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My advice is to not go LLC until you fully understand what you're doing and why you need it.

Also, when you incorporate, get close and personal with an accountant.

Your next step would be to get some business cards printed out and start beating on the doors of local business owners. The conversations you have with them will be very informative and point you in the direction you need to go (and hopefully get you some clients).

Best of luck to you.
By all means, go ahead =).

I'm actually a fan of continuations, I just didn't see what the purpose was in the example that you gave. What would be helpful is an explanation of why a yield with continuations is more powerful than one with closures. That will probably require an explanation of what you mean by a "general-case yield" (I'm not that familiar with Python).
I find it ironic to say so, but you also have more choice on the iOS devices. Personally, I read using Stanza on my iPhone, because I feel it's a better reading application than the Kindle App.

I don't think Amazon is going to drop the Kindle hardware anytime soon, purely because it's the only real way to get consumers locked in on the platform. Any other device has alternative reading applications, and switching is relatively easy.

Apple could have, in a sort of passive-aggressive manner, attacked Amazon by making the iBook application capable of plugging into arbitrary e-book marketplaces/readers. This provides consumers choice and convenience, while removing Amazon's control on the platform and leveling the playing field.
As a young person in a shared house, I'd really like to find something that included pantry management for people like me. Perhaps it is not possible to eat well from a single cabinet of ingredients that don't spoil quickly and are easy to prepare. If I need to compromise on something, it would probably be price. It just has to be cheaper that eating out.
The premise is that the current regulation is obsolete, not that regulation itself is.

The article describes regulations that were created decades ago and which are no longer appropriate for the class of reactors that these companies are developing.
Until we can forward a GV line to another GV line and do that 10-20 times, so that when the FBI/CIA/NSA is trying to trace a call the guy in the computer room keeps shouting "He's in Berlin! No wait, he's in Detroit! Now he's in Boston...the bastard is routing his call through multiple cities!" it will be useless to many.
Let's Deep-Six Facebook and Do Open Source Social Networking Instead
I believe it is common for ARM licensees to add accelerators for multimedia, etc.

However, extending the processor itself goes against the entire RISC philosophy. Making the core more complicated makes speeding it more difficult and will not produce significant gain unless the additional instructions are very common.

A more complicated and less orthogonal instruction set also makes the compiler's job much more difficult.
Some sort of a dice / random generator for board games.
Out of the norm customer support is well worth the extra $40. I posted a small issue I was having with my nerdkit in reply to an arduino thread (when spark fun had its free day). That same day: I received a reply on HN and my email resolving the issue.

There's a decent community. There's a pdf that goes through the basics of electronics, but also has hands on exercises.

I can buy a washing machine for $400, but why not toss in the extra $90 for the warranty/support for the years to come?

I found EE to be too expensive for my tastes. I was working on an idea with the WiiMote presentation fundamentals as my core. Few hundred infrared leds + UV detectors + computer = awesome pc game!
Basically take stackoverflow and make it for book summaries, but put a word or character limit to the summaries. So eventually, you'll have a collection of the best 500 word book summaries
If you're having to turn down work at a comfortably livable pay rate (considering additional taxes, health insurance, etc.) for lack of time, and this is an ongoing situation, not a one time fluke, then I agree it's likely you'll be able to do just fine going freelance full time. And if your current job is approaching the end of the line, it's probably a good time to make that jump. Not worth all the energy you'd have to invest in finding another job and getting up to speed only to quit N months later.
Is your e-mail link functionality active? Been a few minutes and nothing yet...
The 2313 should be similar in power, it has up to 18 I/O lines instead of 10 and an additional 128B of EEPROM and 2 ADCs, which is two more than the MSP430G2211 and six less than the 2231 [edit: and the TI ADCs might be faster]. But at $2.88 you are being seriously ripped off, I pay 1.10€ at reichelt.de including 19% sales tax, and as far as I can remember, the Euro is still unter US$2.00
It atleast requires a US IP. I'm living in Europe and can't sign up.
How do you align incentives in health-care between patient and hospital/HMO/PPO?
There's so much innovation to be done in health care, and I think a fundamental shift that needs to happen is to align economic incentives between customer and company.

Hospitals/HMO's/PPO's are incentivized to maximize transactions. Whether it's a monthly premium, drug purchase, visit, or a procedure. The more of these, the better. They also have a small incentive to keep the patient healthy, but only healthy enough to continue making these transactions. A patient, on the other hand, has the incentive to pay as little as possible to be healthy, to maximize personal happiness, productivity and longevity. What if a healthcare company's incentives were aligned with the patient? I've heard that in some health-care facilities in China a patient will pay a monthly fee when they are healthy, but if they get sick, they stop paying. What if something similar were done here?

A few of the problems to overcome if something like this were done:

1. Patients gaming the system - pretending to be sick so they don't have to pay premiums
Potential solution: Create objective standards for what it means to be sick vs healthy. Have a patient submit to a quarterly blood test to have a full spectrum of different things tested, and then use results of blood test to define "sick."

2. Sickness/health is in many ways a lifestyle choice, so there's only so much a healthcare system can offer. If a person goes to a clinic where incentives are aligned, etc. but they go home and eat twinkies all day and sit in front of the TV, they will continue to get sick.
Potential solution Mandate healthy diet/regular exercise as part of the program health-care program, and/or start out targeting the healthier part of the population.

I think this is a really interesting idea (the general idea of aligning incentives) for how to fix healthcare. Would really like to hear HN's thoughts on this.
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Or you could make a programmer with this.
I haven't had an event that size, but DimDim seems to be fairly strong, and a 'free' service in most respects.
Usability wise I think iBooks is a lot better than Kindle on the iPad. For example: better page turning, easier to see how far you are into a book, better bookmarking, better search. I am not impressed by the Kindle software.
I hope so, it's powered by mailchimp who I'd assume are fairly reliable.

Edit: I did one of my own email addresses and it took 12 minutes to get an email asking for confim. hmm might be time to switch over wufoo or something similar.
I'm not your target demo either, but here's my 2 cents from a usability & web conversion perspective:
I'd keep everything above the fold (or rather, don't make the page scroll at all) and keep the Get Notified, FB, Twitter visible (maybe on the right side, along with the copy. The get notified is your call to action - your goal is to convert people into giving you their email addresses - don't hide it at the bottom.

And yes, your copy can be tightened and be more compelling. good luck! :)
Ask HN: Equity for a founding team member at a funded startup
Hi all, I figured this would be the best place to ask this question. What can someone who's joining a funded startup expect in terms of equity if they will be part of the team, maybe in terms of C-level for lack of a better word. But not the CEO. I really have no insight into this and figured this would be a good place to ask.
You are the representative of an alien high civilization...
... who want to buy the planet earth to exploit its resources - who would you talk - or who do you think owns the earth
Check out vsee.com

They are pretty awesome and in my experience better than WebEx and GotoMeeting.
Well I did understand that he was making a joke, but I'd rather we kept jokes like that away from HackerNews as long as we possibly can, until we turn into yet another Reddit or Digg.
Remember the mortgage is secured on the house, so in a non-recourse state, you can simply hand the house back to the lender and walk-away.

This is how commercial real estate works. Can't fill the building? Hand it back to the lender.
Which soft phone app do you recommend for use on the iPad?
+1 for SnapABug
Won? How can you win an ongoing battle?
It's great to see folks providing commercial consulting/hosting/support for CouchDB in the same vein as Cloudera (Hadoop/HBase), MongoHQ (MongoDB), etc!

CouchDB is great but don't get me wrong ORMs like ActiveRecord and DataMapper have done a lot to to ease the pain and abstract away the nastiness of SQL. It’s not enough though. It’s like treating the symptoms and not the underlying condition. You still have to worry about joins, normalization, and other artifacts from relational databases. These issues leak their way up into your models where they don’t belong, and obscure more important logic. All of this isn’t an issue with CouchDB, and that’s the biggest selling point for me.
Does it really scale to 100 participants?
Harrison's 17th edition has an entire chapter summarizing all statin trials to date; there is a dose-response curve between LDL and mortality, with no lower limit. Or try a recent meta-analysis of statin trials looking specifically at all-cause mortality (PMID 20403481). Or see (PMID 19067719) if you want another statins + all-cause mortality meta-analysis.

In another post you pointed to one article asking about the risk of cancer in statin-treated patients. That was a scare a few years ago; now, in contrast, the NIH is funding statin trials for cancer prevention (specifically colorectal and skin cancers).
I use this and on the whole it's very reliable, however sometimes messages seem to get lost. Maybe if they're too long, it's not 100% clear to me.
Sounds nice and dandy, but does it keep the URL architecture in place? If I want to move my blog to a new location, I would want to keep all the base URLs in place: for posts, archives (category and date), for tags, etc etc. Otherwise I loose search engine traffic and inter-connectivity between posts.

Can they do it?
Not to pile on, but that sounds like more rationalization as well. Did the resistance to school increase the closer you got to graduation? I think the problem you're facing may be much closer to home.
And that is what US-based virtual hosts or free shell accounts are for. :)
You could cut out the middle pieces and use Guava: http://gizmo5.com/guava.html?loc=guava
Well, I'd guess it represents a much larger segment than you guess. Neither of us has any data, nor does the article. So the only rational conclusion is to accept our ignorance, right?

Or at least one should carefully document every single wild guess being made when coming up with some numbers, and carefully identify them as very plausibly being very large sources of error (so that no readers mistakenly doubt that the numbers might be off by a factor of 10 and think it's actually based on hard data).
Just a garden-variety screwup is required. Don't have to be worthless, just normally competent and vulnerable.
Very nice resume. Swiss grid for the win :)
A revolution without spilling blood. A revolution is where the table of control gets turned.
The Readers of Hacker News: 86% male
https://www.google.com/adplanner/#siteSearch?identifier=news.ycombinator.com&geo=US&trait_type=1&lp=false

Another interesting statistic: 100% of us all went to "some college" or beyond?
add to the software edge, the base price of $499 doesn't leave a lot of room for other companies to build one at a decent profit.
They haven't been _selling_ them for 3000 days.
Aren't the banks themselves doing the same thing? Use OPM (taxpayer bailouts) to socialize any losses on huge bets with huge payoffs.
The thing that impresses me most about Clojure is the community.

The excellent data structures and conceptual brilliance of the Lisp-reboot are all good things, but more importantly, you get the real sense that Clojure is in good hands, in active development by a core of top developers who care about the language and where it's going.

That in turn gives me confidence that Clojure will only improve over time.
I've got iBooks on my iPhone right now—it's available.
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Lots of good advice about corporations and I thought I'd throw in my two cents about finances.

- Find a CPA and a lawyer you can work with. Choose supporting professionals that match your risk tolerance. The self-employed can be very aggressive regarding taxes, litigation, and financial engineering (and likewise accept more risk of audits and penalties.) If you want to be aggressive, choose an aggressive CPA and an aggressive lawyer. If you're more conservative, do the opposite. Don't expect that a professional will be conservative just because she works for a larger firm. In fact, the opposite is often the case.

- Get a business checking account and a business credit card. Many banks offer free checking and no fee credit cards to small businesses. Try to be good about using the business accounts only for business expenses and you'll be much better off at tax time.

- Open a high-yield money market or savings account. Don't let your cash sit around in the checking account. Even with today's crappy interest rates, you can make a few bucks each month. Your bank might have good rates or you can look at Everbank or Capital One. (Costco members get a rate bonus at Capital One.)

- Set up a retirement plan. A solo 401(k) or SEP-IRA is simple to set up and you can save a ton of money for retirement and help save on your taxes. A solo 401(k) lets you contribute the most (up to $49,000/year,) but it's a more of a pain to maintain, especially if you plan to have employees. Talk to your CPA about which is right for you. T. Rowe Price, Vanguard, and many of the other big financial firms offer cheap or low-cost small business retirement accounts.

- Talk to a CPA and ask them to explain how to pay yourself a regular salary, withhold taxes, withhold retirement contributions, etc. Actually doing the payroll yourself is not hard, but there are plenty of companies that will administer your payroll for $30 - 60/month if you don't want to do it.

- The more clients and expenses you have, the more you need some sort of accounting package. If you have one or two clients and few expenses, a spreadsheet is probably fine for bookkeeping. If you have more clients or lots of purchases and expenses, a simple accounting program will help a ton.
I had the same problem when searching for a WebEx alternative a little while back. Didn't really find anything viable.

They all seem kind of Fortune 500ish with complicated pricing matrices and awful looking websites plastered with stock photos of people in suits.

Definitely seems like there's plenty of room for a new entrant to come in and eat their lunch.
Really? Then why does he say: "In Mongo’s defense- I really like it, and hope to use it in the future when it becomes stable."
This is a trick question, right? Presumably a high civilization wouldn't be simply buying up rich, sustainable, highly bio-diverse planets and just consuming them; and if it were, it's hard to see what point there would be in having a conversation with one of the soon-to-be-doomed (or at least orphaned) inhabitants beforehand.
Great feedback. The overwhelming responses here (and my own as well) included "talk to a professional".

The majority of people I know haven't seen that much of a tax difference one way or another when freelancing as individuals whether scorp or llc precisely because of the 'reasonable salary' requirement. If you manage to pull in $200k freelancing, but only salary $30k to yourself, yes, you're 'shielding' over $150k from self-employment tax, but that's a pretty big red flag which may trigger an audit.

"If it does not pass, they have cost themselves a good deal of money on a inferior election." There's nothing to stop you from changing your corp status or starting a new one if you get to the point where one structure makes more financial sense than another. The original poster's question was to do with freelancing first and later developing an application. I suspect the freelancing income will likely not rise to the point where there's much of a difference between scorp shieldability vs llc passthrough taxation (arguably, yes, any benefit is better than none).

Another poster's suggestion of starting up another entity specifically for the application development may be the best option all around, but, yet again, consulting a local professional competent in the laws of your locality would be the best bet one could take, regardless of other HN suggestions. While an scorp structure makes the most sense for your situation, it might not for the OP.
But in typical TC linkbait fashion, they were fully aware that referencing "The Kindle" would immediately make people think of Kindle the device. Nobody refers to the software that way.
SparkFun.com has some books like that.

I too got into Arduino hacking last week and no blown bits yet!
Have wife, three kids. No, family's just the common excuse. Put money in the bank, enough for 6 months, and you are free from that.

If you work for the guy that pays you the most, there's a word for that: prostitute. You think you're deciding where to work; actually they are, by bidding for your labor. You don't take charge of your life UNTIL you take the job for reasons other than money.
Yeah, about that address bar thing...
Did Bob Parsons get a Sex Change?
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"Random" is really a bit strong. They're certainly not very random in the Kolmogorov sense: the shortest program that generates the first N prime numbers is much, much shorter than constant*N. There are all sorts of obvious regularities (e.g., all are odd, all are 1 or 5 mod 6, etc.) and it's no good saying "well, they're random once you take those regularities into account" because taking those regularities into account uniquely determines the prime numbers. There are subtler deviations from the simplest random models, too; for instance, if you just pretend that each number n is (independently) prime with probability 1 / log n, you get what appears to be the wrong answer for the density of twin primes (pairs n,n+2 both of which are prime).

So no, "random as far as we currently know" is a pretty terrible description of the distribution of prime numbers.
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If this is the case, why doesn't Posterous just copy all the Ning blogs and say "hey! your already here!"?
Well, I am basically thinking a type of arbitration which I am sure in some ways is available today. Instead of suing though, it is more like avoiding that since you never win even if you do win.

Probably not a great idea either way though and the better way to do it is to always be ready to move to another service/cloud provider. It is just another form of a disaster and should be included in your recovery plans.
But they have been selling the iPad for more than 80 days. Of course, Apple never counts the pre-order period.
Thanks (and to the reply to this as well). I've been a little reluctant to shell out for an SSD not knowing what's hype and what's real. Recommendations from actual people on HN is probably enough to push me over the edge at least for my MBP.

If you were going to buy just one and use it as you primary (only) drive in your most important computer, which brand and model would it be?
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My favourite lame comparison to counter the ActiveRecord argument is that at some point AR in Rails was about 25k LoC while CouchDB was about 15kLoc. It's comparing apples to bike sheds, so it doesn't say much, but it's fun to look at the complexity of things that way :)
Ask HN: Financial advice for a graduate student
Hey HN,

I am 23 and about to start graduate school this Fall (Master's program). Since graduating last December with my B.S., I have been working full-time at a software company. It's allowed me to save a little extra money; money that I do not plan on spending during grad school that I can use to invest (~$5,000).

The problem is, I don't know the first thing about investing. I'm pretty open to all options, but I don't know if I should buy stocks, a CD, mutual funds, or if I should go ahead and start a retirement account, based on my age and the amount of money I currently have to invest.

I've noticed a few Ask HN threads about financial advice, and was wondering if anyone had any opinions on the matter based on previous experience, expertise, etc.

Thanks in advance!
I and three other students designed a dual pass train scheduler with a hand written algorithm complete with a webservice and a webapp interface. In addition to building a processor, in addition to the other 6/7 of my classes.

I'm tired of older generations telling me I don't work as hard as they did. I know it's bs.
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Nice insight there; clearly spoken from direct and current experience.

I think it's just one way a consistent low level fear manifests itself in our lives. Breaking out of that secure routine is not just scary by itself -- it'll dredge up a host of un-faced fears we carry around trying to avoid. I have the luxury of pointing this out from my desk in my office as I look forward to lunch hour.
At one point you say that the metabolic syndrome is correlated with insulin resistance, and at another point you use IR as another word for the metablic syndrome. It's important to be clear, as you pointed out. (Btw, when I say "high cholesterol," I mean elevated LDL-C.) The correlation coefficient between ApoB and repeat LDL-C measurements is high enough as to make the (more expensive) ApoB not worth measuring except for research purposes; though I'd be happy to measure ApoB directly, doing so would change very little. It's certainly not "much better." There is actual research, and then there is clinical junk like taking ratios of different lipoprotein species; that doesn't help you get to the heart of the problem. And you are extrapolating out too far from the papers that you are citing; the medical literature merits a bit more of a cautious reading than I think you're giving it, IMHO. Making super-bold claims like "Metabolic syndrome ... is the "best" predcursor/predictor for cardiac mortality" from a paper entitled "Evaluation of some markers of subclinical atherosclerosis in Egyptian young adult males with abdominal obesity" is a perfect example of over-interpreting.

In conclusion, your level of belief of well-established science (such as statin trials; >100,000 people, total) is too low, and your willingness to extrapolate from very small studies (50 people, total) is too high. I would urge you to recalibrate your beliefs in proportion to the weight of each study, instead of in proportion to your desire for the study to be true. It's hard for all of us to do, but it's the hallmark of the scientific approach.
I'd probably start with something like a DIY lucid dream mask.

http://cre.ations.net/creation/face-mounted-lucid-dreaming-m...