skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several points from a NYC taxpayer:

47.62% is the top marginal fully loaded tax rate on ordinary income. That is, 35% individual federal plus 8.97% state tax plus 3.88% city, less rounding and maybe a few dollars of unused credits. This is the rate on the next dollar of ordinary income (and the number you use if you wish to maximize your claimed tax rate). The claimed capital gains number of 27.63% is 15% plus that same amount for state and local taxes, which do not treat capital income differently (the .62% on the end of both is the giveaway). Neither of these numbers is an effective tax rate (=tax actually paid/pretax income), or "tax pressure," whatever that is -- at my guess, Mr. Wilson probably pays effective tax in the 30-40% range, depending on how much capital gains he realized in the year.

On capital gains rates generally, tax does work on the margins, but this means that we should worry about what kind of investments are incentivized by lower capital gains rates. I seriously doubt that a Mr. Wilson taxed at the regular income rate for capital gains would put even one fewer dollar into his fund, making 20+% pretax, if his other choice were, as he says, the mattress making 0%. Even at equal income and capital gains rates, the incentive to maximize your returns is pretty strong, so the idea that the differential rate is changing behavior in a useful way needs more analysis than Mr. Wilson gives it.

For corporate taxes, effective rates are indeed what matters when comparing tax burdens since corporations get such a variety of credits; that said, the fewer deductions/lower rates tradeoff is free economic growth and we should do it (it'll never happen, though, since congress is too dysfunctional).

And last on "double taxation": gopi is right that most corporations are organized as passthrough entities -- they pass all income through to their owners, who then pay tax on it. Those that aren't do have lower taxation of dividends to make up for the equivalence of share buyback and dividends.
There are un-fun things to work on in life and if you are going to hire a "non-superstar" and have them work on a non-critical part of your company, it's not that bad.

If someone has a outside passion - say sailing and wants to just get a job to help them pursue it, more power to them if you can adequately utilize the talents in 30-40 hours versus a powerhouse 90 hr die-hard talent.

Personally, I find fulfillment in my 40-80 hr "day" job and then go pursue other fun activities; a lot of my (especially engineering - non-cs/ee) friends want a 30-40 hr job and some play power, others trade stocks, others play sports rabidly every evening - you must respect the personal motivations and find a way to align it with your organization / startup, if you cannot, then yeah, it's done.
"That said, I don't think this error was made in this article, and that the 47.62 is the net, effective tax burden."

Nope, he says it's the marginal rate. See my comment above.
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I have never had one fail once it started in production, but have had two X-25M G2 160G drives fail out of the box (one would not respond at all and the other would not recognize more than 8G of available storage.) The higher-than-expected failure rate is annoying, but I would rather have them fail at install/setup time rather than six months later...
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Why didn't Osama Bin Laden get a trial?
I remember that Saddam Hussein got a trial when he was captured by american soldiers. Why didn't Osama get a trial then and got killed in his hideout instead?
they early Supertalent Disks had a bad firmware bug that made them disappear under heavy load. That had been fixed some weeks later. I have two of those since early 2009 with updated Firmware, still running strong!
I guess I mistakenly thought covert means secret, without helicopters hovering over the city and people tweeting about it.
I love racket. It's basically scheme with a bunch of extra goodness (libraries, language features) added on top.

You may have heard of it before it was renamed (it used to be known as PLT Scheme).

I've just started working through Land of Lisp as well. I find myself wishing I were writing Racket instead of Common Lisp, but it's entirely possible that's just because I'm more familiar with Racket/scheme.
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But a more fundamental question is what we mean by 'post quality'. Right now, the vote total is the only objective metric of post quality; if we're trying to rethink the voting system itself, we need a lower-level set of objective quality criteria if we want evaluate how well a proposed ranking system works.

What are 'crap', 'douchebags', 'fools', and 'sheeple'? Different people have different thresholds for assigning these labels. Until a discussion board establishes quasi-official definitions of these terms, whether by consensus or by fiat, you can't use them to measure anything.
Roads are paid for with gas taxes, something that is hard to avoid if you drive. Public schools and libraries are supported by property taxes, again, something all residents pay. Income taxes primarily go to the federal government to pay for military bases abroad, wars, and a lot of other functions that either aren't needed or could be better done by non-government entities.
I agree, the irony is that you're saying this while arguing for the popular opinion. :)
Agreed.

I will have to archive this guy's tweet stream when I get home.

This is history, people.
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There is one big problem with JS's paradigm of Smart and Gets Things Done that I never see addressed. It's right there in the title. If a programmer Gets Things Done, what does Smart add to the equation? Say you have a cat who habitually walks all over your keyboard and bangs out perfect code, every time. Do you really care?

No one would praise a program that takes 2 steps to do something that can be done in 1 step. So why does Smart and Gets Things Done get so much credit? I'd understand Gets Things Done and Gets Along much better.
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* Great non-emacs Lisp IDE, powerful, cross-platform, and easy for newbies (but emacs works fine too)

* Tons of interesting language extensions -- any Scheme you have ever thought of -- implementations of laziness, static typing, logic programming, FRP

* Very good online documentation

* Great libraries for lots of things, combined with really easy online package management @ http://planet.racket-lang.org/

* Go look at all the cool things it does, don't they look fun? http://docs.racket-lang.org/
I like the idea. Do I have to wait for questions? Have you considered adding the ability for me to start adding scripts to be purchased?
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My startup is in point-of-sale as well (retail, not hospitality). I'm curious as to why you chose to go with iOS? I'm not saying it's a good or bad choice, but it definitely is the current fad in the POS market. I'm focused on the lower end and small businesses, so I try to work with hardware they already have. How receptive are people to using iPods and iPads, cost wise?

Another question is.. what happens if a server spills a drink on it? :)

Now for an answer instead of another question. For marketing I would focus on finding a scalable sales method that is as self-serve as possible (small biz owners will always want to talk no matter how hard you try though). It's easy and tempting to go 'door to door' and sell one at a time, but economically it doesn't make sense. That's one place iOS helps, distribution through the app store. But you'll eventually need to find people who are generally looking for POS, not just specifically an iPad POS.

Anyways, good luck it looks interesting!
These discussions often rank all hires from 1%-100% as if they all fit on one dimension. That is an unfortunate simplification.

I don't know what the right classification system is, but it's certainly more complex. For example, teams can tolerate a certain amount of new-but-promising talent, as long as they have guidance from experienced programmers. In fact that balance is important. Secondly you need people who can work together effectively. Both of these ideas indicated that you can only evaluate a hire in the context of the team they are joining. So arguments that "you can never hire the top 1%" add nothing to the conversation.
Advogato has used an attack-resistant trust metric with similar features; Raph Levien called such systems attack-resistent trust metrics. I'm sure they would do the task you describe successfully. Check out:

1. http://www.levien.com/free/tmetric-HOWTO.html

2. http://www.advogato.org/person/chalst/diary/189.html
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so wait, is notifo.com going through yc again? (I only ask, because if not, and notifo is dead, that sucks)
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Disclaimer: I don't know a ton about this. But one of the often-cited reasons for learning a Lisp is the power of Lisp macros for creating domain-specific languages. My understanding is that one unique feature of Racket is how it takes this idea to the next level: not only does it offer a powerful hygienic macro system; Racket also thinks of "languages" as libraries. The Racket folks have built a platform where it is easy to define non-trivial (and even non-Lispy) languages, and freely incorporate code written in those languages into other Racket programs.

See: http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/languages.html
I've got a relatively new Vertex 2 which is totally fine, but that's still well within the realm of normalcy. However, I've also got a first gen x25-m, and that is fairly old as far as SSDs go. That one also still works perfectly.
On the other hand you don't know shit about the risk. If the US government takes a totalitarian turn, and they start taking away your friends and family under the guise of homeland security then Facebook suddenly becomes your worse nightmare. And don't get me started on Color: Wilhelm Zaisser's corpse is busting a nut about that 50 years posthumous.
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Flash not being on the iPad has nothing to do with its instability. It has to do with Steve Jobs wanting to control the App Store 100%. People being able to run Flash Apps gives a means for them to go around Apple's back and not give Apple money.

The fact is that JS/Canvas is where Flash was 8 years ago. And when they finally finalize the HTML5 spec Flash will be someplace else again.

Flash runs fine on my Nook Color, without destroying it. Eventually the competing tablets might coax Apple to embrace Flash at some point. Or not...
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I am also more familiar with Racket and Scheme, but was considering working through Land of Lisp. Do the code and problems in the book lend themselves to translation into other languages? That is, do you think one could learn both CL and Racket fairly well by working through the book first in CL, then translating to Racket?
Joel addresses why he titles that in the book. People that aren't smart and get things done usually do "stupid" things, that someone else will have to come along and clean up. Here's a link to the post that discusses it: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html
Originally I believe it was setup as a big show to make people feel safe getting on airplanes again after 9/11. The problem was that it was a 'safety' organization, and implicitly became a third-rail problem. It's hard to kill or control these things, no wonder how innocuous (a theater organization) it was originally intended to be.
What I've found to be more valuable than the superstar programmer is the competent coder that writes clean, readable code, with comments, error checks, clear log messages, and tests. When one coder interviews another simply ask to see a sample of code they've written, any code, and then decide if they have a coding style you can work with. Once a coder is part of team of competent coders who are engaged with the project you then can use code reviews to help each other improve.
Amateurs use parser-generators.

Professionals write recursive-descent parsers.

Real men code finite state machines by hand: http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/551.jvn.fall01/fsm....

But seriously, the mystery and ignorance that continues to surround Yacc to this day needs to be fought. If you're using Yacc, you're doing it wrong. As far as parser-generators go, it is totally obsolete, and even when it wasn't, it was the wrong choice for almost all parsing problems. I learned this one day when someone recoded a Yacc-based parser I wrote in recursive-descent style, and it was less lines of code than my specification.

If you need to write a really simple, or a really complicated, parser, recursive-descent is usually the way to go. You might try Henry Baker's META (http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/Prag-Parse.html) as a first alternative. If you really, really feel the need for a parser-generator, take a look at parsing expressions grammars/packrat parsers: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/packrat/

But the real lesson here is to design your syntax to be easy to parse and manipulate in the first place. C's grammar is the clearest testament to how little thought Dennis Ritchie put into the design of C.
Not according to the BBC. They mark it here: http://bit.ly/jl3wRU ('according to local sources'). Very different area from the earlier one, a lot more isolated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13257330
He heard about bin Laden being killed the same way the rest of us did.
Notifo is not dead, but the future is not certain (just as for any startup). We are going through YC again in order to figure things out and really figure out our direction for the future.
They've probably never _used_ Lua's tables.
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The pull together a slightly larger sample size, consider the reviews of one model of OCZ Vertex 2, widely recognized is a solid SSD, in terms of price, performance, and durability:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227...

Of the 425 ratings, 17% are 1-star ratings, based almost entirely on a short-term failure measured in < 6 months. That's not to say the Vertex 2 as a whole has a failure rate that high (this is the vocal minority, after all), but it should at least help put some of the nay-sayers in perspective.
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you should have a look at scheme interpreter that was written already maybe: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/lang-scheme/overview
For the record, I wouldn't recommend what I wrote to any sane person. I was just pushing the privacy rhetoric to the extreme to illustrate that there will always be a trade off between privacy and social life. People seem to forget this fundamental principle too often when they talk about the evil social networks.

Edit: To the people who down voted to disagree, I'd like to ask: Do you think the world would be a better place without Facebook?
where did the 90% statistic come from?
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What's more amazing is no matter what happens the conspiracy theorists will always pop up preferring to believe they are perpetually being duped. As I said to someone else earlier today the proof they got him will come in the next few weeks. If they didn't he won't waste any time in getting out a video saying 'nah nah, you missed me'. He would never miss an opportunity to make the US look like morons.
(The code got indeed messed up in the formatting. I put it in the HTML source.)
Anyone thinking about moving to SF to launch a startup needs to read the Sacrifies and Startup Depression section 10x, assume it will be worse for you, and then decide.

And doubly so if you're married. If your spouse isn't on board and you've minimized the challenge, you're screwed.
Except I wasn't arguing for anything other than the idea that "it is a well-known fact that xxxx" can be read as "I would really like xxx to be true, so I'm going to assert that it is, without offering any supporting evidence". Whatever else you thought I was arguing for was read in by you, not written by me...
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Good advice but still not entirely necessary

The issue here seems to be a less than optimal Apache configuration

I couldn't agree with you more. The problem is my Apache knowledge pretty much well starts and ends with setting up virtual hosts. A year ago I was having serious issues with my Apache set up, and spent hours trying to reduce its memory footprint, and playing with lots of other settings, all to no avail. So I gave up, installed nginx... and it just worked. Which is why I'm so evangelical about it :)

That said, I'm certainly not against Apache; just the setup time and my abject failure. Which is, most likely, incompetence ;)
OK, fair enough. And where are those applications hosted? If it's local to the machine, then great. If it's it's out in "the cloud", then the reliability for applications, which may have been purchased, is iffy at best.
If you make it illegal to accept BC as a business that will deter many websites from using it. And the best way to kill BC is to make sure it doesn't hit critical mass.

The difference between filesharing and BC is that in the former the value is in the files, but BC is only valuable if you can trade them for something you value.
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You wouldn't get the impression looking at it now, but it actually was pretty similar. HilbertSpace's post came a bit later, and overwhelmed the entire conversation. You can see that some of the replies to it are from as much as 10 days later.
Wow, brings back old, old memories of seeing the C/Unix source listings lying on my office mate's desk (Geoff Steckel) at the old Harvard CRCT (graduate Center for Research in Computing Technology). I'm pretty sure Harvard had the first sources released outside of Bell Labs, in '73 or '74.

Since some of the original PDP-11 line printers (LP11's) didn't have lower case, upper case was indicated by struck-through upper case and lower case was plain upper.

I remember, after being steeped in Lisp-family languages (ECL), but also Bliss-11 (from CMU), my curiousity at seeing a "high-level" language that was so close to the machine in a different way than Bliss (which had a lot to recommend it) but also with a completely different approach to data structures. (C grew out of BCPL, while Bliss used what were effectively compile-time procedures to let you arbitrarily define your structure access.)
Kudos to you for saying and admitting the hard things for the startup entrepreneur. Failing sucks. Struggling to not fail sucks even more because it can just drain you. Best of luck :)
You could pgp encrypt anything that you really don't to be read in transit. Short of that, you might as well assume that your emails are being read and stored by third parties.

Even if you personally use the most secure email server in the world, it doesn't matter because everyone that you send email to or from is likely using hosted services like gmail, verizon, hotmail, etc.
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Tokyo Tyrant (and Kyoto Tyrant) have a pretty nice mechanism for doing this, http://fallabs.com/tokyotyrant/spex.html#luaext

Basically you give it a "-ext /path/to/waffles.lua" arg at startup to define a bunch of user defined functions.
Yeah, they just posted a correction, it's up from 400 million/month.
> Sadly, his real achievement was simply the idea that a small aggrieved group of people are capable of achieving something with the terror impact of 9/11. Before, it was always only in the realm of distant possibility, a far-fetched story told in books or movies.

Not true. Counterexamples that spring to mind are Gavrilo Princip and John Brown.