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Ask HN: How to verify a claim of ownership of a California LLC?
There is a California LLC, which according to Person A, was co-owned by Person A, B and C. Now Person A claimed that B and C faked her signature and occupied all her shares of the company.

I'm trying to verify her claim.

I went to https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/ and found the company's documents. But the most recent State of Information form does not have the name of Person A. And none of the company's other documents has the name of Person A.

According to the most recent form. B is the CEO, and C is the only manager/member.

I also found this site: https://www.corporationwiki.com/ , but according to it, this company was owned by Person B, and D. (D's name also doesn't appear on the official State of Information form.), but is now owned by Person C.

This result confuses me.

1. Can the state of information filling be a proof of company ownership?

2. Is "member" or "manager" equal to "owner" on the state of information form?

3. Is the "member/manager" list of the form trustworthy? How come there is another Person D, which doesn't appear on official forms, is considered as an owner of the company by the corporationwiki site?

Thanks,
>What are good alternatives?

I'm not an expert but here is my thinking:

Basic income could be interest-free debt extended by the government, whose repayment is done entirely from future taxes, i.e. without increasing the taxes they would have otherwise paid.

This would motivate people to stop accumulating the debt quickly, it would force people to make investments into their education (to increase earnings later), and it would act as a smaller incentive to game the system than a pure money transfer.

The basic reason basic income is so important is that people are not able to make any investment of their time if they are trying to make ends meet: going to work for McDonald's is not an effective strategy for climbing out of the poverty hole.

Staying home and attending classes or learning a skill, however, is. There are few people whose natural talents are so low that after investing 5-10 years, they cannot become skilled or productive enough to contribute meaningfully to society.

Additionally it would finance artistic endeavors which often take over a decade of practice before producing anything worth being sold.

Indeed, many artists could fail ever to make a meaningful tax contribution (to repay the basic income they were given), however, this may be a burden society as a whole could bear.

In addition there should be some kind of easy grace period or tapered end of benefits so that accepting a job does not "endanger" someone's benefits that they're already receiving.

We can't talk about all the different parts of society, but to talk about this incentives thing in terms of hackers: some programmers will choose to devote themselves to open source and take a basic income. This is simply a fact. For years, (5-10-20 years) they will live on basic income and contribute to open source. This is just a simple byproduct of introducing basic income.

So what needs to happen is that after someone has done that for 15 years, if a commercial company wants to hire that hacker for some reason, then there needs to be a smooth way for the hacker to accept that salary. This transition is a difficult one, but ideally, over a few years of working for their corporate sponsors, they'll have generated enough taxes to repay all of their previous transfer payments. All of the future taxes they generate are now tax base value that never would have existed without the basic income.

So this kind of a 'success story' can work. Basic income needs to be quite low, i.e. not much of an incentive, and it is important for people not to feel like they are endangering their basic income, by taking paid work.

I believe these issues can be solved very well.
Watching a live event during it's original broadcast provides a shared experience with others who also watched at the time. If your friends or family are watching, they may discuss the event with you as it happens. The results will be available in multiple mediums after the event. It is often not as entertaining to watch a sporting event when you already know what happened.

For TV shows, some of the same things apply. If your friends and co-workers watch the show the night of, they may talk about it all day. In that case you either find out what happened, or spend the day avoiding contact with other people who watched it already.

Shared experience provides a lot of value for some people, so apparently it's worth the costs for them.

Edit to add: recording TV broadcasts requires some amount of technical ability and expense beyond that to receive a live broadcast. Sporting events often don't have a hard end time, which can confuse some recording software. Usually if a game takes extra time, the end is more exciting.
If you're demonstrating any code, I find RISE to be magnificent. It's a plugin for Jupyter Notebooks that lets you present your code via reveal.js

Project: https://github.com/damianavila/RISE
Original demo at PyCon: https://youtu.be/rBS6hmiK-H8
The World's Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster Than Anyone Else
WPA2 was kracked because it was based on a closed standard behind a paywall
I don't know what are express subway stops in NYC and if they have a higher top speed than regular subway cars, but I doubt it unless they have separate tracks - they might be faster by skipping stations but that's unrelated to the topic.

I'm not saying it doesn't exist anywhere outside Paris anyway, just that it already exists outside Beijing. I'd expect London to have a similar system, too.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40864-015-0012-y says about 1.5 m/s² is the maximum acceptable acceleration rate for passengers. My local metro in Lille uses 1.3 m/s² and I find it barely acceptable. But that is only acceptable anyway over a short time, and for a trip under continuous acceleration/deceleration it should stay under at most 0.5 m/s². I'll let you do the math for how many seconds you can gain on a 500 m stretch between metro stations.

Also, RER or TGV lines are really just as smooth as the maglev I have used in Incheon. Rail is very smooth and quiet on modern continuous welded rail. On TGVs on dedicated lines you usually don't notice when the train starts.
It's important to strike a healthy balance between reinventing the wheel and locking yourself into a bulky framework. Whether you are building a personal project, or working on another's time, in the early phases your #1 concern should be speed of development. If a compact, properly modularized, battle-tested tool that completes your desired task is readily available, should you really be wasting your time writing something that's been done a thousand times before?

I've been around the block with popular front-end frameworks. The first one I've truly found to be a joy to use is Mithril.

Unlike React, a framework that's gotten a lot of buzz here lately, it's more than just a view library. There is a routing paradigm in place along with a few other goodies. Yet it all weighs in at <8kb gzipped and generally performs faster than React. It really feels like it hands you just the things you need to get started and steps out of the way.

Check out its performance compared to a few other popular frameworks:

https://mithril.js.org/framework-comparison.html
He mentioned how awful the commute was and that he needed a car despite being in the city. For me, enabling a carless lifestyle is an important feature of a city.
I think you can make presentations with Omnigraffle, which has an infinite canvas.
Russia Testing Hybrid Cyber Warfare in Ukraine
Did you see the the horror faces it generated for humans? Good for Halloween!
Overexcitability is a known concept in the gifted education community but it does not usually imply disorders.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overexcitability

A critical analysis of the research used in the article is worth reading: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2017/10/22/in...
They should have concluded that people with anxiety disorder more likely to join Mensa.
A lot of people are borderline incapable of waking up in the dark and functioning normally throughout the day. There are a lot of physiological triggers sunlight exposure in the morning does to naturally wake most people up, and deviating from those can be quite unhealthy.
The actual memory usage is coming from the number of instantiated methods. If you write a method, it gets an entirely new implementation of it copied and compiled for every different list of argument types. For example,

def foo(bar)
bar + bar
end

bar1 : Int32
foo(bar1)

bar2 : String
foo(bar1)

bar2 : Int32 | String
foo(bar1)

The above code gives you three methods to generate code for: foo(Int32), foo(String), foo(Int32 | String).

This isn't really a problem for small projects, but with large projects (60k+ loc), you end up with some methods such as puts, Array(T)#<<, etc with thousands of instantiations.

We have some edge-case semantics (we don't cast arguments to their restriction types, which we plan to remove before 1.0) which also prevent us from allowing only instantiating foo(Int32 | String) when we change the definition to `def foo(bar : Int32 | String)`. Hopefully in the future, we can allow the compiler to take advantage of method argument type restrictions to reduce the number of instantiated methods and speed up the compiler.

That doesn't mean the compiler will be super slow if you don't annotate your methods, it just means that the stdlib and shards' public API will start annotating it's method arguments more (which gives you better docs and error messages anyway).

For more info: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/4864
Lock-down OpenFaaS for the public Internet
Mensa members are a small subpopulation of Americans with high IQ, so it's a stretch to conclude that high IQ is the problem. To me it's more plausible that someone seeking to boost self-esteem and social status by joining a weird organization tends to be a more troubled person than intelligent people in general.
There's some overlap, as one can be friends with coworkers and go to bars with them.
On the contrary, Montessori's work has been validated and reinforced by research and scientific insights in recent decades. [1]

If you truly seek to understand the Montessori teaching method and materials, you should look into her writings, including the teacher's guides. She experimented and developed these materials and methods over decades. Her purpose was to teach children mastery of their mind and hands, our two unique tools of survival.

[1] "Montessori: The Science behind the Genius"
http://www.montessori-science.org/montessori_science_genius....
Yep, proper Windows support is a must for easy to use dev setup - Go is OK'ish in this sense but Crystal is currently really difficult to get running (either vm or Win10 Linux sub-system or Cygwin hack needed!)
To avoid confusion for anyone in the US reading the linked article, the parts of the US that observe Daylight saving time will change in a week (November 5), not tomorrow (October 29).
No Clarity Around Growth Mindset
Author here. I must begin by saying that lit-HTML is really interesting, and I hope it does well. It will be particularly exciting if Polymer 3 or Polymer 4 or whatever primarily uses lit-HTML out of the box.

> lit-html is not a new framework, but simply a template library.

Nobody wants to be called a framework, do they? For years, React developers insisted that it was nothing but a "view" layer, because everybody knows that "frameworks" suck.

> lit-html has no component model, so by using it to implement WCs, you get a component model.

I think you mis/underestimate the extent to which you have a component model already. What you already have is the equivalent of React's "functional components," where the component is nothing but its render method.

> A template library is not in direct competition with Web Component base classes/frameworks, but can be used by them

It's great that WCs let you interop with all WC-based frameworks, but some folks will avoid lit-HTML in favor of Stencil's JSX approach, or in favor of Svelte's Vue-alike HTML components, or more generally to decide whether to observe changes and respond to them or whether to regenerate the UI as a function of state.

Interop doesn't mean you're not in competition.
Funny enough they taste like they should - chicken but with a fishy flavor mixed in. It makes sense in a silly way since it's an amphibian.
We already use ocaml to write Hack, Flow and Infer, so just from a corporate standpoint, this move to incrementally adopt more of a language that's had many success stories internally makes sense.

From an individual standpoint, there are some unique aspects of OCaml that we like a lot. The properties of BuckleScript for example (tiny output, great js interop, fast simple compilation).

No doubt that the ecosystem could be improved, but that's what we're here for and what we're willing to do.
Ads is a business model and not a product or service. Search is a service. Google generates ads from a variety of services. So not sure what you mean by diversifying?

Plus fastest growing is the business not using an ad based business model.

It is like saying CBS needs to diversify. Well if they only had 1 popular show then a need to diversify.
I'm not sure of the details but there was something recently saying knowing the ending, I think it was focused on movies, actually leads to greater enjoyment (or possibly excitement). It was surprising to me, I go a long way to avoid spoilers -- I'd imagine the same would happen with sports matches.

I don't generally watch sport, nor follow a team, but when I do it's good sport whether I know the result or not.
Fraud is generally done at the operational and deal level. When discovered (technically), I made it clear that I would not participate directly. The fraud is so pervasive, that individual departments defraud the company at times. The short answer was that I moved to other projects. I made a couple of enemies by pointing out nasty schemes. The technical challenges were large scale and unlimited budget. Hard to turn down the experience when I was under 30.
How valid is studying Mensa to get a representative cross section of intelligent people? I would wager many on this site are intelligent enough to qualify for Mensa, but why would they join? Most will be sufficiently surrounded by intelligent people in their day-to-day life to be stimulated. I wouldn’t be surprised if the membership of a selective club for clever people is most sought after by people missing something from their lives.
reveal-md if you like markdown!
Very similar. If I try to force a sleep schedule I'm just miserable. If I drop alarms I sleep for 10 hours for a while before getting a natural 8 hour sleep cycle back.

That being said, I loathe those days I sleep 10 hours. Hell, I'm super jealous of people that can function on 6 hours. Every hour spent sleeping is an hour of life I miss out on. I really hope in our lifetimes we can engineer something to dramatically reduce the need for sleep.
If they want PWAs they should stop promoting and encouraging native apps.
Neuroskeptic is, unsurprisingly, skeptical: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2017/10/22/in...

Secondly, I have concerns about the sample. This wasn’t a study of high-IQ people. It was a study of Mensans, a self-selected subgroup of high-IQ people. 6.5 million Americans fall in the top 2% of IQ, and only 55,000 of them are members of American Mensa.

In other words, Mensans make up about 0.8% of high-IQs, and Karpinski et al. have data from less than 10% of Mensans, so the sample is seriously unrepresentative.

The ‘national average’ comparison data, however, were taken from nationally representative American samples. The age, gender, and ethnic demographics of the Mensa respondants differ considerably from the national average.

Even if we take the results of this study at face value, the ‘hyper-brain/hyper-body’ theory is rather horribly simplistic. It reminds me of ancient Greek humorism, or 19th century neurology’s talk of ‘nervous excitement’. The brain is not a gland that just pumps excitement when aroused.
Ambition (YC W14) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers
Open source JSON editor: https://github.com/tantaman/Strut
Reaction time correlates strongly with g factor.
They are. And some argue that they would be allowed to stay but the European Commission stated that they would not (http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_STATEMENT-17-3626_en.ht...) and I don't think it's very likely that they would be able to. At best, it's a pretty reckless bet to make.
That's why it takes two types of people to make something successful and lasting. One to come up with and do the invention, and someone to take it and make a product that affects the world. Neither does much without the other. Xerox had all the amazing tech and did absolutely squat with it. Jobs saw a demo and made it an actual thing you could use, whoever many errors he made in the process. Same is true with Steve and Steve, one did the tech and one made it a company. Rarely can one person do both and be successful.
Totally agree on Google closing in on Apple and App!e is 22 years older.

Apple FY Q3 FCF was actually less than Google FY Q3 FCF by 20%.

Now Apple is off calendar by a quarter but suspect Google will do it again in Q4. Problem for Apple is their results in 2015 were better than their projected FY 2017 while Google has strong growth.

iPhone replacement cycles will continue to slow just like PC sales years ago.
Indeed, by the Curry-Howard isomorphism they are (isomorphic to) proofs. This fact is held in high regard by some in the Haskell community. But the sense in which Clojurists mean it seems to be quite different. You have to prove things to the type checker which they seem to view as some sort of authority watching over you that you must please.
No, not that. Because that has not worked at all and I see no reason for why it should start working tomorrow.
> Each was asked to self-report their experiences of both diagnosed and/or suspected [...] disorders

So who else sees a problem with the methodology here. I mean, it sounds as if the data was collected in a different way than the data it was compared to.
He replied in the same way one might at a party -- you say something, then he tries to relate to it. In this case, he was explaining why he can't relate.

Seemed like a natural exchange to me.
>We introduced ourselves and took our seats. But as we were about to begin, the protesters seized our microphones, stood in front of us and shut down the lecture.

I'm not sure who gave these people the idea the heckler's veto is a legitimate tactic on a college campus or why the administration puts up with it. Those students should be summarily expelled.
I can second this. I have met a few Mensans who said I should join, and I think I would qualify, but I just don't feel that interested in it (though it might be a good way to get some more community in my life). I too think people who would bother to enter Mensa probably think or feel a bit differently in a way which would affect a survey like this.
Human reality aside, it's an interesting tension phenomenon; like stormy weather.. voltage difference grows and then thunder.

What impresses me more, in less than a decade we went from "ohhh web 2.0 and iphones" to "brexit, catalout, djt vs kju, nazi rallies". That's a quick and vast change.
Having lived in Ohio, the far right is exactly the same as the far left here in San Francisco. What is funny is they do not realize this. So I think its more a personality type selection than actual thought process or belief.

The result of believing the other side is evil, is no one is willing to work together so we all lose.

I think this could be a function of things we've built on the internet such as the ability to "hide" or "block" - even moderators are bad I, an elected DNC delegate is banned from the DailyKos because I disagreed with the Democrats proxy war policy on Syria.

We are in trouble.
Apple is forecasted in their FY 2017 to be far worse than their 2015. While Google does over 20% growth.
The Smalltalk used in this demo was my personal favorite (-78)

Is there a document that shows the differences between The Smalltalk-78 and Smalltalk-80, and what made Smalltalk-80 worse?
finger in sand drawing with circle gathering (almost not joking at all)
Everyone, except for illnesses and severe disabilities, is actually working.

Why would you call worker someone with a salary on a construction company building other people houses but not someone, with UBI, building its own family house ?
I like forests also but Ireland has never had a natural (free of human intervention) landscape since it was scoured down to bedrock by glaciers about 15-20,000 years ago.
Students shouldn’t have any say in shaping institutions they attend to gain knowledge. They are not smarter than their professors. Or if they disagree, they should attend another university and vite with their wallet/loan/whatever.
A cop wearing a parka directing traffic in a snow storm at night.

And what about criminals tricking cars into doing things?

It will be a long time before smart people trust automated vehicles to take their kids without adult supervision. Cars will have to be able to interpret our actions and intent better than we can. Or at least be able to defend their cargo, record evidence and alert authorities.
Author here. It's not just me saying that Web Components are unpleasant. In the article, I linked to Sam Saccone of Google saying that the WC developer experience is significantly worse than React's developer experience.

https://twitter.com/samccone/status/914528725852663808

"This of course is coming from someone who has used web components every work day for the last 2 years. Hard to ignore the DX gap that exists."

To which Alex Russell, also of Google and one of the architects of the WC API, replies, "Who's ignoring it?"

There are certainly some developers who compare and contrast Polymer and React and prefer Polymer, but it's fair to say that the vast majority of developers who have made this comparison have preferred React's developer experience. Even Polymer's advocates seem to be holding their nose and using it because they appreciate the long-term promise of Web Components interop.

Why? It's hard to say exactly, but I think it has to do with React's guarantees that the UI will be a pure function of state. Lots of nifty React features emerge from that. Polymer components make no such guarantees.

I'm actually pretty enthusiastic about lit-HTML as a way to close the gap. We'll see how it goes.
> well actually-actually :-),

I didn't say you could not build a message chain to do that, only that to:do: as shown in mpweiher's original comment is a single message ;)
Is there a place with the distribution of the number of developers per programming language? I have the feeling it has a very long tail.
I've given an answer to currying at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15573956
The scandalous thing isn't this scale or the effects of the Russian effort, but that it occurred at all. Russia, unlike those other actors, is not permitted to get involved in US elections in this way.
Don't we have a bigger issue if ad money can swing an election? Where's the critical thought on the part of the electorate?
whole lotta people on this "hacker news" website that love to say authority shouldn't be questioned
The Xtal Language
I think it's called optimisation. Ad sponsored content is optimised to lock in the user and take him/her to the extremes.
The trouble with this study - if I should guess - is selection bias: How many of those high IQ individuals are actually member of Mensa?

Given some test many years ago, I might have been qualified to become a member of this club - but never tried, as I would like to see people as people and not people as their brains, only. Maybe Mensa selects for those who are anxious about their abilities and find the notion of the club card in some way - soothing.