skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are other "separate legal entities" like partnerships and S-corps that don't get double taxed. Only corporations have this double taxation. That's why it's unfair.

The philosophy here is that you shouldn't get taxed on dividends because you're an owner... the money was already yours. The plumber didn't have to pay tax again to take his money out of his plumbing business (maybe a limited-liability partnership) and buy DVDs, but the shareholder did.
"The Story of Fernforest & Petro Dale"-A fable on the life & death of Hollywood
What startups are trying to disrupt the Hollywood film making industry?
How about banning new software patents, and letting existing ones run their course?

The Apples and Microsofts of the world might be okay with that.
Here is a link directly to the post, just in case new content is posted -> https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3283215305...
Actually Training The Dog is Another Story
This isn't new.

This sort of policy has been around for a long time, take a look at the Post Office Act which incorporated the United States Post Office Department into the United States Cabinet. §148 made it illegal to send any obscene or disloyal materials through the mail.
C# tutorial step by step
c# tutorial and source code

http://csharp.net-informations.com
I'm guessing that when Chrome added WebRTC last week (http://www.webrtc.org/blog/webrtcnowavailableinthechromedevc...} they only added VP8 encoding, so when Firefox adds it the numbers will skew even stronger toward WebM for native encoding.
From Fedex's website (http://www.fedex.com/id/tools/video.html), a copy of such a form: http://images.fedex.com/downloads/shared/shipdocuments/blank...

Text from the form matches that in the post.

But importantly, note the date on the form:
"EFECTIVE 07/01/2001
REVISION 11/19/2001"
Without having any sort of scientific measuring stick, it seems that when taking averages 'nice guys' (and gals) finish overwhelmingly ahead. I'm not sure what is a good way to measure this race and I find the concept of finishing ahead somewhat silly in the first place but here is my example anyways...

If you've ever been to a high school reunion, you'll typically be somewhat shocked at what happened to the jocks/jerks/(insert high school term here) that were seemingly head of the pack back then.

I find this phenomenon to also be true in the other phases of life as well. For example, Ive had to re-evaluate my career path after getting to know some executives that would surely satisfy the bad guy checkbox. Many of them have had qualities that may have been useful in getting them to where they are but in terms of general 'lifestyle' management I do not envy them one bit (family problems, addictions, etc etc.) As a note I am not saying all executives have huge problems - but the ones who were, for lack of a more friendly term, assholes have not had enviable lives when looked at from a holistic perspective in my experience.

I dabble from time to time into listening to Buddhist instructors and a message Ive been able to take away from those is that cruelty to others is also directing cruelty toward yourself. I wish I had a great logical analysis to prove this but I do find it to be true through my experiences.
I they ever implement a fully lazy reactive DAG system ala Houdini, I promise to never run Photoshop ever again. ever.
...George Orwell was a visionary. Sadly.
Why 'People will always need...' is so dangerous.
While I can't cite any studies, Richard Dawkins presents some of the theory in The Selfish Gene.

While total "nice guys" tend to finish last in a population of "bad guys", a localised population of "fool me once guys" can, given time, push out the "bad guys", and become a dominant population.

This works when the benefits of working together outweigh the benefits of screwing over the other guy. While a population of bad guys is busy screwing each other over, the fool me once guys are busy working well together, unless they get screwed over, in which case they can refuse to do business again. An outcome that makes it harder for bad guys to keep screwing people over.
Women becoming programmers is hyped for the same reason women becoming doctors and lawyers was hyped decades ago: diversity fuels innovation. They're interested in other professions because the culture surrounding programming is such a "boy's club", it's like a nigh-impenetrable shield. And it's not so much they're interested in other professions as they are pushed away from programming.

The lack of women in programming isn't their fault. It's ours.
Maybe it's just me, but the title made me think that the linked article is about sex. (I'm not a native English speaker though.)
You get looks when eating with flatbread? Really?

Hmm, I'm going to be much more self-conscious from here on out.
"Openly Gay" -- there have surely been many many gay leaders, just not as openly gay.
I used to think like that, then I realized, I am going to be editing text for at least the next 20-30 years (if not longer). I get the feeling vi(m) (and emacs) will be around then, so it's an investment worth making.

It only took a few weeks to reach the efficiency I had with TextMate, and every week since I've become more and more efficient. I haven't hit the point of diminishing returns in learning about my editor, and judging by other vim users I've seen, I probably won't for a long, long time.
Indeed, film is not just all direction and writing, handed down from above, and the rest falls into place. Directors often work with the same groups of people on their team, and it's not just because of nepotism or working familiarity -- Christopher Doyle brings as much to each Wong Kar Wai film as the director himself; Bela Tarr leaves the music completely up to Mihaly Vig (an integral part of his movies).
I got the scent of going viral on social media. And I'm loving every bit of it.
The license is the entire document, not selected bits and pieces of it.
State of Technology last week #42
Note how the article doesn't mention anywhere that he's gay [i m confused, which is the gay one?]. It's not like he's the only openly gay politician, OTTOMH the german foreign minister comes to mind.
IAMA author and I think the reach of copyright should be curtailed
And the US law enforcement authorities. Hollywood did not ring up the NZ police and say "Arrest these guys". The US police did not fly over to NZ and arrest them.
Generally much more than YC hands out. Keep in mind that filmmaking has lots of equipment and other costs, whereas you can do a software startup just with a computer, lots of time, and some place to park yourself.
I find two parts particularly interesting:

(f) If seizure is made of books or other articles which do not contain obscene matter but contain information or advertisements relative to means of causing unlawful abortion, the procedure outlined in paragraphs (b), (c), (d), and (e) of this section shall be followed.

and

(b) Films exposed abroad by a foreign concern or individual shall be previewed by a qualified employee of the Customs Service before release. In case such films are imported as undeveloped negatives exposed abroad, the approximate number of feet shall be ascertained by weighing before they are allowed to be developed and printed and such film shall be previewed by a qualified employee of the Customs Service after having been developed and printed.
my 0,02 will be - do not overdose caffein before public speaking. one can of coke is enough before 30 mins speech.

if you have more you will rush your speech to much, you will sweat and fill strange because of heart rate
RANT: 5 Traditional Blogging Rules I Refuse To Follow
Obviously Google Inc. consumes US government services. The point is that Google Ireland Inc. probably doesn't. Google Inc. pays its fair share of U.S. corporate tax on domestic revenue, and Google Ireland pays tax in Ireland. Why should Google Ireland's revenue, which never comes into America, be subject to U.S. tax law? They don't rely on U.S. government services, they rely on Irish government services.
Groupon: One-Hit-Innovators
Flu research and biological warfare
It looks like there are a decent amount of 1BR/Studio places in the <1000 category.

I would search craigslist apartments with the search term as 'bart' and putting in your price range for what you're looking for.
Also, from http://uscode.house.gov/download/XHTML/uscprelim/PRELIMusc18...

§552. Officers aiding importation of obscene or treasonous books and articles Whoever, being an officer, agent, or employee of the United States, knowingly aids or abets any person engaged in any violation of any of the provisions of law prohibiting importing, advertising, dealing in, exhibiting, or sending or receiving by mail obscene or indecent publications or representations, or books, pamphlets, papers, writings, advertisements, circulars, prints, pictures, or drawings containing any matter advocating or urging treason or insurrection against the United States or forcible resistance to any law of the United States, or containing any threat to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon any person in the United States, or means for procuring abortion, or other articles of indecent or immoral use or tendency, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 718; Pub. L. 91–662, §2, Jan. 8, 1971, 84 Stat. 1973; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on section 1305(b) of title 19, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Customs Duties (June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title III, §305(b), 46 Stat. 688).

In view of definition of misdemeanor in section 1 of this title words “shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and” were omitted.

Words “at hard labor” after “imprisonment” were omitted. (See reviser's note under section 1 of this title.)

Changes were made in phraseology.

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $5,000”.

1971—Pub. L. 91–662 struck out “preventing conception or” before “procuring abortion”.
I think the key is balance. It's easy to get carried away with "gotta be perfect at launch", but it seems equally easy to take MVP too far (or, not far enough wrt product). It's an interesting concept, but it seems like many consider it religion.

Honestly, as a user, the whole landing page thing strikes me as borderline offensive because it shows you haven't put much time in and therefore don't value my time. But sometimes, that's a price worth paying to get some early validation for an unproven concept. As always, it depends.

Wrt to lean startup in general, I do appreciate their step by step scientific-ish approach, I think it's based on sound principles.
If I was 100% sure vim was 'the answer', it would be worth spending 4 months on it.

But maybe emacs is the answer. Or eclipse. Or sublime text. Or Visual Studio.

Now, to give all these editors a fair shot, I'm planning on being considerably less efficient for well over a year (if none of these editors really suited me).
Right, while this is technically possible (and really, anything is technically possible when it comes to programming) I'm not sure if PG and whoever else maintains the site have the time, energy, and resources to set up such a system. I'm not sure what it would really take but I assume it'd be quite a bit of work to put it conservatively. The way things are run now are, in some ways, base on a compromise between the site maintainers and the users. It's as if to say "We'll manually intervene on occasion if everyone promises to play nice". Once you have to start implementing the kind of automatic quality controls we're talking about here programmatically instead of relying n good behavior, that's when you know the community just lost the quality it was known for.
The largest company in the world (APPLE) is run by a gay man. In the end does your sexuality make a difference?
Am I so far away from reality or are these people? I can't believe these numbers are so small. I don't have strong evidence, but the situation at my university looks more like 99% of students cheated on a regular basis (actually students who don't cheat are considered stupid). Like students of one semester copy the exam questions and hand them to the next year's candidates. Or papers are copied & pasted from Wikipedia and the likes and data used is pretty much all made up by the writer. I never did or know anybody who did it, but I think it is also common practice to pay others to do your university work.

And the same with teachers. It is quite normal (meaning it happens everyday and everybody does it, not in a sense of "it should be like that" normal) that university government uses their funds to help their friends abroad (there are even news articles about it, but nobody does anything against it), that teaching professors use their funds to pay students to produce software and other products to sell in the teacher's private companies and then hide that work as "science". 99% teachers and students don't do real science.

I can believe that the numbers are lower in other schools, that I somehow managed to get in one of the worst, most fucked up schools on this planet. But even then the difference can't be that big. If you really believe, there are less then 2 out of 3 people being involved in day to day cheating and corruption, then I believe you must be blind. It's human nature, we are talking about.

From my point of view it is so common, that you are really stupid to just follow the artificial rules you read in rule & ethics books. Maybe science in it's purest is about discovering truth. But human daily life is pretty much not about it. It's about the relations you have and the "public face" you can (artificially) create.

(Yes, I once was one of the fighters of true good. But if the whole world around you is "cheating" you can't get anywhere. You know, teachers even fail your exams, if they want to. And if you fight for the "good", nobody comes to give you a high five. They just think you are stupid for not following the real rules or just not being able to graduate normally.)
Hmm...either I wasn't clear enough, or you misunderstood. Maybe replace "idea" with "concept" or "requirement". What the doctor is doing/should do isn't ridiculous. It's the fact that the EFF had to write a 30 page document that instructs people on how to protect themselves from some neanderthal on a power trip who decides to comb through personal emails at the border. All in the name of fighting piracy. That's ridiculous.
> Embrace Your Ums

I strongly disagree. One of the things that you learn in Toastmasters is to control your tics (whether they be verbal - umms, ahhs, you knows, yeahs, huhs, uhhs or non-verbal - swinging arms, hands clenched in pockets, crossed arms, crossed legs, hands behind back, rocking back and forth, pacing without purpose). Each Toastmasters meeting actually has an 'Ah counter' that will tally your respective tics. After a few speeches, you learn to replace your ahhs/umms/you knows with simple pauses. Pauses are so much more effective than ahhing/umming. Silence is powerful. Umms/ahhs detract from your presentation because they cause people to focus more on your umms/ahhs than your message. PG and other important speakers can get away with them because people respect what they have to say, very highly. Toastmasters teaches you to move with purpose - which means standing fairly still - moving to emphasize a point. And to speak with purpose - not too rapid, not too slow - but with conviction and passion.

I highly recommend Toastmasters for learning public speaking. Clubs vary in variety, though - try before you join - by going as a guest several times. However, if you decide to do Toastmasters, do not join your corporate club - join a club where you have no co-workers present (having co-workers present will limit you because you will be in the standard work context - afraid to fail, afraid to mess up - and yes, afraid to umm and ahh your way through the first critical speeches you deliver)

Every year, Toastmasters has a speech competition. It starts from your local club to district to regional to national to the highest level, International. If you have a few minutes, take a look at some of the competing entries - they are, without exception, polished and powerful.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=toastmasters+cha...
Those 13 people I listed represent 13 out of the top 50 richest people in the US. Not cherry picked anecdotes. They represent 25% of the top 50 wealthiest Americans.

I'm not arguing about social mobility amongst the bottom quartile or the top 1% or anything else. I am refuting your claim that the all of the "super rich" inherited their wealth.

You said this:
>The far majority of the superrich inherited their wealth.

When I provided statistics that showed only 31% of billionaires inherited their wealth. You said this:

>It's bullshit. They were born into connected families and simply built on the advantages they already had.

You stated a fact without evidence, I provided evidence to refute your claim (also why do you care about evidence--you said earlier this isn't Nature).

At least 25% of the 50 richest Americans started out with no fortune or family connections whatsoever.

Even more of them were only upper middle class, but I didn't include them.
My personal experience in the field does not support your apparently strongly held assertion. Thus "IMO".

> "you shouldn't try to grab focus with"

Please do not question my motivation. I had a point to make.
Haavisto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Haavisto
Few remarks:

- I don't find it reasonable for "them" to grill me too much. I don't need to hide my encrypted partitions or use hidden partitions. I'm not a target of any interest to any three-letter agencies or customs officials. But I don't want to start discussing unlocking my laptop with anyone, I want to make it a matter of "can't" instead of "won't".

- The friend scheme might not be necessary or a good choice. I could just say I have the decryption keys at home which is entirely true. I can still use the machine: I have just deselected a few partitions out of use permanently until I return home
The problem is that I can't move everything I do over to vim. I can only seem to hard-wire one set of key shortcuts into my fingers, so when I've used vim for a while I keep mis-pressing when using Apple Mail, and when I've been eclipsing for a while (because I was working on a project which is already fully eclipsed up), I go back to vim and my fingers keep pressing cmd+z,x,c,v.

My suspicions as to why some people love vim, while I don't is:

1) They work in an environment where they can go 100% vim.

2) They find it easy to switch between two different sets of keys, without half an hour or so of mis-pressings.
Mathematically analyzing sorting algorithms
Wow. Mindblowing censorship.

And I imagine if someone produces such content INSIDE of the U.S. then they'll somehow disappear / be put in jail / have their content blocked / removed / be forced to shutdown?
Fortunately you can learn from books, magazines, videos and websites and the computer itself and none of them care what gender, race or age you are. Just settle down and start learning. And most of those methods are free too.
This is a good read, particularly for HN. As naturally optimistic people, we all believe that the "9 out of 10 startups fail" statistics apply to everyone else. This is a good read as perhaps it reminds us that 9 out of 10 means us, not just those other silly people with their terrible ideas and poor commercialization strategies. These companies all had super-smart people, worked really hard, were funded and had as much chance of succeeding as the rest of us plugging away.
Obviously nothing to do with more women learning to code (sounds great to me), but I share your fear. The hype makes me cringe a little bit. I wish it didn't but I've seen this cycle too many times. Every time there is an overhyped market, the deflation gets preceded with a media push of 'you should get involved with this' because its the wave of the future.
But does that piece determine the meaning of the word for the entire rest of the document?
Nah, don't.
From the cost planning perspective the promise doesn't help much. We need to know how much it costs and how much it will cost without relying on how other clients use the service.

Hope that helps. Wish you a lot of success with your venture!
With all due respect, if YC wants to focus on something outside your standard fair I'd suggest you look at the problem of manufacturing. The NY Times article that is the subject of another HN post is right on the money as far as the issues surrounding manufacturing --of just about anything-- outside of China.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and...

If you want to give back to the country, principles and culture that quite literally gave you everything you are today I'd suggest putting money and brain-power to work on this very problem. Develop new advanced automated manufacturing technologies that the world has yet to even imagine. Develop new work-flows, materials and processes. Develop new supply chain paradigms and environmentally-friendly systems. Develop tech that will bring back millions upon millions of jobs lost to, effectively, slave labor.

Make Artificial Intelligence and Robotics the next big thing. This is the future.

Hollywood, is doing a good job of destructing itself. And, in the grand scheme of things, they are just about insignificant.
Many people think that they're the proverbial nice guy. In many cases, they're wrong. You're not a nice guy because you don't kill people or verbally abuse old people on the bus. You're not a nice guy because you managed to avoid being abusive on most occasions.

Don't let them get away with not defining their terms because we all have a fuzzy feeling of who the nice guy is (me, not him).
~2% of scientists admit to have fabricated, falsified or modified data or results at least once.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
Find out why some average and dumb ideas are hugely successful
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This is a great post: specific, original advice rooted in practical experience.

A useful and concise book on the topic is Scott Berkun's confessions of a public speaker.
I don't mean to complain about the down votes (really, not at all).

But I'm curious, how else do you think that conversation is going to go?