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You could create an LLC once, and use that for all of your side projects. I did this myself, and it's even kinda fun; my state has good reference material, and the applicable laws are available online.

In Virginia, the requirements boiled down to (1) pick a name that isn't taken, (2) fill out and mail a particular form with a $100 check, (3) keep some paperwork that tracks shareholders - in your case there's just one - and assets.

You probably won't do as good a job as if you were a lawyer, so deciding to do it yourself depends on how seriously you think you need protection.
It doesn't sound ridiculous to me, but then I no little of the legalities behind it.

I am in the UK, and as I understand it, its only costs a few £100 to setup a PLC (private limited company) - the main overhead is that you have to post you accounts each year to companies house (which probably means you have to pay an accountant to help you).

It certainly is some hassle, but there are companies that will set it all up for you I believe. If you own a house or have significant savings I would certainly want them protected from some chancer who has decided you have infringed some patent or lost his data to hackers or stolen his idea etc. Defending something like this could be very expensive, so it may be easier to just close up shop and keep your day job!
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Further proof that an effective search solution needs to be developed. How easy would it be to develop a plug-in for iTunes that searches better than the current solution?
There were too many to check out manually that way, so I exported as pem and extracted sigalg.

I removed the list from that link, anyhow. I didn't understand the 'sign predictably' part you pointed out, much appreciated.
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When you describe it that way, it sounds a lot like the "star" model used by Hollywood since the '30s and the popular music recording industry.

It should produce an endless stream of developers willing to work for dreams, lured by the shine on the stars.
RapidSSL's total lack of acknowledgement or response to this problem on their front page is not a huge confidence builder for me.
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This thread is about Demotix, and Demotix isn't about the conflict in Gaza. Gaza just happens to be the big news right now.

You get doctored photos in the mainstream media all the time. Agencies know their pictures will be seen by everybody. This makes the doctoring more likely.

And Flickr is not a news website.
Examples of how Cato has been discredited?
Commenting code is really hard work. I prefer to focus on the code. But if you're working in a team.. I think it's better to comment to safe time in future.
It's not about Blockbuster's energy, it's about the energy used when you drive to Blockbuster.
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I think Fog Creek should've made the top of the list.
All I meant is that the style of the article was conversational, the material was presented in commentary format, and the use of hypothesis and reproduced proof was lacking.

There's a lot of probabalies in there. I could see where different conclusions could be made with the same observations.

"Psedo-science" has gotten a really bad name lately. It just means talk with the air of science. It doesn't imply falsehood or defectiveness in any way. SETI, for instance, is full of a lot of pseudo-science, simply because there are so many unknowns we take what science we have and creatively speculate what might be. In that way, pseudo-science is abduction -- the formulation of possible rules around a given set of data -- a critical part of the scientific process.

The danger with evolutionary explanations to everything is that we lose track of just what it is that we're talking about. For instance, in the conversation about morality, the article makes a case that crime is _not_ a result of a lack of morality but the evolutionary desire for low-status people to compete for genes. I could make the case that morality was in itself an evolved abstract set of codes to do the same thing -- it's all in your perspective. You can "evolve out" higher concepts like morality, or you can "evolve in" those concepts. Without empirical data and reproducible results, it's speculative. Nothing wrong with that. I enjoy scientific-based speculation.

This is getting into the question of "are the soft sciences really science?" That's out of my pay grade. All I want to know is that given an initial set of reproducible conditions, can an idea give me a consistent set of results? If so, that's science to me. I freely acknowledge that the definition gets a lot looser for other folks. I'm definitely not the person to ask about any of that.
I've completely changed this, to use the twitter auth API instead of a stupid Verify scheme. It was too confusing.
I see your point, but I'd always thought HN was bastion of civil disagreement.
The term "commodity x86" is somewhat redundant, since almost all x86 machines are commodity (in the sense that a server from Dell and an equivalent server from, say, HP are effectively interchangeable).

It is rumored that Google chooses processors based on performance/TCO, which would exclude the crazy expensive ones.
You mean a private limited company, not a public one (which requires £50,000 capital). The accounts are not difficult if your company doesn't do much, and you can incorporate for under £100.
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Completely off-topic, but I really enjoyed the illustrations in this article.
Thanks for the feedback!

We tried to keep the design as simple as possible to not clutter the interface.

How would you improve the design? Are there any areas that are particularly badly designed?
Not to mention there were only two ads completely out of the way. One was a google ad way at the bottom. The other was a flash ad that I wouldn't have noticed unless I clicked on it via flashblock.

Who came up with that scheme?
I'm not sure I understand the point of this article. I would say that the healthiest foods are almost always cheaper, but will require preparation.

Yea anybody can go buy a big bag of brown rice, some meat and veggies and have extremely cheap meals (I do this for most meals). But most people do not want to exert that kind of energy for food, and don't much care about nutrition anyway.
You always get this answer from emacs users. "Emacs can do such and such."

But the reason Eclipse probably hooked me is it does these things out of the box. There's just such a huge barrier to entry to using emacs, that being the burden of configuring it to your liking and/or learning the arcane keyboard shortcuts.
Sounds familiar:

"In fact Yunus' story is actually actively counter-productive to the interests of systems like the venture capital system, since that is a system which maintains class division around concentrations of wealth, and this story demonstrates that eroding or circumventing those systems can be more profitable than co-operating with them.

The real reason you won't find this stuff on TechCrunch is because TechCrunch is about power, not money; because this story is too capitalist for the world of venture capital; and because TechCrunch embodies extremely unpleasant class politics." -- http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/never-hate-only-eve...
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This seems to be patterned after the Brazillian organization, Semco.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2003/apr/27/theobserver.o...
What huge time investment? They keep a blog.
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Isn't that against the Scribd TOS?
Once again, more wild-west driven design from Jason Fried. He may be a great gunslinger, but walking into town unannounced and starting to shoot isn't always the best way to clean up the home front.

What I mean to say is that while Jason is damn good at clean, usable, good looking design, he is also very "gut-feeling" driven. Though some people -do- have killer instincts, you always should "trust, but verify". A little unbiased data collection thrown behind the redesign wouldn't hurt.
Quick summary by someone who bought a MacBookPro just for TextMate:

Emacs doesn't do basic things like multiple windows and nested modes, is hell to configure, and you need to configure it because defaults are sick. Surprisingly it doesn't even work too well with Unix model, you cannot just spawn Emacs window to edit a config file (it would take ages to start new Emacs, and there are no multiple windows) or pipe something through Emacs for editing. I think most of he problems with Emacs could be overcome if someone took a serious effort at packaging and modernization with total disregard of backwards compatibility, but nobody seems willing to do so.

Vi has insane keybindings :q!
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Isn't this exactly what we've seen happen over the last couple months?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=366151
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Factors:

1. USPS truck vs. your car. The USPS is going to be coming by your house whether you get Netflix or not and the weight addition is negligible. You driving to the video store causes an increase in emissions.

2. Video store vs. factory. The video store has a lot of wasted space in it. All those aisles to browse in, all that lighting, AC, heat, etc. running from 9am-midnight or later. Netflix is probably open from 8am-4pm if not less in a factory that can be made really space efficient.

3. Labor. Here's an interesting premise: we all pollute by breathing. If we are doing something more productive, we can better justify that pollution. For example, no one would say that EMTs should walk a person to the hospital in an emergency - the use of the ambulance is justified by the importance of the situation. However, walk for less important things (if you live in a suitable area) to lessen pollution. Likewise, if we can reallocate labor to more important/productive things, it's better than if we have labor sitting behind a counter with no customers for hours on end. Netflix uses labor efficiently. Package everything up, get them out, go home. Vs Sit behind a counter for lots of idle periods doing nothing.

Netflix just works off a much more efficient model. More importantly, I think we're seeing that in a decade Netflix will be a purely virtual model. They're a smart company getting into the video on demand business so much. That will really cut down and, really, in this day we don't need physical media to transmit audio/video.
Actually this is an area where technology could really change the world. In fact, already has: I've heard it argued fairly convincingly that what turned the tide in the civil rights movement in the US was the appearance in the national media of photos and video of blacks being attacked by the police.

If everyone could see what occupying armies do, they probably wouldn't be able to do as much of it.
I prefer the term "discovery". Users need a way to discover things they like, be it through reccomendations, invitations, or google style "I want X, give it to me" search. In a perfect world, these would be designed so that "good" applications bubble to the top.
He's also very goal-oriented. Keeping focus of the goals of a project is something lots of designers (and people who hire designers) seem to forget.
What makes you think Amazon is less reflective of the market as a whole than NewEgg? The lack of netbooks in NewEgg's top sellers would seem to suggest otherwise.

Also, define "serious people". Are people who buy MacBooks or netbooks "not serious"?
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the article suffers from 'bigger is better' and 'expensive is better'

back around 5 years ago, the smaller the laptop, the more expensive it was -- eeepc would have sold for $2000+ if she was available back then ... see sony vaio prices etc

asus disrupted the industry by following apple (smaller mac is cheaper) pricing model

basically making luxury into commodity

so imho netbooks win not (solely) because it's cheap ... there are bigger, more powerful laptops priced like netbook but those don't sell as much ... what gives?

3G netbooks will win big (against cellphones), disrupting telecommunication (now you can be online anywhere, and make cheap long/international call using skype and/or usual way using SIM card, paying carriers if you wish)
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I disagree. I think comments are often overused but I'm not convinced that code and tests are expressive enough to always convey why functionality exists.

For example, sometimes limitations in third party dependencies force you into adding additional code that might look out of place or redundant. In cases like this it can be hard to capture why this code was introduced without using a comment.
I used to make a turkey chili for lunch--one crockpot full would last about four days. The ingredient cost totalled about $12. That's just the main dish, for the same price per day as a regular hamburger, medium fries, and a soft drink at McDonalds.

This week I made a quinoa salad. The grain boils for 15 minutes, which also hardboils eggs perfectly, so I chop in a few vegetables and get an easy, healthy, cheap, reasonably tasty meal. But it's far from trivial to find such a combination.
I'm a liberal and don't fully agree with the argument that rent-control is necessarily and uniformly bad-- although New York's 1940s rent control system sucks-- but I thought it was a well-written and interesting article.

I think economic articles on HN are fine, because economies are systems, and hackers have an innate interest in systems that are not always silicon-based.
Yep.

However, it is worth thinking about these moments that come ever so often when there's a new and popular platform and a fart app can make you rich.

As soon as people find that out, it is no longer true as there will be thousands if not millions of fart apps.

But how to recognize the moment when fart apps can make you rich, or more aptly the moment just before that?
This touches on a point that I make in almost any discussion of the environment and our impact on it: no matter what we do, we are going to negatively impact the environment. Yes, we can mitigate that impact (and I am completely in favor of doing so), but sitting around stressing about using Netflix isn't the way to do it. There's plenty of other low-hanging fruit that each one of us can pluck (sell your car, walk more places, cut down on general consumption).

I will say, however, that I appreciate Slate actually approaching this issue--many people seem to think that "electronic" equals "green" because there's no paper, no delivery, etc, etc. They forget, however, that there is a vast, (currently) energy dependent system that supports the internet.
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I've used this from the UK government:

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?r.l1=1073...
You are correct - that was a typo. I edited above to correct it. If I ever get my side project moving toward completion, I intend to look into this side of things in the new year.
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It doesn't make a difference whether the communication is encrypted if you can't verify with whom you are communicating.
The bounty system exists: it is called short selling. The SEC just needs to stop demonizing short sellers and start paying attention to who their shorting and why.
Cato tends to be a little simplistic in their models. For example, with immigration they say it has no ill effects. Well, in the long-run I'd probably agree with them (save for the fact that natural resources are being split among more people which I think would be made up for in other ways that they cite). In the short term, it takes time for economies to adapt to changing tastes, changing spending patterns, essentially the changing makeup of the marketplace. And that does cause friction in the short term.

Likewise, as much as I defended the abolition of rent control in MA in my earlier comment, it caused a lot of short-term friction that was really chaotic. A better plan would have been to phase market rent in. Landlords had been under rent control for so long that when it was lifted, prices could double or triple. BAD! If you, however, say for the next 10 years you can raise prices by up to 15% per year and then in the 11th year you can charge whatever you want, you avoid the friction that occurs when sudden changes happen.

I'm not someone who thinks we should defend dying industries or mess with pricing a lot, but market economies don't do well with instability. Instability randomly reallocates money from some to others. For example, if you lend me money at a 20-year fixed rate of 7%, the future could randomly reallocate money between us. If interest rates drop, you get lots of money. If interest rates rise, I save a lot of money. Heck, if inflation reaches 9%, you're loosing tons of money! Random reallocation is a bad thing and stability ensures that random reallocations are kept to a minimum.

I dislike the American auto industry, but I'd like to see its death be a lot slower than those who are strictly libertarian. What do you do with a million workers? Well, plenty, but you don't do it fast. However, if the number is in the thousands of workers per year, its easier to find ways to employ them as new industries get created. Heck, even other companies might want to buy pieces of the American auto industry, but can't afford the whole thing. Honda and Toyota might see this as an opportunity to get a new plant or two. Tesla motors might be able to raise the capital in a few years to do more. But an all-at-once situation just creates friction and chaos.

Maybe Cato is right and I'm wrong, but I appreciate stability. I appreciate knowing that everything isn't coming to an end even if I'm loosing out on 5% for that stability. Discredited (as the original author claimed) is harsh, but I think economics is a little more nuanced than any pure philosophy.
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Depends on what you consider healthy.

If you know how eggs are mass produced then the cheapest eggs you can buy won't seem like such a healthy snack.
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That's decidedly untrue.

In this case I could be falling for a fake site and sending them my CC data, instead of Amazon, however I'm still protected from my CC being stolen by guy who setup the coffee house Wifi router.
The point is not that the carbon tax/cap-and-trade/you favorite policy will work but that they will impose an unacceptably high cost in the process. Your comment does not respond to that concern. All that revenue for federal tax/subsidy policies will come out of the private economy which eventually means that it will come out of yours and my pocket and spent by the federal govt. Unless this is offset by corresponding decreases in income/payroll/corporate taxes, this will result in a loss to us and from the numbers that I have seen, this loss is unacceptably high.
Determining the distribution is the sole purpose of an economic system. Don't trivialize it.
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Yeah. Even when thinking about getting stuff shipped from Amazon I feel this way. UPS/FedEx are really efficient - they have to be. I mean, they choose their routes based on what will use the least gasoline! They have advanced software meant to save them money by limiting distances traveled, gasoline, trucks and labor used, etc. If I drive to Target, the goods still need to get to the Target in the first place and my driving isn't going to be as good as UPS'.

I really try to cut down on the easy things. Getting rid of single serving containers from the supermarket, reusing containers, etc. A nalgene is a bottle just like the bottle of bottled water. While an environmental scientist might be able to calculate out precisely what Netflix and Blockbuster use, there are some no-brainers that most people don't do - like turning the thermostat down and putting on some nice wool socks. Plus, I'm cheap and those energy/waste savers also tend to save money!
I've done some reading on split testing, where you show two different designs and analyze the results over a period of time to determine which design performs the best. Has anyone here done anything like this and if so can you elaborate on your findings? If not, I'm going to try it with a new product we're launching in about 2 weeks (hopefully!)
What is it called when a blog reposts 80% of the content from another site?

Anyway, this is the original article:
http://www.evolvingexcellence.com/blog/2008/01/no-titles-exc...
That's ridiculous: you're saying that either she puts up with a bad situation, or she leaves. What she did was basically say that she wanted a change. Doesn't matter whether or not those were her exact words: people say things they don't really mean when angry or frustrated and in this situation I'm sure she was both.

It's a pretty fair bet that the statement "get a job or get out" wasn't the first thing she said about the situation! And in any case we only have his version of what happened.
One reason I'm against such an attempt at a solution is that it would be very difficult to do this in such a way that it isn't worse than the original problem.
I agree, assuming it is a reasonably efficient market where everyone has access to the relevant information.
Unfortunately, you too are misunderstanding how SSL works. If you own the coffee house WiFi router, you can decrypt any SSL session that traverses your network that doesn't use valid certificates. You simply need to inject your own certificate into the SSL session and fix a session key.

You cannot secure a conversation between two unrelated parties over the Internet without some form of authentication, to "break the tie" if the attacker presents their own keys/certificates.
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"the encryption part of the certificate" is still there as far as the wifi packets leaving your laptop are concerned, and as far as the poorly/maliciously configured linux router in the backroom of the coffee shop are concerned.

So, is it 100% secure? No. Is there still a reasonably high barrier of entry to getting your CC number/bank login? Yes.

That's like saying if you were using one of the weak Debian ssh keys, you might as well be using telnet. It's simply not true. The effort to steal your info is at least an order of magnitude (if not more) higher, even with weak ssh keys. The same situation applies here.