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> NH doesn't have unfair taxes

As a result, NH has blessed us with drive up liquor stores right on the interstate. ;)
OK I'll hand it to you that was a pretty important article.
I think that to get on the radar screen for acquihires, you have to have had at least some success executing, i.e. you launched a product that is usable. You may not have launched the right product, you may have failed to find a market, but it shows that you can build something and deliver it to the public.

There are many teams, particularly in big companies, that fail to do even that.
A snail perhaps? Snakes move pretty fast.
Try telling your SAN vendor that you're running "just Linux" and can you have a driver and support package for that please, and let us know how you get on.

When you're done there, now try plugging your nice new machine into the corporate DC. Oh it seems it needs to support VLAN tagging. No problem, better just write some new code for that.

Time to migrate a bunch of performance sensitive services. Uh oh, no support for FusionIO PCI SSDs! Better write some more code.

Time to migrate your remote sites, only policy dictates certain services must be physically encrypted. No problem, better just cutpaste Debian's cryptsetup scripts and be done with it.

Oops, turns out we deployed 1000 machines with a duff BIOS setting. No problem, I'm sure the server vendor has a support package for CoreOS..

We could come up with examples until we've basically reinvented a modern Redhat/Debian initramdisk and boot environment.
I remember seeing many years ago a fairly dense one page diagram of how most of the major "bits" of mathematic hang together. I can never for the life of me dig it up again. Anyone know what I'm on about / got any pointers?
Actually, modded Minecraft sees an enormous amount of activity, particularly of late it seems. It's started cannibalizing my DF time, of all things--vanilla Minecraft is dull by comparison.

DF sees a little of this with dfhack and all the mods on the forums.
Yes, SNAIL, thanks!
is the "developers" dig really necessary? MongoDB is fine-- at least until you start seeing significant scale, and even then, it's going to run into the same issues as everything else would if you hit it too hard, too often.

Just because the query language is JSON-esq and has a javascript shell, it's therefore "Javascript" and a target of derision and scorn?
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It's no different with locked-down phones/tablets where it's illegal to root it. You don't need to force everyone, just people using American ISPs/carriers.
I don't feel like you addressed the parent post. It was asking why people use mongodb instead of JavaScript bindings for PostgreSQL.
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I think very few javascript developers only know javascript. This some kind of late 90s C++ elitism or sarcasm?
I practice tax law and write for forbes on tax law.. this area of law may seem confusing, but that is mostly for the media buzz. The law has generally been fairly clear.

Many states have long had laws that taxed "pre-written or canned software." MA is just one of the newer states that have enacted this law. New York has had the law in the books for years.

Pre-written software means that you've previously created software and you've literally re-used the code.

Professional, custom or designed software is still exempt as a "professional service."

What happens when you're like SAP and you start with canned software, but then customize it? Then, you pay sales tax on the canned portion and then you don't pay tax on the customization costs.

In sales tax audits, they test this by comparing code sold off the shelf to the code presented as "custom." Generally, consultants are used.

There are also sales tax on "informational reports." This started as paying sales tax for "stock tips" sent over the fax. But, today this has extended to informational reports that were created by software. Thus, a lot of businesses that "don't sell canned software" and provide a "service" cannot escape the tax law by simply providing the end product alone.

I can understand people getting angry, but the law has been around for a while... I've gone through multiple audits with companies such as reuters, bloomberg and etc. I don't particularly feel that its unfair, since if you provide a "custom service" then you're exempt.

Obviously, there are always going to be ways to "technically" get away with avoiding sales tax, but that doesn't mean that they're inherently unfair. Companies avoided paying sales tax on software for a while, until the states realized that they were being cheated by these businesses. Then, businesses decided that if we don't sell the software on "CDs" then its not tangible property and "legally not taxable." So, they would bring the CDs and install the software and then leave with the CD's to effectively avoid the sales tax.

Then, they started to allow the software to be hosted online and only provide the "end-product aka SaaS." Services are commonly exempt and hard to follow, thus they escaped the states radar for years. Its a cat and mouse game that will continue.

I think the best example is if an attorney or accountant were to provide the same exact tax return or memo to everyone, then it'd be taxable under sales tax law. But, because we provide a different memo or tax return to everyone (maybe using a system like turbotax or something), it is a custom product because the service is only applicable to that person. If the developer provides a copy of turbo tax, then its taxable because its always the same. But, if the developer uses RoR, Python or some other system to "create" the end product for the individual, then its not taxable. Hopefully, this crude example is decent enough to get the point across.
Thanks for PortableApps.

It's the redirect and the inability to download the real exe for offline install that I have a problem with.

I also have a huge problem with granting a glorified curl wrapper full administrative rights.
There's not much maintenance involved in the security of an embedded system. Once you do it, assuming you do it right, you're done.

Now, security is a process. You can expect breaches of high value hardware, and need to react to them.

The security model for consoles STARTS with the assumption that the attacker has physical possession of the hardware. This makes things interesting; it's certainly a big differentiator for PCs versus tablets, and one of the reasons why the Windows group at Microsoft has had a lot of trouble making their stuff secure on non-PCs.

But for a hard drive, things should be pretty contained. I estimated it would have taken a couple of weeks to secure one major embedded system I worked on; assuming the interfaces are limited, it's not a huge deal.
I have nothing against somebody making a fortune, at least through hard work, and by creating value to society, like Bill Gates did..

but there are parts of "getting richer" that can really do harm.. drugs? corruption? greedy banks?

Im all the way for the "good capital", and thats the one that creates goods and value to us all..

acomplished people should have sucess, this is cool..

but i see a lot of the "get rich first, donate later" much people praise.. but in the majority of cases.. this is just a way they can feel good about themselves.. but in the end it will just create more greedy people that doe more harm than good..

the beginings, and true intentions always count.. easy money without real value, is what corrupts our society, and worse.. make the dollar created by value of the real working people (and i include bill gates/steve jobs in that list) less valuable..

thats all about the 2008 crysis.. its the same evil root.. but see the guys behind it.. and how they use to make money
Thanks for the praise. crawl is the only major project I'm involved with, but I'm really pleased with how well development works. The team is totally open to external contributions. For example, some friends and I added a god back in 2009. Late last year we started getting high quality patches from a contributor who then became the most prolific member of the team.

One thing that holds crawl together is an overarching philosophy, particularly the Berlin Interpretation (http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=B...).

Someone even made fan art for us: http://i.imgur.com/cGO39.png
If they did it, this would be one of the simpler hacks. Probably a small fraction of the cost of implementing stuxnet.
Excuse me if this is a woefully naive question but as we have more and more devices available to us and connected to the internet would it be possible to combine something like DH with multiple handshakes with multiple devices we own. Compromising one connection is easy compromising 2-3 connections is an order of magnitude harder.
"...the remedies as a whole aren't limited to the ebook market, and it seems more concerned with Apple using its mobile position and related retail platforms to facilitate similar publisher schemes in other markets to the one it engaged in in the e-book market..."

Wait...

So Amazon bought all their eBooks on the wholesale model, basically, they pay a fixed price for the book, maybe $5 and sell the book for whatever... including selling for a loss if they choose.

Apple came along and said we will sell for whatever the publisher of the book wants us to sell for... and then we will take a percentage of that.

Now forgive me for my shameless selfishness here...

but that immediately calls to mind the App market to me.

So I have a question...

Would "...in other markets..." mean that Apple could conceivably be barred from letting me sell my App for whatever price I wanted on the App store? Or does it mean that they would just have to provide a link to my app on another store that would be selling my app at a loss?

I hope that's not true. In this case, that would mean that Apple, Amazon and Google would get to set the price at which one could sell one's app, since they own the store, and I would be just the publisher.

Well... technically, they couldn't set the price I could sell my app at, they could only refuse to buy my app and put it on their store for anything but their "wholesale" price.

I hope none of this applies to the app market.

Sigh.

Maybe I should have gone for that Law degree.
just tried for fun this technique (with node.js + twit + 7 lines of code). My account was suspended within an hour. Probably i choose too popular words or something, but Twitter do stop this type of interaction.
It sounds like NJ isn't encouraging conservation, but rather more consumption. This is backwards, IMHO.
I've just begun looking into and playing with CoreOS. Basically, it's a minimal Linux image with Docker, service discovery using the `etcd` daemon they've written in Go, and several interesting properties. The most interesting is their use of the ChromiumOS build tools, allowing them to one day update servers the same way e.g. ChromeOS is updated--using the Omaha protocol to push raw binary diffs of the new root FS.
This sign up page just makes a bold claim with no evidence, supplying so little information. What was expected here? For people to sign up "just because"?
Weren't there a half dozen Facebook acquihires where the company hadn't launched any product at all? A former coworker coined them "fist-bump acquisitions" because the defining characteristic was that one of the founders was always a former roommate of Zuck or other early employee.
There's a distinct lack of support for the num pad.
the background image makes it unreadable on small windows...
i suppose it's the same on mobile devices
Why computer services? Why not tax something no one likes - radio and TV ads
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Doesn't seem to be working using the keyboard numpad.
Well, police get jobs and pensions from the law industry, like marijuana laws. Doctors in the US promote unnecessary procedures. (I was a potential victim of that just last week.) No shenanigans I'm aware of in weather forecasting, though.
It's nice to be able to get up and running and just throw documents into a database without having to specify what that data will look like up front.
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I am amused when people think I enjoy unnecessary suffering.

http://ozblogistan.com.au/

I am not all of these people.
This would be even smoother as a Yeoman generator. http://yeoman.io/generators.html
If you don't want static typing, Clojure is my recommendation. It's a lisp, but it also emphasis functional programming (common lisp doesn't), has amazing immutable data structure, has nice syntax literals for more than just lists, as well as other nice like destructuring binds. It has great concurrency support (including go-like channels), and it runs on the JVM so it's pretty fast and has access to tons of libraries. Also Clojurescript (clojure to javascript compiler, some example code: https://himera.herokuapp.com/synonym.html) is pretty mature, though you'll have to know the basics of javascript with any cross compiled language.

Though I don't necessarily agree with you that static typing isn't going to be good in a startup environment, I'm just getting into playing with static languages (Haskell) myself so I can speak strongly on the matter. In that domain though, I think Haskell/Ocaml and even Scala are better choices than Go.

If you do want to learn Clojure, the O'Reilly book "Clojure Programming" is excellent and the best out there for beginners. You should easily be productive after reading that, it's pretty comprehensive. The Joy of Clojure would be a great follow up though. The #clojure channel on freenode is very friendly as well.
I just found node-postgres and it looks okay. Active development and issues look like they're not major. Do you have any experience with it?

https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres

EDIT:

Whoops, its clearly just a client and not an ORM. How about

https://github.com/dresende/node-orm2

instead?
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I’m not a NoSQL expert, but everyone I know who is considers Mongo a joke in production. And I would never use Angular in production apps (“painfully slow” is reason enough but I have ideological differences as well). That makes saying “no” to this stack easy.
I'm not a CPU designer, but I did once write a microcode debugger for a printer RIP.

I say it is do-able and, if done right, very very hard to detect. Privilege escalations could be done in a small amount of obfuscated code. Implementing a sequence to trigger that is also do-able since there are usually many unused opcodes.
I think you'll find that a lot of industrial equipment sold on eBay goes through a buy-it-now listing. They have been moving away from auctions -- aggressively, some say -- for years now.

For consumer sales, auctions still seem pretty popular, but in those cases the buyer has to be crazy not to use a sniping service. So even the true auctions on eBay are more like sealed-bid affairs.
I guess that makes sense but do most people who use node.js use mongo in production or just as a scaffolding tool?
This same type of thing happened with oral herpes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#Society_and_cul...
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I haven't seen any benchmarks that make it seem like Angular is "painfully slow." AFAIK, its on par or faster than ember.js and knockout.js. What would you use instead for MV* in the browser?
I hate Wordpress as much as the next fellow, but I'm wary of blaming them for architectural constraints they can't control.

Plugins run in the same process, with the same privileges, because there is basically no other way to do it.

OK, sure, you can do a kind of kabuki theatre where you present an API and insist plugin authors use it. But then they can access everything anyway and can find the MySQL login details by introspection. So it's pointless.

Another reason why I think apps should target virtual machines and be designed from the OS up. In such a design you can isolate plugins as standalone users and standalone processes.
>> it seems no one is using it

or maybe you're just looking in the wrong places like, for example, here in HN? Here is a list of startups using .NET:

http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/partners/Startups.aspx
HN delays reply links based on how deeply nested replies are. Though you can find your way around that...

A regressive tax has a specific definition. It's a tax whose effect is to take a greater percentage of income the poorer you are. Sales taxes, like all flat taxes, are inherently regressive. If I make $10,000/year, all of it is getting spent, which means that less any exemptions (which vary by state, but may include things like staple foods), an 8% sales tax eats 8% of my income.

If I make $100,000 year, I may well only spend half of that, which means only 4% of my income is taken.

This is evil in general because I believe, as you clearly do not, that "governing bodies" are simply instruments of civilized society, and those making the most money are reaping the greatest rewards from that society, and should be required to contribute back a correspondingly greater amount.

But it is especially evil because if I'm making $10,000, I'm just trying to survive, and the sales tax makes that harder, while if I'm making $100,000, I'm way past survival, and well into luxury territory.
Uh, ruby can be parsed, it's just hard. It's waaaay saner than perl.
That would have been a problem with every new distribution, including RHEL and Debian when they were brand new. In reality, your SAN should be able to accommodate a generic Linux kernel with any userland you can containerize.
"At #python.web we warn against using mod_python."

Some pretty good reasons are listed at:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PoundPythonWeb/mod_python

Django also is hoping to deprecate mod_python in the future: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/howto/deployment/modpy...
Kickstarter shouldn't be considered anything more than a donation, with the possibility of getting something at the end. The model has flourished because of the simplicity of it, and involving contractual agreements in the sponsoring process would simply complicate it and scare away potential donors. One should support Kickstarter projects because they want to see a project flourish, and the rewards should be an afterthought.
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Why did Kickstarter ban GMOs?
one of the images originally in the post was a 'borrowed from the internet' of an attractive actress, they claimed it was an "engineer" on their staff. This was pointed out in the comments and they quickly removed the image. So while the author of the post brings up an interesting topic, he's clearly not being honest.
One pseudonymous claim that it's bad for your skin isn't exactly the greatest citation.
If you'd like people to sign up, you should provide information on the actual services you offer, and how they'll help "make your app smarter".
Yes, and ideally Microsoft Windows should be open source and IBM OS/360 would have a build supporting Firefox running on my Nexus One, but that's not how the world operates..
so if you goto www you get a meter and all other subdomains just get a 0?
Possibly, and if that's the case those were probably pretty stupid acquisitions for the company. (And arguably Zuck not doing his fiduciary duty.)
It is. The text blends in to the background image on my iPad and makes it very difficult to read.
Taxachusetts...
You can't really compare node-postgres and Mongoose. The former is a simple Postgres client, while the latter is a fully-featured ODM.
quick someone tell doubleclick that angularjs is painfully slow
I think the HN title is a bit misleading. It should be renamed to "pretty much the best thing ever".
It's important to recognize that there are at least Five (5) parties involved in an acquihire. You have the Acquiring Company, You have the Investors in the Acquired Company, You have the Founders of the acquired Company, You have the employees of the acquired company and, you have the employees of the acquiring company.

All of these parties come into the mix in an acquihire.

The investors have preferred shares, quite often with a liquidation preference, and they will always get something. The founders will often get something, (though in the case of liquidation preferences, it may not be very much - "consulting bonus" is not uncommon here) in an acquhire. The employees of an acquihired may or may not get totally screwed on their common shares depending on the size of the liquidation preference of the investors. They will almost always get a "retention bonus" - that may be on the order of a 50% of their salary, repayable if they don't stick around for 1-2 years.

All companies I've worked with have been pretty good about leveling salaries, and are careful to avoid a situation in which you have two groups of people doing the same job, but one group making 50% more than another. You may have isolated situations in which an employee or two is out of wack on their compensation, but companies like Yahoo! try hard to avoid having systemic disfunction in compensation. The mechanisms for getting new employees in a tight job market come in the form of hiring bonuses and/or acquihires.

Reading your comment carefully, I think you are considering the scenario of an acquhired where most of the employees acquired were founders, whereas I'm thinking of the 30-50 employee company, where only a couple of the employees were founders.
Really excellent work, both the library itself and the simple ability for anyone to make an example timeline.
New Hampshire even has a special sales tax just for restaurant food (despite not having a general sales tax).
Simply replace "any other" by "a".
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Love it - except for the Angular part - can we get a MEEN stack with Ember.js?
No one should doubt that these devices are FCC complaint, if not, these companies could not sell in the USA:

http://www.arrl.org/part-15-radio-frequency-devices

> Note: Computer terminals and peripherals that are intended to be connected to a computer are digital devices.

However to ignore the fact the these proprietary CPUs do not have additional opcodes or techniques to read its users work is ludicrous. Here are some prime examples from Intel:

http://software.intel.com/sites/manageability/AMT_Implementa...

http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2011/01/intel_insider_-_wh...

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tech...

AMD I have no evidence to support otherwise, but I would not doubt it.