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>can you comment at all on the limits (if any) of liability protection with an LLC. Is a single-person LLC going to be a solid shield over my personal assets, or are there still possible risks?

Think of liability as a 2 way street.

1. Someone suing your LLC and trying to collect against you/your assets personally. Generally this is the type of protection you will receive with an LLC (single or multi member) barring any exceptions, such as piercing the corporate veil in which case the plaintiff might go thru your LLC protection and reach your personal assets to collect.

2. Suing you and trying to get to your LLC. This is the direction the single member LLC might not offer protections. Imagine a scenario where you are personally sued and you don't have personal assets to cover the judgement. Say if you owned 1 share of Apple, obviously they can't collect against Apple just because you are an owner, and the same protection will typically exist with a multi-member LLC. However, in the case of a single member LLC in these types of cases the courts will likely allow the plaintiff to collect against LLC and/or even foreclose on your LLC company/assets if need be.

>Does California just not like small businesses?

CA likes revenue and as high as the fee is, small businesses will pay because they don't have options (they could incorporate in CA as opposed to organizing an LLC or moving states).

One possible hack is create LLC #1 in another state, qualify it as a foreign LLC to do business in California, and and the end of the year repeat the process with LLC #2 and transfer all assets from LLC #1 to LLC #2. The only reason someone might not recommend this route is because people prefer continuity of a business, but that shouldn't really be an issue when the main goal is liability protection from side projects.

Edit: dissolve and file final tax return
No one is getting killed for them and they aren't extracted from open pit mines. Those are two big pluses for me
BLOCKS, a minimalist browser-based puzzle. Hope you like.
Need to correct some stuff.

Class 2 (arabic numeral) is for limited power sources, regardless of construction class.

Class II (roman numeral) indicates a construction class where safety cannot be dependent on a ground bond.

Class I (roman numeral) indicates safety is dependent on a reliable ground bound.

Class I equipment, depending on the scoped end-use equipment safety standard, can have up to 25mA of leakage.

Class II equipment, depending on the end-use environment, can be limited to 0.25mA of available touch leakage.

A good reference for Class 2 and 3 equipment is the UL5085-x series (same as CSA No66.x).

For the EU, there are no harmonized standards in the Low Voltage Directive that have an equivalent Class 2/3 construction, although there are several safety standards that address requirements for 'inherently limited' power sources.
> I wonder if dread is the right word for it.

'Anxiety' would be more appropriate.
And hence the coding quality separation of gstreamer plugins. There is a reason the plugin ended up in gstreamer-plugins-bad, and most of them it is due to code quality or lack of maintainers or both.
If you want to be super successful, you build it on Salesforce. Full stop. Two - two! - different vertical CRMs (ServiceMax and Veeva) have BILLION dollar valuations built entirely on the SFDC stack.

It'll answer all technical questions, make it easier to hire, and make it easier to fundraise. Oh! And easier to get customers.

Then think about how people get info into your system - if its email, use Nylas (it's gonna be email to start). If it's voice, use Twilio. If it's directly, then abstract all the complexity and use the right terms for your market.

I don't work for Salesforce, I never have in the past, and I barely use it now. But choosing anything else is nuts.
This would be really cool as a repo badge. What do you think?
Seriously, why you would base any part of your business to Facebook's, Google's or Microsoft's public services.. There have to be more better options for people. Trust issue with these corporations is an understatement..
> which RN effortlessly can*

I respect RN and the engineering behind it, however how can it beat the raw, on-metal performance of Swift/Java? I'm not talking about CRUD/TODO list apps like https://li.st, but performance critical apps like Spotify etc. Facebooks own apps are written in native code, IIRC.

I would love to be proven wrong here, and it would be great if you can provide some sources.
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Are you confident in generating enough power from the watch body alone, or are you evaluating the strap as a contact point as well?
The BBC article claims Croatia doesn't want the land because claiming it would validate Serbia's interpretation of the borders leaving Croatia with less land over all.

I can't find the relevance of years 1974 and 1990 in the wikipedia article[1]. The article describes a long-standing dispute last addressed in 1948.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia–Serbia_border_disput...
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>>How many "typical campaigns" pay people, including explicitly mentally ill people, to commit violent acts to give an impression that the other candidate is violent, will bring violence if elected, etc.? (Granted, that didn't come to light by emails, but they helped to confirm it.)

You mean the heavily edited video that the group who did the so called 'expose' refused to release in full?

>>And speaking of violence, how many modern candidates for President have seriously desired to commit high collateral drone assassinations in 1st World countries of people who aren't exactly making war on the US per se, aren't even under any US indictment? As I say elsewhere, Julian Assange is no doubt resting a bit easier.

That was a joke. Hard to take you seriously when you make things up like that.

>>Ditto that one party's wiring the nomination for a particular candidate,

She won overwhelmingly, no 'wiring' required. There was a reason no one else challenged her.

>>And that's not even touching on the possibly traitorous criminal conspiracy of the foundations. Which I doubt Obama will pardon wholesale, and then we'll get to see if Trump truly wants to "drain the swamp".

AIDS drugs for africa? Yup, treasonous activity. Hint: You don't use a charity foundation as a front for 'traitorous criminal conspiracy.'(that sounds really bad, and clearly not a collection of ominous sounding words you threw together in lieu of a coherent thought)The clintons made their money through the paid speaking circuit. Why the hell would they launder money/favors through their foundation? (Hint: they didn't)
Ah. This reminds me of a great story in Amazon of a conference room booking email gone wrong. The email was inadvertently sent to the entire company, so that employees in Japan, China, Scotland, France, etc. all knew of this fabled booking. At its peak over 280k emails were being delivered throughout the company.

Also good to remember: replying UNSUBSCRIBE to an email list is typically not how you go about it.
Woah! Talk about a blast from the past. I used your program a ton back in the BBS/DOS days to show little stories I wrote and instructions and other silly things a high school geek would do. Thanks for your work!
Satisfying an interface with Golang – Real life example with go-aws SDK
Note re. LT, to form a Limited liability company in UK you don't need to have any shareholder capital; you do need the latter for forming an Ltd in Lithuania ("UAB"). There are other corporation types available but if you want limited liability in LT, you'll need to put in 2500 EUR.
Nice colors, by the way.
We used Scala, AngularJS and PostgreSQL.
Actually except AngularJS we are really really happy. Everything is fast and the development speed is ridicoulus, especially calculations and performing operations on big lists are extremly good in Scala.
Actually we are probably introducing Redis (actually we use Akka-Cluster for PubSub) however we think that with Redis we can even be faster and Cache our stuff better.

For our JavaScript stack we will also look into ScalaJS and/or Vue.JS, React and Ember, but at the end we probably handroll our own at this stage, since our feature set is really different from what these provide (we don't need any mobile stuff, really...), at the moment we have zero mobile clients and we looking to build an app for a small inventory service, but thats all.
Question: Did you buy your ring at Charles & Colvard? (I want to know if that is a trustworthy site to place an order.)
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You can't really say "spoiler effect" without implying it. A "spoiler" is a minor candidate that is substantially similar to one of the major candidates. Just because the Democratic candidate lost to the spoiler doesn't make the spoiler less of a spoiler; the Democratic candidate would have been more likely to win if they weren't there.

It's not a "spoiler effect"; maybe a split constituency is a better term. Spoiler implies that somebody has something, and someone else steps in and ruins it. These are all equal people running for the same office.
This probably won't go over well here because reading this would take days. But I encourage everyone to at least read the opening message from Noam Chomsky, and provide their opinion. I love the HN community and you guys usually have perspectives I never considered.
I imagine people would read RSS and email in the same application.
If it requires temperature differentials so that the cold side of the watch is away from your skin, what happens when the external temperature gets somewhere above 90F/32C?
> free food in the kitchen

I work at a mid-size (~500 employee) telecom. "The [company name] 15" is a meme here because there's always so much free food in the kitchen. Every time anyone meets with clients/partners/etc., they always have way too much food catered, and the leftovers get put out for the rest of us. New employee orientations are especially awesome because they always order like ten times as much food as the newbies can eat. And we get donuts and klobasneks in the break room every Friday morning... plus every day, the break room is stocked with cereal and milk.

I like to post about the stuff I find in the break room on Facebook, and I've had multiple people tell me they gained 15 pounds just reading my posts.

> I could never go back to a cubicle with no windows in sight!

That's a mixed blessing. I consider cubicles a perk, and while windows are nice, the lack of windows isn't a deal-breaker for me, and they have their downsides.

At my last employer -- a 12-person defense contractor that put the "small" in "small business" despite having been around for 20 years -- I sat facing the window. We had four people in the room, with an empty seat for a fifth, none of us with our backs to the walls: we all faced the edge of the room. Three of us faced plate glass windows. Yeah, sure, the view was pretty. We worked on the 12th floor. I faced a freeway and a light rail line, with a rail station visible as well. It wasn't uncommon for us to stop work so we can gawk at a nasty accident on the freeway, so we can speculate on why the police have the freeway closed off, or to marvel as a hawk flew in front of our windows. That's the good. The bad is that the glare could get blinding at times. And all of us were afraid of closing the blinds because we didn't want to interfere with somebody else's view, so we just sucked it up and worked in glare on various days.

And then there was the office layout itself. Nobody had any privacy, and we could all see each other's monitors from our desks. I never worked on the same project as two of the people in my room (and they usually were on separate projects themselves): it wasn't uncommon for other members of their teams to walk into our office and have an impromptu design meeting with them while the rest of us tried to tune them out. And, no, we had no meeting rooms readily available to us: we rented a handful of offices in an executive suite that we shared with other companies, so any meeting rooms had to be booked well in advance and cost us $$$.

Now, at my current employer, I work in a cube farm, and I love it. I have my own space, I can see when someone's coming up to me, my cube doesn't get used as an impromptu meeting room, etc. Sure, I don't have my awesome view anymore, but it's not terribly important, and I'm no longer dealing with glare. If I really need to look outside, there's a window not too far away from me anyway, and when the weather gets bad, a lot of us gather by that window so we can check out the storm.
I might (I'm pretty sure) rewrite this in a more portable way and add an SVG renderer for a badge. Right now the list only contains the F500 companies and some FOSS-centred ones. That may need extending.
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So you like open office plans? Give me a cubicle and the ability to concentrate over a loud open room any day!
I must admit to wondering what was so bad about just collecting all the feeds from whoever you friended/followed/subscribed to, in order by time of publication, without algorithmic filtering.
I started getting DirecTV bills with some random person's name on them that I don't recognize (but with my street address). This weekend I also received an overnight fedex with my address, an apartment number, and someone else's name (I don't live in an apartment).

Turns out people don't know their actual physical addresses either any more.
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This program can also be viewed as a general framework for classifying video with a Caffe model, using batching and threading in C++. By replacing the weights, model definition, and mean file it can immediately be used to edit videos with other classes without recompiling
At best, I would call that "You win or you lose". Yes, there are all kinds of hacks that might give you a better chance, and you may be able to make it very likely you will get what you want, but to do so you have to be very naughty.

For example, another hack involves removing the real screen from the OS and creating a virtual screen of the same dimensions and bit depth, intercepting calls to the virtual screen, and essentially writing one's own compositor in the video memory of the real screen. If my program does that, your messages to move your window to the top will never work. Your window may end up on top on the virtual screen, but that's not what the user looks at. If you counteract by using the same trick, how do you know that want you think is the real screen isn't already a virtual one created by a program that ran earlier, of that a program running later doesn't enumerate the hardware and figures out where the real memory lies?

I also could try and patch your program when I detect it, patch it in memory to send fewer or no such messages, intercept its messages, or even crash it when I see it, etc.

It remains competition for a scarce resource; because of that, I don't see how two identical copies of such a program could both win, let alone if I run ten of them.
A lot of policies are quite scientifically illiterate or even disparaging.
"Teach abstinence, not sex ed."
"Don't coddle criminals, lock them up."
"Trickle-down economics is the best way to create jobs."
"Creationism makes just as good predictions as evolution, so it should be taught with equal emphasis."

It goes on and on, even if we ignore any one of the arguments, the problem is that many people, even people in power, believe that what they and their clique wants to be true is just as important as what can actually be demonstrated to be true. Or to put it another way: If someone says something to be true, that's equally powerful no matter what their basis (repeatable, predictable measurements, or plain dogma.)
We've basically done this and in most ways it's certainly true, but it's also incredibly inflexible and slow to develop. Apex and Salesforce's platform limitations are a nightmare. Nearly everyone contracting in this space delivers a shitty end-product and it's difficult to hire full-time developers to do Salesforce because they all want to contract (it's so lucrative!). You will sink a lot of cost into training developers on the platform and then risk them leaving you to do contracting.

And if you run a 24/7 business or for any reason can't shut down your CRM for 8+ hours ever, god help you if you ever need to do something to modify millions of records like ETL. I have about 2 weeks of concurrent sleepless nights I can blame entirely on Salesforce.

Also, I hope you have deep pockets.
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You seem to be missing the point. Or perhaps we are talking about two different things?

I am talking about the efficiency of the voting system itself, and its ability to express the preferences of the electorate.

Note that I'm not talking about changes related to the election outcomes that such a shift in voting systems would potentially cause.
Not the specific comment, but past activity by the user (and associated accounts, apparently)
If you're Bohr, you have to assume that the Nazi army will impose a shoot-on-sight curfew when they reach your part of Copenhagen in a few hours or less.
Anything that's rare can be used as a token of value.
You mentioned "projects" (plural) and the way I have it setup is pretty similar to those recommending an LLC (or S-Corp) in CA.

While the annual cost of $800 minimum tax plus maybe another $500 in administrative fees (accountants, legal, etc.) is real money spent, you can make it back in tax deductions and potential liability. If you have a structure in place (another entity that is not you personally), it is much easier to deduct expenses (less red flags) IF you make an attempt to actually generate income -- the government cannot stop you from being a bad business person :)

If you are in a 50% tax bracket, this could easily be offset by $3000 in expenses such as hosting fees, domain names, costco membership, cell phone, even your car lease. If you are renting, you can possibly deduct some portion (~20%) of your rent (do not do this if you own a house). Get a separate bank account + debit card, a separate credit card (maybe a business one with rewards) and pay everything using that entity. You will end up making "owner contribution" from your personal bank account to your business account every month.

The extra wrinkle if you have multiple projects is that you can further separate your different projects into "DBA"s (Doing Business As) which costs an extra $100/yr (County Clerk Recorder, Publish in Magazine, separate bank account, credit card, domain name) 100% owned by your LLC (or S-Corp). If you shut down a DBA, it will cost maybe another $50. You will need a DBA to open a bank account under that name.

While this may look like overkill, this keeps everything clean and if your side project does take off, you will have some history with the business.

On a day-to-day basis, what I usually end up doing is setting aside a day to deal with all these entities. Most bills are on each "company" credit card and I call all the credit card companies to align the closing date. For example, all my credit cards close around the 22nd or 23rd of every month. On the 12th of every month, I pull up each account and pay them all using one screen of online billpay if you have all your business accounts tied together using your SSN.

Note: I have other companies that are their own entity as they are generating income & have other partners. The setup here is specifically just for my side projects.
> There is no incentive to improve the software under those circumstances, and the people that get paged aren't in the position to fix what's broken.

My problem is there is no incentive for a company to fix the software if they aren't staffed for support. Also, I see a lot of DevOps people thinking they are the only ones who can fix or diagnose the problems. Often, software developers aren't experienced in networks, databases, or hardware. Thinking that devops is the be all of 24 hour support is a problem.

> If you can fix the problem at 3am without thinking, then so can a computer program. Write that computer program.

I've notice a bit of a link from uncompensated support to allowing time adding fixes to the software.

Frankly, from a hit-by-a-bus problem, if no one but the people who wrote the software can support it, then you really have a problem.
It's sad that Obama have one for peace also. Wrong man & wrong agenda from day one.
It should not be about whether people are conservative. It should be about whether they are stupid.

All view points should be represented at the table? Otherwise you have an echo chamber?

Should we allow the view point that the earth is flat and the sun rises in the west? Otherwise, we end up in an echo chamber of people agreeing the earth is round, and the sun rises in the east.

Discrimination against 'conservative scholars' should not be about being conservative, but about being scholars. Is the earth round? Does the sun rise in the east? Does your policy idea fit the facts, or do you want to make up facts to fit your policy ideas?

Is it bad to say reality has a liberal bias? Well, I suppose, it's okay to say that if it turns out to be true.

It's not to discriminate against people's values. But policies that are contrary to clear evidence. Creation or manipulation of evidence to fit policies. No matter which political party engages in this fact shaping and evidence manufacturing.
So, chiptunes are bad for you?
FreeBSD Status Report 2016Q3
Auth0 looks dope, something like that, where it's super easy to just drop in user authentication and access control but with SaaS related billing. Thanks for that link.

The templates were a starting point for me and I think you are already quite ahead of the curve by having your own internal solution, did you have any specific pain rolling out your own SaaS with your templates? I'm assuming by 'template' that we are referring to more than just landing page designs.
Classic: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet... and https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete

(Not to say that TC itself is bad, but unexpected/accidental TC is normally a sign of bad omen)
This article focuses on ink flow, which I understand as important, but my favorite pen is my favorite because of something completely different - the body of the pen.

Personally, I do not like what I refer to as "fat" pens. My favorite pen is a slim model ball point made years ago by Paper Mate. They no longer make it. At its widest, it is not much bigger than a standard number 2 pencil (it's narrower than a Fisher Space Pen). All of the larger, "ergonomic" pens I have ever held remind me of the twice as thick pencils used in pre-school and kindergarten when I didn't have the fine motor skills to hold the smaller pencil - maybe okay back then, but not what I want now.
That implementation is a feature, not a bug! Write-in candidates are an important part (as documented up-thread) of our electoral process.
To a first approximation that looks fine[1]. To a second approximation one might consider that heat doesn't exit any endotherm in remotely equal surface fashion[2]. And if anything the wrists appear as local minima.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow

[2] http://i.stack.imgur.com/CsnO5.png