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> They just need to use the profits to achieve their goal.

No. That is absurdly wrong.

https://www.irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits/Substantially-re...

> To determine if a business activity is substantially related requires examining the relationship between the activities that generate income and the accomplishment of the organization's exempt purpose. Trade or business is related to exempt purposes, in the statutory sense, only when the conduct of the business activities has causal relationship to achieving exempt purposes (other than through the production of income). The causal relationship must be substantial. The activities that generate the income must contribute importantly to accomplishing the organization's exempt purposes to be substantially related.

i.e. The activity has to have a causal relationship to the exempt purpose regardless of the profit motive.

Good luck convincing people software licenses qualify in the current environment without a CPA and a Tax Attorney managing things end to end.

It can be done but not from the angle you claim. It has to be done for the direction of "This is our exempt purpose and by providing X we further that purpose despite the monetary gain to cover expenses."
This is Kepler's theory, and it gets into philosophical trouble, as cosmologists generally take it as axiomatic that the laws of physics are the same everywhere, and so don't have much time for theories that depend on us being in a special place in the universe. A universe having a lower density of stars everywhere above some radius from Earth does put us in a special place, is hard to reconcile with universal laws, and there is no empirical evidence for it. An explanation that derives from the universe evolving over time, however, has none of the philosophical problems and does have supporting empirical evidence.
That is an awesome idea.
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I don't know where you're listening, because this is not a common thing. It's actually far more common to do this in Europe.
But your "write" action is separate from the "X.currlock" operations, right?

Doesn't it mean that this can happen?

A: X.currlock = Token_ID_A
A: resource read
A: is X.currlock still Token_ID_A? yes
B: X.currlock = Token_ID_B
B: resource read
B: is X.currlock still Token_ID_B? yes
B: resource write
A: resource write

Is there anything that makes the "write-if-currlock == token" operation atomic?
+1 for fastmail, here, too. Amazing service, really good communication during rare downtime, contributes heavily to open-source/community, decent prices, can heavily customize filters/etc, and as far as I'm aware, probably the most mainstream email provider that won't give into the NSA.
> Regardless of where you land on the political spectrum I'd say most people, at least here in the US, would agree that the government is pretty inefficient.

I don't necessarily agree with that. Government is attempting to do an impossible thing, I have no expectation of efficiency.
43 billion light years is a distance, not a time.

A star moving in the opposite direction of us that emitted light 15 billion years ago that we are just now seeing has moved a lot further away in that 15 billion years it took that initial light to reach us.
Thanks. I had quite a few apps in there.
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Correct. Now could you please edit your top-level comment some more, so that it actually makes sense?

First you fake incredulity about how people aren't finding it "obvious", although it's unclear exactly what you think is obvious (the paradox? its resolution? modern cosmology?).

Then you launch into an explanation of the inverse-square law for a single point source. What's your intention here? By itself it doesn't demonstrate how to resolve the paradox. (As you say, the resolution is that the universe is not infinite. Thanks for adding that in the edit.)

Overall, your top-level comment was incomprehensible, as evidenced by the large number of people who thought you were trying to use the inverse-square law to resolve the paradox.
Someone[1] commented on another, similar thread a while back that one important function of top private universities is to launder the educations of children of the rich—that is, to ensure that, provided they can put in enough effort to not fail out entirely, they'll have credentials that look very similar to those of only the smartest and most-driven students from the other 99% of society. I'd never looked at it that way, but it makes a lot of sense. Fits right in with your "who wants a CEO from Southern New Hampshire U?" notion.

In exchange, I suppose, the poorer students get to network with the people who may later fund their business.

[1] Don't remember who, so I can't provide credit
It's true the SRBs were powerful, but I wonder how much of that was compensated by structural elements needed to live with their vibrations. I remember the original Ares I concept would vibrate the astronauts to death before the solid 1st stage burned out.
Hip hop and rap creative processes bear much more resemblance to a combination of poets and musical arrangers that historically haven't gotten much wide appeal critical acclaim or anything (who the heck knows about Sammy Nestico except jazz students that read his charts?). Everything else is about finding something catchy enough to loop together as support, but that is something that does require some form of pop taste intuition to be successful where this is done in a lot of electronic music far outside pop (power noise, ambient, and even dubstep do an awful lot of samples and looping of one lick or two and transpose or invert chords or something as tricks).
For me, this is all about tracking my personal learning. I reference old posts several times a week. I hope others can learn from it as well!
If you'd like to be even more disappointed, take a look at the GRE Math section.
How would I search my encrypted inbox? Either Google knows my private key, in which case this doesn't seem to buy us anything, or I can't search.

I search a lot.
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Intellectual Property is as meaningful as Physical Property. The rules are different for each, of course, but saying "physical property exists, intellectual property does not exist" is an extreme position that shows a lack of understanding of what "property" fundamentally is.
Can I jump-start your list? "Git" is a product name, not an acronym. It's just spelled Git.

(Please forgive me this act of pedantry, as I forgive those who commit pedantry against me...)
I'm not quite following. The light in each "shell" continues to dissipate in an inversely quadratic method from the shells distance from earth, no? It would help if I had this drawn out.
WoSign never seemed to care.
More worrisome, "Your message has been added to your permanent record at wholesale data storage and may be used against you, in perpetuity, by current and/or future regimes, partner corporations and other select criminal organizations (tax-funded or independent) for reasons including but not limited to financial or political gain, manipulation, incrimination, assassination and personal entertainment."
I blame that I've been writing "SQL" all day and have unconsciously associated three letter non English words and "Is acronym". (Although I guess "git" is a word, although not typically part of my colloquial vocabulary... Maybe if I was a curmudgeon ~50 years ago as opposed to being a curmudgeon now)

Regardless, your pedantry is excused :)
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I'm curious what would happen , if we gather a few classes of intelligent highly motivated students , arrange them a cheap nice place to live , give them them great educational content(not the stuff you get out of today's mooc's , the good stuff that the UK's open university - an expert in remote learning - designed over decades) , give them some support and some tools(labs , parts, etc) , and connect them through the web to their respective communities.

Surely that could be much cheaper. But would be just as good ? maybe.

And as for prestige ? if you build the admission process on extremely high standards , and offer something unique that the big universities won't offer , maybe you'll manage to get extremely talented students. And that's the key for building prestige.

Makes sense ?

EDIT: one more question - once you're an esteemed graduate of this institution ,sort of a "navy seal", in this day and age where talent is the limited resource in making money(and surviving in business), how hard would it be to arrange the networking ?

Ans isn't all this kinda like what ycombinator did?
It could also mean that there are no objects large enough to produce gravity waves we can detect.

Black holes for example dilate time, and may either not exist (since they take infinite time to form), or may produce gravity waves that are too time dilated (i.e. slow) to detect.
That has traditionally been the best way of approaching that technology, and is oftened noted as one of the biggest flaws in the technology.

Securing email end-to-end is a solid step in the right direction towards making it work better for end-users.
No. Nope. Never.

Best of luck! You're absolutely losing users by putting `npm` on the page. Personally, I laugh when I see software packaged this way, and it's even more absurd after hearing your supposed rationalization.

Not happening. I'm far from alone.
Stop moving the goalposts. The argument isn't "Thomas was totally unaware of the GamerGate debacle". It's "Thomas never accused this HN commenter of being a GamerGater, so a bunch of tweets about GamerGate aren't in any way germane to the thread".

You're the one who brought my Twitter feed into this discussion. That was a weird thing to do, but whatever; the real issue is that your argument doesn't make sense in context, except as a way of trying to generate extra drama. Instead of talking about the three examples of "radical" video game criticism, let's instead litigate all of GamerGate!

It also wasn't helpful to that commenter for you to suggest they'd been "singled out". Replying to the top comment on the thread isn't "singling someone out".
Most advertising is just general brand awareness. They don't need you to click or to consciously decide "hey that looks cool."

They want you to be standing in the soda isle of the grocery store when you are going to a party and someone asked you to pick up a drink. You don't have a strong preference. But you buy Coke because you know it. Just knowing about it is a huge advantage.

That's why a lot of advertising is priced in "per impression."

A lot of people will claim advertising has no effect on them, but that's BS. It does.

So using adblockers costs the website roughly .2 cents per ad impression.

I don't think you have some moral duty to view the ads, but they don't have some duty to give you a free website either.
Python >= 2.7.9 or >= 3.4 ships with pip installed by default. Those versions are more than a year old now. What are you running, Slackware or something?
Note: the article was posted about 4 months ago. (Oct 2015)

One apparent consequence of all-remote working for Buffer is that having all the employees meet in real life is incredibly expensive and logistically complex: https://open.buffer.com/remote-work-retreats/
Developers are calling it quits on polyglot programming
No, I mean... what is the difference between a user called mattl being on two GNU social servers, and a user called mattl being on two common, gratis email servers?

I could go and make a webmail account called mark_l_watson@whatever.com and people shouldn't assume it was you.
It's important to note signaling works both ways. Many people bin 'Ivy' resume’s for a variety of reasons.

Reputation is also very fluid over time, Yale arguably took a big if likely short term hit from George W. Bush. Of course with 5 presidents Yale clearly has some serious connections.

I have even seen things swing both ways as schools are looked at as a great talent source. This lets less capable people in on reputation. Resulting in a backlash where people think X is overrated.

PS: Don't forget the supply of Genius is smaller than the number of slots at top schools and many of them take other paths. So, you got a pool that's above average, but not that far above average.
Not always possible. Even in the unix world you need to use multiple single purpose tools to get something useful done and therein friction lies.
Probably but I'm not saying "its impossible" but rather "You need a CPA and tax attorney to cover your ass appropriately" at which point is there enough people like Patio11 to cover that cost?

OpenBSD is also Canadian which is neither American or Japanese [which is the part the original parent was talking about] so I don't know their tax laws at all. :/

Individual donations and corporate donations are a course that don't require that level of expertise to execute on as a revenue source.

Running a for-profit that sells software licenses is the cheapest way to comply if you intend to sell software licenses as you don't need to pay a 3rd party to prepare taxes for your LLC and advise you on how to keep your 501(c)3 exemption.
> As a publicly traded company, it optimizes for GOOG.

False. The voting stock are not traded, so the founders still have irrevocable rights to do whatever they please.
Why don’t identical twins have identical fingerprints?
In the short run, they're simply a smaller and more diverse attack surface. There's pretty valid "security through obscurity" reasoning to apply here (though that is, of course, not a train of thought one should bet the whole farm upon).
This is great.

As an extension, I was discussing with a friend a while ago how great Stackoverflow is at capturing the contents of expert's brains. Is there a way to achieve that on a broader scale without requiring the question-asking side of things? Say you're a lab scientist and you have a small trick or bit of informal insight, how could you be prompted in the right way to share it?
Wait, compare and swap has a consensus number of infinite (from Herlihy's paper).
I haven't dug into any specifics yet so it's probably harder than I imagine. It's actually been a dream of mine for some time anyway; not to get away from the US, just that I love Victoria and Vancouver and Vancouver Island. I have some family friends that did it, and live in Vancouver (moved there 15+ years ago), and we'd probably plan on talking to them about the pain points too. Work might be harder for me, as mentioned in other comments, but my wife might not have as much issue being a Physical Therapist (just a guess to be honest).

I'd love to move to other Countries as an alternative though; New Zealand and parts of Sweden or Norway sound pretty good (the milder climate areas). I have that digital nomad itch, but married with a kid so that keeps me more tied down, and don't actually like the heat, so the typical places don't interest me much.
I think it's more common among people who are from upper-middle to upper classes; so a big majority don't, but a socially-loud minority do.
You can also use your 10 fingers to instantly multiply by 9s.

Spread out your fingers. Number them from 1 to 10, left to right (i.e. left-hand little finger = 1).

For 9 * 7, simply curl finger 7 downwards.

Now you have 6 fingers on the left, and 3 fingers on the right. Voila, 63. :-)
Ask HN: Next Day Settlement (NDS) for Personal PayPal Accounts?
I transferred funds from my PayPal account yesterday (2PM EST), and saw that they hit my checking account this morning. I was always under the impression that PayPal took 3-5 days, but I'm pretty pumped that I got my funds overnight!

Only heard (read) of this happening for users with business accounts, but maybe I'm late to the party. Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks.

EDIT:
After reconciling some statements, it appears I may have gotten NDS a week or two earlier as well. (The funds were remitted on a Friday and appeared in my account Monday, so I guess I didn't know that). Besides that, it looks like my past transfers took 2 business days to complete.
>This is true only for the worst marketers.

Worst in terms of return, but not all marketers care for return that much. Most just care for audience reach. At least you seldom see all the big lucrative accounts advertising in non mainstream channels.
You're arguing that we shouldn't do anything, instead of taking a step in the right direction. Email is an old ecosystem, so it's not possible to make big improvements all at once.
How? ;)
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Only? As far as I know, it gets divided in proportion to the number of minutes watched (by all users, not individual Red subscribers).
The state of website statistics is a sad one. The better site analysis engines were bought years ago by Google (becoming Google analytics) and the like and the lesser ones died. A few are still around kicking, including some quite good ones, but most advertisers, sponsors, etc will only trust third party analytics in determining advertising rates, sponsorship levels, etc.

Essentially, users who block analytics become a net negative for many sites as they add no positive value to the site operator and are just a drain on resources. There are exceptions, of course, in the case of user-generated content participation where submitting content, making comments, etc may be a draw to revenue-generating visitors. But on many sites, that user blocking ads and analytics is only hurting the site operator. If it becomes more popular - say as the default setting in an ad blocker - I'd wager we'll have some sites start to block those users at some point in the future.
Revenge porn, where ex-lovers post intimate pictures of their former partners along with contact information, is also not currently against US law. Are you suggesting that Twitter is in the wrong to censor it?
I don't think robots.txt has any legal standing, but I do think the fact that Google is willing to respect requests not to index content from everyone except print publishers of paid content is indicative of bad faith on their part.
I think we're all at this point pretty clear that Twitter is not a "free speech" platform by your definition. I'm fine with stipulating that.
No goalposts are being moved. Your relevant history on the subject is what was being pointed out. I think you know exactly why and it doesn't have anything to do with "generating" drama.
No way it's more expensive than paying rent for an office in a trendy city and commuting to said office.
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So it's still a major problem.
> So few people will ever have abortions in their lives...

1. Few people are killed by cops. Does that mean the issue isn't important?

2. Abortion rates are higher than you probably realize. For example, in NYC over 1/3 of pregnancies are terminated [1]. And that's after it's been getting better. There are on the order of a million abortions every year, depending on how you count. You know a lot of people that have had terminated pregnancies. They just haven't told you about it.

3. Is it fair to be a single issue voter? If your perfect candidate in every other respect also planned to take away the right to vote from Native Americans, could you vote for her? Of course not.

The reason it's a controversial issue is because both sides see it as a human rights issue (like universal suffrage).

pro-choice:

* Women deserve autonomy

* They don't deserved to be punished and have their lives ruined due to mistakes and oversights in birth control

* Women are intelligent and deserve the benefit of the doubt about when abortion is a good choice or not

* Government should support women and their goals in their healthcare, not dictate their lives

pro-life:

* Unborn humans are humans, too, and deserve to be recognized as people with rights

* This is literally a civil rights issue on the order of importance of slavery, suffrage for women, or black civil rights

* Erring on the side of not killing is the right way to balance 'choice' with 'life'

* Bodily autonomy has limits in extreme circumstances (having sex in public, taking illicit drugs, wearing seatbelts)

* The sexism argument is a red herring. Half of children are women, and the most vocal pro-life proponents tend to be women as well.

Additionally, the pro-life side has procedural objections since there was never a democratic process for expanding the right to abortions. I agree with this point, which means I blame the Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade for all this animosity.

[1] http://nypost.com/2014/02/17/abortion-rate-plummets-in-new-y...
> The use of unencrypted or encrypted link to the receiving email provider's MX server doesn't change all that much in terms of who can read the email: it's still sitting in plaintext on the recipient's server (as well as the sender's server), and the group of actors who can sniff traffic on the backbone like that is probably just as easily able to get it from the servers.

That's not at all obvious to me. And this sort of backbone sniffing is exactly what we've seen state actors do. What possible downside could rewarding link integrity have on the story for user privacy? A false sense of security? Quite the opposite: that's what we already got in spades.
Networks are correlated with success, or at least that was one of the messages I got from reading Outliers (I could be wrong).

As for the 4-yr university degree, it's always been more about discipline than anything else. A completed degree is as you say - a signal for discipline - which is probably why more and more employers are caring less about the exact type of degree, and more about whether it was "quantitative".
Why not ? at least before eternal september , wasn't the HN karma system pretty good ?
I guess I'm the flip-side of this. I work for myself, self-employed, and my office is the best $360 I spend each month. I need separation of space. My 15 minute walk ("commute") adds to the separation of work from home.

The other thing is that there are two small children running around my house. I simply can't work there, or else I'd never get anything done. Our house isn't large enough to have a separate, dedicated office-space. I'd be constantly interrupted.

I like the concept of remote working, even in a shared environment, but if I were working at that company and I no longer had a free place to go do work, I'd be looking for another gig.
Counter point: WeChat. They keep piling new things into it just to screw around, and find gold in hilarious places.

Just build for yourselves. People are mostly like you.
>For now they will just warn on it. In a few months they will send it to spam. Just wait.

How many months is a "few"?
> No pesky + or - at line-stars, making for easier copy-paste.

I wonder if easing copypasting is a good or bad thing..