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The netherlands at least has a "highly skilled migrant" system wherein you are refunded a chunk of your dutch taxes. This results in paying a similar amount to the US.
Let me join the international domestic mobile plans pricing party.

In Latvia we have unlimited calls and messages for 9.95€. Add unlimited 2G/3G/4G data for 9.99€. That's roughly 20€ for unlimited everything. Tethering is not disabled, however, you could get downgraded to slower speeds for abuse (torrents & alike; never heard of this being enforced).

Roaming charges in while in EU are regulated at 0.19€ per minute, messages for 0.09€ per minute. Data is still expensive, though - 0,20€ per MB. Mobile operators provide roaming data packages, which might lower your data bill to 0.14€ per MB.

There is a upcoming EU roam-like-home regulation, which would mean that you never pay more than at home for anything - including data.
Actually no. I want to live at least for a short time in US, so I will either try to get some of the visas or start a company there, or hope to win the green card lottery or any other legal venue. I would never under any circumstances cross a border illegal or without respecting the country borders and laws.

Crossing a border/ living somewhere without legal permit is direct attack against the sovereignty of a country. And that is why I will support deporting (or shooting while crossing the border) any person that enters without a valid visa at a valid border entry port worldwide.

Americans living abroad are usually in possession of full stack of legal documentation allowing them to live there.
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Naturally it isn't. But those other countries maintain their roads, schools etc. etc. without taxing non-residents on their financial affairs in other countries. The main point is the difference between how the US handles the tax issue vs. almost all other countries.

Now you mention it, renouncing citizenship seems relatively costly compared to e.g. the UK, though I have no idea what the average cost is for renunciation. Perhaps the UK is abnormally cheap! (EDIT: Should probably have pointed out that it's currently £144, or about $215.)

It would seem a shame if people felt they needed to renounce citizenship to avoid hassle/tax. Of course, some may argue that if they want to renounce at all, then perhaps they're not committed enough anyway, but I wouldn't argue that.
You seem to be putting the US on too high of a pedestal.

Reality is the US is not all that and you can get most if not all the opportunities you're talking about somewhere else maybe even better healthcare and unemployment benefits without having to pay tax to a country you're not even using the public services of.

I have multiple citizenship and I would find it unacceptable if any of the countries demanded more then their fair share or charges.

Having to pay to renew you passport or processing other paperwork is acceptable paying tax to a country you don't live in isn't.

Having to pay 2K to renounce you citizenship is crazy and the fact that a lot of people still do shows how bad the policy and taxes are.

Reality is owning a US citizenship in a foreign country when you have no intention of coming back is detrimental to your financial well being.

I'm not much for patriotism and other such niceties looking at it as a cold business transaction it is detrimental to the owner with very few benefits compared to other countries.
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What are the pro/cons of wifi versus 3G/4G ? I guess Wifi is a simpler hardware standard ?

Or does 3g/4g enable more distance and mobility and allow towers to "connect" more terminals at the same time?

I'm puzzled by wireless data layers as google had some wimax project in mind, but I've no clue how those technologies work. I can understand wired networks, but wireless seems like a mystery to me (I also wish there would be more open standards for long distance data channels).
Materialistic is not the only type of ambition. Are we actually sure it's not the problem with materialistic, rather than ambition?

It would be interesting to have such study comparing with another culture: specifically the Eastern culture. The level of constraint by relationships in Eastern society will laugh any idea of Western constraint out the main door (and the window, too!).
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comments like that are making me reading even fewer comments on HN...
I've done something similar, but with different results...

I wear down heels very fast, and used to get through mass-produced shoes with moulded soles far too quickly. It annoyed me hugely that I had to throw away a pair of shoes whose uppers were in perfect condition, but whose soles couldn't be replaced.

In the end, I bought a pair of decent leather-soled shoes for $350 and get them heeled regularly; that was 7 years ago, they're still going strong, and I estimate that they've saved me a ton of money.

And as a "third way", I've kept my eyes open in thrift (UK = charity) shops, and have managed to get excellent, repairable footwear for next to nothing. My current pair of oxblood brogues by Allen Edmonds cost me $25, has been going for 5 years now, and barring accidents will last me until I'm well past retirement...
I know you were just trying to be frivolous and sarcastic, but it doesn't help the debate.

You're just as bad at treating immigration as a homogenous group like genuine xenophobes.

You do realise there are valid points to being against certain parts of immigration - which most people are, they're against certain parts of it.

For instance, these people aren't refugees, they are however treated as refugees
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Even though they openly support ISIS.

I call them invaders or invasion force, but that's for a lack of a better term.

However Sweden treat them as refugees and count them as "children" - (yeah even with the beard)
What does that have to do with "playing god"? That's asking for the actual one to intervene.
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I consider myself an expat at the moment because while I have no plans to move back to the US, I also don't plan on renouncing my citizenship. But I use that definition for people from other countries as well - I know people from Australia, the UK, Germany, India, Japan, etc. who I consider to be expats. If you're willing to give up your citizenship, then you're an emigrant in my eyes.

But I'm also getting much closer to being willing to give up my US citizenship... The only benefit is that I can decide to go back to the US if necessary, and given the political crap there, that's an increasingly depressing thought.
What I find particularly funny is that:

- a positive net immigration rate into the UK has been critical in continuing to develop our economy,

- those people from the UK living in Spain will, mostly, be retired people,

- those newspaper comments will complain bitterly about immigrants not contributing, stealing welfare, and so on. Which is exactly what those people complaining are doing, and exactly not what the people they complain about are doing!
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His point was "taxation without representation", which is false. Your point is more nuanced and interesting, I think. I suspect it'd take changes to the constitution to enact, so is likely not feasible, unfortunately.
Friend of my dad's moved to Italy, learned to speak the language fluently and spent every day of his 20 years or so there working hard and being an upstanding citizen. He started a family there, but because he missed some paperwork early on, his kids never became Italians and neither did he or his wife.

So yeah his kids were born in Italy, all grew up in Italy, speak Italian fluently (natively), went to school there etc, but eventually they all moved away as they don't have citizenship. They're now mostly in the US. They run businesses and all have advanced degrees.

My dad spoke with him a few times about getting citizenship but it'd be a very long process. They've essentially committed to a life elsewhere.

In other words, there seems to be absolutely no reason for them not to be Italians, other than some kafkaesque messed up bureaucracy that servers no actual purpose.
It actually costs a great deal more than that. You have to pay 5 years of expected future taxes upfront, in addition to the processing fees. This can be an enormous sum, depending on your income sources. If you just have a regular job and no investments, it is easily more than a whole year's salary. It is insane. In Norway, you generally have to renounce your prior citizenship to get Norwegian citizenship, but they consider it such a financial burden here to renounce US citizenship that they sometimes let you keep it (varies by individual situation).
I'm not disputing Tokyo is full of Starbucks. Judge me if you want but I just won't work from Starbucks. (For the record, the Starbucks at Daikanyama in the T-Complex is actually very cool and is worth a mention; didn't like the Starbucks you mentioned much, which I also worked from a little, by necessity... also if you're in Roppongi go work from the art museum cafe, or for a great spot open late, there's a stylish lounge/cafe in Shibuya a block by Zanmai Sushi open until 7am, really can't think of the name)

You would have to list names of specific places, apart from the ones I listed, because I just don't believe it's a matter of me not looking enough. You would also have to list names of co working spaces too that are good, because as I mentioned, the ones I went to were quite bad.

For SF, I have a map of ~20 hacker friendly coffee shops I frequent there. There were maybe 4-5 coffee shops in all of Tokyo of a comparable standard. (Fukuoka, even Sapporo, had better spots than Tokyo for laptop workers.)

Shanghai is an example of a city that is actually 10x better for working from cafes (if you use a VPN).
It looks great, nice work! I quite like the idea of there being a bare-bones developer index that people can opt-in and opt-out of at will.

One issue I noticed was how location data is handled. If I do a search for "Bristol, UK" it will include those who have their location set to "Bristol, UK", but will miss those who may have it as "Bristol, United Kingdom".
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Not all of it what?

Canadians are not taxed abroad and they have better healthcare than the US. Same with Germany

No question that the USA has a lot of opportunities, but one thing they are #1 is sense of self-importance.
I understand that major problem with taxes is how complicated it is. Accountancy fee could be thousands dolars even if yoy pay zero taxs.. Some foreign banks even refuse to open bank accounts to US citizens, because of complications.
And this is the other extreme. Shooting person crossing the border is of course insane.
To sum it up: node.js runs only 4 background threads. Be aware of this.

No big deal really. I have multiple servers running node.js under load for 3+ years and never had an issue with this.

In fact, I found it helpful. If your database is under load and is already running 4 heavy queries, not giving it any more jobs is actually a good thing.
The author's blog has some great stuff about development: http://c65gs.blogspot.de/
The Dali Lama has some wonderful quotes around such subjects:

Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. Then he is so anxious about the future that he doesn't enjoy the present: the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.
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I often use Just Eat to decide my menu and then call, because it is much faster than filling out the form. Even if I am logged in already.
This does not seem like a strong argument. Yes, table salt is useful, but if you don't know what it actually does and you put it in your eyes, it will burn them, just like most, well, everything...

A const reference guarantees to the caller that the callee won't modify the object, not to the callee that the object won't be modified.
The numbers are meaningless unless measured against total passenger miles of all sources. Taking numbers out of context is one way to make a story where one is not. Sure ridership is up, however was it take a away from self driven miles or wholly new people entering the system for all travel types?
No it is not. National borders are sacred.
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This is amazing, but how would a person that doesn't want to hack around too much just buy something like this? Like a starter kit, with some device and a led strip?
On the other hand, not being able to hit the filesystem because you have those four queries running is... not so helpful.

In general, this looks like it could be a performance bottleneck for highly-concurrent applications.
+1 to this. OSC is great. Really adore the place and their activities.
What exactly is US 'number 1' in? Income inequality? Incarceration rate? Yes, I suppose those things do need a lot of money to fund.

US passport a great passport? I don't think so. Is it a schengen passport? No. Does it allow easy movement to commonwealth countries? No (it isn't a UK passport.)
> Who can't read a Makefile? Who can't at least read the output of make -n? It's terrifying to me that you're suggesting that people can't and don't.

Can I read a Makefile? Sure. But 90%+ of Makefiles these days are 12000 line automatically generated monstrosities. It's not worth my time to bother opening the Makefile in a text editor in case it isn't, and I'd be amazed if many people did.

make -n you can do I guess. But unless you're also auditing all the source code I'm not sure there's a lot of value in it.

> It's not even a security thing. I've had poorly-written Makefiles that would have blown things away thanks to an unset variable on a certain platform, for example.

Yep. Maven doesn't do that.
Thanks for the feedback, search is something that I'm very keen on improving. I will do my best to try and sort this one out :)
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I'm ambivalent about this. For one, like I've mentioned before¹, I'd like to have humanity in one piece, for as long as possible, and the genome meddling cuts dangerously close in this regard. For another, this is progress and although I don't take pleasure admitting it, setting limits to R&D effort in this direction comes plain and simple out of fear and nothing else. I don't like thinking of myself to be some kind of zealot fighting for religious dogmas. Humanity may not be "ready" only in our perception.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8253039
I remember my 14 year old self disliking Pascal and liking C, because C had {} instead of Begin and End and you could do funny stuff inside of C for-cycle.

I remember my 20 self disliking Pascal and liking Java, because while my class-mates were bussy re-writing quick-sort at a beginning of each assigment, I just imported SortedTreeMap :-)
For the sentence about prayer, he may have meant, that those people might also consider using of modern medicine a form of playing god. Because prayer could have cured the illness.

For the second line about Greeks, it's more about Spartans. See http://www.historywiz.com/didyouknow/spartanfamily.htm
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Plus, of course, 'public domain' is a very fuzzy concept and in some countries either doesn't exist or else exists in a very different form to the US. It's a legal minefield both the the producer and the consumer; way, way better to ignore it completely and use an OSI license.

(Apropos of nothing, I generally prefer the BSD-2 clause license to the MIT one because I think it's clearer and easier to understand, but they're fundamentally equivalent.)
Everyone loves a rags to riches story. I'm not such a fan of all the comic book movies coming out, but I applaud them for doing it all themselves and having such success with it.

To me, anything that puts another creative agency on the field is a good thing; and they've obviously found demand and have a long term plan in play so I don't think they're going anywhere anytime soon.
I have always loved this article and I remember it posted on the wall of the CS break room. I enjoyed it so much that it was the first thing I searched for when AltaVista was released. I think it influenced and introduced me to the hacker ethos. Although I don’t qualify as a real programmer as I graduated with Pascal, C, COBOL and Haskell under my belt with no Fortran.
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Western religions (various forms of Christianity) formed under hundreds of years of virtual and real slavery conditions. The Roman empire wasn't exactly the friendliest place to live if you were an outsider. Therefore a big part of the belief system is the value of the individual. IIRC, Christianity was one of the first belief systems to suggest that all people _were_ actually people: up until then, "people" was just part of whichever clan you were in. Other folks were sub-human.

So the real question in regards to both abortion and embryo hacking is how much value we place on other humans -- humans of a different color, humans that are babies, humans that disagree with us. Do we treat them as we would want to be treated? Or are they basically disposable?

I'm not a religious person, and the theology gets very complicated, but it's not simply a matter of "religion says this must be bad, so I will reject all science and progress!" Folks on both sides of this discussion tend to over-simplify the positions of the others. Didn't believe you were doing that, but I felt the discussion could use a little more clarification.
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I bet there are equally many Go programmers at Google who argue that the "right way" imposed by the Go design team isn't that "right".
From http://incidentalcomplexity.com/hiring/ and http://www.chris-granger.com/2014/10/01/beyond-light-table/ it sounds like the people behind Light Table are now working on an Excel-like collaborative programming environment called Eve.
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You should thank capitalism for this.
>> "National borders are sacred."

They're ridiculous.
> believe it or not, are even entitled to a tax refund from the US government.

From the IRS website:

> Your foreign tax credit cannot be more than your total U.S. tax liability multiplied by a fraction. The numerator of the fraction is your taxable income from sources outside the United States. The denominator is your total taxable income from U.S. and foreign sources.

So no, one is not entitled to a tax refund, because the credit cannot be more than the total U.S. tax liability.
That's addressed in the first section in the document: https://github.com/waldyrious/awesome-open-company#what-is-a...

In short, there isn't a standard, universally agreed definition, but there's a common pattern in:

- the definition I used ("a for-profit organization whose core practices are guided by principles of openness, transparency and interoperability. This philosophy can be summarized by the maxim: Share as much as possible, charge as little as possible.")

- the Open Company Initiative (http://opencompany.org) definition: "Companies committed to openness as a defining element in how [they] create value."

- the Wikipedia definition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_business): "an approach to enterprise that draws on ideas from openness movements like free software, open source, open content and open tools and standards. The approach places value on transparency, stakeholder inclusion, and accountability."

- the P2P Foundation definition (http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Business): "a business that operates around the principles that are similar to those of the free software and open source movements, i.e. with 'free' and 'open' content."

Let me know if my synthesis (the first definition above) seems innacurate or incomplete.
You misunderstand reference-to-const, it does not imply that what "a" points to is immutable, it is a contract to the caller that foo will not use "a" in any non-const way.
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Weird, where you from? I got both (Greek and Italian) citizenships the moment I was born (my mother is from Sicily) and I was born (and currently live) in Greece.
Your setup is what I'd call an overkill! ;)
You probably got this: http://lightberry.eu/ ?

Too many single components for my taste.

Having an all-inclusive solution like this one with a dedicated FPGA makes much more sense to me.
Unfortunately it seems that a high res solution is never going to work for all use cases due to HDCP, processort speed etc, and it will probably never launch commercially because of Philips' ambilight patents like EP 1379082.

I've been looking for an in-between all-in-one solution which takes HDMI as an input for the past years, but there's no real reasonable solution which I would take.

The best I saw to this date is this: http://www.keiang.de/Content-pid-32.html, but unfortunately it's not publicly available (he didn't release the circuit diagram and the list of electrical components needed, at least the last time I researched the site).
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Well that is pretty judgmental, and doesn't sound like something the Dalai Lama would say.

At least it's not a supposed Einstein quote for a change...
+1 Mellow Brown — good coffee, and open from 8am, rare in Tokyo; also, free wifi (requires checking email for first use, though.)

+1 Fuglen — gets crowded though, and is quite small.
I think Cartesianism is also linked to that. By optimizing desintegrated parts (of life) we miss the big picture.
The VM uses registers (as opposed to e.g. a stack), but that's an implementation detail and not anything you think about when you write Lua.
> kafkaesque messed up bureaucracy

This kind of describes immigration bureaucracy anywhere and everywhere.

Here's Linus Torvalds on some of the hassles he had: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3655 (search for green card). That's the kind of person you should be laying out the red carpet for.
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Yeah, I really don't see the GP's point.
Nah, of course not. It's not even practical... The amount of jobs that could be done remotely (e.g. programming, design, etc.) are just a tiny fraction.
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The price for zero-cost abstractions and expressiveness is a monstrous complexity. If you want clean, expressive and easy-to-write code, you have a ton of languages where you can do just that. If you want performance and expressiveness, you will have to do with C++'s complexity.
I do like your comment about Epicurus. However I don't know if he invented epistemology as such. He certainly extended it. However, Plato discussed theories of knowledge in some of his dialogues well before this [0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theaetetus_%28dialogue%29
You were not born in the Gaza strip, Syria, Turkey's east border, Mexico, South Korea or Cuba... So why give a shit, right?

That's a mature way to think and act. So much for 4000+ years of human evolution.
Thank you for sharing your findings here. Very pertinent to me right now - could actually drastically minimise the amount of research I have to do today. I love HN.
I guess this is here as commentary on the Apple watch and the associated hype?

Personally, the thing that disappoints me about the Apple watch is that Apple is no longer even trying to talk about bringing computing to the masses through ease-of-use and reasonable prices. Now they sell a $12,000 watch. (I guess that trend started with the 20th Century Mac)

edit: had the price wrong at $25K
Here is an interesting page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bandwidths
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