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Elliptic curve cryptography? That sounds a bit suspect - if its true, its _way_ more than is needed, since the Iranian government isn't going to have the capability of breaking something like 2048bit RSA, or 512bit Public Key.

Elliptic curve cryptography is a very interesting academic subject, but implementations are slow (so not so hot at being on all of your internet traffic). Given that its also of ludicrously unnecessary strength, either the author is misguided or lying.
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Hiring a dummy company director just to have some Ireland company seems a lot of trouble straight from the start. I've also always looked funny at the companies providing these "services", they are almost similar to companies selling offshores in Pacific or something.

Not being able to sign something for your own company seems really restricting, especially when you basically don't even know the director.

PS: On a personal note, the only unpaid invoice I ever had is from an Ireland company but then again it was also the only Ireland-based company I worked for, so it's not statistically signifiant.
AFAIK, you only need to deposit 2500 euros (you'll never have to deposit the full minimum starting capital of 10k euros).

And you can take it back a couple of weeks after incorporating.
hmm, that's true but I rely on Google Talk to provide the online/offline badges, if you know of any services that will provide the same functionality I'd love to hear about them.
I'd like to read the article, but I consistently get the "this page has become unresponsive" error. Not really a ringing endorsement for a Javascript library. :)
Yep, you only need to deposit 2500 euros upfront but if your startup fails you still owe the remaining 7500 euros.
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Yep but what about exact costs (I'm thinking mainly the accountant to setup the company there)? And the possibility of transfering shares easily too.
Thanks for the explanation. I'd glanced at the article; didn't immediately 'get' it and didn't feel I had time to read further.
I'm not sure why creativity has this special aura. My internal process seems fairly mechanistic, to me.

Perhaps it's a legacy from the idea of a life-force or vis viva.
1- yes but at the very highest loads 2- you don't need that much manip. for simple load balancing. 3- can you backup your claims with reference(s)?
Another explanation for why Bogen Communications is not hiring might have to do with their declining financials:

http://www.bogen.com/aboutus/financials/#historical
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Thanks for the reply. I'll check the error and access log files from this morning and see if there's anything fishy going on.

It's not uncommon for it to take 5 minutes, but 15 is definitely indicative of something far worse...

EDIT: found one issue; the secondary server was missing php-mbstring, which caused problems with my utf-8 checks and conversions. sorry!
Unfortunately (perhaps?), those ideas seem to have become very popular (I have heard from many people that they don't want to have children because there already are too many people).

Not saying people should have children, but to not have children for ideological reasons seems likely to backfire.

The problem with children is that eventually it is too late to change one's mind, at least for women.
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What total utter crap. Taxes is the price you pay for a civilized society, and the US has far less taxes that most western countries, and as a result is arguably less civilized. Millionaires whining to other millionaires in the WSJ. Spare me.
I have to disagree. If an official puts up a barrier and tells you to pay him to pass through it, but you can easily walk round the barrier, do so. It's his job to make the barrier more difficult to get round. I would say that there ought to be no expectation that people should meekly adhere to the spirit of stupid laws. If officialdom wants to implement stupid laws, let them at least make the effort to do it properly :)

@davidw
"To do otherwise leads to corruption and disdain for the rule of law."

Maybe, but bad laws do that too. In the real world, people want to get things done rather than go into politics to replace the eedjits that are stopping them.
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The cooling makes a reasonable amount of sense but...

Ships need maintaining - it presumably has to be dry docked every decade or so. What happens to your server then?

And what companies are out there that could/would take 3,000 machines if this is successful?
I don't get this commonly made argument. I'm either paying rent or a mortgage. It seems to rely on an assumed rich renter, who has enough money to rent an apartment AND invest money on top of it.
The proper thing in a democracy is not to meekly accept stupid laws, but to abolish them. To do otherwise leads to corruption and disdain for the rule of law.

You can hit the 'reply' link to reply to comments.

In reply to your observation that people "just want to get stuff done" - great, they can elect politicians who will try and make it possible to do so. Otherwise, they should obey the law. It's there (or should be) so that one person's "getting stuff done" doesn't impinge on the rights of other people, or society as a whole. Clearly, people have different ideas about what laws are just and so on, but just ignoring whatever laws don't suit your fancy is not a recipe for a healthy place to live.
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Actually no, I'm right-handed. I don't even remember how I ended up with the setup... maybe my mouse just gradually moved leftwards across the desk in search of better comfort!
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It's a shame they're doing this a decade later than they should have.
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Well, but Scott Aaronson wrote: "If Vinay Deolalikar is awarded the $1,000,000 Clay Millennium Prize for his proof of P≠NP, then I, Scott Aaronson, will personally supplement his prize by the amount of $200,000." So I suppose that any non-trivial flaw which will be eventually fixed by author of the paper himself is not a problem here.
As I understand it, Haystack has already 'shipped' code. They 'shipped' it to Iran on USB thumb drives. Austin Heap posted up info not too long after the Iranian elections last year.
Yeah, if the guy's not providing technical know-how or a desparate, need-to-make-it hustle, he better be bringing money.
Why should the supplier care? If I'm reading it right, he paid the supplier, but got out of paying the full customs fees.
Unfortunately there's no generic web presence mechanism for XMPP or at least I don't know of any, however ejabberd (one of the most widely used XMPP servers) has mod_webpresence http://www.ejabberd.im/mod_webpresence and there's also a jQuery plugin for that - but it's not very generic.
Sounds like he should move his company to Canada. He could replace $10,000 in private health insurance with $5,000 in extra taxes.
Well this isn't a surprise!

Good for them and all their investors, I think it's one of the most useful tools to have been created in the last 10 years.
Skype seems to have been static for the last few years. Which is surprising because 'skyping' is as much an everyday word for web-calling as 'googling' is for search. It's been under appreciated.
it's a shame this service based on a proprietary protocol gained critical mass before a interoperable open standard could have taken its place.
He has to make the calculation about hiring people. If he doesn't feel comfortable hiring he shouldn't. Why do you feel as though you're in a position to tell him what his reasons are or should be?

Taxes take money out of the private sector and thus reduce the pool of capital for private sector job creation. Our taxes go to fund bankers and wars. That's why we're in such bad shape. If they went to build roads and bridges no one would care so much.
Or Economics. No, really, the "Nobel Prize" in economics isn't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economi...
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Yes, but at least they shipped. They didn't drum up a lot of hype first, they just made something that actually worked.
This is good advice. In the words of the great George Carlin: "You want to know how to help your kids? Leave them the fuck alone." (See: http://harmful.cat-v.org/society/children/fuck_the_children)

Or another good article on the subject of leaving your kids alone: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/familyadvice/3355719/Idle-...

It's great advice.
Wait, I don't get it. What is he proposing as an alternative? Would he be happier to pay Sally $74,000 so that she herself can do the whole process of paying $30,000 for taxes and health care and stuff like that? Or is he proposing to pay sally $44,000 and let Sally pay $30,000 out of that? Or is he just whining?
That's irrelevant ... Skype is not vaporware.
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Any idea on what they plan to do with the money from this IPO?
True, they indeed do not contradict each other. I hadn't yet heard that there actually was an algorithm that could find optimal solutions, but I admit it's been a long time since I was interested in the issue.

Because of the time difference between generation a solution and generating the optimal solution, I'm guessing the algorithm bruteforces the optimal solutions, which explains part of the confusion: I was thinking about an algorithm that generates the optimal solution directly.
So a government that collects 100% of your income as taxes would create the most civilized society?
That's just Corruption Perception. (We also don't have vampires roaming at night, etc.)

Corporate-wise it's quite simple: you pay your taxes and there aren't that many things to imply corruption since numbers are numbers. Of course, the law still has a lot of holes in it which are interpreted by the IRS at their discretion so you might still get fined, etc.

But overall, I would say that a company that uses mostly capital and little assets (like a software company) has a lower exposure. If you exploit some natural resource (let's say, timber) and have a lot of industrial equipment and a lof of employees your exposure is greater as it's proportional to the number of institutions that may verify you and the regulations you need to follow (Environment, IRS, Natural Resources, the local Work inspectors, etc).

Regarding everything else, yes, it does feel like corruption is abundant. But this is mostly a media product, you don't really get into it daily.
Taking home 66% after taxes / healthcare is considered normal in large parts of the world, so why are Americans so much more likely to make a fuss about it? [Edit: jswinghammer enlightened me below: "Our taxes go to fund bankers and wars." That indeed may make a big difference. Over here in Europe I feel most of my taxes do good, not evil. So I'm kinda ok with them.]
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It's a Dunning-Kruger trap, carefully laid in pretty prose to catch people like me. I'll never be confident that I've "finished" it. As a consequence, I'll always think Hofstadter is smarter than I am. There's evidence beyond the scope of GEB to support that, of course.
The law was changed lately as far as I know. The company director
has to be EU resident only.
If the problem is how the taxes are being spent, do you really think that not hiring is the correct solution?
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$74,000 to put $44,000 in Sally's pocket and to give her $12,000 in benefits.

Employees get to keep more the 75% of what the company spends for them? (56k / 74k)
Employees in Italy and Scandinavia countries barely get 50% of what companies pays them...
It has been something of a damper on their funding, however.
Two reasons - first, you may not have the right to do it depending on the lease and second, you will not recoupe any of the costs.
No. (See: Laffer, Arthur)
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It's interesting how his private insurer raising rates is obviously "ObamaCare"'s fault. Like all businesses, insurers raise prices because they can, thanks to market position, scarcity and all the other usual factors (distorted, as the health insurance market is, by oligopoly-entrenching state regulations that have little to do with the Affordable Care Act).
How much money does Sally bring in to the company? The unexamined part of the equation.
I've been working from home for a year. I'm an introvert, but I think loneliness would've set in by now except for some fortunate balance in my setup. My wife and baby are in the house most of the time (not so much that they interrupt, but enough that I can hear noises when they're around), I meet friends for lunch at least once a week, and in the evenings and weekends I do other things besides code constantly. I thought I'd need to get out to cafes more for a change of pace, but so far I haven't needed to.

Everyone's social needs are different as relates to mental health, but my recommendation is if you don't have family or roommates around making some noise and conversation, keep an eye on your how you're feeling and set limits on how much of the week you toil in isolation.

It can also be bad for your health if remote work relationships are difficult, so you have to have a certain amount of company support for what you're doing as well.
Closely related to the fact it's patent encumbered, there's very little (relatively) work going into the practical side of ECC because the mess of patent surrounding the area.
Most spam I get comes from my provider anyway, and I imagine that even if they did add something along these lines they would make their own messages get through regardless.
Not only that, but this plus Learn Python the Hard Way (http://learnpythonthehardway.org/static/LearnPythonTheHardWa...) makes it a lot of fun as well.
Not from the US, but I don't understand his issues with taxes.
What does change for his company if Sally has to pay higher taxes? Wouldn't it just mean that Sally ends up with less cash, not with his company having to pay more.

Is it mandatory now to offer health insurance to employees? How has this system of companies arranging for the health insurance emerged? I can only guess: providing health insurance is a way of giving employees a tax free bonus (like a company car, or free food)?
Ask HN: Most prescient HN posts/comments
Looking back, what HN users have made uncanny predictions that have turned out correct? Feel free to blow your own trumpet.
I agree, and follow the advice with my kids. But this is the key bit:

When you have something to offer, maximize and concentrate that time, and then get the hell out of the way.

I know some parents that kneejerk to helicopter parenting by not parenting at all. As with most things, neither pole is very effective.
He's not just "making calculations about hiring people" - he's engaging in politics, and Hacker News fell for it.
Maintenance bill on Typhoon class has been enormous, by any nation's standard. In neglect, they quickly fall apart.

The rockets they were designed to carry are no longer in production either, so the whole class should be slashed by the end of the decade.
> There is absolutely no relation between the openness of a source code and its security.

That's simply not true.

Open source doesn't necessarily mean it's always secure, but at least you, or someone you trust, can analyze it and find out. Maybe even fix it. Anyone that understands the domain can verifiably prove that it's secure or insecure by inspecting its inner-workings, and in the case of things like crypto, this leads to stronger and more secure implementations.

So it might not always ensure security, but it does ensure the possibility of security. As far as I'm concerned, closed-source crypto might as well be full of backdoors and easily breakable.
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Fair enough; perhaps we should make the system a bit more progressive. Perhaps if FICA weren't capped at ~$100K, we could reduce Sally's share of the burden? Or if we eliminated any number of corporate-tax loopholes, or agribusiness subsidies, or defense spending, we could reduce personal income tax rates?
This just outlines another spot where having a sufficiently open operating system on your mobile does make a lot of sense. In android, I could implement my own SMS application (maybe even just base it on the existing stock one if that's open source - I don't know).

This clone would only use the existing notification framework if the sender is in my address book.

Then I would just disable the built-in SMS application.

Of course this isn't as good as blocking the SMS on the provider level, but on the other hand it provides more granularity than a wholesale SMS block would provide.
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Yeah, except he's not actually calculating. He's just delivering a pre-scripted rant with a little argument to authority, "I make hiring decisions". Great, I feel better.

He's paying almost as much for his end of the health insurance as the total tax take. What's he whine about? Taxes. Who's providing more bang for the buck, the health insurance company or the relevant federal, state and local governments? Does he have kids in school?

Does this guy even look at his own numbers?
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A note to anyone who wants to play games powered by the Source engine, don't upgrade to 10.6.4. The graphics performance is very poor. I will bootcamp into XP just to play source games.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13144...
Depends on if you attend a "McDojo" or not. For example, the fees for attending my dojo don't go to the sensei, they goes toward using the dojo room at the rec center. The classes are small and personal, and we study a technique until our sensei is satisfied for the day. We do drills and practice, as per normal, then we work on applications. As my sensei says, the difference between practice and application is angle. That is to say, you move a lot more in a fight than you do when you study and practice in a dojo.

Contrast that to my unrelated studies of karate as a child where we were the class size was huge (30+) and we were pushed toward buying training gear from the sensei. In that instance, you become less like a student and more like a customer.
What is your take on this old argument from Krugman?

http://www.slate.com/id/1918
Skype is not promising to protect human rights.
Exactly, if Sally only brings in $30K / yr, BYE BYE Sally! Otherwise, if she allows the guy to bring in another $150K, the guy should quite whining and hire a few more.

Never miss an opportunity for a good libertarian rant, though, at the Journal I guess.

Oh, and it should have read: costs 74K to give her 56K in pay and benefits -- 18K in taxes.
I believe state & federal taxes existed 3-4 years ago when unemployment was at 5% so I'm not sure how it's relevant to the current unemployment situation. Also as a rule anyone who uses the term "ObamaCare" has an agenda so I just assume he's either lying or misrepresenting the situation with a 28% increase in health care costs. I wouldn't expect anything less from WSJ -- taxes bad, Obama bad. Maybe we'll start hiring again when you elect some Republicans.
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This wasn't a prediction, but I'd say it still qualifies as a remarkably prescient question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
I appreciate the feedback. We had a bunch of ideas we wanted to incorporate but decided to just launch the site to see if the idea would stick or not. The dating idea is defiantly something interesting, reminds me of "Recommended people" or something along those lines.
Another piece of the lifestyle choice is control. While renting you are at the mercy of the landlord. I found this out last year when our landlord decided she wanted to move back into her house. Even though we had a lease, and the law is suppose to protect you, it doesn't stop them from making your life miserable - and that cost isn't worth any amount of money to me.
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Could you find the actual quote from Neuromancer ? I can't find it myself...
To elaborate a bit - it just really struck me as bizarre that he's basically giving his insurer a pass for raising his prices, because it's "business", and business can do no wrong - as a fellow businessman, he understands the plight of the insurance company. But all the money that's collected in taxes, in his mind, goes into the black hole of Washington & Trenton - including not just the somewhat-opaque things like income tax (which indirectly funds his and Sally's roads, schools, police force and wars abroad) but things like disability & unemployment insurance, which it seems like Sally might need if he has a bad day.
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I would be very surprised if his kids go to a state school with the plebs.
You'd have to think that the land hunters would have been the ones with both the incentive and the means to enforce a cultural taboo on fishing. They might not want a whole other profession of people training with weapons all day.

I could also imagine there might have been a time when there was a group who fished which where eventually wiped out. The non-fishing group may have demonized them so much that when they got rid of them, they just weren't able to overcome the view that fishing was inherently evil. This is, of course, just speculation.
The European Union is going to introduce a new type of company, the European Private Company (SPE): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Private_Company

One of the ideas behind that type is that it will be cheaper to move your company from one EU member country to the other, without closing down and reopening your company. As it will be a european company structure, the procedures to found it should ideally be the same in every member country.
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Ask HN: Can we all agree to stop using '+1' and 'this' in comments?
I know these are in heavy use on other online forums but I find them inane and annoying to the point of detracting from the conversation. I think we would all agree that as standalone comments those two are pretty worthless, so why do we tolerate them at the beginning of longer comments? Let's just agree to leave them out.
I couldn't get the tune playing at BBC's site. Here is the theme tune on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7AkcneXhik
Or better yet companies that expect people to sit at computers for 40-60-80 hours should. One good thing about meetings: sitting in them is easier on your hands, if it doesn't drive you crazy...
On the subject of personal encryption I recently found some interesting plausible deniability software [1] in Phrack [2] for protection against "give us the password or you're going to jail" laws

Different passwords decrypt different plaintext from the same cyphertext

[1] http://www.winstonsmith.info/julia/elettra/
[2] http://phrack.org/issues.html?issue=65&id=6#article
Nothing motivates a "free clone of X" like paid service X.
I think one big issue with Steam is the fact that it won't work on path-sensitive installs of Mac OS X, and when I filed a support request the response was that they (Valve) have no intention of fixing this.
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