skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on what you did, its pretty obvious that you did not consult a lawyer, because what you did is illegal under US tax law.

Nonprofits are required to meet specific requirements to get tax-exempt treatment before engaging in income-generating activity. 501(c)(3) status is not granted automatically (IOW, it is not granted "statutorily"). It is a legal status specifically granted by the IRS after a review.

Income raised prior to receiving the exemption is almost always treated as income earned through non-exempt (i.e., for-profit) activities. There are exceptions, of course, but you need to consult a tax lawyer (specializing in non-profit/charitable tax law) to figure out if you qualify for those exceptions. There are very important reasons behind this (including, but not limited to, the deductibility of transactions).

State tax law may be more permissive, but that only affects your state tax status. Federal tax law governs your federal tax status. It may be possible to be a non-profit for state taxation but a for-profit for federal taxation.

Also, to address inaccuracies in your blog post:
1) There are no age restrictions in any state on incorporation. However, few businesses will enter into contracts with minors unless their parents guarantee the contracts because minors have very special rights under American contract law.

2) There is no need to incorporate a solo operation. Incorporation is intended to simplify accounting for collaborative efforts. Individuals can simply register a DBA (if they're making up a "company" name"). In your case, incorporating is proper: you claim to be founding a charitable organization, so incorporation is a necessary step to receiving tax-exempt status.

3) It's humorous to see that you believe that a non-profit only needs to file 2 forms, online, once a year. Those two forms are just the start. There's a lot more paperwork involved.

You need to consult a lawyer, immediately, because you may receive a call from the IRS in the near future.
The Unreal Engine is looking very impressive on iOS (Infinity Blade is amazing). Many developers are experienced with the Unreal Engine's API, which is at a pretty important level - perhaps more so than the rest of the stack.
"if you wanted to piss the SEC off and get into trouble."

How many officials in the current administration are former Goldman Sachs employees? Do you think that affects the likelihood of them getting into trouble?
Nope, 13", 2.4 GHz.

Like so:

[[ Model Name:	MacBook
Model Identifier:	MacBook5,1
Processor Name:	Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:	2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors:	1
Total Number Of Cores:	2
L2 Cache:	3 MB
Memory:	8 GB
Bus Speed:	1.07 GHz ]]
"Feel free to point me to a list of high quality in XNA produced titles."

If you want to develop a game on WP7, you HAVE to use XNA. All games in the WP7 app store had to be built with it.

Also, WP7 has no C++ support. John Carmack griped about this on Twitter.
mapM_ print [1..1000]

Yay Haskell.

(Original question is for C/C++, so obviously this is a bogus answer.)
Your resume on the portfolio site also mentions PHP - any interest in side work like that?
Sure, it's similar to thdconcepts propounded in 37 Signals' 'Get Real' manifesto, right?
fixed! thanks for the bug report!
Hollywood finishes dismal box-office year
"Other search engines decide to eschew Ads for accuracy and cut down the spamming, to gain market share."

This probably only works as long as they are small, i.e. of little importance. With market share comes the spam.

Anyway, I don't think google is that bad. At least, I don't find google any less useful than other general purpose, non-specialized search engines. I'm more concerned about their use of personal data.
Why do I feel like I just got rick rolled by some trolls back from 1975?
Brings back memories. I've been in a similar (very) small scale limestone cave in Sri Lanka.

The entrance, the great wall, the waterfall and the cactus garden were some very similar to what I see in photos. Unfortunately I couldn't take any good pics with the point and shoot and the flash light I had at the time. Above the cave was a forest with huge trees. There was a stream going through the cave and in rainy season it makes it impossible to go inside the cave, just like in 'Hang Son Doong'.

Sorry for the useless rant. I was too excited :)

Some not so detailed pics of Wawulpana I found in the Internet. http://pics.kathe13.de/thumbnails.php?album=40

And some more information http://www.srilankanwaterfalls.net/waterfalls/wawulpana.htm
The safari problem is now fixed.

Yes, jQuery Mobile was used. It was wonderful. Still has some rough edges though.
The last official comment on anything related to this was a vague mention that resources had been taken away from the search quality team to work on other projects, but that they would be refocusing on search quality in the near future. Not sure if there has been much else in the way of official comment since then, but I can't imagine that they would let the cries (warranted or not) go unanswered for much longer.
Ask HN: Would you frequent a HN for lifehacks?
The idea: A HN for lifehacks: fitness, productivity, nutrition, Zen Habits- and Tim Ferriss-type material. Would you frequent it?
Possibly. I have exp with Zend but not much in the last 2 years. Send me an email (see profile) with your thoughts/projects etc.
I'm curious, why would a company "need to settle" at a certain P/E ratio?
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Ah, yes. The magic of dollar printing. It's a shame it will all come to an end soon.
This is absolutely gorgeous. You've gotta come work more closely w/ the team so we can keep this tightly integrated w/ the direction of the whole site. Shoot me an email at ben@khanacademy.org
I agree with your arguments when the purpose of a mockup (Photoshop or otherwise) is for visual concept / art direction / client presentation.

But when you move past that stage, and begin to integrate HTML/CSS with server code, things get messy real quick, and that's the problem I think this article is proposing to solve.

I think the terminology may be confusing. For example, in the vernacular I'm familiar with, "mockups" are in Photoshop, "templates" are static HTML, and "views" run on the server. And even so, I find these terms are often used interchangeably.
This vending machine with its 47-inch touchscreen will blow you away
puts "numbers from 1 to 1000 without using any loop or conditional statements. Don't just write the printf() or cout statement 1000 times."
Your email is lacking from your profile, as well as no contact info on the featlabs site and you need to be registered for the portfolio site to see contact info. Perhaps you could add it to your profile or website to make it a little easier :)
Several from every shipment. Who knowshowmany is enough. They'll mix different qualities, too, however much they think they can get away with. Ofcourse, there are reputable companies. It's just a lot of work to find them.
"If a copyright holder doesn't effectively exist like in this scenario"

I was surmising a scenario where one did not exist to point out an issue with the parent post. Of course this situation would almost never occur in reality.
<html>
<body>
<div class="test1">
<pre>
<?jspp
dicks = require("dicks").dicksSync(10)
$(this).html( dicks.join("\n") )
end()
?>
</pre>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Perhaps you make an interesting point regardless, but your analysis of Descartes' famous assertion is flawed.

"Cogito ergo sum" was formulated to provide a foundational axiom in skeptical philosophy - the act of doubting one's own existence proves that one must exist in some capacity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito_ergo_sum
so, then, does the majority of your income come from consulting?
You're mistaken. You're a fucking Zend master. Now pitch the guy.
I think you're right about the concept of sharing energy with gut microbes. I calculate that a 160 pound man would lose about 250 calories to gut microbes each day if he were consuming sufficient protein, fat, and minerals to sustain efficient gut microbe multiplication activity. A diet poor in supportive nutrition would curtail gut microbe activity resulting in more efficient energy absorption into the bloodstream. That is, a higher proportion of the energy consumed would be available for metabolic needs and fat storage. In my own experience, if I consume extra calories, I just have more bowel movements and don't gain any weight unless the extra calories are carbohydrate.
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Hey sorry. Try this: thoughtcoup@gmail.com
How did DHH become an authority on company valuations?
Are Facebook's users worth $100 each to the company - all 500m of them? Really?
That's really not the point. It's not that execution will guarantee success. It's that execution is the differentiating factor (apart from luck) regarding various companies attempting the same idea. Neither Facebook, Twitter, or Groupon (can't really tell about AirBNB) where innovators on the ideas per se. Social networks for college students, message streams, and online deals/discounts, where by no means new innovative ideas. Their execution set them apart and with a bit a of luck and good timing they made it big.

It's not that ideas don't matter. It's that 'new' ideas are almost always not new and have been done to death. What the idea is has never been a point being refuted by most people, what's being refuted is that the idea is what makes the difference. Lot's of people had the idea of online restaurant reservations, but that doesn't mean that everyone that brings that idea to fruition we'll be successful. It's a matter of execution that will increase any possibility of actually making it.
I dont get it? I am missing something?
He says that his latest creation with "minimal" architecture hasn't shipped yet either, so this is all hot air.
Agreed, it's limbo really. Those who choose to 'pirate' 'abandonwares' assume the risk (however large or small) of being hit with a lawsuit. Though, I think that quantifying damages of a non-distributed copy written work might not be very easy in court, but lawyers are a crafty bunch. It seems like there's a trend to remarket old copywritten material where there's a market for it, especially with new cheap distribution models you see like with Steam or Amazon's Ebook store, for example. This could work to reduce the number of abandoned works and push them back into availability to the general public.
Total red herring. Sure, I've read some of his articles in the past, and I even skimmed this one to make sure I wasn't wrong, but that doesn't change a thing about the substance of them.
Interesting. Does anyone know how many options a newbie engineer gets at Facebook?

at $50B, 0.1% of the company == $50M and 0.01% = $5M not a bad payout vesting over four years, when the stock is probably going to go up... no wonder Google is having trouble keeping talent!

EDIT: This might shed more light: http://www.quora.com/Is-this-a-good-offer-for-working-at-Fac... (that says 125k options)
where is your contact info ? or message me
Can someone explain how fb is worth 50B? I.e. how much revenue are they making/projected to make, and how was this number arrived at?
Although I agree that calling it 7 was a good idea, the previous version was 6.x, so it isn't a ground breaking name.
Only tangentially related to the article, but please use a more screen-friendly font than Helvetica Neue Light for bodies of smaller-point text. It was a bit painful to read.
ARPANET had already existed for several years. The concept of networking predates 1975 by quite a bit. Though the definition of the word "online" may have evolved over time, it is entirely plausible that its use in this context is consistent with today's meaning.
OP can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe he just wants you to market yourself a little. :)
Dramatic imagery, but check out this for a counterpoint [1]:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/oct/20/dirtbo...

Watch enough of the video to see the mention of the photos of the "abandoned" high-school ... as the camera pans over towards the brand-new high-school next-door.

[1] Found via:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2059208
How did ThreeWords.me acquire initial users and grow so rapidly?
"Almost everybody has a phone" (from prisoner in article)

If that is true, then the guards are participating either actively in giving over the phones or passively by ignoring the phones.

There are handguns as small as a cellphone and you don't see "everyone has a handgun" in prison. So work that one backwards.

Guards must think there is no harm so they ignore, or they are paid off somehow.

Fire all the guards, get new guards or switch them from another prison to get rid of their payoff familiars.
Sorry, emailed a different one you had up momentarily before you changed it to this one on your profile ;) Will resend to this one for consistency sake.
> About me: Experienced Rubyist

Time to show off that side project, buddy! Seriously, contributing to well-known open source projects or releasing your own projects/research that shows off your knowledge is a great way to demonstrate your skill and get a great job. How can we hire you without seeing your portfolio?
I bet Google and Apple employees that were fired for leaking information could put a price on ideas.
My favorite uses a divide by zero to terminate an otherwise infinite recursion.
I make my living off of copyright.

But I think the term should be 28 years, and it could be extended by the copyright holder for a few additional years at a fee of $5,000/year.
As a writing technique, saying "someone should do steps 1, 2, 3 to do a proper X, but X is crap compared to Y" tends to cast doubts on your advice on X. It's one of those off hand remarks that tend to get stuck in the craw of the person reading it who likes X.
The result, IIRC, is that all of QIP can be done in three rounds, whereas if the same held in the classical world the polynomial hierarchy would collapse (which is considered about as likely as P=NP). Not of practical value, but it does point out that QIP is a slightly different beast than IP when you include the number of rounds.
Added contact info to my HN bio - email me @ gin4lyfe at gmail.com
A humble suggestion for Chrome's crashed tab UI
I don't think I'm leaking any IP when I say that, if the stock grant were that generous, you probably would have heard about it.

edit: speaking, of course, of a newbie who was hired very recently with the 10 digit valuation in mind
puts("10111000");

They are all in there, you just have to look a little.
I like the term "Mockup-Driven Development". This is a problem I've been thinking about for quite some time, and I think the author describes it well. There's clearly room for progress in the integration between client-side HTML/CSS designers and server-side programmers.

I've found two things help integration greatly: "Super Templates" and "Logic-less Templates".

Super Templates: e.g.: building a single page template for the entire site

This a technique I learned from Nicole Sullivan's "Object-Oriented CSS" https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/wiki/FAQ (see the section: "Why have a single template?"). A colleague of mine has nicknamed them "super templates".

Building everything in a single template provides essentially an "integration test" for your HTML components. CSS conflicts are made visually obvious.

Most likely, you would build each HTML component in isolation, and stitch them together into such a "super template" via {{< include}} or similar. To avoid CPU overload, you toggle on/off HTML/CSS as needed for a given test.

Logic-less Templates: e.g.: {{mustache}}

http://mustache.github.com/

Mustache templates are language-agnostic. You only have to build them once, and you can use them everywhere.

Mustache views provides a Mustache template with content. So within one app you might use the same Mustache template server-side (with a Ruby view), and client-side (with a JavaScript view).

Because of this flexibility, the Programmer and Web Designer can use the same mustache templates, using a view appropriate view for their needs (either the real view or a "stub").

The Web Designer would use a "stub" view. It has fake data structures, dummy lorem ipsum. Just enough to build a template.

The methods of this "stub" define an interface which can later be implemented in the real view, at the Programmer's convenience.

This results in the same "Mockup-Driven Workflow" the author describes, with no additional libraries required. The Web Designer works (in the browser) on the templates, using JavaScript view stubs. The Programmer uses the SAME templates, coupled with his server-side views, in the actual application.
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Yes. When you are financially hard up, you should say "I know XYZ well". If a project using XYZ materializes, you brew a huge pot of coffee, and spend the next 24 hours internalizing everything you can find on the web (and in the bookstore, if you are so inclined) using XYZ.

If your immediate inclination is to think that this is lying or misleading, hear me out - it's not so cut and dry. In a conversation, you don't know what kind of experience level the other party considers "well" vs. "not so well"
- e.g. some people think that "wrote my own gem" in Rails mean expert, whereas others would be more skeptical and say that there really are very few experts out there, and someone on Rails core team qualifies, but that's about it.

So, in your situation, especially if you are hard up for cash, why not bet your skills more?
Then what does "bolder" mean?
This is still my favorite mainframe commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJeu3LCo-6A

Be sure to watch them all if you've never seen them before (2 minute mark).
Really? I have had enormous troubles with using the web interface for gmail. I have receive "Trouble receiving that message..." almost weekly and now I know not to depend the availability of my emails if they are more than a year old. The worst part is that I am a student, and I barely get more than 10 emails a day. Imagine how traumatized a busy working individual would be.
I think the most interesting part is after the initial "this is dumb" and "don't work there" answers, it actually turned out to be a pretty interesting question.
Scripting User Commands in Bash
Use CssUserAgent and be done with it.
That's a creative solution. Too bad it only works for IE.
Have you seen these hiring threads?

Remote gigs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057799

This has some remote: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057704
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According to Rufus Pollock of Cambridge University, the optimal copyright length is 14 years.

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/07/research-optimal-...

http://www.rufuspollock.org/economics/papers/optimal_copyrig...
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Thanks for the heads up. You're probably right that filling out 2 forms is humorous, but it is the bare minimum and I did get away with it for the 2009 tax year (which we had no activity because we incorporated late in the year). I'm eventually going to have to file the W-9 with Apple and some other forms if I plan on sending money abroad.

After I was done incorporating and everything was ready, I did consult an accountant and he did say there might be some issues down the road, but only if I was planning on taking money out of the country (which I kind of am). I also did have to make a phone call to one of the IRSs numbers to have them add the organization to the list of tax-exempt organizations, so I could file my 990N online. They did make me verify that my gross receipts were less than $5,000/year.

Regarding age restrictions: In New Jersey and a lot of other states, the law specifically states that you need to be 18 years or older to incorporate and/or be a board member of the organization. This isn't true in some other states, depending how lenient their laws are. I ended up incorporating in Rhode Island, because they didn't have any age restriction and you are automatically tax exempt at the state level if you are at the federal level.

Thanks for the advice. I'll probably contact you or someone else if I do have any issues.
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What are the products that failed, not because they weren't popular or solved problems, but because they had a poor architecture or codebase?

I can think of a couple.

Friendster, as evgen points out. Probably MySpace. Zaplets, although it wasn't really their own code but rather Microsoft's. Quattro Pro for Windows. OpenOffice, although it's still struggling along. Netscape 5. Flash (you're wrong about the reason for the backlash --- the iPhone, iPad, and Kindle are just as proprietary.) Guile. mSQL. Arguably, F-83. WordStar 2000. Most likely, the entire pile of search engines trounced by Google in its first five years: Inktomi, AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, and so on. The GEM desktop, according to Steve Yegge. CERN httpd. Duke Nukem Forever. The GNU Hurd. INFORMIX-Online, probably, although again it's hard to tell from outside the company. Windows ME, in that it was the end of the Windows 95 codebase and was replaced by a better-architected codebase in the form of XP. Windows Vista, in that it shipped very late, missing most of the promised features, and was so sluggish that many people paid a premium to use XP instead. VisiCalc for MS-DOS. Anything written in BLISS-10, after the demise of the PDP-10. Almost anything written in 360 or 370 assembler when the mainframes got replaced. troff, which had to be rewritten as ditroff because nobody could maintain Ossanna's code after he died, although it's a peculiar sort of "failure" since it's still in use today. mod_svn (everybody uses svnserve now, right?) Zillions of Perl shopping cart scripts from the 1990s. Perl 6, probably.

There's an interesting distinction hiding here.

If you're putting together a web site where you're going to write articles about your local community and sell ads, you probably aren't going to be competing on the agility of your code. You're going to be competing on the quality of your writing (with a funny metric of "quality" where your optimum is cracked.com or eHow, not Faulkner or Hunter S. Thompson, but meh.) There's very little reason to take technology risks. You should install WordPress. If you do take technology risks, you're probably wanking but you're unlikely to make your product fail.

There are hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of products like this. Hacker News and Metafilter compete on the quality of their communities, not their codebase. Enterprise software competes on the skills of its salespeople, not whether or not the code actually works, let alone whether it's better than the competition.

On the other hand, if your code quality is actually what you're competing on --- if your users will pick your site instead of the competition's because you have better spam control, or faster page loads, or more richly linked data about Little League games, or a more usable user interface, or richer graphics --- then you're going to have to take technology risks. If you just use off-the-shelf code, your product will be easily surpassed by the competition. You have to take risks by trying some new things, and if your risks don't pan out, your product will fail.
Google's weakness is in no way related to UX ... their algorithms have been gamed for a while now, and it shows in the crappy results they return.

The problem Google has is that eliminating the spam is both technically challenging and detrimental to their bottom line: after all, most spam in Google's index is serving Google's Ads.
Kind of in the same boat right now, sans wife/kids, due to a non-paying client. If I had cash to pay you right now I totally would, since I have a small backlog of other client work. I see that you've worked on some pretty cool sites though (alice.com, etc), so I will pass your info along :)