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I hope the US wins. I'd rather this money stays with Google and Amazon than it goes to the EU states. Why? Because the more profit Google and Amazon make, the more value they produce for society as in more work, better technology, better life etc. What does the state do with tax money? It spends it badly and ends up creating more debt. So, it creates the opposite of value, negative value or debt, and crony capitalism because everyone wants to influence the way this money is redistributed. To give you an idea of how bad it is here, people work until the 28th of July for the state here in France because of all the taxes, if you have a company it can be even worse.

EU states are already the most taxed ones in the world and they have the biggest national debts, it's clear here that the way to fix this is not "more tax" but "less spending". For the last 60 years, spending has been skyrocketing and taxes are at the highest and are killing jobs, innovations and whole economies. Why keep spending even more by making taxes even higher than they are, this is ludicrous. It's time to admit maybe we should start spending less, not more taxes, this isn't working and hasn't worked for the last 60 years.
Why do they try to give me a bunch of (ostensibly unsigned) SHA sums over an insecure, unencrypted medium? Surely anyone who could modify the content could also just as easily modify the checksum.
The Co-Founder Mythology
One of the greatest myths in start-up world is that you NEED to have co-founder to create Great , Amazing Companies.One the similar hand some of the largest business (in the recent past) have been created by Solo Founder - Ebay, SpaceX, Spanx, Amazon - to name a few.

In the offline world - most of the largest businesses have been traditionally started by Solo-Founder with some support from friends and family. (Think Andrew Carnegie, Honda, Colonel Sanders and many more)

There is a discrimination in the valley against solo founders because INVESTORS feel much safer investing in multiple people vs backing a single individual!

What Mark is suggesting in this article is actually a very intelligent mid-way path .. Start solo, build your MVP, Get some traction , some angel funding , some customers and then hire a Co-Founder or better still employees with generous stock options.
I run a hosting service on Hetzner and we haven't had a disk failure on any of our servers for a year or so.
Your problem isn't technical, it's financial. Moving away from Windows and Office means converting all the organisation's documents to another format, re-training users in the new OS and productivity suite, re-writing VBA scripts (which often doesn't work well).

Then you'd have to de-couple the entire organisation from Active Directory. And refactor (at best) or re-write (at worst) all custom in-house apps that rely on either Windows or Active Directory.

It's just too expensive.
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I wonder what would a Tim Cook-made iMessage look like from a security standpoint (probably a lot more like Skype/Hangouts than how it works right now).
Currently, I rent a managed server from Hetzner for my SaaS business. However, it has some limitations and I'm thinking about switching to a root server. Thing is, I don't want to deal with security and updates and administration and that stuff.

Can anyone recommend a solution? Is there a good software that works as good as their managed version, e. g. keeps itself updated and has a more or less tight security package out of the box? Or do I need to hire a system administrator?

I do have some Linux/command line skills, but I don't want to put a lot of time in it.
Presumably his bad experiences make him say this.
This is only for Thom Yorke solo tunes, Atoms for Peace music from Thom and Nigel, and Nigel's side project Ultraista. The two make the argument that new music is hurt in the Spotify revenue equation.

Dear Thom,

I wish you had thought about this after you got very rich but before you decided that that made it a good idea of give away music for free. When lack of access to a reliable revenue model makes it difficult for build an audience for your own projects, the problem is primarily one of low return on your artistic endeavor.

But for those who don't happen to be associated with an existing success such as Radiohead, that low return often means no prospect of making money at all. Whereas you can have the guitar amp of your choice or feel sure of an audience when you announce a gig, the lack of a revenue model for new music means many will never taste the leverage that you enjoy, with corresponding limitations on their musical development.

This isn't all your fault, of course. But it might be good if you could devote some of your energy to finding a model that works for people without name recognition, eg by relying on your great musical talent but operating under a pseudonym while you search for new ways to sell it.
I have also had many disk failures, including two RAID'd HDs failing within a few days of each other. I think we've lost 5 HDs so far. (We only have 1 server)
Guess what: none of this matters, because RdRand is only one source of entropy among many. For example, another source is the timing of TCP packets coming into the machine. The NSA can't predict that; nobody can. It's the butterfly effect in action.

RdRand is kind of the "crocodiles in the sewer" of HN. A tall tale that somehow keeps getting passed around. Guys, they're just generating random bits from thermal noise, that's it! There's a million other more effective backdoors they could insert into the motherboard, CPU, or firmware.
A couple of years ago some microsoft sales employee probably didnt know about any of this. Also he is talking about mostly self-hosted MS services and i doubt the NSA really has access to that. Also found your conversation style to be quite cocky.
Yep, I had disk issues on a new box too. Hetzner is great though. Also don't be too worried about high ping times, I recently moved http://readable.cc away from Linode and the site is much, much faster (and I'm in Australia, the other end of the planet.)
Initscripts are specific to one distribution. A bug in an initscript in one distribution is not fixed in another distribution. This is practical real life example that has happened for 10+ years. With systemd, there is just a configuration file that is used. The logic is within the daemon and bugs are fixed in one place, then shared across distributions (+ embedded world and others).

Maybe you could redo what systemd does by changing those libraries. I very much doubt it though, I also do not see the point of reimplementing this. Systemd way guarantees consistensy, you're proposing something which may or may not work, depending on the init script. Does not seem like a good practice, nor a good alternative to propose. But all means, go for it.
I heard this story multiple times, apparently it is possible in the new servers to ask them for new disks and this solves most of the issues.

Also the procedure to get the disk replaced is insane and involves you dealing with disk IDs... It's a RAID, then should just check what is the broken disk and replace it, end of the story.
Quote from cached version of OA

"Windows 8 is a mess and while Windows 7 is pretty spiffy, it’s also a hundred dollars. Given the shape of the economy right now, lots of people would probably be willing to endure a bit of a learning curve to save that kind of money."

The economic advantages of Linux/BSD based operating systems include the ability to use older hardware for longer and free/libre application software that may be adequate depending on use cases as well as the operating system itself. I would estimate significant savings over the years even though I have donated several times the cost of an OEM Windows 7 DVD to Ubuntu and other projects.

Of course, 'lots of people' will be using non-Windows systems as they move to [tablets|chrome-book like laptops|Android based desktops when available] over the next few years. Based on a colleague fluidly demonstrating her Samsung Galaxy Tab the other day, they won't need much hand-holding!

Negative comments on blogs? Perhaps not a surprise [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect
That's bullshit.

The problem that people like you don't seem to understand is that online communications can be secure, unless the companies owning the servers themselves cooperate and companies have to cooperate if they have to do so by law.

It's only the US that has such a huge budget for spying on people's communications and the US is also part of a select handful of countries going to such great lengths to suppress the freedom of speech about it.

If I were to start a company in Romania (which is part of EU btw), the NSA can suck my dick as there's absolutely nothing they could do to make me cooperate and keep my mouth shut while doing it.
Could I have an invite as well? (email in my profile).

Thanks!
"This is a good move on the part of the US" - not in terms of foreign relations.
You can install anything you want on them. Ask them to attach Lara (their KMVoIP system) and give them the ISO to boot the machine... I had VMWare on one of these boxes previously, and they had the installer up and running for me within an hour or so of asking...
He only added this clarification after I asked, so my question is not as redundant as it would seem.
Startup funding in the UK
Traumatic? I've written a paper (still unpublished), Googled the key words and key terms, and found that my old internet postings and arXiv copy were the only thing covering the material.

It's wonderful! I'm the only one who's fucking touched this stuff!
Good points!

'the way gittip does this': I naively assumed Gittip was sitting on the money until it was claimed, but charging the moment its claimed is probably better. I'll have to look into it!

'transfer fees with paypal': Yes and yes. I'm currently spending about 8-10 dollars a week divided over 5 artists. So the slice Paypal gets is significant but bearable. This of course isn't ideal and I've been thinking about other ways of doing this. Bitcoin maybe?

'receive money (...) without being informed': I've got this covered! When an artist receives money they also receive an email explaining why they receive it and how many times the listener played their songs.
You're missing a step though - which is that these corporations do everything possible to avoid paying the due tax on those foreign profits. I'm all in favour of getting to repatriate profits then - but taking the profits through a tax haven needs to be stopped first.

Take Google in the UK for instance. They don't "sell" anything in the UK according to their tax returns, so claim every deal is actually finalised through Ireland and therefore subject to lower Irish taxes. So their UK tax is minimal despite making large profits from there.

It provides a massive competitive advantage to companies large enough to full off these kind of operations. Google have possibly been caught out actually selling in the UK, but in most cases their conduct is legal - which is why the law needs changing.

If you want to make money in France, the UK, Germany or wherever you should pay local taxes to those countries. It would be grand if those situations could be simplified and made accessible for digital goods (which are more likely to be sold cross border).
One of the greatest myths in start-up world is that you NEED to have co-founder to create Great , Amazing Companies.Ironically some of the largest business (in the recent past) have been created by Solo Founder - Ebay, SpaceX, Spanx, Amazon - to name a few.

In the offline world - most of the largest businesses have been traditionally started by Solo-Founder with some support from friends and family. (Think Andrew Carnegie, Honda, Colonel Sanders and many more)

There is a discrimination in the valley against solo founders because INVESTORS feel much safer investing in multiple people vs backing a single individual!

What Mark is suggesting in this article is actually a very intelligent mid-way path .. Start solo, build your MVP, Get some traction , some angel funding , some customers and then hire a Co-Founder or better still employees with generous stock options.
Here's the Google Cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XaBQEvN...
Sarkozy is not libertarian at all if that's what you mean by "libéral". He's just as socialist as the left when it comes to the economy. To give you an idea, Sarkozy created more than 50 taxes during his mandate [1] and didn't cut on spending while creating more social aid programs (RSA). Only in France would he be considered a libertarian or "néo-libéral" as they say just because he limited the maximum amount of tax one could pay to 50% [2]. A 50% tax makes you a libertarian, Ayn Rand disciple in France, isn't that insanity? You still have to work until the 28th of July for the State in France.

1: http://www.contrepoints.org/2012/03/07/72137-lahurissante-ac...

2: http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com//file/318975.pdf
Why store state in DOM? Isn't that bad practice?

I remember reading DOM access is the slowest part of JS [needs verification]. So you want to trade performance for few dozen kilobytes of assets that can be cached?
You could probably install Ubuntu, install xen-hypervisor on it and use that Ubuntu as your Dom0. Haven't tried though.
Thanks for sharing!!! :D
Exactly. Microsoft were making a comeback and I moved my email and online storage from Google to Microsoft. Now I feel back-stabbed.

I don't use the hate word often, but I HATE Microsoft now.

Just for the record, I think Dvorack is bang on with this article. Couldn't agree more.
There's also the Grunt-based Assemble http://assemble.io/
Change happens by people doing work. There are at least 3 people actively working on systemd support. Meaning: they help out other packagers, file bugs, look at bugreports, coordinate with upstream, etc.

For OpenRC, there is just one person advocating it. There is a summer of code thing, but seems not much work is done. Furthermore, OpenRC seems nice, but parallel starting of services is actually experimental/buggy (just ask one of the OpenRC maintainers!). So although you can have a similar boottime, one init system (systemd) will be running in a supported configuration, the other (OpenRC) in something that is known to have issues.

That all said, I don't think Debian really makes decisions. What is being proposed is maintaining two.

Aside from above, there is also the practical bit in that systemd provides something to replace the unmaintained and deprecated ConsoleKit with. This bit can be used on another init system (Canonical is using or will use it on Upstart), but at one point seems easier to rely on the existing systemd supporters in Debian to get things working correctly.
It is legitimate under the law to check out suspicious behavior, so the statute doesn't apply to this situation.

It's unclear what Zimmerman found suspicious about Martin's behavior besides his looking around as he walked down the street.

pursuing someone is not even assault

I disagree. You're arguing that someone who wasn't engaged in any criminal activity should be OK with kerb-crawling followed by foot pursuit. I would not be OK with someone following me down the street in such fashion.

Also, it's not an undisputed fact that Zimmerman was chasing Martin. Zimmerman, for one, disputes that.

The police dispatcher asks him whether he was following Martin and Zimmerman replied in the affirmative. This is just a fact. From the transcript of his call:

Dispatcher: Are you following him?

Zimmerman: Yeah.

I'm inclined to give his words on tape during the actual incident much greater weight than whatever a posteriori account he offered afterwards. After all, he wasn't on the hook for a homicide at the time he got out of the car.
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To be honest I dont blame too much on Microsoft.
Being a business they needed to survive. It is not like they have a choice and government could very well bring another antitrust trial. Microsoft refuse to play balls to US government at first and they were nearly spitted into 3 different companies. So like any big cooperation they have to pay money for lobbying to buy them safety.

And Microsoft is evil, I mean in Google's sense of evil and even Microsoft admit it.

But What about the one who claim them self do no evil and itself being so righteous. Joined Prism on 1/14/09?

And I would really love if the Movie could add bits on Prism agents coming in like some fucking retard, and Steve would tell him to Fk off.

NewsPaper and Media, intentionally or not trying to diversify the hate and focus on PRISM away from Government.

They are ultimately the one to be blamed.
Jarvis.js A useless Jquery plugin
Jarvis.js will load each part of your site, with a little delay to simulate a 'construction process'.
I keep hearing this on HN and reddit, but I think this is a mainly an echo-chamber effect. I'd say its far more likely that the vast majority of people don't actually care or realise what was happening, or they do realise and still don't care. I'd be surprised if the NSA leaks have any noticable impact on Microsoft's revenue.
Fast, reliable, and unmetered wireless is by no means ubiquitous. There is still the benefit of being able to play offline, burn to CD for the car, share with friends, etc.

Admittedly, the incentive to want offline music may continue to diminish over time.
Who's the superman?
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The problem with preventing the use of 'tax havens' is that there's no non-arbitrary way to decide if a company is truly using another country as a tax haven, or that they are actually using developers from another country. In the Google example, Google UK is clearly benefiting from the developers that work outside UK, therefore they should be able to pay 'brand fees' or whatnot to the 'main Google'.

Of course in this case most of the development is not happening in Ireland, but how can you decide if the fees are reasonable or not? You'll either end up with a very complex tax code with loopholes (which is non-desirable), or you'll give arbitrary power to tax bureaucrats to enforce arbitrary taxes to certain companies (and this will in practise create non-just tax decisions and corruption).
Sanskrit is a festidious language that agglutinates huge numbers of tenses and forms in to a festival complexity that is a classical feature of the Indo-European language family. It might be great if you feel like being really damn specific, but it might also suck. It depends what you want to do with it.

I would posit that Sanskrit is more like assembly language (for its unique combination of specificity, table-thumping traditionalism, and verbosity). On the other hand, classical Chinese, which presents a roughly similar vintage literature, is a more fluid and combinatory system for type-indistinct component thoughts ... sort of like an extreme version of perl.
Ok, i am going to ask, any reason to go with Hetzner when your have OVH's DC in Canada offering similar if not better Server for more or less the same price?
Yes, I agree: you can easily do a bachelor's degree in either mathematics or computer science without ever being taught category theory (though the chances are you'd hear it mentioned a few times).

More specific evidence to go with jfarmer's: I read mathematics at the University of Cambridge -- like UChicago, an absolutely first-rate institution and not one that gives its students an easy ride -- and there category theory is not part of the undergraduate curriculum. It is one of the courses you can take in "Part III", which is a one-year taught master's degree[1].

[1] Until very recently, the best way to describe it was "a one-year taught master's degree that inexplicably isn't actually a master's degree". But they've fixed that now.
Indeed the guy most certainly didn't know shit. On the other hand, rude or not, Lina turned out to be right and the MS-guy turned out to be ignorant of the type of company he was working for, as well as defending.

Additionally these so-called "paranoid" questions didn't came out of thin air either. 10-15 years ago I also was very distrusting of Microsoft and what they were doing (there was a lot of anti-trust going on ...). But somehow they starting doing a few things right, wrote some good software and OS in the mean time and they "regained my trust" to the point I'd speak out against senseless M$-bashing, and perceive it as something childish.

Well, that I am no longer going to do, lest I have to eat my words. That "trust" is completely gone, and I feel kind of foolish for believing it existed in the first place, "trust" is a kind of thing that happens between two persons, not between a person and a gigantic corporation. The latter is too volatile, there can be no build up or breakage, it's every moment again different, dependent on who is in charge and which individual personalities are involved in a decision. Rationally, one instant snapshot cannot make or break the trust of the next one.

I do feel kind of foolish. I'm typing this on Win7, planning to install Linux for a while now, but I had some crazy wild ideas for a dual-boot scenario in mind that I never got around to and everything just worked so there was no hurry.

Before next week I'll be back on Linux, maybe even sooner.
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>I realize I'm not even talking about Linux here; I think that just underscores my point.

I've seen about 10-20% Linux use and about 0% Mac use in industry (Finance - Buy and Sell side). YMMV.

Linux is incredibly popular because people claim (rightly or wrongly) that they can have a lower latency setup. R-Project is very popular with people because they can have engineers customise it in ways not possible with Mat Lab.

But at the end of the day it all falls back down to MS Excel.

Apple don't have any enterprise ready tools for managing a system of 50,000+ client PCs and 30,000+ servers. So they don't get a look in, save the few iPads that are just perks and never used for any work that I've noticed.
Let's boycott the hell out of Microsoft. They gleefully sold out their users to the NSA.
Ask HN: a father called me asking how to get a job for his son who has aspergers
I am a tech recruiter. Today a father called me. His son has aspergers. His son is not very communicative but he's very good with programming apparently - I believe web development, flash, photoshop and dreamweaver.

The father wants to help his son get a job. I am a father with a small boy and I understand the desire to help your son in any way you can - I'd do anything for my little boy.

But I didn't know what to say. Is there any opportunities for kids with aspergers to get jobs in programming? Given that the kid in question sounds quite uncommunicative it sounds like it would be quite a challenge.

I wanted to ask the HN community - what can this father do to help his son get a job?
I've used multiple cursors with Emacs and Vim. It's really nice, but I kind of still don't need that feature.

For beauty, I really love my Solarized desktop. It's functional, the colours are nice and I know exactly where is my editor, my browser and my test terminals.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b99hli11lklmf00/desktop.png

So, coming from the Mac OS X world, I started to see the real beauty of my engineering desktop. And of course all the configs are in Github.
Before CD burners we had tapes.

...which were subject to generation loss. You had an incentive to buy albums you liked, because taping involved a loss of quality.
If companies can later claim that their employees statements weren't properly informed what is to stop companies making any claims they want via their lower level employees.
I'm curious as well, what happened with DO NL?
True, but I am talking about the practical risk based on what is known about the spying.
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