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From what I understand speaking with an immigrations attorney will be best advised due to the sensitive nature of your concern. Should you be wrongly advised it can cause financial strain on your business and your partnership. I'm assuming that would restrict you from providing yourself a salary meaning you won't be able to be an active participant only a passive. In sum, you would be able to invest as a shareholder not an executive. There is also the option of getting your start up to sponsor a visa or a H1B for you but that's a bit complex best inquired to a legal professional. Again I suggest getting official legal advice because one inaccurate move can result in permanent banning/ deportation or even monetary fines.
I'm the founder of one of the leading coworking spaces in the world, and our space and community wouldn't exist if it weren't for Amit Gupta's "Jelly" http://workatjelly.com

Amit's brilliant, kind, and as others have said here is one of my favorite humans on this planet.

It was a very, very strange day where in 24 hours:

1) I got a call about being a bone marrow match for a 30 year old man with leukemia
2) Steve Jobs passed from cancer
3) A dear friend's battle with cancer went crazy-public as he searches for help with this match.

I have great confidence that with the amount of good that Amit has put into the world, he stands a chance of finding a match. I'm very happy to see the internet rallying behind him.
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>If you're going to argue that Apple somehow represent those values then we should just move on to the next point.

Mac OSX is quite open [1]. No, their IOS devices aren't as open and I'm glad of that. IOS devices are appliances, not full power computers [2]. That means I don't have to fiddle with it to get it to work. It just works, or it's defective so I replace it. Most people aren't geeks and shouldn't be forced to be. Hollywood doesn't force us to take stage acting classes just to watch a movie. We shouldn't make using the Internet something one needs a class for.

>Honestly, if I'm going to idolize someone

Do you know what this site is about? It's largely about entrepreneurship. Steve did what we all dream of: he followed his dream and managed to change the world. Did he solder every chip, carve out ever piece of plastic by hand? Of course not. No one man could do all those things. But it was his vision and he did what it took to make it happen.

[1] http://opensource.apple.com/

[2] Even if the hardware could support such a thing. This is more of a concept, a way of looking at the devices.
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Also not a lawyer, but pretty sure that no license is the same as "All rights reserved" (meaning, the most restrictive possible). Claiming "All rights reserved" doesn't give you more rights, but does establish that you communicated it and that anyone violating it had a better chance of knowing that.

(I think -- not a lawyer)

His statement to fork, fix, and ask for pulls perhaps gives some rights, but not usage or deployment ones.

In other word, if the author intends something else, they should say so.

EDIT: just noticed ThirdParty folder -- that changes the default to whatever is compatible with the licenses asserted in these libraries. I didn't check them.
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But, if you don't even try to prove part of a process correct, it's almost certainly wrong. See the excellent work that John Regehr's group is doing related to compiler and optimization verification/testing (http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/research/ ), much of which has been talked about here.

There are other folks who have successfully done formal verification of operating systems, device drivers, hardware design, etc. It's a big, hard problem, but we'll get to the "whole stack" eventually.
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That's scary, I did my own screenshot to whine about it on Facebook. I didn't realise that so many other people had done pretty much the same thing.
A lot of these options are going in the absolute wrong direction, I think. They are cool for power users, but that is such a small portion of the population. My grandma can use a Mac specifically because there are like 2 buttons for her to press on any window.
No license/no copyright declaration means no rights in all countries that have signed the Berne Convention (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_convention). This includes the USA since 1989.
Ask HN: Convert c to lisp?
Hi I'm trying to find a program or library that can convert an arbitrary procedural program written in c, java, perl or any similar language to a functional language like lisp or haskell.

There are a couple of tools to go the other way or embed lisp in a c program (since you can just "unwind" lisp declarations like a macro):

http://www.interhack.net/projects/lpp/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TPPW3i4v9A

And I found ECL which lets you call c from lisp and vice versa, but doesn't seem to do any actual conversion of the code or make any guarantees that it's correct or without side effects.

It should be possible to do this, at least for a very simple program that for example only has access to the input and output streams:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church-Turing_thesis

Am I just being naive? Is this a nontrivial problem? If so, this seems like it would be an interesting research topic.

I very much need a c to lisp converter so that I can rapidly prototype my functions and results without having to think in a purely functional manner, because it doesn't tend to match the real world and worse, I can't explain my code to other people. I would also like to evolve my code with genetic algorithms and it's much easier to do that with lisp than syntax-heavy languages. If this is a truly intractable problem then I wonder if this has anything to do with the problems facing software engineering today.

Thanks!
>"Whole top management being replaced (CEO, CTO, etc),"

That's probably relevant evidence regarding the value those people placed on their stock options and/or the attitude of the controlling shareholders regarding the value placed on early hires and founders.
Virtualbox works fine for you (And me too, apparently). But it visibly does not for many, as vboxdrv makes things crash in such volume that it spams bug reporting databases enough for someone to be pissed out enough by that fact to put together a patch containing creative names. Also enough (yet probably not vbox specific but it sure masks vboxdrv data) that Debian, Suse and RHEL took proactive measures to flag all out of tree modules.
Wonder how many false positives this would generate at the metal detectors in a Wal Mart.
If this is in reply to Tim Berners Lee writing the web on a NeXt, it is not false. He also went to Paris to a conference to show Steve the stuff with his black NeXt. Unfortunately he (Tim) was at the end of the line and Steve had to leave before seeing his "web".
Actually if I recall, since then, Tim never met Steve until very recently or perhaps they have never met.
OSX is not resolution independent, the UI shrinks when the resolution increases. This is not the case for Windows 7 (and older versions) though, dont know about Linux.
How do you do that in Windows 7? It would actually be useful for me on occassion, but it never even crossed my mind that I could have a new window open up in a new explorer process.
I'm 24 and I still even zoom NYT (though that may be just so that the article fills my view.)
Yes, but the product of that creative choice is a fact. Here's a relevant quote from Feist v. Rural http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US...

Quote (emphasis added):

This inevitably means that the copyright in a factual compilation is thin. Notwithstanding a valid copyright, a subsequent compiler remains free to use the facts contained in another's publication to aid in preparing a competing work, so long as the competing work does not feature the same selection and arrangement. As one commentator explains it: "[N]o matter how much original authorship the work displays, the facts and ideas it exposes are free for the taking. . . . [T]he very same facts and ideas may be divorced from the context imposed by the author, and restated or reshuffled by second comers, even if the author was the first to discover the facts or to propose the ideas." Ginsburg 1868.
Just confirmed I use hacker news @ 298% zoom. Impressive :)
Wondering what you all utilize?
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I don't know much about HIPAA and medical privacy, but I do know it only aplies in the US, and (I think) you can sign your way out of it.
However, that said there would still be a bunch of concerns, involving who has access to what.
It's annoying - I mean yes he made some excellent products and an arguably visionary ability to capitalise on consumers, but most of his products were hardly original - he just took existing ideas and made them more user friendly and pretty.
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Mercury (relative of Prolog) greatly simplifies constraint solving and parsing as well. Packrat parsers for PEGs (a kind of unambiguous grammar) are a natural consequence of Mercury's support for DCG notation and memoization. Mercury also has builtin support for user-defined constraint solvers.
I think part of the problem is that, from what I'm starting to understand, to talk in a critical way about a just passed away person in the US is a much bigger problem than in Europe.

So you take as an offense or lack of taste what is completely ok here.

I just said good things about the iPhone 4s itself, I'm probably going to take one. I just think that it is possible to build a company doing great things with a less closed vision, and with a less aggressive marketing.

For years they had people buying products just for a sort of mystic reason, even when the product was not better at all. Now they make you pay a lot for a phone (630 euros for an iPhone here in Italy) and the next year you can't run the new features even if they are just software, even if you want to pay for the additional software.

This is not a fair way to conduct business. This is a way to grab a lot of money, not to give access to the new way of communicating to everybody.

Steve jobs concurred a lot in creating this kind of culture. I like less products Google is creating, and I use Apple products, but Google is a better company from almost all the ethical point of views. They try to stay in the business while contributing to the world in a wider sense, not just for their customers.
I use VirtualBox to run Ubuntu 32-bit and various other Linux distros on Win7 64-bit. No Truecrypt or Dropbox is involved. I have similar occasional issues with shared folders.

Access denied randomly when trying to overwrite files. Files renamed in the host becoming inaccessible from the guest. NTFS symlinks in the host appearing as normal folders in the guest one day and as broken links the next day. Terribly slow I/O overall. I used to bookmark and keep track of several bug reports on the official bugtracker, but I gave up because nobody seemed to care.

The only reason I still use shared folders is because it's still slightly less painful than CIFS/Samba.
You know, I have some feeling surrounding Jobs' passing (while I never met him, I've known a number of people who did -- mostly from 20+ years ago), and I've appreciated the tributes. But there is also the desire and need to discuss it in context. Some respect may well be warranted, and there may not be the need to rush headlong into critical analysis, but Jobs' passing does promote a lot of attention and focus that will not continue indefinitely.

Richard's statement may seem in some ways including timing somewhat harsh, but it's entirely consistent with his position and it is a valuable counterpoint to the notion, and sentimentality, of Jobs as a savior of the technical -- and broader, in various definitions (U.S. industry, design, personal achievement, etc., etc.) -- world.

I felt that HN's front page organically filling with Jobs posts was a fitting, and moving, tribute. But this is also HN, where we analyze and discuss things critically. And I would expect the stories and comments to move to a full and varied spectrum of views.

The resurrection of the Mac, and of Apple, was built in good part upon BSD. Safari was born of Webkit. There is not just an either or in this story, there is a co-opting and commercial progression that is quite worthy of consideration and discussion.

There is also the fact that UNIX/Linux systems remained and remain expensive in the commercial sphere and difficult for the typical end user to manage in the free sphere. More and more people have been appreciating Apple products because, for they most part, they can plug them in, turn them on, and they "just work". It's a relief to have someone else managing "that security stuff" (whatever latent and perhaps nascent weakenesses may as yet remain largely unknown to the general public). And to have someone else deciding, we won't cheapen the design and manufacturing further, to the point where things break in six months or are uncomfortable to use.

Most of us never knew Steve, personally. It's a mark of his influence how we nonetheless feel the effect of his passing on our lives -- at a personal level.

But there needs to be room for a larger conversation. In part precisely because and as a reflection of this influence, there are important matter to discuss. Not all aspects will be flattering of Mr. Jobs. But that is the nature of the position he inhabited and the decisions he made.

So, lets make some room for that discourse.

For my part, "free" vs "walled garden" is a critical distinction playing out right now in the computational and communcations space. What Apple has done and offers really does need close consideration. Monitors and controls are general tools, readily turned to the purpose of the hand that wields them. So, what really will work for us, on this spectrum from "anarchy" to "jail"? Is it really a spectrum, or is it a slippery slope leading inevitably to one extreme or the other?

Steve Jobs made some important decisions and executed them superbly. Were they -- will they be -- the right ones?
I agree that VirtualBox has problems.I was running Ubuntu on Mac OS X using VirtualBox because it was free, however it kept crashing constantly and didn't shut down properly.

I bought Parallels instead, and I am happy so far
It looks incredibly complicated.
Or you could use this tool I wrote: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofjfdfaleomlfanfeh...
On the other hand, a lot of US cities are much more recent and often planned. And if you're in a city with some kind of grid layout, it's a lot easier to navigate – especially if the streets are numbered, instead of named after old mayors, saints and noblemen. Way easier to get lost in Munich than in Manhattan…
When you write code, you automatically have copyright on it (in most countries). Failing to include a copyright notice or including a license text does not make your work fall into the public domain.

As far as I can tell this code is not currently open source. The only permissions given are:
"now fork it, fix it and send pull requests". Which omits some important permissions, without which this cannot be called open source.
It's an extremely complex piece of software that's free. I'm thankful to have it available and find it to work well.
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more of a setback for the free software movement than
anything Microsoft ever did.

Of course RMS would say something like this. Microsoft's business practices gave RMS followers; Steve Jobs took them away. As any RMS-style self-proclaimed bearded prophet/politician/priest/father-figure knows, it's never been about making things but about gaining followers. The beard is not ironic.
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Tell HN: Need a domain for your side project? I've got some.
A while back I ended up buying some decent .com names for a domain-for-startups mvp. I never ended up investing any time in marketing it though, and ended up taking it down. I've still got the names however and I'm willing to part with them for some reasonable prices. I'd rather them get developed into a neat app than just sit there. Just toss me an offer if you like any! You can see the list at ampshout.com
So where do I download the binary for windows?
clickable: http://ampshout.com
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Did you read the page you linked?

"Copyright under the Berne Convention must be automatic" and "Under the Convention, copyrights for creative works are automatically in force upon their creation without being asserted or declared."
It's already in Windows 7: Shift + Right-click in a folder. Then it's in the context menu.
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Yes, see in particular http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_out_the_Trash_Day
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In my opinion subscription services can be lucrative and valuable if you are able to start a venture that is of value to your target customer. You certainly need to spend a sufficient amount of time training your customer service department. Your site would need to be user friendly due to requesting subscriptions can quickly daunt the potential customer if they most go through lengthy questionnaires or profiles. Almost anything can possibly be converted to a subscription but in this economy it would be a great marketing tactic to have at least somethings of a value free of charge until you develop a reputation. I believe this trend will be short-lived because it generally seems the deployment of the site to be somewhat rapid due to limited requirements of customization due to similarities as far as web designing goes. The main concern would be the product and you most certainly would need more than one product in order to be able to compete.
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Press Cmd-Up to go up a folder in OS X (..and Cmd-Down to open a file or folder)
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Finishing up the final touches on our application to YCom. Regardless of what happens this is a great experience for my business partner (brother from another mother) and I. Called my mom to ask her what she thought about a non-computer hack in my life time and she rattled off about a dozen! LOL. When I was 9, home alone, she was at work, the local river was breaching its levies so I went into our garage and pulled out some boating life vests we had and setup a sign on the side of the road and started hawking them to passer-bys. A local police officer who knew me well ;) decided to call her and the local newspaper. The next morning there I was opportunist at work.

I didn't decide to go with that answer for the application but just funny to recount with moms all the out of the box stunts I pulled growing up.

Just thought I would share.
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Your grandma is going to be dead soon. Let her stick with the mac, and let your sister have a better computer.
I think that the quote _is_ true, just not particularly applicable to this exact situation. I meant to mention that yes, I realized it was a stretch, and perhaps there is a more accurate or appropriate quote for this situation.

But what I meant to imply was that for some, freedoms are important enough that they're a part of their lives, and RMS is one of those sorts. It DOES permeate almost everything that he does, and I respect him for being, if nothing else, more of a sentinel than the average person about what impacts our freedoms and what doesn't.

I'll be the first to concede that I am not nearly as vigilant and RMS is, and often participate in things that I don't morally agree with, but here's the real question, I guess... why shouldn't you be able to freely develop software on all the CPUs you own? For what reasons do you allow those constraints?
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I'm kind of dismayed at the lack of innovation, or even appreciation for innovation, in this list. It seems a waste to spend good developers time cloning something like Google Earth, which is marginally useful to begin with, already free (as in beer), just so that it can also be free (as in speech).

Instead, why not spend time working on projects that will attract people to free software because it's only available as free software?
I think you'll have to compile it, looks like a C# project.
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Slightly off-topic but perhaps this'll help a little bit (you may already be doing this):

a. Right-click (Secondary click) on the toolbar in Finder, click on "Customize Toolbar"
b. Add the "Path" icon.
c. This is really useful in that you can go through the folder hierarchy, to the target folder, within a couple of clicks.
Here's an unpopular thought, but one that may not be on the list of "things too taboo to think about" for HN readers.

What if marrow donation was a for-profit industry, or at the very least a nonprofit or government-run industry that allowed people to sell their marrow at market prices? Would Amit and thousands of others in his position be resorting to begging for access to life-saving treatments, or being put on waiting lists that are far too long relative to their prognosis?

My guess is no, with the exception of people too poor to afford access to such materials - which are already so cost prohibitive that this is already a problem. I've never understood why the notion of making a market in organs and other medical materials is such taboo.
I don't know how well it works for sites that are effectively applications, but I wholeheartedly agree when it comes to blogs, articles, and essays.
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Most of this is in Win 7
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While the differences between the Android fork and upstream Linux will introduce pain points during the merge, Linus takes the long view and rightly points out that the Linux project is poised to inherit a huge amount of code that has gone through rigorous real world testing and quite a bit of success.

This is the great thing about the Linux project. If your work doesn't get accepted right away (someone may have objected to the lock model that Android uses, compared to the vanilla Linux lock model), well, just go out in the market and prove that your work is better. Typically with that kind of proof you can start to work on a way forward to integrate your work back in. It's a win-win for the project, since if your endeavor fails they're not stuck with it, but if it takes off they're poised to reap the rewards.

In summary, Forks (that are used for experimental features, not political schisms) are GREAT!
NW Portland springs to mind as a great example. Streets from 1 to 30, cross streets from Burnside, Couch, Davis, all the way up to Wilson.
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I'm a member of BeTheMatch.org and I'm willing to help save a life donating my bone marrow. Spread the word! Better yet, join them! Amit if you read this, contact them, they'll help you find a match. =D

"Stay Hungry! Stay Foolish!"
-Steve Jobs
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This is a good point of view to come from. I just think it's important to emphasize two things, to avoid the monad-insanity that people often get- 1) IO is not the only monad, and 2) monads are not the only, or even best, of this kind of abstraction.

Learning about monads without (applicative) functors makes everything look like an over-complicated nail.