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When you are a respected faculty in an important university, your "business" should include speaking on controversial issues and sending political messages to media (via a blog, in this particular case). This should really be encouraged and not intimidated. Clearly it's the latter case here.
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> Not sure if reputation mechanisms would work in a site where people often post just once, and that doesn't require creating a user account in order to post.

That's a weird premise to me. If you post an apartment, you could just as easily also want to find a girlfriend or buy a used bike or avail yourself of any of craigslist's other categories. That's their big value, after all – everything under one roof.

The fact that craigslist doesn't require a user account to post is an extremely dubious product decision at this stage.
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Oh, come on guys, if you think these are troubles related to incorporating a business, you should really try to do it in Croatia.

For starters, all companies need to be registered at the Court of Commerce, and each new company needs to have a name approved by a judge. Second, you're legally bound to have a name either in Croatian, Latin or Ancient Greek (or presumably another "dead" language, if you can prove it); and even if you do, a judge has to OK it (a friend of mine has recently been through about 30 names and still hasn't been approved; the whole process of approving a name can take days).

Then you have to physically go (yourself, or your lawyer) to 3 or 4 offices to file various registration papers; all in all it can take a better part of the month to incorporate. And to top it all, even if your company does nothing, has no income or expenses, it has some monthly dues to the state from day one, simply because it exists.
Thanks for your story. I have no prior knowledge of programming. So is it good idea to dive directly into Introduction to Computer Science and Programming video lectures?
This would only work if the top level official wants bribe only for high level project. The approach would fail in India, where every amount of bribe has fixed distribution, from bottom most official to the top.

Say for example you wallet got lost, and you need to file an police report. The bribe you pay at police station would not be to the local official alone, but a cut of it would extend all the way over to top till the Home secretary. No one wants to punish anyone in such cases. This allows top-most official to acquire a much larger wealth than they would if they stopped corruption at lower level
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Your reply is premised on this being the right solution to the Pioneer anomaly. That remains to be seen. For instance the comment in http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26589/#comment-23... makes a good point about the method used.

I think your view of 'the physics community' is skewed by your own experiences and does not describe the actual situation in 'the physics community' very well. My experiences, perhaps because I was at an 'university of technology', are entirely different.
Sadly it's pretty easy to get fake or stolen credit card numbers. Even barring that, it's pretty easy to phish normal users (who all have credit cards on their accounts, as a sibling post points out) and use them to vote without their knowledge.

As far as "this is crap, go build something better" - that's tough to say when developers show high (albeit juked via cross-promotion) download numbers, and is also difficult for developers to stomach without some kind of objective measure of what makes for a good app.
It's just hard to believe and sad that in 2011, a major taxpayer sponsored university releases a statement explaining that an open-records request is totally reasonable, and compliance in no way affects academic freedom.
Yeah well, they can still be dangerous. Otherwise, why don't they just wait it out in Fukushima? Atoms are very small, so even tiny amounts of matter contain a lot of them. So even if any single atom only emits radiation every couple of years, a tiny lump of matter can emit radiation more often than every couple of years, because there are so many atoms in it.
"Why would you do something so selfish..." Just got an "Atlas Shrugged" flashback ;).
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Except for number 9), the rest is not gonna happen.
.. open records be damned.
That's what I always used to think, until few years ago. Then a new crop of TVs came and it started to mess up the movies. The movie looked like a soap opera. It turned out, that it was caused by a feature that increases fps and inserts interpolated frames (every manufacturer calls it differently). After turning it off, the movies look like movies again.
the company is bankrupt and can't pay its taxes. File ch11. I don't know why you think you have to pay this, it isn't money you owe (the whole point of setting up the business, isn't it?)
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"Regardless of if I talked to a professional, I'd actually have to pay the same amount to dissolve this entity."

Really? There is a reason companies like G.E. (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870453020457623...) legally pay essentially no federal taxes. Because there are sophisticated lawyers and accountants (a.k.a. professionals) who figure out how to shift the law to their advantage.

For example, there may be laws in place that allow you to write-off of the dissolution of your business against your personal income taxes. Or perhaps there is a way to file a grievance with the state to prevent having to pay the dissolution fees, based on some statute pertaining to small companies. However, you won't ever know, because you don't want to talk to a professional.

Recognize that you're in this situation in the first place because you didn't want to talk to a professional. Now, as the situation has escalated, you still don't want to talk to a professional. This does not bode well for your future business dealings.

There are law firms that do work for free for start-ups. I'm guessing one of your friends from high school or college is a lawyer at one of these firms. Reach out to the people you know, and figure out how to leverage your connections to get some professional advice. Remaining ignorant is not the solution to this problem.
Why don't you open in Bosnia or Montenegro? Both are very liberal and have western banks. I have used businesses + accounts in both as offshore vehicles.

You can get a business registration, bank account and merchant account with gateway in Montenegro for a few hundred dollars and in a couple of days.

Heck, with a few thousand dollars you can register your own bank in Montenegro.
The problem with the article is that it believes that sites like OLX are the disruptors. The real disruptors are the care.com's, the airbnb's, and others who are bringing a great UI and social experience to a category and owning it.
I agree it wouldn't hurt to keep the door open but I also don't believe he was being condescending. The platform a company uses is indicative of a whole lot. In this case, that it's a Windows shop. No one said there's anything wrong with that but that's not what he wants.
Whatever your take is on this situation I think most will agree the creation of knowledge is key for any society's advancement. It's critically important for the future of the US that we don't let the prevailing political winds interfere with the creativity that will keep us competitive. Burdening the pursuit of knowledge with politically driven oversight will create research as useful as most legislation. Politicians need to say out of academics. Most of them spent a majority of their lives avoiding them anyways, it shouldn't be to hard to keep avoiding them.
Exactly. Two parents as alumni? This would be a bigger story if she hadn't gotten in.
Definitely have to recommend Paul and his site, TSF. I just signed up for the daily digest after seeing it on twitter a few times, and I'm enjoying it.

We haven't been able to get on there yet, but they provide a good form here: http://thestartupfoundry.com/tip-us/ , and a nice article on building up your press kit here: http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/03/18/make-your-startup-ri... .

Really good guys, doing some great work. Easy to recommend.
Big whoop? Apparently they accepted 2158 people this year. http://crimson-ws2.hcs.harvard.edu/article/2011/3/31/percent...

Where are the other 600 word articles for the 2100 other acceptances? What mothers (if any) do those people have? You could write a book!
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> Even Mussolini got the trains running on time.

Or maybe not: http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp
What matters is the bottom line of your business, not your conversion rates in and of themselves. Let me give you an example:

Charles sells financial services and a conversion for him is worth $4000 dollars on average. Paying $100 per conversion is a great deal. Paying $500 per conversion still makes financial sense.

Tim sells ring tones and conversions are worth $1.50 for him. Paying $100 per conversion won't make sense here, but paying $0.15 wouldn't be too bad.

Figure out how much you will make per customer and set the upper limit of your conversion cost to 33% of that price and you'll be on the right track.
How.. could.. I.. be.. so.. gullible? I really really believed this (I am the OP)
He failed to demonstrate how higher income is unequivocally better, though. Compared to a more homogenous society, for instance.
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He claims no polar bears have died because of GW. At least Wikipedia seems to cite otherwise: "The effects of global warming are most profound in the southern part of the polar bear's range, and this is indeed where significant degradation of local populations has been observed."
What the hell has "beauty" got to do with getting into Harvard? Is college entrance a beauty contest now?
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The scenario described in the article is not bribe, it is extortion.
This is a good object lesson in why you shouldn't take legal advice from someone posting on the web. The dude was wrong once, and perhaps twice if you are correct. Not to argue with your point, I just want to avoid playing armchair lawyer.
What I hear when reading this is "I feel a greater sense of belonging with Compant Y". Everything else could be just rationalisation after the fact, people are amazingly good at rationalising why they believe the same thing as their friends.
Uh, wow dudes.

Assuming this happened in California in the recent past (post 1994), and the annoying outsourcing guy was not aware he was having audio recorded, congratulations -- you've just violated state law! (California v. Gibbons, 215 Cal. App. 3d 1204 (Cal Ct. App. 1989).) This is California Penal Code SS 630-638. Up to $2500 fine, 1 year in jail.

(any covert audio recordings of telephone/electronic conversations are also illegal in California; it's an all-party consent state, although you can disclose and report recording all business calls as a routine thing (you play a "we record all calls" at the beginning of the call, and staying on is implied consent). )

IANAL, but YGANVP.
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It would be nice to know what type of shop they were, after all in some places your OS just provides a text editor or IDE where you work on files remotely and run in a browser off of a *NIX server. If that was the case it doesn't matter what OS they're developing in, as anyone should be able to develop in the OS and text editor of their choice so long as it can hook up to SSH.
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Also, if you just start typing

for i in `seq 1 30`
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On the command line itself, you don't need to worry about semicolons. Bash will take care of it.
This is the way it works in Poland. We had a change in law a couple of years ago exactly due to the reasons you stated.

One thing I don't know about our law though - if I try to bribe someone (say - Policeman), and he refuses, can I be prosecuted? I don't know about our law, but it would be interesting if trying to bribe someone would be illegal, but bribing someone was legal.
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I don't get your article. You're yak shaving, bothering with meaningless issues.

In case you want raw rendering speed, you don't choose PHP or Ruby or any other high-level language. You go for straight C/C++ instead -- that's what companies like Google do; that's what Adobe did for Photoshop.com, that's what Yahoo does too for various web services they provide.

We pick PHP, Ruby, Python or whatever because there's a point of diminishing returns. For our apps 10 extra requests per second do NOT matter.

But 1000 reqs per second do matter, but for a real world app, not for a dumb hello world that doesn't do anything -- and even that may be insufficient, as depending on your use-case you may need 100000 requests per second out of a single server.

AND performance on the web == page rendering time, not requests per second. It gets pretty damn hard to have 300ms page loads, and IMHO this is where template rendering could make a difference, but again, not that much.
Worst mistake I ever made was consulting with a lawyer in setting up a business. Nearly everything he said and advised was completely wrong, and he came highly recommended.

Never accept the word of a lawyer on anything.
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I would never use RoR for my social coupon webapp. ;P
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If you are considering Flash app, take a look at Picnik and Pixlr to see whether you can really beat them (hard).

If you are considering AJAX, don't. There were a multitude of webapps but they got killed by Flash-based apps (Picnik, Fotoflexer, and Pixlr).

Java (client-side)... not really. Name an advantage over Flash... actually there is one, which is something you can use on Android. This may call for a come-back.

HTML5. Check out Sketchpad. It uses Canvas very well, but there are things that are very hard to do with Canvas (that Picnik/Pixlr has perfected with Flash). It depends on the type of image editor you want to implement. HTML5 may be sufficient. Look into what functionalities Canvas can offer you and cross-check that with what you want to accomplish. Contrary to public perception, HTML5 is not a cure all, certainly not as a platform for image editing.

I hope this is not a homework/research problem :D
GE is incorporated in New York not Delaware. GE pays NY state franchise taxes not Delaware.

Overall, GE paid $2.7 billion in income tax in 2010 and over $1 billion in payroll, state and local sales and property taxes.
That's all fine and as the University has stated they found nothing in his records that would show any kind of misconduct, personal use of ressources etc...

My point is just that the Professor in question shouldn't have been surprised by the request. There will always be people abusing whatever the government gives them the right to do. The professor was directly attacking the request and the fact that the person who requested it didn't have to state his intentions (an important protection in the FIA) (this was from a previous article).

I'm against the motives here but strongly support open government and the right to get information like this.

In fact I think the whole controversy has just done exactly what the "executive director of the state's Republican Party" wanted. Intimidate and cause a huge stupid story showing how the "liberals" can't handle being open blah blah blah.
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I just watched this doc about how the Tsunami happened:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuRELrpytWI

VERY good. Amazing actually. I am sure that most HNers are familiar with the geophysics behind Tsunamis...

But they dont talk too m uch about the issues still ongoing with the reactors melting down - except talking about the discrepencies between the recommendations on how far of a clear zone should be around the reactor.

I am impressed with the workers sacrifice, but obviously the jury is still out on what is going to happen. As I understand this situation as compared to Chernobyl, is that we have 6 reactors at this facility vs. the 1 at Chernobyl.

They had recently upgraded this to a type 5 disaster, which is on a scale of 1 to 7.

WTF is going on there now and what are the plans?
Could someone edit RSA's post for me, removing all the lame excuses?
I agree (except for the part where you wanted to down-vote me). I wasn't trying to say it was their fault. It was more a comment about other comments, not about the django guys.

I love django. But I also I can't wait for the day when we can quit talking about Python 2, and that Python 3 will be the obvious choice for ALL environments.

Considering Python 3K discussions go back to 2006 (PEP 3000) or earlier, and Python 3 was released in 2008, and we're still probably years away from closing the book on Python 2, it's just amazing how long it takes to "turn a battleship". This transition to Python 3 might be a decade or more, from start to finish! amazing!
Yes, those videos cover from very basic of programming to quite advance stuffs. If you follow all in sequence i think it wont be a problem. So, i suggest you to take first two lectures if that helps you then go for remaining.

Anyway i think python is good programming language to start with.
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I had a Delaware C corp go bust and my advice from a highly-paid startup lawyer was to file bankruptcy and let it go.

It was eventually struck off the registry and I never heard anything again, and have even registered other corps since.

The only time you wouldn't is if you have taken an investment and want to provide a tax writeoff to investors, or if there are assets to divide. Then it needs to be disolved properly.

(Edit: to add here, if you have been negligent or criminal the creditors will usually be granted a court order to chase up debt with the directors personally. This is rare. In this case you have franchise fees that were run up in the course of doing business. The one thing to learn here that should have been in the original article is that Delaware's main source of revenue is franchise tax, which is calculated on the number of shares issues, so keep that number very low (ie. 3 founders = 3 shares). That is a pretty big thing to miss, IMO.)
I'm certainly willing to concede that Craigslist has work to do in order to beat spammers and improve the usefulness of their product. But he has one core competitive advantage over his competition that, to my mind, trumps. That core advantage? I trust Craig Newmark, and I do not trust his competitors. I like his style. And as far as Kijiji goes, I wouldn't buy a ham sandwich from Meg Whitman.
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Are you kidding me? Facebook just contributed to toppling a dictatorship in Egypt.

We are still seeing the rippling effects that this form of social interaction brings to people's lives. I don't think that's boring at all.
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You cant have one thread about apple these days without some idiot coming in and spouting the evil bullshit. Oh no, they have a different business model, how evil of a corporation for wanting to make money.
Surprised no one's mentioned GigaOm (gigaom.com) yet, personally, I think they do the best job out of all the 'professional' blogs.
I got in a similar situation, I interviewed for company X & company Y. I fulfill all the requirements of company X's jobs page. But when it came to the interview, they threw 4 well known questions after a short introduction which sounded more like a pointless formality unlike a real conversation I get when I meet devs at confs.

That night I was interviewed by an employee of Y, and he did spend first 20 minutes asking me questions on two of my side projects, grilling down to details, catching up on new trends. And then there were questions to test my cs skills, and an invite to face-to-face.

Overall I loved the way interviewer from Y dealt with me. I definitely could connect more to the person from Y than from X.
I guess I mostly disagree with the "very likely to annoy somebody who prefers Windows" statement. I love Windows as a desktop OS, and am typing this on it right now. Nonetheless, my love for it is really irrelevant when I'm developing for Ubuntu Lucid. I guess I feel strongly about this because I've actually been the sole guy in a small shop sticking to Windows while all my colleagues were on Ubuntu (which was the target OS.) I tried to justify it to myself for as long as I could, and frankly at the end of it there was simply no good reason to be on a different platform than the target. It caused me no end of headaches and wasted dev time - although part of this was because I was pulling from a repo shared with ubuntu devs, it was mostly that the target was ubuntu.

TL;DR: If an interviewee two years ago had seen that I was on Windows, turned us down, and cited my Windows development as the reason for their refusal, I would probably have switched to ubuntu six months sooner and saved myself (and the company) upwards of 100 hours of dev troubleshooting. So it's hard to view the raw "You're on Windows developing for UNIX. Just what?" as worse than "I'm not a Windows developer, sorry."
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nonsensical post by definition, sorry.

"you don't choose PHP or Ruby or any other high-level language".

Why? There is no technological limit, the template substitution should be fast, with minor coding effort it can be fast. It's just lame code. We are not speaking of algorithmic code.

Probably language speed is not involved at all, it is just as lame as the framework reloading the template at every page view. And even more lame than that given that even my test loading the template every time was faster.
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You really should update your original "How I Incorporated My Startup" article http://heyhamza.com/33994010 to admit you got in over your head. It really changes the whole lesson of the first article. I see you've added disclaimers, but you need to also link back to the potential $89,000 mistake.
I want the ability to have app updates (per app choice) installed automatically that can be scheduled during my sleep time.
Wow. Incorporating in Australia is a breeze by comparison. AFAIK, a four page form and ~$400. With an annual fee of $212.