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How about Emigration? Canada is apparently more reasonable about his particular case. Vote with your feet.
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I disagree. First of all, I never said that anything was pointless. Secondly, Mark criticized my arguments because I had merely "scuffed on the subject of the IRS" in his words. I think I'm entitled to know what he's written on the subject.

Especially when I've offered up my name and background, asking for an anonymous critic's name and background does not constitute an ad hominem attack, and may in fact raise important points in the context of a debate.
"White men hold up half the sky."

Depending on which way your department swings politically you can either attribute it to Mao Zhedong or to "traditional Chinese proverb". It is neither, of course, but if people fact-checked T-shirt aphorisms they wouldn't use the more famous version either.
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Holi Colours Drench India in Celebration of Life
I don't think the first guy gets away with the first guy's look, it looks terrible. The trousers are a ghastly colour, texture and shape, the jumper is a different yet still unpleasant colour and a poor fit, the jacket is a nice jacket but a terrible fit, the socks are ugly and the boots don't go with the rest of it. That he is pictured in a sartorial blog is everything that makes me think fashionistas are making it up as they go along while laughing to themselves and pocketing stacks of cash into the bargain.

It doesn't go together, it doesn't fit, it doesn't look expensive and showy, it's not crowing designer labels, it's not bold and contrasty and awesome, the only redeeming feature it has is that he's obviously put effort into making himself look so unusual. And that's fine, he wins points simply for doing that instead of wearing jeans and a t-shirt.

But he doesn't look fashionable. Does he?
This whole area is, in a sense, like a rigged game because the tax laws are so heavily weighted in favor of wanting to classify people as employees.

Therefore, if you try to claim you are a contractor, this will be given only the slightest weight, if any at all - in other words, in your words, they don't have to stick with what you say, and indeed normally won't (they will just apply their multi-part test and come to whatever determination they feel is justified).

On the other hand, if you claim you are an employee, they will give that a lot of weight and will ask you considerable detail about all the factual points that tend to confirm that you are an employee (in order to nail your employer with the taxes/penalties that result from the reclassification).

Everything is basically stacked against the person claiming to be a contractor. You can win on the issue but it is usually a tricky proposition. In most contested situations, you might win in two or three out of ten at most.
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--Steve
I thought I'd try that with http://www.leftfootcompany.com/ a while ago - you go to a store and get your feet scanned and then order online and they machine make shoes to fit your feet.

They emailed me to say my feet are too large/small/different/whatever and their process cannot make shoes to fit me. :/
if i understand the post correctly, then i'm using github as the hub, with copies checked out locally and on the web server.

whoa--- how else do people deploy to live sites? i can't imagine not using version control. or am i missing some nuance of the situation?
We've been completely slack about this sort of thing, but now that we have Harj we're going to start.
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There are contracting firms that take a far smaller cut. However, they won't find work for you, so if you don't find it on your own then you won't be paid.
Octazen is (was?) essentially a Facebook Connect competitor and since they were acquired several of their core services have been disconnected.

This reads to me as a strategy about whittling the market to one option, Facebook's, and not much else.
So was the soviet society stable and free?
Not complete: it's missing itself.
Is the $25,000 investment for 8% from ioVenture a bit too little for the equity? At least YC only takes 2% to 3% for the same amount.
I think the above title (I haven't read the article) applies to North America and Britain much more than Europe, South America or India.
Keep it casual. Start your own business. Problem solved.
[Plug Computing Wiki](http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/Main_Page) does a good job of explaining its use. If you are keeping a PC running as server for any reason (torrent, web serving, music streaming, etc.) you can replace it with sheva plug.

It is much more like a headless server than a router. I had been waiting for it to get wireless connection. Now I just have to wait till it is available in India :(
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The movie "Brazil" premiered in 1985, the year before strutting beasts wrote this statute in defiance of common law. Many wilt helplessly at the sound of such braying -- but not Tuttle, who embraces the dangerous life of peaceful production.
In situations like that, I hit the "link" field and then use Readability to make it easier on the eyes - http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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I think what we need is "Real World Category Theory" to go along with "Real World Haskell." It's not surprising that it's difficult to get your head around concepts lovingly referred to as "abstract nonsense." The reality is, of course, that CT is really useful because it is so general, but that same generality is what makes it really hard to grok.

More experienced Haskell-ers are often very quick to offer encouragement and to tell you that Monads and Monoids and Functors and Arrows/Morphisms aren't that tough, and they're right, but in some ways they are missing the point. The level of abstraction that those concepts exist is so foreign to most people that they have trouble conceiving of it in any meaningful way until they actually go through and learn enough to kinda get it. At least Monads and Monoids have kinda scary names. Basic category theory concepts like arrows and objects have familiar, inviting name, but they refer to something totally different. Worse than being scared by words, these words leave us thinking we know things they don't.
This is effectively the same proposition that web services promised us ten years ago. For the most part we still develop closely-coupled software, and I don't see that changing in most cases
Right, but they also have to incentivize people to work on the non-sexy infrastructure pieces.

I don't see how "work on whatever you want" can get the maintenance jobs done when everyone would rather be writing new code than maintaining old stuff.
"Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure."
Given the cloak-and-dagger and "redeployment" line, my guess would be that Octazen is going to be part of an anti-scraping team at Facebook to avoid Facebook getting "Octazen'd" as much as possible.
Russian Federation of Independent States?
I think you're talking about outgoing connections. The number of incoming connections is the problem here. That's limited in all operating systems as IPv4 only supports 64k ports
"The authors disagree with the common perceptions that a demotivated employee is lazy"

I was wondering about this the other day - does lazy have a real meaning? I thought through some options and came to the conclusion that it's a nondescription used to close off any further enquiry and also used as an insult.

It doesn't explain anything, it's a proper phlogiston answer.

Not doing something could be lack of motivation (that doesn't matter), lack of interest (I don't want to paraglide), other priorities (I would but can't right now), lack of skill (I want to but can't), fear of various things (if I start I will only draw attention to this, what will people think, what if I fail), but lazy? A nonsense word which I should stop using.
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some would say that the law exists so that i have to go through some contracting house which eats 50% or more of my wage up front. To me, it seems more like ensuring exploitation than preventing it.
You can actually add a git hook or two to make pushing work fine for non-bare destinations - but then you're trashing any local changes.
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Nice process, but what about the engineering bits?
the problem is that most people who want to be classified as independent contractors want to be so classified because they want to spend their pre-tax income on business expenses; for example, the first years that prgmr.com existed, I worked as an independent contractor and spent most of my earnings on servers. If I had been reclassified as an employee, I would have had to pay taxes on that money before spending it on servers.
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I understand that you are talking about simple demo access to apps, to get to know the features enabled.

Currently there is no demo/public access privilege for apps created using iFreeTools Creator. If it was available I could have gladly pointed you out to that demo app to check out the features.

Another option is install an app into your own account, choosing from a default set of apps and using it as a demo to check out the features of iFreeTools Creator - which I was referring to.

Also, the feature set in iFreeTools Creator is equivalent to those available in iFreeTools CRM - which uses default System entities, instead of requiring Custom entities, as in Creator. Both the apps are driven by the same framework. So, you may login into http://crm.ifreetools.com and check out the features.

I do not usually check old submissions at Hacker News for new comments and I am glad that I did today to find your recent comment. If you have any further queries, kindly send them directly to raj [at] sahasvat [dot] com.
"we just all work on whatever is most interesting to us"

Unfortunately, this will likely never be some of the things that bug their customers the most -- such as the wiki that's been wrong since before they launched.
Upvoted because the author has the balls to call Fannie and Freddie "off balance sheet vehicles" and mentions underfunded pension and health care liabilities as well. Not sure that A gradual depreciation is one thing -- and much to be desired for the dollar.
Ah, I thought that someone was suggesting changing hosting companies because the host was also used by Stack, not because the host took his page down.

I would also want a host to keep sites online for as long as they'd been paid for.
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Vietnam boasts two attractive destinations for couples
Ha Long Bay and Cuu Long river, a tributary of the Mekong River, have been selected among the world’s 100 destinations for couples by the France L’internaute online magazine. The selection is based on three criteria, the romance, literary characteristics and the differences.

The magazine also encourages couples to visit Vietnam at least once in a lifetime because the country has a peaceful and beautiful landscape with hospitable people.
Not at all. But he'll get a pass for being good-looking.
YC takes 2-10% , "usually 6-7%' for $17,000-20,000

http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
Infra can be fun; this highlights the necessity of a diverse team
To me, it's a generational thing. Boomers see an underling maintaining their e-bay account on company time as theft. For my generation, 10 minutes of web browsing every hour is just our way of coping with being strapped to a chair all day.
You'd be surprised how often "the things that bug [our] customers the most" quickly become interesting to us. In this case, prioritization has played a huge factor. Wikis have been on our minds for a long time, it just happens that other stuff has taken precedence.
There are some usb/video options out there. Attaching a small low power lcd could give you some interesting possibilities.
Hang on. How is the correction of a security bug in any way shape or form "abusing" users of iPhones. Frankly, if you want to reproach Apple on the subject of security holes, it's because they sometimes take a long time getting around to fix them. The fact that they fixed this one relatively rapidly deserves praise, not criticism.
Your statement attempts to show evidence that a society with no wealth diversity is unstable. That has no bearing on the original hypothesis that high diversity is unstable. Still it fails in this attempt because the historical instability in Communism has always been due to high wealth diversity that arises from political corruption, which ironically supports the original hypothesis.

So... try again?
I find that perfecting what some would call "non-sexy infrastructure pieces" very rewarding. In fact, it's what I spend most of my day doing! Only to me, all of our infrastructure pieces are sexy. Because I wrote and open sourced a lot of them, I want them to succeed because by doing so, they create a stable site (and I get fewer pages at 2am). If you are a software craftsman, then maintenance isn't really "maintenance." It's finding logic and design flaws and finding ways to erase those rough edges. In the end, you work towards a perfect vision of your software, just as a sculptor works toward his perfect vision of slab of marble.
Any thoughts on this?
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Intelligent machines that not only think for themselves but also actively learn are the vision of researchers of the Institute for Theoretical Science (IGI) at Graz University of Technology.
No personal experience, but manybooks.net is a popular (mostly public domain) ebook site that has been running well on macminicolo.net for several years now.

http://manybooks.net/about/
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It's not just memorizing. That's the problem. If it was memorizing, my iPhone could memorize it for me. You have to think about fashion. And I don't want to. And I don't want other people to invade my mind and dictate part of its contents.
Remember, we are some of our biggest customers. We use GitHub every day to build GitHub - from hosting the code there, to using the wiki for planning, to issues for bug tracking, to code review — everything. Also remember that we are owners & collaborators on some of the largest OSS projects on GitHub.

What bugs you most likely bugs us ten times more. There isn't a feature on the site we don't use extensively.
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It's really only a security hole for them, afaik anyway. Are there known exploits besides the jailbreaking tools? Considering what we go through to jailbreak I'd be pretty surprised if there was an OTA exploit.
There are some more copies, for example:

format 35: mp4/h264/aac, 480p@main
format 34: flv/h264/aac, 360p@main
format 5: flv/svq3/mp3, 400x226

format 36: 3gp/mpeg-4 asp/aac, 320x240
format 17: 3gp/mpeg-4 asp/aac, 176x144
format 13: 3gp/mpeg-4 asp/amr, 176x144
Has it actually been confirmed that these people are really 'banned'?

This is the same message that you get if you enter (or, more importantly, someone else enters) your password wrongly multiple times: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2446
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Sprint WiMAX device by summer?
Metaphor: "It's train CNC!"

Simile: "It's like CNC for trains!"

Literal truth: "It's called DCC actually"

If your point was to add information, then there was a better way to do it.
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They also regularly post "The State of the Mac Mini" with details and opinion on hardware refreshes. Their last one is here: http://www.macminicolo.net/state2009.html
Much of the web is rude, thoughtless, or chauvinistic
While the reference is amusing, isn't that how many/most vaccines work already?
Bjoern, ever heard of Google in Germany? Amazingly when you search on startup school the first five links are about Ycombinator's startup school. In America that is known as a strong brand.
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Today is the day I realized Hacker News has jumped the shark. Plus, I realized just how many more readers it has that are either women or are homosexual men. :)

Seriously, this whole thread reads like Cosmo magazine. (Oh, do dish! You go girl, tell it! I only wear Gabana. Yellow goes bad with red. Hoodies are to die for. Anyone that matches a Denillo with a Gucci something-or-rather is a fashion disaster! I'm going to tell all you people how to dress because I have mastered it -- did I mention I'm only 20? OMGBBQ!!!)
I also wonder about effects on cadence caused by interruprions or general distractions, let alone what happens to my typing if I try to type while eating. Is it really reasonable to expect a users undivided attention just so they can log in to your stupid database?
"yum install". We write a .spec file for each service we deploy, and when we're ready to deploy we compile and package the current release branch. That way the OS package manager knows what's installed where, whether any dependencies also need to be installed or upgraded, and whether local edits should be preserved or renamed.

I've never understood how "git pull" is supposed to configure a production server correctly. What do people do, put /usr/bin and /usr/lib64 and /etc in git?
Do we actually have any statistics on what 'most people' are jailbreaking their iPhones for, or is this just guesswork? I am quite prepares to believe that most of the hackers who actually create the jailbreaks are doing so for ideological reasons, or for technical satisfaction, but what about all the people who just install the jailbreaks?
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Which certainly explains to me why 75 year old cougars keep hitting on me when I go on their site ;<(
von Neumann is indisputably a genius, but IMHO his contributions to CS aren't quite as fundamental as Turing's. von Neumann's impact is definitely broader though.
At first 10min seemed like too long, but it managed to stay interesting the whole time. Simply amazing, I can't think of any other words for it. Everything looks like a liquid.
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First and far most LED lights are very efficient in terms of energy efficiency and cost Effectiveness, they are popular all over the world. All kinds of LED lights are provided by renowned manufactures across the globe. These lights include high-power LEDs, low-power LEDs, sign displays, remote control devices, household bulbs, car kits, rope lights and strips. White-colored LED lamps Apart from that energy-saver lights are very common and good at their job.
Actually there were lay-offs at Goldman too.
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Ask HN: A watch that doesn't suck when typing?
I have a skagen with which I'm very pleased... except that I have to remove it to type...

which is frequently.
this makes me very very happy:

" The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works."
> a consensual hallucination

Gee, kind of like money. So let's all ignore money.

Even in hawaii, haolie white dudes of north american extraction look ridiculous in shorts. I'll cut them slack if they're speaking hawaiian and support secession.

> I work in Hawaii.

So did these guys: http://pappastenant.com/investigation/Hawaii50.jpg

I dare you to mentally substitute shorts on them and not laugh.
Agree 100%. I was a prototype user a long time ago. When I discovered jQuery I couldn't believe how much more amazing it was. I'm a huge jQuery advocate now and would never in a million years touch prototype ever again. jQuery just makes sense, the code is so easy to write and so legible and logical, and overall is the best thing that ever happened to javascript. I feel bad for anyone still stuck on prototype - you have no idea what you're missing.
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Any picture of a dude wearing pants that aren't jeans is likely to be wool pants, if he's not wearing chintzy cotton khakis. Consider almost any picture dated pre-1970.
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Even if Google doesn't free VP8, Theora already exists and is used by another of the world's most popular websites: Wikipedia. As more video gets added to Wikipedia, developers of web browsers will have more incentive to support Theora natively. (Note: According to an earlier comment by halo, about 32% of web browsers support Ogg Theora already.)
I'd say it's just that:

* 90% of everything is crap. (Sturgeon's Law)

* Engineering quality is orthogonal to success.

Therefore, 90% of successful sites will be crappily-engineered.
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I (well, those of us behind Mobile Colloquy, not just me) briefly considered having a colo'd Mac Mini a few months back. It was either with macminicolo or at a datacenter near where one of us lived (NYC area, LA area and SFish area, so decent variety, even if the focus of our search was on LA or SF).

For our purposes, the datacenters that we looked at[1] wound up costing about the same as it would have to host with macminicolo. With macminicolo, bandwidth is expensive, while other places charge for the space on the rack and have much (3-4x) more bandwidth.

It ended up being a lot more then it would cost to get a VPS or two (or even renting a cheapish, non-colo'd, dedicated server somewhere). So, unless you absolutely need a Mac server[2], I don't really think its worth it.

[1] Can't remember where exactly we looked. I'll dig through my emails and see if I can find any information.

[2] There are definitely some valid reasons for having a Mac Server. Stuff like Golden%Braeburn, http://golden-braeburn.com, which, I suppose wouldn't need much bandwidth.
I don't think thats it, Octazen wasn't really a facebook connect competitor at all. They sold scraping scripts that let you login and grab data.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080619054335/http://www.octazen...
Awesome. Don't miss the video link. This is very impressive stuff...
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Cool idea but a rather expensive way to go (if you consider hardware + colocation fee) compared with a VPS. Although the mac mini is dedicated its laptop parts make it on par or worse than a good VPS performance-wise.

Id be more inclined to use a mac mini as a server on a local network as opposed to colocating. Another interesting application is a cluster of mac minis-that a whole other area.
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I guess (as a linux junkie) I don't see the draw of using a Mac as a server. Anyone care to share their likes/dislikes of OS X Server?
Hah, that, or they just scraped a ton of fb data and threatned to start selling it.
Stay tuned: I'll be giving another crazy lambda talk at PLDI 2010 this summer.
This was posted before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=874267
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