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This is probably because other companies either aren't in SF, or aren't winning the Startup Lottery. You yourself have long advocated that the former greatly increases your chances of the latter.

Now, it's late, so correct me if I'm wrong in my thinking here:

If twitter magically gained $3 billion in additional valuation, and all employees cashed in all their options, all at once, it would result in a "huge" tax bill of .... $13 million or so. Compare to the ~$270 million in capital gains taxes the employees would have racked up when they exercised their options.

Yeah, I think that Twitter could live just fine with that. Making a large and loud public fuss is cheaper, of course.

In light of all that, I think "huge" is a misleading word to use.

(Assumptions: a full 30% of the company as employee options; directly translating a higher valuation into the strike-vs-share price spread that's actually taxed.)
Oh, so it's like a credit card!
It seems that the IAEA is not a useful source of up-to-date information here. Apparently they're bound by agreements not to say anything without TEPCO's approval. The little they've said has been hours or days late.

Unit 2 and 3 are believed to have lost containment integrity. Unit 3 is currently billowing smoke/steam.
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While there at it buy Stargate Universe, say what you want about the show but some of the recent eps have been excellent, after the viewers have abandoned it due to some of the first season pacing. Add to that SyFy really losing favor with scifi fans and the move to digital as most of the core audience would be internet savvy.
It's up to SF to manage their city accordingly. If anything the city has been blessed by the types of organizations that keep it afloat. They can definitely tax, but they should look to make it competitive. For instance...the projected number of 3000 Twitter employees in 2013 at a rent rate of 1000 dollars per employee per month equates to 172M dollars in rent a year in the city of SF. Of course, not everyone will live IN SF, and perhaps the average will be lower -- but that's still an enormous amount of money moving out of the city (to pay for all those nice things you mention).

Furthermore, and I'm still figuring out the numbers on this one, I am curious to see what the sales tax losses (among others) will be when major companies like these move away from the city.

And really, it puts entrepreneurs in an awkward position of being forced to go to SF (because that's where all the talent want to be) and having to find a way to survive as well. San Francisco is definitely right to earn taxes on the many wealthy individuals that live in its borders, but I do think there is a more symbiotic relationship to be had.
On three consecutive days, the stock opened 25% lower, then trading was immediately halted.
You got my heart pumping when you said Brisbane. I thought you meant Brisbane, Australia.
I can't comment on Flash being worse than other software, but one thing is clear: it extends the attack surface of your browser with a whole maze of exploitable goodness.
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> The algorithm they outline is exponential.

They claim that it's actually roughly linear (given some fairly obvious optimizations) and provide a table of measurements that support said claim.

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1010/1010.5023v1.pdf

Number of tokens Parsing time

4,944 10 ms

42,346 43 ms

390,553 326 ms

5,049,213 3.9 s

22,155,402 17.1 s
I'll be honest, if Twitter moved to a place like Cypress Creek, I think their employees will be more than happy to move.
You know the charity, you know the person. If they are using the account at all in the business of their job at the charity, simply call their immediate supervisor and ask them to please stop abusing your service.

You could also twist the knife a bit and suggest that maybe they could have a free account donated if they just stop abusing the trial accounts, submit a polite written request and then provide a receipt. (Which you can write off as a charitable donation.) Situation resolved, scumbag humiliated, good deed done, tax write off included.
So much for the security change. I thought that kind of injection was really a thing of the past. Injection is the web segfault.
I'm not a Japanese, but I will say it's because of their Bushido spirit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushido
Also, with all those silly passwords in use, the information entropy bits lie in the username.
Before successful exits, I bet their operating profits are quite a bit more than a few hundred grand. I don't see my projects ever making much more than that, they're just too limited in scope.
If I understand correctly, all this fuss is about a 1.5% tax on wages. If so, it seems nonsensical: settling in the Silicon Valley costs much more than that, yet companies still prefer to settle there than in the rust belt or in Europe. There is a significant advantage in being in the SF area, and companies already evaluate this advantage to much, much more than 1.5% of payroll.

Now I understand that big companies try to pretend otherwise, so that they can scare the city and save these 1.5% for themselves, but don't take this for anything other than BS.
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FYI, the article is false. It was based on a translation error. A core group of workers is still at the plant working to cool the cores.

Source:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/latest-updates-o...
Nice straw man. The originating subject was on taxes (since it takes more than a city to provide all of those services), not only SF taxes :-)

San Francisco residents live in the United States of America. The United States of America imposes federal taxes. Federal taxes have been used to fund wars and bailouts of various failed businesses.

Of course, no real city has the authority to have a military. The city does have a police force, which often acts in ways that do not better the lives of SF residents (parking tickets for example).
If you include the portion of your federal & provincial taxes that are then granted/budgeted to the city, I bet the tax you're paying "to the city" is a lot higher than you think it is, and per-capita are probably on par with SF.

Also, unrelated question: How much harder is it for a 31-year-old to find work?
It's a 1.5% tax on wages and stock gains. They pay the 1.5% on wages already and are fine with it. They just don't want a massive tax bill when they go public for all of the stock they gave to employees.
Actually, the 50 evacuating was based on a mistranslation. They're still there.
Alternatively, you can read a book on self-organization:

http://www.amazon.com/Self-Organization-Biological-Systems-S...
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Not to mention a very well executed disaster plan, both before and after the earthquake.
I use Amazon's barcode scanner app every time I buy something expensive in a store. I have never once had trouble locating a product box to scan the barcode of.

Is that the only differentiator?
If it's any consolation, there are plenty of "gum" (eucalyptus) trees in Brisbane, California, too.
... if the original implementation had leveraged the JVM

I think that's a horrible idea. The JVM is an awful platform for any kind of language research & development, unless the type-system of that language is basically the same as in Java. I'm actually pretty upset that they've taken continuations out from 1.9 - most likely JRuby bares some blame.

Not to mention I would prefer to keep Oracle(TM) tainted stuff out of my lawn, as at this point I consider Mono/.NET to be more safe than Java.
What happens when a professor choses to teach with a text that doesnt have braille or electronic versions? This seems like just another case of people forbidding technology to compete on an even field.
More importantly, she claims that a "core team" didn't leave. There's a lot of contradictory and confusing information on the situation right now.
Actually I've never said that startups do better in SF specifically, but rather the Bay Area. This problem is limited to the city.

The difference between the two cases is that the employees are being taxed out of money they have (if they exercise and sell) whereas the company is being taxed based not on revenues but on the appreciation of its stock. So a company whose valuation shot up in advance of anticipated revenues could find itself with a bill it had no money to pay.
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I looked at your app very briefly, and it sounds like it might make more sense to give one free trial per Twitter account instead of per email address.
>... I can bootstrap a basic Lisp interpreter

That sounds like an argument for any language, though. As long as you can build the language of your choice in language X, you're fine being stuck with X because you're not really stuck.

If they had to write absolutely everything in more "pure" C, would their tune be the same? I think C is a fine language, but it's missing some significant niceties. Like a decent native string class.
It won't win me any hipster points, but I have to recommend "Influence: the psychology of persuasion", by Robert B. Cialdini. This book managed to beautifully, clearly, and engagingly account for the major factors of human influence.
Despite a degree in cognitive science and extensive personal interest in social psychology and compliance tactics, this book still proved incredibly insightful. And from a marketing and sales perspective, I would consider it a must-read.
According to one of the previous articles on this subject, this provision actually requires companies to pay taxes on their employees' options based on the company's valuation, even if those employees aren't even able to sell those shares.

The example I remember was that if a company raised a bunch of money at a ~$1B valuation but was later acquired for a significantly smaller sum, they would have already paid taxes on their employees' stock option gains at the ~$1B valuation based on the increase in perceived value of their shares at the time they raised money.

Edit: what I said above is in line with what pg said in his comments here:

The difference between the two cases is that the employees are being taxed out of money they have (if they exercise and sell) whereas the company is being taxed based not on revenues but on the appreciation of its stock. So a company whose valuation shot up in advance of anticipated revenues could find itself with a bill it had no money to pay.
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There's no point endlessly debating the numbers since Tepco releases them in full:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/tepconews/index-j.html

Here are the latest ones for Fukushima-daiichi:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/betu11_j/images/110316c.pdf

The columns are, in order, date, time, location (often 正門, the main gate), gamma rays, neutron radiation, wind direction, wind speed. The latest peak seems to be 10.85 mSv/hr at 12:30PM on the 16th, down to 2.5 mSv/hr less than one hour later.
> In short: FUD by nuclear energy lobbyists.

So mechanical engineer cannot possibly say anything truthful about nuclear energy?

The fact still remains: nuclear energy is the safest and cleanest we have for now.

So far we had what, three serious incidents with total number of causalities of 35, all in Chernobyl. Sure it affected much more people but still: the single incident at Sayano-Sushenskoye hydroelectric power plant claimed 75 lives. How about Banqiao Dam?

According to the Hydrology Department of Henan Province,[5] in the
province, approximately 26,000 people died from flooding and another
145,000 died during subsequent epidemics and famine. In addition, about
5,960,000 buildings collapsed, and 11 million residents were affected.

And thats not counting all the incidents in coal and oil industry (and the fact that burning coal releases more radiation for the same amount of energy produced than nuclear power plants).
This person will never be a profitable customer. They will cost you far more in time than they will generate in income. Get rid of them and move on.

We have a recurring revenue model and only after learning this over and over that we are now very quick to cut our losses when we see this kind of abuse or "cleverness". 10 bucks ain't worth your time to mess around with this joker. They will do this again, and again. They might even email you to ask for a discount on the 10 bucks they are trying to get around paying you.

Good luck!
We actually have four national languages: German (64%), Italian (7%), French(20%), and Romansh (<1%).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Switzerland
Thank you. That was an interesting article.
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>Unix pipes aren't functional programming (which emphasizes immutability and referential transparency) - they're more like the actor model, which creates a system out of lots of small programs communicating via message passing.

Unix pipes are lazy lists.

Operations on lazy lists allow you to use Mealy machine [1] created from pure functions. Mealy machine uses pure functions that transforms input and previous state to output and next state, which state then goes back on the next cycle.

And then you suddently have Turing completeness (because of arbitrary state).

My argument is supported by the fact that Unix pipes could not change the topology of computation structure, so do lazy lists, while actors could.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mealy_machine
I'm not capturing canvas content yet. It should be possible - but I'll need to look into it.

SVG content appears in the DOM so should be captured.
That question largely depends on your skill set and who you know. If you know lots of people in SF then it's going to be more difficult in Vancouver if you don't know anyone.

I'm not sure what age has to do with the question though? Either you have have marketable skills or you don't.

edit: After reading jackowood now I realize what the issue was, most places are up front about it and they look like really shitty places to work that are more concerned about saving $15/hour than figuring out how to make an extra $15/hour. They take a total labour mentality to programming instead of the view of code as a capital good with near-zero cost of reproduction. (aka, their idiots). I've never had a problem finding work in Vancouver and I'm 29 with no degree.
A site/app developed with ruby on rails or a site dedicated to ruby on rails?
Slightly off-topic; a tiny bit of Parsec advice—you don't actually need the undercore at all. queryExpression can be equivalently expressed as

queryExpression = do
char '{'
sqlValue <- sqlLanguageSelectStatement
char '}'
return $ QueryExpression sqlValue

and it will be exactly the same parser.

Incidentally, my personal preference is not to use do-notation at all and instead to use applicative functors (as they do in Real World Haskell, c.f. http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/using-parsec.html#id65... ) I think it makes code more concise and readable. In that case, queryExpression would look like

queryExpression = QueryExpression <$> (char '{' *> sqlLanguageSelectStatement <* char '}')

which again does exactly the same thing. (The * > operator chains things together but throws away its left-hand side, and <* does the same but throws away its right-hand side, so you're left with the result from parsing sqlLanguageSelectStatement, and <$>, which is a synonym for fmap, reaches in and wraps the result of the parser in a QueryExpression. The only downside is you have to write the Applicative instance yourself, but because GenParser is already a monad, all you need to do is define each method to be the equivalent monad method, which they show in the link above.)

As for your broad idea—the only issue is that sometimes parser combinators aren't as fast or finely tuned as a handwritten parser, and there's a chance that you'd have to do some kind of backtracking. But the short answer is yes, that is exactly what parser combinators are designed to do, and they do it pretty well and very easily.
Actually, Aol Didn’t Ask Us To ‘Tone It Down’ – Moviefone did.
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You seem to be arguing against city-level taxes with examples of the ways that federal-level taxes are used...
I think his point was that if that subsidy exists for hiring people <30, once that subsidy stops applying, you'd expect companies to be less willing to hire you. The idea being that they could hire someone with basically the same experience and also get the subsidy.
And yes, giving extravagant monies to the government makes everybody lives better, cures cancer, and causes world peace too!

</sarcasm>
The good: the announced chips support 64-bit, visualization, and ECC, 8MB cache, and plenty of PCIe lanes. Decent clock speeds topping out at almost 4GHz.

The bad: Maximum 32GB ram. Only a single CPU socket supported per system.

Next year there will be Atom-based versions. Overall I these will beat the current Xeons in Performance/Watt but will probably beat them on price judging from the platform limitations.

It seems like a cautious, low-risk move into what could be a quickly growing new market depending on the next moves by AMD/Nvidia/ARM/etc.
As the other response says. The FAQ provides some rationale & makes it clear you can, actually, build robust software with picolisp's model of scoping. My understanding is, ``dynamic scoping is faster for an interpreter'' and ``funarg is easy to avoid and closures are possible''.

See the three following points:

http://www.software-lab.de/doc/faq.html#dynamic

http://www.software-lab.de/doc/faq.html#problems

http://www.software-lab.de/doc/faq.html#closures
Is opensocial dead? 
Is opensocial dead?
Non-profit doesn't mean no profit. If your service can provide value to them, they should purchase the app. Treat people how you want to be treated. Somthing that this charity doesn't make clear to everyone that works for them I don't think a policy of trying to game the system is honorable or...charitable.
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Just had a chat on IRC. He's looking to collab on ideas, share learning resources, etc.
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Go to community college. I just walked in asked nicely and they let me in. Drop out of HS if you can. Transfer straight to college. Don't tell any CC students about your situation because it can make things awkward.

Don't listen to counselors or even parents on this: no one will care about a HS diploma, especially if you go into development. No one will even ask.

If it ever comes up, casually don't mention you didn't graduate. Just say I went to Such-and-such HS.
"Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards

This book could/will change the way we see things. Not only for drawing or art, principles from the book can be applied to any creative profession.
Programming Collective Intelligence. It's very well written and you can cover quite a bit of ground without too much arcane theory.
No. This is exactly how TC has always worked. They are a nothing more than linkbaiting, content firm dressed as a legitimate news outlet.
It's not like "public transportation, fire safety, paved roads, bridges, public schools, police officers, health inspectors, safety inspectors, public parks, libraries, clean air, (relatively) fair corporations, airports, hospitals, court systems, electricity, vehicle regulation, elections, veteran associations, child support, public television..." is entirely in the domain of the city government.

I just have a adverse reaction to arguments that claim I should appreciate a service provider that charges too much. Sorry, don't like getting ripped off.
Volunteers? In Soviet Russia? You are kidding me. I lived there (not in Russia, but it does not matter).

I was a small kid at the time, but I have heard a family story a few times how my father stayed out of work and home not to be included into the list of "volunteers".

There were people asking for him at work. The reasons for choosing him? He was an engineer and young enough.

He got notified by a coworker and got himself a certificate from a doctor to stay out of work.

A lot of other young guys didn't get a warning in advance and now suffer the illnesses they got from "volunteering".
Good find, though I don't think most of it is necessary.

It seems like any username that includes a semicolon at any point will authenticate. I can't imagine what their code would have to look like in order for that to happen.
Looking to find other HN'ers running sites dedicated to ruby on rails.
There's basically a library for everything. Creating or rendering PDFs? Several choices. Converting document formats? Choose the one with the license you like the most. Extracting data? Any format you want.

Then there's algorithms, support for just about any protocol under the sun. And the Java standard library is surprisingly complete as well - what you need might even be installed with your JVM.

Try googling for a Java library next time you think of something you want to do.
At this point, I don't even care any more. Not to be a whiner, but I don't find this very Hacker News -esque. Nothing to do with hacking, just a bunch of bloggers pointing fingers at each other.
Nothing has changed in terms of actual development trees: it was already previously forked into the videolan.org git tree (Michael's) and the ffmpeg.org git tree. The latter is now libav.

Previously, Michael was doing massive amounts of cherry-picking from the other tree, since the vast majority of commits have been there.

The big annoyance for users will be probably when the main tree (now libav) decides to bump the API to the next version. Michael will either be forced to import all the changes exactly, or end up with an incompatible API, which will cause NIGHTMARES, especially if they both have the same soname version!
It reads very much like a last-ditch effort by nuclear energy lobbyists to convince us that nuclear energy is really safe. This brings back memories of the Iraqi information minister.

In 15 years, if there are no further disasters, they might crawl out of their holes and start preaching about the wonders of nuclear energy again. Until then, just give up.
I used to benefit from a compulsion to come back to my programs repeatedly, asking "How can this be better?" -- taking it a long way past the point that made sense for that program in isolation. Trying never to be satisfied with an ugly program. Picking projects with something to teach me. It can particularly help to pick a problem that a master has tackled, and wait till you've written your own before analyzing their solution.

I'd like to get better at deciding what to write, now.