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Not really, at least, not consistently.

"Thus, it must be possible for some people to work their way through the system, bad as it is."

It is possible.

When my young brother asked me about how electrical generators worked (which is, by itself, an unusual question), I had an idea. I hooked up a DC motor to a LED and started cranking it, and he could see the LED lighting up, however faintly. Only then I tried to explain roughly how it worked - that little demonstration kept him interested. And he could explain it later, on his own words.

He didn't grow up to be a scientist, but he thinks like one. I like to think that those little 'scientific' experiments of our youth had something to do with it.
I recall a friend of a friend opening a hair salon, and from what I recall, it was a near-nightmare. Rules for illumination, taxes for how many lights you had outside the establishment. It's hard starting a business anywhere (the risk) but in France you have the added bonus of needing everything, permits, premises, etc to be ship shape before you open --even if it's not food, or drink. It seemed daunting.
...so my site would have and ADMINISTRATIVE/EDITORIAL feature that depends on a 3rd party service now?! Thanks but no thanks...

(Sometimes I wish people would go back to the golden days of "software as a product" instead of the current "everything as a service" way of selling things... I just wanna pay for it once, include it as a plugin for my CMS and MAYBE pay extra for some kind of support... and yes, I would be willing to pay for an upgrate to the next version too...)
Why use this?
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I might have been a bit unclear, but the tax I mentioned applies to the owners of the company, not the company itself. Which means that it's very hard for entrepreneurs to maintain control of their company, since they have to sell stock just to pay the taxes on their stock.

A report from The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO) published this spring, showed that over 20.000 Norwegian business owners paid more in taxes, based on the company's valuation, than the entire revenue of said company.
Is there a comparable solution to Google Voice?

I'd like voicemail, web and phone apps, text message support, and the ability to port a number in.

Bonus points for fax support, which GV doesn't have.

I'm sure that others are looking for a similar solution in light of this.
takeout is not the same as interoperability. Google's new products have very weak interoperability (APIs to non-Google clients)
So it seems we agree. I was asking: why use Github at all? Most of the value added of Github can be done with CSS and simple network analysis.
What about Small Claims court?
Ah, I live in one of these countries with low corporate income tax (it's 19% here), and yet right wing here wants to make it even lower to increase entrepreneurship, and everybody complains how hard it is to do business here, because taxes and insurance contribute additional ~13-15% cost to base salary, so that they have to use law loopholes to escape that (which is very widespread, and recent attempts by government to fixed it resulted in an public outcry).

Hearing all that, one could imagine that in countries like France, with >30% corporate tax and high employment cost, no business can take place at all, and it must have fallen in a deep economic depression a long time ago.
It is readonly.
Aaron Patterson (tenderlove) had a blog post where he talked about the necessity of refactoring rack. I guess that is a larger project that isn't happening right now but that should lead to real performance improvements.
"And that means Norway is not the easiest country to do business in [...]"

Well, the ease of doing business index says otherwise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_doing_business_index
Rewording of http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/bank-of-america/archive...
Evolution is often all-or-nothing --- no one produces "half a child". This is especially true of men, if you believe the 40-80 figure [1]: 40% of men have descendants vs 80% for women. We are the descendants of A) successful people [2] and B) unsuccessful people who took a big gamble (winning the lottery; robbing a bank; crossing the ocean to find better opportunities) that made them wealthy enough to reproduce.

[1] I'm not sure I do.

[2] Obviously - "successful" here basically means "had children". Evolution is a tautology.
Not every language needs to be one of those that changes the way we think about programming. It is perfectly fine to experiment on mundane languages by adding mundane features. Incremental improvement is a good thing and it is too early to just write off this because it seems to be un-interesting.

I'm sure this project was extremely interesting to the author - maybe from a different perspective than yours.

> (If someone wants to be mean, he could simply compare this feature-wise with one of the Scheme dialects that compile to C...)

I'm not being mean here, but if someone really wanted to be..
"China" did not make this... A description and a download were posted [1] on the Shanghai Jiao Tong University wiki by Hao Liu(刘浩) [2]

[1] http://tcloud.sjtu.edu.cn/wiki/index.php/User:Liuhaots:JLLVM
[2] http://tcloud.sjtu.edu.cn/wiki/index.php/User:Liuhaots
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This is an amazing idea, but the economics really don't check out as stated. Home printers caught on because for a brief flash of history, people needed to bridge the gap between digital and paper based systems often enough to warrant owning a device for that specific purpose. People buy cars because they need a flexible transportation option that they can use every single day. Even though these investments are expensive, the benefits outweigh(ed) the costs. Nowadays, it's not uncommon for your situation to be that printing things is a rare need, and on those rare occasions you can just go to a place like FedEx. As usage becomes more occasional, the need for decentralization drops.

And that is the case with a vaccine printer. This is something you would use maybe once or twice a year, and then it would just sit there. For a piece of equipment that will be expensive initially and then probably require regular maintenance, that simply doesn't make sense.

But distribution and availability of vaccines are problems, and this technology could be a solution to them. You wouldn't have the printer in your home, though. That's crazy talk. Instead, your doctor or clinic would have the printer. Instead of paying based on the scarcity of the vaccine and the difficulties of shipping them around the country, you'd be paying for the licensing of the vaccine and the maintenance of the printer (which makes way more sense if spread across hundreds of patients). Assuming old business models don't die too hard, this would mean higher availability and lower costs.
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And in return provide extensive middle class services.

Nobody who wants to get elected in the U.S. can say this, but the middle class here increasingly sees more benefits from government while paying less and less for them. The poor are screwed by regressive sales and payroll taxes, while the upper classes face much higher average rates due to income cutoffs on a variety of tax credits and deductions.

You can argue about payroll vs. state vs. income taxes, but it's indisputable that the income tax which funds government programs has become dramatically more progressive in real terms over the last few decades.

Will ACA help the upper class? Not really: they had a low uninsured rate to begin with. Will it help the poor? Not really: They already had Medicaid/CHIP. It's effectively a middle class benefit, and it's paid for largely by increased taxes on the rich.

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with taxing the upper class to help the middle class. Maybe it will solve the "problem" of inequality, but I'm not so sure. I think I'd prefer a system where a more generous government requires a more generous citizenry.
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Let's be honest here. It's not that Google and Microsoft don't have support departments. It's that the price you're paying for the product is too low for them to provide general support on an individual basis.

Of course, that doesn't mean they shouldn't be working on ways to identify those very rare issues that need manual intervention and provide ways to get the support you need at that point, but that may only be 1 case in 100,000 or so.
Relevant: A fascinatingly disturbing thought by Dr. Neil deGrasse - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDRXn96HrtY
There's less typing for the programmer than in COS as far as I can tell. And productivity is an important improvement.
An uproar is probably absent because nobody really uses these services. Anybody remotely tech savvy ditched hotmail years ago and bing has never really taken off.
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> not every languages needs to change ... way we think about programming.
> I'm sure this project was extremely interesting to the author

No, but neither does(should) every new language be posted and upvoted to HN.
I had been thinking about setting up a simple donation page for a website that I run. I saw this post and decided, heck, why not. I had never touched Stripe or (clearly) Spacebox before.

I was done and receiving donations in just about twelve minutes. The longest part of the whole process was logging into my bank account to find my account number.
I checked your source (I'm like that) and found this at the top of your stylesheet:

/* otay. I bootstrapped it. Can I Haz Startup Now?*/

When I was in my mid 20s, I would have loved that. Now that I'm in my mid 30s, I admire the courage, but wonder if it might be safer to remove? Sort of the 'best foot forward' principle...
I would think it would be easier to calculate the payout ratio simply by looking at how much the government kept of the lottery revenue, rather than by calculating the odds.
Seriously just use office with a hosted exchange account somewhere. It just works and doesn't suffer from this sort of pain.

If your exchange hosting company goes down or dumps you, you have a copy of your mailbox, calendar etc already in a PST file on your disk.
The availability of an affordable vaccine biofactory implies general manufacture of complex molecules.

It's science fiction on the order of fusion power plants or hard AI: there's nothing that we know will prevent it, but our technology level is just not there yet, nor can we make good estimates of when it will be.

I will be happy when it shows up, but I wouldn't expect it anytime soon.
The provider claimed he had his chat list filled with google engineers because he would go out to googleplex and met them. Dunno if it's true, but my idea was that I am going to pay the same amount for google apps and these people will be more responsive if i do have issues. I think it worked out.
Check out the std lib: http://golang.org/src/pkg/ -- that's canonical Go code.

It's my language of choice for personal projects. A neat and compact language that is very trivial to pick up, feels light, and yet sufficiently subtle to intellectually engage your mind.

Very productive, good performance, and very portable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE

caveat: /imho/ the runtime is not yet fully cooked. ETA is Go1.1 (end of year I believe) for beefed up internals.
Last year, Microsoft reported [1] that Hotmail has 360 million users. Earlier this year VentureBeat reported [2] numbers from comScore putting Hotmail ahead of Yahoo Mail and Gmail with 325 million users.

[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2011/07/05...

[2] http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/28/gmail-hotmail-yahoo-email-...
Institutional VCs will likely be able to account for the income such that they are, at least on paper, re-investing a good portion of the income.
I feel like what they are describing is more defragmentation than garbage collection. The article uses garbage collection to mean taking sparsely filled blocks and consolidating them into a single block to free the sparsely filled ones. Garbage collection in the OO context is where you free memory the program can no longer interact with. Perhaps it means different things in different contexts?
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"I am doing a startup because...."

So, to you, it's not a startup unless it's what the OP calls the "go big or go home" approach. The OP asserts that that is not a critical element of starting up a business, nor a healthy one, nor necessarily one that will increase your odds of success.

Honestly your argument seems odd. If you were able to do a successful company ($2mm / year rev, $3mm exit after 10 years by OP definition) at 19, why didn't you? Why not use that money to fund your "bigger is better" startup instead of taking VC? Or did you?
A great option to enable for servers where you're constantly SSHing to (either opening a shell or pushing a repo) is ControlMaster, which lets you multiplex a single connection and cut down on the initial connection time (including authentication).
Who is DDOSing GitHub and why?
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For free? No. For pay, yes. There are tooons of people in this space. This is one of the first-movers I am aware of: http://www.phone.com/features/
This is confusing, first we have:

> To cater to the local audience, on some of its programming the company displayed “unauthorized” fansubs. Unlike regular subtitles, fansubs are created without permission from content owners and often used alongside pirated content.

But then:

> “It’s nice to see that the texts are used, but they [Netflix] did not ask permission,” they [DivX Finland] wrote, adding a link a clip from the Netflix video where DivX Finland’s credits are clearly visible.

So DivX Finland made an authorized derivative work -- from content which Netflix has licence to -- and DivX Finland is calling out Netflix?

IANAL and certainly not Finnish, but wouldn't Netflix just need to make a call to the rights owner of the work in question? I wouldn't think the original content [Andromeda (2000–2005)] would be public domain or that this would be considered "fair use" or not.

It would seem like DivX Finland should just be happy that they haven't been sued YET...but now they're drawing attention to themselves (even though they were getting free advertising).
I think it is cool for the ability to allow for demos. I don't think anyone is pushing it as a full replacement for all users browsers, but you need a way to show off new and shiny.
Interesting that he claims this lottery has positive expected value, but I don't think it's true. He forgot about income tax. This is one of the standard tricks for making lotteries look better (or less bad) than they really are. (The other common trick is paying an annuity instead of money, and advertising its nominal value instead of its actual value, which is substantially greater. This one doesn't seem to be doing that, though).
Anytime a company goes from being a company into essentially being a bank you can smell the failure. GM did it too and we all ended up paying off that bad debt. Turning into a bank is not a success in business, its showing the world that you have no other options but to profit from carried interest.
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Syntax for anyone looking for it:

Host *
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>Payments for an iPhone app - are you selling this directly?

If it goes through the iTunes store, you're required to use Apple's payment system.

Are you looking for the cheapest, the easiest or some combination? Stripe seems like a no-brainer.
One could argue that Facebook's success still remains to be seen. Yes, it captured the masses quickly - but its long term viability has yet to be solidified. It hasn't quite found its business model and the rapid declines of social networks have been well documented. See Myspace...
Not to worry. Someone with a graduate-level background in actual math won't make it very far into the title before deciding the paper is nonsense.

After that, it's all fun and games trying to assign meanings to things. "Arrows of Equations and Problems in Formal Applied PDE" sounds like what happens when someone gets frustrated with their homework to me. ;)

I'm really impressed with the quality of the lorem ipsum, though. If you don't actually read what it says, just kinda skim over the formatting, it's surprisingly believable.
Hearing all that, one could imagine that in countries like France, with >30% corporate tax and high employment cost, no business can take place at all, and it must have fallen in a deep economic depression a long time ago.

That is generally the case. Unemployment rates in the 8-12 neighborhood are considered a disaster in the US. In France they are normal.

France is as poor as Arkansas and Idaho, two of the poorest US states. If the US in general fell to this level, we'd definitely be calling it a deep depression.

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/01/paul-krugman-extols-euro...

The only reason France isn't described as being in a recession is because it's always been this way, so they are used to it.
The university of southern north Dakota at hoople? Yeah, it doesn't exist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._Q._Bach

...making the whole thing satire.
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oh quiet you naysayers. just nod in appreciation of the hard work.
I consider Zuckerberg to be rich. As far as I can tell from his and FB's public-facing personas, he's a failure at the things that really matter -- integrity, positive impact on others, respect of peers for anything other than wealth acquisition.
No. A VC fund invests each dollar precisely once and then attempts (over the next 10-15 years) to return those funds to investors when they cash out.

Maybe VCs in France will completely restructure their business to avoid this massive tax (presumably incurring lower returns in the process). Or maybe they will just invest outside France. Either way, this is not a small problem for them.
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I'm a little confused. If HouseTrip only deals with the rentals of entire homes, as opposed to people being able to rent out spare rooms...and the pricing is competitive...how could this model compete with airbnb on volume?
I think when it does show up, no one will be happy. People are already running around like chicken with its head cut off because someone managed to 3d-print the lower receiver of an AR-15, fearing regulatory pressure. There are hour-long talks on the topic of computational freedom.

Now imagine a world where you can print molecules. It's either one where theres no freedom left or complete and total freedom.
Hotmail is the world's largest webmail service. Bing has 15% of the search market; Google only has ~4 times that. Let's not pretend nobody uses these sites.
I think it's amusing that the movie industry complains of piracy hurting the artists, while at the same time charging the artists exorbitantly for things (promotion, distribution) which piracy helps with.
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All or most commercial art, certainly. I wouldn't be surprised if most art has always been done by amateurs.
the whole of china, you say...
How long before an ignorant humanities scholar writes a book claiming that the "Rathke Affair" proves that all math is nonsense?
This analogy reinforces why people should and do (incl author) play the lottery. A nice roadtrip through the country, entertainment. If you happen to stop and find a quarter, bonus!
Wow, based on the title I assumed the issue was resolved easily.

Almost two weeks with no number, then being forced to buy the number back?
I now use Mosh exclusively over ssh. It's great on slow connections as well as on fast ones. For example, I can start an ssh connection at home on my laptop, drive to the office and resume like nothing ever happened. One of the best discoveries of the past year for me.

http://mosh.mit.edu/
This is much bigger than another dust-collecting machine in everyones home. The "vaccine printer for everyone" is just what you write on the grant application form to get the simpletons at the government excited.
Gmail's IMAP implementation is really buggy. No distinction between tags and folders, non sorting done at the server level, etc. Frustrated, I also moved to fastmail two years ago; it is slightly expensive, but is standard's compliant and works flawlessly.
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Um... what about surrogate pairs?
I was very pleased when I discovered this. I was thrilled when I discovered that Emacs tramp mode makes use of this! :D
Google apps has support if your big enough.
Actually people have "half a child" all the time. Every time a sibling reproduces, for example, that's half a child.

So there's a perfectly viable strategy of helping your siblings have more children instead of having more children yourself. If you can create more than 2 successful sibling-children for every child you don't have, your inclusive genetic fitness is increased.

This doesn't mean your conclusion (people gamble! men gamble more than women!) is wrong, but your line of reasoning is.
The kindest thing I can say here is that I find your interpretation odd and that it contains some substantial And unusual interpretation of the text.

Melanie said she tried the standard (accellerator leading presumably to VC) route, it didn't work, she tried another, nonstandard route, it did. Now she is sharing the lesson that alternatives exist.
Roedler is responsible for his talk (and following the law just a tad too closely for this crowd's taste). Pogemiller is responsible for setting things straight (and risks taking the heat by Coursera's for-pay competitors).

The situation right now is that they interpret law in a way that isn't exactly typical to the US legal system, with the intent to fix up any shortcomings of the law in 3 months (+ whatever the lawmakers need to get to a conclusion).
I wouldn't expect some subordinate in any office to take such a (rather bold) step on their own.

As long as they revise their internal policies, so matters relating to new developments are escalated to Pogemiller earlier, the handling seems fine to me.

It's not like they sent people to the death row, the worst that happened is two days of media drama.
I'm going to argue that the real tablet UI elements developed by the guys at Canonical are the lenses (aka the dash), not the side menu. They are full screen, display large icons, allow you to implement a lot of features (e.g., see Music/video, Documents and Shopping lenses) while using the same UI.

The top bar is only important for its notification icons - the global menu is slowly going to fade out, replaced by in-app icons (see for example google chrome).

I agree with you that one UI for all form factors and sizes is probably a bad idea, but I think I see where they are going for tablets. I pretty much hate Unity for the desktop, but I think for tablets it will make sense.
The core Pyramid setup is actually just as minimal as Flask is. You need to add a million different Pyramid_ addons to get "full stack" functionality.
What OS and Browser version?