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Love it. Makes my furniture cheaper.

The only thing unethical about it is that these tax avoidance schemes have inherit economies of scale - startups can't afford the advice.

The solution is not to eliminate the tax paradises (which would cause a revolution btw), but to eliminate the tax code altogether.

If your ideology insists on coercion than at least make it a flat rate.

Edit: I get accused of supporting corporatism below. I don't. I just support anyone to avoid taxes as much as possible and oppose all forms of collectivism.
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Just needed Fred Astair dancing around with a vacuum cleaner.

...Apple fans don't even realize how damn tasteless they are. Not a clue.
I'd be willing to do the identical tutorial for SproutCore, if the author will allow his page to be copied and edited.

(I didn't see a license anywhere allowing that.)
Have you tried Amazon affiliate links? If you're willing to put in some manual effort in selecting books, you could put a "further reading" type link at the bottom of articles that'd actually be relevant.

One thing I like about that approach is that in addition to the money, I get to promote books that I actually think people should read, which I consider a non-monetary benefit of having a site with some traffic. Unfortunately the two benefits aren't in perfect harmony, since snake-oil is often the easiest to sell--- you may want to link people to a serious medical book, but your most profitable approach may be to link fad-dieting books. I suppose the right balance depends on how much you value the money v. soapbox aspects of having readers.
In most cases, it will dramatically increase the load on your server, especially if you use a ReST API like the author suggests.

UPDATE: To clarify, in the specific situation the author describes (exactly one model class, no relationships, basically the simplest "schema" one could create), the load will go down slightly. For real, interactive single-page apps (the kind backbone.js is targeting), the load will go up because apps requests data often, way faster than your current app which is limited by page refresh time.
iPhone tethering anyone? Integrated 3G would be redundant.
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You are describing peering arrangements between ISPs quite well. The ISP that is sending the traffic will "hot potato" the packets to the closest peering port, so the ISP receiving the traffic is responsible for backhauling it. This is why there is a convention of charging for traffic sent between tier 1's. If it's a wash, then it's a wash. Otherwise, whoever sends more pays more.

However, this is not how peering arrangements look between a CDN and an ISP. In that case, the CDN is responsible for the backbone traversal, because the CDN is proxying requests or delivering them from cache, at the local peering point relative to the consumer.

In your example, if you are in boston accessing content with an origin in california, your ISP will receive the data in boston, and will not have to backhaul the traffic from california. The CDN will take care of that.
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You want Backbone as part of your Rails app to clean up your Javascript and make it easier to do hard things…it’s meant for apps that let the user do significant client-side state manipulation.

The alternative to “5 components instead of 3” isn’t “just 3”. It’s “3 well-understood components on the server, and a bunch of jQuery/prototype spaghetti on the client that I really wish was better-organized and easier to extend.” If this describes your app, you might do well to look at Backbone.
Intuitive Configuration for 4+ OS X Spaces
Any plans for some kind of barcodes-on-nametags feature that could be called "scanyrd"? ;)
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You are correct. I'm sorry, for some reason I honestly thought our host (and the author of "How to Disagree") had taken a stand against such downvotes, but after doing my homework I'm somewhat dismayed to see he's fine with it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
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Second news highlight on linked page:

>New York City and Microsoft Partner to Modernize City's IT Infrastructure -
Mayor Bloomberg and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announce first of its kind partnership to keep New York City at the cutting edge of technological innovation while saving taxpayer dollars.

Long term licensing of proprietary software somehow does not seem like the best way to save tax payer dollars. I wonder how many thousands of IT departments and millions of computers exist across federal, state, and local levels? It seems likely that either the Department of Energy, NSA, or DoD already maintains their own Linux or BSD distribution that could be used to run open office on every government computer in the country for free. Even if you are a Windows fan, it seems hard to justify spending tax dollars on that many licenses for government use.
Wikipedia Ponders Its Gender-Skewed Contributions
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Apparently, they've retired the old one.

Here's a link to the new free bookmarklet: https://www.readability.com/bookmarklets/
>And, even looking past that, I for one trust monopolistic telecoms such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon to innovate faster and get better internet into the hands of consumers than the US Government.

This is why we can't have nice things, right here. This is why the internet as we know it is doomed. There has been over the past 50 years a real push where we assume that private industry can solve anything. And now here is an example of someone who would actually go so far as to "trust" an industrial monopoly to continue to act in a competitive fashion. Why would it do that? That's not what monopolies do. They are uncompetitive.

No system is perfect, capitalism included. I know the libertarian brigade around here can have trouble sometimes wrapping their brains around this, but capitalism actually has structural flaws that need to be mitigated. The best way to do that we know of so far is by regulation enforced by a democratically elected government. This is a really simple concept and one that anyone 75 years ago would have intuitively understood. I blame public schooling.

Christ, you would think at least a cursory glance at the history of cable television in the US would convince anyone not to "trust" a monopoly in the communications space, but you can't even count on that. Goodbye, internet.
I would wait no more than 48 hours. Closely re-examine your pitch and headline, etc. How can you improve it, before your next step.

ASK:
What is different about you're doing? What is the "hook" in the story you are proposing? Is there something different about your founding team? You might also survey the news over that period of time. If there was a big story then naturally, your story got buried. That's a good reason to try again. If it was a slow news day and you still got passed, it will be a hard second sell. Definitely try the other outlets - and I'm not just talking about the blog media. Self-publish. Publish here on news.yc or anywhere. Don't be discouraged. It adds all up, somehow. The lazy way to do PR is to think that TechCrunch -- and you’re done.

You must be very proactive and very aggressive. But most of all - you must be adding value with your news. Why should people be interested in this “news?” If you can’t answer that, then think again or try again when the product is ready for that.

One trend that I have seen a lot of success with - having a well thought out supplementary content. Videos are great. How about an infographic or slideshow? Sometimes that’s better than a video. These things are more work and resources, but the supplementary content is usually welcomed and almost always posted.

Contact me ( through my profile) if you are really stuck. Probably can’t help for a few days, but I feel for you people on these things. I was a reporter and the line of thinking for me is basically instinctive. Happy to help when I can.

My experience:
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Hi, thanks for your reply.
I would like to know if possible, how much would that be / month? I can find the rent, but I have no clue about the bills and any other expenses that might be involved.
Thanks
As i rearrange my new windows almost always, i've mapped the movement to <Win>-1, <Win>-2, etc.
Switch to a Desktop: Alt-F1, Alt-F2, etc.
Expose is really really good. The biggest problem with Spaces is that it doesn't 'play nice' with Expose.

The maximising the Window thing is a tacit acknowledgement that you're not actually using the full potential of your desktop as a multi-application environment. :-P

If you want to bash a Windowing system that truly deserves it, bash the one from Windows! OS X isn't perfect, but Windows is really really bad. Except for Windows 7, which made big improvements (aka copying OS X) and is now merely really bad.
I see a lot of upset and accusations without many facts from either side. Without the pertinent information being clearly presented (read: facts and facts only, no accusations), it seems that we can't make an informed decision on what is really going on.

I'm happy to be corrected, and I am sorry that this has happened to you, but we must realize that there is a huge difference between a scam and a private business transaction that was conducted without proper due diligence that ended in one person feeling cheated.

Which of these two has occurred here is difficult to tell with the facts being presented, and without us playing amateur detective.

As raganwald said, "While anyone who invests money and gets nothing in return has my sympathy, I don't see the relevance of a private business transaction to HN." [1]

I hope this gets sorted out for you, and please correct me if I'm wrong.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163675
Today: There is some concern that Apple will have a hard time recruiting a top-notch CEO who can replace Jobs's presence.
Google Dethrones Nokia As Top Seller Of Smartphones
This is an amazing write-up i read to counteract the piece about google's tax avoidance... I had to find it on another site though, how do you get the link to go around the paywall?
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Ask HN: What to tell in CTO Startup School Berlin
I'm organizing CTO Startup School Berlin for one day.

http://www.amiando.com/CTOSchoolBerlin.html

What would you want to know?
Wow, I'm a Mozy Customer and I didnt received an email about that... Mozy is going to be expensive for me for now on...

Do you know other unlimited backup solutions beside Mozy and Carbonite ( www.carbonite.com) ?
I agree, just create it and start writing. You will discover your angle though feedback as the site grows.
just deployed fat free crm, and tracks on a EC2 micro-instance... no looking back. i just wish django had apps like these.
It's interesting to look at those stock charts. By the end of 2004, Dell had earned back about half the share price that it lost in the dot-com bust, but its share price has never been that high since, and in fact is now about the same as when Michael Dell made this comment.

By contrast, at the end of 2004 Apple's stock had recovered entirely from the dot-com bust, and has now reached almost 10 times the price it peaked at during the dot-com bubble.

Of course, you can make pretty much the same comparison between Apple and most any tech company that was around during the dot-com bubble. Very few have ever recovered for any length of time, and among those who have, IBM seems to be doing best, but they're only about 20% higher than their pre-bust peak.
What you say is a fair point, but the scheme he proposes would make the 2x2 situation so enormously much better that it is criminal that Apple don't implement it immediately.

That, fixing the Expose/Spaces interaction, and fixing the key binding problem (when editing documents I got used to using the shortcut to move around between words, and spaces overloads some of the same shortcuts).

Now that he's pointed out the problem with the vertical versus horizontal movement, I wonder whether a 1x4 set of spaces would work better for me than the 2x2 arrangement, given Apple's appalling default behaviours.
So? Shall I start investing in poorly performing companies with crap leadership and terrible products, then? Are they all going to turn around in a big way after a decade, like Apple?

It's all well and good to point and laugh with the benefit of hindsight. How about taking a look at Apple's position in 1997 and finding any reason to invest at all? That would make an interesting submission.
It drives me nuts when I switch applications with
alt+tab and get jumped to another space.

That's an option you can turn that off in the Expose/Spaces Preferences.
I generally enjoy reading hn but such right wing ideologies make me feel sick in the stomach.

Please take into account when making such statements the US (or whereever you live) is not the world. And just because you got brainwashed after decades of conservative government doesn't mean the rest of the world is. But the rest of the world also participates in this community.
The support for the Muslim brotherhood is overestimated. By the best data we can have they have about a 25% support rate. That is not enough in my view to take over. The situation in Egypt right now and in Iran during their revolution is very different.
I did, I just didn't believe them when they said it wasn't targeting IBM.
It is truly astonishing how much Jobs got right. I'd forgotten about the clone market killing and the Microsoft deal, both of which seemed like suicide at the time, albeit for different reasons.
YMMV. There are two features that I'm missing from the *nix implementations i've seen, which work great in Spaces. One is the ability to find a window across multiple desktops (spaces+exposé ) and the other is the ability to assign a default space for different applications
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Also makes your taxes higher.
Here's a very active Google Docs spreadsheet of @Speak2Tweet translations: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?hl=en&key=tVDU006Wt9...
There is an option in the Expose Preferences that determines whether or not to switch spaces when activating an application.
Ask HN: I dropped out. How do I continue my CompSci education?
I am a second year CS undergrad who is taking an (indefinite) break from school to start a startup. It's a great opportunity, things are looking promising, and I have no regrets about it.

But I don't want to remain stagnant in my knowledge. What are some topics in CS that I can self-learn? What are some great OCW courses/textbooks/resources I can use to continue learning about advanced CS topics?

Here's what I have taken already: Discrete Math, Data Structures and Algorithms, Intro to Computer Architecture, Intro to Artificial Intelligence.
I agree with a lot of the comments listed here. As the visionary, it is important for you to be as close to the market as possible. I've worked in Sales at a startup with an early-stage product addressing an emerging market need. At that stage, it is imperative to have agile and product-minded people "selling" the product (Mark Leslie's The Sales Learning Curve speaks to this and might be a good read for you).

Happy to chat with you more about my experience with this if it would be helpful. Feel free to email me at joel at box dot net
Too little too late.

Try Reddit instead.
I never did understand why anyone paid for internet porn in the last 15 years, given there was such a fecund variety of the free stuff floating around.

Then there was that thing which was prevalent 5-10 years ago where sites would pretend to be legit, but then trick you into clicking a link that would take you to a free porn site. How pointless is that?

The funniest thing though, is when the pron people get preachy about how piracy is bad. Yeah, about that 'moral high ground'? Sorry guys, you kind of conceded that a long time ago.
I want to sell my site and community.
I have a website that's been around since the beginning of 2010, and it's grown to around 1M impressions per month (300k uniques). From adsense alone it generates around $1200 - $1500 per month. We have a iphone and android apps. We're starting to see the beginnings of a community -- users identifying one another, making conversation on the site, asking questions, etc.

For personal reasons, I'm interested in selling the site. My question: what should my lower bound asking price be? I'm sure that with full-time work, the site could generate MUCH more revenue than it currently does. I've read that 2x / 3x annual revenue is the norm -- we haven't even been around for a year, so that's a little difficult to calculate.

Is 100k unreasonable? 50k? 500k? Also, how do I go about beginning this deal? Will someone literally write me a check for the amount, or deposit the money and I hand them over the credentials for the server and the source code?

Any advice or anecdotes would be appreciated.
I suppose the thing to spot was the change in leadership. Oh, and that Jobs wasn't the washed up has-been that everyone (including myself) thought he was. I guess that follows Y Combinator's approach of looking at the team rather than the product / idea.

The other thing would be that Apple always had a devoted following even when their computers were abysmal, which fits with Warren Buffets idea of a big moat.

But yeah, hindsight 100%. At the time I wouldn't have given them a bean either.

To answer your question with a question: What would be the 2011 equivalent? We need a company with big mindshare, doing poorly who just had a change of leadership.
It's replies like this that make me enjoy coming to HN. Bravo.
Hmm interesting to see Arc90 making a bigger move in the space, especially partnered up with Instapaper. I've been curious why they hadn't done much more since the simple readability bookmarklet was so well received.

I wonder if they'll run in to any copyright issues now that they're actually re-serving full article content from their servers and not just reformatting in the user's browser. I've been playing with a service with some server side readability functionality built in and the issue came us as a concern in my planning. Even with full attribution and considerate seo practices, it seems possible some publishers may take exception to full reproduction. There are existing services like viewtext.org that would be infringing by the same standards, but I assume it'll take fairly major notoriety or traffic to attract the ire of the papers. Or is this clear cut fair use?
I am different. I use readability bookmarklet almost everywhere, in order to read in the unified clean design, but with the two exception: I read some blogs in Google reader, and I send some articles to Instapaper and read them in my phone. But I almost always get rid of the original webpage design, even if it is easily readable. I just got used to the "pure text with the same font" approach.
when i read your intro paragraph all i thought was "like what the world need is more quick and shallow interviews"... but reading your site there are pretty good tips and vision.

you may focus that tagline in the time not wasted instead of the short interview time.
While Amazon still has no native IPv6 you can at least use 6to4 for now to evaluate/test, see my guide and script at: http://binarymentalist.com/post/2984855918/try-ipv6-on-amazo...
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I really wish Spaces would integrate with Cmd-Tab. Everytime I use Spaces, the only thing that bugs me is Cmd-Tab. If I'm on space 1, and I press Cmd-Tab, it shows all the open applications, which really doesn't make any sense (at least to me). If I'm on a particular space, I usually want to switch only between applications that are open in that particular space.

Does anyone know of any alternative to this?
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Hadn't heard of this. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2151768
Shame on those who upvoted the original linkbait story. When will these sorts of sensational headlines stop?
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What assumptions are you relying on when you assert that more work on the site = more revenue?
http://sixy.ch/ has a nice public database of V6 ready sites and a tool to check/add
The compiler one is pretty neat. Hung IntelliJ. Didn't hang VS.NET. Had both open, had to try.
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Which is why we need a return to separation between retail and investment operations; a retail bank with a significant proportion of the market going bankrupt causes enormous problems for everyday customers who really aren't well placed to hedge angainst and cope with that risk.
This is exciting! Not necessarily because Oracle is the best choice if you're an AWS customer but because it's and indication that Amazon is planning on supporting even more databases. Let's hope for PostgreSQL-support any time soon!

I think the main reason Amazon chose Oracle over databases like PostgreSQL is that it also makes it easier for a lot of people to convince their boss to move to AWS.
> Fans don’t understand that if they don’t pay for porn, we can’t make a living. They’ll have to watch crazy European porn.

I am speechless. Maybe they could ask for government subsidies like the agriculture business does? :-D
How about a progressive consumption tax replacing the income tax to encourage savings? It might be impossible to implement... for now.
Makes your furniture cheaper... and your taxes higher.

Helps big companies and the politically-connected... hurts upstarts and people who focus on business not politicking.

Makes people angry at tax distortions, not taxes themselves.

So this sort of gaming doesn't advance your hopes at all.

You'll have better luck with fair, broadly-based taxes, and structural protections against constant tinkering with both the progressivity and exceptions. Then we could have a rational discussion about the overall level of taxation, or possible replacements for taxation, without the distracting class-warfare and favor-trading sideshows that dominate tax policy in conventional shallow politics.
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> It is very explicitly and obviously against their terms of service if you run a whois from a cli.

You're absolutely right, but I've yet to meet a spammer who cared about anybody's ToS and I know for a fact that they only put that up there after a bunch of spammers abused the heck out of the service.
I'm wondering if the part about Apple not letting customers have access to media that was purchased outside the App Store (e.g. Kindle books) is just an off-the-cuff remark made by some Sony executive who was mad about Apple not letting them do their own in-app purchases. Seems odd, considering Amazon has been doing it this whole time with seemingly no protest from Apple.
I think the reason behind this is struggle. The original killed cars as soon as they started struggling (the load hits the ground). The latest allows you to watch bad implementations struggle to traverse the landscape.

That's all. There's probably a deep lesson in there somewhere.
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