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Ok, so my wife is around now. She's a CPA/PhD in accounting and does a lot of work with small businesses, so I suppose she knows what she's talking about. While non-profits are not her specific area of study, she does do the accounting work for a couple of local non-profits. She's never steered me wrong yet:)

So that said:

The $5000 exemption you reference does not alleviate you of the other requirements for operating a 501(c)(3). More specifically your company must operate for a specific "exempt purpose" (http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=175418...).

If I'm following the article correctly, you wrote an iPhone app that does not fall under any of those exempt purposes. Therefore, even operating under the $5000 receipts limit, your company is not eligible for 501(c)(3) tax exempt status.

Any income that you made from the app should be treated as personal income. You don't even need to form a business entity to do business at all. You can take that $5000 and declare it as personal income just like any other income you make throughout the year. That does open you up to increased liability, which is why LLC's have become a preferred vehicle for proprietorships and partnerships. In most states it's nothing more than a very short form and $25-$100. It grants you some protection for your brand as well as limiting your liability in certain situations (for instance, it provides a shield to your personal assets for lawsuits around copyright infringement).
I forget that in the States the iPhone is only available on AT&T. Must suck.
Hey man, met you at startup weekend when you pitched main street, very cool, congratulations!
Although Java has its problems, I think the core of Android's issue is a bad utilization of computing resources. One can only hope that Google will eventually fix this problem.

Palm's WebOS put much of its core logic in JavaScript, which had a slower implementation (at the time) than Dalvik VM does. However, Palm carefully made sure to take advantage of the GPU to achieve many of the effects in the UI.
Sure. But don't stop there.

If you're interested in Lisp-like PLs, then also study what happened after 1959. It sounds stupid, I know, but a lot of people don't seem to do it, which is one of the reasons for the slow progress in dynamic languages.

(I'm the author of the post.)
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Solving database scalling issues is also a problem that Real People don't have and yet it's still a problem that some Fake People have to solve.
I thought that's how keycards generally work?
I actually liked the earlier article better. But I think it's good to see the paths that have been taken to get to where we are today. Just because you have seen what the original LISP was like doesn't mean you are forever doomed to believe it's the only way things can be! After you write your Ur-Lisp, check out The Art of the Interpreter: http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/ai-lab-pubs/AIM-....
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The author pointed out in another post that his blog was not meant to be a series of articles, just his state of mind at a given point. I think it's fair to scrutinize his ideas, but we should not criticize a lack of article quality or references in someone's personal blog, if his personal expectation is that it shouldn't be read as such. Nonetheless, I'm glad for this follow-up.
It's not necessarily your fault if you can't get it done in time - you were thrown in to a position you weren't familiar with - though I stand by the fact that you should tell your manager you are in need of help with it - whether it's internal or not. It will show that you are able to handle a project even when it has potential to fail, which is a real world scenario - it's just as important of a skill as being able to get stuff done.

If you feel that BigCo, and companies of that size are really not your thing, then you need to do what will make you happy. It's a fact that you will at times have to do work you will not like, that's just life, but if you are sure that the larger company environment is not for you, which is fine - it's not for everyone, then you need to make a decision... if you feel that your lack of experience will hamper your progress though, then it might be in your best interest to wait it out and gain that experience at BigCo which hopefully is a big name that will look good on the resume. This is a big decision, make sure you read mine and everyone elses advice and really contemplate what you will be doing - even if it's early in your career.
Yeah, it's interesting. The reasons vary for each company and books could probably be written for each one. A key factor is network effects. Read up on network effects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

"In economics and business, a network effect (also called network externality) is the effect that one user of a good or service has on the value of that product to other people. When network effect is present, the value of a product or service increases as more people use it."

Not just internet and software businesses, railroads, telephone networks, and financial markets are other businesses that are impacted by network effects.
Two things: first, the data is used to improve our algorithms. Second, spam reports get 4x the weighting when we prioritize sites for manual spam investigation. That does mean that if you do a spam report on a page/site that only gets seen (say) once every six months, it might not get looked at on the manual side though, simply because there are other sites that are hurting users more.

Giving spam reports 4x the weight compared to the sites that we autodetect is how we try to balance responding to outside feedback with spending our review cycles on the spam that impacts users most.
Well, no excuses then :)
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Does this mean quantum computers can't do anything classical computers can't? Does it let the air out of quantum computing? Or am I misreading?
> "Have courage to use your own understanding!"--that is the motto of enlightenment.

But what if our understanding is a result of conditioning.

I think it was Descartes who once said "I think therefore I am" which is flawed in several ways. He was stuck in thought. Someone else later figured out that the person thinking is apart from the thought. But he too was stuck in thought/mind.

Enlightenment is seeing that you are not the mind or the mental story or concept of yourself. And being totally free of that. Enlightenment is when the misidentification with the mental self is broken. The mental self acts out of fear and insecurity and a constant wanting of something else. This is a sure recipe for being unhappy and causing unhappiness in others.

I don't know which kind of enlightenment you wish to discuss, but I would rather you read Eckhart Tolle instead of Kant.
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I would love to hear the narration that goes along with this.
But the thing is, nobody actually cares about this. I have used an Android phone since the beginning. Touch responsiveness is not something I have ever noticed. Any delay in rendering web pages is due to the network.

I think people that write articles about touch responsiveness or animation latency are suffering from the "benchmarking hello world" problem. Yeah, you could speed that stuff up. But 99% of the time, the phone is waiting for data on a socket, which is not going to get fast any time soon.
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This isn't a "im looking to get hired" question - it is more of a "im looking to join a project". In particular, are there any places online (such as a forum) where developers, designers, and business people can meet to discuss ideas and possibly start a project - with or without funding. Whether it be fun, serious, crazy, or everything in between.

I am a student as well as a professional programmer and I would love to dedicate some of my free time to a project. (I have ideas of projects I would like to pursue but they are far too complex for me to ever accomplish alone)

Thank you for your input!
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Love new scientific discoveries, just haven't seen a lot of gallery links here and recall that that's a leading indicator of content noise ratio increase.

Thanks for posting the direct article link.
Well, there is common usage that says that it is a noun, for example: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/make-the-ask/
Good question. The point is that "early LISP" was royally screwed in some important aspects. If you repeat these errors, then that may be harmful, and you're missing out on learning "how to do it right". Which is why I wrote the post.
Crap, we're still going to be using C when we get our flying cars!
Well maybe the real motive here is to swap wordpress for a dog then shoot the dog.
He said that it was harmful to build a simple Lisp interp/compiler. Not only that, but apparently he cast off the entire Lisp family without anything other than a "Haskell is just better, kthnx". Seems like a troll in the vein of the previous one, just more elaborate.
There are other options besides social or text-based algorithms. My company, Pikimal, is pursuing one - we're pulling together facts on items and are allowing people to weight those facts to dynamically create recommendations. We've added some "user rating" facets but are just barely past our minimal viable product.

I very much agree with you that social is limited. It's a filter which avoids spammers, but it also filters out experts and users. It also solves some of the problems introduced by the generic nature of search algorithms.

I'm betting my time on the idea that the solution which wins will combine an understanding of the product space, the value of new features, a current understanding of price, and which can be customized transparently to the needs of the user.
No. It means that, when solving harder problems (way beyond NP, as PSPACE is a really big class), it doesn't matter having a quantum computer.
Thank you for demonstrating so clearly why we need RSS.

If you don't get it yet, check back in two years. You'll be able to tell us all about why that doesn't scale and can't work and RSS is a lot better. You may not believe me yet, but I can wait.
Did you incorporate in Rhode Island for any reason other than the absence of age restrictions?

We aren't exactly known as a business friendly state, unless you're an anti-government[1] retired up baseball player who has decided to take handouts from the governor [2].

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This is amazingly interesting and inspiring for me. It's my intention to put out a simple web app every month or two this year. I've been piddling with programming languages for years and this year was my first year to put out anything public. Reading things like this excites me even though we come from completely different positions in life.
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It also has to be some sort of project that uses RSS, not something built into an RSS-replacement. It requires some sort of third-party interaction with your input to determine "importance". Leave it to the New York Times and at best their decisions about importance merely won't match yours; at worse they'll simply label everything "important", sort of like the way my HR department seems to reflexively tick that box in Outlook regardless of whether open enrollment is about to close or somebody's parking job is a bit off and could they please correct it?
The ctor trick is genius. Compile-time loops (recursion counts as one) seems like a cheat. The dispatch table keyed on (i < 1000) is a straight-up cheat, as (obviously) is using the ternary or short-circuiting.
Actually, they _are_ probably using multiple really freaking bright flashes, or rather flash bulbs. There are still some around that blow away anything else you can get down into a cave for a power/size ratio. Think streetlight sized bulbs filled with magnesium.

There's probably some light painting going on as well with (bright) flashlights and long exposures.

The 1/r^4 really only applies if the light is coming from the camera position, and is unfocused. If you're illuminating the subject from another location, the only worry you really have is the 1/r^2 from the source to the lit object.
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This post in itself is begging to be turned into a 5 minute webapp :)
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Your Architecture needs to be "good enough". If you strive for the absolute best, most flexible, most extensible, blah blah, you will be stuck with analysis paralysis and spend too much time upfront with less information to make decisions.
Conversely if you just begin coding with no plan - you will have an unstable product that will fall apart at the first instance of some deviation from the normal.

The (very hard) trick is to do a good enough job to deliver fairly quickly for a fairly stable product. Then be prepared to learn and refactor until it becomes better.
How do you decide what is good enough? Experience...
I love "why are you not rich yet?" articles. It's so motivating.
even faster summary:
install yslow and PageSpeed, follow recommendations.

I've seen enormous improvements on site which didn't follow any of this rules, something like load time divided by 2 or more, but of course it depends how bad is the site you start with.
> But what if our understanding is a result of conditioning.

Indeed, it is fascinating just how different eastern and western understanding of enlightenment is. Or, perhaps, how differently they express themselves. One of my favorite Taoist quotes is:

The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

-- Lao Tzu
No. It means that for the complexity class of interactive proofs quantum and classical are the same (when you ignore the number of rounds involved.) This doesn't tell us anything about whether quantum polynomial time equals classical polynomial time. The "IP" classes have problems that are very intractable...this basically says that for these very intractable problems quantum won't help (with the caveat that the quantum seems to allow fewer rounds in the interactive proof.)
I think "online" in this case means on a computer, not necessarily networked
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Any chance for a Safari extension as well?
I will heartily second reading Eckhart Tolle instead of a whole lot of different spiritual books - he gets to the heart of it all without the needless digressions. Next to it J Krishnamurthy is good if you want to go deeper. But yeah after you've read Eckhart's Power of Now you should not feel like adding more knowledge to your self :)

To me PoN was a fundamental shift - in the way I think, the reasons that prompt me to think, the decisions I make, everything. I found the concept of utilitarian thinking very helpful in terms of actually being able to stop useless thinking - if you keep a bit of consciousness always in the background and ask - what is this thought giving me, is it changing my circumstance - that to me is a huge balancing force.
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Well, one problem is that these two different concepts of enlightenment have the same name in English. This is not always the case in other languages.
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That sounds like a good implementation. I imagine the Chrome team would agree, and suggest users install the extension which does just that, if they like it: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhn...

Actually, just about everything he mentions could be done using a Chrome extension (modifying the new tab page, for example).
re: "We should be able to localize cellphones within prison and kill access from the phone's MAC address."

If you read through to the end of the article, you'll learn that Mississippi has implemented an interception system that achieves that kind of result.
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At this valuation, I want to put money into SecondMarket stock, not Facebook.

Facebook is a great company, with tremendous prospects. Its growth curve is going to slow significantly, however.
What architecture issues caused Friendster to fail? I'm not very familiar with it.
You can do it a bit easier without needing to have a large central message repository. Start with a secure distributed write-only database (imagine something like a big collection of random people running a variant of couchdb that included some crypto primitives) and then mix in a bit of private information retrieval[ * ] and you are most of the way there. There are some tricky bits to this general idea, like notifications and indexing the mailboxes, but the principle is fairly sound. The problem with these sort of ideas is that if you try to implement them in the real world you soon discover that your addressable userbase is really, really small, most of them are people you probably don't want to help out very much, and the resource provider/parasite ratio is hard to keep sustainable.

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Google Maps would have been faster.

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Did somebody say bubble?

From later in the article, it's a total of $2 billion, with 1.5 billion being in a special fund designed to make a mockery of SEC regulations: "As part of the deal, Goldman is expected to raise as much as $1.5 billion from investors for Facebook at the $50 billion valuation".
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Thank you! Thank you! We don't have Tesla's, but I'm dreaming of buying one (or whatever else there is latest and greatest from NVIDIA).
the quantum seems to allow fewer rounds in the interactive proof

This seems important. What if IP -> QIP is like O(N) -> O(log N)?
They care that a specific random Ruby utility was by design installed in bin(7) and thus require that Debian specifically modifies the package so that it goes in sbin(7)? I call shenanigans.
Don't package them isn't a solution. It's sticking your head in the sand.

Again and again in the Ruby world I see the "it works for us web developers on the x number of hosts we run". The people who use Ruby for stand-alone applications across multiple hosts are largely ignored.

I'd love to see more Ruby out there - ignoring the needs of people other than developers guarantees that'll never happen. Big shops and sys admins who run non-web applications (and even those who run Ruby/Rails web applications and find the RubyGems/Passenger/Rails/Ruby/etc/etc intra/inter version interoperability failures baffling) will look at it as a manual, difficult to package solution and find other tools written in other languages.

That'll be a real shame.
Thanks for asking your wife :). I'll keep that in mind next June because 2010 was our first "profitable" year.

We have a tax-exempt purpose— it's charitable. We're actually raising money to build computers for remote villages in North India and donating the rest to a blind school. The iPhone app is just a means of fundraising.
I wouldn't argue that just because current algos aren't throwing flags, the sites must be fine. We read TechCrunch and HN, hear the complaints, and see searches that we want to be better.

The challenge (in my mind, at least) is how to improve the algorithms more and when it's appropriate to say "This is low enough quality that it's actually spam, and thus we're willing to look at manual action." On the bright side, we've actually got a potential algorithm idea that we're exploring now.
Perhaps, but for me, it's absolutely about usability. Whenever I see new Android phones or builds, the first thing I try out is how responsive the scrolling or zooming is. Often times, I'm waiting for Android to respond to my touch, other times my touches are missed completely. These issues cause unpredictability for me and make the phone harder to use.

As phones got faster, the situation improved, until a larger screen was added, which brought things back down again as the CPU burns to keep up. The milliseconds latency here and the stuttering FPS there decreases the usability significantly in my opinion.

I think that there is a group of users who don't notice these latency and animation issues. But I do, and I think many users still unconsciously attribute their dislike for Android to these issues. (example: my brother in law, used several Android Froyo phones extensively before settling on a BlackBerry because it felt "faster".)
The tagline (tag-paragraph?) is a little opaque:

A simple way to build web applications with embedded server side JavaScript. In a few minutes you can build dynamic backend logic in to any page (html, css, etc) using node.js, jQuery and server side DOM with php-like embedded code.

Having read through the rest of the page, I'd rewrite it like this:

A way to embed server-side JavaScript into HTML and CSS files. JSPP uses PHP-like template tags and gives you access to jQuery and node.js modules.
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IREX seems to have been the first. Borders would be a casualty of the ebook war perhaps, but not the E-reader war.

http://www.irextechnologies.com/