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I've quit six figure jobs repeatedly. When the startup gets bought and you find yourself working for the man, again, and your team is resigned to their fate and the work is rote and going the wrong way, its easy.

When the company has a good idea and the team is working hard, but you can see the Founder is NEVER going to take anybody's money and there is too much IP to finish in any reasonable amount of time, its much harder. But done that too.

And I often had not the slightest idea what to do next. But something comes up - each time its easier, you know more people.
It's amazing that Unix kernels rule the modern mobile OS landscape. Like Objective-C and Cocoa, it shows how far a good, simple design can take you. Talk about reusability, Linux has proven to be a good fit for everything from your phone (and smaller) up to Crays (and larger). Amazing.
This is a pretty common American cultural expectation, but it would really hurt soccer to have matches go into extra time unnecessarily. The fatigue and injury rate is already too high--look at how many great players are sitting out this World Cup, for instance.
And in further news cows want you to eat more chicken.
Tyranny of the cloud. Never trust it.
So, does this mean that they are going to stop being such jerks about allowing Skype on mobile devices? You know, like killing Skype for Android because they want to force people to pay on mobile for what they can do for free everywhere else?
Actually Ada only published the code, which was earlier presented by Babbage (at his only public talk, in Italy).
Dmitry Medevedev Scouts Silicon Valley Talent To Build Russian 'Innovation City'
Bad choice of name IMO considering the market, could easily be confused with: https://launchpad.net/

On the other hand:

So here it is: Launchpad will set you back four dollars and thirty cents. And for now shipping is included.

Holy crap, that's an awesome price!
Apple sells 3 million iPads in 80 days
And the fistfights, from what I gather, are quite well refereed--the gloves come off, one player wins, the referee referees the fight, and then you go back to hockey.
However, paid apps do get all of the purchases. The number of downloads doesn't matter, only income does.
A job in a swiss patent office is hard to come by.
>players rolling around on the pitch like bruised 4 year old girls

I've never seen a 4yo girl (or boy) act like such a pillock; they cry when they're hurt and then normally get on with it. I think you do a disservice to 4 year olds.
That is an impressive price point.
I've always been a bit surprised at how expensive the arduino is, specifically that as it's become super popular and companies are actually selling decent volumes of it, the price point has not gone down remarkably (or at all?).
Any hardware hackers on HN? I bought an Arduino board a few months ago and ended up blowing out the few LEDs the kit came with because I didn't understand how resistors/volts etc. worked. Can anyone direct me to a guide on electronics specifically for small hardware hacking? I'm certain taking EE classes or reading Physics/Electronics books would help but it would also take a lot of time. I'd rather concentrate on writing neat software once the hardware is wired up. Is there a guide to learning the basics of hardware so I can get started with Arduino and maybe LaunchPad?

Edit: Thanks everyone for the links. These are pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Hopefully I'll hack up some interesting stuff soon :)
They should play the proper game without a referee and then bar anyone afterwards who lied or cheated from ever playing again.
There were 2000 American car companies started after Ford, now there are three. ~Warren Buffett
And you know this how? Developing computer and space industries takes a lot of resources, which Germany would not have had.
Yes, it was admittedly a nightmare back then. Passenger is amazing.
Vows: Asynchronous behaviour driven development for Node.js
There is also the difference that he properly didn't have much choice.

Thomas Watson on the other hand wasn't forced to make the punchcards the nazis used to run their census and kill the jews; he did it very, very willingly.

And Ford was given a fucking medal by Hitler.
Create an LLC

Get a forwarding number now (google voice, twilo, etc)

File for a business checking account

File your taxes as an S Corp (there is a form with the IRS, you only have a certain number of days after you start doing business to do this).

California is expensive to do an LLC. Nevada, Delaware and Georgia are much less so.

Here is an old blog I did about when I setup the company I now do product development through (although I work with other people, you sound like you're going solo).

It goes through the steps of setting up your business, etc (but is slanted heavily towards Georgia): http://www.rowdylabs.com/blogs/pitchtothegods/archives/2006_...

I suggest Google Checkout/Zoho Invoice for invoicing.

I suggest cash method of accounting (accrual method is a LOT of paperwork and its a pain to switch to cash later, but not hard to switch to accrual later).
It is strange that the IDEs are not free.
I don't want to be all wishy-washy here, but possibly in a future version you might have the option to 'show full page' or 'just the naked version'. A quick toggle to switch back and forth would be handy.
Basically the same thing could happen to anyone. I own two domains with my name in them, both of which host my blog and a few random projects. Either registrar could hold my domains hostage and make me unable to receive mail for a week, just as easily as Gmail (which is actually where all my email is received at the moment, though I'm contemplating taking the plunge the other way.)
"I've quit six figure jobs repeatedly."

So have I. My last job at MegaCorp paid 6 figures in US dollars in Bangalore. That is a lot of money hereabouts and I did confess it did give me a pang to give it up - All I had to do to earn it was put on a corporate face and attend meetings all day.

" But something comes up "

yes it does. Hacking Robotics/Computer Vision Code. Couldn't be happier.

But I think a key factor is whether you have a wife/kids to support. Many talented folks continued at MegaCorp for the steady salary checques. I respect that decision.
I've been in a similar place. When my wife lost her job a couple years ago and we lost our housing (came and went with the job), I went full-time with my freelance work and became our sole income.

Think of the business entity as a form of insurance. You have to go through some hassle to set it up, and you have to maintain it at a minimal financial cost and possibly more significant paperwork time cost. If properly maintained it provides some legal protection of your personal assets if you are sued, but less than you'd think for a freelancing business. You decide whether it's worth the bother. I went ahead and did the LLC--it just seemed like a good idea to me, and it helps my brain a bit to have a separate legal entity for the business. When you get ready to actually release software, you may want to have a lawyer help you revisit your decision, whatever it was.

A separate business bank account is essential regardless of your organization you will need an EIN from the IRS. Just google for how to get one. It's free.

I use fresh books but have not found it to be really adequate for forming a solid financial picture. I'm currently using a beta version of gnu cash, but it won't be just right until I get around to enhancing it with some reports of my own.

Your tax situation will change. You will have no withholding, so you'll need to make quarterly payments. IRS interest charges are not out of line, but they can really add up over the year if you don't pay attention to this at all. Google "estimated payments safe harbor". Of course you're also going to be responsible for self-employment tax, which looks like it will be considerably more than my income tax this year. Use the google for calculators to estimate both so you know how much to be saving along the way.

Good luck, and ping me via letterblock.com if you want.
That's the thing. When we are talking about current, we are not talking about how many electrons are moving, but about the transfer of energy from one place to another. The water analogy just doesn't work, because while the current itself flows at nearly the speed of light, the electrons themselves move very slowly. In an AC current, the electrons don't flow at all. They vibrate. And in a liquid, the energy transfer can just as well be by means of anion flowing backwards, as cations flowing forward. Yet we think of the current as only flowing in one direction. You see the problem? Trying to think of electrical energy as a "flow of electrons" OR a "flow of protons" completely skews one's understanding of what is taking place.
Extremely aggressive price for the microprocessor, but there are large hidden software costs. Their proprietary IDE is listed at $445 (http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/ccstudio.html)
After reading this and the other scary stories (Paypal and even Google come to mind) - this seems like a perfect area for a new startup that has "connections" to the inside of each of these service providers and can help you restore or at least get answers. You pay them a flat fee and have some strict timelines that they can guarantee.
You don't pay "15.3% more taxes".

with any other election other than a S-Corp all income is subject to the full tax so yes you are responsible for that tax on the full amount of your income. With an S election you are allowed to pay yourself a reasonable salary that is subject to the employment tax while shielding the rest as profit dividend which unlike a C corp are pass through and not subject to corporate taxes. so the taxes on that portion is (0%) so yes if you elect to file any thing other than an S-Corp then you are paying 15.3% on income you would be paying 0% so it is not 7.x% it is 15.3% that you are loosing.

Also, the arguable tax advantages of s-corps are likely being reduced or eliminated soon via impending legislation in the US, so don't choose that for tax reasons.

That is the worst advice that I have ever heard. The legislation has not been passes and their are a million reasons that a bill can get killed. Making recommendations on speculative future events is irresponsible at best and the fact of the matter is if the poster files an S-Corp and the bill passes then they are in the same place as an LLC for the most part. If it does not pass, they have cost themselves a good deal of money on a inferior election.

I was literally just in my accountants office yesterday discussing this subject for a new venture and he assuredly recommended a S-election.
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In a public traded company, the owners are the stock holders. Some of the people running the company hired by the shareholders are paid well and do not suffer any consequences if they do a poor job. This is how big corporations work.
Glad to see a DC based startup! You should join the HN Readers of DC Meetup group (if you haven't already). We just had a meetup last night where a bunch of startups gave elevator pitches and got feedback. Would love to have you pitch Struc.to at a future meetup. Apart from good feedback, you will likely get a few beta users as a result.

http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-NOVA-DC
It says they are free:

>two free IDEs; Code Composer Studio 4 and IAR Embedded Workbench Kickstart

Kickstart is Windows-only and Code Composer seems to be an Eclipse plugin (so cross-platform, but not lightweight like Arduino's minimalist IDE).
Certainly when I played Sunday League and at school we had linesmen. Junior school (<11yo) we played five-a-side rules really; you can't play on a full pitch for full duration at that age anyway.

We'd have kickabouts with more players (10+ on pitch) at senior school and play offside sometimes, occasionally someone would ref but more often it was reffing by consensus/honesty and with reduced players it was hard to get off-side to work, normally we'd just accuse someone of "goal hanging" and it would be enough.
but I always had higher priorities than switching

Well they solved that procrastination problem for you the hard way.

Sounds like my friend who still used AOL for their email for a decade until this year they got blocked by abuse when someone made a fake complaint about some usenet posting (they don't even know what usenet is!) That solved their procrastination problem too as they could never reach a human being. (They got a call several MONTHS later from AOL offering their account back, lol).

But doesn't ICANN prevent registrars from taking away access to your domain (not the hosting, the domain) like that ? Once you own a domain, registratrs can't touch it short of a URDP.
Talking about Cancer on Facebook: The Debate on Public Sharing Heats Up
Hedge fund king: staff must be brutally honest, or else
The Art of Debugging and How to be a Great Developer
They didn't have Google back in the 60's, did they? Maybe those ten hours used to be spent just looking for the damn book you need to study, whereas now you can get it with a quick search. I think that's worth considering.
I keep forgetting to read this blog. I always love what Rands has to say.
The Green Gold Rush Over Iceland’s Data Centers
Though my personal preference is for no layout in my feed reader, I actually do like the idea and I think there is definitely a market for it.

One small nitpick: the specific example you chose for the screenshot under the "Why" tab is a bad example. If I had to choose between a plain-text article and that hard-on-the-eyes-gray-text-on-bright-green-background, I'd definitely choose the plain-text hands down.

On a related note, if you do decide that you want to integrate a button that allows the user to view a plain-text stripped-down version of the article, I recently implemented similar functionality in LeadNuke and wrote an article about the "algorithm" (it's actually quite simple) I used to strip down the page. It's specifically written for Ruby, but you can skip to the "algorithm" part of the article: http://www.alfajango.com/blog/create-a-printable-format-for-...
IPhone OS4 Users: Opt out of Apple's iAds
Is human capability on the decline?
call/cc was introduced, as i understand it, as a means of formalising goto in this paper:

Denotational semantics of goto: An exit formulation and its relation to continuations. Cliff B. Jones.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/f340274565373810/

this implementation of yield in scheme reminds me of the procedure linkage table in ELF executables, roughly in C: goto *current_entry_point then update current_entry_point on return (in the ELF PLT this is a one shot update).
Ladyada's guide (http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/) has all of the basics to get you started with the physical parts of hooking up your Arduino.

I've glanced at "Lessons in Electric Circuits" (http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/) by Tony Kuphaldt, and it seems to cover all of the physics that you would need to get started with hardware hacking. Volume I appears to be the most relevant to you, covering the basics of voltage and currents. Once you understand that, you'll most likely be looking at specific parts that perform all of the complicated electronic functions (A/D Converters, H-Bridges, Omp Amps, etc), and don't need to fully understand the physics behind them, although it helps.

I'm currently going through "Making Things Talk" by Tom Igoe, whose audience appears to be non-technical, or at least non-hardware, people. It does not cover the physics and math behind the projects though.
Looking forward to see this integrated into Irssi.
Google already de-list & pageRank for sites that disobey their terms (except if Jason Calacanis runs them).

If they include sites that exist expressly for illegal purposes as against their terms, a site whose name and purpose is based on piracy would be naturally de-indexed.

If you make software, or otherwise create stuff you'd like people to obey your terms for, this is a good thing.

If you:

* wouldn't like someone disobeying the GPL

* wouldn't like someone stealing your desktop app

* wouldn't like someone copying your web apps source to their own servers

* wouldn't like someone ripping off your CSS

then congratulations, you support IP. Having TPB de-indexed will help your fellow creatives.

When you're 15 and poor, stealing seems pretty reasonable. When you're 30 and make stuff, it isn't.
Woah, no way would that arrangement last for any amount of time. "I couldn't get my money back until I bribed a third party company" would be a PR disaster of epic propotions, and the fallout would involve cutting of ties. You can insure yourself well enough by having a good network or being part of a community such as this one, but making the deal explicit would never work.

Anyway, isn't the option of lawyering up and suing basically equivilant and available today?
There are some specially prepared dried beans that you can use basically straight away.

[1] Something done to them with hot steam or so.
I disagree. There is a huge difference between not resisting the regime(which is what most Germans are guilty of) and working in the weapons industry, actively supporting the war effort.
Is Yahoo actually a registrar, or did they simply register the domain on his behalf? If the former then yes they would be compelled to let him transfer it elsewhere. If the latter then Yahoo technically owns the domain and can do with it as they please.

Always, always control your own domain registration and do so at a reputable registrar. Don't use your webhost and don't use a company that does anything but domain services.

Companies that do registration on the side or as a bonus to hosting packages tend to do things like automatically re-register your domain even after billing fails without notifying you, then submit the whole $20 to a bill collector without notifying you, keep the domain operating for an extra 6 months so you have no idea that anything went wrong, but kill it after said 6 months with another 6 months left on the registration with no way to make any changes to the domain because they refer any support requests to the bill collector -- because this definitely did not happen to me and it definitely didn't happen at a company called 1&1 Internet Inc. because that would be totally absurd. cough.
> This article is disrespectful of what students have to do to get a college education today.

I completely agree with you on this point. I am quite annoyed with the article.

> So why do they deserve to have such an ungrateful and cynical article written about them?

No they don't. But, do you really need to reply "fuck you and the horse you rode in on?"?
You can read the United States Navy's NEETS modules for a quick introduction to electronics. Module 1, "Introduction to Matter, Energy, and Direct Current" would probably be enough to keep you from blowing LEDs.

http://jricher.com/NEETS/
>You can now rest easy, as you don't have to worry about scaling your database, thats on us

that's
He was also one of the first to articulate the notion of the computable world. Wolfram and crew owe Zuse an intellectual debt (though as far as I know he doesn't appear in the footnotes to A New Kind of Science, big surprise).

Zuse should be a folk hero for anyone interested in the notion of a discrete, computable physics.
Clickable: http://www.quora.com

Also, the site requires you to have a FB or twitter account. Anyone know if users that don't have either will still be able to access the site?
I suggest you wait until Wed 8 Feb 2169 01:15:07 GMT+0000 (BST) to celebrate
The common use case is to back up your office to the cloud. This story shows why you should back up the cloud to your office.
Sounds good. I need some web application but I won't do it precisely because it will be a nightmare to set up a webserver, data backend etc. etc. all the crap required for web development. I will never use a web framework because they are all too complicated. IMHO If you build something very simple to use and minimal, it will get some traction.

Zillions of web startups but the web development problem is yet to be solved.
Talk to Yourself
What makes you think so? Do you understand German in general?
If you moved close to your job

At 30 miles away, I'm about as close as I can afford...I live in Los Angeles, the 2nd most expensive city in the US. Unfortunately, it also has the worst traffic in the US, and a complete lack of public transportation. It can take an hour to drive 10 miles sometimes. That 30 mile commute at 7am takes around 45+ minutes, and at 4pm, 1.5+ hours.
Yup. Several hours each. $100 to apple. And $5 for Brushes to make icons. No other costs. Comes out under $1500 using the same rate I do Rails contracting at.
This doesn't require call/cc - you can do it with just closures (I've done it in perl, for example). It's also not as powerful as yield, in that it requires the list of return values to be precomputed.

However, call/cc could be used to implement something of equivalent power to yield.
> Germany could be and would be the top scientific and technological nation of the XX century (space research, computers, etc etc) if they had not gone mad.

Twice.
I really, really like that t-shirt. Ordered.
Do you mean natural resources and so? They could have been bought.
Sure you can, if you amortize your time (the concept of making components ahead, in batches). Your point is well taken, of course. It's just that I would hate to see a new born self-feeding foodie get "stuck" in the rut of using needlessly expensive and environmentally dubious canned goods.
Has anyone tried to buy an iPad at Best Buy recently? They have been sold out in my area for a while, and they have no idea when they'll get more since Apple randomly ships them to Best Buy stores.
While I'm not generating enough freelance income to live yet, I'm confident that if I was focusing full-time I could.

What exactly would you do differently working full-time that you can't do now while still at your job?

I ask because I thought the same thing when I first considered quitting my full-time engineering job to freelance. But then I came to the conclusion that it was just a justification that would allow me to immediately do what I wanted (quit) while putting off the tedious part (find more freelance work).

In the end, I chose to be a bit more prudent, and actually line up enough work to comfortable quit without worrying too much. So I went out and found enough work that would allow me to make as much as I was making at my full-time job for at least 3 months (noting that my rate was significantly higher, so it only amounted to finding about 25hr/wk of work for 12 weeks). Even then, I was still nervous as hell when it came time to give my 2-weeks notice.

By far the easiest way I found to line up a solid 3-months of freelance work before I was actually doing things full-time, was to find a full-time development firm and work out a subcontracting agreement with them.
> it's a top 4 sport already (displacing hockey)

Not a chance. The NHL is enjoying some of its highest ratings ever.
The classes make a big difference in study time required. Also, in my experience going for a 4.0 is much more difficult than a 3.0. Last semester I had individual courses take as much outside class time as your entire workload (Mathematics/CS double major). Maybe this is more a failing on my part and I'm inefficient, etc. I will note if my goal in my more time consuming courses was a B instead of an A I'd have been able to probably cut the work-time in half.
Make: Electronics by Charles Platt is a very good beginners book with lots of projects. Not Arduino specific though.

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596153755
Am I the only one who can't find a link in the article that actually links to a store where you can buy it? I can't even find it with a Google search; no direct hits and the ones that look like they might lead near it on TI.com time out.