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First, there is no federal incorporation in the USA, incorporation is handled at the state level.

Second, you can go to service providers such as legalzoom.com and incorporate for as little as $100 to $300 (plus state filing fees). Lawyers will cost more but should be under $1000.

State filling fees range from $50 to $400, with most in the $100 to $200 range. Here's a list: http://www.incorporatefast.com/filingfee.asp

All that said, IMO, the one-time cost of incorporating should not be a major factor in which state you decide to incorporate in. Moreover, remember that incorporating in another state does not mean anything wrt taxes or franchise fees. And you may even have to pay a foreign corporation fee (foreign state, not foreign country).
I've read Apple's release a couple of times.

I think someone should directly ask them what their policy is on SaaS subscriptions, because you could easily make a case either way from the press release.

But I agree with the article, if Apple's intent is to get into the SaaS revenue stream, it's a major issue. I have clients who have been considering moving to platforms that include mobile apps on iOS devices, and that 30% Apple iTunes cut will get passed right on to them. Not to mention the hassle of having to create and manage purchases for individual iTunes accounts for each device.

HP has a great opportunity here to loudly announce that they are going to be SaaS friendly, and I think this could be the turning point on iOS's market share.
Not on this scale.
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The (sunsetting portions of the) PATRIOT Act were not just extended. The bill cleared the House, but hasn't yet gone through the Senate.

There's still time to call your Senator and see if he gives a damn.
Exactly. Also GPL style licenses are a virus that while they promote freedom, in reality they take it away. It assumes that people are naturally untrustworthy and thus forces them to act in a way the creators of GPL see as the right way. Because of how the GPL licenses are worded, especially insane versions like the AGPL, everything they touch may be affected negatively. MIT and BSD style licenses on the other hand assume the best in people, and gives them the real freedom to do with code whatever they want.
so does this keep a check on one' heart rate and send out an SOS email to Doc/911 if one is dying/drowning/ suffering from a heart attack?
I think its actually pretty clear, given the geography, that Mordor is Germany. Depictions of Germans in WWI propaganda posters are very similar to how orcs are described.
Today I was trying to find some resources(sites, books, etc) in order to keep up to date with some programming languages. One of them was C and I found the following site:

http://www.di-mgt.com.au/cprog.html

Just to mention that the last update of this page was on 1 January 2010.
I agree.. come for the trivia.. stay for the search index after the top 3 trivia listings.
Technically, they state you must have the same or better offer. Better isn't the same as cheaper, it can mean more expensive with more features, so an "premium iOS offer with added features" for 30% more could be justified :P
I don't really understand how come, in the lawsuit-happy US, there isn't a class action lawsuit in place already to sue the government for the damage caused by this sort of error.
> You are clearly forgetting where the web in general is going to.

No, I just take the view that the current trend of trying to treat a browser as an operating system is not going to last.

I think the web in the future will move back towards being a medium for presentation of information and some limited interaction, and things like native mobile apps and their app stores or Linux distros and their auto-installer tools will increasingly deal with what is sometimes done with "web apps" today. I think the important web technologies for the future will mostly be those that make it easier to present useful information, for example through more powerful presentation tools or providing useful context to web services so they can provide a more personal experience.
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Command language: Look at chapter 3 of the s48 guide at http://s48.org/1.8/manual/manual-Z-H-4.html#node_chap_3

Scsh: There was a whole lot of noise and some code about supporting Scsh on Guile early last decade, as there was for PLT Scheme, but both seem to have run out of steam. I think that replicating Scsh is harder than it looked at first.

I'm really pleased to see the work on the command language and bytecode interpreter. Scsh is something I've built a few times, but never got into. First the sounds of progress on the Emacs/guile front and now this look positive: it's a good time to take another look at Guile.
It wasn't the foreign suppliers that were the problem - Mitsubishi delivered the wings on time.
It's was the excessive outsourcing to layers and layers of subcontractors without enough oversight.
So a one mall plating shop in Albuquerque goes out of business and a critical path component is missing.

This is fairly common in defense, highly specialized components are subbed out to small shops - there are lots around LA - the problem here was that there was so many layers of sub-sub-sub contractors all being bidded out to the cheapest supplier nobody had any idea who was making what. That works for Walmart - it doesn't work for Boeing.

How they thought they were going to ensure40years supply of spare parts is anybodies guess
Over the last ten+ years we have built a registration system very similar to cevent. Cevent got 50 million in funding and well it's just hard to compete with that. We plan on open sourcing the majority of the system soon(we started testing the installer yesterday - failed badly on godaddy). What I picked up from this article was that you had 'buzz' any ideas on how I can create buzz for this project?
Please stop trivializing rape like this. It's not funny, it's not cool, and it's highly insensitive.
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This isn't twitter you know!
Apple is notorious for ripping businesses built on their platforms out from under the people that created them. It has happened with OS X by them taking a popular 3rd party utility/app and integrating the idea/look/feel directly with no attribution. It has happened with iOS, and now it is just coming to a point where Apple is flat out saying that if you make money on our platform, regardless if the value is outside of iOS, we want a cut if you want to be on it at all.
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Well, at the moment, it appears their site is suffering from a DDOS. It's unreachable for me.
Thanks andymoe - I took your advice immediately. I've posted a more complete response above in the thread.
You're probably just trolling, but it needs to be said every time: The freedom that the GPL takes away is the freedom to bring down the system. It keeps people in check and prevents corruption. If you enjoy the freedoms of MIT and BSD style licenses - why do you complain about the GPL? It seems that it only takes "freedoms" away that you don't appear to be interested in anyways?
Red herring. Vendor prefixes are part of the standards process.

Once the standard is finalized, you simply drop -moz and you're done. This is nowhere near the same league as IE CSS/JS fixes.
This is part of it. Its also part of the reason why Airbus/EADS quite successfully builds bits of aircraft all over Europe (and even proposed expansions of operations in Alabama as part of their bid for USAF tankers)

Also, it may surprise the article author to learn that there are outside specialists who have capabilities that Boeing couldn't effortlessly replicate in Seattle. Italy and Sweden certainly don't have low labour costs and they don't have much of a domestic market for long range airliners either.

Ultimately Boeing's logistical cockups have more to do with the overall ambition and complexity of the project than cost cutting.
Yes, I'm aware of sovereign immunity, but the government has waived it for certain circumstances through the Federal Tort Claims Act. Since I'm not a lawyer, I'm nowhere near qualified to say whether or not this would be included in that exception, but it seems plausible to me that it might be. The act of the government seems to be non-intentional (I can't read the article due to a corp firewall, but it says "By Mistake" in the title) and it was committed by a person acting on behalf of the USG.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Tort_Claims_Act
The book Bridge to Terabithia (of which a 2007 film was adapted) was at number 8 on the ALA's list of frequently challenged books because:

"The censorship attempts stem from death being a part of the plot; Jess' frequent use of the word "lord" outside of prayer; concerns that the book promotes secular humanism, New Age religion, occultism, and Satanism; and for use of offensive language."

Maybe it's better we don't have a similar process.
big discussion about this yesterday.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221579
Exactly. But how can one oppose new methods of the closed, proprietary system that generates revenue, when the open alternative doesn't?
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Good riddance. I am tired of GPL software. It claims freedom but restricts the right of developers to choose license terms for their own software. Further, it sucks in code licensed under permissive terms but prevents open source projects under the BSD license from doing likewise with GPL code.
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I don't know why, but that cracked me the hell up.
Fun! Wish the Read another clue would stay there so i can keep cruising along, but after 2 it disappears. Reading the comments is useful too. This is like a one big forum and we scroll through threads.
I can't speak for Microsoft, but I tend to refer to Hacker News as Y Combinator News simply to avoid misunderstandings. It's easier to get the name wrong than to explain "No, not that kind of hacker. There's a non-pejorative definition as well...."
I have a great idea: Let's give these people more power!! You know, for like, Net Neutrality and stuff.
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Once they got Watson performing well enough... understatement of the year.
> the real schoolboy error was Aaron Barr using a weak shared password for Google Apps admin.

I've been reading through some of this HBGary stuff, and I have come to the conclusion that Aaron Barr is kinda a dipshit.

Read the email analysis at http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/spy/ and its filled with Aaron Barr "hacking" into people's facebook accounts and then posting pictures of their kids as if he made some awesome discovery.
>"What, for example, is Microsoft really, really good at? Or Facebook?"

Microsoft is really good at B2B.

Facebook has a great email replacement because it does not fill your inbox with your friend's vacation photos, but still provides the opportunity to view them.
HN + Reddit, apparently too much for the server. Maybe it'll respond properly later.

EDIT: I just refreshed and it worked.
or the PATRIOT Act ...
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> consider that Firefox is the only one of the major browsers that does not handle each tab independently, leading to obvious performance and security problems.

Well, here's the reality: having each tab in individual process greatly reduces performance and increases memory consumption. When you open many tabs in Chrome or IE they become as slow as FF with perhaps 5-10 times more tabs.

While performance generally isn't a field where FF does a good job, I think reliability of FF is unmatched by other browsers despite the dirty tricks with tabs. Let's just wait 'till they stop losing the list of tabs that were open in the previous session from time to time, it's the thing that did happen to all of them, but never to FF with Session Manager addon.
You and I may know that but your average voter probably doesn't, and they certainly wouldn't two or three years later when it come back up out of context, in a attack ad.
A more general discussion about performance between C++ and Java can be found below:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/145110/c-performance-vs-j...
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LOL )) This cant be true! I remember that night we went bear hunting in Moscow with Yuri! That was awesome! He was driving our tank and i was shooting my AK47 left and right with bottle of vodka in other hand! There were much more than 3 strippers in that tank (besides a bear that we got that night)

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Is there a Windows version to play around with?
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I don't want my platform to restrict what software I can run, especially not based on license. Is there any mobile platform these days that doesn't try to be your nanny as well?
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I wasn't talking about seeing advertisements or pictures. I mean literally see one. I don't see them in the stores anywhere, and I certainly have never seen one in someone's hands out in the wild.
You people need to watch the Wire - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e40s0RELPCs#t=2m04s :)
Here's an example of a class action suit against the government that led to a settlement: http://www.mainjustice.com/2009/12/08/government-settles-ind...
I think the Microsoft hydra is too large to have any single set of core values anymore. Every project is pulling in a different direction.
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Blah, blah, blah, Java, blah, XML, blah, EJB, over-engineering, blah, blah, blah, web services, blah, blah, java, culture, blah, ejb, blah, transactions, blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada.

I call bullshit on this entire discussion. There are good and bad programmers using all languages and platforms, a bad programmer can write FORTRAN in any language; complex solutions are sometimes called for, and sometimes not; sometimes the "pragmatic" thing to do is to build in flexibility for unanticipated scenarios, sometimes doing so is just over-engineering.

None of this has a damn thing to do with Java (or any other language, library or platform) per-se... it's just hip to bash Java and Java programmers these days. It's what the cool kids are doing, so it must be right, no?

Let's just quit wasting our time on these pointless discussions and worry about building cool shit; whether we're building it in Java, C#, Python, C++, Ruby, Haskell, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Tcl, Perl, Ada, APL, FORTRAN, COBOL, RPG/400, PL/I, Intercal, Brainfuck, Befunge, Whitespace or whatever.
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I had to leave the article to search where the actual building was located because all they gave was, "suburban New York". I'm still not sure where it is.
The only reasons were [1]:

-Tcl is not Lisp.

-At that time Tcl was being developed by an Evil company: Sun Microsystems.

At the time, TCL was being pushed heavily for this purpose. I had a very low opinion of TCL, basically because it wasn't Lisp. It looks a tiny bit like Lisp, but semantically it isn't, and it's not as clean. Then someone showed me an ad where Sun was trying to hire somebody to work on TCL to make it the “de-facto standard extension language” of the world. And I thought, “We've got to stop that from happening.” So we started to make Scheme the standard extensibility language for GNU. Not Common Lisp, because it was too large. The idea was that we would have a Scheme interpreter designed to be linked into applications in the same way TCL was linked into applications. We would then recommend that as the preferred extensibility package for all GNU programs.

[1]http://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html
One would hope because that was juvenile and completely unnecessary.
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I'm from rural Missouri as well, about 3 hours away from St Louis though.
I realize now that my "No." was misplaced, my "No" was the answer to "is 12,000 req/sec normal for a popular website".
When a question appears on the screen, Trebek reads it. A human decides when he's 'done' reading it and pushes a button, which makes a light appear. Contestants aren't allowed to buzz in until they see the light, and are penalized if they buzz in too quickly. Watson is also notified of this metaphorical gunshot to start the race, and won't try to start buzzing in before that.
Have you tried 'either you go or I go'? In reality, he is likely very dependent on you for business operations and knows his limitations.
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If MSG is so bad for you, why doesn't everyone in Asia have a headache?
The press release begins by referring to "publishers of content-based apps", and uses "publishers" throughout. I think it is pretty clear that they are not talking about SaaS.

The article also fails to understand that it is not taking cut of revenue from existing subscribers: only those that sign up through an iOS application.
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Wouldn't this be more accurately described as the choice of the Free Software Foundation, rather than Microsoft? The major feature of GPL3 was to prevent use in these type of "tivoized" applications.

Seems that Microsoft is taking heat for respecting the wishes of the GPL. Talk about a can't win situation.
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GPL ensures freedom.
Also there is a great article by Bruce Perens about why Microsoft is hostile to GPL and why they sponsor non-copyleft open source: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3762786/Br...
Considering he chose Joe Biden as his vice president, you shouldn't be too shocked. I still think he was a better choice than McCain, but his reputation in these situations isn't why.
It has happened with OS X by them taking a popular 3rd party utility/app and integrating the idea/look/feel directly with no attribution

Citation?
Possibly for the same reason GPL advocates complain about more restrictive licensing than the GPL.

"Hey, why can't I view and improve your source code? No fair!"

"Hey, why can't I improve, compile, and sell your program? No fair!"

disclaimer: I'm fairly license-neutral and think people should choose based on what's good for their project.
No, I wouldn't. If your network of people and resources is your key competitive advantage, then you want to maximize it -- and you can do this a lot more effectively if you're discussing things publicly. Alternatively if your network is so easily sabotaged, well, that'll happen in any case after you launch, so better to work through the issues now.
1) Neither. But i've lived in both. From what I saw, Pret really upped the ante with the quality of their sandwiches, and others followed as best they could.

2) This picture answers it better than I tried to explain it:

http://www.psfk.com/2007/01/pret_gives_it_a.html
You could make the same argument for Fedora, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu and others and I don't think it would be a good idea to have threads for all of those in this discussion.
Maybe the idea of the new book was to point out that you can read LotR and Silmarillion as myths and histories written in-universe, instead of an objective and reliable narrative. Suddenly all sorts of things might be slanted to make the winners of the war look good and noble and paint those who opposed them as beastly savages.
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I could have told you this'd happen.
The author speculates that Clang's inferior performance on C++ code may relate to Clang's focus on Objective-C, plus his use of a gcc newer than 4.2.

For what it's worth, I've seen a slight speed hit compared to gcc 4.2, in Clang-compiled binaries of an application I work on. That code is straight C, with lots of numerics, and lots of linked lists.

As for the author, I appreciate Clang's excellent diagnostics, and continue to use it as a second compiler.
Megacorps like Walmart and EA would never order 50,000 kiosks to be built knowing that Apple (or U.S. gov) could get a court injunction within hours of them being deployed.

This is the very nature of rackeeting (in this case the gov being the mob boss). You don't have to actually make good on the threat for it to be effective.

If you still don't believe me, go knock on a few doors on Sand Hill road and pitch just this: "Its like RedBox but for the App Store. We put kiosks at every Walmart and Kroger and install a new App Store". The VCs won't need you to go further and explain your market projections or your team background. They'll have heard enough already.
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I think perhaps you're seeing a false dichotomy here.

In a nutshell, we are new and high-tech, our competitors are established and low-tech, and we are aiming to solve essentially the same problem for mostly the same people in an easier way.

Perhaps a good analogy would be Netflix. They saw the potential for emerging technologies to disrupt an existing market and built a successful business around doing so, all but killing the old video rental store model in the process. What would have happened if, before Netflix had become established, one of the major rental store chains or perhaps a coalition of big movie studios had realised the potential of those new distribution models and the danger to the existing happy cash generators, and consequently thrown $100,000,000 into getting their own service off the ground? Whether or not the new distribution models ultimately took off, it's a good bet that the world would be a little less red today.

Now, we're building a different product and we're in a much smaller niche market, but the basic risk is the same: if an established dinosaur knew about the idea and realised the impact it could have on their happy cash generators, then it would make sense for them to move sideways and block us to retain their customer base, even if they would otherwise have no need to adapt their existing offering. They almost certainly don't know how to do that today, but they have so much more money than us that they could hire a dozen consultants until they found someone who did. Then they could afford to hire a team ten times our size to beat us to market, while using leverage from their existing network to make our lives difficult until our money ran out.
I'm not going to comment on whether GPL style licenses actually have the effect of promoting freedom like they say, but I don't see at all how they take it away. An author is free to write code and distribute it under the GPL. Likewise anyone else is free to fork it, or use it in their own codebase so long as they honor the terms of the license.

How does that take away anyone's freedom? Don't like the terms of an author's library? Go write your own then.
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Maemo/MeeGo, but its future is, err, uncertain.

WebOS might be good in that regard, but its supported development model is limited to web apps so far as I know.
This is one of the reasons I host my DNS outside of the US. Hopefully there would be a few more hurdles to jump over before a mistake like this could happen.
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And this is a great example of the advantages of not being stealthy: good feedback and a potential early user.
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