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Posting this from a throwaway account, because, well, you can never be too careful.

Several points, as an American who has lived abroad for most of my life, and only recently found out about the taxation laws and requirements:

* the requirements are Overwhelming. Most people don't realize how bad it gets. It's not about the money (most "normal" Americans living abroad owe no money to the IRS), but about the reporting. Every bank account, every stock you own or owned within the last several years, every company you started, and guess what — even if you own 15% of an LLC, that is considered a "controlled company", so all of its financials are to be reported. It's insane!

* it's not work you can easily shift to an accountant. Oh, you do have to hire one, because there is no way a US citizen can do his own taxes (in contrast to most EU countries, for example), but you still have to prepare all the information. Ever tried to report interest (accrued monthly) on six bank accounts, in three currencies, over the past 6 years?

* the benefits of being an American: frankly, I can hardly name any these days. I guess the ability to work in the US counts as one.

* it used to be that having US citizenship would be a dream, especially for people in former Eastern European post-soviet countries. But this is no longer the case. These days being a citizen of one of the EU countries gives you much more benefits and earns you much less hate abroad.

The problem with taxation of expats is very, very serious, and as others have mentioned it is unlikely to be resolved, because there is no organized lobby. The real tax-evaders don't have this problem: it's "normal" people who do.
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Traveling Ruby author here. This is not for phone apps. It is for Linux and OS X apps.

It is also not for graphical apps. Instead, it's primarily for command line apps. Potential examples of use cases that it's trying to cover:

- Chef Solo

- Heroku Toolbelt

Both of the above are written in Ruby, and both of them are command line apps targeting users who are familiar with the command line, but neither of them are necessarily used by Ruby programmers. Thus, users of the above two tools should not have to install Ruby first.
The US has also attempted to do this. However, every attempt has been killed by corporate interests (like Intuit) and politicians (mostly Republicans) and special-interest-groups (conservative anti-tax organizations)

This may be true, but I downvoted your comment because I don't see any sources for the strongly worded assertions made.
It seems like the 97.6k income exemption and double taxation tax credits help explain why this taxation isn't a huge burden on normal expats.

However, we've seen plenty of examples of American corporations setting up offices in foreign countries to avoid paying U.S. taxes -- what's to prevent the highest paid individuals from doing something similar to avoid their tax burden if this taxation policy was changed?
You've lost me. Nobody described the South Park episode that way. Honestly I think you just want to be mad about something and you found a trigger.
Steal a few million from a company, go to jail.

Steal billions from the public and cause a global financial meltdown, stay free.
The Mozilla committer agreement is not a CLA as I understand the term - it does not assign copyright to Mozilla, copyright is retained by the original author. The purpose of the document is to assert that those contributing code have the legal authority to do so. In Rust's case, those with review power are the gatekeepers responsible for ensuring the provenance of the code.
"want to re-route? It will be a 5 minute longer trip!"

I might jump at the chance. My stress levels are correlated much more strongly to traffic than trip time.
I think what the guy was referring to was taxing citizens who don't live in the country on income arising outside the country. SA doesn't seem to do that:

http://www.sars.gov.za/ClientSegments/Individuals/Tax-Stages...
Apple should ship an optional stylus. You shouldn't need one but for drawing, for instance, it would be useful.
The original link I wanted to post is :
http://tools.android.com/recent/androidstudio10released

But this is already posted here :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8718353

But marked as dead so it will never be seen by a lot of people... Is there a proper way to handle this ?
> You pay taxes that are not much higher than in the US and actually get things in return

This is what bothers me the most about the U.S. Federal Government. Most of the things I enjoy in the U.S. are provided by my city, county and state. Things like courts and fire protection and cops and roads and schools and water and sewage systems and electricity and parks.

And what's amazing about all that is I don't pay very much for it. States and cities seem to be able to really stretch our tax dollars.

I pay a lot more into the federal government and in return I get interstates (which are awesome) and the TSA at airports and borders. Other than that, I don't really have many tangible interactions with the federal government at all. This was made very obvious during the shutdown, which I wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't been reading the news. It seems to be largely a money pit.
So, required graduate school for everyone, and make sure they have money for it? Why not just sponsor two years of graduate school for certain fields of study? Which is close to what we have now, only it's voluntary.

How does one tell if a conscripted researcher is slacking off on the job, or if the job isn't just impossible?

Who is going to pay for the vacuum chamber and other hardware for researching the Casimir effect? Hardware like Anton which D. E. Shaw Research uses for protein folding? And how much training does one need even to start researching supersymmetry? That's at least a couple of years into a PhD program already, so only a select few could do it, and only those that were interested in it in the first place.

"a hard problem that has the potential to dramatically aide human beings" ... and who decides? Why are massage training, and singing, and a push for a 35 hours work week less important than cold fusion?

In other words, it sounds impractical, inefficient, and fraught with political difficulties.
For example, you might expect someone writing about how Asia should reform its farming practices to be from Asia.
The argument here is mostly NOT about paying tax. There are exemptions that cover that. He wants to not pay $5K a year to an accountant and have his bank accounts closed by banks afraid that the US government will confiscate 20% of all money transfers if don't report US expats' accounts correctly.
The article gives an example:

> For instance, three years ago, Franklin submitted an application for a startup that needed to secure crucial patents before it filed for public offering. It was being sued by a large company in the same space, and so it paid the Patent Office an extra fee to fast-track the application.

Reading between the lines a little, it looks like a small company with tech that challenged a big company was being hassled by the big company and needed the patents to put them on a favorable-enough legal footing to not interfere with their IPO.
Why is location that the rape took place relevant? What triggers the investigation is the allegation, not GPS data.

Look, I'm not trying to be dense here. But the idea that the crime would not have happened if Uber cars had undisableable GPS doesn't seem totally well thought out. After all, "you switched off your phone GPS between these times with someone in the car" is nearly as damning as "you pulled over into a quiet area and the car stopped for a while before it drove onwards".

Additionally, I thought Uber tracks drivers through the customers GPS? That's how they know the car took a longer than expected route? If they relied on the drivers app to self-report it'd only be a matter of time until someone made an app that fed false data to Uber and started selling it to bent cabbies.
Awesome, thanks, I'll have to check some of these out!
So basically most open source JS code out there is completely wrong?
As a millennial these trends are frighting to see.

It's frustrating when I chat with friends who are a few years older than me about this (mid 30s), and they blame all of this on millennials just being lazy. Or stupid, for picking bad degrees. I think the issues are larger and more systemic than that.
My friend works at one of the big 4 accounting firms doing international tax, and $5k is the going rate for the services he provides. He said most of the time their services are paid by the employers, though they have a few high net worth individuals who pay for the service.
Sure, but note:

If you don't fix this, you end up with two situations:

1. You accidentally create copyright infringers out of a lot of folks, because the number of people who will properly reproduce the license with static binaries is small.

2. Because of #1, you expose folks to a bunch of liability they weren't expecting.

Neither is a great thing to do to your users.

Combined with the fact that you don't have CLA's that grant you explicit sublicensing rights, anyone who contributes could go off and easily have a sane case against someone for not reproducing the notice. Statutory damages for copyright infringement are up to 150k in the US, sadly.

Anyway, as for other languages, this is being fixed for Go's runtime bits (and possibly stdlib), which i can talk about, but it's not really my secret to share in the case of the other languages I know about fixing it.
He does NOT pay US tax under the current system. So, he is not trying to avoid US tax. He is trying to avoid paying $5K to an accountant to do his US tax forms for which he does not owe any tax.
I kind of expected to see some good fiction there. Does Bill not read any fiction?
Hey Max, any interest in moving into analytical chemistry?

I think there could some great potential in quality control work, which almost by definition should be systematized.

Have a slide bar for pH testing, conductivity, contaminates (this is where it gets complicated, but also awesome)
setTimeout with no timeout argument simply schedules the provided function for when the interpreter is next idle. Underscore.js wraps a similar unqualified call in _.defer (last i checked, anyway; they might now provide it with a very small number or 0 for the timeout).

Edit: in both cases the result is the same in most browsers.
This isn't such a far fetched claim.
In Israel for example - you get taxes deducted from your pay check every month, directly by your employer, based on the assumption that will be your constant salary for the rest of the year.
Now lets say you get fired in September, lowering your annual salary and bringing you into a lower tax bracket - unless you personally file for a return at the end of the year, the government feels no obligation to return the taxes you've overpaid.
Given they linked to that repo from the article, I think it's safe to say they've seen it. :-)
I didn't think Apple Maps gave any data back to OSM, do you have a link? I thought it was just one dump file from a few years ago that they used.
If you're logged in on both devices the search history is shared and you'll see the last destination you searched for on your desktop at the top of the list when you open Google Maps on your mobile.
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Bear with me as I don't live in the US but doesn't some money taxed by the federal entity trickle down to the states somehow ?

edit: What's the state/federal taxes ratio ?
Here's an example that explains the tax rules for Canadian Green Card holders who have Canadian tax free retirement savings accounts. It all seems equitable and simple until you start reading deeper and it becomes clear that as a US Green Card holder from Canada working in the US that you probably need regular services from a tax attorney or a very sharp CPA with experience advising Canadians working in the US to keep you out of trouble. You probably only need that for this issue when the rules change but they do change and it's not the only issue that you're going to need professional advice for. The cost of that specialty advice adds up fast. http://www.serbinski.com/working-in-usa/rrsp.shtml
Considering there has been an increasing larger percentage of the population going to college, the statistics might somehow get skewed by the population between age 18~23.

If one is in college, it is natural to assume that she or he is not fully employed, has low income, mostly not married, etc.
At Alinea, it works just like you suggest - the ticket price is just covers the core meal, with the drinks being extra and settled at the end of the meal. Interestingly enough, though, the sister restaurant Next does require you to purchase your drinks option as part of the ticket. But I doubt there is much problem, as they provide a highly-coordinated service that already requires a constant awareness of where you are in the meal at all times.

For the non-high-end, non-pre-fixe market, the ticket is normally a deposit on the meal price, so you'd still have to settle the remainder of the bill when you're finished.
I've the heard the pathway is gluconeogenesis[1] . From what I've read we need roughly 100g of carbs a day, and we can create all of it via gluconeogenesis.

Now, what i really wonder is; if we see diabetes from abusing the carbohydrate pathways, then what disease comes from abusing the ketone/gluconeogensis pathways ?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis
I've had that experience (with Cloudflare in general, not DNS). My average response times as measured by Google webmaster tools went from 30ms to 300ms, if I remember correctly. This way ~18 months ago though, so I don't know if it has changed.

And it's to be expected to be slightly slower, at least for dynamic requests, since it's a reverse proxy. I doubt it's limited to the free tier.

I've used the DNS for a few years without any issues whatsoever, so I'd recommend them for that.
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I think it does, and I think the influence is pretty obvious. If you ask Jack Ma for his 5 best books, I would be really shocked if he picked books by 5 white authors. A person's culture changes the way they see and appreciate things.
He's saying he can't get citizenship in the sense that he can't risk having his foreign bank account closed--not that he is prevented from doing so by the US government.
Interesting read on TomTom's approach - http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/How-TomTom-Makes-Maps-Part-4-H...
Because it is a marginal tax rate on everything if you have to pay an accountant to prove to the IRS you don't owe anything. Plus in most instances that income will be being taxed in another country - the author is in Britain and we definitely have tax here!

So not only is it double taxation but it is taxation without representation, something that's generally considered bad...
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My mom uses this to manage her blood pressure. She liked being able to bring in a report to her doctor summarizing all her readings.
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> You pay taxes that are not much higher than in the US and actually get things in return

This is amazing. (Let's disregard the two countries' differences in population sizes, demographics, debt, and military budgets.) A self-employed person in the US tends to lose between 40 and 50% of income to triple-taxes (depending on federal, state, and local levels), self-employment tax, and the need to buy expensive health insurance. What is the range of Norwegian tax rates under similar circumstances? Does Norway have a high consumption or sales tax rate?
You realize that despite the authors sharing the same skin color that they come from different countries, different walks of life, and each have entirely unique perspectives to offer, and that you're marginalizing them just based on one obvious superficial trait, right?
Great project! Also, why not target the regular chef-client too? Managing a ruby installation with gems may be unnecessary on servers too.
Sign. This is why we can't have good things.
> Do you also have to pay "thousands" of dollars to accountants?

No, I found a good guy who really knows what he's doing up in Vicenza. But between his fee, and a day off work to go see him and get all my US stuff in order... it does start to add up.

> I would imagine any tax software should be able

Maybe, but I doubt it does it nearly as well as a competent accountant, who, for instance, knows how to read an Italian tax filing, and knows the details of the US-Italy tax treaty.
I'm sure it helps, but we have mostly the same situation in the rest of Scandinavia and that's without any oil.
For some reason I was under the impression they used Slack at Stripe. Was I incorrect about this?

In either case, to what degree would Slack allow Stripe to replace email altogether? It seems set up to solve many of the problems their email system was created for.
hmm, his list includes "The Rosie Effect".
I just finished reading Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan and found it quite fascinating.
I see your point, but WHOIS contact information requirements are hardly a new thing.
I file my taxes on paper and I do the calculations by hand. I want it to be as painful as possible so I never forget how insanely complex and budensome it is.
Your story very much mirrors my own, at the time it was the best option for someone with no money and a GED. The experience was something that I needed. But I did become jaded very quickly by what I saw around me.

My time in uniform was a net positive, yet I really don't find myself identifying very closely with other vets or the post-military "remember those good old crazy times?" culture at large. Some things about it all just depress me.
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Yes, but only if you live in a poorer state. Every state I've lived in has been one of the rich states that gives more money to the federal government than it receives in services.
Why wouldn't Apple take all the heat from users? Steve Jobs removed a very good map from everyone's iPhone and replaced it with a buggy Apple branded map. I don't care if it's the fault of some vendor, at the root of it Apple is to blame for shipping it.
Is it just me, or does "being a citizen," feel increasingly archaic as time goes on

When times are good it might, but just ask Americans who were in Liberia or Sierra Lione recently, or who were in Georgia in 2007, or who were in Ukraine until this year. Citizenship doesn't matter until it really, really matters. In Israel there are increasingly stories about families wondering about whether getting or attempting to get a second citizenship is a form of cowardice or a pragmatic acknowledgement of events on the ground.

We may be living in a peace bubble: http://www.cato.org/publications/cato-online-forum/primacy-f... . I hope that isn't the case. If however it is, citizenship really, really matters.

Let me reiterate that moving towards a safer and more developed world in which citizenship doesn't matter much is great and I hope we do it. But that progress is not guaranteed and is not universal.
Apple has no official contributions to OSM. We are not even sure in which cases they use the data.
But it isn't that simple. State budgets are partly funded by federal taxes. Just skimming this abstract from the CBO report[0], in 2011, 25% of state and local government expenses were covered by federal grants amounting to over half a trillion dollars.

[0] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/43967
From Google's perspective, I doubt it makes sense to add features that many of their users don't need and won't use.

Which is exactly what they've been doing, all while hiding as much of the interface as they can and obscuring as many affordances as they can.
An unusually thought-provoking book that's impacted my approach to work & daily habits this year-- The Way of The SEAL, by Mark Divine > http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465530-the-way-of-seal

If you read nothing else, Chapter 2: Develop Front-Sight Focus. Solid, practical advice on directing the win in your mind. Here's a good interview with the author> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_bDMEUF7F8
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I don't know what the business plan here will ultimately be, but there are apps which charge say $40 for a dermatologist to read a photo of your skin lesion. As a physician, at first I thought, what dermatologist would accept $40 (or less if the app gets a cut) to do this. But it's making more sense with time. I can see physicians doing work like this from the comfort of their home environments, on somewhat of their own schedule, than dealing with the hassles of running an office or coding with the nightmarish icd10 schedule. They may lose on some income, but will make up for some of it with volume and for many it will be worth it for the convenience and, hopefully, reduced stress levels. I hope companies like bettir and some of the others, succeed.
> Definitely a lot of room for both programmers and non-programmers to contribute.

As an engineer-developer hybrid, I found OSM mightily helpful when pulling midwest town data and running tornado strike simulations. I encourage contributors to look beyond the roads -- other infrastructure such as power lines or towers are rare to find in the data but can be extremely useful.
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I've been told I have white coat hypertension. My bp readings are 130-140/85 in doctor offices and usually 110-120/75 outside.

High bp runs in my family so I've been considering monitoring on a more consistent basis. I may have to try this out.
To answer your first question: yes. However, the amount varies greatly by state and changes year to year. Many of the programs for which states receive federal money are temporary in nature. Others, like federal subsidies for state Medicaid programs, are more permanent in nature. The actual ratio is going to be very uneven throughout the country.