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Yes, I've long supported the so-called "negative income tax" -- the name is confusing; what it means is that below a certain income level, the IRS gives you money instead of you having to pay it, with the amount you receive being a monotonically increasing function of your income that is zero at the same income at which your tax reaches zero.

Personally I've long been inclined to the view that we should replace our existing welfare, unemployment, and Social Security systems with the NIT. Although SS has been sold as a retirement savings system, it is really a transfer payment system, a reality that is starting to become inescapable. It's just not right, I believe, for a transfer payment system not to involve means-testing -- there's no way to justify taking money from young middle-class workers, many with families, to support retirees who are well off anyway.

For some very interesting arguments against the NIT, backed by some experimental data, see: http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/NegativeIncomeTax.html

I actually think the problems could probably be solved, but I have to grant that they are nontrivial.
I'm currently working on a startup that's attempting to solve a very big problem, and it sucks up all of my time at the momment.. I wouldn't even begin to think about taking on anything else at this point. I also want the project to succeed as well, and I know that in order for that to happen (I'm currently the only developer) I need to be working on it almost all the time -- I even work on it on weekends because the work is intriguing...we haven't yet launched but it takes all my time developing what basically can be considered a brand new web platform from scratch
I know, it would be surely better to work only one of them. But I think I didn't explained the issue very good. It took 6 month to make the first startup to work, 1 year to automate it fully, to be able to work on other projects. Even it's fully automated, I have to control everyday how it's doing, what problems project manager has etc. and it takes my time and I can't concentrate me on the next project. Maybe the problem is in automation, or I have to find a good CEO for my first startup?
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I'm guessing that is done to get out of a lease. commercial lease costs have tanked throughout much of the country over the last few years.
I don't know anything about Greece, but speaking of my country of origin (Czech Republic) is quite a big problem to set up credit card payments, not speaking about much bigger administrative burden and costly process of setting up company.
I always frown a little when my older (by a dozen years or so) co-workers get frustrated when moving to new tech, like git. :( Too often they'll bristle at the mere suggestion that they should keep the dedicating an hour or two of their spare time each week/month to reading and learning new things.

Its not hard, regardless of obligations outside of the office. You can't just sit back and rest on the stuff you learned 10 years ago...
I would have taught it's the opposite. If women are discriminated against because of having children, I guess the companies that doesn't discriminate against women (or even actively helps them) would get all the good ones?
Technology reporting at the Economist can be hit-or-miss, but this was a surprisingly informative read.
Like others have mentioned also, by spreading yourself out onto too many projects you limit the chances of success that any one will get..Find the most intriguing/interesting project and give 110% to that, drop the rest until you exit the first (hopefully successfully), then you can re-explore your passion projects with less pressure (that is, if you get a nice money cushion from the first venture)
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Jack Dorsey is the right guy to answer this.
http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/11/14/jack-dorsey-do...
Fair enough. I actually do think there are countries that are in a better relative position than both the U.S. and Eurozone, but none that I can think of in Asia. Specifically, most of the Northern European countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway), Canada, Australia, and, surprisingly, Brazil.
Mostly regular phones (nokia 1200s are ubiquitous) but especially in places like Kenya, smartphone penetration is beginning to increase quickly. SMS and USSD are generally most useful. WAP can be used, but penetration of WAP enabled phones is much lower. One thing that works at times when a WAP interface is required is to follow some sort of "kiosk" model where someone who has a WAP-enabled phone provides services for others without.
>Using a three-dimensional chip design Intel plans to shrink that even further over the next couple of years, to 22nm and then 14nm, and sell chips that beat the competition on both energy-efficiency and performance.

/facepalm.

The rest is pretty good, though, I think.
There's a secret key involved in the anti-spoofing part of GPS, but I don't know if it's actually called a "red key" by people who use it.
for me drugs are like monkey patching - really cool way to quickly fix things, but it is addicting and can lead to huge mess in the end. Instead we should build system to make sure long term system operate well.
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If you do, let me know and I'll link to it!
For you python users, the BeautifulSoup module has a prettify module which does the same thing.
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Im currently working on 3 concurrently. The main thing is that I have good teams surrounding me on all 3. If you have QUALITY people surrounding you, you can accomplish a lot
It is almost always better to work on them one after the other. I am currently bootstrapping my startup through consulting/freelancing. Even though i try to restrict my consulting work to about 20 hrs/week, there is always spillovers. But the biggest problem is that of a context-switch. It is just not easy, at least to me, to quickly switch from a consulting gig to my own startup effort. One of the 2 always suffers.
Esoko http://www.esoko.com/ is a good example. I've seen these in action in various places and I've been skeptical about how much value they actually bring to the table. Price information actually disperses pretty quickly, and for most commodities prices aren't that volatile. In the markets where wholesalers sell vegetables, you see people getting screwed by the middlemen, but basically it's because these middlemen control the marketplace, not because of lack of information.
I get it. Thanks for writing it.
As an entrepreneur, it doesn't make sense to accept no profitability though, and that's what the original article was all about. Trying to maintain profitability in the face of all the obstacles he mentioned.
Of course, I'm not a native english speaker.
But you din't replied to my question. Can you?
Many plants are greatly over-watered.

Electronics such as this are usually asleep, drawing tiny amounts of power (we had one in a shipping container that needed it's battery changed no more than 18 months).
> He compares himself to Stallman and Torvalds without having anything nearly as impressive as an OS kernel, C compiler or debugger.

Does he compare his hacking abilities to Stallman and Torvalds?

My impression is that he considers himself a tribal elder, and compares himself to Stallman and Torvalds in that respect. But that's not quite the same.
It's a problem when businesses still have to pay the employee's salary while she is on maternity leave in addition to the salary of her replacement.

This is not true, the maternity is paid by the state. He mentions the high taxes as another problem, but in fact that's why they are that high, it's the same problem looked from the other side.

Also, there is a lot of productivity lost during the transitions.

It's common here, that women on maternity take a correspondence course or learn languages, etc. Often they are more skilled at the time of their return.

The law is like that because companies are much more powerful than the individuals. They have to take you back, that's fine, but still they can (and often do) offer you a position 300 km from your home, or exclusively in night shifts, effectively force you to quit.
what does it mean when the colours get bigger as i mouse over them? is something else meant to happen? i guess that should mean they are clickable, or that something else is changing, but i don't see anything else change and nothing happens when i click. is something broken (chrome latest stable, linux)?

[edit: and if not, please don't do that.]
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Except that the process of proving discrimination is neither cheap nor an easy feat. How do they do it where you live?
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I care about quality output, pure and simple. Productivity in our technology stack is what I'm looking for in candidates. I've encountered basically two types of programmers who are 50+ (my guess on their age, based on resume dates).

Those who (still) possess that curiosity to learn and the drive to create. They may not be completely current with every late-breaking technology (show me anyone who really does, for that matter), but they embrace change and strive for improvement. They are the ones that make you forget about age -- young, old or somewhere in between.

And then there are those who seem like they walked in with their high-school letterman's jacket on, hanging on something they did years and years ago -- and having trouble transitioning to today's world.

While many people associate those 50 and older as "seniors", not everyone maintains senior-level status in this business. As we all age, we would do well to remember to rely on our natural instincts for curiosity and learning to keep the fires stoked and remain relevant in an industry that will continue to change for years to come.
AvWeek is a more reliable source than the blogs repeating breathless "OMG IRAN SPOOFED GPS" stories. http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckC...
Not really. That is imbuing the situation with your political preferences re: privacy.
I'm going through a very difficult time in my personal life and meds have been a crucial supplement to other forms of therapy. They would be much less impactful if the underlying issues weren't being addressed though.
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The "log jam" effect tends to mean that your inefficiency goes exponentially with the number of projects you're trying to juggle (where "projects" are anything which regularly requests time).
Why should they do this in their spare time? If it is important to the business, shouldn't the employers provide time for their employees to learn new technologies?
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I see that they mention sanitizer and give an example of how to call it, but I can't find any real-life code doing sanitization. Am I missing something? (I'm curious about the level of complexity such library would require in 'client' code.)
Here is an honest answer that you won't hear from many others. Startups are not the best option for 50 year olds.

Most 50 year olds demand high salaries, aren't willing to work long hours (let alone nights and weekends), are far less familiar with new technologies and less willing to learn, and are much more cynical than 20 somethings. The risk, uncertainty, and low structure environment of a startup is just a bad fit for the age group in general.

Our society hasn't yet adapted to the fact that as people get older in technology, they get less competent but demand higher and higher salaries due to their increasing fixed costs (mortgage, etc.).

Those who will argue with you about the above facts want to eat their cake and keep it too, like the women who want to have kids and pregnancy and a social life but also want to make it big at a high tech startup. People do not want to acknowledge that tradeoffs exist: that women with young children can't put in long hours or that old folks just aren't as plastic and supple.

Some engineers age like Ken Ritchie, and stay sharp. Some go into management or do consulting on legacy systems. Those are all legit options. A 50 something should have enough savings to bankroll his own startup; that too is a legit option. But working at a YC-style startup is not likely to be a good fit.
OT: why do websites find it useful to disable the up/down arrow keys? It is not. It's very annoying. Make navigation a pain in the butt. Make people never want to come back to your site.
Looks more like a talent acquisition based on the press release.
I think this is mainly a USA thing. I've practiced Yoga for years in the Netherlands, and if anything, it is about not straining yourself, or if you do stretch something, to only stretch it when you can be completely feeling and aware of the thing you're stretching. You need that awareness first and foremost, and then the posture.

It's incredibly hard, nearly impossible, to feel and be aware in a body part when it's in pain from overstretching or tension. Consciousness doesn't like to go there, as long as the nerves are occupied with sending pain signals, they're not doing much feeling. If you ignore or block the pain you're not being aware, but if you do, the pain is "louder" than anything else, so you're still not getting much.

It's stupid and useless. The goal should be the awareness, so you're much better off doing simple postures, or simplified versions of complex postures, or just see how far you can go while still being comfortable and aware.

If you practice it this way, you'll know when you're going too far, because your awareness will fade (you'll often just realize it in hindsight, though, in the moment, you're not aware that you're not aware, just like Dunning-Kruger) and if you don't, that's what the teacher is for. S/he will pay attention to the students and notice when they're more involved with doing a posture than with paying attention to what all there is to feel inside their bodies.

I just can't get my head around this, to get all the benefits of Yoga, you can just stick to the simplest postures and do them a lot (unless you're injured in which case you do them even simpler, the Sawasana is just lying down flat on your back, so there's always that one). If you try postures that are too complicated or straining for your body-flexibility, you'll get nothing! Except injury! It's just stupid, these supposed "experienced" Yoga practitioners, "advancing" to more and more complicated postures, I suppose every time they feel "comfortable" in some posture they move on to something new! They're missing the whole point! Feeling comfortable? Good. Everything you did before was not Yoga, but warming-up and stretch exercises. It's Yoga when you can relax in a posture, without strain, without pain. And if there's some posture for which that seems impossible to you, do a different one. It's okay, they're not "better" than the ones you're comfortable in.
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This is probably a lie. The Google interview is not particularly hard. It might be hard if you absolutely refuse to ever let your eyes look at anything that could possibly be considered an "algorithms book", but otherwise... it's stuff that you will know if you care about computer programming at all. The questions are about applying big concepts, not implementation details of particular algorithms. (I couldn't write A* from memory, but I do know what an "admissible heuristic" is. And that's good enough to be hired by Google.)
Being from Europe originally and having lived in Silicon Valley now for more than 10 years, I did the math on comparative taxes.

In the end, it's a wash. If you take into account everything. I make more money in the US. But my retirement costs are higher. And by the time I put two kids through college (college is free in some European countries), it basically balances the extra cash I made over a 20-year career.

Of course, for any given situation (single, dual income no kids), your results will vary. But I'd argue that a household with 2 kids is fairly common.
I wrote a post on this last night (published this morning) http://nickoneill.com/the-most-common-way-entrepreneurs-kill... ... my main conclusion is that running multiple startups at the same time is a great way to kill your startups. Yes, there are always exceptions to the rule (e.g. Jack Dorsey) but until you have a company that has a massive team that can support your business on an ongoing basis, it's not likely to work.
Or distributers could use a special interface, which won't flag it as "dirty". They would use it, because it could help them track how fake goods are getting fed into their system.
"And I'd encourage everybody to be open about their plans to have kids or not."

I have been asked on two separate occasions by two different bosses making a decision about hiring me on a non-temporary basis about my plans regarding children. I was 18 and 20, and am a woman. No way was I going to say anything other than "I hate kids" regardless of the truth. I don't want an employer making decisions based on my ability to carry children until the day comes that I decide I want a child.

Though I'm happy that no one as disrespectful of their employees and immature as the OP is going to hire me.
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I think you're confusing "rights" and "freedom to persue".

Capitalism is about free trade and voluntary exchange (of whatever); "right to profit" and "right to salary" sound both horrible and rather anti-capitalistic.
Starting on multiple help if they are similar and you can share resources between them, like design/arch/code/services/hardware. It's difficult to context switch between project/product with the same efficiency. I found it easier to devote one week or two weeks on one and then switch to another.
That's not as true any more. I know a number of couples that "started late" and will be in their fifties just as their kids enter the ~10+ year old age range where after-school activities ramp up yet the kid can't drive. People having kids later is probably going to be another of those slow social changes we'll all have to adjust to.
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There is not "widespread poverty in European countries". "Widespread poverty" is what they have in Africa. In Europe the poor are kept fed, housed and clothed precisely because the admittedly very large and inefficient in many ways governments spend some of the tax money they bring in to keep them that way.

This causes problems, to be sure, in that it disincentivises some, but not all wellfare recipients from trying to escape their poverty, but it prevents people from dying of hunger in the streets, which is, imho, a good thing.
People tend to ignore the fact that both Milton Friedman, and Friedrich Hayek both supported a negative income tax/basic income guarantee.
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Ask HN: I have 18 weeks to learn whatever I want, do you have any suggestions?
Hello HN, to give you a bit more information, I'm 17 years old and present taking a second year computer course in which I can decide what I would like to learn. I presently have dabbled in Pascal, C++, and Ruby. I have some basic knowledge of data structures, and well, just written some programs(probably very basic to you).

I am very interested in trying to learn more about Ruby/Ruby On Rail/and C++. If you know of any small tutorials or site that teaches anything, I would appreciate any information that you can share! (Whatever you share doesn't have to be a full 18 weeks worth, obviously I am going to be doing a lot of things.

Thanks in advance for your replies.

edit: Any tutorial sites, books that are great for learning, source that is great to read, or project guides that I could create to get some hands on learning. All is appreciated.
How? Why would RSA Inc. have a copy of a secret military crypto key?

(Edit: I see a few other people have made the same point below.)
Show HN : Nepali Baghchal game in Node.js
We at Semicolon Developers have released two player version of Nepali board game Baghchal[1]. It can be played at: http://obaghchal.com

Game is working fine in Chrome and Firefix latest builds. There are few glitches but if you have ever played Baghchal I'd love to hear your feedback on the game play online.

I'd like to credit HN for all the encouragement. I have promised myself to post a Show HN thread with some cool work and this is our first attempt.

Deployment wise I am having some difficulties in setting up server. I think we'd have problem scaling it up. If any Nepali hacker is interested to support us technically I'd love to get in touch. My email is in HN profile. Please connect.

[1]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagh-Chal
I'm not a programmer, but I see an opportunity here:

Go to istockphoto.com - this is a site where you can buy images for use in any type of publication, advertising etc.

The opportunity I see would be to offer to write software which indexes their entire collection by color.

Then when someone wants to buy an image for a publication they could put their colors in and have istockphoto only show them images which fit the color palette.

This would save designers a ton of time.
This is why I refuse to buy property in the DC metro area. Not a good deal at all. Better to export the salary elsewhere.
This is an excellent book and the one that made me truly "get" the philosophy of Unix (e.g. using multiple processes, data over code, OOP is not the end-all be-all of abstraction, etc.)

Apparently ESR pissed a lot of people off, but that doesn't make the book bad -- it is truly excellent, and contains material you won't find anywhere else (really). Yes I can see from his writing style why people are irritated, but it actually helps the clarity of the book, oddly.

Those recommending the Unix Programming Environment must not have read this book -- they're missing the fact it covers completely different subject matter. Neither substitutes for the other.

Compare the TOC:

http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/The-UNIX-Pro...

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/