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I can't find the article but recently there as a very elegant experiment proving that quantum teleportation is used by enzymatic action.

I think it was just matter of calculating how fast a chemical reaction would sped up by and enzyme that uses quantum effects.

And the way it was done used heavy water because that would have fewer quantum jumps. And the reaction slowed down by exactly as much as the theory predicted. Thus confirming that enzymes most likely do make use of quantum teleporation.

But that's obviously not entanglement.

EDIT:
Found this: http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_quantum_shortcut...
It might be better to make that proportional -- e.g. that 20 upvotes needs 30 flags. I think there are enough "junk" upvotes (catchy title that people upvote without reading, somebody's favorite topic, but didn't read the article, new users that aren't quite used to the HN vibe, etc.) and now a sufficient number of users that getting 10 votes probably isn't all that hard.
I'm assuming the fraud alert would give him the chance to fight the charges if they try to report them?

How exactly does it help?
I'm not saying this isn't so -- but reading this kind of statement always reminds me of the many entrepreneurs that do end up being successful despite everyone saying it would never work.
Hi Jacques,

Thank you for your reply. I do agree with you, without trust things can only go wrong, as he is most likely going to align with the company, I can't do anything about that really. What I think it might be a good deal would be to split the 60% to something like 20% for him, 15% for me, 15% for the other guy and the remaing 10% as options, which to me sounds reasonable. Even so, what other dangers are there? Can they kick us out after a while, since they will have the majority of the company stocks? I mean in the sense that after a year or so they say they're not happy with our performance in the company, the current company value is, say £1m, take your £150k for your 15% and go home. Could they do that?

Also, do you think it is reasonable to demand equal salaries for the three of us, as he claims "we're going to be equal, nothing like he's the boss and we the employees"?

Another thing he said and I forgot to mention, was that when I said to him that I will be fair but not modest, he said that he knows a guy from his previous company (which surprise-surprise has the same specialty as me) that desperately wants to join the company, but he's giving priority to us, because of our loyalty over the years working with him. What a manipulation that is, isn't it?
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It would be nice to have something like antiscribd.com.
I hope I can get my boss to watch this. He also has 'it' and has built a little TV show around the concept of entertaining (not just the food, but the party planning etc.). Thank you so much for posting this.

I have bent over backward to try to stoke his interest in new/social media, but he wants to make the expensive-looking TV show with big-ticket sponsors first and collect money off it later. Nobody wants to cough up tens of thousands to sponsor a media brand that hasn't quite gotten off the ground. If he would give me a free hand and go the Vaynerchuk route I could make this work for him easily. Instead he's wedded to a financially top-heavy business model which combines the worst of all worlds.

He was an innovator back in the 90s of things like diet informercials but he just does not get the idea of audience-building on the internet and is avowedly technophobic. You would laugh/cry if I told you how this plays out day-by-day.

I know it's kind of antithetical to 'hacker news', but does anyone else have experience of dragging an unwilling boss or co-worker into a modern paradigm? How did you get them to let go of the anchor that was visibly sinking the venture?
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Over time this place has become much more general and wide in scope. Some people cherish this, some don't.

But it is interesting that those that don't, can only flag and shut up. No discussion of "is this needed here" is tolerated. But dozens of MJ stories are perfectly OK.
Let's be clear on what problem it is you are talking about.
Healthcare being not-affordable, or in other words too-much for most citizens or in other words insurance being too much? Or maybe healthcare in the sense that we aren't healthy; needing less healthcare?

The question is too vague for me. If we are talking in terms of "sicko" (the documentary) then one solution I have to say is socialized healthcare. I don't feel that social healthcare is necessarily the same as just any other social industry. Therefore people should not react in the same way. Socializing the auto industry is terribly anti-capitalism but its not the same as health-care because there is (or should) be a moral obligation to help people in need regardless of their financial state. You can't morally need a new car. It might still be possible to have private hospitals, for "premium" treatment. That already sounds rather dirty, but it reminds me of the postal service. Having government-run postal service actually made the industry better as a whole. Everyone can send a letter for 42 cents is it? but if they want it there overnight, there's fedex.
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I'm about 1/2 to 3/4's of the way through how to prove it and I'm trying to suss out one of MLK Jr's main arguments in this essay in a logical fashion. Any help/feedback would be awesome (assuming you know what you're talking about ;)
It's not the banking industry asking for help. But us as entrepreneurs that need to create a whole new banking industry.
No, you're missing the point. Hawking is saying that we're reaching the point where we actually can make modifications to our physical bodies both pre- and post-natally. I could see why you might be confused if you just read the first couple paragraphs of the article though.
Well, I still program in C, and I still learn 19th century math & physics. Not all things are destined to get stale. Your comments are usually insightful. This one conveyed zero bits of information. Seriously.
I have to agree but I think this happened as soon as we had language which was thought and learned and wasn't pure instinct like other animal vocalizations.
How about "human engineering" instead of intelligent design?
But access to Facebook isn't denied to Rodney, and why would Chad not add him as a friend on Facebook, too?

I am also not friends with everyone on Facebook, so I guess a lot of opportunities are denied to me (because Chad doesn't tell me about the job offers either). It's a cruel world.
run while you can. Seriously, if you are at this level of trust between partners then nothing good can come of it

Absolutely. Mr. X may try to tell you that he's doing everything he can to create a great opportunity for you... but all I see here is an opportunity for him to make a lot of money out of the work you're doing, while giving you a lot of headaches in the process.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Im guessing given the outspoken-ness of the guy the material would tend to end in flame fests ;)
This isn't unusual actually. Companies can and do report bogus charges like this with impunity.
That is actually a quite elegant solution, but likely never to happen. The pharma lobbying muscle is up there with casinos.
I think consumers need the materials to make an informed decision. Television ads don't accomplish that. A beautiful woman dancing through a field of flowers doesn't tell me the benefits or side effects, so I agree with you there. Drug ads on TV are about as socially acceptable as cigarette ads. The same picture in print with the full PDR dump on the back may be a different case. The information is there to read, although I have seen a distinct difference in quality between the information for physician and the advice for patients.
the original and still champion:

http://www.appliedautonomy.com/sw.html
The problem is price. The estimate keeps going up. I think it's over $300 now.
Tax employer-provided health benefits. This would increase my health care costs, and probably yours too. But it would eliminate the existing disconnect between costs and payers, which would reign in costs.

See chart 1 at http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13899647&... (http://media.economist.com/images/20090627/CBB677.gif). Look at the private vs out-of-pocket gap between the US and Switzerland (or anywhere else, but Switzerland is #2). How do you think taxing employer-provided health benefits would affect that gap?
I think I've heard a similar idea described as "worse is better".

I think part of the problem is languages that force early decisions. In general, the more things can be changed at runtime, the less planning required for flexibility later.

There may be some need to balance that flexibility with discouraging stupid behavior. I've seen a number of complaints about Ruby programmers modifying built-in classes in ways that cause other code to break. I'm not sure it's a fundamental problem with the idea of extreme dynamicism though; it may simply have problems in single-dispatch single-inheritance OO languages.

I'd really like to see a language with generic functions where every function is generic. Clojure-style custom dispatch functions and hierarchies would be good too.
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basketball, basketball..

Deux fois le même sport?
One of the reasons some of these stories get killed is that it makes it easier to get along peacefully without forcing this or that political/economic "agenda" on anyone.
These things are often of such a scale and real-time response requirement that simple standard solutions just won't get it done.
Really like the [obvious?] crunchpad product. I really expect a new generation of products cloning iPhones, Kindles because Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia are sleeping under its comfort zones. Cheers to ASUS too!
You can, sort of - create "mindmap", "django", and "project31" directories and in each of them put a symbolic link to your file. Tagging, the unix way. A script or GUI for doing that might be useful, maybe.
in a startup trust is everything. If you don't have that trust with the other founders you - and they - will spend a lot of time and energy to avoid being backstabbed, This will destroy the atmosphere and in the long term will cause trouble.

Then the stock will speak, 51% takes it all.

Unless you have a very good lawyer who is willing to ride along with you in order to make an iron-clad deal (and this is harder than it seems) you are in for a world of trouble and lost energy.

I'm sorry I can't make it more positive, again it may be my perspective but in any business that I'm involved or have been involved in if the trust factor isn't there then count me out.

Technically speaking it is probably possible to do business without trust using an army of lawyers but if the compensation isn't worth it then I can't see how you could afford the lawyers. You need compensation somehow, either in good feelings towards the product, team members and your work or financially. If all you get is promises and maybes and your feeling is already as bad as you describe then don't bother, use your talent and energy to do something fresh in stead of burning yourself out on the wrong project.

Disentangling yourself from this a few years down the road will cost you more than it is worth.
That's because "more successful" is not a good question.

Unless one or the other dies out, they're both successful and that's all that you can really say.

The common cold is more common than Ebola. That may help the common cold survive longer. If it does, and we suspect that it does, then "common" was useful. If, on the other hand, that "commonality" makes us so mad that we go all out to kill it and succeed (like we probably have with small pox and might soon with polio), "common" worked against it.
You need to define the problem more if you want to talk about a possible answer. Just what about it is "broken"? Is it the fact that people invent treatments that are too expensive for other people to buy? I'm not sure how you would stop that. Is it the fact that large numbers of people have no insurance? Is it the fact that people, with or without insurance, have to make difficult choices in regards to treatment? Would you like to have your politician be involved with things like how many MRIs are in your town? Is there something "dishonest" about insurance companies (as some have suggested) that they need fixing? Would you like not to worry about anything health-related? (highly unlikely to happen, but it's your problem definition)

"How would you fix healthcare" sounds like a simple question, but it's not at all. It's very odd (to me, at least) that we're having a national discussion and planning major changes for something so ill-defined.

I think there's a real problem. If I had to define it, I'd say we have too many people that are uninsured and insurance products are purposely confusing and non-standardized to consumers.
no, I don't mind sharing it, I'll post it tomorrow (I'm at home now).
Interesting exercise on how to start living in the moment
They apparently tried it in a moment of desperation, but got scared by the "weird syntax". Or so I recall seeing in a slide somewhere...
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The advent of internet has revolutionized the life of a common person. It is a perfect source of information. Anyone can get information about anything without going through any hassle. Along with getting information about different things, it is used as an outstanding mode of communication.
The ones who can successfully argue that they're unique do make a lot of money. The ones whose fame rests completely on the soapbox provided by others don't.
IPhone 3GS Jailbreak released (run on XP, not Vista or 7)
What is unusual is the frequency with which AOL pulls this shit. Yes, other companies have been known to hit their customers with bogus charges, but nowhere near the extent to which AOL has. It's basically their business model. You simply can't cancel an account.
Here's a working link: http://www.inc.com/articles/2009/06/alice.html
Bram Cohen's "Bram's Cube"
I'd like to think that some root cause is responsible for both. Consider this unlikely scenario:

1. An app is good.

2. People buy it.

3. The developers are satisfied with sales; the price remains stable
Works for iPhone 3GS. Don't run it on Vista or 7 -- works great from XP.

Literally takes seconds to jailbreak -- much faster than previous generations of JB (like PwnageTool, RedSn0w, or QuickPWN).

Blog post from the developer "geohot": http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/
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Mac OS X has tagging implemented in a nice way. I use it all the time. Compatible with the directory hierarchy. Some refer to it as a hack in the bad sense of the word, but IMHO it isn't.
Yea, Scribd was aggravating enough in this case for me to return from a half-year hiatus...I imagine the demand is strong for such a thing!
merci, corrigé.
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Wow, alice.com is somewhat annoying. They front-load the annoying, frustrating part of the process -- filling out who your family consists of, telling them what you buy, and actually registering for the site. This is all before you can see a price. They'd have more people if they let you see the prices with no hassle.
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> How would you fix the growing healthcare problem?

Which healthcare problem?

A huge fraction of the folks in the US without healthcare aren't supposed to be in the US anyway. How much are you willing to pay (or give up) to give them healthcare? And, if you're willing to pay for their health care, why not simply send the money to their home countries to provide healthcare there? (That will help more people.)

Another large fraction make enough to pay for it but have decided that they'd rather not. In many cases, this is a rational decision for them because they're being asked to subsidize others and have decided to opt out.

An interesting fraction are "between" providers for some reason. They'll have healthcare next month, but their place in the no healthcare line will be taken by another temporary. (This is related to the reason why unemployment never goes to 0.)

Take away those three groups, and the problem isn't that big and it isn't growing.
Build cities so that they encourage walking and biking, and close out cars with the exception for lorries and other service traffic.

Stop this century-long obsession with working industry hours. Make people stop slaving to the wakeup-work-lunch-work-tv-dinner-tv-sleep cycle that doesnt leave room for physical activities.

A tiny thing I am trying to introduce at work is to have walking-meetings, to leave the office for a little walk instead of sitting in a room free of oxygen. It's the small things.
> Why not start simple, teach better preventative care.

Better preventative care doesn't reduce costs, it increases them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/business/08leonhardt.html?...

Note that smoking is actually a net benefit. Smokers tend to die about the time that they start collecting retirement benefits. So, they pay in their entire working lives and get almost no return. (Black men are particularly hosed by this while non-smoking white women make out like crazy.)
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To be fair, while the people he quotes are nutters, the overall thread isn't totally terrible.

Most of the complaints seem to be from people with some kind of OCD-style distaste for non-XML tag languages because they view them as sloppy, no matter how well specified.
What's your problem pal? Your riddle is off topic. Don't you have a thing called netiquette here? Btw. this is not my blog I submitted here. My blog is linked on my profile.
Along those lines, Quincy and Bruce used to have a saying while they were mixing. One of them would turn to the other and say, "I think we're mixing past the money", which meant...okay, now we're no longer improving it...it was better a mix or two ago, and the mixing would stop.

"Mixing past the money" perfectly describes a feeling I often have while refactoring code. What a perfect phrase!
A business owned by a corporation can be sold via asset sale, stock sale, or merger.

A C-corp runs into trouble in selling all or substantially of its assets because this can trigger a severe double tax if those assets carry with them a low basis (as IP usually does).

The way to avoid the double-tax problem is to structure the deal as a stock sale instead, in which case the shareholders get a one-time capital gain on the sale. The problem is that your buyer normally won't want to do this, or at least will demand a severe price discount for doing a stock sale in that scenario.

An S-corp avoids the double-tax problem, however, eliminating the need for a stock sale in this case. Since this is what you have, an asset sale would work fine, in all likelihood.

Similarly with the sale of assets from an LLC (at least any LLC that is taxed as a partnership). This too is a tax flow-through entity and no double tax issue would arise.

This is likely the perspective your CPA is taking and why he can't imagine why you would want to alter your structure.

What your attorney likely has in mind is positioning for the possibility of an "A," "B," or "C" reorganization under Internal Revenue Code 368(a)(1)(A), 368(a)(1)(B), or 368(a)(1)(C).

In an A reorganization, the target corporation merges into an acquiring corporation with the former shareholders in the target corporation receiving the merger consideration in exchange for their stock.

In a B reorganization, an acquiring corporation acquires stock of the target corporation directly from the shareholders solely in exchange for voting stock of the acquiring corporation.

In a C reorganization, an acquiring corporation acquires substantially all the assets of the target corporation solely in exchange for voting stock of the acquiring corporation transferred to the target corporation.

Each of these, if properly done, is tax-free.

In most cases, such a deal would make sense for someone selling your type of business if the acquiring corporation were a public company.

I can only guess but, I believe, such a deal would likely not be clean if the great part of the value being transferred consisted of IP owned by a separate LLC. In other words, its tax-free aspect would be compromised or destroyed.

The issue would seem to be whether you should be keeping your IP in a separate LLC or bringing it into the S-Corp now as a positioning move for potential future acquisition options.

Can't give legal advice in this type of forum but I would think this should point you in the general direction of issues needing to be explored. Check with your tax professionals for particulars.
CNProg lacks the polish that makes SO what it is. Although it would be more sensible to help out with CNProg rather than build your own, I would have been interested in seeing just how well you were able to do in a weekend.

BTW, what project are you referring to? Let us know once it's done in any case!
Agendas can be Ok, if you have a clue, and some idea of where the real story lies coughAccenturecough. Where I would start - What was the spec for the system? Did it change? What development method was used? was it agile? What test coverage did the system have? How many developers were on it, and how experienced were they?

Leaping from "a windows-based system failed" to "anyone ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough" and mentioning .Net and MS SQL Server as specific examples is just moronic and ignorant.
What an awesome thread, thanks for this. It's nice to hear some memories straight from someone who worked with him, rather than filtered through the media.
Note that these 3d puzzles are mostly interesting just in physical form -- and not as puzzles on a computer.

In particular, 3d puzzles are not good for 2d computer displays. Moreover, 3d physical constructions are interesting when you don't understand how they work mechanically. There is no such mystery in computer form.

Having said this, I would still like to see a 3d puzzle construction set on a computer that let's you design and simulate physically plausible 3d puzzles that you can then print on a 3d printer.
Their 2nd data center couldn't handle all the redirected load, and the system crumbled.
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I feel sorry for the person who posted this to slashdot.
Totally... I imagine I could learn a lot from various HN readers who would charge about $150 per hour...
Thank you so much for the advice that does help.

The scenario the attorney was actually thinking about was someone handing me a "big check" for all of it - ie all cash deal. I'm not sure from what you wrote, but you seem to indicate that in a cash deal a C-Corp would make a stock sale more attractive and S-corp/LLC would likely be the same and end up with the buyer pushing for an asset sale.

BTW - the IP assets are being kept out of the S-corp intentionally to avoid a possible tax bill later if the S-corp needs to be disbanded. (But there are tax advantages in the PRESENT for operating as an S-Corp).
The writeup makes it sound like a bold idea.

I'm curious to see where it goes. Yeah, as zck pointed out, the heavy sign up front will reduce turn over.
It'll affect his credit rating if there's an unpaid balance in collections. He's reporting that the report is fraudulent in the hopes that it won't hurt his score. I don't have a lot of faith in the credit rating system though, so I'm skeptical that it'll do any good.