skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gmail does look cramped and unpleasant in Safari. The difference between Safari's rendering and Firefox's on Windows is almost as significant as the changes the author of this article made.
States will apply the home state's laws when matters of business law are to be decided. That means your company will have Cali law applied across the country (kind of, in certain areas).

I wouldn't worry if I was you. You can find a lawyer in California that knows California law more readily than one that knows Delaware. The majority of your legal issues will deal with employees, buying office space, etc. You don't need a Delaware LLC for that stuff. Delaware law won't even apply.

If you are going to take on funding or you hit it big and you are expanding, look at the Delaware LLC. Until then, have fun building your California company.
Even if you are incorporated elsewhere, California requires you to register with the State, and pay the $800 fee, if you do business (broadly defined) in the state.

You may also be on the hook for other corporate income or gross receipt taxes for activity in California, no matter where you incorporate.

(See for example this article comparing California and Nevada incorporation:

http://www.pahl-gosselin.com/should-california-businesses-in... )
By that definition, my website is also kicking YouTube's ass. It made 400€ in revenue last year.
Check out the book "Accelerando" by Charles Stross, he has a great section about sentient corporations. Free to download, even:

http://www.accelerando.org

On topic, this is really great news, the current regulations for this stuff is really archaic in an age where time zone matters more than country. Can't wait to find out some more, especially about upkeep fees.

edit: Scratch it, this is an amendment to the current LLC/corporation law, not an addition of a new class of company. Even cooler.

http://dotank.nyls.edu/june18virtualcorp.html
I thought this was the whole point behind "graceful degradation". If an AJAX based site does not degrade to still be useable/accessible when JS is off or unavailable, then it's not that well desgined to begin with.
The problem is that the effect he uses to support his point only applies if you're in the bottom segment [of programmers]. http://juangarcia.890m.com/blog/2008/06/17/done-and-gets-thi...

JG
+1 for the Bridge Builder mention. One of my all time favorite games.

I started playing the updated original version recently. You can download it from: http://www.crypticsea.com/

Gish is also another awesome physics game. Highly recommended!
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I recommend this method. Give them a chance to do the right thing and let us hear about it after.
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If you are based in California you end up paying both Delaware taxes and California taxes, you don't save anything by incorporating in Delaware, it's more expensive. Since you don't plan to take outside investment there would be no advantage to a Delaware incorporation. If you later change your mind you can always re-incorporate in Delaware (either due to outside investors' request or for other reasons).
If you're talking about the $800 because that's the minimum tax your state has on LLCs. You can request to be taxed as a corporation, which gives you another year to pay off that $800.
Yes. But they are opaque.

Mandating transparency (and only transparancty) could be one of the few good regulation.

Though I heard that some besieged investment banks have been disclosing their obligations fast - to restore or keep confidence in their liquidity. (I'd have to re-read the Economist for details.)
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They're just down the road from me, I'll go say hi :)
Indeed. This world record stunt got quite a few media mentions, and while I'm sure they would have gotten a lot without it because of the release, this likely generated even more publicity.
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I didn't know the micromachines man became a lawyer. Slow down your speech their champ.
I was thinking the same thing. I believe some people might have wanted to cash out there positions and it took outside money to do it.
Okay, there is a simple answer to this.

Companies have various sources of financing, some considered better than others.

They can take a bank loan ...

They can buy on credit ... buy something, pay for it several months later is a canonical form of financing

They can sell bonds ...

They can offer shares ...

There is normally competition between these forms of finance, and i heard banks usually try to offer the most competitive finance offer, so believe it or not banks loans are usually the best ...

linkdln will probably have to work harder for those 53M than if they were a loan

Finally, financing one firm from its own revenues, I believe is called auto-finance , or something like that, ... and beside the fact that they probably will and do take a portion of their revenues for self-finance ... they probably need more money to expand, and have seek other ways.

I am not sure thought how auto-finance compare to other forms of financing, but i think its one of the best and least expensive .... i need to look more to it, you can learn more about this stuff from the books about finance etc ...

:)
"Using a CSS layout with floating boxes, the sidebar-box does not stretch to the bottom."

"The solution proposed by CSS gurus seems to be to create a background image with a colored area overlapping with the sidebar-area"

What about height: 100% with a dom layout something like:

div#wrapper

div#header

div#main

div#sidebar

div#main content

div#footer
Maybe it has to do with dominance, like, "I have a gulfstream, I'm the alpha."
I would suggest never being this obnoxious to someone who has power over you.
Were you a tabloid news editor in your previous life? :-)
The tests for various SNP markers can be verified as accurate or not. The interpretation of the presence of a given marker may be up for debate, and these companies should not be making exaggerated claims about the ability of these tests to predict a person's risks for specific diseases.

In short, if something should be regulated here, it's the claims these companies make about the value of the tests.
Ask YC: Retaining the Authenticity of Government Data
The government is currently considering a major overhaul of its public data services, making a wide assortment of APIs available for developer use.

It's all being held up by a concern that there will be no way for end-users to be able to discern the real data from manipulated or made-up data.

Are you aware of any best-practices for avoiding this problem, but also allowing the data to be freely available?
They make little or no claim about the value of the tests. The argument against what they are doing is saying that offering any information about disease risk is an inherently medical topic.
I had a look at some of the previous questions and I must admit that this is way out of my league. I'll have to learn _a lot_ more about algorithms or enroll in university.
The flash on that page is in the top 10 worst uses of flash evar.
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You missed my point completely. Would you do all these things in the LAST day of your life?
So it sounds like the new feature will be tagging. Alexis commented on Techcrunch that he should have drawn a breadpig.

I'm excited for tagging on Reddit. I'm hoping it will really improve the site, just like the recent changes to the front page algorithm.
HA! I used to do that for a living. That black plastic harmonica-looking thing cost 15 bucks direct from Nintendo.

Nintendo had a seriously paranoid setup, too: every month they'd send the new price lists and we were told to to cross-shred the old ones, mix the shards, put in separate bags and dispose of in 3 or more locations.
I don't know if this one is different from the link you used, but it seemed to submit for my test email. I chose Premium Accounts > Cancel-Downgrade as the categories.

http://linkedin.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/linkedin.cfg/php/enduse...
I believe 23andme uses the Illumina marker panel + some additional custom markers.

First of all a diagnostic array will almost never be a high throughput array. Illumina doesn't market its 550K or 1M chips for diagnostics. The diagnostic assay will use something like beadxpress or other targeted chip. The business model is one of providing information, that's it. If that's going to be regulated, the only regulation should be in ensuring CLIA facilities, and making sure that the companies do not offer services that might make patients think that they were providing a diagnosis (Navigenics is the one I worry about here).

Having been directly involved in this space over the years, it's clear that a lot of work is needed, and even if we knew about disease causing SNPs and had high risk factors, we really don't have the drugs that are married to any diagnostics yet (with exceptions), but that shouldn't stop us from getting access to the information, especially since the costs pretty much act as a barrier at this time.
Their website says During the Private Beta period we intend on splitting the server in 1/8th partitions. Each virtual machine will be guaranteed 2GB of memory and two cores of CPU resources.

That sounds close to a small ec2 instance 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform

So if you have to pay by the month a Mac mini could be better, but if you pay by the hour I could see using one for an hour or so a day as a build slave.
Google has only a sales office in Argentina. Its south american development is in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
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Link to the story: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ProgrammableWeb/~3/314354508/
Why "start filing virtual incorporation papers" instead of, oh I don't know, email filing or online filing? Seems odd to stick to paper.

Unless it's a figure of speech...
If you really only need a shop to sell your own software, I'd recommend using the Kagi service ( http://www.kagi.com/index.php ). I used them some time ago. They offered to send out serial numbers for my database library but I already had a trivial POP/SMTP script that took care of that.
I agree. Your points are well made. Sorry. Lesson learned (next time won't be so hasty). I'll make efforts to improve signal/noise and quality/quantity ratios :)

Lastly, if you/anyone just downmoded the comment I wouldn't know who/why so would not have answered like that. Instead I would have discussed points/issues/reasons, as I generally try to do in other posts I make.
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They could just publish a few public keys and use them to digitally sign the data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Signature
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Seems nationalmanagement.net and axiom789 snuck past the spam filters. Anyone on who can mark these articles as Dead?
The CSSZenGarden is - as mentioned in the article - a special case because the content never changes. This means that some of the flexibility issues with CSS is not a problem. You can design everything with fixed sizes and positioning. Every single paragraph is assigned a unique id which you can address.

This approach will never work on "real" web site, because content on a real web site changes.
How would you specifically solve the form-in-a-grid layout problem described in the article?
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Arguments about screen-readers seem to be mostly based on superstition or wishful thinking. Some seem to believe that screen readers are actually the fabled and elusive semantic browser which understands the subtle semantic differences between UL, OL and DL, but on the other hand is stupid enough to just crash upon encountering a TABLE without a TH.

This might be the case, but it would be really interesting to hear something about it from someone who actually have real-world experience with them.
Google videos may have been losing, but they had enough data to work with for video search, if they were even actively pursuing it.
What limitations in the CMS are you referring to? The limitations are not in the CMS, they are in the browsers implementation of CSS.
In many ways Microsoft's valuation of facebook is a defensive strategy to stop other suitors buying it/in (now only those with very deep pockets need apply).

It highlights Microsoft's well known insecurities regarding the internet and its strategy/place/online-presence.
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Sounds like you've got a couple of job offers on the table, or some interviews lined up? If not, why this choice of language?
We have an up button and a down button but we have no spam button.
Usually when people refer to "assembly language for the web" they're talking about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as the building blocks for higher abstractions. These guys took the phrase a bit more literally.
I don't care anymore. Since they rolled out the new look, I quit reddit. Best of luck to them.
Yeah, your credit card company can take care of it for you. They'll send LinkedIn a chargeback if you contest the charge, and then someone at LinkedIn will probably take a look, since their money is on the line.
How true. I'm sure the laws will seem funny to people not used to programming...
in the words of alexis: "tag maelstrom."
But digital signatures would require some baked-in solution that would be problematic in some respects, like limiting access from unsupported platforms.

As far as I know, there's no clear way of maintaining the integrity of the data without keeping it in some sort of walled garden. Am i wrong?
Hmm... this contradicts the wisdom that start-ups are more productive than established businesses.
> Forms are tabular data -- headers on side, data on the other.

For very simple form designs, sure. But that idea breaks down when you have a more sophisticated form and need to consider horizontal "flow" between fields.

Tables are hammers, but not all forms are nails.
I read that message as sarcastic, for just that reason.
Without more details on what you want to do, it is hard to say. And if it is your first language, probably that none of them is a good choice. Why limit the choice to these two languages?
The cat is most certainly smarter than you. It gets you to go to work and bring home food to it, while it sleeps twenty hours per day and spends the remaining four licking itself.
YouTube is no Broadcast.com, that's for sure.
I disagree with you... and I'd like to think I have "sufficient" HTML experience but as you didn't define what that is, I could be wrong.

A couple of years ago, I ran a styleswitcher on my blog giving the visitor about 5 layouts to choose from. Each one visually different from the rest, not one of them needing any changes to the HTML. The content changed on a daily basis (every time I wrote an entry) and yet it still managed to fulfil its purpose.

Sure, it was only a blog and not a commercial website, but it still shows that CSS is capable of changing the layout by itself. Perhaps sufficient CSS experience is the key?
Where’s the Firefox for Search?
Only after going through a dozen menus, calling a Voice System, and copying a special code from your e-mail into a small text box one character at a time : )
How's that down arrow coming along?
Then tell me: why is Africa excluded from this finding?
Having worked in both, I can't possibly agree that large companies are more productive than startups - at least not in IT. That might be true in other industries though.
Bank of America offers this as well. They give you the option of specifying a one time limit, monthly limit, and expiration dates for the number.
In addition to the book version of the thesis, available through MIT Press, there's a scanned version of the ancient tech report online at ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AITR-450.pdf
But you do not have to be the very fast, yet.
Is there anything in particular about VMware that doesn't suit your needs?
But why care about dominance if you are rich and already have enough mates and food? Why care about what anyone else thinks?
I'm great with people. I just have little patience for poor management, and that's exactly what it was.
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Hilariously in many parts of Italy they use marble for floors because it's cheaper than carpet.
I like the history of the expensive watch. It highlights neatly exactly what technology does to wealth. This company began when only the ultra rich could afford a precision timekeeper. Having one for personal use that could be worn on ones person seemed an impossible luxury. The rich lived a different kind of life in those times.

Now you can get a watch at WalMart for $10 that keeps better time than the most expensive mechanical watch. Technology lets us all live the same way. The rich are reduced to comical displays of gluing diamonds to the outdated mechanical monsters of the past.

Some of the "rich watches" are quite beautiful, both physically and mechanically. Most are not. In any case, they're just bling now.
"... Over time, the bar will learn your preferences and become much more useful. ..."

Not really.

It looks like I submit more than I read. So the "awesome" bar puts "submit" before the "index" page. Counter intuitive to what I really want, the index page where if I have to I can add /submit. It just means I now look at line 2 if I want to read.
Where did it get its MBA?
Philadelphia- No matter what field you are in, or what you do you will never get the same respect as you would if you had done the exact same thing somewhere else.
"firm productivity increases with firm age"

Oddly enough, this statement, which is the basis of his argument, is also why his conclusion is wrong.

If by productivity he means revenue per employee, then he may be correct even of technology startups. Any successful startup's revenue per employee is likely to be higher in year 5 than in year 1, when they probably had no revenue. But what matters more is the derivative: successful startups have the fastest increase in revenue per employee. In other words, the reason startups are good is they're the companies in which "firm productivity increases with firm age" the most.
His problem is that he has to go through a lot more effort because under FF2, etc., he only had to type a few letters from the beginning of the URL in order to get where he was going.
Though, the quality is lower.
Just stop being obnoxious altogether over the age of thirteen.
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IE7 does not support display:table either, so the long awaited dream is still far away. Reportedly IE8 beta supports is though.
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What happens when you type in "ycomb" instead? Since it is search, that should come up with news.ycombinator.com, not any old web address that starts with news...
I know he is joking, but this would actually be a perfect solution if it generated HTML tables for IE - and CSS with display:table for any other user agent.
Attitudes like yours are a large part of what is wrong with the world -

'People might makes mistakes so don't allow them to make decisions. In fact don't even allow them to have information because it might make them want to make decisions'.

You'd fit in really well with the Roman Catholic orthodoxy in the time of the reformation - trying to forbid people from printing bibles.
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"Some 44% of people who saw a product or service advertised in a newspaper in the past month researched it - and two-thirds(67%) of that group went online to find more information."
Million dollar blog post
Nobody is immune; EVERYONE should have major back-up contingencies and savings that can be easily liquidated. Spread it internationally too, because having all of your money in one nation's markets or bank system is crazy at this point...
... now I'm a lucky man who made the grade.
Although the news is rather sad.
Well I just had to laugh.
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So, here’s the question: why has Firefox been able to do so well in the browser market against the dominant player, while a new and exciting player has yet to emerge in the search engine market to take on Google?

Firefox is a shippable product and Google Search is a service. Creating and operating a service is very expensive, particularly given the amount of data involved in searching the web. There is an open source alternative, Lucene, which again is a product and not a service, but they are still far from Google (btw, has anyone applied Lucene to web search?). Search is a very difficult problem.

And Google Search is ubiquitous so competition is left to niche markets anyway. Octopart.com (electronic parts) and WorldWideScience.org (scientific research), for example. Google Search is becoming more specific too though (theatre/show time data, weather, music/band results, ISBN, etc...) so the gaps are narrowing. Plus it works well -- there's no compelling story to replace it at this point.

Ultimately, if it's possible to satisfy everyone's search needs from a single box, Google's box will be the first to do it.
They "work" as far as making you an expert at the training task itself; i.e., a domain-specific task. 100 faces in 15 minutes? I feel great about my cognitive prowess now!

Staying sharp is so much more than clicking on colorful boxes and memorizing the position of pictures. I almost get queasy when I see those "guaranteed to work!" spins on these programs.

Meanwhile, Warren Buffet (78), Bill Gates (53), and Morris Chang (77) are all world class bridge players. How's that for a brain game, huh?