty stupid on our part. Easy for me to say, though, since the AMA won't run ads about me killing babies for voting for such a thing.
Excel in Office 2013, which I pay a $99/year subscription to use on 5 PCs/tablets.
Maybe not presently, but my takeaway is that he accuses his would-be competition (and those funding them) of not following the law. I am not familiar with the law enough to know whether you can play the well-they-don't-have-to card.

But my question still stands, is there any recourse for a company who believes it is held to a double standard with regards to direct competitors?
.... Awesome hahahaha.
I've "left" a few times (I think I've lived outside the US longer than I've lived in the US, at least after age 14), but as a US Citizen, the most egregious aspects still apply to me wherever I am. And renouncing one's citizenship is a far bigger step than leaving, or never having had it in the first place.

Also, many of the problems with the US are actually global externalities and hurt non-citizens/non-residents abroad even more than they affect US citizens or those within the US. We essentially are responsible for the global war on drugs, for instance.

It's hard to figure out what things would cause me to be so angry at the USG to renounce citizenship but not to remain in the US and use all means to try to fix the problem. e.g. if there were a genuine Hitler/Stalin/Mao-level takeover of the US, I wouldn't be content to just flee somewhere and try to avoid it; the only reason to leave would be temporarily to raise funds/forces to try to fix it. But I really don't see anything like that happening in the US -- much more likely just a long slide into comparative irrelevancy like the UK has done over the past 60-80 years.
or maybe because there are developers who are $30 and hour and there are developers who are $100 an hour ?

Isn't that the same with the doctors? Isn't that the same with the equipment?

Isn't that the same with the medication?

Who cares if they can kill you on the cheap? The point is to save lives no matter what the cost.
Old Europe strikes me as a place that is great for oligarchs with political connections and lots of capital for regulatory compliance costs, but bad for low-capital scrappy startups. I guess that's why most people in Europe get a job working 40 hours a week for The Man where they can't be fired and take lots of vacation.
Thanks! (though the unexpected karma flood has ended :) )
Theoretically they can ban you from ever entering the US again even with a valid foreign passport. In practise this doesn't seem to happen. But I guess you never know when they'll start enforcing that rule. There are also complicated tax implications - basically they treat you as if you died and tax you one time on all of your assets.
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2 startups is hardly enough evidence to say that's the only way of acquiring users.

Besides, if the "spam" is actually helpful and appropriate, what is spam to you may be a welcomed way to learn about a new product for another person.

That said, never trust a marketing messaged signed by the Prince of Nigeria. ;)
i thought zack got all the money because he's a celebrity.
like, he's cute, and all, and plays a funny guy on scrubs.

but...

but then i watched that mashable interview...

ends up he's paid his dues, and seems to have a clue too.

i've backed 2.5dozen projects before, but i went over and
gave him $10 -- put him over $2.5million -- because, hey,
i like people who pay their dues, and have a clue too...

good thing i have a girlfriend, so zack can "shift" all of
that "financial risk" to me and my ten dollar contribution.

(some of you people need to listen to what you're saying.
i'm just sayin'...)

-bowerbird
Why, is there a quiet period just before the release of earnings?
I don't think that is the answer. Can every student in the USA who is willing and capable of being a doctor get into med school? I would guess that this is probably not the case.

Increasing the number of doctors produced locally would seem to me to be a much easier way of increasing supply.
Fair enough point - but they do mention some specific examples of people that obviously have a high net worth and have a _lot_ to lose by these tax laws. I assume that anyone giving up their citizenship has enough to lose to make that worthwhile.

It would be good to examine exactly how much is being lost and whether it's _actually_ newsworthy, but I'm not sure how they can do that - AFAIK all they can go on is the number of people giving up their citizenship that is provided by the IRS. You'd need to figure out specific names, it'd be a huge undertaking. It'd be interesting to know though, and probably worthwhile for the government to investigate and monitor.
Thanks Sacha. I purchased the book and am really enjoying it. Thanks to you and Tom for writing the book. I am at the beginning of the Collections chapter. Unfortunately, for some reason, the Server-Client communication is not working (collection inserts using mongo console, do not show up in the browser console and vice-versa). I have not yet removed autopublish. Anyhow, will try to explore it further.
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It's also not possible to look at a password and determine long it would take to crack, even knowing how it was generated (to the reasonable extent I believe you implied, ie Bulgarian or English). Your password may happen to be the first word in a dictionary list or it could be the last word.

It is an inherently inaccurate probabilistic estimation of an attacker's methods, and does make any claim of being more than that.
What people are miffed about is that he has the money to fund it himself and be even more independant.
A complete failure would still leave him enough money to buy a penthouse in NYC. So if this project is so dear to him, why does he need to ask his fans to bear the financial risk?
The complaint read more like a screed about everything that's wrong with America than a sincere attempt at obtaining relief.

That said, I'm a little bit sympathetic to the Rule 3-9(b) thing in this context. Even if he was serious, who would take the plaintiff's side of this case on contingency?

As an aside, I think Aaron would make a great plaintiff's lawyer. Combative, self-righteous, with a ton of "burn things down" energy. This is not a negative aspersion on his character--I think it's quite admirable in a way...
Sorry, you seem to be under the mistaken impression that I'm here to do something for you.

Excuse me, my shareholders are calling me.
Why is it so hard to remove features? Because user complains? Reading Antifragile; there is this idea that evolution works via negativa. We should applaud to any removal of dead parts, even Google Reader, yes.
Is the bar "works perfectly" or "works better than what we have in the US"?
Good points, but regarding moving states - that doesn't address large federal taxes, or taxes on things that aren't taxed in other countries (death tax, gift tax).
No one has a problem with limited term copyright

Well, some of us do. But it's certainly not the majority, even here.
People who fall for attacks like this don't install protective extensions, or if they do, they become complacent assuming that those extensions will always protect them.
Why are you a professional connection with your boyfriend's dad?
We're solving these exact problems by developing Mighty Spring (https://www.mightyspring.com).

LinkedIn has always been a good professional networking tool. But because it's a professional networking tool, exploring new opportunities is rife with risk (as the OP alludes to). Great opportunity discovery is about what you want to do, not just what you have done, and that isn't necessarily public information.

Mighty Spring helps you find interesting jobs discretely -- a private place for you to manage your career.

ps. We're in private beta, but will expedite invites to all you hacker news folks that sign up :)
More like may seed some lightning.
Regulations and the free market are not the only options. There's a 3rd one which I personally want: completely socialized healthcare, where doctors are paid a fixed salary and all drugs and medical equipment are purchased at negotiated and aggressively low prices.

I suspect the quality of care will not blow anyone's mind, and we'll have to work on that. But at least we'll finally graduate from a medieval society we are today. Private healthcare is no different from private armies: too few can afford it, that's why we need the state.

If you are a free market believer, my position is not easy to agree with. But at least I hope it is understandable because at this very moment I am sitting on $41K in medical bills which I got for a 4 hours at the hospital (surgery+time in a recovery room).

Yes, that is $2.8 per second and it wasn't a brain surgery, it was a skiing accident - broken arm.
Former Silicon Mechanics employee here.

While I was working there, we had between zero and no interest whatsoever from anybody in actually seriously trying to purchase anything OpenCompute.

Apparently some board members used to work with some higher-ups at Facebook, so the project is sticking around for a while despite the total lack of interest.

If there's any actual real-world interest in OpenCompute stuff, you HAVE to reach out and ask or it's going to disappear.
I have tried many as possible and find the best to me are Feedly and Newsblur.
Make a try on any of this two rss/feed readers .
The US system is complicated because of deductions. You can still have a progressive (and I would argue more fair) tax system that is very simple. For example here in NZ there are various tax brackets but most people don't ever file a tax return - your employer deducts the correct amount from your paychecks and sends it to the govt. What in the US would be deductions are benefits here - the govt send you a check if you qualify (poor with children, disability, etc) but you still pay your normal tax rates. It makes the system much simpler to understand and for most people they have zero interaction with the tax authorities at all - the only people who do are the poor and the rich.