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From their flowerly press release: "With billions of possible combinations, it can take years to break into a WPA/WPA2 protected network. However, WPA/WPA2 protected networks are not immune against distributed attacks performed with GPU-accelerated algorithms. With the latest version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, it is now possible to crack WPA and WPA2 protection on Wi-Fi networks up to 100 times quicker with the use of massively parallel computational power of the newest NVIDIA chips."

Now if only I could somehow get Eclipse to use my GPU to do a compile
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"Although banks perform an essential economic function — bringing together investors and savers — they are not the only institutions that can do this. Pension funds, university endowments, venture capitalists and corporations all bring money to new investment projects without banks playing any essential role."

Ummm... Pension funds invest in the stock market and they depend on banks to help themselves out. Same for univ. endowments and venture capitalists. Corporations still use banks to manage their cash flow and guess how they and everybody else flows their cash through? Banks!!!

If anything, the importance of banks has been highly understated.

PS. This does not imply the necessity of the bailout. The bailout is ultimately unnecessary. Wamu was still solvent from a cash flow perspective when the FDIC took over and even if some large institutions fail (as some already have), there are more than just three or four banks.
I'm in the middle of To Say Nothing Of The Dog by Connie Willis. It is the most hilariousest of the time travel paradoxes, at least that I've ever read. It won a Hugo and was nominated for a Nebula.
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This is not unusual. It only works because you are assuming that time has the properties of space, but you do not want to give it ALL the properties of space!

If you give time a property of space (the moving up and down), then do not select the properties you want to apply.
And he said - Our friendship is too important, I don't see you that way...
Go out to a bar, over some drinks push the idea a lot, see if the other person likes it. At the end, mention that if he ever has interest in joining you, you'd like it.
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Dude, right now is not the time to be speculating in the currency markets. Sit tight, get your assets into something stable. Spread your risk around. Above all get your spending and cash flow under control so you're prepared for events like a job loss.

Do not look for the secret life raft investment that is going to save you, because you'll probably drown holding it.
Man, that's cold!
In Japan, there are two options for paying tax on capital gains. The first, Withholding Tax all proceeds (regardless of profit or loss) at 1.05%. The second method, declaring proceeds as "taxable income" requires individuals to declare 26% of proceeds on their income tax statement.

Many traders in Japan use both systems, declaring profits on the Withholding Tax system and losses as taxable income, minimizing the amount of income tax paid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax#Japan
Yes, but those assets are held by banks, who would otherwise be lending that money back out into the economy. Even a modest drop in total loan values across a very broad market (in this case, the US real estate market) means that a huge amount of money just isn't there any more. So you can't borrow it to fund your startup, or business expansion, etc...
Except that all taxpayers are wealth creators

Not as much as entrepreneurs who deal directly with customers - customers are less forgiving than bosses or PhD advisors. A boss may let you get away with not being productive if you're a nice enough person and trying hard to do your job, but customers want a product for their money.
My assumption is that this has a cap of $250k per year.

I say this because he has repeatedly stated "You will not see an increase in taxes if you make less than $250k per year."
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I like crowdspring a lot, letting me see what various designers propose gives me a good sense of their style.

Great link, thanks.
I like Obama and I'm most likely voting for him, but he was on the team (w/ the Clintons) that's partly to blame for this big mess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivmL-lXNy64

NINJA loans made me cry. No income, no job or assets = APPROVED!
How are capital gains relevant to software entrepreneurs? It seems like they are assets that most early-stage companies wouldn't own and thus couldn't profit from.
Just so I understand: So say a fictional company, let's call it "TicketStumbler", were to issue dividends instead of paying salaries (or pays minimal salaries), the investors and founders of this hypothetical company would not have to pay taxes?

Or am I missing something?
Anyone can issue dividends :).
We should be careful how we structure this.

Consider...Tens of Thousands of out of work financial types along with their lawyers. They start opening law offices and "financial services firms" because entrepreneurs can now operate tax free. Only now we are going back down this road of 'faux wealth creation' that got us here.

Now consider Tens of Thousands of out of work real estate agents who start creating 'startups' that hawk foreclosed homes.

Or Tens of Thousands of out of work mortgage brokers who start their own businesses slinging mortgages for those foreclosed homes.

Are you starting to see the concern I have?

Will these firms be considered 'startups', or part of that section of the economy that creates wealth?

How should we treat the service economy in general? Are services 'wealth'? What are they backed by?

These are very important questions. We should think through this stuff thoroughly prior to enacting policy. Questionable policy is what got us here in the first place.

BTW - I love this idea if it can be somehow restricted to people who start a company producing things that other people will pay money for. As opposed to services. This is the definition of wealth creation.

EDIT : I see payne92 has hit on a similar concern.
Sadly, owning a chandelier from a James Bond movie doesn't make you James Bond. It does not even make you an author of a James Bond movie script. Similar things go for the other stuff in the library...
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A healthy capital market (VC/angel) is always good for the high-technology industry.

With this type of tax reduction, making investments in startups looks more appealing then other investments, driving more capital to software/biotech/chip makers etc.
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I have mixed feelings about this issue. On the one hand, I generally feel that if a company's board of directors wants to shoot the company in the foot, then the shareholders, not the government, have the duty to wrestle away the gun. On the other hand, there's a real principal-agent problem here--there are so many layers between the shareholders and the compensation committee, and so many perverse incentives, that it's easy for the directors to make decisions that are not in the shareholders' best interest.
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Why would you still vote for the guy assuming you understand he had a hand in this current mess? That doesn't make any sense to me.
Well, entrepreneurs are creating additional job opportunities for the economy at large. So if the tax cut creates a more favorable environment for entrepreneurship, there will be more entrepreneurs, and then more jobs should be available. Doesn't seem like the tax payers (who I assume you mean those whose majority of earnings are taxed under income tax rates) are really loosing out when they have more opportunity and a wider job selection.
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Capital gains are very relevant to software entrepreneurs.

If you're a founder, or an investor, or a fortunate early-employee of a startup, capital gains is the tax you'll be paying on the money you make in the event that your company gets acquired.
I used to sleep like this back in high school.
In a similar vein, I'm working on a site to find programming gigs for you http://gigbayes.nfshost.com.

I'm thinking to announce it to HN in a week or so but some early feedback here would also be appreciated.

Let me know what you think, it uses a Bayesian classifier to predict what gigs you'll like, and it's my first ajaxy web app.
As an entrepreneur and investor, I think Obama's proposal solves a "problem" that doesn't really exist.

First, long term cap gains tax rates are already quite low (relative to regular income), and I can't think of a single entrepreneurial or investor scenario where I've seen: "gee, if tax rates were lower I'd {invest,start this company}"

Second, it will be tough to implement in a loop-hole proof way. Every private equity and hedge fund will be organizing "startup" projects, so they can make take profits tax free. My guess is it will be capped, making it even less of any sort of meaningful incentive.

My take: there are other tax areas that need work first, like code simplification and AMT.
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I envy anyone who can consistently get more then 6 hrs a night.
Bad loans did not create the mess, they are a symptom of the mess. Excess credit caused by some serious deregulation is what created the mess. Once the excess credit was available, banks wanted to leverage it and that started bad loan crap because they can't profit of their newly available leverage if they don't loan it to someone. The dems are not to blame here, mostly the republicans are.

The housing market was just a convenient place to dump all the excess credit, had that not been doable the investment banks would have just found some other sector to lend to, problem would still have occurred.
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7 to 8, but rarely straight through (I have kids)
It's just a favor for the rich (the cynical part of me asks how many VCs give money to Democrats?). Most small startups, computers, software or otherwise, are not suffering from high capital gains taxes. A general corporate tax cut (we have the 2nd highest corporate tax rate in the world), perhaps targeted at small companies, would be a lot more interesting.
Complicated paradoxes like these make me appreciate simple ones like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder

After I saw Donnie Darko, I had to spend most of the night and early morning reading the theories which was fun. Great movie.

I recall Biff from Back to the Future saying in an interview he had no idea what was going on in the last film of the trilogy.
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Right, because a corporation that builds a new shipping terminal or rail line does nothing for society.
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The 250k a year discussion is related to income tax, not capital gains.
Not everything is black and white, he could still like him for other reasons, or even just like him more than the other guy.
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I don't think it makes sense to talk about "deregulation" as the problem. The problem is mis-regulation. No doubt some aspects of banking were over-regulated and others were under-regulated, but the real problem is that the regulations which were in place were the wrong ones.

The danger in talking about "deregulation" as the problem is that it makes it sound as if we can solve it for the future just by putting more regulations in place. Unless the new regulations are exactly the right ones, it'll only create new problems.
Changing the rule that held banks to a 15:1 leverage and allowed to them to loan out at up to 40:1 in some cases can absolutely be called deregulation. Fractional reserve lending is already a seriously fucked up concept as is, let alone at such ridiculous ratios.

3 of the 5 companies that were allowed to do this have now sunk, the proof is in the pudding.
To argue the opposite:

The author suggests that other institutions (pensions, universities, etc.) bring investors together with savers. It's true, but not to the same extent. Banks are primary. Drying up a majority of the way that it happens will have a drastic effect despite the fact that other ways exist.

The author argues that corporations get 25% of their investment funds from their own profits and that could go to 75% if they stopped paying dividends. The problem is that still leaves a 25% gap there which is sizable. Not only that, but profits don't help firms who are just starting up.

I'm not all doom and gloom about the economy (even today), but I don't think the importance of banks is understated. The author is essentially arguing that if we scraped the bottom of the barrel, we could probably replicate what banks do (bringing investors and savers together) to a certain percentage. That's true, but what if your work just started paying you 50%. It might be hard to meet your next month's bills.
Because I believe people learn from their mistakes...
The email notification is probably the biggest thing. My Gmail account right now primarily consists of notifications. Which gives me comfort that others are seeing these as well. So I know that when I use various social media sites, others will know when I've interacted. Twitter's @reply is another good tool, one that doesn't have the email notification.

Without those types of attention hooks, I'd be less likely to use the sites.
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How about gambling with other people's money?
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That's a shame, because defining a "startup" is the most crucial part of the proposal, and I'm not convinced it can be done sensibly.

I'm not sure I approve of the whole idea, but I have to admit it would have good consequences if it were implemented correctly. However, if I could be so bold as to propose Hugh's First Law of Politics, it would be this:

The unintended consequences of any policy change are almost always more significant than the intended consequences.

And this is almost always doubly so if you're either (a) deploying the military or (b) creating a huge new tax loophole.

I foresee two problems. The first is under-defining startups. As others have pointed out by now, it's not that difficult for some rich guy to start a "startup company" in order to handle all his capital-gains producing affairs. Wanna buy an investment property? Better start a company to hold it, so that you can sell it without capital gains tax. Pretty soon you'd have a huge collection of "fake" startups which would probably swamp the real ones.

The second possibility is over-defining startups. In order to overcome the problem of fake startups, you define that a "real" startup must have properties X, Y and Z. But some day somebody might start a real startup that's so innovative in its business model that it has X and Z but not Y. Pretty soon you're actually holding back the startup scene by restricting the kinds of startups which people can produce. And at the very least, it's going to create a new administrative burden for startups, who are going to have to spend some time proving to the government that they're real startups and aren't engaging in any unstartuplike activities.

Those are the two problems I can think of, off the top of my head. There might be others which I can't think of (but which no doubt will seem obvious in hindsight).
But do those who do it wrong get punished, or do they get to keep the $240M? I've seen a lot of incompetent CEOs walk away with substantial golden parachutes, while employees harmed by their actions got nothing but two week's noticw...
I thought the sale of true luxury goods is less elastic -- demand for $5,000 computer sales may be a better bet than $2,000 computer sales (relatively) in an economic downturn because the people who buy $5,000 computers have spending habits that are not impacted by the current economic climate. That being said, I would be interested in figures about relative losses in wealth for different economic strata.
Health care's a bigger deterrent to startups than capital gains taxes are.
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I can get around with 5h/night but it depends. if I can get more (in weekends), I sleep more (about 9-10h). But I don't seem to really need it...
I agree.

But I clicked through anyway, and, looking through the pictures, I started thinking about the stereotypy of emotion al expression, which reminded me that someday I should read Darwin's "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" (http://human-nature.com/darwin/emotion/contents.htm).

So, no upvote for the article, but not totally useless to me, either.
$22 would be a great deal for MSFT and a poor deal for yahoo's shareholders. That being said, I recently had to explain to someone that 'yahoo' used to mean something along the line of 'hooligan'.. get off my lawn!
Bump. What an incredible movie.

It's even more amazing considering that the guy who plays Aaron (one of two main characters) also wrote the script, directed, edited and produced the movie, and also composed the music ... drumroll .. all on a budget of seven thousand dollars !
This is one of those things that gets posted to Reddit every couple of months.
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I can see the problem that this company wants to solve.

However, for most people, including me, the problem is that there are too many "Press 9 to speak to a human", not too few.

The real problem to solve, is how to automate systems so that you don't have to call companies for chicken-shit issues, stuff that you could probably solve through a web system anyhow.
Google saw increases in revenue despite the shrinking economy (although this was before the recent events of the past few weeks). The explanation was that more consumers were going online to shop in order to save some money.

I think businesses that by function, cut costs and increase ROI will do well. Just trying to figure out what the best way to do that is.
First thing is: guys who post their own blogs are lame lame lame.

Second thing is: when you call it an exercise "hack" you already screwed up. The whole thing about getting in shape is that there is no quick hack. There is no short term solution. Getting in shape is not a hack. Getting in shape is a permanent lifestyle change. Otherwise you might as well just get some lipo and some buttcheek implants.

For those who care: you should get in shape, if you are an entrepreneur, for no other reason than because having a healthier body will also give you a sharper mind, quicker mental response time, increased alertness, and just all around better mood. Don't believe me? Just try this simple experiment: Go eat a salad and then try to solve a sudoku puzzle. Now go eat a pizza and a cheeseburger and then try to solve a sudoku puzzle.

No time? Check out this book called "High Intensity Training" by Mike Mentzer. He recommends short (20 min) workouts once a week, and as your body and nervous system becomes more trained and able to exert more of their maximal output in a workout, you have to take longer and longer breaks (like 2 weeks in between workouts) for your body to recover.
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Seconded. Thats what I use for my house. In fact, I just disable security on my wifi network and use a QoS setup to discriminate between traffic.
On weekdays I go to bed at 2 and wake up at 7. On the weekends I usually go to bed at 2 and wake up at 11. You just need to get into a routine.
Re: PS: always something to learn :)

I agree that it has uses, but needing to go to a website to use an alarm is totally over it for me. I have been using my computer as an alarm for many years now. I think it is a total waste of energy if you need to go to a website and stay on a website for the alarm to work. Mine puts the computer into sleep mode, and wakes it up right before the alarm goes off.

With all this energy-conscious-ness going on, unless Sleep.FM makes an offline client that can sleep your computer, I a bear. Twits/calls to phone may be an exception, but for me that largely loses the point of a computer-run alarm (where you can play MP3s at obscene volumes). Just my POV.
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Re: over-defining startups,

For both problems you cite, the worst case scenario comes down to the situation without that law, right? A startup that has X and Z but not Y, will be no worse with the new law than without it. And if the "new administrative burden" wasn't worth it, startups could ignore it and pay their taxes.

You may argue that startups that fail to get the tax discount would incur a competitive penalty. I don't think this handicap would be really insurmountable for enough startups that the loss from their failure would outweight the overall gains elsewhere.
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It's been an interesting trade off. I've not tracked the reasoning behind it, but just from watching how things have played out the strong rates managed to establish the euro as a significant foreign reserve currency, while on the other hand hurting european exports. For the latter reason I'd (again, mostly just uninformedly) expected a rate cut for a while.
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been designing 99designs for about 2 weeks know and im becoming increasingly frustrated. this blog here http://www.graphicpush.com/99designs-bullshit-20 about sums up all my grievences. what is really depressing is when clients refuse to leave any feedback on a design you spent 5 hours on, merely awarding you one star an not telling you what they dislike about it so you can make changes. you can end up feeling like a whore in a line-up.

i click on some users' folios and i see that even the best of them might have entered 200 contests to have only 5 wins. in short, the only people this is a win for are the founders making off with a cool $40 for each contest started.
> guys who post their own blogs are lame lame lame.

totally disagree. If you wrote something that may be interesting to an audience, why not post it? Gaming the voting system is lame, but posting your own stuff is no big deal.

Anyway, my book recommendation is always "Infinite Intensity" by the excellent Ross Enamait: http://www.rosstraining.com/infiniteintensity.html . The marketing is cheesy, and the writing's not that of a pulitzer prize winner, but the attitude is right and the workouts are great. He gives the appropriate research findings so that you can go read for yourself if you want.
SMS ringtones and SMS porn are all premium services and naturally are not be affected by a 3 cent transaction fee. This hurts companies that send out free opt in SMS alerts and subsidize them with advertising at the bottom of the message. Up until now, their model was to build up scale which gets them a lower per message fee with the aggregators. However even with large volumes their margins are a few cents at best. This 3 cent "transaction fee" kills them.
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You asked what we get, not what we need. Much of the industrialized world lives with too little sleep.

I need eight to ten hours to function well. Perverse lifestyle choices have put me in a position in which I get three to four hours.
When I was a teenager, I thought it was cool to stay up for 36+ hours at a time. When I started doing more serious programming work, I realized you couldn't do careful, quality software development without a solid night's sleep.

If you get less sleep than you need, you're robbing yourself.