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> If you do not feed starving people you then have dead people.

There are going to be dead people no matter what you do. However, we can affect how many dead people there are.

My goal is to minimize the number of dead&starving people. Your strategy produces more dead&starving people than my strategy.

What's your goal?

I know that you think that "now" is different, but it isn't. Applying your strategy in the past produced starving people. Why should we keep doing that? ("this time" isn't different.)

I forgot another point, such programs always result in corruption which steals food money from poor people and gives it to rich ones. Why do you support that? (You don't get to point to the good that would supposedly happen if such corruption didn't happen. It does, so if you support the programs, you're willing to accept the corruption and its consequences.)

I don't think that your desire to feel good about yourself justifies policies that are as harmful as yours are.
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From what I know, you can be the registered agent for your own business as well. I recommend talking to a CPA in New York who can discuss your case. These things are complicated and I can tell you being an S-corp owner.
And yet it is routine for companies to act in a rude way toward interviewees - and I do not see anyone on HN calling that out as burning bridges. Perhaps programmers are machines while the companies are people?
> People seem to think its fine to walk out of an interview early ... but how do they feel if the interviewer ends the interview early, or your "full day" of interviews is cut to just 1 or 2 hours because they just didn't think it was a good fit?

Uh this happens a lot. In fact, when I was looking for my first entry level job in a new city this was semi-common. Many interviewers or hiring managers will get hostile at you for the smallest things, like failing to get the catch in a puzzle question or because they dislike something about your resume. As soon as that one person would leave the room, it was usually followed by someone from HR coming back and politely telling me the interview was over. As a worker you owe a potential employer nothing and have the right to leave at any time you wish, regardless of how intimidating some people will be when you say you want out.
...and the fact that Android has turned into a fragmented crapfest.

There is nothing worse than carrier customisation - it's the worst kind of turd polish.
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They were being smart: they can't say that they are FB bots because they can't prove it. But they certainly made it clear that they believe they are.
I'm not trolling you when I ask this, I'm simply curious.

Of the open source projects you follow, how many still do builds for Solaris? How often do you have to build them yourself?
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All my notes (of which there aren't many) are kept in text files in a well known directory, along with all my code. I can grep for things I've solved or thought about in the past and get the information instantly. And since it's electronic, I can back it up, copy it, and access it from anywhere.

The only times I've found myself needing paper is when dealing with graphics programming, in which case it's simply for figuring out the best way to tell the computer how to do something. Once it's in code, I don't need the paper anymore; I can just grep for it.
Jeff Founder/CEO The government seeded the accounts, but it prompted families of all income levels to begin saving.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/may/25/child-trust-fund...
I'm not saying there's not a case for fraud, but the answer is resoundingly NO to this question: (i) Did the defendant knowingly access a system used by the federal government, a financial institution, or a system used in interstate commerce without authorization?

It's a public facing website. He has authorization to access it. I don't see any other viable interpretation.
You can lose money and make it back, but you cannot lose time and make it back. That's the real fallacy when comparing money and time.
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Developers have a chance to get their games as a pre-load on future devices, that's pretty cool!!
You're right. Thanks for the correction.

I guess that demonstrates why it's important to have a REPL or a compiler available for the interviewee. (My computer wasn't available at the time that I wrote the comment.) I just wrote up my solution and confirmed that its terminating condition isn't correct.
Do this for every hobby you have as well, whether carpentry, learning Mandarin, or reading.

Keeping a record of your thoughts is so useful in establishing how you arrived at your current opinions. It helps you to make the mirror on yourself much clearer. I find it immensely useful to look at how I've approached problems and discover new insights from the patterns I can glean in my journals.

Plus it leaves behind a record of yourself in meat-space. Depending on the nature of the up-coming apocalypse this might come in handy.
It's not a post about "The Only Ultimate Way to self-realization". It's a post about "given this statement I often hear, here where it works (and how to improve on it), here where it doesn't". If it doesn't work because of different reasons then:

a. Good, please contribute to the discussion

b. Different reasons resonate with different people. Therefore someone's "core of the principal" isn't the other's.
Assuming one didn't graduate high school twenty years ago and may need some research time to recall equations that haven't been used since college.

Although, after reading the second one again I can agree that it shouldn't be too difficult to complete since he essentially tells you what to do; you just have to write the actual code. Well, assuming you don't have to write code to estimate for Pi and can just have 3.14 in there.
This company is not a startup; it's merely a successful small business.

the startup community ... get funding and VC wants to make a profit within a year and get out, at the expense of any long-term goals

This is not unheard of, but certainly not the norm. Successful VC firms invest of big growth, but over a longer term. Look at the huge VC-backed successes in SV (obvious examples like Google, LinkedIn) and you'll see anything but a build-it-and-flip-it mentality.
And yet companies quite naturally will judge unfavorably any criticism given by an interviewee.

The subtext is that if you don't accept an unequal and mildly-to-moderately abusive relationship with you on bottom, you don't belong in the industry.
Worked for me, which one did you use?
And my point is that there's nothing to indicate that this candidate was particularly undiplomatic so it's rather senseless to attack them for burning bridges. This is a situation where, given sensible people, bridges will only be burned with the particularly undiplomatic route.
It's basic capitalism; if this "vulnerability" wasn't built into their code, would you submit to a more expensive price on your laptop when you could just as easily get half off (for the same product) on your phone?

If there were no 'hack', and I went on that plane knowing full well that I was going to purchase internet access, I would buy the half-off solution and tether to my phone.

As a user, this is a valid set of decisions. Since they're implementing this in a stupid way, it's perfectly valid to exploit their method and pay for the cheaper item.

If you went to the supermarket and found an item at $10, but you had the option of doing 5 jumping jacks to lower the price to $5, what would you do? Is it immoral to do jumping jacks?
But Rails was built for a different world, so trying to recreate what made Rails nice in the browser feels like an answer searching for a problem. Client-side JavaScript frameworks should be compared to UIKit and the Android SDK, not to Rails, which was only interested in routing, fetching, and rendering. Giving me code organization without giving me structure is only helping with a tiny sliver of the problem.
Nice! I have my girlfriend craizy for this service! Not so good to my wallet though...
It's very rude if you just leave without fully explaining to people why you want to walk out. Even if you guys are indeed unfit to each other, the interviewers will still feel bad wondering what they did wrong.
We are all human, we all want to improve ourselves, so make sure you both have an understanding instead of not giving them any chance like that.
I think that's a stretch. Here's another example:

A certain airline offers upgrades to first class seating, but only within a certain time period before the flight.

When using their website, I realized that I could pass in the time constraint as a parameter to their webapp. Boom, cheap first class upgrade, at any time!

Is that stealing? Yes. At the very least, theft of service. That first class ticket can sell for thousands of dollars, and instead, this trick would have allowed me to get it for hundreds. Just because their webapp allowed it doesn't make it OK. It's no different than tricking someone at the counter into giving you an item for free, or giving you extra change.
It's not misleading, it's accurate. Your principal payment is money you'll get back on sale (or can borrow from if you need liquidity). It's qualitatively different than interest or a rent payment that you'll never get back.

My number is roughly in line with the $700/100k figure. I'm assuming 20% down, so the loan is for $400k. If your credit is excellent, and you don't live in one of the high-tax areas, $2000 loan payment + $500 taxes is doable.

As for rent increases, I've never not had a rent increase in 8 years of renting in Chicago and Atlanta. It's standard practice in the city.
Yes, IANAL, but I have incorporated an LLC a few times in NY myself.

I live in Queens, and the LLC was incorporated in Queens, and our publishing fees ran about $1200.

Best to find a registered agent in Albany or somewhere with cheap newspapers and incorporate there.

But an even better plan is to go over this with your accountant, b/c where you initially incorporate may change your taxes, etc. Plus your accountant will know a heck of alot more about structuring an LLC for taxes, etc, than you.

Or another plan is to just incorporate now, forget about doing the LLC registration (you have 180 days legally), and hopefully make enough money off your app to pay the incorporation costs.

If the app busts, just close down the company and be happy you took advice from some random guy on the internet who was not a lawyer and saved you $1,000-$2,000.

I don't know anything about these northwest registered agent people other than that they are good at SEO.

But seriously, the best thing to do is talk to your accountant.
This article is pretty off. This is not the "feature" of PadMapper. PadMapper made it easy to locate aggregate postings on Craigslist, along with the ability to filter those postings by attributes. Additionally, they provide some auxiliary information, such as pricing vs median pricing, WalkScore, etc. Craigslist just added an embedded map on the page - something that wasn't already too far away with a click to "google map".

More of the same sensationalist journalism.
The issue isn't that it doesn't indicate harm, and I'm not saying that standing wouldn't permit a suit, but in general, unless the plaintiff can demonstrate to the court direct harm.

If that harm is shared by a large group of persons, any one person may not have standing to demonstrate harm to that group, unless a class action can be brought.

I do entirely agree with your point that this is a harm against, not only the citizenship, but all persons who may lawfully use public domain or otherwise unencumbered works. That's unfortunately not the question addressed by standing, and law (often, though not always) hinges on specifics.

Law isn't my specialty, though I dabble in some research on the topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_(law)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action
small nitpick or advice: Always use Show HN instead of Ask HN if you want to showcase your project/startup etc. Ask HN is usually to ask questions.

I looked at your app. i like the idea. One UI/UX comment: when i use the pop up to select categories (car wash etc.), I was confused between the "Apply" button and "Ok" Button. To close the window, you have to hit "Ok" which you specify as a comment but I kept looking at the "Apply" button. Why not remove that button and let the search box autofill the search criteria/tags and once done, just hit "OK".
I keep an org-mode file in emacs as a log of thoughts and actions. It's pretty useful, especially as as a retrospective.
we're not going to agree on much about this issue.
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What basis do you have for believing TrustEgg will do any of the unethical things you list? Your logic seems to be "there are unscrupulous financial service providers in the trust fund business, therefore TrustEgg is unscrupulous." Which deserves an F for logic and a second F for constructive feedback.
If the puzzles are "why are manhole covers round?" I agree.

If the puzzles are "given a list of N integers, positive and negative, find the consecutive subset with the most negative sum" then I want to see how they come up with an answer.
The website is nicely designed and I like the look of it.

Account creation seemed to go well.

The scrolling up thing could get annoying quite quickly. Can that be made optional?

Is there a way to not put an objective on the resume? I'm trying to make a pastoral resume and I have no objective, other than continuing to be the pastor of the congregation that I lead.

My degree is from an English university and we don't get a GPA, but your application insists that it wants one.

You have a place for certificates, but I want to list my ministerial license and the certificates section doesn't seem to work well for that.

Other than that, I like the idea and the look. Keep it up!
Sorry, I just meant compared to Rails in terms of impact. Ember is nothing like Rails architecturally. There's a good comparison here: http://emberjs.com/guides/ember_mvc/

So yeah. Ember's problem is convincing people there's a problem (hint: there definitely is).
Guns are low-tech.

John Browning, who produced most of the "modern" gun mechanisms, died in 1926, about the time that electric motors were becoming commonplace in factories.

Today there are folks making very functional guns with hand tools in very primitive conditions.
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+1 for talking to an accountant. If I had talked to my accountant when I started my business, I would have saved myself money and time!
Trusts allow for advanced estate planning that some can use to minimize tax burden on death. For most of the country, and most of my clients, current exemptions are high enough that this isn't a concern (federally $5 million for individuals, $10 million for a married couple). Here in Montana we don't have a state estate tax, but be sure to check your local laws.

Aside from tax issues, the primary benefit of a trust is the ability to exercise additional control over your property and assets after your death. Wills generally just say who to give how much to. Understandably, many parents think that handing over their entire life savings to a 16 year old is a bad idea. A trust can let you leave someone else (a Trustee) in charge of the money until your child is older and (hopefully) more responsible. One of the largest challenges in most estate planning is that we don't know when you're going to die and we don't know what your assets will look like when you do. In this way, a trust can mitigate one problem of dying with children.

You can exercise a lot more control than that with a Trust, but I find most people are just worried about handing a huge lump sum of assets over to a young kid, and the cocaine fueled spending spree that might follow.

The downsides of a trust vary depending on the type of trust. In its most basic form, you're still looking at additional set up costs. From there, the restrictions can go up to include limited and restricted access to the assets in the trust, administrative overhead, and time to manage the assets. Very few of my clients opt for the trust, even though all those with minor children could benefit from it.

The Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (referenced in this thread) aims to solve some of the problems of a trust by allowing for ad hoc creation at the time of transfer. You don't have to set as much up, since it's mostly statutory. It's a great tool, and (at least in Montana) underused.
The original title wasn't accurate (something like "help launch a space elevator"). The proposal is to put a balloon at a 2 kilometer altitude. I say this for the sake of accuracy, and to cut through the hype.

The long-term project goal is to create a space elevator on the moon, using a method fraught with practical difficulties (one cannot have a geostationary orbit there, over a particular location on the moon's surface).

Caveat Emptor.

p.s. it seems link submitters can edit their submissions and titles after the fact. This means comments may ultimately refer to nonexistent content.
The problems with early rev SQL servers were similar (in inconvenience) but, with feedback from users and hard work from developers, they soon moved beyond MVP.

I'm willing to suck up some inconvenience with MongoDB, it's one of the most inspiring technologies of the last decade. Web application persistance feels more like a fully connected limb now.

I can understand the gripes but do urge people to give 10gen some slack and appreciate that what they are building takes time - it's clear that the team are working hard on features driven by community feedback.
I agree. You should take this up with the Github page folks, specifically https://github.com/orderedlist. It's his template.
If you're like to follow us on Twitter, where we don't get shaken down...

This was from back in July right? Wonder how that sentence would change given recent Twitter news.
Can anyone tell me whether a website built with Ember.js's default settings suffers from the same readability problems with font and contrast? If so, that tells me that I probably won't want to invest any time in learning to use Ember.js.
I disagree that's a "resounding no".
> The only question you really have to ask here is, "am I tricking a business into offering me something with a dollar value without paying for it?" Yes? That's fraud. It's the definition of fraud.

What services did he steal? He paid for wifi services for the duration of the flight. The device by which he enjoys that service should be of no consequence.
This is unbelievably lame. The whole thing could have been related in under 100 words. Plus he is defrauding a perfectly legitimate service. $15 is not a ripoff. This isn't the MPAA.

It would have been acceptable if the author was 13 or something but they appear to be an adult who works for google.

What next, spoofing referer to get into porn sites? l33t d00d!
We have experienced similar wait times, 13 days for the last one, and we got rejected for a valid reason as well... It's just frustrating to have to wait that long when it took just a few days a couple of months ago.

I really wonder what could have happened recently to have review times jump from 7 days to 13...
I'm working not from the CFAA itself, but from the US criminal model jury instructions for CFAA cases, which capture a superset of the information in the actual law.
That's a smart dude, I'm surprised I haven't heard of him earlier. But I can't help but think he would seem twice as brilliant if he had a neckbeard :)
The distinction you're trying to draw between "theft" and "theft of service" is the reason we have fraud statutes. Fraud is a more general crime than theft.
Why does this say: 'Its CEO's Model' when it should be 'Its CEO's Role Model'? Seems like the writer is baiting for clicks. It's a little misleading to me.
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