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I'm not a lawyer, but I think you should (a) get an LLC, and (b) not spend real (meaning: hundreds of dollars) money on it. You can get a DE LLC online about as easily as you can order a book from Amazon.

The LLC allows you to enter into contracts as your firm and not you yourself. If any arrangement you enter into ever blows up and threatens you with tens of thousands in liabilities, the company eats it, not your home equity. If you're savvy at negotiating, you can even get some of your overhead expenses (rent, Internet) in the LLC's name, so if the firm dies you're not on the hook.

Having an LLC also makes it possible for you to do business-to-business transactions with big companies. Consultant friends of mine have learned that invoicing a bigco as a sole proprietorship is likely to end up with that bigco withholding taxes, or worse, severing the contract altogether.

The reason not to spend money now is that contract liability protection is really the only thing an LLC is getting you. Most of what you're spending legal dollars on with a new company has to do with equity allocation. With neither partners nor investors, there's no reason to get that stuff nailed down perfectly. In fact, should you ever raise a round, chances are you're going to rip all your current incorporation stuff up anyways.
I completed this puzzle. It then takes you to the foobar puzzle which was posted a while ago. It has a series of challenges. After completing the first challenge, it says "Max active challenge count reached"
That's not an issue with going to work?

This ride-sharing idea only works if both ends of the trip have sufficient traffic to promote carpooling.
thanks. Would love you as a backer. Please let me know which tools you want this to work with and we'll implement it.
powermate: Yes, we have used it. We like it. It was too limiting for what we needed and we wanted it to be more portable and other materials.
Weight: roughly 300 grams. That's one of the reasons we used metal, to make it heavier. We're also using a slip-resistant material on the bottom so it won't slip around.
* Battery: We have worked built prototypes with both batteries, AAA and coin cells. This is one thing we're focusing on right now. We will definitely post an update on the campaign asap. Your thoughts from the user side would also be appreciated.
* Software: The first and easiest form is using keyboard shortcuts and mapping it to an application. The second form is through scripts like Apple scripts.
That's when I stopped reading -_-
Usually the person getting a ride pitches in for gas/parking/tolls etc, so it's not entirely free. Also, I'd be more comfortable giving rides to strangers if I knew they've been cleared through a background check.
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Being right in general is hard. It's more important to be able to admit that you're wrong on a dime.
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Why would it be any more difficult than rendering the water?
http://blog.metaobject.com/2007/09/or-transistor.html
> How careful do you have to be when saying this?

The issue is that in saying that, you tend to be saying that black people intrinsically have lower intelligence than white people unless you're careful to be explicit about what you mean. As it is, that's not necessarily the case - there's a lot of disagreement over whether or not IQ tests are a correct measure of intelligence over more than one culture, for a start.

The fact that IQ tests were decided to be illegal, follows the idea that you can't discriminate on factors that would affect certian subgroups without sufficient reason. For example, if you required that all employees wear no headgear, you'd be discriminating against Sikhs and Muslims. However, possibly you could require that if there were serious safety concerns. You couldn't require that all employees are OK with alcohol... unless, of course, their job actually involves alcohol. Nobody's job involves filling out IQ tests, or is directly relevant to anything on an IQ test, to IQ tests are not allowed.
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I guess that's one of the applications the two inventors have in mind (outdoor clothing).

Came across their early announcement beginning of this year (http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_6c1e49d6-8f2...) - now it seems they are getting ready to deliver / having every day use applications on the market in the next 6 months (by 3rd party industry members).
Ask HN: Son spent £2,500 on FIFA 14 last month
A friend of ours has just discovered that her 12 year old son used her debit card details to run up a bill of around £2,500 over the last month.

It appears that this type of thing is not entirely unusual [0] [1].

It seems that this is a complicated legal situation, but from a PR and customer relations perspective I wonder if the companies involved refund this kind of expenditure in order to avoid bad publicity.

Does anyone know if EA Sports, Microsoft or Playstation ever issue refunds in these circumstances. Thanks in advance to anyone who responds.

[0] http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-blasts-ea-sports-after-3185676

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3pG9xRMkVTgKn0jT19KNKdV/huge-fifa14-bills
> prove cancer caused smoking

I thought you typed that backwards, but skimming your link, that is indeed what he claimed!
Going from zero to independent consultant in appsec is going to be difficult. There's a lot of work that needs to be done, more than all the serious firms can handle, but every good project has multiple bidders. For any project you'd actually want to work on, you're not going to be competitive as a fledgeling indie consultant going up against Accuvant, NCC, IOA, and Leviathan.

My advice is, take a job with a consulting firm to learn the ropes. Then decide whether you want to sink several years of your life getting a new consultancy off the ground. I didn't reliably match my FT salary after starting Matasano for several years.

In any case, if you're looking for things you can do to make yourself marketable as a security consultant:

* (Easiest, but least-bang-for-buck): file bugs, particularly for companies with bug bounties that will credit you. Don't look for bugs in companies that don't offer public permission to test, though.

* Go looking for a vulnerability in a framework, programming language, or major library. By the time you find one, you'll have expertise in that technology, which you can (a) add to your bio and (b) use as lead-gen for work.

* Find a pattern of vulnerabilities. If those vulnerabilities aren't novel, design some countermeasure that fixes them all. If they are novel, you can stop there. Now put together a talk and submit at security conferences. In rough order of prestige, and certainly having left several out: Black Hat USA, CanSec, CCC, Black Hat Anywhere But USA, DefCon, Recon, Toorcon, RSA, Derbycon, OWASP.
I would love those wall-decals for my room. Beautiful
> I've found that beginners don’t learn about this until it is far too late, and the teachers rarely emphasize it. Many of those who are learning programming through a school aren’t taught about the ethics of programming. They aren’t taught how to design library API’s, how to separate concerns, or how to write small cohesive modules.

I like to call this the 'fallacy of assumed competence'. We assume teachers are good at teaching, and teachers assume students are good at learning and understanding. As i've grown older i've come to believe that most teachers suck really hard at teaching, and that most students suck really hard at knowing how to ask the teacher what they need to know.

In terms of programmer methodologies: nobody in the real world cares all that much. Nobody quits their job because their bosses wouldn't enforce using their preferred methodology. If you're all tasked with developing some giant framework or application and you all have to work together, at some point you learn it's a lot less painful to put your ego aside and just get work done.
have pretty frequent interactions with foreigners

Yeah, but that's not exactly common for the average citizen. At least, they don't interact with tourists or students, who are more likely to speak English, but with immigrants, who are _usually_ even less fluent.

For example, though, I'd consider you fluent, based on your comment.

Well, in writing, sure. But then I open my mouth :)
Once he gets older and a bit more mellow, he'll see that there are always people who are better - and you can recognize them. Also that it just makes sense to stick to some methodologies to find common ground, to keep your code readable by everyone in the team.

Having a desk job helps in understanding it is more important that you can understand your code 3 years down the road than squeeze the last 5% of productivity out right now.
I hadn't heard that term but was delighted when I paused to break it down to its roots. Shit tongues!
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I didn't know that. I'd argue that those more local to him would be in a better position to help him than the collective, which needs to pool money from all its constituents, give it to bureaucrats who take their share of it, in order to eventually make a check arrive at his inbox.

So if we really care for him, it should be eye-opening how those good intentions turned into "Everyone! Give one cent to this politician (or you'll be jailed) so he can eventually make some of this money arrive to the person that needs help". How about those around him help him? Churches want to help but current policies curb them (cue the recent 90-year old that was arrested for feeding the homeless).
Pandas is amazing and I use it all the time, but the API for things like hierarchical multi level indexing is very complex (it has to be - it's a very difficult thing).
not a statement you get to hear very often!
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How the hell can they afford that?
I don't know what you mean by "step 1", but coffee shop employees do not routinely monitor all conversations just in case there's something illegal going on.
I think you may be mixing up something. What you're describing is still a "single strand of thought", just one that is a lot fuzzier.

We can hear, see and feel at the same time even though we can at other times be hyper-focused on any one of those experiences individually. We can observe a single fish in a swarm closely, but we can also track the entire swarm and all the fish in it -- albeit with a much higher error rate at the level of the individual fish (e.g. because of "change blindness").

Unless I missed some serious research on the topic, it's not possible to be intensely aware of every single particle (be it a particular sensation or an individual entity that is being observed) in a complex system while observing the system as a whole.
As a woman in software development (and a former founder) what I appreciate most about this collection of stories is that rather than men sitting around hypothesizing about why someone else whose experience probably doesn't match their own made different choices than they did, it tells actual women's stories. The ongoing discussion of gender in computing needs more of this.

Next, I would love to see (for contrast) the stories of some women who did drop out or who considered STEM majors/careers but ultimately chose other directions. Any takers?
This is correct. We're normal users too. You can track my involvement at http://stackoverflow.com/users/54680/jonathan-sampson.
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A bit more research shows that Hitler reinterpreted the "Ubermensch" (superman or above-man) idea as well.

> The ubermensch is not a moral nihilist who can do whatever he wants, he's the answer to the moral nihilism that is the inevitable consequence of the death of god.

Yes and no. The ubermensch comes into a situation where there is no god, and therefore there is nihilism - there is no moral authority. The ubermensch creates a moral authority. But because there is no god and therefore no external moral authority, there really is nothing constraining the ubermensch to create any particular moral standard. The moral standard created is therefore essentially arbitrary. That is, by his choice of morality, he can proclaim that it is moral to do anything to others.

(Now, true, Neitzche said that the morality was supposed to be life-affirming, as opposed to other-world centered moralities that were not. But in a nihilistic context, there are few constraints on what "life affirming" might mean, and in practice it will come to mean anything the ubermensch might wish. Anyone wishing to say otherwise must not be coming from a nihilistic position, which means they must be either pre-death-of-god, or be ubermensch themselves.)
Interesting that he says he talks to God through randomness. I heard an idea along these lines not long ago - the measure of entropy in the universe is constantly increasing. But entropy is also a measure of the amount of information stored in the system (if you take a file with low entropy, it will compress to a smaller file with higher entropy). So the weird world of quantum effects is basically caused by (or is the equivalent of) information being constantly poured in the universe. In a sense, God speaks new information and quantum effects happen.
That's not "implementing differently" or "innovation". That's very differing semantics for the same named mode of operation.

Since you have a test suite, try getting that to the SQL committee for the next revision of the standard.
> The issue is that in saying that, you tend to be saying that black people intrinsically have lower intelligence than white people unless you're careful to be explicit about what you mean.

That's an issue, I don't think it's the issue, not be a long shot. Try being very careful and explicit about what you mean, it's not gonna help one whit, you're already on the third rail as soon as the words black, white and intelligence come out of your mouth.
Well, Marx said Hegel "stood history on its head", and still took (part of) Hegel as a critical starting point. To take a position more seriously than it deserves, it's not necessary to take swallow all of that position...
I actually am proud :) It's awesome that people are asking their questions, and even more awesome that people are getting really solid answers. The significance of the 40k-question reference is that no matter what you run into, it's likely the answer already exists on Stack Overflow.
Why did you choose Lovefield as the project name over DealeyPlaza?
Lyft is handling all the logistics and that isn't free, paying a small fee to reduce congestion in the city is "going forward" in my book.
Having lived only in DC and SF bay area, I find HOV lanes to be much faster relative to traffic in DC. The data is less reliable, but I also observed HOV cheating to be much more common in CA, and enforcement to be stronger in DC.
Well when you put it that way, it would be pretty entertaining! Maybe FB should just filter ISC workers and their families and report to them everything that might be construed as a threat.
This... 1000 times this. Use the opportunity to work on your social skills too but most importantly save money and figure out what's next. In the future it will let you take risks you otherwise could not like, for instance, trying changing the world for the better. If I had a time machine this is the number one piece of advice I would try to convince 23 year old me to follow. And sure, get involved in some open source thing perhaps too - it could help get you into a more interesting job down the road and expand your network.
I feel doubly oppressed on the day that I vote, because I see race after race with a single, uncontested candidate on the ballot. That brings to mind all the nasty, restrictive ballot access laws, gerrymandering, and official corruption that systematically restrict my choices on election day. And when I feed my paper into the electronic black box to be tallied, I think about all that unaudited code inside, and about how I can easily run any program inside a debugger or trainer and change values in ways the program itself does not detect.
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It's a bit hard to get a clear impression from this discussion about the amount of difficulty for transferring between employers on an h1b. Can anyone who has been through this process more than once (either as an employer or employee) shed more light on this please?
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One thing I've disliked about the current crop of thin, high-PPI LCD screens is the unavoidable unevenness in backlighting caused by their thin, hard-to-make-optically-perfect diffusers. Even the Retina Display on the MacBook Pro isn't immune from it.

Though Rohinni doesn't visualize it in their applications section, Lightpaper looks like it could enable diffuser-less, razor-thin LCD displays with potentially far greater luminance uniformity than current backlight solutions.
The superscalar design means Load/Store unit can operate independently from FMA and DMA units, i.e. FMA operation on register operands will not interfere with other operations elsewhere on the chip.

Synchronization should be handled in a dataflow-driven program design. Any sort of mutex/semaphore/etc. will have to be software defined or interrupt-driven.

In regards to neighboring node being memory mapped... are you asking about another compute chip or another node (with the 16 compute chips + GaMMU)? All of the compute chips in a grid are part of the same flat global memory map, and have DMA capabilities between each other. Once you get out of the compute grid (that is managed by the GaMMU), then that is a separate memory space, but can be accessed through some other layer through something like MPI, for instance.
What advantage would this app offer over the Lyft app?
I think you're confusing being passionate about something with it being your favourite activity and being passionate about something with being a walkover for an exploitative firm/boss.

I used to work in IP and was passionate about it, ultimately I realised that my moral objections meant I couldn't continue in it. However I never did unpaid overtime. When I got home I messed with computers, went biking, and other things because I was also [more] passionate about those things. I'd devour popular media mentions of IP related to my work, but that wasn't doing work.

>if you're spending your own time doing things you should be learning in work you're wasting your life //

Not if you'd do them anyway.

>You don't need to be passionate about what you do for a living. //

I agree completely. But if you're spending 40+ hours doing something every week isn't it better if it floats-your-boat just a little?
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I passed the crossword! If you fill in the blanks with, say, "a" you can check your answers as you go.

I'm now facing a small coding challenge: 48 hours to come up with code with Python or Java (my choice).
I was about the post the same thing. Jaynes' book is absolutely worth the time of anyone interested i such questions.
The APSYS 2013 paper mentioned and linked is also available from the
author:

"New wine in old skins: the case for distributed operating systems in
the data center"

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ms705/pub/papers/2013-apsys-dios.pd...
Thanks for the input, I haven't really thought of that before. But since the barcode is usually in the center of the viewport this makes a lot of sense. I'll give it a try and thanks for adding an improvement issue on GitHub.
>On the note of software methodologies for teams, I think they are pointless, at least for me. [...] The problem I have with them is their meaning and significance vary between everyone.

This looks to be the crux of your argument and it's a weak one. Just because there are wide ranging opinions on definitions does not mean the ideas have no merit. The idea of "education" means something very different to many people. That doesn't mean that public school, college, or Cisco certification training is "pointless". There are thousands of ideas/words that don't meet 100% agreement. Just the other day, there was a thread on HN about what "mathematical proof" meant. Does that mean someone can legitimately dismiss math proofs as pointless because mathematicians disagree?

Alan Kay's idea of "object-oriented" is different from Bjarne Stroustrup's. Martin Odersky's idea of "functional language" is different from John McCarthy's. Regardless of the differences, there are still good ideas in both OOP and functional paradigms that can improve designs of software architectures.

>I don’t know if I should “love to hear your argument against this” but since this is a blog post from some obscure programmer on the internet, then I’m sure you’ll write it anyways.

I don't understand the conceit you wrote here. If this is how you truly felt, why did you post your blog to HN? I thought the idea was to invite commentary.
Where can I buy a sample of this?
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We can have only so many statuses because it becomes difficult for even us to communicate in a meaningful way. "Under Consideration" means we're giving thought as to whether or not we will implement the feature, and when.

As for Web Components, we're actively discussing the related specs with other browser vendors, and trying to approach the topic as appropriately as is possible.

We certainly desire to be open and up-front; if you can identify ways in which we can improve our side of the discussion, we would love to know.
You could help him implement his demands for VMware compatibility: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/Demands.html#l1
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Has anyone written a tutorial for making a Python plugin for NeoVim?
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Would a faraday cage stop this field? I mean if you were sitting in a faraday cage on a moving conveyer belt perpendicular to the invisible wall and passed through the invisible wall, would it still have the effect or would you pass right through?
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also at blackboard at 0:10 and 0:26, and at a paper sheet at 0:12
Is Lyft in Sweden as it is?
While I agree that many things on the internet are America-centric, it wouldn't surprise me that a company based in America makes an announcement about a feature that they are rolling out, in America.
Sure but there are many many cases where the cost is much less.
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