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Gosh, I wish we had the LLC option here in Norway. The only "real" similar alternative we have is an AS (Aksjeselskap, "stock company"), which requires a minimum of 100 000 NOK in company capital (about 16 000 USD).

The other viable option is a Norwegian foreign registered company (NUF). This means that I can create a company in a different country (e.g. England), and then register a company branch here in Norway. The problem is that these companies have gotten a bad rep in Norway, so you might find yourself in a bad position with the banks, as well as your customers.
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CouchDB is pretty awesome.

But, all this article said is: "Hey we have a great Idea and it Works. [mumbles]For sufficiently small values of works."
Email signatures: Adding the suffix 'MBA' is very telling
...and joining Eons.com.
I don't think it misses anything. My post is mainly around things I want to make better, to make python better. I am definitely a fan of using the right tool for the right job: that means using the language which fits the domain. This is why I don't think arguments for "more functional programming" features or "be erlang" hold a lot of water for Python; if that's what you want, you need to go use those tools.
This is still only an argument against the uncountable axiom of choice.

The set of equivalence classes of infinite strings is uncountable, so using the axiom of choice here is invalid.

As far as I know, the countable one is still reasonable.
I wondered that too. Certainly seems like fixing qmail to make it a little less rabidly user-unfriendly would be better than completely reinventing the wheel.

But kudos to them for going out and doing it anyway. I don't know if the world really needed one more MTA but it certainly won't hurt anyone.
Designing Reusable Classes, Journal of Object-Oriented Programming (1988)
excellent. the more people who run OSX outside of Apple hardware may yet convince Apple to release a version of OSX for home builders. why they didn't do this in the beginning I'll never know.
Simple tool to match schedules for meetings, etc.
I love this! So easy to use.
Thanks for taking the time to comment russel. Always appreciate a well thought response. I suppose it's wishful thinking that there could be a more optimal language, just so I could save a few moments here and there while listening/reading/writing/conversing.
the reason the people in charge of most companies are "clueless about technology" is that some technical people aren't capable of speaking to them in their language.

The reason I'm clueless about marketing is not that marketing people aren't capable of speaking to me in my language. It's that, fundamentally, I don't care about marketing. It seems likely to me that the people in charge of most companies really don't care about technology (nor should they except in cases it's critical for the company; I'm not criticizing).
NY has high costs as well: You have to issue public notice when creating a new LLC.

I've found that Earth Class Mail's Beaverton, OR street address (which has no add'l cost past the standard ECM fees) works fantastic. The Oregon SoS website lets you register an LLC online on the cheap, less than $100.
Air Force Looks for ‘Core Algorithms’ of Human Thought
Recent git features
Is this kind of humor allowed?
I fought against the DMCA at the time, and have been doing such things as writing to my congressman (and woman) since that time, and will continue to do so. EFF donations and other organizations as well.

Meanwhile, I will also ignore laws that attempt to tell me what I can do with products I've legally purchased. And now that the DMCA is being applied to physical products (such as, say, cars) it's even more important to fight against it, and I use all the tools at hand to do so -- including violating that law, and doing so publicly.

The DMCA is one of the most dangerous laws ever passed, because it gives private companies the de facto ability to legislate how you use products you legally own. The First Amendment implications, at the least, should be obvious.
My Graduation Speech by Neil Postman
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I believe they can find a way to empower all the journalists that may be out of work by providing web homes for them to continue to learn, interview, and write their perspectives.
I'd say lots of people joined in when they heard about it in the news, and left when they noticed:

1. It wasn't in the news anymore (that's twitter)

2. It provided them no reason to stay
While part of me wants them to release the OS to all and sundry, I completely understand why they haven't, and won't. At least not any time soon.
5 Questions for all programmers
I think that it's very very hard to predict which team is the best to pull off the creation of a hugely successful company.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs would initially have failed all tests, having no experience and no prior successes to lean on. Ars Technica is (at least according to Philip Greenspun) a great example of how a supposedly excellent and experienced outside CEO manages to run a company into the ground.

It's interesting to note that you can get a good idea of the market, the idea, and the founders ability to pull it off technically: Are they good hackers or not, do they have a working prototype, etc. But you can't really test whether they'll be able to grow the company to a multimillion dollar business. The pallette of succesful founders of software companies seems to be incredibly varied, from the arrogant but stylish Larry Ellison, over the nerdy and introvert Bill Gates to the frat boy that is Kevin Rose. I don't see many correlations that would be obvious, or even detectable, at an early stege in their careers.

Maybe what makes a company rise to the very top isn't the leadership but external factors. Luck basiccally. Surely a company needs good leadership, but beyond a certain baseline it probably isn't the defining factor of ultimate success. The best VC's can do is to weed out the people that are obviously unqualified to run a company, they obviously can't accurately pick the ones that will win the lottery.
VCs seem to start with whether they like you and get swept up in your vision, and work backwards from there to come up with reasons why they should or shouldn't invest. The same probably goes for any supposedly rational decision founded on human interaction.
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Eric von Hippel's book "Democratizing Innovation" talks about this.

The book is primarily about how end users more than ever are driving innovation, but he provides plenty of historical evidence of this being possible for a long time.

There is a chapter that analyses the type of innovation that a user is likely to make versus the innovations a tool producer is likely to make. A user has the domain knowledge to realize that e.g. a tool with a particular shape might be necessary. A tool producer has the knowledge of metallurgy or tool production to realize that some new alloy might be a better fit for the type of stresses that this tool requires.

He also notes that not all users will innovate, it will primarily be what he calls "lead users".

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

The book is CC licenced and available for free download. It's got far more insight than this glib blog entry:

http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm
That's just if you read TechCrunch.
why they didn't do this in the beginning I'll never know.

Why should they? Then they'd be obligated to support all of these homegrown abominations that people come up with. Apple made the correct choice when not supporting the DIY crowd. Not that there's anything wrong with doing it, and heck I might even do it just so I can get my MBP back from my wife.
I agree his idea is probably not a good method to pay the money back but what's unethical is collecting that $3.3 million, and then saying "oops", without finding a legal and legit way to give it back.
For those without a valid work visa or citizenship: they will not be able to obtain a new work visa for you. (there, spared some of you 30min).
This is humour?
My personal favorite is:

git checkout --track origin/master

to create a local branch 'master' that tracks the branch 'master' on 'origin', and checks it out.
* I'm just making sure those who strike out in new directions are represented.*

Strongly agree. Miles Davis revolutionalized Jazz five times. Four of those times, he walked away from what he himself had popularized to strike out in a new direction.
What if I don't have one? (This is the problem with assumptions)
"If LISP is so amazing, and if LISP has first mover advantage over anything the average programmer has ever heard of, why is it so resoundingly a bit player?"

Since when did quality and functionality have anything to do with mass appeal? Anyone here can name multiple excellent technologies that never gained enough traction to reach the masses. Many of us still use them, public be damned.

There may be valid reasons why Lisp is not superior. Lack of mass adoption is not one of them.
Very, very good advice.

To make a parallel, quoting Issac Asimov "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'". Meaning that you need to pay attention to the small messages, and you do that by listening.
I don't know who's argument that comment was intended to address, but it wasn't mine.
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Takes 27 paragraphs to say: "Lisp really isn't better. I'm not impressed by what I see as the few mediocre success stories. I say that the C++ algorithm and container library are just as powerful. I offer no examples, but I dare you to prove me wrong!"

It's hard to distinguish the content of this from 1000's of deliberate Lisp trolls.

Challenging the conventional wisdom is fine, but please distinguish yourself from the trollers by offering something substantive like examples.
I agree with your points and, having done a lot of Zope/Plone programming in the past, your #1 is by far my #1 too. More than once I have sworn if I knew enough of the inner workings of CPython, I would solve the problem myself, even if it took years of labor, even if I had to rewrite each and every module out there ;-)

I think my rather inadequately thought out response was because most of the comments here in HN were about changing Python into something else. I am truly sorry I implied your article was about turning Python into something unnatural and I most certainly owe you an apology.
From the marketwatch link: "Facebook has long been seeking out a means to allow employees to cash in their shares, in hopes of rewarding and retaining them."

If facebook is going to make over $400M this year, why don't they simply buy back their employees' shares?
This blog looks like it's entirely straight copies of Slashdot comments.
Do you mean Sound of Traffic[1]? I haven't tried it yet, and neither have I tried Netsound[2], but they're both somewhere in the lower middle of my very-long-rainy-day list.

[1] http://www.smokinggun.com/projects/soundoftraffic/

[2] http://netsound.ohnolab.org/english/index.html

(Edit: layout)
Counterexample: Lisp, the dead language that will never die (though with strange aeons even death might).
Is marketing an art or a science?
Yes, I think it's worked out pretty well this way.

Would OpenSSH, pf, git, xorg, most "djbware", Samba, the *BSDs, or the entire GNU project exist if we didn't first have badly licensed software, badly designed software, real or imagined personal slights on mailing lists, etc.?
Please allow me to quote from the article:

"Even C++ offers nearly everything that LISP does at this point; other than live code tree modification through macros, which aren’t anywhere near as powerful as C++’s algorithm and container library IMO, LISP has even lost the expression gap to C++ at this point."

As someone who has professionally been a C++ programmer and a lisp programmer, all I can do is laugh. The reason people like lisp is the basically infinitely mutable syntax we can build to fit specific target domains. It's still a radically different approach that most languages don't really touch. The only places I really see the "let's hack as a sub-language not as a framework" approach routinely is in the Ruby and Io communities.

Every C++ templating approach is a trivial macro hack. And macros get nearly all the benefits of C++ templates (including static analysis).

As for why lisp has been left behind in favor of other languages? Well, it's pretty much the same reason as why few people in America wear bowler hats these days, they're out of fashion. That's it. It's history, it's fashion, there isn't any good technical reason why! Most current lisp implementations are very competitive with their peers in most arenas. There are some social issues (the lisp communities are very fragmented, which makes it difficult for beginners to get traction).

It is true that stripped-down languages with almost no runtime features (e.g., C, C++ when you ignore dynamic_cast, etc) can produce "faster" code than lisp (meaning "does less with more lines of code, but executes quickly on modern hardware"), and that's good for them. But it's not like some kind of special privledge, _everyone_ uses C to bind into their language and make it fast. It's the native underpinnings of most modern operating systems, so this shouldn't be shocking.

Quoting again:
"LISP is dead. If you really need a LISP, move to a modern LISP such as Clojure or Scala, or a modern near-lisp like Ruby. You’ll learn a lot about what LISP had kept from you."

I get the strong impression that this author doesn't like lisp (he probably knows it to some degree, but not well enough to really grok it). He freely and interchangeably mentions Scala, Ruby and Clojure as "replacements" to lisp. Clojure aside, mentioning Scala and Ruby in this way is ludicrous, and betrays a sore lack of insight into what lisp is and what the current state of lisp technology is. Anyone who looks at PLT Scheme and SBCL and doesn't see a fairly modern and powerful system (in PLT Scheme's case with some practical and interesting work on contract-based programming), then they're deliberately not looking.
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This is not necessarily true.. My resume was slim since i recently graduated, i didn't get much call backs at all. The resume was the problem, when i started adding more technical jargon, specifically tailoring to what the tech or knowledge that the job required, that's when i got calls.

I found out that your degree does have a SIGNIFICANT factor, but it depends on the company. Boeing for example, 99.9999% of the time will only read your resume if you have a Engineering degree, heck the higher the degree the better. Same thing with Microsoft, Google, etc.

Learn to write a better resume, meaning dont throw stuff you know down. Put things that apply specifically to the job you're applying for. In this case she said she sent out 100 times? With what, the same exact resume? That's a mistake.
Why Contenture could be good for bloggers and simple web apps
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Why do we always try to extrapolate made up patterns for the sole purpose of whining?

"Another X is going to buy Y before I eat Z article, ugh" etc.
Well, all the Lua state is contained in one Lua_state pointer, so you can run several concurrent Lua VMs without the sort of problems caused by Python's global interpreter lock.

(Speaking of which, there's also ConcurrentLua (http://concurrentlua.luaforge.net/), which adds Erlang-style message-passing concurrency.)
Good, but...

Essentially he closes by saying "Well chances are most of you will end up self centered layabouts, but I hope that just maybe it wont work out like that. Even though it probably will. Sorry"

Perhaps not fully inspirational :)
How would his taxes have reflected the percentage of this company he owned? You pay taxes on your income, which wouldn't be affected here. You pay capital gains tax on stock when you sell which he didn't do at any point.
I think your key point is and doing so publicly. Many people use similar arguments against copyright laws to explain their illegal downloading of licensed material, but do it in secrecy. Violating potentially unjust laws in secret and for one's explicit benefit strikes me as extremely self-serving with a very small dose of morality if any at all.
This just got removed from a different posting...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=628532
Except OpenCVS which perpetuates a brain-damaged idea. At least FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD were smart enough to move to svn and git.
I wonder what the process is to get it on the machine. If it could just print and bind any pdf, that'd be fantastic. Even more so if you could print your own files.
Is Facebook killing them?
Programming is a lot like writing (and a bit on management too)
9 Month Old Critical Java Vuln. Still Not Patched in Mac OS X
Ask HN: Is Twitter non-existent among my age group?
I am in my late teens and currently going to college. None of my friends either at my college or friends from home who go to other colleges use twitter. Those latter friends at the same time don't know anyone else who uses it. I've come up with a hypothesis that maybe Twitter is mostly popular among people who have already started professional careers. Is this correct?

Otherwise, it amuses me that so many people, especially corporations, view Twitter as the "cool" thing to do and that all the "young" people are doing it. If anything, seeing someone promote Twittering has the opposite effect on those I know. So I'd like to ask HN if they have any clues to this, why is it that Twitter is huge on the Internet, but rarely spoken of among people I know?
Proof of concept: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/2009/05/19#CVE-2008-5353.20090...

It definitely works. I just disabled the Java plugin in Firefox.
Yep, this is one of the very real problems with "Europe", which, by and large (and with a few exceptions like the UK and Ireland) makes it very expensive to start a company. It seems stupid to me... I mean, go ahead and slap high taxes on profits if that's what you choose as a society/country, but at least wait until there are profits to tax before you ask for a lot of money.

Sure, I know the capital can theoretically be invested in your company, but 16K is potentially a lot for a web business...

Incidentally, I'm curious about the foreign company option. Any other Europeans want to comment on how that works out in your country? I'm vaguely curious if I could link one up in Europe with DedaSys LLC without spending a fortune in bureaucracy...
It wouldn't...but it should have given him a headsup that he doesn't own 90% of his company early on. Early enough, so that if he decided to "buy" his dad out, it would have been for a much smaller amount.
Twitter is caught in a massive media hype feedback loop. Everybody is writing about Twitter because everybody is writing about Twitter. However, there's an entire demographic that doesn't read any of this press, and doesn't care about Oprah or Ashton Kutcher.
This highlights one big advantage of bootstrapping over taking investment. Since you are being funded by customers, you're less likely to make a big mistake by missing your market. If you're not making what the market wants, you won't be around long enough to screw up that badly.
i know people who use twitter across all age groups. not really that many, though, and none in my real core group of friends.

i think that the biggest correlation to twitter use is actually iphone ownership. at least, thats the case with the people i know. and that probably tends to skew towards younger professsionals.
Also the manga guide to statistics http://nostarch.com/mg_statistics.htm
but he was unable to convince the powers that be that he was right

Yes he was. That was the point of him giving advice on the subject. It wouldn't make much sense to suggest a bunch of things that didn't work at all, would it?

Zed basically abdicates responsibility for having to communicate with non-technical people

He presents a six-point strategy for doing exactly that. I suggest watching the talk again, as you seem to have missed out on most of it.
some social media demographics:

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/78505
Its All about Parks
Ever Loved Nature before?
How is collecting a payback on a legitimate investment unethical?

His fathers business invested some money in his corporation. Now, from the story it appears that they didn't expect much of a return on this investment, but I don't think they acted predatory in any way.

I don't see why there should be any reason for a "payback" here, that is not how investing works, and quite frankly sounds very selfish and biased to me. If his business had completely failed and he ended up broke, would he be looking for a legal loophole to repay that $20,000 investment back to the company? I would tend to doubt it.

His scenario is almost exactly the model/concept of VC investing... Money is invested in seed companies knowing that it is highly probable it will be lost, but the slim chance of a large payoff makes the risk worthwhile.
They need to be looking into a consumption tax to replace the income tax, not a value added tax. Once again, they're overcomplicating an already very complicated issue.
I agree that these problems can make you wish Python had decent metaprogramming. However, for most of your examples, there are Python solutions without explicit metaprogramming which IMHO are not so painful after all.

Parsing: a recursive-descent parser is straight-forward to implement and suffices for moderate parsing needs.

Regexps: there is re.VERBOSE -- you get multi-line regexps with comments.

Databases: SQLAlchemy got to where it is with only a lot of operator overloading. I can't say how painful it was to write because I've only used, not read SQLAlchemy.

Continuations: well... you can write the interaction as a generator if you can live without yielding in subroutines until PEP380 is implemented. Not ideal.
The reasons listed are "ability to market the product, produce the technology, manage/recruit a team, think strategically etc". It's good to see he didn't list crap like confidence, firm handshake etc.

I think it's valid to not fund teams/founders who don't have these skills. Going to a VC for money is basically a CEO interview; you've got to at least be able to talk the talk :).

But the article could have been more objectively titled instead of saying "You are the problem."
That seems fair. But you first said "I don't care if it's legal or not", when really, you care quite a bit!
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For a different view of how useful statistical practice (when applied mindlessly) is, read "The Black Swan". It's all about how people use statistical models with Normal distributions in places where it's patently unjustified, and the price we pay for it.

I played this game myself with a friend. I sent him ten samples of a (for him) unknown distribution and asked him to estimate the mean. Then 100, then 1000. His estimate of the mean kept changing to higher and higher values, because the samples were drawn from a Pareto (power-law) distribution with a mean of 1000. Such a distribution is almost indistinguishable from one with a mean of infinity, because all the signal is in the very rare, large outliers. If you try to analyze samples from such a process assuming it's Gaussian, nothing will make sense, and the standard deviation will give you an estimated uncertainty of the mean that is far, far below the actual uncertainty.
Apple hasn't sued anyone for building a Hackintosh.
When you can modify the semantics of the entire language, you can use any paradigm you want.