skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I know how it all works. Like I said, you can do it. But a proper fiduciary costs you a few grand a year, and at the same time limits what you can do with the company. It takes a whole lot of additional paperwork, and it limits you in certain respects (can’t take direct actions, as a shareholder you need to call for a foreign board meeting, etc). One thing you definitely can’t do is just run a BVI company as if it’s a local company, that will, in most jurisdictions (with a few exceptions, such as the UAE and Monaco), be illegal (fraud charges, etc)

No problem if you’re holding shares through a foreign holding company, or you’re routing around millions in dividends to avoid withholding tax. They don't require much 'action' or operating. But, if you make a mistake (and face it, you probably will, especially if you don’t have good counsel), depending on the country you’re resident in, the fines are mind blowing.

This all is even worse for Americans, with extensive CFC rules barring you from doing certain things.

If this guy is on a student visa, he probably won’t have the resources to do this, and as such, it’s a bad idea to do this. As they say, setting it up is easy, getting away with it much harder.

Again, this is not legal advice
They're not real visits. They're directly sending requests via the analytics api. The spammers can very easily spoof the domain so it looks like it was a visit to your site, not their domain.
> There are a few warnings that go along with working for equity.

Another warning: Equity can be expensive. It can cost a lot of money to keep that equity when you leave the startup.

I was at a startup for 2 years and had 2% vested equity. I left the company 2 months ago. If I want to keep my equity, I have to exercise my stock options and pay ~$30k within the next month. If I don't, the equity disappears forever.
The author sells equity as a main motivator in joining a startup. But if you believe in equity, you are far better off being a founder than an early employee

Being the first employee (or an early employee) of a startup seems to be the worst possible choice.

* none of the stability of a larger company
* a salary which is likely less than market
* 10 to 100 times less equity than a founder (So, in an exit, you'll make 10 to 100 times less money! Not all startups have billion+ dollar exits.)
* a huge amount of responsibility - might not be as much as a founder, but still comparable
* less influence and decision making ability than a founder
* less insight into the finances of the business than a founder (without that insight, how will you know if that equity is worth anything?)

The only benefit I see of being an early employee is if the founder is a seasoned veteran who has already done this who you can learn from and be mentored by. But the vast majority of ycombinator founders seem to be new to the startup game.
It's not right only because everyone is doing it. Wouldn't be so bad if they improved something, for example the kickstand which could stand in every angle instead of only two. Or how about a splitting of the screen completely dynamic... Noone has to reinvent the wheel but just building it out of wood over and over doesn't get you anywhere (ok maybe it gets you somewhere, it's still a wheel.)
Intel’s “Compute Stick” Is a Full Windows or Linux PC in an HDMI Dongle
Microsoft might not be happy with the GPL itself, but given they are working on LibGit, and not all of GitHub (or any?) of their main software they "sell" (github enterprise, their client apps like GitHub for Windows and OSX) are open source, Microsoft would probably have no issues with the GPL. It would also be interesting if MS did buy GitHub. Wasent one of the GitHub founders an employee of a company who was bought by Microsoft and he either dident move over or left after a minimum time?
Great features.

I'm most excited about being able to watch the result of lambda functions while debugging (not mentioned here), should make things much easier.
I work at Branch (referenced in the NYT article) which tries to make it way easier for mobile devs to leverage better deep links to stuff in their apps.

Making the analogy to desktop apps is fair, but I think the better question would be why not? The URI scheme registration mechanism in Android and iOS allow the dev to create a new OS level namespace for his or her app and all 'pages' inside. For example, http:// is the scheme for browser app based addresses just as venmo:// is the scheme to address all payments or user profiles in the Venmo app. Why not leverage this technology to make app content more open and easier to access?

Now, if we could just get rid of the app store enforced install process and have apps automatically retrieved and cached, things would be a lot smoother...
Yes, this, exactly. I was trying to explain this to a friend the other day. We don't need to "cure death" all at once in order for humanity to achieve practical immortality. It will take significant effort, obviously, but I have no doubt we'll attain it as our understanding of biology gets ever more sophisticated. Whether or not we'll personally be around to see it is another matter.
It is relatively easy to set up a company online in many countries, the difficulty is opening a bank account.
In Defense of Technology (2014)
Arrow's Theorem is irrelevant because you don't need to have a way of voting for some group preference that meets its criteria in order to have an approximate notion of what "value to society" means. Formulating a precise definition of "value to society" is irrelevant to the discussion. Gosh, maybe it means there's benefit to people other than the direct recipient of the education!

Because, you know, if you look at the way people use that phrase, that's what they use it to mean.

> But if you scroll up, you'll see that Retra was arguing against a price-based (i.e. cardinal) construction.

Price people are paying is not the same thing as "utility", good job misreading Retra's comment.
well, to be fair, if not an outright disaster, we are creating a bit of mess with so many people at this standard of living...
Ask HN: Social Scoring Plugin for Hacker News
Hey everyone - I am looking for a chrome / firefox plugin which lets me see stories ranked according to social scoring alongside the popular scoring. Ie, I can see stories that Joe likes but not ones that Frank likes (weighed w/ weights tweakable via UI). Both Joe and Frank would have to have the plugin installed as I do not believe the HN API exposes this.

If no one is aware of one that currently exists, I'll build it, but much rather use one that already exists if possible.
Agreed. I want SSH and that's about it. I'd love this device so much.
which would not fulfill (the basically deprecated) three digit spec for the first 99 posts (maybe even the first 100).

also it makes the URL longer, less user friendly and you have to deal with an URL migration that you might have to revert at some point (i.e.: the example you mentioned)

additionally: as it is mentioned that the 3 digit requirement is "waived" with a google news sitemap it is a strong indicator that this is a crawling, not a ranking directive.

my 2 cents: don't do it, as it would be a clear violation of the golden URL rule a.k.a. "Don't overdo the f###### URLs!"
A Great Python Book Explains Hash Tables
It's quite possible that the results are "organic" in the naive definition by following this process:

1. {site} starts at rank 1 due to low visitors/connectivity

2. {site} pays for adwords driving new visitors

3. visitors link to the site

4. rank of the site increases allowing increase adwords spend

5. goto 2

The suggestion that Google artificially inflates the rank of big spenders is maybe conflating correlation and causation. On the other hand, it's not impossible or even that difficult to believe.
> We need alternatives to Google. We need them urgently.

Thanks to the 80/20 rule, we have them. Google is still unmatched for edge cases in maps and search, but something else works 80% of the time, and Google is spending 80% of the effort for that last 20%.
Check out live interactive examples of the new C# 6 features at http://ahuwanya.net/blog/post/Exploring-C-Sharp-6
I bookmarked this the other day. Check it out...

http://www.1click2startacompany.com/
Could you provide more details on what was involved? Was your local bank a branch of a UK bank? Are you located within the EU? What legal documents did you need stamped? Who were they stamped by and how much did it cost?
These are mashups, actually, and because the creative content is limited patent protection is the game. From Wikipedia on the first of these:

Roundup Ready Soybeans express a version of EPSPS from the CP4 strain of the bacteria, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, expression of which is regulated by an enhanced 35S promoter (E35S) from cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV), a chloroplast transit peptide (CTP4) coding sequence from Petunia hybrida, and a nopaline synthase (nos 3') transcriptional termination element from Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The plasmid with EPSPS and the other genetic elements mentioned above was inserted into soybean germplasm with a gene gun by scientists at Monsanto and Asgrow.

That's some seriously clever genetic engineering ... too bad the patent ran out last year ^_^ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_soybean#R...).

Then again those eeeevil corporate mad scientists coming up with new useful additions to soybeans, the monsters. Bt added by Monsanto. DuPount tweaked the output of the three major fats so the one that goes rancid first has a low proportion. Note that bit about Brazil; I've read they've become a major soybean producer thanks to eeeevil 1st World developed seeds that allow it to grow in harsher, dryer climates.

There's been a lot of that. My father mentioned, in the context of a bit of a local drought right here in SW Missouri, USA this year, that even with that maize yields are much higher than they used to be in the best of years.

(OK, you know what's evil: burning food for fuel.)
Nope. Notice that none of those is healthy user bias - age != healthy user bias, smoking != healthy user bias, and so on. Smoking and multivitamin use may reflect it, but there's a big difference between mentioning a few confounders and pointing out a major confound that could not just explain the result entirely but also explain why nutrition results have been and will be systematically wrong.
Sure:

Intel optimization reference manual: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...

Agner Fog's Software optimization resources: http://www.agner.org/optimize/

I don't think it starts making sense until the 5th reading or so :).
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Hmm. One setup I've seen frequently as a Vancouver resident, is a Delaware shell company that makes all the corporate profits, employing a local Canadian engineering contractor (itself a company) that eats all the costs and gets paid only enough to exactly balance its books after salaries and such are paid out. Somewhat reminiscent of Hollywood movie "vehicles" vs. their studios.

Which is to say, if the only thing going out to (or coming in from) the foreign holding company is the revenue—and you still do incorporate locally, but without any expectation of profits to pay taxes on—then it's still complex (even moreso), but less risky.
I'm not sure what you're asking. We do that by designing our programs in certain and deliberate ways. Does that answer your question?

EDIT: I suppose I should expound a little: It's not as if state is being thrown at us from random corners of the world. Our programs have inputs (which may be noisy, messy, distributed, fragmented or whatever), but that doesn't mean that we "cannot possibly know" what those inputs are. We can actually codify the uncertainties of our inputs -- which grants us even more power!
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Yeah, fair enough. Though I seem to recall (I was at the talk) that the speaker didn't get to see much of North Korea anyway.. but I'd have to re-watch the talk to be sure!
The Dark Side of Lambda Expressions in Java 8
> And why it's so safe, animals cannot synthesize these amino acids

"So safe"? Hmm. Okay, it's not as toxic as other herbicides that people had been using before glyphosate showed up. I think the question of long-term low-level toxicity is still open.
"don't know what are the implications." [sic]

You should inform yourself.

In the US, Nolo[1] is a good place to start. So is BusinessUSA[2]. After that, you should find out the laws regarding running a business in your state, running a business in your county/parish, and running a business in your city/locality. Depending on your business structure, all four may have different requirements, forms, licenses, fees, filing dates, taxes (fed, state, county, city), etc.

It's not an insurmountable amount of work to handle on your own, especially if you choose a simple structure like a sole proprietorship or LLC, but you should do your homework before you jump in and contact a professional with any concerns you have.

Also, you should talk to a lawyer if you are worried about liability. The suggestion from some commenters that you are separated from liability if you run an LLC or other partnership is inaccurate. Liability is limited, but you can still be sued personally for fraud, negligence, and a host of other sins.

--

[1] http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/llc-corporations-part...

[2] http://business.usa.gov/
Funny there's no mention anywhere in the article about MDMA's seemingly magic tinnitus healing properties. Studies are just now beginning.
The proof in the article is a proof by contradiction. Having equal numbers of each colored square is a necessary but not sufficient condition to form a rectangle.
the processor specs: http://ark.intel.com/products/80274/Intel-Atom-Processor-Z37...

- 4 core & 64-bit (address > 4 GB of both virtual & physical memory)
Technically all things have APIs, but some need API keys.
http://i.imgur.com/wtCYWyE.jpg
Good sunday evening everyone at HN.

That one came out as a little side project, as I am crawling anyways everything around hacker-news. I thought its useful to me, it could be useful to others. :)

Happy to hear your opinions.

Tom
Could you please give some examples?
Django and iOS hackers needed to help fix healthcare – drchrono
This is designed to make statistic operations like finding correlations simpler.

From the author:

> Huuuge shout out to the amazing @natiwhite for her work on Tesser, especially the statistical folds like variance, covariance, etc.

https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/553737990309023744
NLP from texts detected from the audio in video files. 100% solved? No. Others have attempted or marketing their own solution? Yes.

I was just really crazy and stupid to pursue my own vision of what the solution would be when in reality I lacked the experience (I started with barely knowing how to code).
nameof(x) ... I like that. Any performance impacts? Sounds like some reflection would be required to do that behind the scenes ...
Useful old technologies: ASN.1 (2013)
> Does stuff built on-top-of or next-to the GPL'd code have to be GPL too?

"derivative works" is often the simple question on what a non-technical judge would deem as a single product. If you have to explain and label "parts", counting it as a derivative works is the safer bet.
> We’d somehow convinced ourselves that it wasn’t possible to implement, but now we’ve figured it out, so apparently it wasn’t impossible after all.

I love the human style Microsoft has taken on in the past few years.
Yeah, if you form a perfect rectangle, all the pieces will disappear.
Reminds me of Knuth's Dancing Links algorithm: http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0011047.pdf
I was going to chide you for unfairly calling out the lack of code vs. the abundance abstract concepts, but... yeah. This was pretty much content-free except for a few links to... things.
Also see the discussion here -
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2rzlay/we_suck_...
You are speaking in some really large generalities. Being an early employee of a startup isn't indentured servitude.

If you are offered little equity as compared to the founders, don't join. If the founders won't share the financials of the company with you, don't join. If they wont pay you the salary you want, don't join. If they wont offer you the opportunity to grow into the role you want, don't join.

And you can't argue that every company is like this, because once upon a time I was employee #1 of an early stage startup and your post doesn't align with my experiences at all.

I'm not taking anything away from founding a company, I think in many cases that is a great idea. But being an early employee isn't such a horrible deal if you are selective in what jobs you take.
In France, many forts has been build by a military engineer named Vauban[1] in the 17th century. His life is highly impressive. He worked a lot on fortifications and breaking of sieges. Outside of military building, he has been a scientist and an economist with modern views on taxes.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien_Le_Prestre_de_V...
And yet, they bought Minecraft, which seems to be exactly that strategy.
To put this in perspective:

- 'Silk Road Reloaded' is just one of many blackmarkets; there were something like 50 openings in 2014 alone (see http://www.gwern.net/Black-market%20survival#data & https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/2r58vs/2014... ). There is nothing new or interesting about a new blackmarket opening.

- It's not even the first site to be called 'Silk Road Reloaded'. The name is also a blatant effort to fool newbies and claim unearned credit.

- Heck, it's not even the first site to be run on I2P. I believe that was pioneered December 2013 by the late lamented The Marketplace (which also introduced multisig escrow). A few other markets tried afterwards, but the problem with I2P is that it's slow and doesn't seem to reliably work for users with all sorts of configs, and they all either closed quickly or set up a Tor hidden service. Thus far, the potential security advantage of I2P has not justified the hassle. And it's not like blackmarkets are often busted.

- Likewise, not a pioneer in the use of Litecoin, Dogecoin, or Darkcoin. Might be for Anoncoin, but I suspect it will find like past marketplaces that there's just not a lot of interest in those by users. The problem for blackmarket sellers is not 'my coin is only pseudonymous', the problem is cashing out to fiat safely and efficiently; Bitcoin currently offers the most scope for cashing out, and it will be a long time (if ever) for those others to match it.

- The admin is a raging asshole, if you check out his Reddit comments. Anyone want to trust him with a few thousand bucks in anonymous e-cash...?

- On top of that, he supposedly began coding the site after SR1 was busted. How does it take over a year to set up a simple e-commerce site when almost 60 other clones were able to set up in that time? To me, that reads like it's a hobby, at best, or that he's completely incompetent, at worse. In neither case does one want to use his site.
Since I don't think changing the lifespan will change societal values much, and because of that I believe that statistically the likely outcome is 'want to work but can't find it.'

Being at the end of your life and unemployed is a markedly different experience than being at the beginning of your life and unemployed.
I did a web version: http://codepen.io/enjikaka/pen/zxNMQZ

EDIT: Just changed alot of things so if you viewed this in the last couple of minutes... take another look!
It must be hard to resist a big payslip, we're all humans, heads of family, we want to provide the best for our beloved ones.

I see a veneer of disdain to Norvig's attitude in your words. I don't know much about this criticism, but to me he has done a lot of good to us researchers with his AIMA book. In fact, this is the core that vertebrates my blog: http://ai-maker.com/. In the end, Goertzel (guru in AGI) works again for a financial prediction firm, doesn't he?
Federal Judge: No, You Can't Force Entrepreneurs to Do Useless Things
wdyd is just a protocol handshake. If you exclude everyone who honors a common protocol, you will be left with a needlessly small sample set. Instead, a double entendre response to a protocol handshake can be a good Turing test.
My experience with Chatsecure (at least the version I got from F-Droid) was that it was too buggy to be worth it. Specifically, it would initiate OTR conversations with people without me asking. I think it even did so when I explicitly told it not use OTR at all, though it's been a while. If they fix that I might use it again. Do you have this problem, and/or have they fixed it to your knowledge?
Short answer (pun only somewhat intended): interrupting high-current DC is not as straightforward as it looks. For instance, deactivating a set of relay contacts tends to cause an arc if any amount of current is being interrupted (inductive loads make this worse). For AC, this is manageable since the waveform will hit a zero-crossing in a a handful of milliseconds worst-case, terminating the arc. For DC, no such luck. In extreme cases, the arc can actually WELD the contacts together.

Fuses will, barring ludicrous overload (putting a 12V fuse in a 10kV DC circuit), fail open - a definite positive for a safety measure.

Using fuses makes sense in a lot of applications because they are (as noted above) safer, cheaper, and more reliable. It probably doesn't hurt that a fuse is easier to diagnose; control circuits can intermittently fail but an "intermittently blown" fuse would be an odd thing indeed.
> the rights of programmers

So adding proprietary license on top of software which one has not authored is a right that belongs to programmers?
You can drop the glibc dependency pretty easily. One way (used for a lot of toy kernels that have been written in Rust) is to add the #![no_std] attribute and then explicitly pull in any static dependencies you still use (like libcore).
I think that would have more merit if he would using a CPLD/FPGA. But in any case, is awesome!
It's a card with a "chip" and a pin. No NFC/paypass and no plans to change that as far as i know :(
You need a proper US board, consisting of mainly US residents, to do this, amongst other things. For example, if you’re a full Canadian company, with a top US holding (no operating income), that is fine. Also, if this is a VC setup, there isn't any money to be made, since you're making losses. Loss making companies aren’t really looked at, unless you're using those losses to offset profits somewhere else.

In the end, it’s all about ‘corporate substance’, google it.

I can set up a BVI company tomorrow, capitalise it with $5M, and use that to buy a boat - no one will care (in most cases).

You can’t just have a ‘shell’ create operating income out of thin air (in most cases). Who is operating the business then? IP holdings, internal corporate banks, etc, all that stuff is much easier to do without significant substance. But running a SaaS company, completely out of Canada, without paying some tax in Canada, will be hard to do I think. You could have a US company own all the IP rights, customers, and everything related to the business, and then appoint an ‘agent’ in Canada to operate the SaaS business, and pay them a fee for it, for example. It's better for the agent to at least pay some tax as well. But you still need proper US substance to that.

But you can bet, if you’re booking millions through a Delaware company that you’re just running from Canada, with no proper board etc, there is a real chance this gets challenged. That is, if they find out about it. Delaware might not be the best example, but if you replace it by a low tax jurisdiction (i.e. Cayman Islands, Jersey, Cyprus, etc), that gives you a better idea.

Because, face it, why wouldn't we all have a Cayman company then? :)

Also, different countries have different anti avoidance measures in place to combat this.
Plus the tax bill on the difference in value from option issue date to option exercise date.