skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being "ready to give it all and fight for each ball" and "expecting to miss a few here and there" are not mutually exclusive.

One is a statement on commitment. The other is a rational assessment of the likely outcome.

The last section of the article is perhaps the most important. It contains this paragraph:

After surveying and studying that database, Hill has identified key characteristics that enabled these dieters to achieve their impressive results, and he has distilled them down to a series of tips. Among the first tips is this: Expect failure…but keep trying.
I filed for a Delaware LLC through Intuit's MyCorporation.com. It ran me a one time fee of ~$300 and a fair amount of time. One easy savings on a business filing is to get your own Federal EIN. It's online and takes 15 minutes, definitely not worth paying someone else to do. It costs $250 a year to run an LLC in Delaware. I think I may pay a yearly fee for having a "Registered Agent" (i.e. an address in Delaware) but I don't recall how much it is.

When I went to open a business checking account, I checked out banks with brick-n-mortar branches near me, compared the accounts online, and stopped by. The person who helped me said that the only out-of-state corp they deal with is a Delaware corp. She was less familiar with the "system" for setting it up, but it didn't set me back more than 10 minutes. To set up the bank account, I needed a real local address.
Used legalzoom.com and incorporated in Wyoming. It's the best price to do it and best LLC law anywhere.
I've heard the NSA's got a computer or two that work reasonably well on stuff like this...
I don't find it particularly uncool to convey your meaning as effectively as you can, especially when, in a corporate environment, there is so much other data competing for the attention of your reader. Thanks for the tip. I'm going to try to use this myself.
Here's the breakdown of fees/taxes for California:

Secretary of State

http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/bpd_forms.htm#llc

Organizing(domestic)/Registering(foreign) - $70 (one-time)

Statement of Information - $20 (immediate, then biennial)

Franchise Tax Board

http://www.ftb.ca.gov/businesses/bus_structures/LLcompany.sh...

Minimum Franchise Tax - $800 (annual)

Corporations (domestic CA or foreign) but not LLCs apparently get a waiver on the minimum tax for the first year.

So $890 first year, then $800/$820 subsequent.

You can do all the filing yourself via mail if you're willing to wait roughly 30 days (see http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/bpd_processing_times.htm) or go to Sacramento and submit everything in person (plus a special handling fee of $15/filing) and still wait about 5 days.

If you were going to C-corp route or registering the LLC in another state (Delaware or Nevada), you generally do need some company to act as your agent there so you have an in-state address for the filings.
"Also consider learning a dynamic 'scripting' language like Ruby or Python"

He mentioned he knows Perl, which is arguably the lispiest of the lot (not in syntax, but in sheer number of lisp-inspired features). But perhaps he "knows" Perl in the way that one who knows how to whip up a one to twenty line script to do something simple but repetitive, and then throw it away.
Planet of 1.9x Earth mass found
No need to make a game out of the follower count any more than some people already feel it is.
A thought I had today is that programming is a perpetual battle between "if it ain't broke don't fix it" and "computers are here to make our lives easier." Doing one impedes the other.
As another reference...

In Arizona it is $50 (LLC filing fee) + $35 (newspaper publication fee) and $0 annual recurring.
There's a kernel of truth behind positive thinking: that your feelings are largely affected by what you think, and what you think is largely your own choice. Conclusion: you are largely responsible for how you feel: anger, despondency, sadness, etc., and certainly responsible for how deeply and how long you let those feelings linger.

But this is more about avoiding negativity traps than it is building delusional world perspectives. Going too far the other side is not quite as bad, but bad nonetheless. You have to be realistic. And act. The reaction to action ought to inform one of how things really are.
It depends on the market. What gets frequently overlooked when comparing Omniture SiteCatalyst to GA is the services and the reseller / SI market. There is a lot more support / consulting available for high-end SiteCatalyst installations and the cost of the license fee has very little to do with the overall cost of managing the campaign.
And there are easy ways that Google could track people with javascript turned off. I always thought they would add this as a 'Pro' feature and charge money for that option. So you'd have to pay for the complete stats, most personal sites wouldn't care about non-javascript stats, while most commercial sites would gladly pay the fee.
The idea of the project is that it's supposed to be crack-able. So a OTP is probably out. Otherwise K4 is just random noise and not an obscure puzzle.
First 9 are good.

Who has "a day" to give?
I did this same thing when I was in college and when we developed our first web app. It shouldn't cost you a lot. Usually only the filing fee, if you operate from CA, it will cost you a franchise fee, but if you incorporate somewhere else you should be okay.

Google nolo press
http://code.google.com/apis/finance/

http://developer.yahoo.com/finance/
This is interesting to me since he's my mayor. Of course both in Ca in general and SF in particular, the main candidates have been known for months, the announcement i just a formality.

It's notable how strong a statement the selection of Twitter makes, though. Marshall McLuhan rides again!
Ask HN: Taking the Long View
I've been thinking a lot about the future and what type of nights-and-weekends project I want to work on next. Probably not the next project and probably not the one after that, but eventually I want to turn one of them into a company that I can work on full time.

There's a lot of great guidance out there on how to come up with a killer business idea. YC's "Make something people want" stands out among them. By adhering to that maxim alone you could probably do very well, but I feel like its missing something.

There recently was a discussion about a site called Parrot Secrets, which sells an eBook about raising and owning parrots. According to one site, the owner makes a few hundred thousand dollars a year from the site and he doesn't even own a parrot. He made something people want and has become very rich because of it. I don't want to start a site like that.

"But why not?" I kept asking myself. Indeed, if the goal is to make money, there's a lot of easier ways to do it other than a Y Combinator-type startup.

I realized that I very much want to build a long term company. Something that I can still be running 20-30 years from now. Not some fish-widget-flashy-url-shortener-social-network-thingy.

My question boils down to this: How do you identify an idea that has the potential to become a long term business?

I think the key is founding a company with a vision and not simply focusing on acquisition. Bonus question: How does YC feel about companies who say they are not interested in getting acquired?
Can't you waive the first year's min. franchise tax if you don't have any income?
Google Labs: Similar Images
Right. "Hide the font" and "use the font" exclude each other, when the name of the font has to be right there in the style-sheet!
If you accept browser usage as a proxy for desktop deployments, you can find statistics pretty easily. http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php and http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp both show similar spreads between Linux, OS X, and Vista (eg, 2:5:15 and 4:6:17, as percent of total).

So web usage is comparable, but Vista seems to be well ahead. At the same time I suspect that deployments are quite a bit different than web usage, so take that with a grain of salt.
Recently I noticed that banks began securing they ATMs against skimmers: ATMs display a picture of card reader with a message "Please make sure it looks like the one on the picture. If not, don't insert your card and call us."

I wonder if this works.
I gotcha.

Well, I picked up PG's book and was starting on the language, when I came up with a project I wanted to get up and running quickly. So, I figured Django would help me get something going (it was either that or Ruby/Rails).

What I failed to ask, I guess is...is there an equivalent web framework for Lisp? I guess I might have gone in that direction if I knew of one.
I like the wiki design. Different and very usable, even in its early stage.
No, lets be realistic. They will be crappy, they will be everywhere, they will define people's expectations of "what a font is". It's like Ikea versus hand-carved artisan furniture, the real stuff just doesn't compare, but nobody you're likely to meet could afford it, and the bolt-together ticky-tacky does the job (or fails, but people are so used to the fail they work around it).
Nice work. I'm glad to see someone went ahead with it.

It would still make the front page of the site interesting to eventually tie it to karma.
YouTube's Fine - Analysts Don't Understand Internet Peering
So that's why I spend so much time on Hacker News...
According to a couple of books I've read, the 1-year rule applies in the US, but if you're interested in foreign patents, you have to keep your design under wraps until after you have applied for the patents, at least in several important jurisdictions.
I've had a sole proprietorship in Vermont (where I grew up) for the past couple years and recently went LLC.

I wasn't sure what state to incorporate it in -- I had friends who were knowledgeable about this stuff and basically said any state that I do an LLC in that I suggested was bad, so I just went with VT.

I used MyCorporation.com and, using a coupon code, I was able to pay ONLY for shipping and state fees. They try to upsell you on a bunch of shit you don't need, but I filed for about $100.
Italics are not necessarily slanted. Seria's italic is an example of one that's very cursive but within a couple degrees of upright: http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/singles/fontfont/ff_seria_ital...
But bilberry looks quite the same to me -- didn't know the difference until now -- and grows in a lot more places.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilberry

Not that this has anything to do with the original topic...
Creating a Twitter Client for OSX in MacRuby
> Minimum Franchise Tax - $800 (annual)

Wow, that's miserable.
I don't really understand what the point of having to put an ad in the newspaper is. Same with H1B's. As if having an ad in a newspaper is somehow supposed to be validation. Don't get it at all.
The dude might be Michael Shermer, but he's still overdoing his ads by placing them an entire screenful before the blog post.
Getting Past the Pie Chart
Well, that's true for all modern web analytics packages, no? Crunching Apache logs with AWStats is way more bogus given the ridiculous number of rogue bots on the web these days.

Based on my (very simplistic) tests, very few users of my business-oriented site block ads or javascript, but I'm sute it depends on the site. Most of my users are stuck on IE, after all.
Yes it is. Precisely because they offer a report builder (for an addt'l fee) that lets you create custom reports that are simply impossible with Google Analytics. My employer was paying them a huge amount of money just to be able to generate reports that collate data from a few dozen different sites.

A GA API changes all that.
I use BizFilings for a single-member (me) LLC incorporated in DE. I think it costs $200-400/year, mostly in DE fees. It's all Schedule C expenses, of course, against your income -- make sure keep good records.

If you're doing an LLC and not planning on any future investors, Delaware isn't really critical, IMHO. (Many investors want a C-corp in DE).

Finally, even though it's just "paperwork",I found having an LLC with a real EIN (and a phone number and FAX number and a real address), added some legitimacy that has been very useful in a few circumstances.

For example, health insurance for a one-man business (me) was cheaper for the same coverage than the "direct" plans for individuals. But they wanted a bunch of proof, like my certificate/articles of incorporation in DE. Go figure.
Microsoft determined that we are all linked by 6.6 degrees of separation
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Brilliant.

BTW, Andy Hertzfeld was an early employee at apple who made the mac happen. He has a site - folklore.org - that talks about his days there. Very great insight.
c++filt - an absolute necessity.

Also, he should have just pointed out that all IDEs are ass for C++. Java is simple enough that an IDE can be a big help, but C++ is too complicated and too slow to compile. (The remote access thing is just a matter of the work environment being adapted to one set of tools and not another -- the real issue is that text editors beat IDEs for C++.)

Otherwise, an excellent list.
My home state, filled to the gills with republicans and centrist 'crats
Python winappdbg module v1.0 is out
Answering the questions they require without getting a signed NDA is stupid.
We've been using this - see http://blog.dabbledb.com/2009/04/introducing-dshbrd.html for an initial post about what we've been up to.

(I normally post as avibryant, but had to create this new account to get around noprocrast. sigh)
I guess I feel this pain more than most, since a lot of my sites are aimed at web developers.
And what would be a good base for this Internet application? Right now it's looking like web browsers.
"it will cost you a franchise fee, but if you incorporate somewhere else you should be okay."

No. If you operate in CA, you have to pay the minimum franchise tax regardless.
Because the certificate racket is a scam.

My prime numbers are as good as Thawt's but they have the browser recognize their's and not give the scary 'request for security exception' warning that a lesser cert maker does.

The fix is in. It's a scam.
I've had a Delaware LLC for my freelance design/programming work since high school. I think it costs $200-300(my partner/brother would know the exact amount).

What I do know is that it is a piece of cake to get one. I think it took us less than 30mins to submit our form.
Admittedly it was our fault for not realizing where the writing came from, but she was the straggler in the group that never participated in our email conversations and sent us her portion of the project the hour before it was due. I know there's always a slacker in a group project, but none of us imagined she would have done what she did...we just thought she was just procrastinating and so someone else quickly proofread for egregious grammar mistakes and then sent it off. Then in the individual work related to the group project (i.e. our thoughts, the work we did, etc.) she claimed just like we did that it was all her original writing.

So it ended up being a mess and the rest of us four being accused of academic dishonesty too because she wouldn't stop insisting that we were lying about her, until we came up with our separate and complete email conversations consisting of a couple hundred emails with research and drafts and my versioned work (thank goodness for svn?) which included what the others did with no trace of her writing and nothing but excuses and delays in her emails. I think I've learned from my mistakes (but too bad something like turnitin isn't available to students, heh).
It's probably in Google's interests to make better tracking available to everyone. But I think trying to avoid script blocking by using other means is only going to trigger a filtering arms race.
I would argue for somebody to be a good designer they do need to understand both. If they only understand one they are mediocre at best. The best UI experiences depends a lot on aesthetics and elegance. A good aesthetic can do many wonderful things including making your app appear faster and smoother than it actually is.
I knew I was going to get called on that. Thanks. ;)
One day I took the time to work this out for my .screenrc, and it's served me well since:

# Set up my status line at the bottom of every frame
caption always "%{gb} %{ck}%m-%d %C %{gb} %{gb}%?%-Lw%?%{ck}%n*%f %t%?(%u)%?%{gb}%?%+Lw%?"

All of the %{gb} things are color codes. It looks like this: http://shenani.gen.nz/~scott/screen-statusbar.png

Binding ! @ # etc. to select 10, 11, 12, ... is handy, too.
Good call. Location would be excellent.
Unfortunately, your expectations would not be met. IDEs make up for their limited text-editing features by providing language-dependent, code-aware functionality. Because C++ is such a hairy language, IDEs aren't able to do much with it. They don't give you anything like the cushy, comprehensive support that IDEs provide for Java. With C++, giving up the relatively lame IDE features to get a powerful text editor is a no-brainer. (I use Eclipse for Java and emacs for everything else.)

You're absolutely right about their development environment; it's adapted for one set of tools. It doesn't necessarily mean other tools are inferior in general, as the author seems to conclude.
Of course, it's easier to write a program that generates tags for a new language than to build an IDE around it.
The question you want to be asking is if it will help anyone. The response to yours is yes, thousands of people. Google for anti-copyright for readings.
cool. Yeah, I'm assuming whoever wants the drive is prepared to use electron microscopes and such to uncover the bits on the mangled wreckage. So the question isn't just a informational entropy question, but a physical entropy question. How much physical entropy does Gutmann 35 pass (or n passes) add to the disk?

Basically, somebody asked a listserv what was the best way to securely wipe a hard drive. I said Gutmann 35 pass, and others came back with ideas for thermite, shooting it, etc. I figured, compared to Gutmann, thermite (the most exothermic chemical reaction, and one that happens to use iron) would be the closest. But I got to thinking, you know, if that thermite just blasts, then you've still got fragments and Gutmann wins. If it's a smoldering sort of thing and you have plenty of oxygen, maybe thermite wins, but how much thermite would you need, and how would you have to do it?

So I guess a better question would be what's the minimum necessary chemical reaction to equal the entropy of a 35 pass Gutmann?
I would recommend Strunk and White's Elements of Style to help. This post was essentially that with a little hastiness for the reader built in. -A
Oh god please make it stop.

Kryptos : Cryptography :: Astrology : Astronomy.
I am so incredibly sold on that idea, it's just such a shame I don't have classes where turnitin is used :(

However, I do remember that most of my HS english teachers were aware of the possibility of false positives. Their first reaction wasn't to accuse anyone of plagiarism, they just asked to see drafts and research related to the paper in question - or any sort of evidence to show that you were legitimately working on something. Turnitin for them was just automated checking to see if anyone was stupid enough to buy an essay or copy something near verbatim.
How do you keep this a Listing/Wiki of HN startups as opposed to a Listing/Wiki of hnstartups?
Carol Bartz Still Looking For Wow, Drops F-Word During First Quarter Earnings Call.
The real issue is that C++ is too complicated and too slow to compile.

Languages that are easier to throw together a reasonable parser for (Lisps, Smalltalk, Lua, or even C) have a much lower barrier to entry for development tools. Keeping the language syntax simple enough means that somebody scratching an itch can write something useful in an afternoon or a weekend, rather than taking a team and months.
That's like saying the NSA's got a computer or two that would work reasonably well at solving the Saturday New York Times Crossword Puzzle. I'm sure they do.
To be honest, getting money from an ATM is one of those activities I do largely on auto-pilot. I couldn't guarantee I would actually read each screen, more I know what to look for and hit the big withdraw button!

Perhaps it's time to take a little more care with this particular activity.
The "other means" is providing a way to submit/process the web server log files.
Comment spam will get downvoted to hell. And the current users of HN care about the quality of HN. :)
The last part is probably a Tara Ploughman quote.
I like Pie, so I like Pie Charts. Sometimes I Pie Chart things that aren't parts of a whole just to see them as Pie.

Tufte would understand... if he were a fat man.
I'm familiar with the anti-copyright arguments, but my point was that it seems inconsistent to have copyright on so many types of creative works except typefaces.
Why only Omniture ? Bunch of others like TeaLeaf,Coradiant...
The evidence does seem to suggest that in hunting-gathering communities, women engaged in more gathering and men engaged in more hunting. Claims that otherwise reasonable hypotheses "come from a desire to see women barefoot and pregnant" tend to come from a desire to justify the unquestioned a priori belief that men and women are mostly identical rather than solid science.
IDEs can work well editing code that is targeted to a different platform. The code is edited locally (and parsed, analyzed, colorized, etc. by the IDE locally) but built and run remotely on other machines. That setup used to be pretty common for enterprise and web development before Moore let us run entire enterprise application servers on our laptops. It takes more work to set up than just sshing into a remote box and firing up emacs, but it can be done.
More like, Microsoft determined that people who chat actively on MSN messenger are linked by 6.6 degrees of separation. It's just not as interesting a story with those pesky details added in, is it?
"Sanborn [the artist] named his proposal after the Greek word for hidden."
If anyone ever decides to make a list of the top 10 perfect examples for an HN article, put this on there.
Mold-O-Rama: 50’s Plastic Molding Vending Machine
Yeah. California is stunningly hostile to new small businesses. It's also more complicated and expensive to pay salaries and such here than in many places. It continues to be strong in business (new and old) mostly because it's a fantastic place to live (by accident of nature, mostly, not because they have more tax revenue; many places have great schools and such).
As an corporation you can, but not as an LLC. I'm not sure about LLCs opting the s-corp taxation though.
"What state should I incorporate in?" --

http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2009/03/03/what-state-sh...

by Yokum Taku (Startup Company)
There's an excellent TED talk by Malcolm Gladwell on this subject.

See here: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spagh...
yes. this is the way of the future... (I mean, APIs that make it easy to move from one provider to another.) without that, well, the 'cloud' will quickly become uncompetitive with dedicated servers.

Lock-in is bad for customers; long-term, lock-in can kill industries.
I don't mind so much if it's apparent that there's a real person behind the account who actually interacts with the site and puts some thought in to submissions and comments. In so far as I can tell, joschi is just a bot for posting howtoforge.com stories and to me that adds nothing but noise.