skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Angels and Airwaves" is a syntactically encapsulated name in American English. Americans still say "Black and Decker is a company" or "Emerson Lake & Palmer is a band"--and those are non-metaphorical uses of "and" to name the members or founders of the group!
I'd call it 'gaming the system' rather than 'fraud', but am not a lawyer.

@maushu, the real solution here is to get rid of the dumb trade barriers in the first place. The 'problem' of dodging round them pales into insignificance in comparison, if indeed it is a problem at all. Presumably a lot of Indian politicians thought the way you did, until policies changed, and India started growing.
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> information that has undoubtedly killed Afghan informants
[Citation needed]
Sorry, this should have posted this under the Katz tweet link. My bad.
I'm continuously impressed by the technical innovations of deviantArt. Some years ago they implemented a feature, where if you drag an image anywhere, a HUD pops up and you can drop this image into your favorites or collections. They have tons of neat (in terms of usability) stuff like that.

They also launch a new "version" of their site almost every year. Not just making it different, but better. For a 10 year old site with with 14 million members, that's very impressive. They haven't stopped innovating like so many of the larger sites do at some point.
For LLCs in EU/Romania:

* Incorporating cost is probably about 150 euro if you pay someone else do it, maybe even less if you want to waste time yourself. You need an actual residence.

* Minimum starting capital is 50 euro.

* An LLC doesn't have the notion of "shares" only owners (there may be multiple owners) that get dividends. Changing the owners is expensive (about the same as re-creating the company) and takes time nowadays (30 days).

If you want shares you need a share-based company which has a minimum starting capital of about 22.000 EUR and needs at least 2 initial owners.

Romania's advantage is the 16% flat tax and disadvantage is everything else (bureaucratic, always changing laws, high cost of hiring people -- social taxes, some corruption).

Generally I think it's bad to view incorporation through US lenses if you aren't doing business in US. The US economy uses shares much more as they basically use the stock market as a way to finance the company and shares as a way to loyalize some employees.

An English LTD is probably as close as you can get cheaply but unless it's also worth tax-wise, do take a look at the fiscal implications. You really want to spend time coding in a startup not playing ping-pong with the IRS (and accountant from) 2 countries.
Python has Scrapy (http://scrapy.org), quoting:
"Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing."
I already host with Linode and they pool the bandwidth allowance for all Linodes in your account.

As I've already got nicely layered VMs some have a totally unused allowance. For example my MySQL nodes only transfer traffic on the private network at Linode and so both the master server and slave use virtually zilch of their bandwidth allowance.

I'm fairly sure that most Linode users with more than 1 node will be using only a fraction of their allowance.

My total pooled bandwidth allowance with Linode is close to 4TB, of which in total I'm using only 1TB with 800GB being static content.

My point was simple: The DIY solution with Linode looks to be a really good idea as I already am with them and placing CDN servers in other datacenters should mean good routing internally within their network (or peers) as well as being extremely cheap.

I have yet to be shown that for my scenario there is a cheaper option and that this is solved. I am very happy to be proven wrong as it will save me some work, but so far DIY is winning.
'Gaming the system' or 'fraud', doesn't matter what you call it. This is what causes the vicious cycle, you avoid paying the taxes, the taxes increase to compensate, repeat.
Fast-forward 100 years after we learn that all our geneticly modified strains indeed are making us sick & oops, too late.
No System Restore point.
They're a company so their goal is (among other things) to make money which they do (among other things) by charging for premium membership. Assuming there's a business case for this (very cool) tool, the question is: will they make more money by allowing people to try the tool before signing up?

Seeing how the tool requires certain amounts 'points' for some of the brushes to be available, this would make the benefit of a premium account even more clear after toying with the tool.

So, to sum it up: for me, not being able to try out the tool immediately is a small frustration. Presumably, for other people without Deviant accounts this is also annoying. I believe, as argued above that they might be able to make more money if they let people play with the tool first. Regardless, that might not be their goal at all.
I really suggest you buy the book mentioned in the article. The author discuses extensively (and, to me at least, convincingly) the design decisions behind Google Closure.
I can't comment on a specific other state, but in the UK, the PLC min. capital of GBP£50K can be provided in kind. (PLC is very loosly comparable to AG, A/S, SA, etc. . ) Maybe there are other exceptions like this you can use. Bear in mind, compliance costs of the higher forms of incorporation (which are suited to public or large shareholder bases, and come with rules to suit those needs) will always exceed up front instantiation expenses.
Beating the record (your own or other's) I guess. Canabalt is even more boring and repetitive, but still addictive.
So, your godly index is 0.2 :)

PS: Same here.
I've found that the mouse is the major culprit in any discomfort I might feel. I've cut down this discomfort to almost none by embracing keyboard shortcuts and accessibility options that only use the keyboard. This was actually easier on windows than it is on osx with the menu accelerators turned on, but I learn new tricks every week :)

I almost forgot! Do not compromise on correct desk and chair height. I one had a CEO/owner who was neurotic about the neatness of the office and having several desks next to each other that were not adjusted to the same height seemed to her like it was sloppy and unprofessional. With people with a range of heights in the room, clearly one desk height does not fit all. It took a little time and some research, but after educating her on why personalized desk height is a necessity and not a luxury, she came around, even if it was grudgingly.
For git (should be easy transferable to other VCs):
git commit -m "$(curl -s http://whatthecommit.com/ | awk '/<p>/ {sub("<p>", ""); print }')"
He took 5 times the number of steps taken by God. So I propose, a new metric, god index, as the inverse of the number of times of the steps he takes, to the one god would.

His godly index: 20%
Growth v0.3
Following up from previous posts, I've added:

• post-campaign metrics
• basic finances
• notes (ideas your future expansion)
• viral coefficient metrics
• basic visualisations

All feedback welcome, hopefully some startsup will find it useful :)
Cambridge is terrible for web - great for hardware/biotech stuff though.

Similarly with VCs, they're all big funds that invest in hardware - no seed fund activity here.

Rent costs in Cambridge are (IMHO) the same as London.

I don't think there are that many tech people in Cambridge, tons of students, but don't expect google analytics discussions down the pub in Cambridge.

If I were doing web or software I'd recommend London over Cambridge.

Also gets on soapbox Cambridge is far more interested in where it has been as opposed to where it is going.
I don't have a mortgage so I don't personally do this, but I can tell you it's a popular practice.

> but it doesn't change the calculus fundamentally.

It does change the calculation that this tool is showing. If you use the tool and assume you make 3% interest on savings, but then make periodic payments on your 6% interest loan, there is no way to model that with this tool.

OK, so lets say this is a bad idea and you should instead not have any savings in that case, and make all of your savings into payments on your mortgage interest. You're saying we could model that by assuming you are making periodic risk-free 5% (or whatever) investment instead.

> Actually the longer the mortgage term the bigger total tax deduction you get, so in that sense the more you pre-pay the costlier it is.

I get what you're saying but a tax deduction can never completely offset the interest payment right? Also, it depends on the difference between capital gains tax and the credit you would get on your tax rate for the interest.
Have a look at these links - "Dirty Harry" was a particularly nasty atmospheric test:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downwinders

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Upshot-Knothole
No, I think its irresponsible, especially in light of all the nonsense being funded.

Stimulus does not create recovery, any more than the stimulus of a massive housing bubble and two ways prevented the current economic trouble.

In fact, government created this bubble and the inevitable with stimulus. A phony economy where building things that people would not ordinarily demand requires building an expensive infrastructure which becomes useless when the phony economy collapses.

We can either let the economy return to normal, building things people are willing to pay for. Or we can try to create another phony government-directed economy with another recession to follow.
The First Church of Robotics
Awesome updates to the original. Worth checking out if you are trying to launch your startup or evaluate your marketing costs.
> But it would be nice if we someday ended up rich enough that extreme poverty could be eliminated in this way

Looking at the history of welfare in the US I think it's safe to say that giving people money is a pretty poor way to eliminate poverty.
Great idea. Why did it add:

> Main page?

to the main page?
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> It seems a bit daft to be choosing a location based on the convenience of the hypothetical middle managers and mailroom employees you'll have in a successful future.

It's not just the middle managers and mailroom staff, though. Most people in Cambridge don't live near the city centre, because it's an old city and much of the space is taken by either the university or business premises. There are, however, many residential areas on the outskirts, and a whole string of surrounding villages.

Plenty of tech companies have set up in the middle of Cambridge, but with the transport policies of the local authorities, car access and parking is absurdly difficult. That makes it awkward to host visitors if you need to, and it is a genuine recruitment issue in that not everyone is willing to walk, cycle, or rely on our less than stellar local bus service for routine commutes to work from the surrounding area. Setting up on one of the business parks -- which are still within cycling distance of the city centre for keen cyclists based there, but also easy to access by car and usually by bus as well -- seems to have all of the advantages of being in Cambridge, without the unnecessary travel limitations.
Reading Lipton's description of this paper I think I understand how normal people feel when they listen to geeks talk about technology.
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How does your lifestyle change due to owning a home? While I realize many people simultaneously buy and upgrade, why can't you upgrade to a rental?
Ireland's corporate tax is 12.5% with less bureaucracy and minimal corruption. The company director needs to be a resident of Ireland but there are services which can provide this.
My understanding is that you stopped using MongoDB and started using SQLite. To me, that means that you are probably not a Linux or Mac or Windows user because they all can crash and lose your data. Likewise you are not a user of any office suite because you've likely to lose data from all of them. Likewise, even ISPs can disconnect you half-way through a transaction (say buying something or editing a blog post) and so you will stop using them because of that.

So good luck with historious. I think it's an interesting idea, but by your logic I shouldn't try it in case it crashes and loses my bookmarking data.
Some anthropologists think cooking changes everything--that the invention of cooking was a vital step in human evolution: http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/i...
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> Cambridge is terrible for web

A couple of people have said that now. What problem(s) do you see with running a web or other software start-up in Cambridge? A lot of people seem to be doing so.

> I don't think there are that many tech people in Cambridge, tons of students, but don't expect google analytics discussions down the pub in Cambridge.

Are we both talking about Cambridge, UK? IME, it's filled with tech people...
Dear downmodder: can you please explain your reasoning behind this?
Also, people don't usually sell their house and buy a similar one in the same place -- they either upgrade or downgrade, or move to a different neighborhood or city, and in either case, the prices are likely not to have moved in the same direction at the same pace. In my neighborhood, 1-BR coops have dropped in price more quickly than 2-BRs, for example.
Who says I want monoculture. However when one framework breaks out and gets traction, then you get a lot of things as an end user. Documentation, stability, plethora of open source plugins. Are these things so terrible?
If DADT was in fact a contributor, I wonder if the response would be greater restrictions/prohibition on gays in the military, or allowing open homosexuality.
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Yes, this is 100% as confirmed by the (relatively) groundbreaking case law by the European Court of Justice in the series of judgments of Daily Mail, Centros, Überseering and Inspire Art (various aspects of this matter were covered in the various cases: moving a companies head seat between Member States in Daily Mail, the real seat theory as a restriction on the freedom of establishment in Centros, Uberseerung about the recognition of foreign companies in other Member States.)

Source: last semester's Introduction to EC Company Law course in the law school I'm attending. I didn't get stellar grades but enough to remember this much ;)
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It's not just manufacturing jobs. I know people that have lost service sector jobs, including teachers, law enforcement, and firefighters. The hardest hit though have been construction-related. Those jobs aren't going overseas.
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Okay, okay. I'll cycle to work, next time it isn't raining.
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This is an New Scientist article on an epidemiological study on the causes of myopia. The link is to a blog which copied the content. The original is behind a paywall.
The fact that this paper is behind a paywall makes me freaking mad because it could literally save the eyesight of a huge number of people.

Original Article:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427331.100-generatio...

Actual Content:
http://www.sunilreddy.com/?p=1429

An excerpt:
On average the children in Sydney spent nearly 14 hours per week outside, and only 3 per cent developed myopia. In contrast, the children in Singapore spent just 3 hours outside, and 30 per cent developed myopia. Once again, close work had a minimal influence; the Australian children actually spent more time reading and in front of their computers than the Singaporeans
Any guesses of how much this would cost to do on EC2?
Not true, as confirmed by the European Court of Justice in the Centros case which held that member states (in casu Denmark) cannot restrict the recognition (or put additional requirements) on companies established in another country in the EU, even when this is admittedly to skirt around regulatory requirements. Failing to do so violates the freedom of establishment principle.

(it is true that companies may be required to registered and pay tax, my comment was about the part that the single market does not affect the movement of corporate seats).
I'd go with Pollan, as "In Defense of Food" contains extensive cites to sources (including a lot of peer reviewed science journals) so you can check for yourself if he's giving good information.
I've never seen HOA fees listed separately from rent for apartment buildings. I've rented in LA and Seattle; maybe it's different other places.
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1) Nginx is a fully fledged Web server and has some performance penalty compared to Varnish. The latter is lightening fast.

2) Nginx is no match for Varnish's VCL for header/cache manipulation

Regards
The moral and legal implications of publishing the war logs
If they had a rule of thumb, link between mortgage rate and investment return (eg. r-2 for savings accounts or r + 2 if you think you can beat the risk free rate consistently), would you be satisfied?

Increasing the rate of return gives you some interesting curves.
Lots.

http://www.quora.com/Why-is-AirBnB-considered-one-of-the-hot...
Lisp interpreter written in python: http://openbookproject.net//py4fun/lisp/lisp.py

Several projects seem highly inspired by SICP (which is cool).
There are places for everything:

Åland Islands (Fi) - no VAT

Jersey (UK) - no VAT on goods sold, as long as items cost less than £18 and are posted individually, no import taxes to mainland UK

Estonia - no corporate profit tax (flat 21% tax on dividends)
VMs have dropped in price dramatically over the last couple of months. You can find 128MB/256MB nodes for less than $5/mo. You just have to do a bit of digging ;)

Regards
It would still sting, but not quite as bad as what happened here.

Uh, no. We spent two whole months down in zero-security space on a campaign where we lost a player-constructed station. (The kind with a market!) This happened to us again and again -- we were winning and the other side lagged out the system and got everything reset. If it weren't for severs falling over, we would have won by taking down enemy towers and gaining ownership of the system.

Not only did this add up to well over $1000 of lost player-time, but the whole experience was demoralizing and social ties were broken by the experience.
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>> Cambridge is terrible for web

> A couple of people have said that now. What problem(s) do you see with running a web or other software start-up in Cambridge? A lot of people seem to be doing so.

There really isn't an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Cambridge for software. There is plenty of stuff for freelance or whatever. I know of two startups that have relocated from Cambridge to London because they couldn't get the technical talent in Cambridge (Rails in these examples)

>> I don't think there are that many tech people in Cambridge, tons of students, but don't expect google analytics discussions down the pub in Cambridge.

> Are we both talking about Cambridge, UK? IME, it's filled with tech people...

I mean tech hackers, rather than academic people
Well there you go, I think we're all done here now.
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The same relates to iPhones - and other smartphones - and the conditions in which they are produced in taiwanian and chinese factories... How not to remember their workers' misery, suicides, and tears that were forced into the production of fancy mobile devices so we could all tweet and update our facebook profiles while on the go?
The cost of US subs is largely driven by the safety of the designs. Before the Thresher accident they banged them out the same way the Russians did, but after that boat sank the US added a bunch of extra regulations that help prevent accidents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUBSAFE

Look at the list of submarine accidents on Wikipedia, you'll notice the modern US ones are all boats driving into things (this happens more than youd think, the sonar is set on passive 99% of the time and under sea mountains don't make any noise) while the Russians have had some nasty accidents with fire extinguishers and torpedeos leading to mass casuality incidents.
Check out the very bottom of the image.
The videos of all the compos are up now. Amazing stuff if you want to see what modern computers can really do in real-time.
True. I also know a few who have relocated from Budapest (Hungary) to Prague (Czech R) after completing university. More jobs, better wage, better living standards.

Slovakia has improved a lot lately.
Some thing which I didn't expect before visiting Slovakia, was the lack of English skills among youth. They seemed to speak better German than English.
Looking at the comments at https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/a-proof-that-p-is-... there are many points to clarify. Specially the intuition from statistic physics is not true in other examples and the difference is not clear. So ...
I smell an A/B test.
All domain owners are required to maintain current and working contact details. Not doing so is grounds for the registrar to cancel their registration. Contact the registrar to inform them that the email address bounces.

I think they will probably inquire about the postal address, so I would try mailing a letter as well.
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I'm also very interested in more info about this.
Google begins to buy unmanned air vehicles
That explains why they're in such awful shape.

I was a submarine officer in the US Navy and we would never allow any boat to look like this; literally rusting all over the place. That said, holy st the Russians built huge boats.
My iPhone 4 is jailbroken...I think it's quite fair because I feel the same exact way.
In real life, you have prevention and recourse. I can buy insurance on the contents of my home and car, and I can put serial numbers on my stuff to substantially increase the chance of the police getting it back to me.

It's also a very unlikely thing in real life. In a game with penalties, it happens often (because there are no real life risks for doing it), and your only recourse is getting stronger and doing the same thing to the person who did it to you.

I play games for fun, not to bring the negatives of life along for the ride. If you see the negatives as positives, you wouldn't understand why someone would think like I do. Revenge-based gameplay seems extremely boring (and frustrating) to me.

I think the success of games like WoW over games with significant death penalties shows which viewpoint is more common.
There is absolutely no relation between the openness of a source code and its security.

Debian is open source and yet this bug was introduced and nobody made any remark:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0166

Windows is closed source and yet security researchers manage to study it and find security holes.

The reason for that is that you don't really need to the source code to find security holes, it's better, but it's far from being mandatory.

So what matters?

IMHO, a strong influence on the security of a solution:

- Awareness (of security issues generally speaking)

which needs...

- Competence (of the maker(s) and really you don't need the whole world, a couple of outstanding engineers is enough)

which needs...

- Solid process (e.g. auditing, tests, validation, management)

which in turns needs...

- Time