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There's also the qualified dividend tax rate of 15%.

This is justified by the fact that the corporation will be taxed on any income that is paid out as a dividend. Therefore the effective tax rate on the income is the corporation tax plus the dividend tax rate.
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I admit I'm not a fan of those office setups either. But I don't really know what they would do. Most of the time that setup is due to space constraints. Kinda my point - some people would not do well in that situation. They should find an employer with a different setup or work-from-home arrangement.
Who defines what "explanatory" means? And what is the resolution if there is a disagreement? I, personally, am happy with a commit message like, Refactoring needed before #12345 can happen. I've said what I was doing, and why, and presumably in your ticket system there is a ticket 12345 that has more detailed explanation. Other programmers will disagree. "Explanatory" means different things to different people, and complex arguments can erupt. (Conversely if your commit essay lacks a concise first line to show up in blame, is that explanatory? Should you always have a ticket #?)

Furthermore there is a type of person who enjoys asserting power through language lawyering. That kind of person will see that policy as a golden opportunity to acquire influence, even though the cost may be unnecessary conflict to little point. If such a person manages to assert control of a process element like that, you can easily get a type of teamicide that drives away good developers who don't want to deal with the BS of figuring out whether their essay was good enough to avoid an email lecture.

As for the alternative, I thought I was clear on that. Large groups cannot work without process, small groups can mostly get by on common sense. The imperfections of processes do not change their necessity in many cases. But if you, personally, do not enjoy dealing with process, then you should find opportunities to work in more congenial small groups.
Reason I became so passionate about Bitcoin is because it backs the ideology, which is anarcho-capitalism. Not all bitcoin users realize this (and they don't have to in order for Bitcoin to work), but many do. And the beauty of this situation is that anarcho-capitalism seems to be the only political ideology that is actually backed by a technology voluntarily produced by people contributing to it. A huge step forward from any kind of political movement trying to achieve its goals by force.
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Let's assume you get past the obvious problems like politics, privacy concerns, massive improvements in battery technology to implement GPS tracking of guns, etc.

With the estimated 200 Million privately owned firearms in the United States alone, you seem to have a 20 Trillion dollar ($100 a firearm) problem to solve.

That's greater than the US debt (at the moment) and the entire US GDP for the most recent year.

Emotional impact aside, there are a lot more serious problems that could be solved with that kind of money that impact more people with greater efficacy
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On the other hand, many if not most businesses run just fine getting only 20-40% profit. Some business even run on being able to get only 2-5% profit for each investment, but re-invest tens of times per month. Why must software project have 500% profit before it makes sense to kick-off.
What makes you think that extension is absurd? I based that on a real example!
Didn't the killer shoot the person who would have monitored the firearms first before taking them? So this solution would only be helpful if law enforcement actively tracked the position of all "assault weapons" at all times. And that seems like a bad idea on a variety of levels.
> banning high capacity magazines can reduce the fatalities, but even that is tough to achieve

The colombine shooter that fired the most, used 10rd magazines, not the one with the TEC-9. Src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre#...

I will give you props though, unlike most of the anti-gun crowd, you're thinking something other than 'ban'.
Because people running funds are the beneficiaries of it.
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Just FYI, having a DUNS code is also part of the requirements for publishing on the Windows Store. Symantec is the third-party doing the verifications for Microsoft.
Ask HN: How would you advise a person you liked to look for a career mentor?
What is a good place to find a mentor? If you had a mentor that wasn't through work or school directly, how did you make that happen?
To be somewhat dark here: you don't really need sensors at malls or schools; their utility in the event of a shooting would probably be superseded by discharges or other obvious telltales of a weapon's presence.
The reason for multiple AES keys is because the gps points are optionally password protected, but I didn't want to save the password anywhere on the file system, and I wanted the app needs to be able to store and encrypt points after a reboot without forcing the user to reenter their password.

I solved this issue using a pair of RSA public/private keys that are stored in internal storage. The private key is then encrypted by the password whereas the public key is not. So what happens is that on reboot, a random AES key is created, encrypted by the public RSA key and stored in a table. Then, this is used to encrypt any future GPS points until a further reboot. (I didn't want to use the RSA key directly due to efficiency concerns and the lack of a good padding mechanism within the library)
I thought the same thing. I think he anticipated our thoughts when he wrote (paraphrased) "it's so egregious, I benefit from it and I want it to end."

Maybe, just maybe, I misjudged Arrington a bit.
No, it'd actually be a hindrance (assuming the GPS-alert-school thing is implemented). It would give a false sense of security while doing next to nothing.
It's nice to see someone else has such a strong revulsion to poorly worded ad copy on a web site.

Grrr!
I am not a hardware engineer, never fired a bullet.

Your points are very valid,

All I can build is couple of prototype which can prove it can be done. it might be flawed, defective whatever.

I dont know how it can be done, but there must be someone somewhere who can take these challenges and come up with a solution.
You know what works better? Responsible armed people willing to confront evil with faced with it.
Looks like high income (250k-1.2million)/small investment portfolio people (doctors and lawyers) are going to be even more screwed since they already pay high taxes and probably have enormous student loans.
I think you are missing his point. The term "assault weapons" is a made up term. It describes a series of cosmetic features on a rifle, and if a rifle has a sufficient number of those features, it becomes an "assault weapon". The gun community, the people who you would need in order to buy your weapons, is not going to like that name. Since most of your potential buyers aren't going to like the idea itself, you might as well come up with a website name that they are going to find blatantly offensive.
> And lastly, this is IMO, a corollary for why ageism is so persistent in our field.

Out of curiosity, are you from the valley area? It has been my experience that ageism is really only that big a deal there. Everywhere else I've worked (PDX, ATL mostly) I have seen no sign of ageism. Also it fits with the valley's general culture and economic setup. Everyone I know in the valley is young and single and live with other young and single people. As soon as they get older, meet someone and think about a family they leave and go somewhere that they can get a house and situate themselves.
No matter what anyone says it's not going to be 3D printing at home. Maybe low cost 3D printing will grow and get better I just don't believe we will see 3D printers (ever?) enter the home.

With that said, as a product designer I am excited about the future of 3D printers like the form labs one and what they will do for the small business product design firms.
I made 500+ rounds over the christmas holidays as a gift for my dad. I can cast my own bullets, and if I really needed to I could make the shell casings. Yeah, it'd take a lot of work with the mill and lathe to build the dies to draw and form the brass, but totally doable.
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I always thought it's silly for the Congress and WH to be focusing on raising the tax for the high income people (doctors, lawyers, senior engineers, people who are well off but still live off paychecks), whom are already paying a very high effective tax rate. Meanwhile the ultra-rich are mostly untouched by these new laws and people like Romney can still get away with a 13% effective tax rate.

The only significant portion of the new law that MAY make an impact on the uber-riches is raising long-term capital gain to 20% for people who make over $400k (so actually now even better reason for CEOs to take $1 salary and get the rest in stocks) and limit deductibles to $250k per family (So hopefully people like Romney can longer claim the expenses on their horses and everything else as deductibles).

Well, like MA said, the aspiring rich people took a bullet for the real rich people.
Is the effective tax rate on the carried interest loophole just the 15% Arrington mentions, or is it also more?

I ask because we can talk about capital gains tax rates and how low they are, but we should always talk about effective tax rates, in my opinion. That was why Subchapter S Corporations were created, I believe.
Carried interest is just one of the loopholes that hedge funds exploit that should be closed. When I worked for a quant fund, we were making at least one trade a day, but because we were trading futures contracts we were mostly paying long-term instead of short-term capital gains.
Because I can capture 70% of your experience in your code
-- in your library -- and build directly on top of it.

If you use my library, you have not captured my experience to write said library. If you need to write any higher level library of your own, the most problems you will face are exactly the ones I already solved once. I could write that library faster and more correctly than you. (the words 'you' and 'I' do not (necessarily) denote you and me)
Gun buybacks are mostly for publicity. A good amount of the guns are stolen specifically to turn them in for cash. The people who organize these things make it sound like they are there to accept the surrender of a large, violent gang. Also, when a real gang member does sell a gun, chances are he still has at least one at home(like he's gonna change his entire lifestyle for 50 bucks.)

Think about it, most guns cost way more than the 50 bucks they were offering for handguns in that article and ar15s average about 1k. Guns maintain resale value in a way that makes apple products look like disposable pens, so why would anyone who didn't steal their gun sell it to these people at a huge loss?
So your idea solves the problem of someone "cracking" or knowing the combination to my gun safe and removing the gun without my knowledge?

Please explain how many of mass shootings over the last 15 years or so this would have prevented?
The problems you'll run into when trying a GPS solution:
1) packaging. LIke someone else said, there isn't a lot of room on your typical firearm to hide such things. You'll be left with something like a wall-wart that is completely obvious.
2) battery life. some of my rifles haven't left the safe in a year, you really going to have a battery that keeps the device powered that long?
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Server farms are still used to get the document to the printer.
You're correct.

Second hand smoking kills 42,000 people each year in the United States alone [1].

More than 3 times as many as homicide by firearm.

Furthermore second hand smoking in Britain (more common than the US) kills about 5 times as many people per capita as do firearms in the US [2].

[1] http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/21/the-major-toll-of-seco...

[2]http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/healthyliving/sm...
It seems impressive, and but is there really a risk in saying it?
Freedom is stateless, and enlightenment is the full realization of Ego's lazy sequence of beliefs.
Love the refresh. Does anyone know how support for VMWare and Parallels is going?
To add to the "layers" aspect, the young hotshot coders of the world are also some of the worst at making marketable products, because they've become used to making an 80% prototype and then moving on to the next thing, which means that they haven't experienced this yet:

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/11/26

Learning software "in the large" still basically requires you to drive the bigger and bigger trucks over(more features) until the bridge(your architecture) breaks. It can't be properly conveyed with any weekend project or library.
In summary: You've registered a domain name, spent 3 weeks noodling the problem since Sandy Hook, have no hardware engineering background, and have never fired a gun.

Why is this on HackerNews?
Asking anybody to be a triple-A engineer -- without which there is simply nothing to sell -- and in addition to that NOT to do things in terms of sales and finance that could seriously damage the thing, means that there are indeed only that many Sergey Brins or Larry Pages on this planet ...
Side question: are there really senior engineers who make >$400k in salary? I thought you had to go into upper management to break much above $200k in actual salary (paycheck, not equity), even in the Bay Area. But I could well be out of touch with recent developments in Valley pay.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Henry Ford and George Stephenson were "only" engineers.

So I am happy to be called one.
Its already illegal to murder people. Yet people get murdered all the time.
Can't you substract the interest from your income?
The aforementioned LA gun buyback also bought 2 completely useless, already fired, single use rocket launchers and paraded them around the press as if they'd accomplished something.

The vast majority of guns turned in are old .22s and shotguns, very few "assault weapons" or even handguns for that matter.
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Scale and operation. European operators that open up in America also provide cheap pricing. See OVH for example. Pinterest could easily get 80 servers by them for $5/hr.
The problem, is that removing Michael Arrington from the title make it a totally different title. I did not mean that bored people are boring, it was an answer to Michael Arrington on his "I am bored" post.
Restricted stock units are treated as income, so while not technically "in salary", tax implications are the same.
The first thing I thought of when this bill cleared was the recent news regarding how much Apple pays Tim Cook[1], said to be the highest-paid executive in the country (in total, not just salary). His big RSU grant isn't going to begin vesting until 2016, but he now makes $1.36mm and more in incentives annually (in salary, which is Arrington's point) so presumably this deal will affect his taxes quite a bit. I'd be curious to know just how much to put things into a little bit of perspective.

[1]: http://www.macworld.com/article/2023491/apple-gives-tim-cook...
Civilians get killed by knives and stones by Al Asad military officers 
This is not in the jungle, even-though you can tell that those are animals not humans. This is why we fight Al Asad regime in Syria...

~ The whole world should see this ~
It is true that this approach requires a separate code generator for every architecture. That is not the same as saying that "retargeting will be hard" (which makes it sound like DynASM somehow gets in your way).

Yes, as I said before, if you have a problem that maps cleanly onto LLVM and you don't mind the weight that LLVM brings along, by all means use it! But you shouldn't think of LLVM as an "assembly generator library." That implies that it is far more general-purpose than it actually is. DynASM is actually an assembly generator library. LLVM is an IR, a set of optimization passes for that IR, and a set of target-specific code generators for that IR. The key point is "for that IR."

DynASM is a tool that you can count on when no existing IR's like LLVM, .NET, etc. fit your needs. It's a lower-level tool -- LLVM could conceivably use DynASM to perform its own target-specific instruction encoding. DynASM is a small, focused tool that does one thing and does it well. LLVM is more of a toolbox that tries to get the 99% case right for its target audience. As a result, it represents a lot more compromises and changes in more fundamental ways over time (for example, it recently completely rewrote its register allocator).

> Perhaps the preprocessor is syntactic sugar over a library that build the code representation as a data structure and there are ways to programmatically manipulate this data structure to implement optimizations.

No, definitely not. The idea is that you perform optimizations before the code generation step. I didn't do this in the article because these were just simple "Hello, World" examples, but maybe I should write a follow-up article that illustrates how optimization fits into this framework.
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Government taxes things (cigarettes, gasoline, high incomes) to discourage them.
Ability to deduct phases out rather quickly (as soon as you hit $300k in income with current bill, looks like).
No. That deduction gets phased out at higher incomes.
What prostoalex said, while it's still rare, but for senior engineers who work for companies that give out a lot of valuable RSUs such as Google/Apple, etc, it's very possible for them to make more than that amount.
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I received my undergrad education in China. We've got some really good math textbooks, and they're very cheap. Yes I know textbooks in English are very expensive. But during my PhD education I mainly rely on free resources. (For example, Vazirani has written some very comprehensive materials about math and algorithms, search for it. If I don't remember it wrong, somebody posted his algorithm book a month ago on HN)

On the other hand, for what purpose would you like to choose a book that you call "racket"? If forced by your school, then it's done, no choice. If it's your willpower to learn something, why don't do some mining and research first before diving into a pile of junk? :-)
Not exactly.

The student loan interest deduction gets phased out pretty early. It's gone once your AGI is over $75k.

ITEMIZED deductions get reduced by 3% of every dollar you make over a specified threshold. That's 300k in 2013 with this bill. It's called the Pease phaseout and its back after being partially or completely repealed in previous years.
Cool. I love the demo where it's hooked up to a player piano.

After a quick glance at the source, it seems like what you do is build a simple Markov chain from the input snippet and then randomly sample it to produce the output snippet. Is that about right?
Office activities are a tad different from casual sidebars in day-to-day life. You don't always know how long you will be free.
Don't forget that Android is built upon Linux. Just because at the core you're speaking largely Unix doesn't mean that you have to show a Unix-like system to the user.

Really, you can do whatever you want in userspace.
200m x $100 is $20b not $20t.
I've am currently using a 11" HP dm1 3016 (just a grade above netbook), and I refuse to believe people do not find value in netbooks. Yeah, they may be underpowered, but are usable for most tasks that an average user needs to do, mostly web browsing and facebook, watching 720p movies, using MS Office, and a long backup (~7-8 hrs after 1 yr).

Heck, I've been developing for Android on Eclipse, working on Spring MVC app, Play 2.0 projects and doing graphics work on Adobe Photoshop on this laptop since I bought it in Dec., 2011. Attached a 24" display to the HDMI port when needed. Planning to upgrade to SSD, and it will last me a few more years. What it cost me, around INR 20k (~$400).

I guess what netbooks need is an upgrade to a minimum 1366x768 display (which is why I bought the dm1 and not a 10" netbook) and an AMD E series Fusion grade processor.
Bitcoin has no ideology. It's a protocol. Satoshi and many of the early adopters appear to share your philosophy, and Bitcoin is especially applicable to the needs of anarcho-capitalists. But it is not married to that ideology.
> The incredibly tall software stack we all live on makes our hardware seem much slower than it actually is

Actually, it doesn't really. Modern OSes take up far more RAM (because more services are kept available) but when you're performing operation solely in user space on a modern system, the OS doesn't really interfere. The only impact on any multitasked system -- process scheduling -- is carefully written to have an undetectably small overhead when there's only one busy process.

The reason why computers can still occasionally feel slow is:

1) They are processing millions (sometimes billions) of times more data than 1980's era computer.

2) You can always fill up the resources on your computer or overwork your hard disk. This can slow your computer down a 1000 fold.
Furthermore, vehicles are licensed with the idea that people are going to drive them in public, at dangerous speeds, in close proximity to other vehicles that are also in motion.

Guns are carried/licensed with the idea that people are not going to use them in public, except in emergency situations.

The law in most places doesn't treat prohibitions as categorical imperatives. If I'm going to be attacked unless I flee on a motorcycle, good luck finding a jury anywhere that will convict me for riding a bike without a motorcycle license.

And yet, carrying a gun, without a license, solely so that you can attempt to defend yourself in an emergency situation, will generally get you prosecuted in all but the most gun-tolerant areas[1] if you get caught or if you have to use it... prosecuted for not having a carry permit. (Ignoring unlicensed open carry -- which is legal in a few more places than unlicensed concealed carry is -- because, although I don't want open carry banned, I think it's tactically unsound.)

[1] Vermont, Alaska, Arizona so far allow unlicensed concealed carry, and in a few other places the DAs might choose not to prosecute you, but most DAs would at least try to prosecute.
Worker Farm uses complete child processes with data-channel communication (via a pipe, as provided by Node's child_process.fork()). So, in terms of computing performance it should be pretty good but the communication may start letting you down if you're throwing lots of data around.

The main benefit is in the simplicity and durability, but don't use it unless you have a good use-case for it that goes beyond what a single Node process affords you.
He mentions Khan Academy as a web resource.
That's why I said it "backed" the ideology. And that's why I also said Bitcoin users don't have to share or even know it in order for it to work. I agree with you completely that it's just a protocol, but if you look at it in the context of politics, it is obvious governments wouldn't be exactly happy if more people started using it.
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Only if you have a password set up. about half the systems I interact with do not, and the UAC is just a click through on them.
I'm curious to know more. They can't have normal conversation with people, but can write a operating system?
Government taxes things to raise income.
And as a result, people decide that being rich isn't worth it and become welfare queens instead.

Tragic, really.
Then representative democracy is no better than direct democracy in this case which was the point I was trying to make.