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> Still, all Californians will be chipping in: Proposition 30 also raises the state sales tax from 7.25% to 7.5% for four years, starting Jan. 1, 2013.

But not chipping in equally or proportionally. Only the very top tier have an increased income tax, so they will be paying more from the start. And the simple reasoning that "people with more money tend to spend more money" says that the top tier will also be chipping in more of that sales tax.

Prop 30 was a piece of shit. I personally voted for the competing Prop that would have given a equally proportionate income tax bump across the board. Unlike many, I wasn't selfish and voted to give myself a tax bump rather than just give it to the top tier. Shame that the selfish mob won out and 30 passed.
What about when startups grow? Take Facebook as an example. Microsoft seems to be doing a good job targeting startups with Bizspark - not sure if Oracle has a similar program.
What happens if the distro maintainers are not doing a good job and keep lagging behind? Shouldn't developers themselves be able to take charge of the situation?
I'd almost bet the author started with the conclusion and went searching for more data to back it up, so it's not a surprise to me that his data backs up his conclusion.

And nobody is offering proof that this measurement is meaningful, so it should be ditched.
But health care costs for us are a substantial add-on, which I believe you don't have to worry about.
One thing that seemed missing from the README was a mention of what persistence method is used for this. I'm guessing it's using the Chrome extension shared storage mechanism, but people who aren't familiar with extension development probably wouldn't be able to guess that.
An entire eco system - many which are at the forefront of big data - disinterested about Oracle's products is cause for concern, yes. And it's not just the startups but every person who reads about and tries to emulate them in the future, people who are now very unlikely to even look at Oracle's offerings let alone use them.
Right now we handle all the packaging, but over the next few months you will be able to provide your own apps on top of the platform. We want to make this process as painless as possible :)
I have been using Badger. The UI is pretty clean without upsells, they have an API, and they let you easily link the domain with other services.

They also have an affiliate program where you get your first domain for $5 and the referer gets essentially a tenth of a free domain. (My URL for this is http://www.badger.com/fivebucks/ if you want to take advantage of it.)
The whole retroactive thing strikes me as incredibly wrong and should be illegal.
how about using an actual operating system? :P
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Is the pricing just for the one click launch? Or have the public AMIs you've been maintaining gone away and it's all pay to play?
If you couldn't afford a computer, you couldn't program unless you were extremely lucky enough to have access to an internet-connected computer that you were free to use. Prior to the mid-1990s, these sorts of things were extremely rare.

I'm not sure what your counter-point is. I was clear that having an inclination was also a barrier. You didn't have, or hadn't expressed any interest, so you weren't part of that group.
Can't agree hard enough. He's synthesized who knows how many years (hundreds? thousands?) of human thought on the topic. If you want to understand investment in a non-gambling way it's all must-read.
1 years ago with a good friend - in development for 2 years; no $$$ coming in and I had quit my job to pursue it with my girl friend at the time taking out a loan to cover my bills...

complete waste of money but taught me what failure tasted like and i learned ALOT about how not to start a business.

This time I have 2 going at the same time, with my partners more on the sales and money side than technical side. I hope to be successful this time :)
Often the best advice comes from declared non-experts so your input is definitely valuable!

Going to the drawing board and improve few things based on your feedback.

Thanks!
Nope, the 2% is considering 'perfect use'. Now, if that involves lying (I promise! I was using a condom, and perfectly!) I can't know, but I think statistics usually involve some corrections for these cases.

The failure rate for 'typical use' (which always involves too much cases) is 15%. These statistics come from wikipedia [1], but I knew some rough numbers from sexual education at my school and were around that. For casual sex, yes, condom is the way to go (both for birth control and STDs).

That's a big bummer, because that usually means involving hormone birth control methods in stable relationships, and I hate them and the effect that can have on my partner.

I am looking forward to see the advances in male contraception [2]. But I am afraid it will be something for the next generation.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_birth_control_met...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_inhibition_of_sperm_...
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I can imagine one of the justifications for letting walmart and others get away with it is because they're big, but more specifically, their ad budgets are big. But... so what? Where else are they going to go? Bing? Mapquest?

Perhaps if every major large retailer in the US shaved off a few percent of their ad budget away from Google and gave it to one competitor, there'd be a slim fighting chance of actually upsetting Google's dominance, but I'm pretty sure that's not the case.

Relatedly(?), MS has avoided hardware for a long time... ostensibly under the guise of "not upsetting their partners". But... what would the partners do? Bundle Linux? In mobile, they're sort of doing this, but hardware partners left MS not because MS was competing in the hardware business against them - they left because the option (android) was better.
I do that with XFCE. Active window gets a bright title bar and borders with dark text, inactive windows get dark title bars with light text and thinner borders. High contrast in both cases, but easy to differentiate.

Themes like that are very easy to change to suit yourself.
There could be such a service flying under the radar, but third-party AdWords resellers are required by the TOS to only use one account per client.
Also, nobody has ever explained to me why a joke or even a conversation about this one particular body part qualifies as "juvenile"

Here you go:

Not all jokes or conversations about one particular body part are juvenile. The one in question was. I don't think any reasonable person would dispute that, even the guy who unfortunately lost his job over it. He's not exactly standing behind his joke as the pinnacle of human creativity and expressiveness.

If your senses of decorum and humor have not yet matured to the point where you can tell juvenile and inappropriate behavior from the sort of thing that is OK in a professional context like an office or a convention hall, I legitimately feel sorry for you. It must be very difficult to go through life like that.
I got into the same situation with my outsourcing company http://taskarmy.com

They suspended our account although we made the changes necessary to comply with their terms of service (you can't guarantee 1st page in SEO services).

In the meantime, some of our competitors can still advertise their services.

Since my account has been suspended, it massively slowed down the growth and I couldn't a better replacement.
There's also an interesting book discussing this called The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution by (http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Sex-History-Sexual-Revolution/...), in which he notes, for example:

"Nowadays the idea that one should follow one's conscience when wrestling with ethical problems seems simple and straightforward. Already by 1750 it could be taken for granted: 'that every man should regulate his actions by his own conscience, without any regard to the opinions of the rest of the world, is one of the first precepts of moral prudence,' noted Samuel Johnson. Before 1700, however, it constituted a direct repudiation of conventional thinking about the inherent corruption of humanity and the fallibility of private scruples. To make sincerity the final judge of sinfulness was to bypass the essential duty of informing one's self adequately, of seeking truth and taking responsibility for error. It unjustifiably presumed that individual men and women could judge right and wrong for themselves, without the aid of scripture, laws, or teachers. It even implied that moral norms might be relative.

Men were seen as being better able to control themselves than women.
Your comparisons don't even make sense. Turing wasn't "trampled on by the establishment." He was part of the establishment. He spent most of his career working for the government, first in the war effort then later in a national research lab. He was the victim of backwards social policy, not someone who was attacked by the establishment because his intellect was a threat.
> Again, context matters: you’re not just hanging out at a bar drinking with your buddies, chatting up the attractive woman sitting next to you. You’re at an industry function, talking to women who are your industry peers. They’re simply not there to be hit on – even in ways that might not be creepy in another setting.

Wait a second. Is the bar reserved by the conference organizers for the exclusive use of conference attendees? Or is this just the regular bar at the conference hotel, open to not only conference attendees, but attendees of other concurrent events there, and open to individual hotel guests there as not part of an event, and open to anyone who cares to wander in off the street?

If the latter, then I can't agree with some blanket rule against asking someone about considering a romantic relationship. Quite a lot of people, of all sexes, genders, and orientations, want romantic partners who are their peers, but must exclude the possibility of such partnerships with their co-workers because of the problems that can cause in their work place. Many such people (of all sexes, genders, and orientations) congregate at parties and bars at conferences because those are one of the few occasions to meet peers in a social situation that allows seeking romantic partnerships.

Use common sense. People who are at the bar because they have switched from "conference" mode to "social" mode and are looking to meet new people for social purposes should be distinguishable from people who are at the bar because they wanted to find a place that they could drink while they continued discussing the subject of the conference. The former should not ask the latter for dates. When in doubt, play it safe and don't ask.
yep years ago on Matt Cutts blog I said at some stage googles going to get regulated.

Googles no1 priority should be managing the process to delay and mitigate regulation and not keep drinking in the last chance saloon going "hey fuck you" repeatedly which is only going to make it worse when the evil day comes.

I know I shared a office with guys in BT who spent years working on a project (ISDN D Channel) and they where not even sure if we could ever launch the product as Ofcom had the final say.
I had never shared this with anyone except my parents until today. Thought I'd share with the HN community. :)
No "magic" here. They're just paying Amazon to host their content instead of hosting it themselves.
Yeah, NYC has its own city income tax, on top of federal and state income taxes. And the property tax rates in NYC seem to go up every year.
Stupid question, but once your income has been taxed and you turn the net into an asset, and then the state comes back in and tell you that the money you used to buy this asset really belonged to the state, isn't that asset seizing?

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But the money that you showed in the bank was from investments, right? In that case, you have Austrian investors. If the investors were from US, the E2 visa would be still possible? What I mean is: if I came to US and close a deal with an investor, I'm still eligible to get this kind of visa.
>This is the same way you'd criticize a king, somebody you are beholden to.

Or because you really like the company. I think you've misinterpreted the thoughts involved here..

Google is one I have pretty positive feelings about, not just because their applications are usually the best as far as web-based SaaS offerings go, they're free, usually painless (for most people), but also because they just plain make cool stuff. (Glass? Driverless cars?)

I'd count their presence and activities, even with the warts, as a huge net benefit for technology and even humanity as a whole.

Possibly irrational fanboying aside, the electric or phone company or cable company the other hand are things that people love to hate. Off the top of my head..

* Arbitrary and large rate hikes or base prices
* Take it or leave it attitude
* Customer-hostile

It makes a consumer feel somewhat hunted, as in they tolerate the existence of and do business with these companies because they have no other choice.
(from UK, and happy to accept your downvotes):

I'm shocked that people litteraly sell knives designed to hurt people on the internet, and that people on HN come to the defence of these arms dealers. I assumed this was about kitchen knives when I clicked on the link.

The US constitution was written with a right to bear arms so people could overthrow the government, not protect themselves from criminals. Since then, that government has entrenched power to the point where it would be nearly impossible for even another state to take it down, let alone a group of armed civilians - thus rendering the constitutional clauses irrelevant to their original purpose. (note to secret services: no, I don't want to overthrow governments or start wars, I'm talking hypothetically.)

In the rest of the developed world where weapons are generally banned, as they are in the UK, criminals simply don't use weapons on civilians (apart from high value targets, perhaps) because the penalties for doing so are so harsh. Criminals literally throw their guns away in a chase, rather than use them on the police/get caught with them. Police are generally unarmed, apart from specially trained units (dawn raids, at airports, etc).

This is the sole reason I would never ever consider living in the USA - the risk from a) criminals, b) civilian "heros" and c) the police themselves, all of whom are armed to the teeth, legally. Terrifying.
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>In this case, the value of a dollar being "I'll overproduce a PowerPoint, spam some celebrities and women's groups on Twitter, we'll include a few pictures of you being all cute and smiling, and people will just throw money at you!"

In today's world, this actually seems to be correct.
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The NHS is funded over the National Insurance, which you're not including. You also need to account for local taxes (e.g. council tax in the UK).

But the total tax bills are still not that different, as they are marginal rates for the most part and the threshold where they start are different.

The effective rate paid in the UK is still somewhat higher for most earners, but for most people it's not as much as you might think from just looking at the headline rates.
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Whole range of advisory, strategic or research roles perhaps. Roles like these don't necessary require strong soft-skills or sales\marketing chops.
We also pay taxes for Social Security and Medicare, which are 6.2% and 1.45% respectively. Most of us pay for at least part of our health insurance premiums as well.
I wasn't able to. After a bit of hunting I realized the missing packages were on their site. Some of those make just failed, and on others it would appear as though make install went through but were not afaict installed. I gave up.
Scary! Which part of my net money belongs to me? Do we have to tt money to the caiman AFTER paying taxes now?
My prediction is that in the next few years Oracle will give up on MySQL by either abandoning it or give it to the foss community. Because once the enthusiasts, devs and hackers lose faith in your foss project - it's done for. Just look at what happened to Open Office.
So this would essentially break all conversion tracking and the like done by advertisers, right?
And if we had a more sensible culture around alcohol use in the UK, particularly in my native Scotland, I'm sure we'd have a much lower level of all violence.
I fail to see how them building a photo organizer app has any relevance in his wish for a security minded email application. Sure, the company might know what they're doing, but nowhere in the introduction video did they discuss security - the most talked about points were usability and aesthetics. It seems to me that dguido's comment isn't actually FUD, but rather an observation about their proposal...
> most people using Linux are so frustrated with default apps

I'm Linux user and don't feel frustrated. Am I missing out?
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I'm lost, absconditus. If you're waiting for a follow-up, please detail what you need. I think you might be saying something like, "Expect is cool, indeed, but why would someone post a link to its Wikipedia article in HN?" That one, I can't answer.
No, nothing has changed and we are not doing anything 'evil' :) The pricing is for our hosting service, which also has a free tier. We will continue to provide the AMIs for free.
Nit picking at the ancient greek etymology of a word I happened to use illustrates precisely how this discussion has jumped the shark.
New idea for the kickstarter era: Come work for us for a day, but you pay us instead :)
It's still the case - we had a free license from Oracle for the first 3-4 years of our company's life - We just had an account manager call us ever 6-9 months, see how we were doing. Eventually we got some real customers, revenues, and negotiated a several million dollar license purchase + 18%/year maintenance.
Good luck ;)
From a readability or operational perspective? Yes, it was done much too early to take advantage of eventually emerged common ways of doing things (I would never guess in ftp, there's no rhyme and little reason), but files seem to go back and forth pretty reliably once you've properly asked for what you want.
So Linux only, no cross platform? I'd actually love to see a better mobile option for email, I find the GMail client to be buggy on Android.
Because this is about PyCon, not Jesse. With all due respect (and I respect him - he did a great job) he's not the only one who's been working to make PyCon possible and great. Not to mention the other people working on the organization, there are also the (unpaid) tutorial teachers, presenters, session leaders, volunteer developers of Python itself and other open-source related tools, and so on.
Eh, by crossing the street I am "subject to" being hit by a car. I am still able to walk from one side of town to the other, though.
Perhaps because those systems aren't chemical gradient systems such as elucidated by Turing?

It's meant to be an interest story/article, not a comprehensive analysis of cell signalling and phenotype display
I use notmuch with Emacs in an X window. It'll display image attachments and give me clickable HTTP links, which is great. If X forwarding isn't an option, I can always just fire up an ssh session and read it in emacs -nw.
If you're just using Tmux as a way to split/tab your terminals you're missing out on a ton of its functionality.

For example it also allows you to detach/reattach your running session, which is invaluable if you're working remotely, and especially if you have a flaky connection. I've used it in several instances where there is more than one person handling DB upgrades and the like. You can have several panes/tabs open, vim with upgrade notes, and everyone connecting and working as needed. It beats the crap out of constant copying/pasting pieces of code and terminals on some IM program to make sure everyone sees what you're seeing.

I usually also end up running it locally and bypassing the terminal emulator and WM's multiplexing abilities, but it's more out of a desire to use the same tool whether I'm running locally or on some remote box. If you don't need the latter, it's a bit harder to justify using it, even though it still has some advantages, like generally being more scriptable.
That is strange indeed. I think what might have flagged the previous comment was: I initially posted the comment in reply to the wrong person. So I deleted it and reposted it in response to the correct person.
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I wonder how long it will be before Go gets "enough" of Erlang to make it a suitable replacement for most people who need/want the Erlang goodies.
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> I graduated from YCombinator a few months ago ( S12 Easel ).

Anyone else bothered by this view of YCombinator as a kind of university programme?

I may be wrong, I have only met a few YC founders and they all seemed like nice, smart people, but it seems a bit off-colour to treat the mere fact that you've been through the YC programme as some kind of "graduation".

Maybe I'm just being grumpy or something... It's certainly not a big deal... but something just rubs me wrong when I read that sentence...
Ah, it could well be the Food on the Table guy.

All the best for your company!
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> I don't buy it. People don't criticize a king at all. You don't criticize the communist party in Stalinist Russia, tactfully or otherwise. Doing that gets you sent to the gulag.

Uh, yes they did. Kingdoms of the beforetime were not all Stalinist Russias. Kings had to gather and maintain support; some of them did this through shutting down dissenters hard, but many of them never did, or did so with the full support of "the people".
Talking to several lawyers is indeed important; personally I had once a crappy lawyer telling me my case was hopeless, when it couldn't have been farther from the truth; it's best to have several opinions to understand where does one stand.
Hello. I have both been sued by a startup and defended myself pro-se (in a different criminal case). I was paid a small sum to do some work, which I did. I delivered the work to contract, but when I did not want to do the additional work involved with actually setting all their stuff up and getting everything deployed, they sued. I didn't have the time or money to deal with it, so I ignored it all, they ended up getting a default judgement against me for double what I was originally paid. I just figured I wouldn't pay them, but they were lawyers so they got my wages garnished (25% of each paycheck). Paid my last part of the garnishment last week.

Don't worry about going pro se from a procedural standpoint - judges are quite accommodating (and frankly, amused) by those of us who choose to represent themselves. I did an exhaustive amount of research prior to trial, and the district attorneys were grossly under-prepared for the case, so I was able to easily put them to shame. Put time into your opening, closing, and preparing your witnesses (including yourself). Watch a few episodes of Law and Order. It actually ends up being a pretty awesome story, whichever way it turns out.

The whole situation is terrible, I've been there. Whatever happens, just know that it's all not a huge deal however it turns out. My current employer didn't have any issues with the suit or with the garnishment, it was fortunate that they gave me the chance to explain myself.

Let me know if you have any questions about anything, b@pan.sx, happy to discuss.