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I hate this law.

This fee is to have your LLC advertised in a newspaper. This is not going to the state, but to a newspaper or journal. The fees can be high, over a $1000 in Manhattan from what I understand.

This is to inform the public that you have formed an LLC with the name so they can contest it or what not.

The most amazing thing is the moment you register your LLC it is published on a state website. The day after I formed mine I got about 6 calls from banks wanting to setup my business account.

So the law is 100% unnecessary and corrupt.

I didn't pay to have advertisements taken out. My LLC is not in good standing.

What does that mean, well from what I have read I am not allowed to sue as an LLC until I come in compliance.

http://www.masurlaw.com/1182/new-york-llc-publication-requir...

"In addition, the Secretary of State has indicated it will not keep a record of LLCs that are not in compliance, further reducing any real liability for failing to publish."

Now, my LLC is small and exists purely for organization of income, banking and taxes. If I had real liabilities, employees or large contracts, I would think twice.

--edit--

I just remember one more thing about the law, theater groups are exempt.

http://www.dos.ny.gov/corps/llcfaq.asp#pubreq
I love, love, love Lua. I use it for everything. That being said, there's a lot I'd like to use it for that I can't. I'm not a great programmer by a longshot, I'm a hacker in the most traditional of senses (ie, not a hacker who builds billion-dollar wildly successful startups. I write one-off programs to solve a need or to automate a task).

Lua doesn't have a lot of features. This is great because it's small and simple to learn, but it makes some jobs harder. As I'm not a great programmer, there are features that people could write themselves, but that's beyond my skill level. I'm constantly pushing tasks to the OS level, which makes my code one step above a Bash script. Other times I'll push something to C, which turns friendly code into a death trap.

Lua needs some love and care from the community and it would be perfect. Python has that love and care, but it's still a mess (IMO) at the core language.
I'll take a look at libssl and libgnutls. Thanks.
How do you measure educational value? If someone finishes 90% of the class but never takes the final exam, have they learned nothing? If someone finishes the class, aces the exam, and then promptly goes on living their life as an IT professional without any tangible change, was the course anything more than "infotainment"?

I'm not sure how you measure "real" learning, but course completion doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.
"white space is semantic"

Is this not true for webpages and journalism?
>The data is here. Common? You decide.

That's quite a substantial amount of information posted, however, none of it appears to be relevant to the point in the GP comment.

I would also like to observe that if there are on the order of 1 restraining order in effect at a given time for every 100 members of the population (assuming the source article is correct), then, well, that's a lot of restraining orders.
Samsung is a Korean company, not Chinese. I've heard that labour mobility in China still has a way to go, but Korea is probably actually running out of people to work in factories.
I'm really just trying to imply that price fixing in the TV industry seems unlikely because TVs are unbelievably cheap compared to what I know (admittedly, little) of the cost to manufacture them.

Price fixing in electronics seems entirely possible, and I don't doubt that it happens. But if it was happening in the world of TVs, surely TVs would cost more than they do now.
Windows isn't dead -- expect growth of nearly 30% over two years
undoubtedly programming is more engaging to work on than solving arithmetic problems in long division.

there is relatively little utility in learning arithmetic by rote and its not surprising that your son doesn't want to do it. however, as I'm sure you know, rote arithmetic problems are present on state exams and your son will need to be able to do it in order for his home schooling (which is great, congratulations to you) to be officially recognized.

there's a certain point at which the learning process stops being about gaining knowledge and skills, and starts becoming more about learning how to conform to institutional requirements. this sucks. it sucks real bad. you already know this though, which is probably one of the reasons why you chose to home school. unfortunately sucking it up and learning how to play ball with the institutions of our society is actually a really important thing, painful and boring as it is. long division by rote is some kind of proxy for this. better get started with building up your son's tolerance for annoying shit.
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Doesn't make an order-of-magnitude change, but two quibbles with the numbers:

1. Stanford sticker-price tuition is ~$44k, but a very small percentage of students pay full price. For example anyone whose family earns less than $100k/year (!) pays no tuition at all. A ballpark guess at average tuition actually paid is ~$20k, though I can't find an official number. Plus Stanford is probably not really the right peer; Udacity is competing to a large extent (in terms of who they might conceivably displace) with cheaper education providers, like community colleges or even the Cal State system.

2. In addition to the $22m, Udacity is currently getting some $millions in donated labor from universities, which are lending out their professors to develop Udacity curricula and teach courses as part of experimental partnership agreements. Long-term it seems that Udacity will need to pay for this labor themselves, if it's to be revenue-neutral rather than cross-subsidized by universities.
Unfortunately even modern webpages are very bandwidth intensive (by LTE standards) compared to what is usually served up to phones.
I find it pretty interesting that object-c it ahead of C++. Even given iOS/OSX tremendous weight in the world of mobile and Mac, it still seems hard to believe that is has overtaken C++, a language that's been around for so long and is the basis of so many systems across so many OSs. Or it might be that I'm just being sentimental here...I'd love to hear other folk's take on that
That's right - "foreign LLCs" seeking authority to do business in NY are subject to the same requirement: http://www.dos.ny.gov/corps/llcfaq.asp#pubreq
It's an annoying law and should be repealed but why is this site asking for access to so much data in order to become a supporter? They want to be able to read your tweets and see who you follow and/or see 1st and 2nd degree connections on linkedin.
Spending more than what you earn is not a habit, it's a disorder.

What I'm trying to say is that it does not work like that. If I were to follow all that is said in such book/articles, will I automatically become rich or successful?
Looks a lot like GitHub. Were you inspired by it?
I'm reading hackernews, aren't I? Clearly not.
I think Nimrod could really make inroads in those cases. Almost as easy to write as (and in fact looks a lot like) like python with lightweight type annotations, runtime characteristics are those of C, since that what it compiles via.

http://www.nimrod-lang.org
I've found django-allauth a bit friendlier than django-social-auth, and it covers registration of local accounts in one package.
I've had the pleasure of co-organizing a lunchtime Meetup at my work for folks taking Andrew Ng's most recent Machine Learning class on Coursera.

Having taken a few MMOC's over the past couple of years, the addition of a Meetup was, for me at least, a key motivator to keep me involved in the class. Based on others in the group, I think they feel the same.
I am interested to learn more about this.

It seems thetorrentfreak isn't a very reputable news outlet, as they neglected to list a single source in that entire article.

Are they personal friends with the pirate bay/browser guys or how did they come across this information without anybody else reporting on the story?
There are also better uses of startup capital than expensive newspaper notices that aren't benefiting the public as the same information is available on state websites. In the aggregate, millions of dollars are being transferred to newspapers each year through this law.
I want to believe you, but I also see that a significant portion of the industry is still on CRUD, and people still get really excited about CRUD frameworks.
That's true, but just because something happened a certain way in the past, doesn't mean it's absolutely necessary it proceed that way in the future.

As an industry, the technology sector prides itself on innovative thinking and using new approaches to solve old problems in a better way. It doesn't seem like economic development should be a path-dependent process.

It saddens me to see people shrugging off human misery as though it's required by some ironclad law of economics. Instead, we should devote serious effort to figuring out how to get from "poor, subsistence farming" to "developed economy" without the "child labor and sweatshops" step.

Rawanda is already trying to make that leap: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-11/04/paul-kagame-e...
High-end wasn't mentioned before. But I know, I know, blender is often just not an option. Although I don't find the interface as bad as everyone is saying. But then again, I'm a software developer and I don't find GIMP's interface that bad either.
Every technology is political. The only time it stops being political in an overt sense is when it no longer provides an advantage over other technologies which can do its job.

Taking the knife. It's invention was somewhere around the dawn of time for our species so the distinction between political and evolutionary event is blurry. But it's impossible to deny that it empowered the group of our ancestors who could build knifes, their advantage was so overwhelming over those who couldn't that today there isn't any human who isn't a tool user of some sort.

The micro-chip is very much more recent and still clearly political. The societies which can produce them control those who can't utterly. The NSA spying is only the latest in a long string of such events, the use of microchips to cripple weapons used against their creators is another. This technology favors very complex societies that can spend billions of dollars on building fabs, designing chips, training engineers etc.

Now for a thought experiment why a complex society like ours isn't predestined to be the state of humanity. Imagine that tomorrow some scientist somewhere finds out you can create a small stable anti-matter bomb by shaking a tomato on a stick at the sky during a storm. All of the advantages of all weapons since the bronze age are annihilated in a second. Large cities just mean a whole society can be destroyed quicker. Everyone from Amazonian Indians to San Fransisco's tech elite have exactly the same destructive ability, to a very good approximation. In a world like that you'd very quickly end up with a population that lives no closer to each other than the maximum blast radius of said tomato. The majority of technology will more than likely disappear since it gives no immediate advantage to those who posses it and population would plummet since one person can now take on a whole army.

For a further exploration of the impact of technology on the politics of a society see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_%28short_sto...
I believe UT Austin has been doing this for a while in an official capacity, as an offered course for undergraduate students. I'm not sure of any major success stories from their program. Their program is called 1 Semester Startup.
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Its a valid concern to have, but the counter-argument is this: the app looks the same, and works the same, no matter what computer you're using. My users love that.
This is the best source I can find.

"11 people were injured, 5 of them seriously"

http://www.thanhniennews.com/index/pages/20140109-11-injured...
Semicolons are semantic in journalism too.
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"Discrete mathematics" is easier than "Advanced calculus" (presumably real analysis) so I'm not sure why it's at the end of the list.
A $1000 might not be a big fee to you, but to some small business that is a lot of money. That might be the choice between getting a new equipment or complying.

Think about small food vendors, a jewelry designer, contractors, a plumber, etc who wants to setup an LLC and are faced with this graft to a newspaper no one reads.
Interesting - sounds like things are worse than I thought. What does "physically present running your business" mean for a web service?

(Really curious here because my cofounder lives in NY.)
Rawanda is trying to do something like that: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-11/04/paul-kagame-e...

They're attempting to bypass the heavy-industry stage of development, and go straight to being a knowledge/service economy. The jury is still very much out on that effort, but it's certainly worth a shot.
Mmm.

Could we say that programming is: part codified reasoning, part automation, part creative practice, part figuring out how computers and networks work, part figuring out how your toolkit works, part figuring out how the platform your coding against works?

I guess that it is only mathsy insofar as the problem domain is mathsy.

I see a whole wave of non-sciencey people learning how to code in the near future. These people are not very math-oriented.
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> Getting the indentation right should be the least of your worries if you have a good editor (and don't do something like mix spaces and tabs, which I think everyone is in general agreement with across all languages).

Nope. Tabs are for indentation and spaces are for alignment. It's precisely because of non-good (or maybe non-smart) editors that people can't be bothered acknowledging or practicing this distinction and end up using spaces for both.
Agreed regarding the property analogy, but you regularly give up your property for the use of a service.

It is not immoral to request someone's property as a form of payment for use of a private service.
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Are there other services out there like Easel?
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which do you honestly think it is?
What is worse? What is better? Often shipping something that is 'Good Enough' is better than getting the 'right' (perfect?) design for a program.

In the post, it is clear that moot has a set of concerns that a typical business software developer doesn't have.

So, pick the right tool for your business situation, which may include a framework, or not. But I have to say, as a developer, the times when I thought I had to start from scratch and been right were far fewer than the times I wanted to start from scratch and been wrong.

That may be a testament to my skill, the problems I work on, or both.
Is it time we push the best education content out to our colleagues?
Actually, that is exactly what the world needs...I don't care about school, I just want to learn.

The disconnect is that you probably don't need to learn as badly as someone impoverished and living in the more closed societies that Thrun is trying to reach.

For them to become competitive in the world market they need to have skills and knowledge that you and most of the people with access to computers and the internet take for granted. So I agree with the parent comment that the world does not need another way for someone with a BS to get marginally smarter on an esoteric topic (for 99% of humanity) like AI. We need a platform for those without access to education to learn how to do basic coding, or learn other skills that will be needed in the coming decades.
It's not broken--advances in civilization have always tended to involve sacrifice, be it through war, farming, or manufacturing.

Sorry, but things are going well within normal.
I think the article raises / highlights a great point. When you're trying to hire the most talented folks out there, making that effort of integrating the team, be it the CEO, VP R&D or any of the engineers in the process makes a strong statement in my mind that a company is really interested in you and that you're not being carpet bombed by email. That in itself creates a slightly stronger sense of good moral obligation from the side of the candidate to respond, as he feels that there's a "real" person on the other end, but also that this company is making a real effort. The fact that they incorporate engineers into this, is also something to would send a strong signal (at least to me) that this is a company worth checking. My two cents at least.
I patented something at a large software company (a software invention). We used my commits (and their log messages) as my 'notebook'. The patent office had no issues with this. I guess the only reason that might not be good for you is the lack of witness? At such a large company it would be impractical to forge the dates for me. Github would certainly be trustworthy as proof. Personally I think git is overkill though. GitHub lets you make SVN repos too and I think that would be more appropriate for your use.
I'm not sure how you would have a beta version of a fiction book. That would be like selling jumbled ideas. I have a friend whose mother just released her first book on amazon and I believe Barnes and Noble. It sat up next to Koontz on the amazon best selling new releases for the first few days in that category. She put it on sale for $.99 as a new release, then I assume, will raise the price to $2 or $3 eventually. If you find the right audience, and know how to promote and market it well, people will buy.
Conveniently, any editor that can properly deal with tabs will have an easy time dealing with semantic leading spaces.
I used to think that way. But then I realized it forced all my co-workers to get their freakin' indenting correct.
A little off topic, but nice to see you're using Angular.
And yet I haven't seen a convincing web CRUD framework. Have you?

I never did desktop development so don't know about there, but some must have been good.
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So you are enabled to focus wholly since you are used to its syntax?
Yes, we're fans of how sharing and collaboration works on GitHub. The goal is to make Sense the center of gravity for data scientists the way GitHub is for developers.

We're not trying to replicate GitHub's features. The core of Sense is a better way to work with data: the compute infrastructure, engines, and analytics workflow. Advanced users using git will likely use Github in addition to Sense.
The explanation in the article leaves out a key piece of the whole rationale for the law. The person spearheading the change says that "[t]he original intent was to educate the public that an entity has been formed." This is only part of the story. The real purpose is to give the public notice that a limited liability entity has been formed.

Historically, limited liability has not been the default, but rather has been the exception. Thus, it was considered important to give the public, including service providers and potential vendors, notice of the existence of a new limited liability entity. This way, the public, in contractual dealings with the entity, knows that their legal right to sue is circumscribed to suing only the entity itself, not the people who own and control the entity. This is a real consideration for, e.g., manufacturers that provide inventory on credit.

Of course, in the internet age it's easy for any vendor to quickly check the status of a potential customer with an internet search. Also, limited liability has basically become the default for business entities, so potential service providers and vendors are always wary of the issue. And of course: nobody reads newspapers anymore. But people saying that the law is "corrupt" are way off the mark. There was a very legitimate purpose behind such notice requirements, which have long been a part of the process of creating limited-liability entities.
> The two '$_'s in the map block actually refer to two different variables

Yeah, but that's Perl 101. Grabbing an element of array @a is $a[0], which is wholly different than plain $a.

That's not really a style thing, it's a Perl thing, for better or for worse.

> I'm sorry, but I can't get worked up about not being able to write code like that.

Why? It looks more or less reasonable to me. Most of the weirdness there is a factor of Perl's unfortunate lack of named function parameters. @_ and $_[] are simply a fact of life when writing Perl.

It's even a single expression which means you could probably write a similar one liner in python (since their wimpy "lambda" only does expressions)
Care to name an example from the last 100 years?
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But it's obvious the world is already broken. It's not a stretch to infer by your post that you are implicitly passing some sort of judgement on the state of manufacturing jobs in these countries, and that is what folks are responding to.
Not at the moment, but it sounds like an excellent project. At the moment my plate is a bit full with:

1. A SASS-based theme framework for LT that modularizes all of the widgets and plugins into partials. It's pretty difficult to just dive into the existing CSS and figure out what to change to achieve a particular effect. You're basically required to poke around in the dev inspector.

2. A proper C++ language mode via clang.

Once those are up in several weeks if nobody else has tackled an org-mode implementation I'll probably investigate it. If you have any free time and a desire to learn or use clojure I'd definitely recommend giving it a shot though. The community would definitely appreciate it.
I selling http://unboard.de/en/ side project. Is's based on php (smf) and django. I have no time to support it and defend from spam.
Others have suggested that the implications of not publishing may be worse, and you may lose limited liability protection.
http://www.businesslawpost.com/2010/05/llc-publication-requi...
http://www.kramerlevin.com/files/Publication/71ccb940-3fa6-4...
While I like the idea of making courses as independent as possible, some kind of suggested course track might help completion rates.

I passed the original ai-class on schedule with distinction. Then when Udacity started I zipped through intro to CS as a review. When I took Norvig's 'Design of computer programs', it was a kick in the teeth. I knew pretty quick that I wasn't going to finish on schedule, then that I wasn't going to finish at all.
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If you actually read why they pick Nespresso, "the best taste" is not part of the reasons. They cite size, cost, consistency, usability, etc.

"in our business, you spend so much time trying to be perfect with food and service that it's very hard to put the same dedication into a coffee program."

Don't get me wrong, it's better than what I drink at home, but it's hardly great coffee.
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You don't have to simulate multidimensional arrays in C. It's just easier than wrapping your head around the weird syntax required to pass them around: http://pastebin.com/JTjQMfxr
>the battery lasts the whole day

In my pocket, maybe. I get to practically watch my battery indicator drain before my eyes trying to do any sort intensive activity, or (god forbid) watch video.