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> I wonder if, when a company crosses a threshold we all think violates a Nash equilibrium, we start to oppose the company.

Do you mean "we, the people" or "we, the people who think in terms of Nash equilibria"? ;)

More seriously: I don't think I care about how big the company is. Rather, I care about the quality of the product, and whether I am free to leave it for a competitor's product. Google is actually trying to make it easy for you to leave if you choose to, and take your data with you - they're even inviting you to report their failures in that regard at www.dataliberation.org - so that's quite good.

If they don't make it easy for me to interact with Facebookers/Twitterers/whateverers, I'll end up visiting Facebook/Twitter/whatever instead, and vice versa - what's wrong with that? I'm not an economist, but this sounds like a healthy competitive landscape to me?
I think how it looked in his screenshot is quite good, actually.

It also looks quite good in my browser, for what it's worth. I don't mean to argue for argument's sake, but I wouldn't change it.
Angels do often invest with each other, if only because they don't want to put in enough money individually to fill out a round. And there are a lot of angel funds where that co-investing process is more formalized (shared due diligence funds, etc.).

I don't think, however, that co-investing by itself really increases the odds. Maybe if I co-invested with someone who picks better or gets better deal flow :). But without increasing the actual # of deals, I don't see how you get closer to those big hits.

As for ideas changing, the argument is not to bet against that fact, which would be silly, but instead to bet that the second or third idea will be similar to the bigness potential of the first. That is, if the founder can't come up with an initial idea that doesn't seem like it can realistically result in any kind of decent exit, the probability that they will random walk to one in the future drops. It's of course not zero, but I'm just saying you can increase the odds.
I have around 1 year with Lace Host (lacehost.com), the website/user interface are crappy but it doesn't matter since you have Cpanel and FTP.

They are cheap (around $22 for 1.5 GB hosting / year). You have got unlimited Mysql DataBases, Very large bandwidth and an always (almost) online customer service (it's the owner, he'll reply to your questions even if it's not hosting related).

Overall experience: Positive. I'm running 4 websites (on 4 domains). 3 blogs, 1 personal website and a bunch of auto-scripts that runs via Cron Jobs. I get around 250 hits daily.

+ I got around 1,100 hit from Stumble Upon (i got a fav from a popular member) and the host seemed to be fine with that traffic.

Currently, I'm keeping with them, for scaling, the admin told me that they can move me from shared to private server in no down time.

My advice will be: Go for it! You can also Google for reviews about it.
The problem is that most of these assets, on an individual level, are small enough to not have to be explicitly disclosed publicly, making such an analysis near impossible for an outsider.
Texans favor the death penalty, but I sincerely doubt that they favor executing innocent people. They may not want this guy to get any more chances to prove his innocence, but that would be due to broken logic, not the desire to execute innocents.
True, but the Greeks opted in on fiscal discipline too... Oh, wait.
You're point is?

Al Capone was certainly a criminal.

Martha Stewart was celebrity in the wrong place at the wrong time when someone needed to make a point.

The government interprets laws for it's convenience, yes. Occasionally to our benefit, often otherwise.

The law in the article certainly violates the 1st, 4th and 5th amendments as they've generally been interpreted (freedom of speech, right to privacy, right avoid self-incrimination). But such laws have been in force in this country before so I wouldn't be sure they can't appear again. At this moment, though, this will probably turn out to be an embarrassment.
That's not a problem. Paint me the picture of when you REALLY wish you could hand around photos, movies, and web pages. 95% of the time, methinks, it's when you are NOT toting around a laptop/tablet (i.e. it's a smartphone problem).

I can see the market for road warriors who do demos and/or fly a lot, rich folk who love tech, etc. Other than, "I'd love to have one on my coffee table from time to time", I don't see a draw for most people that'd cause them to cough up $600-$1000.

And, for the record, the "it's a computer for non-geeks" argument is pretty weak, IMO. My parents HATE onscreen touch keyboards and print everything.
If 17 people on death row out of less than 4000 were innocent, then clearly we executed innocent people prior to DNA testing. So, perhaps we should increase the level of evidence required to kill someone.
Open Source Project Management, Web Based Apps
Hi...

Need opinions on the best Open Source/Web Based Project Mgmt apps..

our project needs:
-User Login/Registration Access Control
-Multiple Projects
-Version Control
-Doc/File Control
-Issue Tracker
-Ability To Search Docs/Files
-Admin Function
-File Checkin/Checkout
-Ability to review files via web
-

Reviewed a bunch of apps.. but now I'm curious as to what the group thinks...

The app/project that this system supports probably won't be open source.. so i can't use a proprietary app under the guis of creating an open source project..

thanks for your time on this!

tom
Keep in mind that many of your potential customers will see that it's Mac-only and just move on. Windows is still by far the market leader, and you're really limiting your potential market by not having Windows support.

That being said, this seems like the type of product that Mac users would be more likely to go for, so you could just hold off on a Windows version until you know whether the product is viable (based on sales)

One more thing: The "buy" button is not obviously for that purpose, and I was about to comment asking whether you can only buy from within the demo. Consider rewording the button to make it clear that that's where you buy the product from.
What a cool story. Thanks for sharing it. Sounds like you followed the ideal from the SvN post on reusing your own 'by-products' http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1620-sell-your-by-products

Talk about a nice pivot - Wedding software is a great niche. Once your software is in the reception, it could do lots of other cool stuff. Guest lists, aggregation of iPhone / photo content from guests and speech programs come to mind.

It could even live-blog the content it gets into a timeline online during the reception. You could have a stack of 100 cards with a key on them next to the PC, accessing the online site requires a card as the login for privacy. Purchasing 100 more cards is a $10 transaction online and covers the timeline service.
The world's best accountant is an oxymoron.

You either do accounting properly, or you end up in jail. Other than that, there's very little that can be assessed about accounting profession.

Or maybe you indeed meant those Enron and Madoff accountants?
Also, it would be nice if you supported more than Ubuntu.
What a fantastic Idea! This little innovation here will probably create the most value the night of the wedding.. besides the obvious.

I got goosebumps watching the demo. I can see myself using this at my wedding.. the next step now is finding a wife! haha

Intrinsic product! Please do all you can to keep your idea in publics eye. I bookmarked your service, but i'm not sure I will remember the name when it comes to actually needing it.
I work in a big insurance corp, Facebook not banned there, but twitter and friendfeed were blocked after they appeared on tv or made the news by getting bought for millions. Blocking remains arbitrary and ineffective as about 2/3rds have iphones or similar. RSS remains the way round all the muscle flexing of IT depts, I'm amazed it hasn't been understood mor
Hmmm... I'm a bike newbie, and when I just bought my road bike, I never used the word Cyclocross or "hard tail". And I bet, if you looked at the answers to questions like "Suggestions for a $650 road bike?", they were all things like "It depends on whether you are commuting or riding for fitness, in what weather, what terrain, etc.?" That is, you get answers like "This Specialized is a great bike for..." where they provide the context around why they suggest it, or they ask for further details.

You have the data, you just need to provide interesting ways to get at it. The wizard may not be it... but how you provide the answers should show that you understand what the person is trying to answer.
Try the Near-By option on iPhone in NYC.

Its definitely a Foursquare killer.
The examples you cite are not comparable to the caste system. The caste system explicitly implies inherent inferiority/superiority in one human being over another.
My impression has been the opposite, that facebook/myspace/etc are blocked more than webmail. The only recent survey I could find that touched on both social neworking and webmail is this one from august:

http://www.scansafe.com/content/employers-crack-down-social-...

"76% of companies are choosing to block social networking ... and Webmail (58%)"

Of course, if this thing caught on, presumably more companies would block gmail.
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Does your employer know about your project? They don't have to know. In fact, when I was in your position, I was advised to keep my side project as secret as possible to avoid warranting a lawsuit. Like DenisM says, they have nothing to gain by OK'ing your project, so no need to even tell them about it.
It's a separate label, but replies go to your inbox (from the video, again).

Agreed on the need for a critical mass, but integrating with gmail suggests that it's a bit more of a serious push for them, as opposed to say wave which looks a bit more like a "wait and see" play. I need to read more about it; I'm still waiting for a federated set of protocols to get widespread adoption, a-la http://diso-project.org/ (I have a /lot/ of links collected of similar attempts :))
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True. However, rather than balancing out, in practice that doubles the number of edge cases.
I cannot be the only one who sees this name and thinks: 60hz.
I should clarify. My emphasis should have been on issues of power, rather than size. Governments happen to be large institutions for sure, but the power to realize a breakup of monopolistic practice lies in the fact that the government possesses that which private industry does not: a standing army. What is a decree sans power? A government mandate only means anything because it has coercive capability.

Besides, historically speaking monopolies have existed in lieu of strong government regulation or involvement. Look at Germany in the late 19th-early 20th century, e.g. the Rhine-Westphalian Coal Syndicate or Bayer.
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I ran into this trouble just recently, in taking a job while still in grad school in California. The school has pretty broad language about owning all my ideas, but does reference Section 2870. On reading Section 2870, there are exceptions about ideas which relate to the employer's business (or anticipated business)... but what does this mean for the University of California?

My take is that the code doesn't specifically limit the exception to my job function; it's broadly worded to cover the whole of the business. And the UC works on so many areas of research that this essentially means that you can't work anywhere else at the same time if that other work requires any kind of confidentiality.

I tried to engage the IP department at my school about this, but got shuffled around and basically told that there are no exceptions or clarifications. They essentially supported this interpretation I have, and referred me to memos that explain the policy in more detail.

What I can't figure out is this: the policy requires that all students submit potential IP to them for evaluation. That includes IP from summer internships. Why are companies okay with this? In practice, I don't believe many (any?) students do this, but the Director stopped answering my emails when I tried to probe this question more deeply.
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I use HostGator... I've noticed several other commenters have said they left Hostgator when they needed root access, or more resources. I had the same issues, but instead of leaving I switched to their VPS service.

The service has always been great, I didn't have any problem installing Passenger and the VPS is still going strong!
Looks like a cool feature, but I haven't yet gotten into Ruby or Rails. I do have one question, though. There is an interesting looking language feature I see: 20.years.from_now.utc. I would presume that to mean "20 years from this time in zulu". So presuming that 20.years.from_now.cdt means central daylight time, is that a different time?

To put the question a little shorter, isn't the concept of "20 years from now" independent of time zone, or am I missing something?
imho $99 is a bit too steep..
IE, Silverlight, Express editions of Visual Studio off the top of my head
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You are not reading that table correctly.
Let me add some comments on the interface: (based on the demo app)

- the names on the image looks super badly compressed, you might want to make sure the image looks super clean and sharp

- I found the buttons kind of confusing while recording: "Review", "Re-do", "I'm done!". The first time, I clicked "I'm done" to stop the recording… and ended up at the beginning, not being able to review what I did. I would put only "Stop" while recording, with automatic preview afterwards and then "Re-do" and "I'm done!" (or "Save" to make it even clearer)

- add a Cancel button actually.

- the countdown tended to skip "2"

- make the cursor a pointer when it's hovering buttons

- I'd make the "Recording" state more obvious. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the recording starts with "… oh it started!" Maybe a blinking red border around the video feed? The blinking "Recording" is a little faint to me, and it might be even more in a reception room.
HostGator offer VPS services now too, they were introduced only a few months ago. I haven't had any issues with the service so far! Everything has been ticking over nicely!

I've commented about Hostgator's great service a few times now, I don't want to sound like a shill. I have no affiliation with them but I have been very, very, happy with their service and support.
Ok, my mistake, sorry.
Hostgator offer VPSes with root access now.

I don't want to come across like s shill for them (I have no affiliation) but I can't overstate how happy I've been with their level of service and support in general!
It's interesting that Google has a JS JIT but not a Dalvik JIT; I'd think it would be simpler.

Edit: I see they're working on it (although still in secret): http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Android-s-Dalvik-to-b...
Unlikely. "work for hire" is standard terminology in copyright law, and it means (roughly) work done while an employee as part of the normal course of your job. So that's why they need to add an explicit copyright and patent grant for non-work-for-hire cases: an invention related to the company's business might not be ruled a work for hire if it relates to a part of the business you don't work on or if you only worked on it on the weekends, etc..

And even if the company does transfer IP to its customers sometimes, that detail wouldn't be in an employment contract. You assign your IP to the company, the company does whatever it pleases with it. The alternative is every employee that works on a project for a customer executes a separate agreement with the customer to assign IP.
I don't own a Mac and I'm married already so might opinion might not matter that much, but if I was getting married, I'd want the videographer to set this up. Somehow I don't feel comfortable buying this kind of a thing for $99, but if a videographer charged me $99 to have a Macbook (better yet an iPad!) at my wedding where people could easily record video messages, I'd feel much better about it. The difference is that it becomes the videographer's problem if something breaks. Otherwise, if I bought it and brought my own computer to set it up I would (a) worry that somebody stole my beloved laptop and (b) something went wrong and nobody is actually able to record the videos. Targeting this at videographers might not bring in as much dough, but it seems to me it would have a higher chance of having satisfied end clients.
I'd say that support is coming, but everything currently available on the menu are things that I actually use for dev work.

If I find myself in a situation where I suddenly need to support CentOS, Debian, whatever, then the first thing I'll do is add it to sliceapp :)
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We do not disagree completely.

There are also some good arguments for taxing consumption instead of production (=wealth creation). Do you want to hear them?
Not huge company by any stretch, but have gotten press in the past. It's a product launch with novel abilities (PadMapper Apartment Search for the iPhone), so it should be interesting to at least some set of people (especially in cities).
The same thing didn't work for me unfortunately.
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(download links? specs? papers? anything? bueller?)
"A whole lot easier" Is this a joke?
So, just my thought, Google's primary mission is not search and advertsing, but has changed to be a wheel in a pool full of small fishes.
Photo booths have been mentioned and it's probably worth repeating. I've been to a couple of weddings where they rented out a photo booth and allowed the wedding attendees to take photos of themselves with their significant others. Of course by the end of the night, they're really goofy. The bride&groom got one copy of the photos, the picture takers got the other copy.

You should have a "photo booth" option where someone could just walk up, click the photo booth option, and the system takes four timed photos (usually about 5 seconds in between poses).
http://www.rentphotobooths.com/

You could then put those photos in the album.

Not everyone wants to give a personal video message (especially if you're shy and in an open reception hall), but maybe more (especially if drunk) would like to get a little crazy and contribute some goofy photos.
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I'm more concerned about how it will work over IMAP - or does IMAP just ignore the buzz mails?
It's the part in the addendum that gives the law an altogether different meaning:

"[...] by force or violence or other unlawful means;"
it's a full diff, I guess?
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That is the sad part. In politics at least, the end always justifies the means, however horrible/unethical/unlawful it is.
Ask HN: Anyone else think it's a major security problem to open source Flash?
Flash is installed on some 95% of machines (or so it's said), and we can safely assume that the codebase is full of security holes. Why is it a good idea to suddenly open source it? As soon as it's open there will be a flood of exploits faster than any patching and updating can protect us from. This is not an issue of "obscurity != security." We all know that. However, revealing all the exploits at once != smart.

Am I the only person who thinks this?
Schneier has a new book coming out - Cryptography Engineering
... because he said that it is objectively verifiable
Thanks for the info. At first sight it looks impossible to handle (how do you know what variables f expects), but maybe there is a technique to it I don't know yet.
there are intersex biologies to account for if you want to be very precise
Watched the Buzz video a few times, does it look like a simpler, faster, easier to understand version of Google Wave???
It's independent of time zone. 20 years from now in any time zone will be the same "time" (in an absolute sense), but it will look different to different time zones. For example, it might look like 6:00pm for me and 5:00pm for you, but it is still the same time if we both convert our local times to utc. A Time object in ruby stores time zone, so 20.years.from_now.utc looks like this:

Sat Feb 09 23:07:46 UTC 2030
this one's a winner!
The portions of Flash that would concern the security of a user are already pretty well open-sourced, IMO. Most notably - the Tamarin project/ActionScript VM (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/), BlazeDS (http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/blazeds/BlazeDS/). I don't think Adobe was having to stretch the truth that much when they said it was mainly the video codecs that had to be kept proprietary. Yes, they're far from being truly open-source, but they're a lot more open-source than we give them credit for.
The whole video seems to be broken, it's just 11 minutes of Andrew sitting there.

Edit: If you keep hitting that arrow on the right, eventually, you'll get to the interview.
Faster apps, better graphics, longer battery life for Android.
A security hole was just found last week, was it not?
Edit: Well, resurfaced anyway.
Is this a viral form of something called advertising?

Just my thought!
7 paragraphs and 0 to say.
See if you could branch out and contact bloggers directly instead/before (of) the press release. Try, for example, with the sites who gave you press the first time around.
irb(main):033:0> 20.years
=> 20 years # ??????
irb(main):030:0> 20.years.to_i
=> 631152000 # number of seconds in 20 years
irb(main):026:0> 20.years.from_now
=> Sun Feb 10 10:14:11 +1100 2030 # AEDT
irb(main):027:0> 20.years.from_now.utc
=> Sat Feb 09 23:14:14 UTC 2030 # UTC/GMT

Ruby Time instances have a timezone, calling Time#utc returns the instance time converted from localtime -- or whatever timezone it is -- to UTC or Greenwich Mean Time. You are correct in that it shouldn't matter which one you use in this situation though.
Then what's your point? And can you post a reference to the specific problem you're referring to? I don't believe they've open-sourced anything new within the past couple of weeks.

To clarify - I'm not saying they don't have security holes. I'm just saying that the portions of Flash most likely to be of security concern are _already_ open-source.

edit: The bug I believe you are referring to was actually found in 2008, and is hardly different from the memory-management issues that are rampant through-out Flex anyway.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Adobe-apologises-...
- I think you should ask Evangelical Christians if they consider other humans inferior otherwise why else do they try to "save" them from their inferiority.

- You should ask KKK/Neo Nazis if they consider Blacks inferior or superior?

- You should ask Chinese if they consider the mixed race Black singer (from the Chinese version of American Idol) inferior?

- Some Muslims consider non-muslims Kafir.

- Shia and Sunni consider each other inferior.

- Some muslim sects in Pakistan, and elsewhere, are considered non-muslims.

- Jews consider Palestinians, and vice versa, inferior.

And so on and so forth...

So, yes, those examples do apply.
I always wondered what they think of foreigners outside of the system. Are we "auto-casted" down?
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