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This could be really cool, if we can figure out how to cheaply create this type of reaction and harness the energy released.
I can't speak on the legal merits of the case, but this does seem like a direct hit (that, it sounds like, won't work) on VC-istan.

They should start giving him EIR offers. He's earned it several times over. That might be the best way to make everyone happy.
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Good point; I wonder how many people take that approach. I personally tend to log out of Gmail after I read my email, which signs me out of my Google Account fairly regularly. But maybe that's an unusual use pattern.
I have a couple problems with this post:

> Of that, $95,100 in 2012 is tax free, so I only pay taxes on what I make over that. Which I did one year, so that was fun trying to figure out how to pay the IRS from an overseas bank account.

Are you telling me that the Swedish taxes you deducted from your tax bill were lower than the corresponding American taxes? I find this very hard to believe. Yes, you have to pay taxes after $95k, but you can deduct what you pay to the government in the country you are working in, which usually comes out to zero overall.

> From what I can tell, if I had moved to New Zealand then I would be paying social security to both countries.

You do not have to pay payroll taxes if you are employed abroad. I haven't contributed to SSI or Medicare in a long time.

> Have you filed your FBAR statement?

Every year! This is annoying, but at least we can file online now.

> Swedish banks really don't want customers who are US citizens, because the US requires a lot of extra paperwork from the bank. FACTA makes this worse.

Thankfully, I live in China where they could careless about American laws (up until this point).

> It ends up being this odious choice - how much are you willing to pay and how much hassle will you put up with in order to keep your citizenship?

It really isn't that big of a deal. There is at least a million of us working abroad, probably more, and only 640 a year decide to renounce. And what are the other choices? Should I become a PRC citizen, even if that was possible?
"Other stuff" is state pension. Which is an earned entitlement, not an insurance.
Honestly, I don't even count the CS classes (C++) I took well over 10 years ago. I don't remember a single thing from them or any concepts at all. I wish I did as learning to program would have been a lot easier.
If you aren't familiar with the system why make the claim that doctors have control because regulation says so?
Hacker News isn't just strictly news anymore than the New York Times is strictly about New York.

We do live in boring times. The 24/7 media cycle may have taught us otherwise. But day-to-day, not that much new events happens. The way I see Hacker News, it's a place for smart hackers to post interesting articles. If other hackers find the article interesting, that's all that matters.
I still found it quite interesting, especially in light of certain recent decisions by Google.
> Some people I know who have setup a similar thing only pay themselves 50k USD a year and the company pays for the rest as expenses.

Technically those people are still on the hook for the expenses the company pays for them, sans the generous overseas housing deduction that congress recently implemented.

I have the opposite problem really. All my money is held by the communists (well, in my China Merchants Bank account anyways).
The requirement of the government to pay taxes in dollars, and the fact that dollars are legal tender for settling civil debts prevents one country's currency from supplanting the other within the borders of the country, mostly.
Already being worked on really. It's more blob-storage oriented, but take a look at Openstack Swift if you haven't before or Ceph. Lots of other projects out there.

If you don't specifically mean block-storage type software and more open replacements for Netapp/EMC gear, someone else might be the better one to chime in.
This is an old post (and I'm pretty sure I read it here on HN). Please change the title to reflect the year of publication -- 2009.
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This is a serious problem, but they do have a workaround. You put new users in an "exception group" that doesn't require two factor auth. Then after they set them up you take them out of the group. It's better than nothing:

http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2...
I was confused by that, too. I am sure it made sense in the context of their pitch (due to WHEN it was made), but the "milestones" slide didn't indicate which items had occurred vs were simply goals.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure those are both in every password dictionary ever...

This site would be much better if it took the time to "crack" the password you submitted.
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Of course HN isn't specifically anything other than a repository of links. And if people find old articles interesting, that's great; like I said, a lot of them are to me as well.

But there is so much else going on around the world that I don't see the point in rehashing three-year-old change-of-employment announcements.

I'm not trying to incur the ire of the love-it-or-leave-it crowd, so I'll just leave it at that.
Why not? If you think you're logging in you'll also need to enter the 2FA code and if you do that the attacker can get an active session.
No, asm.js code that parses successfully is compiled ahead of time. It is a strict subset of the JavaScript programming language. If you use parts other than the subset, it will fail to parse as valid asm.js code and revert to the interpreter/JITs.
I liked the fact that it complained about HTTP more than the fact that it's encouraging people to type their password into a random online site just 'cause it's by a "legitimate entity", whatever that means.

(Recommendations not to use your real password notwithstanding)
Economics is really what will drive space travel. Consider that launch costs are going down steadily, and worldwide GDP is going up considerably. Knowledge of the solar system is going up at the same rate. Eventually a line will get crossed where transportation costs are lower than expected ROI. This is already the case for satellites. Eventually it will be the case for asteroid mining.

Mining asteroids will further reduce the cost of getting raw materials into LEO, and yet more break even points will be crossed etc...

I don't know if it will take 20 years or 200 years, but once there is serious money to be made you'll see humanity become a spacefaring species overnight.
Tesla turns its first profit
I probably don't go hiking enough to personally really need this, but I love the idea of a tough eInk device.
For 165,000 * M >= 640 * N, N would have to me much greater than M. I think its a win.

But this isn't accurate, the 165k who naturalized were probably already visa or greencard holders and paying taxes. A more accurate way to measure this is to look at how many visas that support employment are issued each year, which is probably greater than 165K.
Endorsements should use a web-of-trust.

Some people (undefined process) are given an endorsed skill (eg. Python). They can now endorse anyone in their network for python. But they cannot endorse anyone who claims a skill in 'goat herding'.

Now they have meaning as you can only endorse someone for a skill you have also been endorsed for.

My former boss had added 'Oracle' as a skill. I didn't know until LinkedIn asked me to endorse it. He's not even a technical guy, so I've no idea why he had added it but he's actually been endorsed for it by other business owners.
> Most companies make it a policy not to comment on ongoing litigation. Usually nothing good comes of it. Although there are exceptions...

This might be the only case where the only good that could possibly come of it would be to comment.
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It's because you compared a niche product from a company with no track record and no production timeline to a mass market product, from a company with a CEO that has a history of goal completion, and that is in full production.
Switzerland's cantons will let you work out a deal on citizenship and a flat rate on how much taxes you pay.
I couldn't agree more, which is why I simply don't show them on my profile anymore.

Hiding endorsements is straightforward: http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/34994
Aaron has been banging on about this for a long time — you can check his posting history here if you doubt his integrity. I think he really does sincerely believe these companies are doing something against the rules and hopes to get a ruling on the matter, either forcing them to follow the rules or creating an explicit exemption that Aaron can use for his own company.
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Name dropping, but I enjoyed it.

Got any time trabel, Mr. God? God is C.E.O. of Trivial Solutions.

God sets borders, alright.

God seys...

13:15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah
shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel
before Abijah and Judah.

13:16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered
them into their hand.

13:17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so
there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

13:18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and
the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God
of their fathers.

13:19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him,
Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof,
and Ephraim with the towns thereof.

----

God's a tough boss -- demands perfection. That means, "Whatever I do must be perfect!"

God seys...
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diligently Soon arriving accomplish provided sports sores
stumble straying vicissitudes hope calumnies wine-bibbing
That's_gonna_leave_a_mark strangely personages unhesitatingly
withering not_in_kansas_anymore liberality ruminate Paraguay
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I somewhat agree with the "perfect is the enemy of the good" issue here, and would love to see encryption more broadly employed for person-to-person communications, and think your plan is pretty reasonable.

That said, I'm still somewhat worried about MITM in the scenarios you describe above - should probably expose "you haven't verified this sender, it could be spoofed" somewhere, but somewhere icon/color-y rather than scary-error-message-y. Details, though...
Because of what your describe in your original post: That scenario is completely implausible, except where enforced by regulation. I don't know what the exact mechanism is, I can just tell that it must be there. It's a game of prisoner's dilemma with 600,000 participants.
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The atmosphere as a kind of spark chamber? http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/~lester/teaching/SparkChamber/S...
I too would like bookmarks
I'm arguing that the analogue should be there. When I mail a letter to someone it's just a physical manifestation of the information. The fact that it's physical is a by-product of the transfer medium. I don't feel like rights should be lost just because we can represent the content of that letter as an email, and send it over a 'series of tubes.'

If I store files on Dropbox, I am arguably paying for them to store the files for me, not giving them to Dropbox to do with what they like. It should not be treated any differently than a rented storage space in the physical world (regardless of implementation details like de-duplication).
The Galaxy Nexus uses the Bosch BMP180 barometric pressure sensor. This means you can get a faster GPS location with fewer satellites. That's the main motivation for it.

http://www.bosch-sensortec.com/homepage/products_3/environme...
Why does a restaurant chain have a mailing list of a million customers?
How is being a "money transmitter" any different than buying the "inventory" and reselling it? Airbnb could have an "expense" paying their providers.

This seems crazy.
Ah, I recently got married, does my wife have to be a US citizen?
Exploiting The Decoy Effect on Pricing Pages
Running Supervisor on OS X.
"Is expatriation increasing? Maybe? Who knows with this quality of reporting."

It certainly is. With this reporting it was very easy to find the actual list, which is at https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/05/08/2013-108... .

(Though "LOCKE-TECKEMEIER LORETTA ULLRICH" and "LOCKE-TECKMEIER LORETTA U." are likely the same person, so the count won't be perfect.)

With a bit of work, you can easily verify if the number is increasing.

"If people aren't taking the easy step and relocating to different states due to tax differences..."

A different logic is much more likely. There are Americans who have already relocated overseas and some decades later renounce their citizenship.

Consider Corine Mauch, the Iowa born mayor of Zurich. “My relationship with the U.S. is limited to my very early youth,”. "[S]he regards Switzerland as her home and doesn’t want to deal with Internal Revenue Service paperwork, according to an e- mailed statement from her office today." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-18/zurich-mayor-renoun... .

You're right; it's hard to tell if someone renounced citizenship in order to avoid paying US taxes. Indeed, there are other reasons for doing so. Someone running for the legislature of another country may be required to renounce all other citizenships.

But given the rather rapid rise in renunciations, correlated with the increase in tax reporting and compliance policies, it's a pretty reasonable conclusion. In any case, the US policies both real (the Reed amendment) and proposed (the Ex-Patriot Act) are rather harsh on people who renounce for tax reasons, so it will be hard to carry out a study where you ask people if that's the basis for their decision. (You'll see that Mauch carefully did not say that she left because of taxation reasons.)

"Expatriation is just migration on a larger scale."

Your example, with two US states, isn't the same comparison. Better would be to think of a California resident who moves to Nevada, never goes back to California, but still has to pay California taxes.

"is it worth wasting energy on the few people a year who will do so"

No. Absolutely not. But there's a few other issues at play. For example, the reason for the heightened tax reporting policies is to crack down on US residents with overseas bank accounts, who use those accounts to avoid paying US taxes. Ex-pats (who have no strong representation in Congress), are caught in the cross-fire.
That article seems inaccurate or at least incomplete. If you read the NY State decision [1] you can read the judge's reasoning. It seems pretty reasonable and is definitely not some sort of blanket rule that service by email is OK. Notably, the AOL mail service did send an automated "message read" receipt.

http://www.courts.state.ny.us/Reporter/3dseries/2008/2008_28...
I understand that connecting 'upwards' is better (I'm connected with all my former bosses). But if my boss's former colleagues got into the habit of shopping for new employees in his current workforce, they would not remain connected for very long. Perhaps this is a regional difference (I am not in SV). After I'm no longer a current employee (and socially OK to extend a job offer to), I still get all the benefits you mention, except that I also have the benefit (in several cases) of my former bosses sending me tips about jobs in their network that aren't listed on LinkedIn, and I don't have the downsides of announcing to my current boss if I'm shopping around.
Generally speaking, the historical posts on HN are some of the most interesting. I wish there were more of them. They're also one of the more distinctive things about this site. At its best, people here are interested in a broad range of things—a range that extends backward in time as well as in other directions. It's a shallow intellect indeed that has no room for anything beyond the L1 cache of the moment.
PGP or GPG don't require you to open a command prompt. The issue is that there aren't many (or some would argue any) good GUIs.
Yep, as a man who has trained people to be on the phone with other people, acting is your main bet.
You want to essentially partition yourself, and I mean in the sense of literally saying to yourself "I am going to put myself in a box, and I am going to make up a show personality for the crowd." With that in mind, and given that you are not you, it gives you more freedom to be "that" guy.
Remember, this is not something you can try at, this is something you commit to head first and remember there is nothing to be afraid of because DUN DUN DUN, THEY ARE ACTING TOO.

Also, even if you are a red hot salesmen, cold calling is still shit. I would definitely try to prune as much as possible, most of the time I just give up on that and try a different tact.
I'm in NY and I've seen very few Teslas. I'm guessing the three biggest reasons why are the small amount of fueling stations compared to California, the controversial NYT review and just simply trusting what you're used to instead of living off the bleeding edge.
If everyone has insurance, what makes providers compete on price?
If he is Canadian, there is always NAFTA.
"Worrying about bandwidth, memory, and processing power (in user space) is no longer relevant."

You couldn't be more wrong. What about mobile users? What about international users? What about mobile international users?

When building a HTML5 web app it is very important to watch the download size of your application.
This is one of the major differences between "pro" photographers and "amateurs". Pros will be vicious about editing. They have a limited number of opportunities to build their brand and reputation and to convey their message.

What I learned from a friend who is a pro photographer is to make multiple passes. I'll try to do a quick one when I import into Lightroom to cull out unfocused or unsaveable images. Then I'll go through and cut out shots that are basically duplicates.[1] Then I'll go through and see which ones I want to develop further in Nik/Lr/Ps/etc. and star them.

Then I'm a battle royale optometrist, doing "a or b" an killing the weaker candidates.

Just getting in the habit of killing (or, at least cropping out the junk) the photos that you won't care about in the future is a good start. If you're looking at older photos and wondering "why did I take that," delete it right then. You don't have to have a clean desk right away, just shred the paper you don't need when it gets in your way.

[1] I've gotten into wildlife photography, so I often have a burst of ten shots of a bird in flight to get one that is really special.
I don't know, but people in general seem to think the answer is "yes". Until and unless that changes, market forces won't really work in health care.
I can't find a news story about the incident I'm thinking of, but there are SEC regulations about the release of information to investors. You basically have to try to ensure that they all get the same data at the same time.
Working fine in IE9 as well
Sure, but the system is still bent by the attempt not to let this happen, and serious market forces won't be allowed to do their thing as long as people continue to insist that this attempt be made.
The US also taxes residency (if you aren't a citizen and work in the states) just like any other country.
How to choose your startup idea
No problem - nobody's perfect.
But real lawyers know not to represent themselves. It's too easy to get emotionally wrapped up in the case and lose perspective.