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I dont know what enabling QoS means on routers: is it traffic shaping or using QoS code points. Traffic shapping should be possible but I am not a strong believer of middleboxes tampering doing this (they probably dont have enough context to do it right). I'd rather have the applications or the browser or the kernel of the endpoint do this. For the latter this is kinda impossible because the QoS are ISP-specific and the application or middlebox should be aware of the them. Since there is no global solution or generic DSCP codepoints using them is not possible, however, there are some proposals in works to make generic marking possible.

The routers can enable WRED to mitigate some congestion problems, though it is not the silver bullet and works on a per-flow basis. Some new solutions to solve the buffer bloat problems is to install the experimental CeroWRT firmware in your routers (http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt), however, this is also a work in progress.
This. I have ~5000 rep, but have pretty much gone to not using at all for the past year, primarily due to shoving questions to ancillary SE sites. I dabble in administration, but not enough to constantly view ServerFault. I'm interested in algorithms, but I'm not going to spend all day only on that. The old StackOverflow seemed to be perfect for renaissance techies; there was a little bit of everything all in one place. I'd answer a question on C#, then ruby, then design patterns, then server admin. Now it's fragmented, I guess taking the "silo approach" to Q&A. It really kills it for those of us who have a variety of interests. That's not even getting into the "too few eyeballs" problem.
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It'd be awesome to get tips from people who have done it before...hindsight is 20 20!
Any reason why this is using CodeMirror and not Ace, the successor to Mozilla's own in-browser code editor?
"..and destroy the unity of our country".

That's always the excuse authoritarian leaders give when they crack down on dissidents.
"I think the killer app for this will be a bootstrap theme where a few easy parameters (so easy your grandma can do it!)"

Absolutely agree. I have customers but don't have the skills to automate website creations. We need this gap bridged.

Give me an API to build a website based on simple parameters:
[ domain name, title, presentation text ].
(for example)
I saved this article and plan on re-reading it a few times.

I have kicked around for years the idea of having a small company with multiple projects. What is holding me back is not money (I have enough passive income) but that I have a difficult time letting go of my consulting business. I generally only work for very good tech'ies and I constantly get exposed to new ideas and technologies while working. Since my wife and I live in a remote area (Sedona Arizona - small town in the mountains) I rely on interactions with tech-saavy customers.

I'll probably keep doing what I do now (consulting 2/3 of my time and spend 1/3 of my time on side projects that don't have to succeed in making money).
How does poster enjoyment figure? I don't think it's very gratifying when an answer with fewer upvotes than mine is ranked higher, because downvotes are offsetting the difference in upvotes.

They might as well just hide the points. After all, people only post on the site to help others - not to discuss matters like on Hacker News - so biting the hand that feeds you in this way seems self-defeating.
Is that still the case? My understanding is that the PPACA ("Health care reform") does away with most of the tax benefits of sub-s's if they are profitable (i.e. would pay dividends) and so now they are mostly useful as passthrough entities during the loss stage.

It would seem to me that if full payroll taxes are paid on Sub-s dividends, that the requirement there would no longer make any real sense.
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Both MailChimp and Mandrill look great, but I have a pricing question. Is it possible to use Mandrill to send out newsletters since your Mandrill pricing is WAY cheaper than your pay as you go newsletter pricing?

I've been looking for a newsletter service that charges me reasonable rates for pay as you go sending of a monthly/semi-monthly email newsletter, using the pay as you go product, it would cost me $30 per 1,000 emails, whereas Mandrill's per email rates start around $0.90 per 1,000. You say that both are using the same infrastructure, so why is sending email newsletters with MailChimp 33x more expensive?
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Can somebody explain to me the part of the article where it says you have to convert AC to DC to travel long distances (for far offshore wind power)? I understood it to be the exact opposite, that AC could go long distances without major loss and DC needed a new station every few blocks.
While I don't mind the concept proposed, a few things immediately caught my eye:

1) How often are changes made to these CSS files? It seems to me that caching would be far more crucial than any marginal benefit of this practice. Also, what of allowing multiple CSS files to download in parallel via multiple <link> tags?

[nitpicking from here out]

2) Why does his minify code remove all whitespace and then remove whitespace before '{' and after ':'? They're already gone.

3) Removing all whitespace makes the assumption that no whitespace is necessary. This will completely break, among other things, font-family: "Some Embedded Font";
> ... to other sites ...

That wouldn't be so bad if SO didn't try to keep your user accounts for each site separate. I really don't want or need one account per site, or the constant barrage of "welcome back" animations and all that crap. Now I just ignore any site that I don't already have an account on.
What about measuring number of upvotes on questions closed as not constructive /not about programming? I get the feeling that the technical questions are getting saturated, and that the community moved towards more soft issues (management, people skills etc). But soft issues get rejected. Perhaps start softie-programmer.com? At least do something other than closing them.
I'm sure someone very early in human civilization thought fire was unviable because you could only get it from lightning. Who's going to go out in a thunderstorm to secure a fire before the rain puts it out? It'll never catch on.
A: Yes, and wind. Wind has a reasonably good energy ROI, but it's not possible to collect enough energy from it without covering the country in turbines, and people don't want that. Offshore is interesting, but the costs (financial and energy invested in building them) are much higher.

B: Market at work, sure, but the end result is the same: They are claiming low CO2 by simply sending the CO2 to China.

C: It is true - look it up if you like. It takes about 20 years to return the energy (forget about the money). And when you have: "the skies are often gray and his roofs aren't all optimally oriented" then those solar cells will never return their energy investment (they will degrade before they are able to do that). Germany is spending money to increase CO2 emissions - brilliant plan: waste money, increase CO2.

> Particularly considering technological progress, this will soon be even more laughable.

You make me laugh. People have been researching solar for decades, and it's always: "soon". I've seen those graphs on how the cost of hydrocarbon fuel is going up, and eventually will go higher than the cost of solar. I'm sure you've seen them too.

Looks great right? You know what they forget? The biggest expense in making solar cells is energy - that exact same hydrocarbon energy who's price increase is being celebrated. When that price goes up the cost of making a solar cell also goes up.

D: Maybe, but that's how it's being sold. And it doesn't help that most renewables are net negative on energy.

E: The research on solar is basically finished. You can't gain any more energy from it that is already being done. The only thing left is reducing the cost. Those super special solar cells that you read about? They use hard to find elements, and we simply don't have enough of those elements on earth to create enough solar cells! Crushing ignorance indeed - you know nothing about me, or how much I know about the field of solar. I know nothing about you either, but you certainly don't sound like you know much about it except for the breathless prognostications from science rags.

Photovoltaic: It's dead. It's pointless, it takes more energy to make them than they produce for a huge time. Solar thermal? Now we are talking, but no one hardly builds them since you need HUGE areas (instead of small incremental installations). You also need an excellent power grid, (but that could be done).

F: No it's not working, it's just costing them money, and increasing CO2 emissions for the rest of the world. Nuclear is it - everything else is just little "feel good" incremental bits. Maybe solar thermal.
Michael Arrington should totally hire this idiot?
You can still use it for that purpose, but only with the iPhone app it seems.

Edit: Actually it's the only feature of the iPhone app that is working. The new calendar view is just "Loading..." (iOS 6 -- my own fault)
Your disagreement is noted, but why should we care?

The point of this post isn't that people are wrong about the definition of a word.

The point is that the underlying meaning often communicated by the word is absent in its usage by lots of startups.

Is your usage of the word "profitable" defensible? Of course it is. You win. Can we get on with discussing the actual point of this post? Because this comes up a lot on HN: "profitable" startups that are actually secretly costing their owners many tens of thousands of dollars a year, because to many first-time startup founders, the concept of "opportunity cost" is just an abstraction.
I don't follow, are you answering to gain upvotes or to, erm, answer the question ?
As a person of polish descent, I was heartbroken to visit Warsaw and see beside ~90% of the most beautiful buildings a little plaque and statement basically reading "this is a reproduction, the original was bombed to hell in WWII and here is a picture of the ruins".
"[StackOverflow's rules] are intended to create a body of precise questions and answers ..."

Suitable for informing a junior code monkey working to someone else's plan. Yes, we all understand this. Yes, we agree it is useful.

But junior code monkeys grow and learn. On their way to becoming a senior software engineer, they will ask a question like "how do I solve such and such problem with a Ruby hash" and the answer is "you probably don't want to--take the stakeholder to lunch and do some requirements analysis, then come back and we'll help you solve the systems architecture problem that you will have just discovered".

This answer will be expunged by the moderators for being subjective and argumentative. Yes, of course it is. The most valuable questions about software creation have to do with purpose and architecture. Software creators are people who need mentoring, not robots looking for answers from autistic oracles.

I have no objection to putting only objective questions on the standard view. It's expedient for people who need to learn some detail right now. It will get more eyeballs, more Google juice, and more monetization. But there is no need to delete subjective questions when they can be trivially tagged and filtered off into another view.
One of the key points in that article has to do with valuing your time. If you're running 5 businesses, then you're clearly not putting full-time 40hr/week into each one. Adjust accordingly.

If you could be earning a salary of $80k/yr from a BigCorp( ~$40/hr) and you have a business that you put 10 hours/month into, then a profit of $400/month from that business is breaking even relative to a full-time job.
Well, what do you suggest instead of "profitable"? It's an extremely useful fact and contextualization, and obviously no one thinks you really mean "profitable"? What do you suggest we call it? "monetarily self-sustaining hobby that pays for the direct - but not opportunity - costs the founders, er, hobbyists, incur in, uh, playing with it, which they are doing in the hopes that beyond paying for the current direct costs, in the future the hobby's revenue is able to be used, either through sale of the hobbyist's ownership at a rate commensurate with a multiple of the hobby's then-present revenues and which valuation will factor in the ability - as of the extent to which it will have been proven by that future date, of the founders to use outside money to generate value for the outside shareholder, -- or, in lieu of such a sale of ownership, through sufficient growth of revenue, to have made the hobby a more valuable use of the founders' time, in retrospect, than the amount of money they lost by not doing something different?"

I humbly submit that "profitable from day 1" (or day 7 or 14 )is a useful shortcut to name all of the above. Of course it doesn't mean really profitable.

But it also doesn't mean that you're hosting a news a blog that has readerships but hasn't made a penny.
Ask HN: Why did Microsoft develop their own tablet?
What do you think, why Microsoft will produce their own tablet? Because they think the other hardware manufacturers will not support windows or because they think the other manufacturers will not produce a good tablet? Or because they think the hardware itself will be the profitmaker?
You put it quite eloquently:

>"...The answers I invested hours in remain relatively untouched; but the main value for me comes from learning by answering questions..."

More than anything else, that's what keeps me coming back to stackoverflow. Most of the questions I've spent the most time on get little attention, but I learned quite a lot from answering them.
Parent: "then you are required to pay yourself a market rate salary"

Only if there are distributions so if you are losing money or breaking even (by the IRS definition of that) you won't be paying any taxes:

IRS: "The amount of the compensation will never exceed the amount received by the shareholder either directly or indirectly. "

Parent says: "pay yourself a market rate salary."

IRS:

"There are no specific guidelines for reasonable compensation in the Code or the Regulations."

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=200293,00.html

The point I am clearing up is the issue of "having to pay yourself a market rate salary" which only comes into play if you are making enough to pay anything.
I applaud your service, but as a potential customer, I need something easier to use to provide websites on demand. Just thought this could be interesting for you to know.

I have more than 500 hits per month, all small businesses who want to create a "website". For many a simple bootstrap theme would do... with very little parametrization.
I can't speak for MailChimp, but bulk e-mail requires a lot more managing - particularly for spam - than transactional.
Except that if as the article suggests, ICANN is replaced by a UN agency, UN law would become, in some ways, directly enforceable by that agency (at least insofar as the replacement agency has the ability to enforce.)
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Shame about Greplin - I didn't use it particularly regularly, but I loved that it was there if I ever wanted to delve back to something I half-remembered, like a long-lost tweet.
The app maker could sell a XCode project. Each end-user would pay Apple's $99 license fee, provision their own devices, and sign the app with their own key.
The app they are running is in fact a near clone of an app sold by a company who personally trained the authors of the clone. The app does use patented technologies. So from a legal standpoint, there is little chance this app and its company will survive the suit. One possibility for successful defense would be software patent law unexpectedly collapsing during litigation due to a surprise ruling by SCOTUS on some other case. This is a long shot. Another possibility would be the defending party countersuing, challenging the validity of the patent and succeeding. This is possible, but expensive to do and will take many years. Even if they succeed overturning the patent, it will still be challenging to prevail overall, given their intimate association with the patent holder and likelihood of existing contracts between them.

So what to do in the meantime? Normally what would happen is the plaintiff would seek the judge to issue an injunction against sales pending trial, which would have to prove there is a high likelihood they would prevail in the litigation.

This is being skipped because of the App Store situation, where there is a gatekeeper able to remove products from sale for arbitrary or even nonexistent reasons. The existence of these stores, free from competition (they certainly can not go to the Amazon iPad store and download the software there because Amazon isn't allowed access to install iPad apps therefore there is no competition and Apple has a monopoly on running iOS software stores) is a large threat to software and customer freedom.

I agree this is a really bad situation, but it is one that Apple customers voluntarily accept when they buy products for this platform, and that developers accept when they develop products for this platform. It's like buying a house with an authoritarian Homeowners Association that is capricious and issues fines for painting your fences the same color as before without paying $2200 to the History, Style and Architecture Review Committee to have a public hearing to review and approve your fence painting plans. It is no secret the system exists or how it works, and persons subjecting them to the whims of others in these situations know what they are getting into and accept the terms.

So what to do? Many things are possible. Here are a few.

1. As has been mentioned, disable all updates, turn off wifi, use this iPad only for this app and buy another iPad if you want to update it.

2. Purchase the multi-thousand dollar version on custom hardware published by the plaintiff. (Presumably insurance companies normally pay for this option.)

3. Jailbreak the iPad and convince the program's authors to release a jailbroken compatible version.

4. Convince the publisher to relocate outside the US in a country that does not recognize software patents this encompassing and sell the program on the Android pad platform.
Cool idea. Would like to read more about some of these genres, but can't get to the link quick enough before it fades away!
This functionality used to be provided by notifio, a YC company that went out of business. There is now HNNotify [1] for this.

[1] http://hnnotify.com/
The core of assertiveness is disregard for cultural expectations. Girls are rewarded for meeting unhealthy expectations, while we boys are punished for failing to meet unrealistic ones, and seeing that and the widespread lack of sympathy is more effective at eventually enabling many of us to start saying "fuck that".
It's more complicated than that: it's (iirc; there are actual accountants like 'rprasad who have real answers) a specific new medicare tax on S Corp profits, and active S-Corp owner/employees can avoid it. It's not my understanding that the loophole has been closed entirely.
SourceTree is what I use, but even that is falling apart at the size of our Git Repo. GitX just falls over for me.
The disagreements in just these small sample of comments is a little bit of an example that people don't always have the same idea of what 'profit' means no matter how well defined you think it is in the lexicon. The alternative is to always take what people say at face value, but then that can be a little bit reckless as well.
Well, one style is imperative, one is declarative. Some prefer the former, some the latter.

Myself, I much prefer imperative.
Yes - you can use Mandrill for newsletters if you want to code your own subscription logic and store your own list of emails. MailChimp is quite a bit more expensive than Mandrill, but it does a lot more too. MailChimp stores more analytics than Mandrill does and stores it longer. It handles scheduling, batch testing, social integrations and content management in ways that Mandrill really doesn't. MailChimp also has analytics and profiles for list subscribers that Mandrill doesn't have.

If Mandrill does everything you need it to do and you can do the rest on your own, you should use Mandrill. It is, as you note, much cheaper.
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Both loumf and Wilya are correct. In support of their answers, remember that the specification does not specify the results of interesting programs. It says "if you do this, this must be the result." But if you limit yourself to only testing such simple cases, you're not going to find any interesting bugs - because such simple programs are likely to have already been tested.
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The issue is less about the UN trying to take control of Internet authority, it is more about what seems to be growing discontent with the US having all of the control. See the Chinese RFC about "internal internets" mentioned yesterday.

This seems to come up every few years ago, then there's buzz about it, and then everyone realizes that the Internet works just fine and everything goes back to normal.
jQuery dependency is also a problem for me - I dropped jQuery and use Zepto instead for a mobile app I'm writing.
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I use it and it's quite good. Can't fully replace the shell though. One thing that I don't get is why it takes a few seconds (10 ish) to make a local branch.
I will not strongly favor a notification mechanism, I like hn because I consume this website and not the opposite. Notifications kind of create an urge to respond quickly which may not be necessary in most cases. However, adding optional setting in profile page would respect both who want to be notified and those who don't.
transport is the same as natural gas and that is already in place.
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You can customize DKIM without a dedicated IP. You do need to have a paid plan to get the dedicated IP, but that's really because you need at least a few hundred thousand emails per month of volume before getting a dedicated IP. With lower volumes (like anything that can fit in the free plan), the sending reputation of one of our shared IP addresses is certainly better than a dedicated IP with no reputation.
Profit = Revenue - Costs.

The mistake Cohen is talking about is mostly about not fully accounting for costs.

If, after factoring in opportunity cost (ie: what your full-time salary would be had you done something other than start your venture), that equation produces a negative number, you are not "profitable".

It's weird that this should generate so much controversy. The concept of opportunity cost is not controversial among businesspeople, among investors, or among economists.

The term you are looking for to describe the "kind of profitable" to which you're referring is "cash flow positive".
and for negative numbers?