skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Any ideas on how it would work if I inc in India, but operate in the US (I'm in the US on F1 visa)
> You pay reverse service tax for services you take from abroad and you even pay TDS (Withholding Tax) from your pocket for entities not incorporated in India

This is the most bizzare tax compliance issue I faced in India.

If you incorporate in US, you still have to pay taxes in India. This can make things easier in India, but it can create additional compliance and tax burden in US.

If you are looking forward to raise Venture Capital, then Delaware C-Corp is the preferred route. If you want to remain a self-funded company, then LLC can be a better option.

If you want to carry forward your revenue in India, then you can contract your Indian entity and transfer funds for services. Any funds you transfer to Indian company will be subject to Services tax or VAT and Income tax.

You can use services like LegalZoom to incorporate in US online.
That's not inconsistent nor particularly cynical. It's Econ 101: if you make something more expensive, all else being equal there will be less of it.
Where should one keep their money besides a bank? Investment vehicles? Somewhere else?
Thank you for this. I am giving in to my urge to link it to some of the comments decrying the funereal cost given. I was told to set aside $20k fifteen years ago -- I'd expect now it would be much more.
Interesting feedback. I think we are way to close to even see that. A font with the bars on the top and bottom of the I would be a better fit.

Sales (and by extension pitches) is a necessary reality for all companies. Selling is hard. I am not good as sales and we built it to help us sell which is always easier and more effective with visuals.

There are a lot of other uses for PitchIt besides sales but so far the name has clicked with us. Besides I would have to remove my tatoo if the name changed!
The growth chart is missing "IPv6 Addresses".
Is merging painful enough for you team that it's worth avoiding?
Hey Taylor - thanks for posting this. I'm giving some talks about it in SF. Will let you know when the links to the video go live.
Looking back on Facebook's “Look Back” videos
There are two concerns - one is that the company goes away. The second is that there aren't any developers that know your product, therefore we can't hire anyone without training. So your measures would deal with the first but not the second. Have you considered open sourcing some part of it?
er, by stable branch, i mean stable _channel_. or whatever channel.
The usual eggs in a basket advice doesn't seem appropriate when you have an FDIC-insured basket.
My arrows weren't meant to be direct causal links.

It's still true that there are potential situations I didn't touch (A <- B and B -> A, &c), but those can be reduced to multiple instances of the above.

Edited to add:

"Sometimes A between .5 and .8 -> B but A less than .5 or more than .8 -> !B. So now you can have study's that show more A -> B and others that less A -> B. (Think nutrition)"

My arrows also weren't meant to be implication, just a causal relationship. A -> B and !A -> B would be the same thing.

I should probably have been more explicit about all these points.
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Yeah PDF or at least a field to paste text in!
Looks like it's being done here, there is some discussion of it upthread: https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/w704/beating-cancer-o...
Etsy also ships physical things, the only difference is that they subcontract to a delivery company, who obviously doesn't pay taxes over Etsy's profits.

But actually, it's not different, because Amazon also subcontracts, the only difference is that the subcontracted delivery company is named... Amazon. So what they're doing is the same as any companies that ships products to the UK, except that they happen to own both companies and they have similar names.

I fail to see the reason why should Amazon UK pay for the profits earned by Amazon Luxembourg, when DHL or whoever don't pay for Etsy's profits that come from the UK.
I'll repeat bcobb's recommendation for Working Effectively with Legacy Code. It's the bible.

In my Let's Code JavaScript screencast, I've recently started a three-part special on legacy JavaScript code. It follows my efforts to "do it live" with actual legacy code someone else wrote. You might find it useful. (Full disclosure: subscription required, and parts II and III don't come out until April 4th and May 2nd.) http://www.letscodejavascript.com/v3/episodes/lab/6

Edit: I just realized that you already said you're using Feathers' book, and that the challenge isn't technical, it's planning and communication. Let me try again:

Part of that is just "the way it is." At the risk of sounding snarky, I imagine you could plan fairly effectively ("we have huge error bars because our velocity is unpredictable, so given backlog X, we're confident we'll be done sometime within 3-12 months"). See the "Risk Management" and "Slack" sections of AoAD for that.

I also imagine you could communicate that fairly easily ("given our three month estimate, we think we have a 50/50 shot of being done in six months and we're almost certain of being done in less than 12").

For many teams I work with, the problem isn't planning or communication, the problem is that reality isn't conforming to stakeholders' wishes. And there's no way to make it conform. (Short of kicking the problem down the road by accumulating more debt while you search for a new job.)

So how do you break the news?

One way is to, um, not. At this point, stakeholders are used to delays and bugs. The status quo ("we'll pretend to follow your schedule, and you'll pretend to believe us") can be comforting. It might be useful to stick with that.

Another way is to ramp up the frequency of delivery so much that the error bars are less noticeable. An estimate to deliver in 3-12 business days is less painful than an estimate of 3-12 months.

A third option is to negotiate for scope rather than schedule. "We'll absolutely deliver in three months. It might be tiny. That's because of technical debt." (I'm less fond of this approach than I used to be. Negotiating scope makes stakeholders profoundly uncomfortable in a way that slipping dates doesn't, for some reason. Perhaps because they see it as an attempt to weasel out of producing anything.)

Another approach is to stop estimating entirely. "We're working on Feature X and we'll tell you when it's done."

There's also simply explaining the situation: the cynical approach ("we have a ton of technical debt because of the decisions your predecessor made, isn't it great you're here now") or the enlightened approach ("we've got a technical debt problem, it has effects W, T, and F; we're addressing it with P, D, and Q; you can expect consequences O, M, G; we're preventing it from happening again with techniques S, L, A, C, and K.").

I'll typically use some combination of the above depending on the audience.

(I'm in a weird mood. Sorry if this came across as uncaring. The ideas are serious even if the tone is not.)
Relevent: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/57654.php
It should be noted that it isn't shown if this project is economically viable. The project is funded with tax money.

I myself use the service almost daily, enjoying the taxi rides which cost $5. I would bet that the real cost of one trip is something like $50. Almost all the time I'm the only customer in the bus. The service quality drops noticiebly when the driver needs to pick up/drop other customers. I will probably stop using the service if it gets popular.
Depends on how you handle your finances and carry risk. If you keep 100% of your short-term assets in a bank and it goes under, under Canadian banking rules (where I'm from), only $100,000 is covered by the government. Same goes with investing all your money into a specific stock, if the stock performs poorly, your net worth takes a hit.
This set of comics seems apt.

http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Cancer
"Federalism" was the founder's way of guaranteeing employment for lawyers.
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I'd be very interested to know if DO make a positive margin on their $5 droplets. I feel like I push a fair amount of data through mine, and plan to push more in the future using a bunch of $5 droplets and round-robin DNS. I'd feel better if I knew I was still a +EV customer.
My productivity takes a dramatic hit when I have to work on a single, [relatively] small screen and use a less-than-full-sized keyboard.
Another benefit of TDD is that it avoids generalizing by reasoning. Instead, it does generalization by example. Its not top-down, nor is it bottom-up; its programming from known-to-unknown.
Somewhat agree/somewhat disagree. Products don't last forever, but the large open source products like Drupal and Wordpress have been around a fairly long time - long enough to instill confidence in my boss that they will, more than likely, continue to exist in the future. I do agree with your second point. But my point was not necessarily about my personal opinion - my point was that organizations are often concerned about this (e.g. my boss) - and that makes it difficult to commit to a smaller, closed-source or hosted vendor.
Living in Canada and under CDIC rules, only $100,000 is covered. Thus, backing up my original post of not putting all your fiat eggs in your bank basket.
It can't be avoided, but we do tend to try and minimize it.
The 8-bit revival scene is really cool .. some nice new titles for old, forgotten machines are being produced these days, and its really a blast to be receiving such gifts. For those of us who suffered the ignobility of having invested in the wrong 8-bit box, seeing new software being produced for the thing is, quite simply, a humbling experience. In my case, its all about the Oric-1/Atmos machines - which had their chance, but faded fast.

And yet now they are getting amazing stuff released for them:

http://www.oric.org/index.php?page=software&fille=top150game...

Of the top-10 games in this list, 5 of them are brand new, produced in the last year or so. (Space 1999, Pulsoids, Impossible Mission, 1337, Skool Daze)

Simply a great time to still have the old boxes stuffed away and discover they not only still work - but f'in kick ass beyond what anyone thought they would, 30 years ago!
I have to pay self employment tax since I'm a graduate fellow, so I have a larger amount in my bank account than I own. My vote reflects the money I own.
Downloaded Brackets today, as I am really excited for the live web view. However, the live web view either showed wonky formatting or crashed. However, if I open the same index.html doc in Chrome, everything is fine. They say Bracket is updated every 2.5 weeks, so I hope the issue doesn't last too long.
meterpreter is a rootkit is it not?

Doesn't that mean all data is comprimised, not just Whatsapp, since the root account has full access to the /data/data folder?

This is similar to the Metasploit script that searches for bitcoin wallet.dat files. Just a minor post-hacking automation script.
Maybe give them a call?
Based on your comment, I'm not sure if you know this, but DigitalOcean doesn't offer Ipv6 at any of their data centers right now, so it'd just be a flat line at 0.
Always have some cash. You'll never know when you'll need it.
SmartSheet is pretty much an excel/database hybrid and is pretty popular.
20k for burial? is that below or above average?
Yes, it looks like the same idea as Jackrabbit / JCR. I hope they've done their homework and understood the advantages and limitations of that API. I always found it a pain to work with, and that's probably the reason it never took off.

I really, really hope they succeed, but they've bitten off a difficult problem. It's not hard to design a simple content management API. What's hard is making it general enough to handle many situations without getting too complex.
You have to understand, the incentives and concerns of the two places are quite different between the U.S.A. (a place where expats come from), and Hong Kong (a place where expats go to). The U.S. has little incentive to facilitate Americans taking their capital and leaving. Hong Kong has a lot of incentive to facilitate that process.
Keeping money in a bank is 'ok' until you hit the insured limit.

'Safe' stocks (utilities, etc), precious metals and real estate are all nominally safe investments as well.
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It would be fitting to have an equivalent of Fugitive's :Gbrowse to see a file on github and :Gblame to see the blame inline. Never understood why would your editor should be aware of git until I used that.
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What do you think about an offshore corporation for Bitcoin startups? Considering the regulatory environment in the USA, is it better to incorporate in someplace like Panama or Switzerland?
$17. My company bank account has more than that, which is what matters. I used to have ~$20k but...boostrapping.
Actually, that's only one of the contributions, and I'm not so sure it's the "key innovation". Every other recent face recognition method also tries to do some kind of alignment to make faces more similar in pose/expression/lighting prior to classifying them; and of these, several also fit faces to a 3-d model to rotate to frontal (with varying quality).

See my other comment for my guess on what's actually providing the boost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7393378
An FDIC insured basket doesn't do much if a currency is hyperinflated though.
Until Digital Ocean came around, I'd always thought it bizzare that there weren't more serious competitors to AWS.

Under the 'competitive advantage' model, it is somewhat unusual that a diversified company like Amazon could be the most efficient vendor at providing a 'commodified', targeted offering like cloud hosting.
Ever thought about using a credit union?
It works because when you die it costs them way less than $500k to dispute the situation and avoid paying you anything.
No, you do not need any paid account in order to compile an APK and install it on any number of devices. I could paste a link to an APK right here, and if you were visiting it from your phone, you could install it directly from that downloaded file.

This works on any number of devices.

You need a Google Play Developer account in order to distribute through the Google Play store, but you can directly install an application on an unlimited number of devices for free without ever signing up for an account. This is not possible on iOS without jailbreaking every phone.
Ahh, thank you for that!
Hello there! I've got email in my profile. Maybe we can organize something!
Mr. Canada, you can put $100k in one bank then move on to the next. The same basket...with different hens?
I was confused about all your "we avoid merging" comments, because I can't imagine how you could possibly work without merging, but this explains it.
Thanks so much for doing this!

Here's my situation: I've been working on a pretty successful project with a friend (selling eBooks), and we're thinking about incorporating (up to now we've been taking in income separately through our own personal companies).

Given that I live in Japan, and he lives in Australia, does it make more sense to incorporate in the U.S., in one of those two countries, or somewhere else (Hong Kong)?

The main advantage I can see to incorporating in the U.S. is being able to use Stripe or other similar services. But I don't know if that alone is worth the trouble?

For a company that only sells digital products and doesn't need an office in the U.S., is there any benefit to incorporating there?
Google Drive is now 9.9$ for 1TB and 1.9$ for 100GB
SQLite backend and <Frontend in Any Language>. What's the big deal?
This task used to be more distributed over the server-side devs, but having a single release manager who does this most of the time and other people who do it occasionally and/or when the release manager isn't working seems to work well.
It seems like a basic rule of diversification of never keeping all your eggs in one basket, including the the bank.

I'm unclear if you're asking how many people keep 90% or more of their total liquid short-term assets in a bank or not.

I'd expect most people keep most their short-term liquid assets in a bank since this is usually just their cash on hand. But this is not "all their eggs" considering their long-term non-liquid assets are probably tied up in some sort of retirement vehicles (which are hopefully diversified), and their homes.
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Lawyers as politicians are the way that guaranteed employment is generated for lawyers. :-)
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I would put that pretty low on my list of worries, if your money is in USD or a similarly stable currency, rather than a small one like Zimbabwean dollars or Icelandic Krona. Modest inflation, perhaps even in the low double digits, is a non-negligible risk, but Weimar-style hyperinflation in USD is a fairly negligible risk, much lower than a bunch of other risks I'm exposed to. The last time the annual inflation rate in USD surpassed 100% (which still isn't even hyperinflation territory) was during the Civil War, ~150 years ago.
The LFW test is verification: given two faces you've never seen before, tell whether they're the same person or not. That's a much weaker test than saying "who is this?"

The LFW benchmark protocol is described in the original tech report: http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/lfw.pdf
I had a similar experience.

I run a france-based company specialized in online advertising and I wanted to expand our activities to the US, who does not? Obviously France is way worst than Denmark and the US for business, tax and work laws, so I can't really relate for the tax part.

I relate mostly for the visa stuff. What I am getting from the OP post, Nitai was doing L1-A. I have been doing L1-A too. (I recognized the list of documents scanned the OP has posted! :) ) Same hassle, same huge amount of documents needed, we didn't give up though after the first request for evidences but the requirements are kind of high so we finally didn't get it.

US now sucks for immigration and it seems to worsen. BUT, Europe seems harder too than before for immigration. It seems a tendency that in the world with Internet, cheap transportation and desire for better file, people immigrate more and countries make stronger bureaucratic walls.

That's sad. :'(
What is the intended meaning of "bank account" here? Checking account? Checking+savings account? Should investment accounts be included?
Spritz through everything at 500wpm, even mobile.
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A phone call is by definition a conversation. With emails, you need many of them to create a conversation so you will probably not get the shit done with one email.
With a phone call at the time you hang up, it's done.
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Depends on what your objectives are.

If you would like to increase the interest received on your money, then holding a portfolio of value stocks or an index ETF will outperform your bank account by a large margin over time. This takes very little effort, but will suffer from the occasional (large) drawdown that you have to sit out or this strategy won't work.

If your primary objective is capital conservation then buying high quality debt of countries would be a good idea. Singapore or Switzerland are good candidates if you consider it a real possibility that the US could default on its obligations. Otherwise you could hold Treasury bills and roll them over once they mature or you could use an ETF like SHY that holds short-term Treasury bonds.

You could also buy precious metals if you are convinced that civilisation is going to end in the foreseeable future. Drawbacks are fluctuating prices and the complete lack of interest payments.
I would like to see the same poll in terms of monthly income (or expenses) and not just total amount.

I would post it myself, but I need 81 upvotes to this post to get me there.
PHPMyAdmin is too low-level for what I'd want. For myself, it's fine, but I can't just hand it over to users for querying, updating, adding records, etc. With Access or Filemaker it's easy to set up something that I can hand over to nontechnical users. When I want something web based, I always seem to end up having to code an interface for it myself, which feels like a waste of time.
Yea it's rather ambiguous. I responded based on checking.
You know what I miss for instant support? IRC. It combines with instant gratification of phone calls with the crowd-support of forums or community support portals.

IRC obviously isn't mainstream and lacks features that some other systems have, but whenever I'm working on something and want a quick question answered that I can't get via google, I look for an IRC channel first.
No. Apart from the ridiculous form factor, encoding rates of 96 & 192 KHz are just pointless for final delivery. It makes sense to use those higher bitrates (at least 96khz...192Khz not so much) when mixing so as to avoid aliasing from eq and effect processing, but most people can't even hear the difference between 44.1 and 48khz. Basis: I am a recording and post-production sound engineer and have been at it for almost 20 years. I have been recording digitally that entire time.

It is nice that it does FLAC so you get lossless playback, and I presume it has good d/a converters. But again, most people would be hard pressed to tell the difference between lossless and well-chosen mp3 (320kbps and/or VBR), which is very, very good. Also, storage is so cheap these days that if you don't like compression you can just listen to wav files. I don't need every single piece of music I ever own on one device and available at all times - indeed I still play compact discs from time to time - but if I did, I could just use a really large SD card.

I guess it could get by in the market, since everything in the device is basically commodity hardware that can be assembled by machine and there are enough audiophiles out there to break even or make a reasonable profit. But I don't see it having any more than marginal impact on the market, and I say that as someone who makes music, cares a great deal about sound quality, and is up to speed on codecs, psychoacoustics, DSP, and all other related topics.
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A short pre-2.5 video of mine (2007):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvQbYXPmqiA

A post-2.5 video of mine (2011):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM0JMaM_tdQ
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Agreed - so that begs the question: where does somebody who is making 500k or even a million per year keep their money to 1) have it easily accessible for purchasing things and 2) safe?
For the OS. Imagine 999 rows containing one line of text and the last one containing a long text spanning maybe 30 lines.

To calculate the scroll accurately you need to calculate the height of 1000 elements to get the full height.

Instead in the common scenario you just calculate the height of the rows displayed on the screen and estimate the height using the average and the count.
Unless it's all a shame, a lot of what the central Chinese government does seems great for China and neutral to good for everyone in the world. Most of the stupidity in China seems to come from provincial or local governments.
No offense. None taken.
The same type of gutter integration can also be had in Vim and Sublime Text:

https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter

https://github.com/jisaacks/GitGutter
It would be interesting to see how many of those customers come and go.

I have and know people who use DO but it's mostly for early stage development prior to moving to a dedicated/customers infrastructure.