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"usually people will quit before they get fired so they don't have to explain it to future employers"

Sometimes people won't ever quit, no matter how bad it gets. This is usually because they need the job and have no confidence in being able to obtain another job - understandable in the job market in most places today.
Not to beat a dead horse, but could we be any nearer to reddit? I wish I could hear from people who upvoted this one.

I'm not sure who is ultimately responsible, however I think your response would definitely make the list of 0th world problems, as defined in the linked article.
Great looking button, but I have a strange aversion to stuff like this as I normally equate them with the worst examples of web advertising.
> journalists don't capture and disseminate private conversations

Perhaps you have heard of the terms "public service" and "public sector"? Government documents are not private conversations and I am genuinely appalled you believe yourself entitled to speak on only those matters your government deems fit for public discourse.
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You really think it "aint broke"?
I would disclose who is upvoting/downvoting whose comments. There are cliques on every social news site. Some of those cliques are genuine communities of technology enthusiasts, but others are like little armies of trolls which have been set up by aggresive PR firms and marketing departments of large tech companies. I have never on any social news site seen a system that gives you insight into whether upvoting/downvoting is honest-grassroots or organized by some PR firm for the benefit of some corporate entity.
I believe this is the citation referenced. [1] It's unfortunately under a paywall.

[1]: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201203581/ab...
>"Breaking news! Corruption and totalitarianism of the Russian government, KGB and orthodox church exposed by the unimaginable injustice dealt to the members of the Pussy Riot and undisputed chess champion Gary Kasparov"

How about: undisputed chess champion Gary Kasparov also double-times as a champion of a certain western power's interests in Russia and goes around challenging the democratically elected government that has a huge popular vote behind it?

The same western powers that want some idiot controllable puppet running Russia, and pretend that their issue is with Putin's "cronyism" and "corruption" (because, stuff like multi-billion war contracts to friends under Bush, or the trillion dollar financial firm bailout, or all the laws passed in favor of this or that lobby, are not cronyism/corruption).

Strange how little the same western powers and their mass media protest the Assange situation.
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I'm not sure the term "superpower" is well defined enough to argue over who is and isn't one, but I do take issue with the idea that the USSR was influential only via its military. Many, if not most, revolutionary movements for quite a while were Marxist in nature. This resulted in the fall and creation of many governments on all 6 populated continents. I think the projection of a particular ideology counts as a form of soft power.
> Government documents are not private conversations.

huh? if they weren't private, then why were they newsworthy?
Yes.

There are several recent items about this question here on HN, the threads are long, the same points made over and over again, very little insight, and nothing will happen.

More, threads about HN have a tendency to disappear without trace, because meta is usually frowned upon. There are a few exceptions, but if you want to go all meta, it's better to do it somewhere else and have a semblance of control.
I'm probably stupid, but it took me far too long to realize how to play a song :)

Other than that - really neat project!
You do realize that our intelligence agencies have linked 0 deaths to these leaks... The very people who want Wikileaks shutdown can't provide accounts of harm done.
I have never used Ruby (prefer Python/C), but found the Ruby loop example perfectly clear and extremely readable.
Great to see new research on this. The early conclusions cited in the article open the door to a lot of future study, looking at "thickness" of the cerebral cortex and other areas of the brain. The seniors mention "luck", "genetics" and "curiosity" as reasons they stay 'bright' into old age.

Now I just wish there was a way to subscribe to this topic and get updated when the study is completed.
"Heck, if nothing else, having to cart around 150-180lbs of meat with fairly tall packaging and some weird requirements about having to see and what kind of forces you can exert on it is a bit of a drag to making the quickest possible wheeled vehicle."

I think I should have gone into more detail, as I believe that the statement from the article refers to entering a computer controlled car into a race with humans.

The interaction is serious important, and knowing the fastest line doesn't mean your car will get to take the fastest line if someone is already there. Pitting is going to be interesting.

Some race series, NASCAR, only allow for a limited group of sensors. I would guess something like F-1 or Indy would be easier since they have more allowed telemetry. I would imagine a NASCAR driver robot is going to have a tough time telling the pit what exactly is wrong.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/22/54679...:

"In the original release of Windows 95, you could change your time zone by clicking on the map, and the time zone you selected would highlight. Similarly, you could change your Region Settings by clicking on the world map. This was one of those little touches that made Windows 95 that much more fun to use.

But we had to remove those features within months of release, even though we based both of the maps on the borders officially recognized by the United Nations.

In early 1995, a border war broke out between Peru and Ecuador and the Peruvian government complained to Microsoft that the border was incorrectly placed. Of course, if we complied and moved the border northward, we'd get an equally angry letter from the Ecuadorian government demanding that we move it back. So we removed the feature altogether.

The time zone map met a similar fate. The Indian government threatened to ban all Microsoft software from the country because we assigned a disputed region to Pakistan in the time zone map. (Any map that depicts an unfavorable border must bear a government stamp warning the end-user that the borders are incorrect. You can't stamp software.) We had to make a special version of Windows 95 for them.

Geopolitics is a very sensitive subject."

And this is not limited to maps. Even names have to be carefully chosen, and that is not limited to tiny details. It is "former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia", not "Macedonia", except, probably, in the republic itself, 'China' either has a relativel small island or a huge mainland that is occupied by renegades, etc.
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The problem you have here is not that you're unemployed and your prospective partner isn't (that actually hurts you, as it decreases your opportunity cost). Rather, the problem is simply that your partner isn't working for the company.

The tricky issue here isn't the split. If you think your partner is going to add significant value to the company (and: you clearly do), stop obsessing about the split, because how you carve up equity isn't going to change your outcome nearly as much as how well you two work together. Both negotiating for a better split, and, worse, executing the company as an unequal partnership are going to cost relationship capital. Save that capital for something that really matters.

The tricky issue is vesting. DO NOT ENTER A PARTNERSHIP WITHOUT VESTING. Anyone who gets equity, YOU INCLUDED, needs to be on 4-year vesting. Since you can't really "vest" someone who isn't even working for the company, you have a bigger problem than the split.

My suggestion is, don't offer your prospective partner any equity until they start. That default starting equity, while significant, won't be equal to yours; it'll be, as Joel Spolsky puts it, "second stripe" equity. (Joel's stripe examples are 50/10/10/10/10/10, but you'd obviously change that; perhaps 30/20/10/10/10/10).

At the same time, offer them an option to purchase equity equivalent to yours (ie, to buy 5% of the company). The price of that option should capture the value of the time you spent working on the company PLUS the added risk you took; think of it as a premium on your salary to prevent the partner from waiting- and- seeing how well things go before joining up (if the cost of the option was just your salary, it would be dumb for them to pay it until they had to, and they'd be disincentivized from joining).

Be aware that your prospective partner is probably going to balk at this, in which case, oh well; there's lots of ideas out there. If you're not in a position to amicably walk away, no-harm no-foul, you have no business negotiating at all.
Seems like a meaningless difference to me. You're saying that if Wikileaks had carefully summarized each document instead of releasing the actual documents then it would be journalism?

Wikileaks presented information, just because that information wasn't in a form that you are comfortable and familiar with doesn't make it not journalism.

No one had ever seen a journalist who published exclusively online until a few years ago and many people claimed that wasn't "journalism". Now bloggers are pretty well-recognized.

The volume of information is so large today that a new form of journalism is required. Wikileaks has provided that, or at least led the charge to provide it.

Wikileaks acted as a clearinghouse for raw information. Then others read it, interpreted it and wrote about it. I don't see the problem.
Ask HN: Recommendations for a desktop app development environment?
We need to build a small downloadable client software to complement our web app. Basically users will download this, install and it will guide them through a series of steps to help them upload certain files.

Most of the current solutions in this space use Java applets, which are often not supported by default and thus hard for our users (who are relatively non-technical)

Would love to hear your recommendations for a good solutions to this. Ideally we'd like to have one codebase, but having separate executables for Win/OSX/Linux would be fine.

Our priorities are as follows:

1. The final product should be easy to install for the user (ie not require them to install any additional software)

2. Decent looking GUI (doesn't have to be perfectly native looking)

3. Quick to develop in

4. Ideally single codebase, at least for Win/OSX

EDIT: cleaned up a bit and added requirements
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You can do this at burn.fm. Click the + button after you've added a song =]
>It is a classical Russian propaganda defense: answer an accusation on human rights violations with "and you are lynching Negroes" or similar.

Really? Because it's also called "pot calling the kettle black".

Being a "classic defence" doesn't make it wrong.

Even if both sides are equally bad, the accuser is hypocritical on top of that.

>Kremlin is paying bloggers and commenters in Russia to post positive things about authorities:

Do they now?

"There is quite an incredible spread of relationships. You don’t need to manipulate Time magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level."
-- William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer, briefing members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, The CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media."
-- William Colby, former CIA Director, quoted by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy

(it goes far back: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird )
You do realize, Wikileaks released unredacted documents ONLY when The Guardian - by accident - had published the password to the archive in a book.
(a) thank you and (b) no way is that true.
The "fact" is that "somebody said this in an email". Some of the most interesting things in the diplomatic cables were not of the form "X did Y" but rather "X said Y to Z". In that case, yes, an email is a fact.
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They can still interview him without laying any formal charges. As far as I know the interviews are generally held long before the formal charges are laid.
Increasingly offtopic now, but gifts are most certainly subject to taxation. You just get an exemption for the first $10k or so.
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Breathe. I'm wrong a lot.
Those are actually both true-sounding statements.
And the US government would not help in redacting most leaks :). Though Wikileaks continued to ask.
i kiss you! trying to get hold of my parents now :o)

[huh. so once you add in tax and handling, the amazon price isn't so crazy either.]
It depends. This is how the US federal income tax code would probably treat the issue:

- If the business is an S-Corp or a Pass-through (i.e., LLC or partnership), then it reports income when funds are received. Individuals and pass-through entities are cash method taxpayers, so they report income when received, not when earned.

- However, if the business is a C-Corporation, they report income when the transaction is completed. C-corps are "accrual" method taxpayers, so they report income when actually earned regardless of when actually received.

This does not mean the business actually owes taxes on the income, since businesses are taxed on net income, i.e., profits remaining after expenses, credits, and various deductions are deducted from revenues.
Yep. Just trying to head off the inevitable HN conspiracy theories about Apple becoming part of the national surveillance state.
And he is one more than 4 million who have such access, by the way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPRNet
I've often thought the same thing. It has me thinking cautiously about the sociological implication rapidly expending 'senior' demographic, growing life expectancy, and the rapid pace of world changing technologies. Is there a point where senior citizens can't keep up cognitively, despite the medical advances that may keep their bodies younger? And further, is there a point where their dominance as a percentage of society means we need to slow our adoption rate of consumer technologies to account for neurological barrier?

I also think about the people who want their brains crygenetically frozen after they die. Assuming they die old, with this cognitive scaffolding adapted to life today, I can only imagine the impact of 'waking up' into a world 100-300 years in the future, with such a drastically different world. That sounds psychologically crippling to me.

And finally, are there techniques I can take advantage of now, when I'm [comparatively] young, to keep my brain receptitve to new ideas, mental models, and raw sensory input? Meditation? Arts? Travel? Literature? All of the above, and if so, where do I find time for it all, while advancing my career?
To be clear: the release was accidental. Assange did not intend to release the cables. They were stored in an encrypted zip file with a password which due to a series of unfortunate circumstances was made public.

It was a disaster for Wikileaks that the cables were released. It was like a nuclear first strike. Assange knew that, and that's of course why he didn't release them. It's truly a shame that they were accidentally made public. These secrets are going to be irrelevant 10 years from now, and came at the cost of dealing a serious blow to the infrastructure which made that information release possible in the first place.
Decide once and for all whether you think this is, or want this to be, a single community.

If not, then allow users to have different "front pages" according to their interests.

If so, then define clearly the policies and police them properly.

HN is currently sinking under a morass of links trying to reflect the ever widening spread of interests of an undifferentiated mass of users. Any given individual will find it harder and harder to find links that match their interests, and the site will become more and more bland, culminating in a race to the bottom.

Retaining the level of politeness is a noble aim, but in the end, strongly technical people will find nothing of value here and will leave.
"Contribution" can actually be measured in terms of risk; the risk is the opportunity cost of the value of that contribution to any other business you had the option to be a part of.

Risk is more important than your writing seems to indicate. Equity isn't an achievement award.
We do a good bit of consulting, building custom websites, and though the Admin is fine for our use, despite considerable effort (granted a while ago) I was never able to get the Admin interface where I wanted for our clients.

So we built an Admin like thing called Smartmin based on class based views:
http://github.com/nyaruka/smartmin

It is very similar to the Admin package but a bit more useful I think. If you find yourself hating some of the still existing boilerplate in Django, this might be your ticket.

Fairly up to date docs here:
http://smartmin.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
The technology to discover and retrieve minerals from asteroids is likely to be simpler than resolving politics and economics of it:

In order to sell the minerals, there must be a way to attain ownership.

How does one come to own an asteroid, or the minerals it contains?

A land grab under a single government is manageable. When there are 200 sovereign states, who decides which asteroids are owned by whom? First to discover? First to land? First to return minerals? Passed though a parsec I have rights to? Or perhaps you don't own the minerals until you cross low-earth orbit with them in your possession. Sign me up as an asteroid pirate.

If a company does attain ownership of an asteroid, can they sell the asteroid before ever landing on it? Will asteroid futures be traded on the CME?

If an asteroid is found to contain 100 tons of palladium, what happens to the palladium market? (Cha-ching! I hold put options on Pd!)

Ya, far more interesting....

Wired started a dialog with: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/opinion-asteroid-m...

Discussed ownership, but there is no answer.

The Economist touched on it: "The most important members of the team, then, may not be the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who put up the drive and the money, nor the engineers who build the hardware that makes it all possible, but the economists who try to work out the effect on the price of platinum when a mountain of the stuff arrives from outer space."

http://www.economist.com/node/21553419
Not YC but Tech Wildcatters (April-July): I hail from India holding a business visa and depending on airports, I generally don't have a problem staying 3-6 months (my I94 always gets 6 months of stamp). SFO and DFW immigration has been very welcoming to entrepreneurs. Can't say the same for ORD. The officer didn't know what a startup meant and thought I was making up a word; oh, and also apparently stealing jobs :/ Although I've only landed there just once and it could've been a one off case.

Strictly speaking, B1/B2 doesn't allow you to work. I have a visa called B1 in lieu of H which allows you to do H work without taking a salary, of course. It's also not tied to a particular company but to an individual. I have no idea how I got this visa because I applied for a regular B1 and the annotation was added to the visa – it also isn't a widely recognized visa (embassy issues it) and I would suggest against applying for it. I guess they gave it considering my history of startups.
How exactly are you unclear at what 37signals does? Go to their website and see all the products they've created. Read their blog and you will see how they make their products, how they make their decisions and how many customers they serve. They've opened their working process through recent blog posts, which I've found to be very interesting - especially reading how team member communicate and the types of language they use while working remotely.

And with two books under his belt dozens of blog posts, and a column in Inc. I surely don't think this was ghost-written, which seem to be insinuating.
If I sell something on eBay do I pay income tax on it? No, though I suppose I would if I were selling a whole lot of stuff. Similarly, I don't pay sales tax on things I buy on eBay even though I'm supposed to.
So what? Seriously, why does it matter even one iota if there are others doing the same thing? Your entire objection to Wikileaks seems to be that it is unconventional in a literal sense, it doesn't follow the conventions of journalism that you are comfortable with. But that's just how new things work, they're different because they're new and innovative.

Unless you have a better reason than "it's different and weird", your objections are just like those of a grumpy old man complaining about the music the youngsters listen to these days.
Oh, oops. I was overly skeptical nearly to the end because I thought he meant a numeric for loop instead of a for-each loop. I misunderstood the entire distinction, because while there is little reason to pick .each over for-each, there are very good reasons to use some kind of 'each' method.
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It is so far as I know the biggest concentrated population of people starting or working on technology businesses. It's also historically our best hiring vector†. It's a lot of other things I don't like so much, but you take the good with the bad.

† We are always hiring; http://www.matasano.com/careers
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That's not quite true. I believe in every state you are supposed to declare goods you buy online and didn't pay sales tax for in your end of year taxes. I don't think anyone really does this and it hasn't been enforced.

The current fight isn't over whether online sales should pay sales tax, but over who should be in charge of collecting that tax: the seller or the buyer.
I've had good success with the RTL8188SU. Direct onto the Raspberry Pi, no hub needed. Worked away through it, ssh'd in, transferring images, etc for several hours, didn't have to touch it once. It does get a tad warm, though, but not hot enough to worry about.
Apparently, the reason anyone in Sweden can't give any guarantee about an extradition is that any such extradition has to be tried in the courts, and the Swedish constitution doesn't grant anyone the power to decide the result without a trial.
> You're saying that if Wikileaks had carefully summarized each document instead of releasing the actual documents then it would be journalism?

Um...yeah
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I would add one more thing to that list:

Don't hog all of the credit!

From both sides of the above situation, I know that it will make your workers not suggest new things nor care about their job. In the end that just makes your job harder.
You're confusing the issue.

Capital is never taxed as income under the U.S. income tax code. Ergo, the money raised in your example would never subject the business to income taxes.

Prepayments of revenue, i.e., for goods or services that will be provided in the future, are income and are taxed as income. Ergo, if you collect prepayments of $500,000 from pizza-lovers to sell them the pizza that you will develop using their money, the net would be taxed.