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Not a lawyer or accountant. Not an expert. This is not legal advice. Real lawyers won't (can't) give specific advice on a public forum.

+++++++++++++ THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE +++++++++++++

1. If you treat the business like a real business it should offer you personal liability protection. Treat the business as if you had other stockholders besides yourself. Do not treat it like your personal thing. Do not mingle its assets/finances/IP with yours.

2. If you operate the business from California you have to pay the California franchise tax. If you use any California addresses while registering the LLC or for your bank you probably qualify. Doesn't usually pay to play games with taxes. They should have a discounted fee for tiny companies...$800 is annoying.

3. One is probably enough. If you were doing something especially risky (e.g. taking on a big contract for another company) it could potentially be a good idea to have a separate LLC for that.

4. Absolutely maintain an entirely separate account for the business. Get this account at a bank different than your personal one, just to keep it that much more separate. They're cheap/free.

5. It's not that risky, if you're not doing anything risky. But they provide liability protection and some legitimacy. Keep in mind that nothing protects you against criminal liability. Crimes like fraud or tax evasion are just as illegal with or without a company to hide behind.

If $800 isn't too big deal to you, then I'd say there's no question you should create an LLC. But if it's a lot, and you're not doing anything crazy, you can probably afford to wait until $800 is a no brainer.

Filing an LLC in CA is a trivial one page form[1] and $70. Do it yourself. Search[2] to see if your name is available (choose something that isn't too similar to an existing name).

+++++++++++++ THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE +++++++++++++

1. http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/llc/forms/llc-1.pdf

2. http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/
Sorry for the late reply - skill school means places like SAIT/NAIT (in Alberta).

Basically diploma level or accredited degree programs. Most of these programs tend to focus on software development at a practical level, less on abstract concepts traditionally studied in Computer Science programs. The good ones focus specifically on developing software in one or two main technologies rather then a smattering of random stuff (:cough: Devry :cough:)
the people on HN much nicer then on other forums.

That's a common belief, but I've noticed that Reddit has recently been giving higher-quality comments than HN. Take a look:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5745707

vs

http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1es4pf/soylent_t...

The Reddit comments are either positive, or they're skeptical in a way that doesn't try to force their opinion on you. They say things like "Hey, I noticed no one at Soylent seems to have a background in nutrition" rather than "I beg you, don't fund these guys! What they're doing is inherently dangerous." (The latter was actually a very common theme in the comments here about Soylent.)
Quit. When you have someone who has all the say who shouldn't that's a fundamental disrespect for our methodology. You can't work for people like that. Let's look at it in terms of your future. You can work there for five or ten years and you won't achieve anything but become lazier. You'll start to see things the way they do. You'll pattern your days closer and closer to the way they do.

But that's bad for the world. The world NEEDS people like you to do GREAT things... not mediocre things decided upon by lesser beings.
Not to mention that the sites have no relationship to each other, so a line graph like this is pointless.

Here's the graph corrected for both zero-baseline and using a column graph: http://i.imgur.com/24UrJpB.png
Nowadays, Social bookmarking and Directory submission are important and great way to get traffic and all source..
For their use case, using Facebook makes perfect sense. It's way easier to get a feel for someone and get an idea of what kind of match would work when you can see their photos or posts, especially when there is a human at the other end doing the matchmaking. It might not be for everyone, but it definitely makes sense, at least to me, of why Facebook integration is worthwhile here.
If you decide to stay, how you handle this situation and how you get to the end of the project will be remembered by everyone involved. Assuming you dig in, do the best you can and try to keep your chin up, this can help lead you to better opportunities on new projects where you are asked for by name. Also, the relationships you make now, can also follow you and can be leveraged down the road as the company grows and as you maneuver through the growth of your career.
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IMHO you should try your best to ignore what people say unless it's constructive to your work and life. Not everyone will love you and your work and that's okay. Because this is serious business. Stand up for yourself and learn to defend your work, your decisions, and your statements. If they are just trying to get to you identify this and ignore them. But ultimately accept that it's up to you, not them, to change how it all plays out. I know that is probably a tune you've heard before but it's true.
Heh, it's nothing personal. We downvote memes or quotes that don't also contribute something unique. It's just quality control.

Truly hilarious jokes, on the other hand, are highly upvoted.
I cant think of my day started without reading the HN posts, I am so addicted to it because of the articles published here. its like precious to me.
!!!!MY PRECIOUS!!!
This is now getting coverage by major US news channels: https://www.google.com/news/rtc?ncl=dPuiLMqO9_4PpZMgjjKLahcv...
I've been looking into this, and at least in California the benefit of incorporation are quite limited compared to its cost. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil

Patent trolls are also a concern to me, especially since I do have some personal assets I'd like to protect. Maybe getting some type of insurance might be a good idea?
I have no doubt the study is legit and nothing is 'fudged' beyond their own presentation of the graphs and other things their marketing department have done to promote the study.

The obvious truth is that Microsoft will only commission a study on something they've already proven to themselves internally. As will every other company on the planet.
I'm curious to know how you fingered the organization based on the scant amount clues provided in the text; like incision said earlier, there are a large number of companies in the exact same situation. What makes you think you've got the right one, specifically?
So it's Grouper, but for 2 people instead of 6, and unblinded?
I've forked the GitHub and rewritten the scraper in Ruby. Full ICSE and ICS results are already there, plus a PostgreSQL loader and a script to determine the "true" all-India topper accounting for exam difficulty. I've also written a preliminary CBSE scraper. https://github.com/octonion/CISCEResults2013
It will be available in every country. I just updated it. Let me know if it works.
BuddyMedia was losing money also it didn't stop salesforce from buying them for 600M http://www.businessinsider.com/look-inside-buddy-media-money...
Sometimes it is more subtle than that, sometimes people want it to be what it could be rather than what it is. Those can be the hardest things to accept. (it's a stereotypical parent angst "You could be a doctor and you want to be a park ranger?" kinds of things)

Facebook has a huge user base, .001% of them whining about how it sucks is a whole bunch of people.
> My facebook feed is mostly spam. Mostly app ads and very lame things that distant acquaintances have liked.

Do you hide any of it from your feed?

I do this periodically, and I don't have anything lame or spammy. It's just like what's said in the article.
Thanks for your response! I just wanted to let you know, I tried to email you via this website but it bounced back.
Yes, I've been there as well. I posted two Show HN without "any trick" or "any attention to details like the best time, best title, or whatever" just to watch my link drops to oblivion. Soon I realize that it would be much harder to get attention, and my just launched Startup would need a lot of SEO, Blog Articles, Build awareness using twitter, facebook, build a amazing land page, etc, etc...Well, I think about that for a while (one week actually) and I ended up deciding that I don't need SO MUCH traction or attention now. I need some clients that I can talk personally and smart enough to help me to evolve the product, and the next day I start to study Erlang (that is amazing btw) and NPL, so I can start to do the cool stuffs that I dream. I will focus in the product only. And if for some merit the product stands out without any "advertisement", so I actually know that I'm building something that people really want.
In other news, the material used to cover seats in a BMW has the highest¹ thread-count of all luxury car models.

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1. Totally made this up. The point being that nobody chooses a car based on the thread-count of the material in the seats. And nobody chooses a browser based on the power draw.
Just to give you one user's perspective (which honestly, by virtue of being a HN reader probably represents a very small fraction of general users); anytime I see a service that requests I login via FB or Google, I assume you're trying to mine my personal data. Unless you are Facebook, or Google, or maybe LinkedIn (with whom I'm already willing to share my personal data) I'm not going to use these options. Make this your only option and I'm going to close the tab.

No personal offense to you, or your business. Just telling you as a geek, this is a non-starter for me.
I would say, now would be a good time to post something, as a lot of people would have checked out /newest after reading your comment :)
I know technical solutions to problems like this are the first ones that leap to mind to HNers, but IMHO they are exactly the wrong response.

Citizens of democratic societies should not have to hide their communications from their government. If their government violates this trust, the thing to do is to organize and turn those governments out of office. Encrypting phone calls doesn't solve the problem; the problem isn't the surveillance, it's the contempt for the law and the rights of citizens that the surveillance is just one manifestation of.
I mean, the only phone calls ever made are between individuals; but yes, this order only applies to calls involving VBNS phones, not all Verizon phones in general as this article implies and many MSM outlets are saying.

That makes it no less scary; VBNS has hundreds of thousands of customers and people who make calls to VBNS phones from unrelated also probably had their metadata sent to the government.
personally I am also the part of hiring process. and same level of frustration I got as you got while interviewing them.
I think its a good idea what you going to do and I totally suport it. There must be a common platform for each applicant where all the corporate information is available there, where any one can host the interview, call for interview, scheduling of interview and many more things can be handled there.
I was specifically using Jacques Mattheij's Unofficial Hacker News FAQ[1], but I'm aware of other analyses that have been done. 8:30 is what's usually agreed upon by the people who have been around and give an answer to this sort of question, in my experience. Hope that helps.

[1]: http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ
Yes. I've requested such a section here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5692540

HN has become pretty useless for posting projects since the site has become so large. It's a shame, because this my favorite part of the site.
You are arguing in hyperbole. If you were to include every american author to have ever lived, the list would be untenable. There has to be a logical cut off, and often in the world of the arts, that cut off is directly correlated to prominence as an artist.
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+1 Glenn Greenwald is excellent and it's very good news that he got the high profile position at the Guardian.
If everyone is doing equal work, go 50/50. If you are spending 30hr/week while others are only putting in 10, you may want to take more for yourself. The best solution is to talk to everyone about what they feel is fair. If you're already friends, this can be an easy or an awkward conversation. It's best to get it out of the way immediately.

As far as pitfalls go, you will endure most of the same stresses that startup founders go through. This is a difficult but rewarding process, so best of luck to you and your team!
Dude just quit. Do you really need 100 randoms from HN to help you make an easy adult decision?
Well, don't know what laws India has with regards to Cyber-security if any at all, but I wonder how the reaction would be if that happened to a nation-wide exam/test in the US like the SAT.

Even if the data was available on the server, I think the laws here are such that one can still be persecuted for that. A recent example that comes to mind is the AT&T hack that leaked email addresses of some iPad users [1].

Fortunately, in this case, it does not appear that the original poster has anything to be concerned about.

[1] - http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9237838/Legal_experts...
that's a preposterous statement. I challenge you to support your claim.
I'm glad you came to those conclusion, but know in the future that when you're ready to try and show the community your work again, there are some times when it's a fair bet more than others that you'll get to the front page. Don't let one experience discourage, I would love to give you feedback, I always enjoy doing so on Show HN threads.
That was the original premise of tripcommon.com - it's pivoted a bit but you can still use it for that exact functionality.
Thanks for the feedback manish. I think there a lot of ways the process could be improved and could see this going a few different ways. I'm trying to focus on the most painful parts for developers doing the interviewing initially. I know what's painful for me but am looking to hear what others find painful about the process.
I left facebook because I was tired of continually curating their email notifications. I would clean it all up and then boom something would change and I have to wade through their settings again and turn off more stuff.

I don't want to ruthlessly curate my social network feed. It killed the enjoyment for me so I left. Now I get a curated rundown from my wife so I guess in a way I still have facebook but someone else is doing the curation for me.

I wonder if there's a product idea there?
Get yourself a lawyer. A good one can do this for surprisingly little money - a few hundred bucks.

Using separate entities can make sense under certain circumstances, but keep in mind that every one of them has its own paperwork, its own fees, and its own tax return. If $800 is a lot of money, I doubt very much that you want to do this. You can always split it up later.

Also, you will not be able to avoid taxes by incorporating in another state. California is going to be a pain in the ass. Just the way it is. If you don't like that, move to Texas, or better yet, Wyoming.

One thing to consider: if you have an LLC with one member (owner), you can have the IRS treat it as a "disregarded entity" which saves you a some work on tax day. You basically fold the business taxes into your personal taxes and file one return. You still must keep everything (bank accounts, etc) separate for the business - keep the books on the business just like normal. But for taxes, it's all the same and it makes life a little easier. Unfortunately, I don't think the states care, so you still have to deal with them.

As for risk, that depends entirely on what you are doing. If you are selling gunpowder, it's a little different than peddling fart jokes. Nobody can answer that for you.
YNAB (You Need A Budget) is the only budgeting tool I've actually found useful personally.
Why don't you try telling him the same thing. That you need more time and more money to do this project. Maybe he'll understand...
Not related to finance, but for people who enjoy Ledger and need a calendar application, there is remind[1] which works a lot like Ledger. I just have remind run from my bashrc to print out my reminders at the top of every new terminal. It works great for me.

[1]: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
Website down. Anyone have a mirror/cache to share?
In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.

Just watching a feel-good cartoon flick with the kids (Ratatouille) and there's this little gem at the end. I'd like to meet the guy who wrote that in. It sums it all up right there.
What is the name of this song? What a good song
Well in the US, doing this to get information that is even less sensitive counts as hacking and gets you sent to prison (see Andrew Auernheimer).
It's funny. I posted a project once and it got only the upvotes I asked my friends to make, never made it to the front page. Later I removed the first and re-posted it with almost an identical title, just to see. That one got to the top of the front page for hours receiving tons of upvotes and a-lot of great feedback.

My guess is that luck as a great deal to do with it.
Think armored transports where the driver's don't have keys to the storage area.

Person: "I'm just a glorified delivery boy, they don't trust me with the company secrets."
Get all your stuff that's yours out of the office. Don't go back.
Just think about it this way, you are never going to get the days and weeks and months and potentially years you put in here back. If you don't spend them on something useful you will forever see this as a problem.

So since the place is clearly clueless, you need to decide what your going to do. When you talk to people about this place in the future, they are going to ask you "why you stayed" and your answer is going to reflect on your character and your outlook.

You can try various strategies to fix things, some might help, some might not. But you can practice you skill in identifying roadblocks.

You can switch into anthropologist mode and start studying the people who are dysfunctional. Find how how complete idiots maintain a lock on their power base, what techniques do they use if it is clearly not skill in their job.

You can practice organizational dynamics, try to figure out who the 'players' are and who the 'pawns' are. It's a sort of morbid curiosity and of course once the players notice you are looking at them you will have to be on your toes and bob and weave lest they corner you on the board. (You don't want to end up fired with everyone in the organization thinking you're the reason the world is screwed up, and a good player will try to make that happen to protect their turf)

I wish there was a way to quit and on the way out mark the entrance with ultraviolet sensitive ink or something so that others could know what goes on there and stay away.

Since you are asking these questions though, you are in good shape.
Some clients are assholes who exploit the naivety of novice freelancers.

You could respond that to look like <big company site> you'll have to charge what <big company> paid for theirs.
Google should have to justify why they are closed.

This seems like a rather entitled position to take. By what reasoning is Google, a private, for-profit entity, obligated to make anything of this sort available to you?
Ah! The joys of being a one man team. I had the wrong email in there. I updated it now. Thank you for letting me know.
Hilarious stuff :)

"For example, 81, 82, 84, 85, 87, 89, 91 and 93 were visibly missing. I repeat, no one in India had achieved these marks in the ICSE."

http://deedy.quora.com/Hacking-into-the-Indian-Education-Sys...
how about - https://github.com/yradunchev/dbackup

...and it depends how much data you intent to backup...
Thank you. It works.
If you're too busy for online dating, aren't you too busy for dating in general? Seems like a vanishingly small market - people willing to pay $75 for a date, but unwilling to take the time to look on match.com. But I'm usually wrong about this sort of thing, so carry on!
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I salute the creators as well.

As someone who goes out of his way to comment on every Show HN thread he sees, I believe most users are not cynical. I can see why most people could be considered harsh; this is why I try to specifically say I'm being constructive.

I think the best way to go about giving feedback is to start with the negatives (the most glaring, preferably) and then end on a positive note with what the developer is doing properly. This tells the creators that they're doing good work and that they shouldn't abandon their babies (yet), they might just need to tweak things here and there.

Conversely, tearing someone to pieces is mean and not productive, even if the points are valid. There are arguments for this that generally go along the lines of some Darwinian thinking where they shouldn't even be trying if they can't take criticism - that's unrealistic and unfair to expect of people. We all need to start somewhere. Help out fellow members.

Hacker News is not a trial by fire - nor is it meant to encourage a death march. Those are two extremes. A comfortable middle ground where both criticism and praise are given is optimum. And I find there is rarely a submission so bad there's nothing good to be said about if at all.
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There's a lot of friction to getting people to use new tools to manage the entire process. It could be quite profitable, but it probably requires someone who's really good at selling to companies.

The low hanging fruit I see is for standardizing part of the interview process. If you ask every candidate the same 20 questions, and then rate their responses on a scale from 1-10, you get a really nice and somewhat objective measurement.

It's just one signal, it doesn't solve the whole problem, but it's something every company should probably do every time. HR loves it because it's documentation (for any potential discrimination lawsuits). In fact, that could be half your sales pitch. Sell it to HR as a tool to protect the company legally and to hiring managers as a way to more objectively measure candidates.

It could be useful for phone screens or in-person interviews. Provide lots of pre-made questions for each job type, but let people customize them. Maybe have each interviewer rate the candidate separately on the same questions, so you can make it even more objective.
YES ! Assuming you live in a country where slavery has been abolished the only thing that keeps you working for unrealistic bosses is the fact that most people spend more than they earn and thus don't have a nest egg to fall back onto when they quit a bad job to find a better one.
It is all nice, like with leap motion, I am not preordering anything, once you ship and reviews come in, I would be happy to pay for this. I am really looking forward to new ways of interacting, but I can't finance your development.
Unlike the Founders, we have tools at our disposal to change things. We elect our own representatives. We are free to organize an opposition. We have a free press -- and in the age of easy and cheap online publishing, that's a power that anyone can exercise, not just media barons.

We have lots of levers short of revolution that we can push on to move policy in directions more respectful of the rule of law.

The only question is whether anyone cares enough to use them.