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Forming an S-Corporation can reduce your tax burden. The filing is a bit more complicated and you have to pay yourself payroll, but you would be looking at reducing your tax burden on a portion of your income by about 7%... That is, going from 25% tax rate to 18%. Definitely worth doing.
Yeah, I think that's a big part of it. I remember being stuck on things for a long time, bashing around on google trying to find something, anything that would help me understand it, saying to myself that once I figure it out, I'll certainly do a huge writeup of exactly what I needed to know to ease my pain.

Once I'd figured it out however, it seemed trivial. I must be the world's biggest moron for being stuck on it so long. Real engineers would have it sorted in a few minutes. That's why there was no posting explaining it. I was just in over my head and it was my amateurishness showing. It should have been obvious.

If I write it up, it will just show my ignorance... so goes the pathology.
To be fair, I think the article (and the original paper) do more than bug sniffing; the code that fails test cases is being automatically modified to eliminate the bug.

The "Do what I mean" programming idea is certainly a good one. One of the pioneers of genetic programming, John Koza, once described the possibility of using genetic programming as a companion for human innovation. Intead of the algorithm completely replacing human written code/design components, it could produce potential solutions to problems posed by an operator which then go through tweaking or analysis by humans and can be sent back for more evolution, turning it into a sort of partnership (I can't find the exact source, but I used it in a project presentation a few years back). Kind of cool to imagine: pair programming with a computer partner!
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I've thought about one of those ideas for a while: promise 6 months to highly motivated high school kids and for an exchange of working for two years at lower wages, you'd train them. Then, you could have them working for 20 hours a week fairly quickly on QA, automated testing, and other positions as they learn your system. Then, place them in a mentorship system with good senior engineers and keep the good ones.
There's a startup here called VRM that does that, but it's for shared infrastructure only - essentially just a web page over VMware with some 'livecycle' (read: automatic expiry functions) built in.
Okay. There is no reasonably safe way to turn tens of thousands of dollars into hundreds of thousands in 2-3 years.

Was that tepid enough or should I also insert a series of sleep-inducing legal disclaimers? ;)

The above advice is utterly conventional. Every reputable book on investing says it. Indeed, most books and pamphlets on how to get rich quick say it as well, in the footnotes that nobody reads. The brain slides off such disclaimers like water off a duck.

So one tries to find a more dramatic way to say the same thing.

And while I'm explaining things I thought were obvious: The OP is not a gambler -- or, rather, he has placed an intelligent bet and won: He is now making money hand over fist by building products that sell. Nothing wrong with that. Except that now the OP seems to be having that unnerving feeling -- which everyone gets at least once in their lives -- that he's missing out on something big, some kind of big secret to moneymaking that the cognoscenti know. And, indeed, there are people who make amazing amounts of money in 2-3 years. They do it by gambling -- and when gambling works, it works. It just doesn't work very often, and you rarely hear from the people who place risky bets and fail. One's mind often fails to register those people. Sometimes you have to take deliberate, dramatic steps to make yourself see them.
I always agree with you on these financial topics =) I remember back in October 2008 when we both commented that the best time to sink money into the stock market is exactly when everyone else is pulling out in fear. (I was 22 at the time and my most conservative index funds are currently up ~35%... individual investments have garnered even better returns)

When the majority of people conclude that the "stock market is too risky", they usually look at the single problem of their investments tanking without looking at the bigger picture... which is:

First, if you invest money without setting a stop limit (rule #1 of investing) then you shouldn't be investing.

Second, if you invest in a quality index fund and you somehow do lose a majority of your investment (>50%), there are much larger problems at hand than just the loss of money. We're talking major economic / political / global unrest.

After witnessing the Sept 11th downfall and the October 2008 crash, I've come to the conclusion that there needs to be some damn serious issues to cause a significant loss in investments... Again, all of which could be avoided through proper diversification and setting financial loss limits.

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As a side note, I do think many people got lucky taking the "too big to fail" approach with many banks that ultimately received government guarantees. I do believe, however, that the snap-back we experienced in 2009 is NOT going to be the same in 2010. Obama has spent insane levels of money to prop up the economy and this sort of stomach-churning level of gov. spending simply cannot continue. 2010 will be the year for finding individual companies that have survived the recession trimming, but I honestly can't see the DOW/S&P indices going much higher.
Thanks, I'll be looking around for that.

It would save me a ton of time when looking at code I do not yet understand.
Hi Alexk,

I'm a infrastructure coder and have worked on a lot of big automation projects for everyone from IBM to the worlds largest hedge fund. If you need a partner I'd be happy to apply.

Mike
"The only CEO of the top-50, whose education is listed as n/a is Martin J Sullivan, the CEO of AIG,"

Pretty funny if you ask me.
Well, he did get offered a position at HDNet, which may have a smaller viewership...
Is there a specific book you found helpful?
This actually isn't too far from the truth. He did take a job with HDNet, which I don't think at the time had a news division. HDNet is the TV version of a startup, so how is starting a new IPTV nightly show at Revision3 that much different?

Link: http://www.hd.net/danrather
Some ? Make that 'most'. Any open source project that requires people to go and sign pieces of paper is putting barriers up where non should exist.

I'm actually quite impressed with clojure, but this one aspect will stop me forever from contributing so it is a one-way street as far as I'm concerned.

Not that I'm in a position to do so (as a clueless newbie) but who knows what the future holds.
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Common sense can be used here. Yours or Galileo's? Science has been known to be wrong from time to time. Censoring ideas just because you believe them to be incorrect is wrong. Even if the ideas in question are crackpot, stupid wrong.
It's an irony missed on many people.
Remember: When the magician shows you how the trick is done, you still go back to that magician for the next trick. The magician is still the expert.
Actually, in my post I explain things not available elsewhere, such as how to actually get setup for PhoneGap multiplatform development using git submodules. Hence the name of the post.

If you are referring to my narrative writing style, sorry if you do not like it. I also like to credit my sources, so sorry if that seems like spam to you.
This article claims that the income limits for contributing to an Roth IRA has been removed for 2010. I was under the impression that the limit was removed for _converting_ a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA. See http://www.money-zine.com/Financial-Planning/Retirement/2010...

Effectively, individuals that aren't eligible to contribute to a Roth IRA in 2010 can contribute to a non-deductible traditional IRA, then take advantage of the conversion limit removal for 2010 and convert the traditional IRA directly into a Roth IRA. So, it's not quite as easy as simply contributing to a Roth IRA directly.
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Thank you!
This would be really useful, especially it it learned your habits over time.
mpg321 is for platforms with no floating point processor.
If you made those baguettes and croissants yourself, that's a fair amount of work in itself.
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Eric Ries and Dave McClure will be speaking too. Any ideas if they live stream the keynotes ?
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I wonder if verbalizing the number makes a difference - the article mentioned that they asked the test subjects to "repeat the sale price to themselves" instead of just looking at the price. (Even if they repeated it to themselves without saying the numbers out loud, it uses the same part of the brain.)
I'd suggest angel investing in startups that compliment your view on where things are headed. It's more fun than the stock market. You have proven knowledge of what's selling now, and understand software.

The turn around is probably longer than 2 years though.

Can you do the same thing with the Android store?
Yeah I wondered about that one. I would have said it was more like "design for now, tomorrow is a long way off".

I think perhaps it means more like "don't make your Epoch 32bits long, it'll soon be 2038" oh
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My point is that Revision3 is kidding themselves if they think someone with 5 million daily viewers would consider moving to a network with 5 million views per month.

Internet TV will surely replace broadcast TV, but it won't be today and it won't be Conan O'Brian.

Of course Revision 3 knows this. It's just a clever PR stunt.
Stash half and experiment with the other. No harm in putting some away in a cushion account.
How many eyeballs could Revision 3 seriously offer though? His show is geared towards an average viewership in the millions... nightly. If they couldn't offer that scale on a nightly basis, it might not be worth it.

Part of the appeal of a late night show is that it can be on as you're going to bed... something light and comedic to help get you to sleep. How many people have a device that is able to view Rev3 content hooked up to a TV in the bedroom? I'd guess that a majority of people view that content on their PCs, and rarely nightly. I'd love to see some viewship stats on that.

But, let's say that you could provide the eyes for an advertiser supported nightly show. If you really want it to work, you'd need to make deals with at least Apple for AppleTV/iTunes and/or a company like Roku to sell dedicated devices. It might even be possible to sell these at a discount if you could guarantee some sort of advertiser kick-back.

Another potential problem: with their ownership structure, I'm not sure you could count on Hulu serving it either.
Any thoughts on what other products can be done with this model? or in other words, what other SaaS products currently have fat margins that can be undercut?
If you like cycling, maybe moving someplace nicer for it would be a good idea and a good change of pace.
While I agree that is some worthy snark and I am chuckling, I would point out that for at least the forseeable future it is very likely to be the other way around, due to the fact that young people have worse credit scores (if for no other reason they've had no time to build them up) and Facebook will correlate with younger people for a while yet. (Certainly older people are on there; I said "correlate", not "be solely occupied by".)
It would, but too many people can only show IP content on small screens. Until that's fixed, big content won't go to pure IP.
Isn't part of the point of watching shows online separating yourself from a schedule? Hell, a lot of times I'll wait until a season of a show is over to watch it, so I doni't have to wait for upcoming episodes.
I personally would like to see Conan go over to Comedy Central. My ideal late night line up would be:

10:30 - Colbert Report

11:00 - The Daily Show

11:30 - Conan
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OK, "When Norvig wrote that presentation, there wasn't even a Wikipedia." just struck me as a bit arrogant. Sorry.
Well, your post was about what you can do when you can't rely on the apps for income anymore. Personal branding is something that you can capitalize off in many ways.
(S)He's doomed; (s)he used apostrophes instead of the proper double quotes. Now (s)he's both going to default and uses bad grammar, definitely bad for your rating.
I enjoyed http://www.amazon.ca/Zen-Mind-Beginners-Shunryu-Suzuki/dp/08...

A well written combination biography + philosophy book on Zen.
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Your insular social circle is abnormal.

You say this based on what? Do you have links to studies or reports on jobs, travel, time on the road?

This is something that really irks me about online discussions; we're not having a formal debate here, not passing policies, we're having an informal conversation about jobs.

I gave an opinion and stated it as such...yet my opinion isn't valid because I don't have research data to back it up?

A simple google search shows that my opinion is valid...Americans are working more hours per capita than they ever have before and this is a trend that is alarming (or at least interesting) to some people (like me).

Here is one such article: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB108924985484258191,00.htm...
So would you join Facebook, etc., if and when being on it is more likely to raise your credit rating than lower it?
Nope that tax is always there. Your employer covers most of it mainly in social security/medicare and a C or S corp will pay out of their coffers for that. So most full-time workers never see that hidden 15% but it is blatantly there when you contract, self-employ, LLC etc.

SE tax rate. The self-employment tax rate is 15.3%. The rate consists of two parts: 12.4% for social security (old-age, survivors, and disability insurance) and 2.9% for Medicare (hospital insurance).

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=98846,00.h...

When I contract, sell products etc. I expect to get about 55% of the revenue after taxes. That is actually a bit low but it is a good number to use to make sure you are charging enough. So if you work for $70/hr you are actually working for about $40/hr and so on.
If you make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, what difference is $5k in a Roth going to make? "great news" seems a little overblown.
Well yes, except usually you aren't mortgaging yourself.
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I agree that it's all just a PR stunt. I don't think that any IPTV company could seriously claim the ability to provide enough daily viewers to support a show like Conan's.

I suspect that even Fox will have issues getting a show like Conan's up and running. There are too many affiliate issues to start something like that up quickly. Perhaps by the fall, but then again, maybe not. Fox hasn't had the best record with late night programming. If Fox doesn't pan out, he may end up looking at a basic or premium (showtime) cable offering anyway. If that's the case, the required number of viewers goes down significantly.

But, the more I think about it, I think it just might be crazy enough to work. But it would require a big push from IPTV hardware companies to get going. Instead, I think a more likely scenario would be a traditional show with a bigger online presence. Something similar to the way the Daily Show will put up interviews that run long on their website.

Perhaps a small-ish 30-60 minute show that broadcasts normally, with extra content online. Maybe even an entire web-only show once a week.

But anything like this would require a big commitment by the host, and I don't know if Conan is enough of a geek to commit to something this risky just for the sake of pushing IPTV.
I get the exact same feeling all the time. After nearly 12 years of Security Penetration Testing I still go on-site thinking, "Shit, do I really know what I'm doing? What about all the cool young kids posting all these wacky papers on technology? What if I miss something? Surely it's not that hard to run a set of scanners and root an insecure box?"

I used to try to contribute to the community but I don't have the time anymore and a lot of the time I'm contributing to people who's employers we're in direct competition with (and we've had said competitors after invite only conferences trying to pass off my research as their own).
Great article Ash, I really enjoyed it :)
"Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations" by David Warsh (2007). It's really two books: It shows how the academic field of Economics works today, and covers much of the field's history; and it also examines Paul Romer's theory of economic growth, which (succinctly) states that technological advancement is the key factor. Talk to any economist about growth these days, and they'll talk about Romer.

It's a very readable book, and I highly recommend it to a wide audience.
I believe his account is somewhat outdated: when you search for "Better Keyboard" on the Market--at least in Android 1.6--the first thing that comes up is the app. But I do remember a time when what he said was true and finding the app on the Market was difficult.
I came to a screeching halt when I read past the pile-up of buzzwords: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059925

Is there something worthwhile after that?
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Thanks for your insights. Big fan of Andrew's work. Yeah the content is original and produced by us. The value-add is in the strength of the interviewees we'd like to think. Breaking out an shining in this space is definitely going to be a challenge. We are channelling all the value into the content, ondemand access on multiple platforms (mobile, boxee, apps, widgets etc), and working towards connecting the audience closer to the top CEO's of the World. Thanks again.
> You've got your smartphone bill, your cable bill, your home broadband bill. Those are unavoidable expenses—there's not much you can do about them.

I don't have a smartphone or cable. Calling them 'unavoidable' is a dubious claim.
Now (s)he's both going to default and uses bad grammar, definitely bad for your rating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law
Did the Financial Times just use "rape" in a metaphorical, gamer-dude manner?
You could promote and seed a couple of stackexchange sites. I really have no clue what the revenue looks like but it seems like a dead simple idea.
It is a direct creation of and controlled by the government.

Well I'm not sure I'm with you on that one. Maybe that was the original intent, when government would revoke charters etc., but we're pretty far from that time now.

Anyway, what is a capitalist construct then?
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Can you explain the challenge Sarbanes-Oxley gives those publicly traded companies who want to do continuous deployment?
Ask HN: Can IP be shared on a custom software project?
I'm embarking on a custom software project for an arts organization. The project is a CRM at the heart but ticketing (selling tickets) is a major component. There are not many players in the space and none that are starting from the CRM at the center, and working out.

Although neither organization, mine or the client, has the resources to market this as a product they are requesting some form of IP on the product. I'm trying to come up with a way that we both benefit, regardless of who owns the IP, in case we sell more than one.

I've already considered:

* Some form of exclusive distribution agreement
* A commission arrangement
* Forgetting about IP and just doing the job

I would love to hear what other suggestions you have for such a situation.
Some shows are good enough that you want to watch the episode when they come out. Watching it online still separates you from the schedule though. If the show airs at 8pm, you don't have to watch it at 8pm, you can watch it when you have time. But there's a difference between a couple of hours/days and a couple of months (maybe waiting for a dvd release to buy it, or for a local station to rebroadcast for your country).
I think that makes it all the more interesting because you can see that the move worked out for him:

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According to the comments, this article is just wrong according to the current IRS web site.

cloudkj's comment here seems to be correct.
A guy from the UK created a site that now works worldwide, although I'm not sure if it's as important for a lot of people ;-)

http://isitgoingtoraintoday.com/
i think the "right" answer kind of depends on their motivation for wanting IP. you know why they're asking for it?
this is why i made http://goingtorain.com years ago because i rarely care what the exact temperature is going to be, just whether it's going to rain.

similarly, i made a clock called pixelclock (http://jcs.org/notaweblog/2005/06/28/pixelclock/) because all i cared about at work was whether it was time for lunch or time to go home.

sometimes things are better left vague.
There isn't much I could do to raise my current credit score without becoming fabulously wealthy, so, no. A hypothetical other me might consider it, but... remember, it's not just "being on it" or "not being on it", it's who you are friends with. The real problem isn't the direct effect on your credit score, the real problem is that if you're even thinking about your credit score when considering who to be friends with it distorts the entire experience, possibly to the point of ruining it. The net effect of everyone thinking about that is going to change the dynamics in a generally unpleasant way.
Perhaps I should have been more cleary. I meant that Dynamic Programming solves _all_ smaller problems. Divide-and-Conquer only solves smaller problems that come up as a part of the bigger problems.

So e.g. quicksort sorts sublists. A hypothetic dynamic programming solution would first sort _all_ conceivable lists of length 1, then use that to solve all lists of length 2, and so on.

But your distinction may come into it as well. Though you can also use memoization in Divide-and-conquer.