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Be careful, the IRS is on the lookout for misclassification of employees as independent contractors. It wouldn't be too hard to figure out either, since the majority of your income would be coming from a single "client" on your tax returns, and that amount would match the totals for the company. Make sure you read and understand the rules or you could end up liable for penalties and back taxes.

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Just because you don't have the absolute best one shouldn't stop you, and if it does, you're doing it wrong.

It may not stop you, but the system right now sure doesn't help the situation. Shouldn't we work towards improving it for start-up entrepreneurs instead of just ignoring the problem altogether?
Maybe he saw the thread? Domains are registered under a Chris Curran.

Opportunists don't bother me, but this is pretty tacky.
>Forget the cafe-style espresso machine that requires you to manually froth milk for lattes etc. it leads to milk and time wastage. Go instead for a one-touch machine like the Jura X9. It is 95% as good as hand-making it yourself (assuming you know how to do it), but takes 30 seconds.

Thanks for bringing that up. I hate all the time those damn things make people waste.
The Chromebook and MacBook Pro are in completely different price ranges. If you compare a Honda Civic to a Lamborghini it's obvious you won't be satisfied...
I was surprised how much some of those shots resemble the effects you see in video games physics simulations and online "toy" physics sandboxes. I figured the real world would be more noisy but these results are quite uniform and beautiful. I'll have to give our physics modeling more credit from now on!
squatting on YC companies seems to be popular.

For example a few weeks ago airnb.com sold for 5 grand on GoDaddy.
Selling accounts like he was seems to be in violation of the blogger terms of use, relevant section:
"7. No Resale of the Service. Unless expressly authorized in writing by Google, you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes (a) any portion of the Service, (b) use of the Service, or (c) access to the Service."

Although I didn't see any way to report the violation.
He did make it a point in his initial post to claim the passwords were salted. Meaning he wanted to assure his users they were protected from even the FBI. Furthermore, assuming the FBI wanted to seize and investigate his servers for their own nefarious purpose.

But remember, let's not confuse direct violation of constitutional rights with mistakes.
I really really wish google would package up a slightly more powerful cr-48 everything about but the processor is perfect. Including the packaging, startup and hardware.
I'm not sure, really. In Saeed Dehnadi's article "The camel has two humps", it's mentioned that there are three great filters in programming pedagogy:

* assignment/sequence

* recursion

* concurrency.

Most students never master the first, and most of those never master the second, and so on. In that spirit, I would recommend that the OP firmly grasp the first two with both hands before reaching for the third. Of the languages the OP could study that treat concurrency or parallelism as a kind of conceptual primitive (e.g. Scala or Erlang), none are likely to appear as working languages in an HPC milieu. Almost always, the libraries are bolted on as an afterthought to traditionally popular languages for scientific computing.

I think this is a regrettable pattern, but a pattern which will shape the OP's daily work if they wish to begin (and remain in) a program in computational chemistry.

All I meant to suggest is that when the OP begins to learn parallel computing, they want to be thinking about parallel algorithms, not segfaults or pointer purgatory or the finer points of scp or vi. The sooner the former can be mentally sublimed, the better the OP will feel about HPC.
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I don't think that your distinctions are fair.

Source code changes that I am suggesting will allow the new BaioNix to functionally "work" just as Linux does, just like how Baio created a picture but it "works" as a homage to an earlier Miles Davis photo.

And I am not suggesting trivial code modifications for the sole purpose of evading copyright. The changes that BaioNix has produce a simpler naming convention that enables programmers to understand the code easier.

People are acting like Baio has a slam dunk case but had to settle because he doesn't have money to defend. In reality Maisel has a slam dunk case and Baio wisely settled and cut his losses.

Is this a just result? As with everything, that is up for debate. But if you want to change the law to allow Baio-works one needs to consider what else it affects.
As a beardo, I have to say, this makes programming far more complicated than it needs to be.

It is like solving a sudoku, except you get to write the sudoku.

So it is possible to make the sudoku really easy, if you think about what a really easy sudoku consists of and code according to principles of easy sudokus.

It is also possible to make it really difficult if you use java, fortran, or c++.
There seems to be a consensus that enterprise wants one kind of browser and everyone else wants another kind of browser.

Put another way, what does Firefox have to gain from catering to enterprise needs? Funding? They have plenty at the moment. Code contribution? I doubt they really want code from companies who seem dependent on crudware internal apps.

So, let them continue to write cruddy web apps that only work in IE. Perhaps their users will complain, and the IT guy will install Chrome, or Firefox. Then their employees will have to switch between browsers when they log into their HR portal or accounts billing or whatever. That doesn't seem so terrible a thing.
Uniqueness is a qualification of artiness as far as I'm concerned. Merely reproducing something is not art, it's direct reproduction. Introducing unique style would be art. This slight pixelation is insufficient to qualify as such.

I never called the pixelated version flippant. Rather, I called the treatment of the original flippant. Also, don't project a dislike of pixel art onto me.
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I am a software engineer with several years of both very low end (network drivers) and very front end (iOS, Cocoa desktop apps, .Net stuff, etc...) experience. I also am on the cusp of completing an MBA. I want to stay in the technology world, but want control over my own destiny.

I've almost decided to make the leap into software development consulting after a year long break that I spent doing business development and modelling for my employer. I have a first project in line that should keep me busy for the next 3 months but after that I have no visibility.

What can I expect? Can I really build a fulfilling career this way or am I dreaming a pipe dream?
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Yeah, teachers are stingy, compared to most other B2B. A project manager will spend thousands of dollars on something that most of their team won't even use, it's just company money. Teachers typically have to beg for photocopy use.

However, college students, gamers, and programmers (i.e. HN readers) are some of the stingiest people on the planet. Github charges $7/month for repo hosting, and still gets customers. There's a lot more teachers than programmers, and they won't feel like n00bs for paying for something they could roll themselves, so they will pay more than $7 for a basic service.
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Looks cool but what is impeding 'bad' engineers to register and show up in your web?

Good luck :)
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And halfway through, some guy says 'oh hey, I didn't want a sudoku, I wanted a crossword.' And you can't do anything about it.

So you shoehorn your beautifully sculpted sudoku (which was perfect and simple to understand!) and try to force it to look like a crossword, and it kind of is, but it is extremely complicated, you can't even understand it, but the deadline is tomorrow. So you ship it anyway.
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Was he reselling blogger accounts or just domains?
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Good question -- the idea is that engineers will be hand-picked based on past experience, work, recommendations, endorsements etc. So not everyone that applies will be listed. This is something I'd like to clarify / flesh out further with the partner
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If you feel like you will be happier in the future this way, then go for consulting. It's not a pipe dream but competition is fierce in that sector, just do your best and see what happens.
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Tomorrow I'm finally visiting D.C. and meeting the founders of the startup (http://popvox.com) I work for. I'm pretty excited as I've never been to a big city but I'm afraid I'm going to miss out. I've rented an apartment with AirBNB and am excited to spend a few days in the capital. Anything I really should NOT miss while I'm there?
Based on the articles I've read and seen, Groupon does not seem to provide a decent return on investment to participating business. This makes me curious as to how much of their business is repeat business versus new business. I have a feeling, if you look at the participating businesses, a vast majority of them will be new for each new cycle.

Because there can only be a finite number of businesses, I would imagine Groupon is going to eventually run into one of two problems (should they continue and not flame out before this). Either they run out of cannon fodder (new Grouponees) and implode or they run out of cannon fodder and shrink drastically down to serve a small core of loyal business and rebuild with a different model. Either way, they are burning through capital and businesses at a pretty good clip so I would imagine they are going to run into this situation sooner rather than later.
> Merely reproducing something is not art, it's direct reproduction. Introducing unique style would be art.

One could then argue that photographs are merely reproduction of reality, and therefore not art. I fail to see why you think photographs introduce unique style but pixel art does not.

> The photo in question was beautifully captured, and the flippant way it's being treated is rather sad.

I apologize for suggesting that you dislike pixel art, but that's how I this sentence reads to me.
Every "simple" solution I've heard for the squatter problem is only simple because it's focusing on a simple case.

Yes, but more sophisticated solutions will gradually be put in place to consider most cases. Think of it sort of like the App Store approval process but for .com domain registrations. Every domain suffix could be reserved for a particular sort of online category. Dot com domains would be reserved for businesses, while .net could be reserved for personal server projects, .me domains for blogs, etc. Obviously, there are going to be other things to consider, but with gradual adjustments, I'm sure the system would be much more suitable to entrepreneurship than it is right now.
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Yes, I was aware of that quote. Baio's article is (intentionally?) vague on when he offered to license the art. Once you cross a certain threshold, emotions take over and the artist might have just felt violated and decided to "take his ball and go home". If he offered to license after a few months of saying "fuck you" (from the artist's perspective), it is easy to imagine a post-fact justification like the above to deny a license.

Even if Baio's first respnse itself offered to license, at the very least the "happier arrangement" would have been that $32.5k would have still been in Baio's pocket. In the absence of information about when Baio offered to license, I'd remain unconvinced that no licensing deal would have been possible.
No, people thought the FBI accidentally took data belonging to Instapaper. You're right that the FBI wouldn't have looked at it anyway since their investigation is not about Instapaper. They can't even afford to investigate crimes that are reported, so they definitely don't have the resources for random Web 2.0 fishing expeditions.
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I'd say that teamwork and cooperation within programmers is like a sudoku, programming is more like writing not the sudoku but whatever comes out of that fucked up mind of any of you HN readers!
Some years ago I asked one of the IT guys at a company I worked at about this. They had a laborious checklist to go through to make sure that no internal or external web apps broke.

This sounds like a small job, but the number of things to check when dealing with apps built internally and externally over the course of a decade or more is not insignificant. Factor in the failure case being potentially hundreds of staff answering phone calls with "Sorry, our system is broken" and you can understand the conservatism towards upgrades.

In the time he'd been at the company (18 months) two upgrades had been held back, one due to a bad stylesheet in an internal app and a second due to an incompatibility with a third-party site that used client SSL certificates.
Oops. I posted the link after reading the article, and I guess I forgot that I'd clicked through to a second page. Thanks for linking to the correct story!
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Why's Redis so significantly more expensive than other services?
Some cyber squatter has my fistnamelastname.com, and several thousand others (including celebs and typo-based domains). I contacted him about and he made it clear that he was looking for something in the 10k-250k range. I offered $500 and got no response. A non-commercial domain shouldn't command that kind of price, but the cost of sitting on it just isn't high enough to discourage squatters from doing it and waiting for the occasional big payout.

Edit: the squatters name is David Webb in case anyone else has had to deal with him.
Tell HN: My startup is failing, I need advice.
It’s been 10 months that we are working on our startup and it never gained traction that we would like to see. It’s a social web application. Me and my co-founder are really good friends, we started working on this idea, just after college. We had couple of good offers to join, but we decided to do our own startup. We’ve read all the essay's of PG, we have the hacker’s attitude. We’ve worked our asses off, we got one funding offer as well, but that was too low to do anything, we are based out of India. We’ve all the latest technology stack, djang/jquery/orbited/apachemq and all. We’ve learned a lot of things during these 10 months, I’ve became a different person altogether, from a college kid to an entrepreneur, have came a long way.

Coding, testing, deploying, releasing, going to the crowd, iterating, we have learned this all. I’ve worked upon everything, from django to UI/UX, making banners to videos, PR to marketing, support to sales, everything. It’s been a wonderful life so far. I wouldn’t have learned all these things, had it been a regular job after college. I am so grateful for myself and my co-founder for letting me work on all these, all these months.

It’s been an emotional roller coaster ride too, many many strange, weird, unimaginable things happened too. We started with very small amount in hand, it was the word decision among all others. Money started to become a problem of us. But we managed somehow.

The story has many twists as well, 3 months back, both of us lost our laptops, yes both of us. It was a painful time. It took us well two weeks to recover from that. We met with so called startup mentors of India, listened all the bad things one could listen, we iterated our product, pivoted again, but it’s a social app, it takes time to take off. Especially, if you are in India ( nothing that I am complaining). We have all the patience an entrepreneur can have. We got covered in national newspapers as well, but nothing big has happened so far.

It’s been 10 months. We have simplified our product, removed almost all features, we’ve worked on the design, very hard, it’s come out good now.

Lessons that we have learned is, social web app is a saturated market, you are compared with facebook, even if you don’t want, everything can be done by making a facebook app or whatever and you need a lot of good people/networking into the tech world to really get them off the ground. We lack it.

Final words, we are not doing good. We are in good state of mind, have taken all the positive things from it, me and my co-founder has a great co-ordination, it’s just that we didn’t pick the right idea or we were too young then. Now, we are at the point that we want to take some decision, whether to move on, do something else or to stick on it for some more time.

Personally, I am thinking of working at a startup in SV. The biggest thing I lack is exposure, contacts and the experience of working in a real startup environment. I am not really sure, if that is even possible. But I really want to make things move things fast from here on.

I need advice from fellow hackers.
nice, except there's more than 365 days in a year : )

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The problem with perls (5, 6, N) is that most of the competent, intelligent committers were either (a) subverted by O'Reilly contracts into being ardent defenders of the status quo, (b) fed up with waiting for years in order to get unintelligible exegeses from a chief committer who apparently lost all interest and was unable or unwilling to delegate, (c) driven into bafflement by the rivening of p5p into scads of unmanaged sublists and lost interest, (d) discovered thriving and engaged communities in languages not riddled top to bottom by political, organizational and leadership problems, or (e) fell into the black leather-winged embrace of crufty corporate nonsense that is python.

The numbering system merely hastened the demise by further making sure that any sensible interested committer would first check to see what was going on with the latest branch, discover it was the same godawful non-navigable incompetent mess of splintered crazy version wreckage floating abandoned on a lake of ennui that you can trivially see before you today, and run like fuck in the opposite direction.

The principal problem with perl today is that it still exists, and that last tenuous skeleton crew of 2-3 smart people who still struggle in vain to breathe life into its long dessicated corpse is still capering about claiming that there's still! some! path! to! relevance!, rather than doing the noble thing and finding employ as dishwashers or carpet cleaning fluid salesmen.
We don't set prices for add-on providers offerings, but note that Redis is an in-memory database and that memory is more expensive -- per GB -- than disk. (I'm an AppHarbor co-founder)
It's such a complex mess, these simple solutions don't even begin to grasp at understanding the system.

Just because it's complex doesn't mean we can't work towards trying to solve or improve this issue. We can either try to improve it for entrepreneurs and users, or allow it to continue to work in the best interest of sitting squatters.
You don't have a multi-course meal with matched wines every night.

Sometimes (most of the time unless you have a really deep bank account) you just have to feed yourself. When you just have to feed yourself, eat something healthy.

Exercise releases all of the good feeling brain chemicals. As A life long computer-nerd/couch potato, I will testify that it is shocking how good it feels to exercise.

Eating properly and being in shape does a ton to boost self image. (As i'm sure motor bikes and nice meals do too).

Of course, none of pleasurably food, excitement and a healthy lifestyle are mutually exclusive.
"anything that flashes "12:00" when it loses power "

Not true. That anything could as well be a battery-less quartz driven clock that doesn't rely on grid frequency but needs power.
Lol, funny fact is that I have been collaborating with dpkg team in Debian and they created an identical function in C to report ANY error condition. I've read a lot of //D'OH and //ROFLMAO comments in rhythmbox source code so I guess this is pretty common over open source devs within the Linux community!
I know you guys don't set the price, just found it odd. It's persistent in-memory according to wikipedia, doesn't that make it like mongodb?
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It's good ol' chestnuts like this that made me think of the "rerun" button: http://bit.ly/ek6kqi
Instead of upvoting you would click the rerun link to signal the content as duplicate (but worthy). This would move it out of the news and to a dedicated classics page of timelessly good content.
> So because you don't use C commonly

Where did you get that idea?

The author talks about writing C libraries that depend on GTK+, GLib, APR, D-Bus, and the like. There's no way in hell I'd write a C library that depends on that stuff. Above some layer, C is no longer the right tool for the job; you're better off switching to C++ or to a dynamic language. From the author's examples I see no appreciation for this fact.
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Seems it was selling domains (that's what happens when skimming and not paying attention to URLs) but blogger was being used as a placeholder and directory type thing, so that probably falls into the category of "exploit for any commercial purposes"
Boy I can't believe you were going to pay 500 bucks for a .com domain with your name. The guy who's owning mine is asking for not less than $6K so I just went for the '.me' which is at least as nice looking as '.com' and adds a cool factor to your emails/business cards. Everyone seems not to believe that your email can be me@yourname.me but I'd say that it looks catchy aint it?
That's the intent; the video was shot by a vibration tester manufacturer (an awkward phrase). If you go to the URL at the end, it says that it's a promotion for a predictive maintenance tool that uses vibrations.
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