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Having a fairly small, well defined problem, working in a small self-selected team, with no outside interference and typically no clients outside the team. No managers, no PMs, no bug reports. This is not how day-to-day projects get done.

Regardless of all of that, in my experience a typical impressive hackathon project is still just a barely working demo that benefitted from a significant amount of research and planning beforehand, and will require an even greater amount of hardening and polish afterwards.

There is no magic, it's just a vastly different kind of work environment with both inputs and outputs incomparable to day-to-day work.
"Do business in California" is nebulous. Many startups are at the stage of being a single-member LLC working out of their own garage. No property rental, no payroll, no customer transactions (yet). Legally speaking such an entity could be registered anywhere. Doing so in California for the first year or two is needlessly inefficient of your scarce resources at that stage.
Overall, I agree with the sentiment of your comment, but the assertion that MySQL isn’t a serious database is just flat out wrong.
MITOCW has C++ courses. Not sure about Modern,tho
New Zealand?

The courts here are pretty sensible. They have 0 issues with telling someone they are just being silly and to leave.

They can still bring a case against you - but, it isn't expensive to defend like the US is.
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Say you jailbreak your phone and the new operating system has bad state of charge tracking software. Should Apple be on the hook for a new battery?

I think that a lot of people who agree with your statement aren't considering that running third party software on a device might inflict costly (or irreparable) damage on a product.
They already let you...since many years
> Unity and Unreal have made things we couldn't have dreamed of possible.

And that is why nearly 95% FPS games are practically clone of each other.
My server blocks all users who access /wp-admin.php, and make other automated exploit-attempts, for 8-48 hours.

The fact that a high number of such attempts come over Tor is disappointing, but should surprise nobody.

I've no desire to blacklist Tor exit nodes as such, but I'm going to go out of my way to whitelist them when they are a source of malicious traffic
The CppCon videos [1] are a great resource, but you'll have to thread your way through the wide variety of topics.

The videos from Herb Sutter [2] will usually emphasize best practices and give great examples, although he expects the audience to have a good bit of familiarity in regards to 'modern' c++ elements (C++11 and beyond).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMlGfpWw-RUdWX_JbLCukXg

[2] https://herbsutter.com/
Panama might be a good place to start looking for a lawyer. I have friends in other Central American countries who can’t stop singing the praises of Panamanian incorporation. They seem very confident that they can get away with all sorts of cringe inducing shenanigans. Your use case is mild by comparison but of course ymmv.
I do this for written articles that begin with https://www.google.com.au/search?q=%22technology+has+become+...
Tell HN: Help me get to 100K MRR and be rewarded for it
Hey guys,

A few months ago I launched my unlimited design-as-a-service (Manypixels) on HN and IndieHackers (https://www.manypixels.co)

I shared everything during my journey (how we built our MVP in 5 hours, how we got to 50k USD in MRR) and I learned a lot from those communities.

It has been a roller coaster: We learned a lot from our users, we did many good things, but many bad things too. We are improving day by day though.

A big mantra I have is: Make what customers want. But I want to take it one step further: Make what customers want WITH them.

Here is my crazy offer for HN (which I also posted on IH): Can you help me improve Manypixels and our operations by being a user and directly (on a weekly basis) contributing with actionable feedback on how we can improve our services?

What you will get :

1. Free ongoing subscription of Manypixels so that you can build your business and get unlimited design help
2. Inside look at the operations of my company (metrics, operations, processes)
3. Be the "fly in the room" in our weekly sessions on Skype with project managers, designers, and the management team

What I am looking for in return :

1. Test our processes and team to the nitty gritty by making design requests
2. Communicate to me actionable feedbacks and improvements on a weekly basis
3. Help us test our new dashboard and project management / tracking of tasks

--> I have 5 spots open for the position of "HN Tester" and I will make a decision on the 15/04.

If you want to become one, tell me the following in the comments:

1. Do you require design services?
2. What is your experience in building companies and why do you think you could be the one chosen to help us improve?
And what you'll find is that the most rewarding raids, and jobs for that matter, are the ones that people take a chance on you and you perform better than expected.
Thanks. My first thought when I saw this was "....and that's it?(!)"

Warning: This one takes about 10 seconds to render on my i3-3220. Chrome/other tabs are still usable, this one just turns white for a bit.

...And it does not scroll quickly. Haha

I'm also mildly impressed at how many rectangles I'm getting - I have the Noto font set installed...
You can actually skirt them a bit as well even with employees or offices in CA, as long as they fall under certain defined thresholds.
That doesn't really explain why perforce, and mercurial seem more popular, nor the lack of current buzz around the project. I could be wrong but I can't say the mind share is very high.
> That's what happens in BK. It's not what happens pretty much anywhere else.

I'm not sure I understand your example. At least, the way I understand it, both git and mercurial deal with it the way you say BK does. They attribute the 50 first lines to you, the 51th line to joe if it looks like neither what was in your or the other's version, and the last 49 lines to the other.
Relying on commit message which can be anything is not a valid approach.
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You can short bitcoin, and many have during the crash from 20 to 6.
I'm trying to think of what it is, exactly, that Facebook has a monopoly on. The nearest I can come up with is: Facebook has a monopoly on Facebook users.

The followup question would be: how can that be broken up?
Not true. If you’re a foreign entity it can cause tax issues to be directly investing in a Delaware structure so sometimes you need a blocker entity.
But what about the deal breaker in the article: a way to follow the decendants of a commit.
Run away - currently in that role. The (9 month old) team I'm in is falling apart as everyone is bailing for literally any other company. There are two problems - 1) Most of Oracle's products are so badly made and the documentation so sucky that the job is near impossible - you can't demonstrate to customers what you can't get running yourself and 2) All of the managers at the higher levels are sales people - we had to fight to get decent laptops because they didn't know that programming required it (not joking). And you hardly ever get to do actual programming. Most of the people in my division feel they were tricked into taking the job.

Seriously, this isn't a joke. It's that bad.
As a long-time C++ dev, I don't think a video/lectures is a good format for learning it. I'd suggest to read books.
Have you tried Zoho mail? It's not the same as rolling your own, but it's decentralized from Google's servers. Not just that but you can register domain specific addresses (like Google Apps) for free. It's my standard for new domains.

They can still collect all the info you provide them directly, but it's a bit different than cross-referencing your gmail account with your phone's location history and your google search history, paired with your Google calendar travel plans and emails about shopping list updates for your Amazon account.
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I run single with hardware or md raid, or btrfs raid 1 or 10. Usually the latter.

Raid5 and 6 are unstable in the "avoid at all costs" kind of way.

This may be of use if youd like to know more:
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status
For what it's worth, this likely was submitted because of the California post that's currently #1 on HN, claiming you can have a California LLC for $70. It also states you'll need "An $800 LLC “tax” paid annually at tax time".
The difference between mySQL and Postgres is that significant? What makes up the difference?
Cayman has no taxes. There are various fees required to register a corporation, but income and capital gains aren't taxed (for businesses or individuals). Note that the IRS still requires US citizens to file personal income tax returns, and they still have to pay taxes on foreign earned income.

I am not a lawyer or accountant, but I did live and work there for years. The main benefits are tax avoidance, but it's much more difficult for US citizens than for others (most countries don't tax their citizens on foreign income; capital gains laws vary).

People will make all the obligatory jokes about shady rich tax dodgers, and there are rich people and corporations that like to keep money in Cayman for ethically questionable reasons, but the majority of Cayman finance is completely legal, ethical, and above-board.
I recently saw an old-time guide to handwriting; it started with the explanation that many people have too much tension when they write (even in facial muscles) and that the right way is to be very much relaxed so the writing just flows out. (Naturally, it implied using a fountain pen, not something you have to press down to write.) This coincides very much with other "right ways" I know about in dancing and other physical activities - too much tension is a very common habit among people.
Unrelated, but, wasn't the Empiricist a System-class GSV?
Although, always nice to bump into Culture fans..
It would have to be pretty low to get ahead with a c-corp. Because to pay yourself passthrough on the c-corp, you will be getting the lower Trump corporate tax, but you still have to also pay capital gains tax when you receive it. (not to mention you still have to pay yourself a reasonable salary).

I don't think cap gains tax plus corporate tax will end up less than even the highest earned income rate.
If you are bringing in that much cash a month. Why not just hire someone to help you with the skills you require?

Not a complaint about your request but it seems to be an indirect route to accomplish you goal.
From personal experience: Hiring your designer buddy who lives in San Diego while the two other guys in your company lives elsewhere entitles you to pay $800 a year in somewhat unexpected tax, even though you're not selling any services to any CA companies. Yea, jumped in feet first, but really did not enjoy the $800 bill that came with it.
Have you ever written an introduction to a technical document before? You make statements in there that are obvious, not because the reader doesn't understand, but because you want to bring the reader into the right frame of mind with the right set of facts before them as context for the rest of the document.

Questions like this are really just asking Zuckerberg to introduce his business in a controlled way.
Um, neither WhatsApp nor Instagram were competitors to Facebook. Both of the acquired companies simply did something that Facebook tried to do, but very successfully.

The government can only prevent acquisitions and mergers, when such would greatly harm the consumer by giving a company too much control of a vital market, like health insurance or phone service. Moreover, it didn't stop banks from consolidating 30 separate entities into 5 between 1990 and 2005 or so.
IANAL, but that's not useful for hackers. This is more useful for hackers: https://www.caymanenterprisecity.com/

- 100% foreign ownership

- No corporate/capital gains taxes

- 5-year work/residence permits for the team

-- No personal income tax in the Caymans for anyone moving here

From a friend who has gone through the process of setting one up for consulting, the initial setup cost ~30k USD and renewal costs ~15k USD per year.

- you still need an office package https://www.caymanenterprisecity.com/service-packages

- setup is not really that quick and painless

If you'd otherwise pay income tax pretty much anywhere else it might still make financial sense.
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So $700 for setup and $3300/year? It's way, way cheaper to do this in Panama, same tax advantages, and the country uses the US dollar.
To be clear, the HN post you're referring to only claims the $70 is to FORM the LLC.
REITs.
I understand your point of view. I think hiring entrepreneurs with real design needs (and experience) can help us in two ways:

1. We will have to work on real projects and treat them as "real customers" which will give us customer insights on what we should improve.

2. Targeting communities of entrepreneurs such as IH/HN will allow us to pick skills in a pool of people "who have done it before" or who might anticipate problems we might have and suggest actionable solutions.
Encoding time is 667x compared to VP9. How can it be used in production ? 667 TIMES LONGER
You can short Bitcoin on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange:

http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/bitcoin-futures.html
You could spin off an easy dozen companies out of existing Facebook services.
For those unaware of the previous run at Craigslist by several States Attorneys, here's a summary:

Questioner: "If you close down this safe forum, workers will just go to another forum."
State Attorney: "Then we'll sue them too."

So States Attorneys don't see themselves in any way as social workers, just as law enforcement willing to play whack-a-mole forever without regard to the societal cost.
9USD a month is a consequential amount of money for a huge chunk of the population of even developed countries.
Define "ambient". Here in semi-arid California, they might work just fine. OTOH I once spent two weeks in Borneo.... my Palm Pilot (yes, it was a long time ago....) crapped out within 24 hours. Electronics really suffered there. (A friend and I repaired a ham radio amplifier for a local ham. We found the problem.... in the form of a skeleton of a gecko that had gotten itself across the filter caps of the 1200V @ 900mA power supply.... not directly a moisture problem, just a general jungle problem.)
Depends on your country doesn’t it? Where I live you need to identify yourself with your national 2factor ID if you want to do anything phone related. Both for security reasons, but also because of big brother tracking us.

But the side effect of this is that you can’t highjack a phone number unless you highjack the cell tower between it and the network.
> People will make all the obligatory jokes about shady rich tax dodgers, and there are rich people and corporations that like to keep money in Cayman for ethically questionable reasons, but the majority of Cayman finance is completely legal, ethical, and above-board.

This sounds like it might be true in terms of number of individual accounts maybe, but do you think that's true in terms of overall asset value?
Unfortunately at work we use TFS which only offers Git and TFVS as version control systems.
I don't think so. The tooling and mindshare one gets with C# should be tremendously valuable. There are not that many options for performant languages which provide all the things C# ecosystem provides out of the box.
I’m being extremely generous with that approximate duration of relevance.

Look at Microsoft. Windows’ golden period lasted from 1998 until 2006 with the release of Vista. With the release of Vista, Microsoft’s strangle hold on relevance disintegrated in a summer. And now what? Microsoft technically “exists” but who cares?

We are witnessing Facebook’s Vista moment right now. Donald Trump is Facebook’s Windows Vista.

Think about that for a second.
Or as the analogy was written in 1946: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science
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> From personal experience: Hiring your designer buddy who lives in San Diego while the two other guys in your company lives elsewhere entitles you to pay $800 a year in somewhat unexpected tax, even though you're not selling any services to any CA companies

No, it doesn't, you can do that as a sole prop or (non-LLP) partnership, and not pay the $800 tax applied to corporations, LLPs, and LLCs.

Asking the public at large to absorb for you (by granting you a personal liability shield) the risk that that the resources you give to the business plus those it is able to earn will not be able to meet the businesses liabilities is what you pay the $800 for. Which is why only the limited liability entities pay the tax.
> the fundamental, critical, beating-heart importance of free speech in all things

In China?

You know, I recently met this very nice and intelligent man. They invited me to dinner, and it was an absolutely fantastic evening full of brilliant conversation. We discussed history, politics, business, psychology, sociology, hopes and dreams, and generally felt very comfortable exploring ideas that many people would frown upon.

Of course, his wife didn't say a lot and had two black eyes, and I heard sobbing from the kid's room upstairs, but since I felt no need to ask about that, I didn't feel stifled in what I could talk about, at all. We both agreed we should do this more often, and the wife didn't protest, so I'm sure she's looking forward to more of that, too.
I like to trot out this old gem[1] when people wonder why there's so much hate for MySQL.

Nontransactional DDL alone is sufficient to classify it as a toy DB for me. Yes, I've been personally bitten by it.

[1]: https://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else
What’s the next step exactly?
They have done that voluntarily for years. It's under your settings. One thing they don't currently allow is a complete and utter, real, deletion of your profile and all of its assets. You can delete your account, but it's more or less just held in a suspended state.
> I think the longevity of SQL has proved there's value is non-leaky abstracted interfaces.

How is sql non-leaky? To be proficient with sql you have to understand how results are stored on disk, how indexes work, how joins work, etc. To debug and improve them you need to look at the query plan which is the database exposing it's inner workings to you.

You have to know about the abstractions an sql server sits on as well. Why is it faster if it's on an SSD instead of an HDD? Why does the data dissapear if it's an in memory DB?
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How about decoding performance, which is much more important.
I never had any problems the past 6 years I've been using Git professionally. But then someone asked me what to do when Git prevents you from changing branches and not knowing they did not stage, I told them to stash or commit. They stashed and the changes were gone.

My point is, while your basic commands do the work, your habits and knowledge keep you from losing code like this without you knowing.
My guess is they would be turned off because control of the LLC could be transferred without their approval and could potential shield the owner of the LLC from litigation by the investors.

They want your personal name on there so they can come after you personally in case something fishy happens.
>Dude, troll much?

How am I trolling? You just professed your love for nonsentient beings over actual people.

>I'm retired

What does this have to do with anything?

>I engage because I want to help.

I'm not sure what you think you're helping.
Would you argue that Google should have been allowed to buy them then? How about Google buying YouTube? Where do you draw the line? Because so far it seems to largely stem on whether the people proposing this like the company or if they think (wrongly) it swayed the election outcome away from their perceived world view.
> $800 to obtain the privilege of operating in one of the world’s largest economies seems like a bargain to me.

It might be, but that's not what the tax is for. The $800 tax applied to LLPs, LLCs, and corporations isn't a tax on the privilege of operating a business in California: sole props and non-limited-liabilty partnerships can operate as businesses in California and don't pay the tax.

The privilege you pay for with the tax is that of offloading business failure risk onto the public while protecting your own personal assets with a publicly granted corporate liability shield.
The Senate could not grapple with the way Facebook works
Cookies? I would assume Facebook is using the latest tracking techniques like canvas fingerprinting and other ways to identify users uniquely on the web.
I thought people would make that conclusion!
I wonder if anyone has tried rendering directly to AV1 (or x264, or what-have-you), e.g. in a video game. There is all this hardware devoted to turning a few bytes of input into lots of pixels out. Maybe you could do less work producing just the few bytes, and let dedicated hardware generate the pixels. Of course you don't need for the CPU to generate the bytes; code running on the GPU would still do that, but with less work to do, you might get higher frame rates, or better detail at the same rate.

You heard it here first. (That is, unless it doesn't work.)
>but arguing that something is good juts because a lot of people use it is most definitely not a valid argument.

Yeah, I've only worded it 50 different ways.
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> Facebook will be irrelevant in a generation or less. Even if Facebook manages to leverage the network effect of its alternative subsidiaries, there will always be the treadmill of evolving trends, and there’s not such thing as one true mode of electronic social interaction.

Maybe so, but Facebook has shown a willingness to spend the money to acquire control of those evolving trends to maintain its dominance (see: Instagram, Whatsapp, and the failed attempt to buy Snapchat).

At a minimum I think it should be divested of Instagram and WhatsApp.
> So if you purchased a TV for $5000 and then a fault causes it to blow up 5 years later, you can ask to get a full refund, even though the current street value might only be a few hundred dollars.

That doesn't seem quite fair to the manufacturer to me. You got 5 years use out of the TV, even if it didn't last as long as you expected you still got value out of it and shouldn't deserve a full refund at that point.
Also not stuck using only an unbound result. Could we not ask "given L and Ls, what elements were dropped?"
I was thinking the same thing. Why are we at hacker news focusing on cookies when we know about all the other more devious ways of tracking?
It'd be hard to draw a line on what's sketchy and what's not. Taxes are incredibly complicated. Defining what's legitimate business vs. ethically questionable vs. illegal (and whose laws are being violated) makes it hard to even categorize the money, even if there were data available on how much is there and who controls it.

My guess is that there's probably much more there that's completely legal, but pushes people's buttons because they want to see it taxed at home. Like Apple's overseas billions (which are largely sheltered elsewhere, but you get the idea).