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Driving a manual is just more fun, more engaging, and makes you focus more on driving. It's just better. =)

I had to put up with a slushbox rental recently and finally understood how exactly people can fall asleep at the wheel.
I've created this post, and my price tag is 20 dollars. If you wish to read the rest of it, you must pay me this sum, or you are committing a crime. There's really no grey area.

On a more serious note...
Pirating software is nothing like stealing a candy bar. When you steal a material good, you are depriving someone of something. When you copy software, you're not taking anything away.
People may argue that you are depriving them of potential sales, but that's not the same as stealing at all. I'm depriving a company of potential sales when I rant about their poor quality. That's certainly not a crime.

Now, just to clarify, that doesn't mean you shouldn't respect copyright. It's still a civil offense to use software if the copyright does not permit it. I use free and open source software because I cannot afford the crazy prices of software (among other things). I think putting a price on software is silly, yes, but that doesn't mean I pirate it like this person.
That's not the way the commercial paper market works. Many companies use this for payroll and managing cash. It makes sense to use someone else's money when the interest rate is low enough that you can put your own cash into better use.

I wouldn't be too critical about this practice unless you have experience as a treasurer or CFO.
Only problem is hydraulics aren't very efficient and waste much heat. They claimed a recovery of 1 kilowatt, which is just over one horsepower (746 watts by definition.)

Now if that vehicle has a 200 horsepower gas engine and is boosted by a 1 horsepower, a 10% claim might be stretching it. An older generation Toyota Prius has a 10 horsepower electric motor, which can propel it over 30 mph. One horsepower might be good for about 5 mph. I suppose there might be unusual driving conditions that might realize a 10% increase in mpg, but not in our world.
That would be very, very nice.
The DOW is a horrible measurement of what's going on in the economy. Don't use it.
Suddenly you're annoyed because you think you should have gotten those points.

Pardon my French, but who gives a shit? I'm more than happy for people who post for karma to be annoyed. The reward of posting an interesting article should be the discussion that follows. I'd much rather see rules for the good of the community than rules that play to individuals' vanity.
It would be even cooler if the web could handle it.

Kind of reminds me of the "if a butterfly flaps its wings on one side of the world..." thing.
A tip for those who want to build karma...rethink your priorities.
Basically, but that's not a bad thing. The easier your transport is to implement, the more likely it is for somebody to support it.
I had a CD player made by Panasonic around 1997 that used buttons on the wire to pause/play and skip songs.
I agree, though there were some moments at stoplights in the north part of SF that I, um, didn't.
The ancient Hebrews did some serious moralizing over food as well. Kosher is as kosher does.
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Hah, sucks to be hacker news. I wish there was clustering on hackers news, so you could specify your friends and you'd see their posts - not the posts of the angry fanboys who seethe on hn all day.
I would love to hear more, if there are actual complaints. We have been very open.

Matt, anything we can address? We have been hearing a very constant and vague 2 year record of your thoughts (appreciated).
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I doubt they have a patent on the headphone thing. My Nokia N-series phone has a 3.5" headphone jack and it ships with an inline remote that is similar in functionality to the controls on an iPod shuffle. My Sony and Panasonic portable CD players from 10 years ago also had a similar thing.
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I highly doubt Apple tried to move Google off of the 3.5 mm jack. There are plenty of phones and other devices even now that have a 3.5 mm jack and controls in the headphone wire.
Thats the way that I see it. You get charged at the end of the month or whatever.
This is almost the perfect job ad for here, except for what someone in at the beginning is going to look for - a little bit of equity, with the promise of a lot of control (i.e. a co-founder-ish role) down the road if they rose to the occasion. I'd be tempted myself, but I'm in the middle of something.
That's pretty different from what we're talking about, but still looks quite interesting. The legal issues seem like the big problem with something like that. If you could figure out how to make it work... well that could be pretty huge.
http://getclicky.com/ is my favorite.
The biggest complaint is that they interview and accept companies before YC and like YC, require an immediate decision. So if you get accepted into Techstars you have to tell them yes or no before your YC interivew.
Refocus karma on discussion, as opposed to submission.

While the quality of discussion here is almost unrivaled (Business Spectator's conversation section is the HN of APAC business), not everyone is here for the discussion. This site is unrivaled as a news aggregator.

Why is a discussion worth more than a submission? Typically a great submission leads to an even greater discussion, but this is not always the case. And sure, we occasionally see low value articles accumulate a lot of points, but the same can be said for the odd low value comment.

not the same, always voted up, uber-submitters

With the exception of PG, who has long since removed himself from the leader board, we don't really see this too much.
search for cap shell,

http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/9/21/introducing-the-capist...

http://www.slideshare.net/btm/capistrano-presentation
Haven't seen that one. Looking at the homepage is looks like a Web 2.0 version of Google Analytics.

How is it any different?
I downmodded you because your response is snarky in addition to not being applicable. If you're new to Objective C and are used to a language like Ruby, where all strings are mutable, you wouldn't even realize it was necessary to use a class other than NSString to modify your strings.
I'm not sure what you mean here. How does OO force APIs on a user more than any other programming style? If you don't follow an API, your code won't work whether it's OO or not.
I hate those sub-humans, I just put out a bounty on them!

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All communication is on the part of the receiver. I automatically substitute "what the other person perceives to be" in front of everything that has to do with communication, especially emotive communication.
Oh, scrolling down I see a very, very large feature matrix. Hah!

It looks like the differentiator is a visitor-centric view? Plus more flexible and customizable data?
Isn't it more the government in their attempts to prevent money laundering that makes micropayments too painful?
I make it a habit to test out a Haiku build every couple of months. The improvements and progress they've made is really incredible.

If I had any free time, I'd love to work on it myself. :|
Ask HN: S-Corp in Delaware, located in California
Hi guys,

I'm looking for a good advice. (Yes, I'm assuming this is not a legal advice and you're unlikely professional accountants here. ;) But real world experience is what values.)

We're forming a new S-corp. I'm planning to do this in Delaware. However, both me and my partner are located in California. We'll do consulting and few Internet ventures under it, however, during the first days (months), the most income will come as consulting for other California company.

I heard that California state requires everyone who do business in CA to have a special entity of company BOTH in CA and state, where you're originally incorporated in. (This is not an actual quote, but something that I heard. I might be wrong.)

Do you have any better knowledge about this? I'd really appreciate your help.

On the other note, I'm also planning to run the company myself, including accounting. I'm pretty much okay with Quickbooks or whatever is needed to keep the books. However, my knowledge is pretty limited on taxation issues. So I'd also be very thankful on ideas of outsourced accountants and the typical cost of such service. References would be great.

Thanks.
I would also add that Smalltalk might be more frustrating to do "cool things". It's a gratifying language to learn as an experienced developer, but for somebody just starting out, the fascination comes from the end result, not the elegance of getting there.

I know when I was first starting out, I wasn't capable of writing an elegant line of code. I barely am now, but at least I can recognize it when I see it.
I love the ability to add custom data such as usernames to the tracking system using Javascript.

I run a few membership websites and being able to see visitor's usernames and track their actions that way is invaluable.
might want to mention how much you plan to pay, since for a lot of people the "its really simple" means that they only want to pay $100
PayPal does this, and allows for easy micropayments, and to my knowledge nobody is making much off of it.
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My buddy lives down the hall from Zack Anderson and told me about this.

I remember chuckling when I heard that Zack parked his hummer w/ shocks in a handicapped spot. He got some ugly glares.
Yeah I suppose keeping a trail of breadcrumbs only helps you prevent accidental loops. A malicious service in the chain could just clear the stack and create a loop, and no one would be any the wiser.
shouldn't be surprised, Arrington is known for reading HN, for early startups to cover
I'm sorry, this is way too thick of a block for me to read through. If you want a serious discussion of your idea, you might want to lay out your argument more carefully.
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I wouldn't mind enabling paying for sites I used a lot.

Providing people with a record of the charges and an easy dispute mechanism both sides could trust would alleviate some of the trust issues with the content providers. Content providers who got dinged too often could be banned from using the service.
At the same time, Erlang handles its problem domain like a champ. Knowing that this was written by Joe Armstrong, you can see that he might be approaching this from a different angle than others, even if he is lacking in eloquence here. I would tend to agree that OO is pretty bad for highly parallel programs, which makes this all seem a bit more reasonable.
This problem has been relatively solved for email beforehand, every once in a while the spammers figure out something new or something goes awry and you have a few offers for male enhancement products in your inbox; do you stop using email because of it?
congrats on getting covered on Techcrunch
Well, I was expecting a coder name their hourly wage, or what they'd prefer to charge. I'm not sure if that's the accepted convention. I'm always open for advice.
In general sites with a behavior of more repeat usage benefit more. For example I visit hacker news more than NYtimes or New York review of books. Hackers News updates every minute, new york review of book once a month or whatever...
Anyone reminded of those PBS pledge nights right after nature and NOVA?
I first tried to learn mac development a year ago by going through http://www.amazon.com/Cocoa-Programming-Mac-OS-3rd/dp/032150... . I did the examples in the book, so I was getting my hands dirty somewhat, but as I went through the book I got more and more confused. There were too many questions I had that the book didn't answer, nor did Apple's online documentation.

Part of the problem was that I didn't know C at all. Recently I decided to have another go at it, so I read the first chapter of K&R and did all the exercises, then read a few of the other chapters (2, 5, and 6 I believe). After that, I read this book: http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430218150 . "Learn Objective-C on the Mac" has been great - it's readable, good-humored, succinct, and comprehensive. It's answered all the remaining questions I still had about ObjC and I finally feel like I get the language.
It's still a civil offense to use software if the copyright

This depends on jurisdiction. For example, some bilateral free trade agreements have made the use of unlicensed software in businesses a criminal offence.
Hacker News is not a programming help forum. Mailing lists, ruby forums, IRC, or Stack Overflow would be better places to ask for help.
Why OOP Sucks, Or Might Not
I will explain. I have been through two total economy collapses in my life. My country collapsed twice, once in 91, when the communist regime was overthrown, and again in 97, when total financial collapse, plus social unrest happen.

In 91 there was violence, but few deaths. But I remember I had to stay in line for bread, at 10 yo, pushing and shoving to buy some, otherwise no food for me and my family. This wasn't not because we didn't have money, but because there was no food. Since everything was provided by the government, and the government seized to exist, things got really bad.
The EU had to step in, and help us with basic necessities that year.

Then in 97, happen a total economic collapse. A huge ponzi scheme (think Madoff x3), where a lot of people of an already poor country, lost a lot of money, and the government was corruptly involved in it.

A huge unrest unraveled. The government send in the army to quell it but the soldiers were demoralized and refused to fight their own people, and just left. Army depots got looted, almost everybody ended up with AK-47s, grenades, you name it.
There were no cops in the streets, you were on your own. Businesses will get looted, people that had money will be sent letters to pay money or they would be kidnapped.
In the huge unrest, looting, settling of scores, and all the chaos, about 2000k people died, in the span of 3 months.
Eventually a new government got formed, and things calmed down. Economy rebounded the next year, and things are getting better.

Now, you might think this doesn't happen in the US, but I should just remember you that Katrina was only few years ago, and look at the rape and pillaging that happen then. The LA rioting was only 18 years ago. Things like this can happen even in the us.
If you have no money, b/c your bank failed, your credit card doesn't work, your are desperate, something got to give.

Desperation = people doing crazy things.
if you go by hourly rate you really have no idea what it will cost in the end. A good programmer at $100/hour, can get the whole thing done in a week. A crappy programmer at $20/hour will take a year, and it'll cost you 3 times as much.

You really can't know how long it'll take, since most people will overpromise and underdeliver. At least if its a fixed cost, you don't lose any extra money for someone else being lazy
The part you're missing is the 15000 tests, multiplied by a new commit every 9 minutes, which in 8 working hours, is roughly 50 commit-test cycles, so 750,000 tests run in a day's timespan...

Edit: of course that assumes a peak commit rate matching or exceeding the commit-test cycle period. The point being that even a considerably low rate of failure in the testing mechanism could manifest itself as a blocked commit-test-deploy cycle at least once a day, hence the importance placed on rock-solid testing systems that should only ever fail when the tested code itself fails.
Gaming this type of system is certainly possible, but I can identify a few factors that would limit this.

For one, no matter how large "their slice of the pie" is, the publishers won't make much if the user doesn't feel that the content is valuable. Thus, blogs and what not will still be encouraged to deliver quality content to truly increase earnings.

I agree, however, that basing payout on the number of visits to a "supported" site is flawed. I could see myself supporting a site, forgetting that I did so, and then end up paying much more than I had intended. No thanks.
You only pay whatever you set your fixed monthly total Kachingle subscription to be (say $10). The number of visits just allocates what percentage of that fee goes where. The idea is that once you decide to support a site, you don't have to think about how to divvy up your support; it's based on your usage patterns.
While this is rather old, it's also rather timely: http://hackety.org/2009/02/05/theFundamentalLittleHackersSum...

...oh, and personally, I can relate. If it weren't for the Apple IIe in my middle-school math teacher's class room, I wouldn't be a programmer today.
Very interesting idea, but I don't think it will work on a commercial scale. It's based on gratitude and goodwill from consumers who are used to getting things for free. Many will pay and a few sites will make decent money, but the majority of people won't see anything in it for them, as they can get the content for free. Just like TipJoy (which I love), this seems geared more towards hobbyists than serious businesses. Hope I'm wrong.

Also, this is an especially hard sell with the economy the way it is.
You will have a hard time backing up the argument that American eating habits have proven "ruinous" to society.
I wanted to build this forever for delicious - we served literally billions of hits per month just to sites polling RSS feeds for changes.

It's unreal how inefficient this is.

I also think XMPP feeds (as suggested by others) as another way to solve this problem is a weak way to go. Here's what I wrote at the time: http://joshua.schachter.org/2008/07/beyond-rest.html
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I don't think giving out karma for submitting articles is even the best idea, anyway. The only way you should get karma in my mind is by furthering the discussion of an article. Why should you be rewarded in some fashion just because you found something interesting on the internet? It isn't that hard to do compared to actually discussing it.
A good whack of it goes towards fuel oil to run the steam heat system, then you've got a surgeon sized insurance premium in case some litigious oaf slips on the sidewalk, and finally a couple of full time staff.
Karma has something to do with your conduct on HN but for many much more to do with your conduct outside of HN. Users submitting identical stories will almost certainly not receive the same number of upvotes after controlling for other factors.
The one thing that seems to be missing is the idea of including a programming tutorial with the pc or console. What if your XBox came with a manual called "Programming the XBox - a tutorial introduction"? When I got my Apple II+ it came with a programming manual on Apple BASIC presumably because that was part of the reason for the machine's existence - as an easily accessible platform for people to learn to program on. Nowadays, the idea that the common person would actually want to program their computer seems to have been lost.
OO works becuase it roughly matches how we think. We see the world as objects at a basic level. As others mentioned, this makes coding more productive. It's a choice for the programmer, not the computer.

If you need really fast code, use assembler. You have that choice. Code at the level required for the task.
Brian Eno said that culture is those things we don't have to do.

We have to eat, but we don't have to eat with forks; we may have to cover our bodies for some protection against weather, but we don't have to have drape ourselves with some tribal logo.
I get his point, but can't get away from the idea that he's describing the web... and php. New distribution system, larger audience, same idea.
These aren't just banks. These are all corporations in the modern world, period. Everyone from Target to Citi issues notes in the money markets.

And yes, the banks are required to have more assets than liabilities. But that has nothing to do with the money markets or day to day operations.

Here's a crappy, but workable analogy. What do you do in a modern computer? Have enough money for all the programs that are running, up front? Or do you have some shared virtual pool of memory?

The money market is kind of like that. It's silly for each and every corporation to have all the cash on hand it needs for day to day operations. That would require a lot of money that would be sitting around doing nothing. A much more efficient system is to have lenders who dole out short term loans (that pay darn little but are almost guaranteed to pay back) to the corporations as they need them.

Suppose that January is just a nasty month, and Target has to dole out lots of money to its health insurance benefits. That's fine, they'll just issue more commercial paper, and it will all work out when they tally up the bills at the end of the quarter.

Without that money market, what would happen instead is that Target would either have to keep a lot more money lying around, or run into a brick wall if something bad happened. It's like forcing everyone to buy many times more memory for their computer than they would need in everyday situations.
My _very_general understanding of this is that you have to register the S-corp in Delaware and then "foreign register" the Delaware S-corp as a California entity..
Truth. I got my start in programming with BASIC via DOS. Today, I find that the biggest mental block to learning a new language is the difficulty of setting up a development environment.

It's at least a little bit surprising that platform developers don't put more of an effort into making coding for their platforms more accessible. One might assume that Microsoft would have a lot to gain from a generation of young programmers learning to develop for Windows.
Wrong on many levels. First:

"The only problem is that none of us have empirically observed how life really came about, so we have no basis on which to say that the end results (or evidence) for a process is really correct."

Evolution makes no attempts to describe how the first living cell came about. Evolution begins from the first cell, and goes forward from there. The study of how that first cell formed is called Abiogenesis.

"Let's review science first -- evidence in science is only authoritative when you can (without fail) repeat an empirical process X and come up with the end result Y (the evidence)."

Predictions made by science can speculate on the outcomes of a particular experiment or on the ability of a hypothesis to explain past outcomes. Without the second half of this statement you can discard all mathematical models, including the science of the big bang, star formation, weather/climate prediction, and nearly all of social science.

"Brilliantly rational science we have there."

Science, when done well, does nothing of the sort. What you have described is poor science, and there is poor science much the same as there is poor coding. However, Evolution is a framework arrived at from many hypotheses, many experiments, and many logical arguments put forward by many individuals over the past 150 years. You would do well to first comprehend some of the arguments before dismissing them out of hand.
I was so hoping this was the J. Edgar Hoover Institute, it would have been so much more fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover#Sexuality
That's because the Apple II+ was produced in an age where the inventors of computers envisioned everyone learning to program computers...as opposed to using them as really expensive fancy typewriters, which is essentially what most people use computers for today.