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I daily thank sweet merciful Christ that this isn't reddit, but the more people like yourself I find here, the less I'm able to believe that. Being accused of being a "one man downmod squad" as if I even remotely gave a shit about moderation is a big red flag. I care fuckall for a popularity contest, and I find it personally offensive that your argument has fallen to suggesting that I do.

Additionally, you have no idea what my political affiliations are, and I'm not about to explain them, because I am not interested in having an argument over politics, just as you formerly claimed to be. To be clear: I may or may not have voted for Obama, I may or may not be of voting age, and I may or may not be a U.S. citizen.

Personal attacks aside, you're still wrong.

Of course my analogy is ridiculous. I thought the "lizard person" bit gave that away. The point was that your unorthodox interpretation of the original text is itself nearly as ridiculous in that it completely discards every other statement prior or subsequent in favor of a reading that while literally unambiguous in isolation, is very unlikely to be accurate.

Consider this sentence: "All Jews will die." On the one hand, it's factually accurate. On the other, it can be read as a threat. Context is vital, and is not to be ignored. It is in fact most important when potential interpretations are most disagreeable.

At no point did I deny that that the text formerly read as it did. What I deny is that your interpretation of that text accurately reflects the intent of the message. I've given reasons above and in my prior posts, none of which you have contradicted. That changes have been made is not in question, but as your point rests in the idea that "major, substantial" changes are being made, and your evidence for that substance is demonstrably flimsy, I don't see where you have done anything more than confirm the statement you were responding to in the first place. That, and insult me.

(Incidentally, how do you know the site did not once unambiguously advocate euthanasia and consumption of the elderly? Isn't it central to your case that this is currently unknowable? Aren't you just making an assumption based on the improbability that Obama would suddenly make such a significant change to his agenda only to shortly thereafter remove it?)
If you never listen you never learn
While it doesn't make it false or any less news-worthy, the timing makes this feel like a rather blatant attempt to divert attention away from his own troubles with the SEC.
Good advice about not wasting time on people who want 'credit' - always check before hand how long it will take you to get paid. And don't count your money until the check clears. (though personally I'd wait two weeks, or even a month for a client if I couldn't do better.)

about selling crap:

sure, selling your video game system and TV is fine... if you have systems that are worth more than the time it takes to sell them. Right now it's pretty easy for me to get work at $80/hr... selling, say, the obsolete servers in my garage or my TV won't net me $80/hr.

I guess it might make sense if you have nice stuff, or if you can't find contract work at all. (I've been there, I've made rent by selling obsolete computer parts.
talk to your tax person

You really want to pay off that debit out of pre-tax monies. (well, unless you are declaring bankruptcy, but your debit seems small for that.) Either way, a $100/hr tax dude seems expensive, but it's not as expensive as paying off that debit out of post-tax money.
I would take exception to "everything is open for negotiation" if it's interpreted that you don't need to honor your word and your commitments.

Also, a lot of the time economic stress forces you to make the changes in habit and self-discipline that allow you to thrive as an entrepreneur. CatDancer makes an excellent point that lack of profitability ("economic stress") is a signal to improve your business.
How about a check immunity system?

For example, competent people who knows their own weaknesses well and often check their decisions with others should be immune to checks

Good programmers often let other good programmers check their codes. Good writers often let other good writers proof read. Good managers often discuss his decisions with his employees before deploy them. They should be check immune.

You can even pass out check-immune badges to encourage non-check-immune people to be more critical of themselves :)

Of course, this system itself is a check. Who decides who will get check-immunity? What's the successful-decision-ratio threshold? I think it's possible to implement a light-weight system little cost.
Tax payers shouldn't be subsidizing for-profit businesses.
True enough, though if they can't even police their own how trustworthy are they to handle others. Depending on how true all of this ends up being it leaves me rather anxious about the whole idea. Not fun.
They could pretty easily convert themselves in to an energy usage company where companies/consumers/etc could monitor how much energy they're using while on the internet.

You'd pay for the monitoring & alerts instead of the offsetting. Patio's suggestions are also good ones.
I am not sure whether this is actually "hacker news-worthy." I learned that Mark Cuban thinks the SEC is corrupt, but nothing actually useful.
Honestly, it was an interesting video. I'm glad I saw it elsewhere. But I come here to read startup related stuff. If it ever gets to the point that center of gravity isn't in stuff related to startups here, I'll stop visiting. There are better news aggregation places out there.
related YC thread -> where are the indian hackers

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=54085
I'd say that the reason for bureaucracy in large organizations is that central management doesn't trust middle managers. Whereas in a startup there are a total of three bosses, and all trust each other.
Sure it's a joke, but I expect a lot of people, especially here, will feel self-satisfied at being "in" with the smart people.
Schneier on Security: http://www.schneier.com/blog/
What data do you base your opinion on? Or is it meant to express your hopes rather than perception?

The most crucial words of what he said: "in my opinion"
You will need to engage someone to help file the LLCs taxes, so you should engage this person now and start asking your question before you incorporate.

Among other things, consider the following:

1. If this is the type of project that is intended to be VC-funded in the future, you should start with a corporation, not an LLC. (Keep in mind that an S corp can't have non-U.S. residents.)

2. If the LLC is a flow through entity, the UK person may have income "effectively connected to a U.S. trade or business," which may subject them to U.S. income tax at the same graduated rates that U.S. persons pay.
As is changing to a proprietary license and calling it open source.
what do you mean "windows/java"? are they doing java in a windows vs. unix environment?

would there be chance for you to transition into doing linux/python stuff over at ibm (they certainly do a great deal of linux/python work)? ask them that up front.

also what matters a lot more than the tools/languages/systems you will be working on is -- if you want to do core software developlment -- whether you will be working on company's bread and butter or something which is only tangential and "nice to have"? are you going to be doing new development or merely fixing bugs (or doing operations)?
It wouldn't surprise me if the SEC was a bastion of mediocrity and noncompliance. Those that would like a stronger SEC are quick to point out how severally underfunded and small it is for its supposed role.

It is an age old politic trick to speak loudly and "underfund".
enterprise software has it's own challenges: you're dealing with software that has to be shipped to a customer, who may or may not want to upgrade/keep up to date the software (e.g. he may want to keep using an ancient version and yet want backwards compatibility). you have to follow a different development cycle: you can't just release too early and then fix it in production when bugs surface.

there's going to (usually, but not always) be more "process" overhead involved in enterprise software, although the goal of various agile methodologies is to lessen it and let you spend more time coding.

in short it's a different life cycle: someone else has clear requirements for the software (which you likely aren't going to be using yourself) that you have to deliver in a fixed time frame.

with consumer web applications the challenges are different: you don't have a specification document from your customers, you don't ship a copy to them. iterations are much quicker and you can always fix code once it's in production as it's running on your own servers. however, this is pretty much a 24/7 environment: you may not be carrying a pager, but you will be expected to be ready to fix the software at any hour of the night.
yep, that's right. pyjamas has three components:

* a stand-alone javascript compiler

* a DOM-model library that can be used to do things like getElementById

* a UI-widget library that has things like HTMLPanel, Label, Tree, Image

pyjamas-desktop rips out the first of these, rips out all javascript in 2) and 3) and replaces the javascript with Webkit/Glib, thus providing the exact same functionality. it's blindingly quick.
I would say that point has passed. This site is no longer called Startup News for a reason.
You should eventually speak to an expert. When? It depends on how quickly you expect to yield net revenues and need to distribute profits.

If you expect to run in the red for a while and once you show some traction may bring in investors, then I would follow my "rule of lazy paperwork":

1 - An outside investor will want you to restructure into an investment compatible vehicle, not an LLC most likely. So treat you LLC as an operating vehicle while you bootstrap. The less complex things are in the beginning, the less complex it will be when you need to restructure.

2 - For any startup partner you can write a simple contract that says the intellectual property ownership is shared by your persons and will be injected into some new entity in the future. In the meantime, you create another one-page contract that licenses this jointly owned IP to your operating LLC.

3 - You can't easily have both UK and U.S. rules. I suggest your partner accept that he is enjoining a U.S. (really, your state) ruled set of contracts and live with it.

4 - In the future, you can assign your IP into an offhore entity (e.g. Caymans) and then redeploy those licensing contracts your LLC already has. At this point you would also make the U.S. LLC a wholly owned entity of the offshore entity and have all you and your partner's shareholdings in the offshore entity.

The above gives you an operating LLC so you get some protection and can have bank accounts, etc... Until you need to distribute any earnings, you can keep it simple and with little paperwork.

As always, IANAL, this is simply how I might approach the problem.
It only works when the tax payers get voting shares in the for-profit businesses. This is the China model, except it is the government that owns the companies. And they've owned shares in the companies before the companies go bankrupt.

What would happen if US tax payers actually had voting shares of companies, starting with GM? Obviously there would be a very low turn out rate, but taxpowers could vote if they were sufficiently marketed to.
couple more things: did you like the people who interviewed at either position? did you get to meet the team? in the end it's the people you work with that you learn from the most. there are office-space like environments in big companies and there are highly dynamic environments in big companies; there are start-ups run by clueless wantaprenuer (sp?) business-types (where you'll just be expected to crank out low quality PHP code 80 hours a week) and there are truly innovative start-ups.

ignore the name of the company and the title, focus on the content of your work and the people you will be working with.

my first job out of college was doing operations at yahoo: i ended up learning a tremendous amount on the job and was almost hunted by a start-up who came across me. my first real job (prior to college, junior year of high school) was doing similar work at start-up: the pay wasn't great and i ended up losing the job after the dot-com crash (which gave me a chance to go to college) but i got to work on real and interesting projects on the job which i could put on my resume and talk about at my yahoo! interview. the reason i mention my experiences is that big companies offer unique challenges (at yahoo it was a truly massive scale growing at an immense rate) and name recognition; smaller companies, on the other hand, are more able to take risks and put you on high responsibility projects that will also teach you a great deal.

lastly don't over think your decision and don't worry too much about making the wrong one. once you've made one stick with it and don't think too much of "what if i chose the other way". i am quite guilty of not following this advice (over thinking and going back and forth on decisions, regretting previous decisions, worrying too much about the future) and that has cost me a great deal of sleep, productivity and happiness. you're fresh out of college, this is the perfect time to make mistakes (whether it's joining a start-up that may end up tanking or going nowhere, or joining a company that you may end up leaving in a year due to lack of challenge).
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>The company seems to be at extreme risk

Extreme risk? Seems a little extreme. Do you think there is more than a 1% chance that CO2 has no impact on global climate?
"At the same time, he argued that individual privacy rights must also be weighed against the public good.

Citing the epidemic involving severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in recent years, he said technology would have helped health officials watch the movement of infected people as it happened, providing an opportunity to limit the spread of the disease.

“If I could have looked at the cellphone records, it could have been stopped that morning rather than a couple of weeks later,” he said. “I’m sorry, that trumps minute concerns about privacy.”"

I'm kind of in shock that anyone would think it's worth giving up everyone's cellphone's records in order to react to pandemics faster, but maybe it's more reasonable than it seems... someone convince me?
I'm currently an entrepreneur in waiting. By that I mean my last credit card funded gig tanked (don't ever depend on people not doing what is exactly NOT in their own best interest) and I'm waiting until this 30% APR debt is off my back. I'm doing this by working a full time job and freelancing on the side. I cannot stress enough on how important it is to have that full time job. No matter what happens with my freelance gigs (I've noticed a lot of clients asking about 'payment plans' lately), my full time job has those minimum payments covered. Of course these minimum payments would disappear much faster if it wasn't for those student loans (just applied for 'Economic Hardship Deferment') so whatever you do, don't do something stupid like go back to school where you pay someone so you can do more work.

Get a job, pay off debt, and learn from your mistakes. Semper Discens.
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Well, this is a tricky one. Consider Enron, that was a huge company, 95% of whom were probably perfectly competent, ethical people, who did their jobs to a high standard. Or Arthur Anderson the accountants, a few of them were corrupt obviously and got caught up in Enron, but did the other 95% deserve to lose their jobs?

I know that if I was a banker putting in 80+ hour weeks on something entirely unrelated to subprime debt, I'd still expect - and still deserve - my bonus.
Sorry, I didn't express myself clearly. I meant a bug in an Excel spreadsheet made by Moody's.
what if he took out a mortgage in 2004 with his new wife on the premise that he would be making six figures?

I would have to wonder why he felt himself qualified to offer financial advice to anyone else.
Interesting. I wish there was a date on it though.
It's riding a media campaign. Just depends when that media wave ends. Hopefully soon.

I'm all for saving energy, being efficient etc, but this seems a really bad way to go about that.
I'd say also the barrier to entry for competition is 0. As long as they can design a "We are green" badge.

There are of course other things where the barrier for entry is 0 - twitter for example - but with that it's all about the network - who is on it.

I don't see how co2stats can protect themselves like this. What's to stop others creating badges and selling them to websites?

Also this claim from the website is just ridiculous:

"Increase the time your visitors and customers spend on your website.
Proudly display that your site is providing their computers with green energy while they are on your site. They'll stay around longer, and that leads to greater sales and attention."

Some evidence/studies to show that would be good...
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I think iPod playlists probably do say something about a person, but I for one listen to totally different tunes based on the situation I'm in.

I'm not sure you can draw conclusions about someone, based on what they have on at a particular moment in time, the song choice might just suit the mood theyre trying to create at that moment.
Who are you, Walter Lippman?
http://www.123rf.com/ is the cheapest stock photo site I've found. I have seen some of the same content on this site as istockphoto for as much as 10 times less. Lots of usable images on 123rf cost only one credit.
Tarsnap is both a security tool and a backup tool. It's a tool for secure backups; and good backups, as a risk mitigation tool, are an important part of security.
Then shouldn't the government just invest in fundamental battery tech, not car-implementation that will never go anywhere without improvements in that tech?
A bit OT, but since we are on the topic of icon sets: does anybody have suggestions for game icons, for example for a fantasy game (little monsters and stuff)? I am only aware of the Angband ones, because pmog uses them. They are cute, but some alternatives would be nice.

Space ships would also be interesting.
I disagree. If anything he's playing this the same way he played against the NBA and their officiating - by turning up the heat on himself and the matter at hand. Either he's crazy or courageous. By the way, he was right against the NBA. The officiating was corrupt for a while.

They absolutely did release the report when they did to limit the PR damage, especially given the meltdown in the market.
what? 100k is a car for the middle-class family? I like to think I am middle-class and my mortage is just few (around 4) times that. And I live in Sydney. There is no way I (or my family rather) can afford that. You seriously cant think that is not for the rich.

But that aside, that is the price of innovation. Before being mainstreamed, all technology is expensive and trickles down from the top echelons to the bottom. This doesnt mean that this car will always be only for the rich.

Secondly even if this was only for the rich, wouldnt a cleaner environmental footprint (by the supposed rich users of this car) make it a valid investment (private equity or not)?
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We used to do releases whenever we wanted. After this took the site out one too many times, we moved to at most daily releases with an hour of QA.

This actually made things worse. Aggressive releases were often the result of a decision further up the chain that something was "critical" and needed to go out right then and there. We'd got into the pattern of expecting to be able to do this at the drop of a hat.

So now, everyone was rushing to get the "urgent fix" into the daily release. This is an effective way to ship buggy software. Extra emergency releases were frowned upon, and so it introduced a level of panic that "Oh shit, this better not screw everything up". Ironically, with anyone releasing whenever they wanted, there was less panic because you could always make a quick fix and put it out without too many people noticing or caring.

We felt as a team that we'd prefer a more relaxed schedule that also allowed testing and accountability.

Frequent releases were a result of bad management, and unrealistic stakeholder expectations, we as developers didn't necessarily care that our code wasn't being put out immediately. Obviously, it needs to go out at some point, and we've been equally demoralised by mammoth projects that have gone on for months without a release, but that's a different end of the spectrum. The important thing is regular releases, not frequent ones.

We've now decided to move to releases every 2 weeks with a 1 week QA period. We made this decision as a team of developers, it wasn't handed down from above, it just became a necessary check for the scale of our company.

I personally feel a lot more productive as a result, less panicked by the quick fix you need to drop everything to fit into the daily release, and less worried that a release will take out the site.

But sure, it comes at a cost. There's now a lot more going out with each release and more variables that could combine to cause issues, but these issues highlight deficiencies in our QA process that can be fixed. Also, getting our team to work according to this 2 week schedule has meant some significant costs to adopt better development processes, namely SCRUM, but I feel our team has benefited enormously from it. It all depends how well your team can adapt really.

So yes, there are costs associated, but it doesn't necessarily lead to demotivated developers. You need to be sure that the checks are introduced properly with their own test suite. This itself has a cost but can be extremely worthwhile. A half arsed and arbitrary change to your release schedule with no process changes can destroy you, but with a little training, the right team and the right managers, you can make things better for everyone.
What's the time-frame between initial learning of Python and starting of learning Django to qualify as "one of those bastards"?

'cause I might be "one of those bastards", but I'm not sure. =\
Amazon EC2 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2.wsdl
S3 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/AmazonS3.wsdl

And I'm sure there's others... in fact here's a dude that's listed all the amazon services exposed as wsdl http://www.ecocoma.com/amazon_wsdl.aspx
It definitely increases the complexity of taxing. Sorry. I know how you feel - I'm an American partnered with (& married to) an Austrian (and we both live in Austria!).

However, I'm fairly sure that the UK and US - like every other major country and the US - have an anti-double taxation treaty. Which probably means that you personally will pay taxes only in the country which has the highest rate (clearly your home country).

IF - and only if - you get good tax advice up front can you reduce your American taxes by carefully structuring the way you take money out of the company.

It's hard to find accountants who are experienced in this. My personal suggestion would be to call Deloit or another big international consultancy.

EDIT: Sorry, I got who's UK/who's US backwards. Advice still stands tho. You can definitely form an LLC with a foreigner, even using an online service, it's just that taxes are a bitch. No way around that.
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Also from Why_.

It's a bit of a shame that all his work is so spread out, I think; though I suppose http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/ helps.