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Ask HN: I want to run multiple sites – should I have multiple corporations?
I'm wondering if there is a point to having multiple corporations for a single individual, if they are all basically just websites/blogs. The only thing that worries me is the apple/google store that will list a weird company name for the reader for each site that I want to publish.

Is this a real problem? How different/risky does the site have to be to justify it? What's your experience? Any links to anyone else dealing with this?
Timothy Gowers (mathematician, fields medalist) actually wrote about this phenomena quite recently as well: http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/what-maths-a-level-do...
It depends on what you are trying to do.

Which you can't know in advance, which is the point. Since you don't know what you might want to do with stuff down the road, you end up writing code in a style that is less concise but more "putty-like". I am an amateur programmer with derpy years of experience, but I found myself often taking "shortcuts" out after a while, because they made working with the code harder.. just like the poster said, I realize that trying to be super clever all the time isn't that helpful. I guess you could say in places that are subject to constant change or lots of copy and paste, I trade screen space for putty-ness, and when something turns out to not really change anymore, or generally gets in they way of more interesting things, I compact it a bit.
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Good ol' superior orders.

As convincing as ever.
I don't see any evidence either way for whether or not his "keepgrabbing" python soup only grabbed public domain articles. At the very least, I imagine it touched the landing pages for each article to get the pdf link, where it would also have an opportunity to look at the copyright status. Is the copyright status even on the JSTOR page for each article anyway? Or is it only in the PDF?

Let's see..

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1831029

The "rights and permissions" link goes out to:

https://s100.copyright.com/AppDispatchServlet?author=Fischer...

... ok copyright.com is not encouraging at all, that scam is everywhere. Let's try something older.

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/30096268

The "rights and permissions" link goes out to:

https://www.copyright.com/openurl.do?sid=pd_ITHAKA&servi...

which leads to:

http://www.copyright.com/search.do?operation=detail&item...

.. where they seem to be selling the rights??
If you are defending his comments. What a sad sad action.

You're going to have to do a bit better than that if we're going to have a discussion...
People aren't rational. The top two explanations would probably be: society says women shouldn't be doing those jobs; the person hiring believes women shouldn't be doing those jobs or would rather have men around.

If we made every decision based off of sound economic or similar principles there's a lot that wouldn't happen. Gas guzzlers wouldn't be so popular (from a global or national perspective gas sippers make far more sense for pollution, personal finances, overall security because of reduced dependency on others). But they are.
Ghouls.
The TechCrunch folks are very cozy with CloudFlare, so anything even remotely mentioning security also gets a CF plug.
I think the Techcrunch article (top for much of today) is unhelpful. There's a vast gulf between aaronsw asking for help with the costs of a predictable, if improbable, legal defense that several people (including myself) felt he brought upon himself, and the implicit (via hindsight) suggestion that aaronsw was asking for the help needed to stave off suicidal behavior.

I think it's most unfair to conflate a person's legal and psychological problems as this headline does, and equally unfair to single out a contemporary critical comment from a HN participant as if that participant's skepticism about the merits of Aaronsw's hacktivism were made with an understanding of his psychological fragility. Both the original comment and this story make the mistake of assuming the worst about their subject, but there's a wide qualitative difference between peer-peer commentary on a message board and pseudo-objective commentary on a commercial news site.

As someone with a few suicidal episodes of my own, I can easily see how the stress of Aaronsw's socio-legal situation could have been a contributing factor to his suicide. However, the suicidal impulse is very often an irrational one and attempting to analyze it rationally often misses the mark completely and ends with projecting one's own views onto the dead person - doubly so where the stressors are political rather than personal and the person's death is widely viewed as an episode of martyrdom.

People are not machines, and policy issues (administrative, legislative and judicial) do not operate in mechanistic fashion. It would be a more tractable and perhaps even a better world if people were as clear and consistent as computers, but they're not. Often, we end up attacking each other as a poor proxy for attacking a problem.
That's surprising to you? Obvious shills are obvious.
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I've been to over 20 (live in the NYC area so they are frequent)... You should absolutely go. I did almost nothing in my first 3 hackathons, but I learned tons about development and networking. I've made a lot of friends who I would never have crossed paths with otherwise.
So, you're saying Scientology doesn't drain its devotees' bank accounts, filling their heads with the work of a third-rate sci-fi writer--one who invented a bunch of dreck with the announced purpose of ginning up a religion for his own financial enrichment? That the CoS doesn't alienate its more vulnerable members from their friends and families?

I am challenged to think of a more pernicious organization. Who else, save perhaps a handful of other religions, preys on the weak and gullible to such an extent while enjoying great tax advantages?
> As I stated, it does by lessening strict gender roles.

But that's also true of looking at gender equality from the male perspective, yet whenever someone attempts that the old MRA strawman stereotypes get thrown around.
Or, even better would be:

Make sure that you don't damage any company.
HN should consider banning links to the Atlantic for a year.
Indeed ... and once lost, trust is very hard to regain.

I subscribed to the Economist through most of the '90s, but did not renew my subscription following a rather blithe editorial saying Bill Clinton should resign.

I still have a measure of respect for them on non-controversial topics—they're very good at explaining technical details in a simple way, for instance—but my faith in their judgment is gone.
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This is why I'm sad that Google's Sidewiki failed.

You can have free and robust comments moderated by the author or publisher, it works most of the time.

But why not just carry our commenting services with us, independent of content?

(Or is that basically what we're doing now?)
Ed represents the general shittiness of HN. Shitty in the sense of being selfish assholes.
Because they took questionable advertising from an organization we don't like? That's a bit much.
Hmmm! Good to know. Does 1.3.x unstable have websocket support already? We're using the 1.3 branch in production and it's been super reliable.
If your only problem is appearances, like on the Google or Apple app stores, you could file multiple Doing Business As (DBA's). The law on this depends on where you are actually incorporated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doing_business_as
But if their are broader liability issues with each of the sites, I would definitely maintain a separate corporations (this doesn't sound like its the case if they are just blogs).
I'm a native English speaker, yet there were several words I knew the computer meaning of before I knew the normal meaning. For example: icon and palette. When people used the word "icon", but didn't mean the thing you click on to start a program, I was confused.
Looks like The Atlantic realized it had lost its marbles, and pulled this? I now get a 404, not only from the HN link, but also from the link on their site which still has the thumbnail of this propaganda piece:

http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/scientology

(If anybody has a cache, I'm mildly curious to see it...)
Judging by this sponsored story, it seems that the people running The Atlantic have already decided to turn this august publication into an "interesting" brand. It's a shame.

What doesn't make sense to me is that The Atlantic supposedly became profitable a couple of years ago -- see http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/business/media/13atlantic.... -- which, if true, means they didn't actually need to do this!
Haven't you noticed the relentless pounding the Catholic church has been taking for years and years now? Or listen to Penn Jillette's or Louis CK's remarks on Mormonism, or a great deal of George Carlin's material... many religions prey on the powerless, but we are offended by the efficiency with which Scientology drains its' adherents bank accounts and their will.
Then again, the only reason I saw this page is because we decided it needs to be on the top of HN. It's like the bizarro Streisand effect.
I think a phone has a higher risk of being lost than a laptop because it's smaller. People (at least the ones I know) carry their phones more places than their laptops. And it's much more likely that a phone will drop out of a pocket than that a laptop will drop out of your backpack or briefcase.

But that doesn't change the fact that I would do it; it just makes good backups even more important.
The sickest joke is that Youtube is still running with that on it and MegaUpload is not.
I had the same thought, here's what I wrote:

I just saw this article on your site: http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/scientology/archive/201...

It is a sponsored piece, which it does state, though I may not have noticed it if it had not been pointed out to me. It makes me very uncomfortable about continuing to pay for a subscription to your magazine. As such, I have cancelled my subscription.

The reason that this makes me so uncomfortable is that it steps outside the boundaries of traditional advertising, and steps into the role of your content. This is not so dis-similar to television shows that are chock-full of product placement, but I think that this goes even a bit further than that. This would be content that has no value at all, except for selling a certain brand beer, parading itself as a television show, dressed in the corporate logo. That is what this is, content of no value, parading itself in the Atlantic brand.

I don't appreciate this. And, I certainly don't appreciate fluff pieces that bolster organizations like Scientology coming from a company that I pay to deliver me the news. By intertwining your content with paid-for commercial interests, I simply can no longer trust that the things that I read from you will be those of journalistic integrity.

Thank you, and goodbye.

-John
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What a big baby reply. "i'm really smart and you sound really dumb, so I'm gonna take the high road and not argue with you".
Righteo, I think I misread your comment then. I agree.
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I think you could change the law to allow the currently-conferred-by-marriage rights to be otherwise assignable.

I basically am in favor of religions being able to define "marriage" however they want (and am confident there would be a variant, if not primary variant, of every major religion which supported and another which denounced gay marriage).

The state should do something else, for everyone, with all rights handled through the state's thing.

The quick hack is to just require all new marriages also be civil unions, and not recognize future marriage otherwise. Civil union should get every current private and government benefit of marriage. Strictly religious benefits from private entities could potentially be withdrawn from civil unions (I honestly have no idea what those would be).
Setting up multiple corporations for multiple sites is like setting up multiple companies for multiple products.

You can set up one company and produce several lines of related or similar products. Unless the products or sites are highly different from each other (Ex one from health care industry and other one from entertainment) you do not need to set up multiple corporations. So it is a bad idea. Think about tax implications and paperwork involved.Try to run a single entity and you will know how much work does it involve.

There are lot of media outlets out there with several sites, magazines or product but with just one corporation.

P.S- This is not a legal or professional advice. Seek advice from experts.
The other problem with this sort of story is that the sponsors can validate themselves by referencing the major publication in which they have been "featured."
ditto. i am japanese and did not learn multiplication this way.

it was more through a sing-songy multiplications table
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Of course it has. He's dead, for f*ck's sake. Stop with this link bait.
It's rarely the case that an equally skilled woman earns 78 cents for every dollar a man earns. There are a wide variety of factors that lead to the wage gap.

* Women take more time off for child-rearing
* Women still devote more time to household tasks + children
* Women are more likely to choose careers for reasons other than money
* Discrimination against women surely plays some part
* Women are less likely to negotiate salary
* Assertive women are often perceived negatively, unlike assertive men.

There are many others. But if you take a male and female, and put them in the same job for three years straight out of college, there won't necessarily be much of a wage gap. In some cases the women earn more.
My point is that it doesn't matter much which stack you pick. The default stack is not failing. The fail is being overwhelmed by choice, when it doesn't matter in the beginning. What matters most is having a good teacher, who choses a stack for you to learn with.

Once you develop your own taste, then you can refine the specifics. But don't get stuck with analysis paralysis in the beginning.
What I offered as claims of the moral/religious position were separate from what I explained my own anecdotal experiences to be. I'm sorry I didn't draw a more clear distinction there.

My "empirical" remark was simply to explain that I have enough knowledge about myself to draw the conclusion that engaging in pornography would not help my marriage. I wasn't expanding it to the whole in any way there.
Don't underestimate their marketing skills. They know exactly what they want out of their piece on The Atlantic.
In prior discussions with them, the impression that I get is that I will not get much work if any if I study full-time, and studying part-time is not an option for me.
I wish more hackers would do these kind of smaller investment funds aimed at working with other hackers. We all know that a lot of smaller (but still profitable) ideas can be done with as little as $5k and be set to auto pilot (more or less). Maybe 5 micro VCs, each one putting in $1K. ROI? Probably nothing. But sometimes the whole experience is worth the money.
Actually, the whole thing is kind of a myth. That statistic doesn't compare men and women working the same job for the same number of hours. Since men often work in more dangerous and harsh conditions then women, this would account for the disparity. Here is some more information about it:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/04/16/its-time-tha...
Well, Hubbard flat out said that he should invent a religion in order to get rich long before he wrote Dianetics, so that tells you something about the typical scientology candidate's capacity for deductive reasoning.
I cut out the creepy parts, I agree that they were. I can't reveal my experience without breaking anonymity. If you need to know about my experience for my examples and arguments to hold water, then my points aren't very good anyway, which is why I prefer to stay anonymous. Good luck with The Witness and I'm sorry that this was painful. Symbolism and meaning in games are important and I appreciate what you are doing.
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Clojure has "transient" (mutable) forms of its immutable datastructures, which can be bashed in place, but they're not allowed beyond function boundaries in either direction (I think). So you convert (copy?) to transient, mutate it in-place, then convert back to "persistent" before returning it.
For that reason I think it would be very cool if there were a thorough tutorial for this language aimed at English speakers. We could begin to understand the difficulty that speakers of non-Latin languages face learning English-based programming languages.
I believe the phrase "man up" has more to do with the differences between boys and men vs women and men. It's synonymous with grow up.
It helps when it's a topic that basically nobody is getting up in arms about, like Mongolia.
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Hello HN!

I am new here and I come because I have created a new online service that is relatively under-serviced for our small business community. If you own your website (you probably do), you probably list your contact information on it haphazardly and with very little thought put into it. This is a mistake and let me explain to you why:

Now that over half of the world's online devices are smartphones, people are searching for their instantaneous needs. Case in point: A person finds your website via a search, then clicks the phone number to call you. And that's it - most people do not take the time to bookmark your website or even remember your business name. The next time that same person needs the same exact thing (they will) - they cannot for the life of them remember that business they called a couple months ago. Dang... customer lost.

Before anyone flags me for spam here - that is not what I am doing by any . I have been instructed to "go to where people will use your service, and test it there". So here I am. I and the founder and developer of a service called vCardHosting.com - a web service that allows for your contact information to be easily downloadable off a website for easy inclusion into your new customer's address book. Next time they are looking for you, they pull out their trusty address book and there your contact info is - just waiting to be called again (repeat anyone?).

Please, if anyone reading this has a website for their small business, I implore you to test out my service and report back an honest report and opinion. I am here to get honest reviews of my product and to gauge the real world interest in it.

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Very unethical and unprofessional of The Atlantic
If you have people adding "spurious" stuff to your code, you have a bigger problem than coding style. Why would you need locks on your door if you live on a planet with only friends on it? If you don't; why don't you?
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They're just people who've written articles for the site, not that specific article.
Digitizing public domain articles is free now? Like, scanners are free and the people who operate them work for free?

Isn't it better for a non-profit entity to digitize PD articles and make them available to the world at a reasonable price? Or would you prefer a world where JSTOR didn't exist and the only people who had access to most old PD documents where those who lived in major western cities near the biggest libraries?
Disclaimer: I run startup that helps publishers to create these types of sponsored stories.

Sponsored stories are much better way to monetize content, especially for journalism industry. However, the issue is publishers should control what type of 'ads' should go live since they know their audience best. Editors should be in control of these type of ads rather than sales people. "Content Marketing" is relatively new in digital realm and I hope these type of mishaps will be avoided as industry matures.
It's not that simple, for any tax code which is progressive (i.e. where someone making $200K pays a greater percentage in taxes than someone making $20K).

Because it you're single, it makes sense for your tax rate to be based on your own income. But if you're married, it makes sense for your tax rate to be based on your combined income -- so it doesn't matter if you make $180K and your spouse $20K, or you both make $100K. In a marriage, you want to be able to "trade around" resources like that, instead of one partner being classified as "living in poverty" and the other considered well-off.

So if you want a tax code that seems progressively "fair", you're pretty much forced to take marriage into account.
What you need to do is start selling it as soon as possible. That way you can start testing what the market needs. In my case, most clients mostly need a solid Rails box (with MySQL) that will allow them to focus on other important needs. This also applies to Django and Symfony. In terms of OS, the common bits are safe Ubuntu and CentOS installs. Though they do seek support and some hand holding.

How do you plan to market?
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Something like an interpreter / compiler generator?
Wow - did not know it had come to this.

OT but I felt like Frontline 'softballed' the piece on Michelle Rhee the other day. Not that I disagreed with the piece just left feeling that I did not get a critique - which is what I am used to from them.
Ask PG: Will you ban links to theatlantic.com?
Regarding the publishing of a "sponsored content" piece promoting Scientology (http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/scientology/archive/2013/01/david-miscavige-leads-scientology-to-milestone-year-/266958/) discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5057819

Would you be willing to consider banning/deleting all links to theatlantic.com? I propose that they've shown they cannot be considered a trustworthy/serious source of news and/or commentary.
Social engineering via tax breaks are a dumb idea, but deleting the concept of marriage from law entirely is impractical and probably undesirable.

The only rights of marriage that cannot be conferred by contract are the parts that fall into the "social engineering via tax breaks" (or redistribution) category.
Really? I find my usage is faster using keyboard shortcuts. I can clean out new mail in a matter of seconds.
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Very Interesting dude.
"The only downside of the Voice Recognition API is that it requires that you be online, probably because it does the actual recognition on a remote server. I’m not sure why since desktop computers are definitely powerful enough to do it all locally,"

Likely 2 reasons:

1. Local software would be easier to reverse engineer.

2. Local software would be more difficult to update with new algorithms.

Possible issues of tuning for one language vs multiple languages in local software might be a bear too.
A friend of mine just became an associate editor at the Atlantic. He's a good guy, rational and open minded, I sent him this URL and the story URL. I'll be interested to see what he comes back with on the issue privately.
I'm assuming the lower salary is because of assumed lower competence, so an employer engaging in discriminatory pay wouldn't want to hire only women.
I can't speak to the others but I live just outside Jackson-Lee's district. That woman is certifiably insane with or without appearing at a Scientology event. She thinks Neil Armstrong went to Mars and that Venezuela is a friendly nation.

She'll do anything to get on camera—I doubt she can even spell "Scientology."