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As someone who is living in Las Vegas NV (no state income tax) I am struggling with where I should move. I just checked and the CA state income tax is 10% for my earning bracket. That's a 10% premium (>$10k per year) when compared to Texas, Nevada and Washington. It's also 1% greater than Oregon. It's 5% greater than CO or NM. Add to that the high cost of living in the valley (particularly housing) and it's difficult to justify moving to California vs. getting a remote job working for a company in California at the same salary.

I see the economic value of working the valley and that the salaries are higher, but they would have to be 30% higher than what I'm earning in Nevada just to offset the increase in costs. Imagine if I actually wanted a raise.

If you tell me that not only is the CA legislature requiring these funds from me, but also requiring corporations with operations in the state to collect sales tax (putting them at a competitive disadvantage to companies that don't have operations there) I'm going to start to wonder about what other anti-business measures might get passed. Anti-business measures are going to cause businesses to move if they can. Less businesses means less chance for jobs which is obviously a negative for someone looking to move to economic opportunity.
Neat idea! Caught a small typo: next to the lock image on the homepage, it says "ever" in place of what I assume was supposed to say "never".

"We ever misuse or sell any information you give us."
All of the contemporary languages (and at least one quite old [lisp]) are capable of re-working the output of CLang, so why the extra work to build an undocumented lib wrapper/implementation? This is the kind of text manipulation that '=bread+butter' for all of them. For that matter, I'm not clear on what is wrong with HTML as output which I believe that CLang exports?
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http://beta.tutkiun.com/ - Lists start-ups which launched Beta products.
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Great idea! Maybe I missed it, but how many people do you have subscribed to begin with? Perhaps that number isn't as high now, but that would be valuable information to display if it was something high enough to attract startups and sponsors.
If you're interested in this concept — even (or especially!) for just hacking around on a bored afternoon — Rick Olson gave a fun talk on it last year at RubyConf. "Git: the stupid NOSQL database" http://confreaks.net/videos/443-rubyconf2010-git-the-stupid-...
That code is dense.
He was right that two random bank people in the middle of nowhere were auditing him?

This isn't reddit, read the article first before posting.
I'm pretty sure that's not a valid solution. Its the same as using Math.sum(). While it evaluates your resourcefulness, the point of the question, I think, is to figure out your knowledge and creative thinking
Thanks! I wouldn't qualify that as a proper review, altough it's hardly surprising that Radford Neal wouldn't spend more time on a book he clearly considers inadequate.
"I would never belong to a club that would have me as a member." -Groucho Marx
In the example I offered, the economics are no mystery, but if it helps you to put numbers in the picture, let's go for it.

Suppose I write a book of sonnets. I negotiate with a publisher whereby he has the exclusive right to print, distribute, and sell said book of sonnets for a period of five years, and I will be paid $1 per copy sold. The book proves popular, and a pirate publisher produces, distributes, and sells an identical edition, but fails to pay me the $1 per copy sold.

In this case, I am being deprived of the income (by the pirate publisher) to the tune of $1 per copy that they have sold during the period in question.

Clear?
Did your wife ever have a miscarriage? If not, I would guess it's very likely (>90%) that sperms with the chromosomes with the translocation can't fertilize an egg.
I hear a lot about the LFTR, and I wonder what the problem is. Is there a major technical hurdle that prevents this from seeing widespread use?

Sometimes there is, sometimes there isn't. Sometimes a really good idea never gets used because... well... because nobody really picks it up and runs with it. It's that simple sometimes.

But sometimes there's some hidden gotcha.
I thoroughly enjoyed Kai Lai Chung's "Elementary Probability Theory With Stochastic Processes" when I was in college:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0387903623/
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Bertsekas is one of the authors and profs and definitely knows what he is doing -- he's a world class guy. But, for the question of this thread, the course is not really on "probability" and is not very "advanced".
I should have linked to the 4th and latest edition of the book:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1441930620/
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Since India has a lot of Thorium, they are actively pursuing it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl5DiTPw3dk&feature=relat...
Ethically it simply comes down to giving credit where credit is due.

If you discuss a new idea that you have spent time formulating with a co-worker that is good for the company and the co-worker presents this idea to your common boss as their own and receive a promotion for it, is this ethically wrong?
Strangely, the author's example of a more business friendly state (Texas) seems to beat California on a number of your government-related metrics.

Texas schools are better than California schools for all racial categories at grade 4 and 8 (the grades in which comprehensive data is collected).

http://nationsreportcard.gov/science_2009/g4_state.asp?subta...

http://nationsreportcard.gov/science_2009/g8_state.asp?tab_i...

According to the only ranking I could find, Texas has better infrastructure as well:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/41666598

So maybe this guy's attitude isn't so much "I got mine, fuck you" as it is "if Texas can do more with less, California should as well."
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As I commented on Techcrunch I see it quite different. The only place Google is attacked is search. That’s going on for years and so far neither Bing nor anyone else has made any real progress. Also the whole idea that „people moving slowly from search to discovery” is so far only speculation and I don’t buy it. Besides being quite cumbersome to ask my friends there are many areas where I just don’t “trust” them. For example IMDB is much better in predicting if I will like a certain movie than anyone of my friends is (or even all of them combined).

On all other fronts Google is not attacked but is attacking. They started from zero in pretty much all the fields you are mentioning a couple of years ago and have recently made some impressive gains (especially Android and Chrome). So it’s not Google who is facing challenging test but Microsoft (Office, Windows, IE, WP7… ), Apple (Iphone, OSX), Facebook/Tumblr/Quora and Yelp/Groupon. Google could afford to lose all these battles but search, some of the other players can’t…
I don't think it makes sense to compare small, well funded tech startups in Silicon Valley to more generalized businesses in other areas of the state.

Try to start a manufacturing plant, a machine shop, an automotive repair facility, a farm, any business that employs more than 50 people, and compare the regulatory hassles imposed to almost any other state.
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Good quote, but there is nothing particularly clever in the line above. It is in the same league as if (something) or
something ||= something_else.
Here's the google doc from the other thread, which has an aggregated list of all the emails in there: http://bit.ly/ktOYnj

Anyway, mine's https://plus.google.com/108579573899435547873/
Nice! I suggest improving the "GO" button.
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I'm here because I think California's climate for business is great. What I need is smart, well-educated, creative workers. I need reliable infrastructure. I need great universities. I need a broad-minded culture, so creative oddballs feel comfortable, and talent from overseas feels like they could make a life here.

Interesting, those sound like all the same reasons the NYC startup scene is growing like crazy these days.
>Have not figured out how to send messages to my friends, or do I have to share something only with them?

Yeah, I think that's how it works. There's also a chat box on the left, which could be used for similar purposes.
Any plans to build a reactor somewhere?

I fear that mere engineering heavy talking has no chance solving nuclear’s PR problem.

Actually building a reactor might help. Maybe. Maybe not.
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This is classic chicken and egg problem. As a Startup who wants to post a job ad, I've no idea if you have enough students who are looking for job on your site, and is it worth paying $100/post. If you're starting now, then keep the job posting free or very minimal, so that you'll have more jobs posted. Once you reach students mass, then you can charge more to startups.
They didn't kill wave. Don't you see? This is wave 2.0.

The difference is, Google understands branding. And google wanted to cast behind the branding that wave is a "failure"
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The real question is: what can we do with the data?
I've really liked http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Modern-Approach-2nd/dp/0...
FWIW, I recently watched one of the talks this is spliced from, and it seemed fairly accurate.
In the US, yes, they were: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Copyright_Cla...
I have a very simple question:

What would happen if they tried to sue a developer in a country that doesn't consider software patents valid, and in which their patent has the worth of decorative piece at most?

Said developers aren't interested in coming to USA, either.
It's clearly not going to be like Silicon Valley: little in the way of VC finance, the biggest companies headquartered around here are Mittelstand, &c.

But it is a fantastically attractive location for programmers, and capable of meeting some kind of critical mass. Maybe it could be a start-up location more focussed on growing into a company like Ferruccio Lamborghini than General Motors.
That's because Google is changing an insane amount of crap during the field test. It should be public when plus finalizes...
My understanding is that building the reactors are significantly more expensive. So until the price of Uranium increases enough to justify the total cost of the Thorium reactors, we won't see many of them outside research settings.

The other issue is building a new reactor of any type right now is a giant pain in the ass, which doesn't help either.
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This is project pursued by many[1]. The main hurdles are:

1. political [2], which Kirk mentions (it is no coincidence, that the pellets that the rods contain are as standard as the NATO bullet) -- the industry and power has a very different interest

2. technical: Kirk always mentions, that the fuel is not solid. It is liquid. The latter means, that you do have higher concerns about corrosiveness, hence (useful) reactor lifetime...

Also, the issue of scale, which tends to lie between 1. and 2. Uranium "won", because you got the real stuff with it (weapons as in actual projection of power, or the capability of threat to project power) and because you could make it work on a massive scale (current reactors are an order of magnitude larger than any LFTR design, and capitalism is based on the leverage of and concentration of power).

[1] http://energyfromthorium.com/

http://www.thorenergy.no/

http://thoriumenergy.com.au/

... besides China, India, France and (even) Czechs.

[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/03/a_is_for_atom.... -> see Seaborg interview part
Very, very well said. I'll add a view I heard from an analyst a few years ago. Even accounting for Google's non-search duds, collectively these projects _are_ Google's marketing/branding efforts. What's better for (arguably) the world's leading tech company, a Superbowl ad or self-driving cars, Wave, and +? Certainly a lot more effective than It's You.
Momentum, I suspect.

At some point, increasing demands from local government are destined to provide a competitive advantage to businesses in other locales. The interesting question is how much of an advantage being located in Silicon Valley is, as compared to the cost. By their nature, bureaucracies tend to ratchet themselves larger and larger. At some point, the balance has to tip.
Surely google can use this as a search signal?
Its amazing how california with all its advantages (climate, tech industry, hollywood etc) can be in such a financial mess...Think how great the state would if its atleast 10% as business friendly as Texas
For that remote job, just be careful to check the law first. Some states tax telecommuters. I do not believe California is one of them, but I also do not believe that will last forever since lord knows they need revenue.

All CA has to do is redefine "source" and poof, free money. http://www.ftb.ca.gov/aboutFTB/manuals/audit/rstm/3000.pdf section 3420 "The critical factor in determining the source of income from personal services is not the residence of the taxpayer, the place where the contract for services is entered into, or the place of payment. It is the place where the services are actually performed" - change that definition, and there goes your sweet telecommuting tax break.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/business/businessspecial2/... is an interesting article about the New York telecommuting tax.
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It's pretty easy to just inject activity and other data for other people too. Fitbit doesn't really seem to give a damn about any sort of privacy or authentication.

http://www.openyou.org/2011/04/18/fitbit-and-security-or-lac...
In the video he states that the cost would be 30-50% lower because the reactors are very simple. The cost for uranium based fuel is also significantly more expensive (watch the vide). He states that the reason people don't build these is because they don't know about them, or they are stuck in the existing structure of legacy reactor thinking.

The reason that anything new is a pain in the ass is simply because of bureaucracy.
Well of course, the vast majority of large numbers have nines in them. All but 0% of them.
Greater Unified Fuckwad Theory suggests assholes are universal:
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Startups do well because non competes are not enforceable, so experienced employees can jump ship to a startup at any time.
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Oh man, totally looking forward to this. It seems like so many programmers are kind of afraid of C because it's reputation and avoid learning it because they're language of choice is 'more productive.' Which is really unfortunate, I've found having a good amount of C is hugely beneficial to understanding what's going on under the hood when you're using a higher level language, even if you rarely actually program in C itself.

Plus even if you do primarily program in higher level languages, it's a great tool to have in your belt when you need to fix a bug in a library whose bindings you're using in higher level language, or when you legitimately do need to eak a little more performance from a particular piece of code.

Also, love that the book starts by teaching you how to use make as well, so many C books gloss over the tools.
> OK, so how do writers make their living?

The glib answer is "most don't", and indeed you will find a lot of writers who have other jobs.
Journalists are writers, and the relationship there is fairly clear. PR and marketing materials need writing too.

In short, you make your living by a company renting or commissioning your talents. Musicians had only one other option before recorded music - performing - and even then that wasn't always feasible. Think of classical music and its performance demands.

You joke about live readings, but the ancient poets did just that. They also complained of poverty. People really do suffer for their art.
That's a very interesting, and strong way to view it — however, I feel like this is still not going to solve the main issue:

Yes, my intellect is my property, and it's going to stay that way. But my intellect needs to feed on — artifacts. If I see something I find interesting, I want to see how it's done. Not for the purpose of copying it, and appropriating it, but for the purpose of learning from it; feeding my intellect is the way I can keep it alive. I cannot generate new, novel artifacts, without old ones to feed my curiosity, and my ability.

Here's the thing: the companies want to own those artifacts, and I want to freely peruse them. It would be one thing to just be able to rent them from companies, but in the case of closed source, that is not possible. Intellectual artifacts become inaccessible.
I think it's crazy that they by default share when you have sex, for how long, and how hard, but that they decided that weight and bmi information should be private.
Is it only Americans that see this as a problem? Let me be the first European to redundantly point out that sex is natural and nothing to be ashamed of. So what's the big deal? How many more years will it take the moral (majority?) to get over the way our bodies work.
Collect dataset of low sexual activity people, connect with Facebook, analyze users Like and Commenting patterns and then build a Facebook dating app that suggests local deals, and activities with other low sexual activity folks.
Looks like a nice implementation. But I would feel more comfortable if it had some tests to show that the AES test vectors all pass.
Not directly related to the topic but.. does anyone else find this "war", "peace" etc used in a blog post, to discuss competition in the business world, overly dramatic and annoying?
Not really. Why is it $1? Suppose you make a contract with one publisher who will pay you $1 per copy sold and also negotiate with a different publisher who will pay you $2 per copy sold. How much are you deprived then, $1.50? $2? You're assuming that every copy the pirate sold could have been sold by your current publisher(s) but wasn't.
Glad to see someone who wasn't put off by the unfriendliness that is sometimes encountered when first entering the world of FOSS.
> [The problem is] the people expecting to make money with art. It's cool if you can. If you can't, then you're not entitled to laws or monopolies that protect your failed business modell.

Agreed that there's no entitlement to laws or monopolies. And I grant you that some ultra-libertarians oppose any restriction on their personal economic freedom, citing moral reasons.

But society sometimes decides, for pragmatic reasons, that it's a sensible bet to grant limited-term monopolies [1], in the hope that over the long term everyone will benefit. We see that in the Writings and Discoveries Clause, article I, section 8, clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution.[2]

EDIT in response to comments: Just what monopolies to grant, and for how long, is of course the $64K question. It's been my observation that this is one of those issues where, for many people, where you stand depends on where you sit (or is it the other way around?)

[1] Technically, "monopoly" is a misnomer when applied IP rights in the general case. In economics, the term refers to someone having a lock on access to goods or services for which there's no 'viable' substitute. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly.

[2] http://topics.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei#section8
While this opinion piece seemed to create the notion that the FBI caused his demise, no one but Hemmingway knows of the actual incidents that took place to lead him to that belief.

I am sure there were many other incidents occurring in his life that contributed just as much to his early departure.

I can only imagine what it was like back in that era, specializing in a SPECIFIC field with no tangents and suddenly being unable to perform your specialty due to any reason. If anything, this probably lead more to his demise than the FBI.
Obligatory links

1. Older HN story, London Is Gonna Be Pissed, But We Prefer Berlin for Startups (techcrunch.com)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2573513

2. http://siliconallee.com/
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Okay, thanks.

What about non-Googlers? I feel like there would have to be some sort of algorithm that did it for you, what with how many people use Googles' services.
You can still make bombs from the thorium cycle, with U233.
This is either a typo or you meant something that I did not understand---explain?
There is a discussion of this over at /r/math: http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/if4kd/take_the_harmoni...
Samsung is part of the newly formed Android Alliance [1] that promises updates for 18 months.

[1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/05/10/io-2011-android-alli...
i would love a invite as well nordin82+plus [at] gmail.com
This guy's business is online, and I was responding to the previous poster's question about Silicon Valley, so the relevance of auto shops isn't entirely clear to me.

However, if you have direct experience starting a business like that in two different states, I'd love to hear the details.
Thank you, it always seemed to me that it would make sense if it was supposed to be that way, but I didn't realize that that was the actual law.
It can tell that you're hugging and kissing with just an accelerometer? And it doesn't matter where it's attached to you?
CANDU, one of the best uranium designs, has the same problem.

It's sort of like inkjet printers. Either it's cheaper up front and more expensive in the long run, or it costs a fortune up front but the ink is cheap.
> What would you call Ninite?

I would prefer Installware as its business friendly (installware.com is available for $7500), not sure if it infringes the existing name InstallAware though! ... If you cannot spend that much then TurboInstall is good too and the domain turboinstall.com is available for $50

Also i would listen to patio's advice and focus on SEO. You can write atleast 30 quality articles in this area
Or: collect dataset of short sexual duration people, spam with virility supplements.
> They started from zero in pretty much all the fields you
> are mentioning a couple of years ago

They did not start from zero neither with Android (bought Android Inc. in 2005, the company itself was started in 2003) nor with Chrome (they did not write WebKit from scratch).
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This is an old paper: you should give the year in the title, by appending "(2005)" - it was circulated as a preprint in 2005 and published in the Journal of Functional Programming in 2006.

There was a nice discussion of it on LtU: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/569

The discussion focussed on whether it was good to do this internally using macros, rather than use an external code-generating tool.
Yes, i meant to ask with that technologies you work with, there was few information on your website, although the opensource projects you contribute were a good indication of it
So are you suggesting a startup called Groupsexon?
Indeed. The press seems intent on framing any attempt to create a great product as an effort to make war against whoever is currently in the space.