skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a professional tax accountant and I deal with corporate reorganizations and giant pain-in-the ass org charts on a daily basis.

First understand what an LLC, S-Corp, and C-Corp are...

VCs prefer C-Corps because they provide the "best investment vehicle," there is no limit or rules to the ability of how you can split the shares. For example, a C-Corp allows you a variety of different classes of shares. Generally the only time this option is realistic is if you will be guaranteed a large source of income at least 200k plus or a huge influx of funding. Lastly, C-Corps are the most stable entities with the most case-law.

LLCs are agile, quick and lean. But, as an investment vehicle there are variety of problems that are related to tax and legal issues. Its great for a company that's starting out small, but you'll have to pay the self-employment tax on all earnings (15.3%).

S-Corps are awesome for small business as well because you avoid paying self-employment tax (15.3%). Theres a bit more paper work but if your bootstrapping then its definitely an awesome option.

I'm not going to get into all that much detail about the LLC and S-Corp but I did write a blog post of them with more detail at:
<a href="http://www.thekenggroup.com/2010/04/26/incorporation-%E2%80%... and llcs</a>

Please note that if you incorporate in NYS, there a few quirks you should realize. First, you have to pay a fee here no matter what every year, used to be 300 dollars for city and state but they recently changed it to 100 dollars total. Also, NYC does NOT recognize the S-Corp status and they also consider an LLC an "unincorporated business" for taxes. Setting up shop in NY can be pricey in general, but if you're located here your going to have to pay these costs either way.

Lastly, Delaware is often cited because they have assloads of caselaw or guidance for how a legal issue is going to play out. Corps like certainty and Delaware provides that, more importantly, Delaware is majority ownership friendly. Delaware will generally side with the majority stockholder for any reasonable business decision.

Hope this helped.
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From winner, Nashville Flood Tees:

"Not only did PayPal shut us down for 24 hrs after only being live for less than 8 hrs, because of the sheer volume we sold, but they’ve been really slow and difficult releasing funds to us."
I just performed this operation last Sunday: bought a new MacBook Pro, swapped out the internal for an Intel X25. Whole deal took 15 painless minutes. I can press the power button, fish something out of my backpack, and glance up and it's done booting. Huge win, but might cause problems with AppleCare down the road.
That's great that they offered you a replacement. No such luck here, even sent them a photo of the case and the damage.
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You might also try just emailing/calling them and see what they want -- could say "I wanted to show you some samples of my work," or "did you want to see samples of my work?" and then ask what format(s) they prefer it to be in, or the types of work they want to see (design, UI, backend?). At worst you're back where you started, and you might get some additional info in the process. In any event you'd probably still want some paper with you.
This seems to me like a variant of the ‘nothing to hide’ argument, which Bruce Schneier (http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/my_reaction_to...), Daniel Solove (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565), and others have thoroughly rebutted.

It's true that politicians should be subject to more scrutiny than the rest of us, but that doesn't mean that they should have no privacy. Do you trust Google to make that decision about politicians? Once politicians are afraid of the power that Google wields, do you trust them to protect you from Google?
(2007)

kind of disappointed that there's 13 comments and no mention of jwz's quote.

in terms of actual thoughts, this is certainly an aptly named article.
Oh my. Do you have one? Just lost a chunk of time. I had no idea these "laser pointers" existed. $2k for a 1W handheld?! Stay away from the forums - this is a potentially expensive hobby.

I remember once my aunt's ex showing me his lab and saying if I stuck my hand in front of the laser when on - I'd get the worst possible blister-type wound (blood would boil underneath skin upon light contact).
Assuming you mean SoHo NYC - i think i remember reading something about how there's a problem with AT&T's network currently which is limiting iPhones to 1.5mb/s.

Here's a link:

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/07/att-3g-upload-speeds/
You have to remember what the carriers were like in 2006/2007 timeframe. Cingular/AT&T was the open carrier at the time. You would use any GSM phone. More importantly, they allowed you to use any feature on your phone. Conceding to Apple control of the apps on your phone was a very radical idea at the time. Typically carriers dictated what application would be on the phone. On Verizon, you had to use their phones (there was some lipservice around this time about allowing any fully compatible phone on its network). In addition, included features such as bluetooth PC syncing, which had zero impact on the network, was disabled on my Nokia candybar. It was simply too much of a leap for Verizon to allow a phone as open as the iPhone (2007 terms, remember) on its network.
Users don't care — and in fact don't know — if your advertising has good ROI. But they will take notice if someone they trust says you're doing something amazing.

This is advertising.
OK. I take it back. Any problems that I have ever had in my life have now been put into perspective.

That poor bastard.
It's probably hand-drawn, not a font.
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Correct me if I am wrong but the WTO governs trade between two nations and not corporation that set up a corporate entity on another nations soil. Which is what the article was referencing (favoring their own companies on their own soil over others that incorporate there). the WTO governs the international commerce of goods and not domestic issues that are the sole dominion of that sovereign nation. I know that is pretty black and white and that their are parts that get muddled, but for the most part that is the deal.

I still contend that it is not cool to go to a foreign land set up shop as a "Chinese" corporate division under their laws and then cry foul, to a country that has laws that you favor more. If you don't like them, then you should have never set up shop there in the first place or you should lobby the Chinese to change them, not try and get lackeys back in the US to do your biding for a corporation that is truly not a US entity in the first place (They incorporated that branch in China, for all intents and purposes that division is a Chinese company not a US company).
If you lose signal, does it actually matter if it's caused by bridging two antennas, or by shielding, or capacitive coupling, or whatever phenomena cause other phones to degrade in signal quality when held?

It seems like what really matters is not the specific physical process that causes signal attenuation, but rather (a) how likely are users to run into the problem, relative to other phones; and (b) how severe is the problem, when you do run into it?

Harping on the mechanism seems like a way to try to score gotcha points, rather than a genuine concern for users of the device.
Harvard Biz Review: Steve Jobs's Disastrous iPhone 4 Press Conference
Alternatively BP followed the lax standards required by the US rather than the stricter standards required in the North Sea.
If it had applied all the extra european safety standards then somebody else could have extracted the oil more cheaply and would have outbid them for the rights.
Then this would be a shell or esso or gulf oil disaster.

Blaming the foreigners for the US safety regs is like a country with no driving tests or traffic laws blaming Ford for car accidents.
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Real-time may be nice for search engines, but what about personal lives?
The orbit geometry looks to not be compatible with that objective. A 300 km polar orbit would put it over your ground station once or twice a day for several minutes.
Amazon offers free 2-day shipping after $25 in purchases for most of their items. For the price of a hardcover book you might already qualify for free shipping, or just add another item to get to $25 and get free shipping.
It just goes to show that there is a market out there for creative cases. Not everyone wants the standard silicon rubber or neoprene cases that are sold in Apple Stores. I love my DodoCase. The only thing I wish it had were pockets in the left cover.

Check out Etsy for other amazing hand-crafted iPad cases and sleeves.
Of course there's always the counterpart to jwz's quote:

> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll quote Jamie Zawinski." Now they have two problems.

[http://twitter.com/diveintomark/statuses/1249729494]
Social Media needed "LIFE", We put our "HEART" in it
I don't think people consider it a dup when this one has the votes and the other one doesn't. I do agree it is bizarre when a story is submitted multiple times and the latter of the two (or more) "makes" it.

As far as the write-up goes, very good overview of NoSQL choices and some high-level ideas of when to use each option.
From the Q&A session:

>10:43AM Ryan from gdgt: You showed people almost covering the entire phone in their hand, but on the iPhone 4 it can happen with just a touch. Can you explain that difference?
Bob: When you touch the phone, you put yourself between the signal and your phone, so when you touch that spot you can attenuate the signal, and if you grip it with your whole hand, you can attenuate it even more. We don't build phones with an antenna on top...

>Hmm, that didn't really sound like an answer to us.
It would appear that they didn't want to develop non-GSM headset, and the only two choices for GSM in US is AT&T and T-Mobile. T-Mobile is even slower to roll out network upgrades than AT&T.
How To Sell Apps?
I want to toast three slices of bread simultaneously, but this absurd toaster vendor sold me a 2-slice model! So I think it's perfectly within my right to steal as many toasters as I'd like.
Yes, exactly. With Android, they can be upset, do a Google search, and have the same software as their friends. With iOS, they're out $600 for a new phone, sorry.
Turmeric reduces Alzheimer's symptoms by 30%
Here's a cool online tool my friend (HN user KrisJordan) made:

http://www.gethifi.com/tools/regex

It's super handy when learning Regular Expressions because it shows results as you type.
"If we get down to the bottom line, there is no clear-cut definition," said Dean Tong, who wrote "Elusive Innocence: Survival Guide for the Falsely Accused," after being jailed and then spending 10 years and $150,000 to clear himself of abusing his young daughter. Now a forensic consultant in thousands of false-accusation cases across the country, Tong told me that even most police officers are not well enough trained to interpret the law, let alone photo lab employees. Tong said that when facing the slightest doubt, law enforcement officers "err on the side of the child," noting the potential results: "I see families stripped and ripped apart in the middle of the night."
If you ever want to sound-off ideas against someone, get in touch. I wonder if people start auto-deleting mine too because I will think of something new most days of the week.
You're not the only one. In fact, I went back and read it four or five times because I thought I was missing something. It wasn't until I finished the article that I realized I was wrong.
Indeed. The "with Google" mark carries meaning; it means you are getting AOSP (the consistent version of Android that is actually usable), instead of the handset's bastardized version of Android. (HTC Nonsense, Moto-durrr, etc.)
Regular expressions in modern programming languages and the regular expressions you learned about in your automata theory class are not the same thing. The back references present in the regular expressions discussed in the article make the entire system capable of handling even NP-complete problems. So yes, regular expressions (in the more common use of the term) can "parse".
For now anyways. I doubt many people with iPads will buy Kindles in the future and Apple's eReader will scale far beyond the kindle because it offers so much more. It will be interesting to see what happens when the Android tablets roll out.
What if the user created a file named ABANDONED.rdoc and then Github displayed it before the README.rdoc file. It could even have a different color or something to make it stand out. That way Github doesn't have to add a new field to a form and the idea still works even off-line.
I think that Github will re-root a repository if you ask them.
Agreed. I keep a journal of ideas, even for very rough ones, that I come across. Many times I read an article or deal with a certain subject at work and ideas for businesses start forming. Key for me is to write them down right away, so my mind is clear for new ideas.

When I have some time, I go back to
my journal and start writing out those ideas, thinking through features, sketching. Then I might not touch it for a month and then do another round of refinement. After a while, you end up with a great archive of projects, and since you've been chewing on them for a while you have a good idea of what's worthwhile.
I think that was just an example they used to show the "+ <1 per 100" statistic was misleading. According to a ClearWave survey AT&T's average drop call rate is somewhere between 4.5 and 5.5% so it'd be kind of shocking if the 3GS only drops 1% of its calls. So based on that the maximum increase in dropped calls should be 15-20% We don't know if it drops .9 less calls per 100 or .2 less calls per 100 or if the 3GS drops more calls than the AT&T average. It also disproportionally effects people who are in constant poor signal conditions. So based on this logic (which could be totally wrong I admit) it seems like most people aren't going to notice a dramatic difference in dropped calls. One extra dropped call per week, month? I guess there's no way of knowing.
The last time BP sold for sub-$20 was in 1994.
Amazon reaching out is the opportunity. Not the droid/berry/nokia you have sitting on your desk that will be sitting there next month.
You also can't buy a bike and have 3 people ride it once.
And a 200mb installer.
America has one of the absurdly strictest set of laws for sex offenses against minors, Economist had a great cover story about this some weeks ago. Problem is, since politicians know proposals for stricter laws bring in votes and no sane politician would ever propose a relaxation in these laws, they get stricter every year.

On the other hand, the US has one of the most sexualized tweens and teen-agers I have ever seen, go to the Mall or the local movie house on a Friday and you would be shocked at how girls dress (and how their parents let them dress like this). And if that doesn't shock you, watch the movie Thirteen.
Or you could say that the uninterrupted-call rate for the 3GS is around 99 in 100. So a decrease by another 1 in 100 reduces the uninterrupted-call rate by a tad over 1%.

Double of very little is, usually, still very little.
I've been a little wary of the MongoHQ option because it's a separate service and I was worried about latency. But, I guess if it's all hosted on EC2 that doesn't matter as much...?

Does anyone have any experience using MongoHQ on Heroku?
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There was one sentence in the article where I thought the author was onto something, and then he moved on:

"Responding to those things is something that your company likely doesn’t have much choice about — it has to do so, in real time (or something close to it), or it will lose a competitive edge."

What if you're willing to lose that competitive edge? Just say "Fuck it. You're quite welcome to be better than me at that." Just Say No to the pressure cooker of the American working world.

Sounds crazy, right? But it seems to work awfully well for an awful lot of companies. Steve Jobs is famous for deciding that a feature's just not worth including, and yet Apple has some of best-designed products on the planet. 37signals has been touting the "Simplify, simplify, simplify" mantra for years, and it seems to be working for them. Warren Buffett famously chooses not to invest in anything he doesn't understand, and eschews modern portfolio theory and sophisticated quant models and all the other stuff that financiers have to know now. Hasn't seemed to have hurt Berkshire.

The act of consciously choosing what your competitive advantage is, as opposed to trying to compete on everything, is a competitive advantage.

I'd actually go one further, and say that you should start from zero and then build up to what you want your life to look like, instead of starting from infinity and then trying to prune all the things that aren't important out. Assume that you're dead. Now imagine that you've just been given life. What's your first priority? Most people will answer food, shelter, and the necessities of life - now assume that you have those taken care of. What do you choose to do now?

Ultimately, it's trivially easy to actually be dead, so you know you'll always have that option. If you start from that baseline, then assume that you're gifted with X amount of time, it's much easier to allocate that time than if you start from "I must have that prestigious six-figure job and the trophy wife and the gleaming McMansion and the suburbs and 3.5 kids that all go to soccer and ballet and gymnastics" and then try to decide what you have to give up.
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I'm writing an in-browser IDE for Python. Having a Python interpretor in the browser is incredibly useful for that.
>AT&T wants to cripple features and sacrifice customer experience because it won't invest in it's network fast enough

Alternately, AT&T makes mass-market products, and wants to insure a baseline level of usability for everyone, while Apple makes products aimed at the top 10%, and wants the absolute best user experience possible without regard for scalability.

Don't get me wrong, AT&T's network needs work, but I don't think that this sort of design philosophy can necessarily work if all handsets are designed to be 'selfish.' It only works if the expensive handsets/plans are allowed to do that sort of thing.
I'm surprised he didn't mention the "Our phone doesn't have a problem," "All phones have this problem" combo as well.
> then I think I would feel better about the company than I do now

I would adore BP if they said that. We all would. And then we'd suddenly be that much more motivated to support alternative energy.

That's why they didn't say it.
You might want to post a short summary here, as it's an interesting story.

What type of job did you give up? I'm definitely interested in your story and following your blog.
I've also noticed that's becoming harder and harder to find unsweetened iced tea anywhere. Is it really that unpopular?
FWIW, NPR's Morning Edition had a segment on the al-Qaeda magazine this morning. They said the magazine wasn't performing as well as previous a-Q publications and that it was met with apathy by their target audience. The magazine is published in English and is said to have a very "American" feel, specially in its use of popular colloquialism and casual speech (e.g. an article titled "Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom".)

Intel is still investigating its authorship, but given that small sample above, methinks "Dr. Seuss" comes to mind,
Wow. Those videos are powerfully convincing that Apple has handled this whole media frenzy in a perfectly reasonable fashion. The only real criticism here is to say that when the media is wrong, and you know you are right, telling them to shove it is not exactly the most skillful way of spinning the situation.

A lot of people now vaguely have an impression that the iPhone 4 has spotty reception. That impression will last much longer than if Apple had attacked immediately with these videos instead of "there is no problem".

But keep it all in perspective eh?

Just yesterday on the beach a friend was snapping a photo of the sunset with his iPhone 4, saying wow this thing really takes great photos. He also mentioned being concerned about the antenna issue. Yet he was oggling it like it was a jewel. Others present bemoaned not having had the foresight to pre-order.

Later in the afternoon another friend was wandering around ranting "where is my iPhone 4!" in increasingly loud and frantic tones, until finally he found it and was reunited with his precious.
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Hack n' Hustle - The Developer's Business Mantra
Something for the kids.
I did allude to that, but regular expressions are still not quite up to the tasks you would use a parser for.
Why things that work in 2-4 dimensions don't work in higher dimensions
Ask HN: Suggestions for seeding a local Q&A
Moving to a new city, I naturally had many questions. I thought of setting up a city-focused Q&A, but would love some ideas on how to seed the site and drive traffic.
Interesting "project". I think you should fill out the "why" and perhaps "how" pages with more information. It was hard for me to really understand what you are doing and why you decided to do this radical thing.
Google reminded me what being around smart people is like. The kind where you walk away from lunch with two papers [..] or a discussion more informative than any lecture

Ah! I ache for this. I love the people at the user groups I attend but there's a lot to be said for more academic CS banter..
What are the implications in terms of privacy case it's stolen.
did you actually comprehend what lallysingh was saying?

I'll summarize - many people who are buying kindle books are not using amazon hardware.
You really didn't give us enough information to help you with this decision. Without knowing which each of those companies are, we won't be of much help. We couldn't even take an educated guess.

You seem to be leaning towards 2, no interest in 1, and slightly interested in 3. That's really what it comes down to, unless you decide to share the 3 companies so we can bring some facts and debating to the table.
It's very disappointing to find the author didn't mention greedy matchers. Consider the difference:

>> s = "hello world, I love you world"
>> s.sub(/(.*?)world/, '\1universe')
=> "hello universe, I love you world"
>> s.sub(/(.*)world/, '\1universe')
=> "hello world, I love you universe"
> The fact that the grid still works most of the time for most of the people doesn't proove . . .

That's not what needs to be proven. The opposite does. The default assumption is that something that works is working. It's the responsibility of those who disagree with that point of view -- those who claim that the grid is underdeveloped -- to prove that it's broken.

> But the US missed to invest in its infrastructure

By what metric?

> This might be cheap on the short term, but it's going to be even more expensive in the future.

That's not how these kinds of things usually work. Usually the longer you can put off an upgrade, the cheaper it is to maintain a system when you amortize it. And I can't see why this would be any different in the grid (or roads, or whatever else).

> [Your quote from the Institute for 21st Century Energy]

This

* doesn't cite any sources, and
* is a lobbying group whose members stand to benefit financially from me accepting their claims uncritically.

Which means that the last thing I am going to do is accept their claims uncritically.
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