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If I understand this correctly, the loophole that's being closed here is a special tax rate for "investment income" from money that did not expose the VC's themselves to risk, but only the VC's limited partners (who provide most of the capital for venture funds).

In other words, the pension funds, endowments, and corporations that actually provide capital aren't being taxed more aggressively. The people who allocate that capital are.

This makes sense, doesn't it? If you invest $10,000 of your own money in a company for several years, you should rightly expect to pay the long-term capital gains rate on the returns. The tax code wants to encourage you to invest in things and drive the economy, and you did that.

But if I give you $10,000,000 to invest for me, and you turn it into $50,000,000, you shouldn't be getting a free ride on the millions of dollars you just made. The money was getting invested one way or the other. All you did was make it your job to invest it (allegedly!) efficiently.
I'm absolutely sure they knew there was sex and stripping involved, and I'm equally sure they have no idea what that actually means. They probably know there's no future in stripping in Moscow, but I would guess they think everybody in New York shops on Fifth Avenue, and if sex gets them that, what's the harm?

I think you're sadly underestimating how shocked Eastern Europeans can be when confronted with the reality of America. Especially 18-year-olds. And even if they "knew what they were getting into" in terms of there being sex, that still doesn't touch what human trafficking is about, which is a slow and steady process of degradation. They'd give up their passports, they'd never see actual money, and the first hit of crack or heroin is always free at some rich guy's party - but pretty soon, it's not free, they're increasingly in debt, they feel trapped (and are trapped) and they think there's nobody in hell who will help an ugly, crack-addicted, no-longer-so-pretty woman.

So either you think Russians, or non-Americans, or whoever, "know what they're getting into" in that situation, and it's just fine, or you haven't thought it through. I'm banking on the latter.

This is not a question of human intelligence. We've all gotten into situations where a flashy fast talker got us into something that trapped us - ever had a cubicle job with a software consulting shop? Our monkey brains always fall for that crap, which is why this particular story was so heartening - somebody actually stopped it before it started, and that's fantastic.

As I said earlier, Bingo's attitude was half humorous, half assholery - I wish he'd stopped at just the humorous half. Sure, maybe this particular nightclub with sex ads where a mysterious guy wanted two 18-year-olds without much English to meet him at midnight for an interview after another job "fell through" and they were in another city wasn't a human trafficking situation. Given the preponderance of flashing red flags, though, I'm damn happy we didn't give this benefactor the benefit of the doubt, even if the club itself had lots of prosperous young people attending.
True, but you have to balance that against the small but nonzero number of people put off by an extra text field. Plus, I would find email repetition more annoying if I didn't always do Cmd-A/Cmd-C/Tab/Cmd-V, and in this case the repeated field won't catch any errors.
A nice try at pedantry, which I would usually respect, but in the domain of internet standards with which I familiar, you are wrong.

The existing specs are in conflict, with the more recent ones (such as IDN) allowing digits. Internet authorities, including ICANN, have enabled domains with digits in TLDs; software which is far more foundational than any web-app's email validation regex has been updated.

Registration of names in some of these digited-TLDs has begun; you can visit these TLDs with your browser; your users can have functioning email addresses on these TLDs.

If your app rejects such email addresses because of slavish compliance with imprecise language in a 31-year-old RFC, you'd be the one violating prevailing standards, which are a function of more than just formal IETF RFCs.

That the Internet-Draft I referenced may soon become an RFC is just cleaning up loose ends on a change that's already happened. This final step isn't even strictly necessary for the de facto standard to have changed by consensus among practitioners. Plenty of vibrant well-understood standards never reach RFC status, nor pass through any formal standards body. The standard is ultimately what people do, not what someone once-upon-a-time decreed.
Hey one010101, firstly, let me say that I love your story.

I am doing a podcast about various ideas/projects/stuff that HN members are working on.

Interested in being on one of the episodes? Even though I know you probably don't want to talk about what you are currently working on, I think the community would love to hear more about your story.

I put up the first episode and am pivoting based on the feedback I got from the HN community: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1379942

If you are interested, email me: marc {at} ideatin {dot} com

Thanks.
If a person fails to pay for a long enough period and doesn't own over a certain percentage of the vehicle (say doesn't default on a last payment or something; depending on where you live, in ontario I believe it's under 3/4) the object legally becomes property of the person it's defaulted to and is considered temporary property of the towing/repo company.

Repo companies have legal access to your property to remove it so long as they don't violate any law during the process. Trespassing doesn't count, because a gas man coming to check your meter isn't trespassing, if he breaks down your door then he's breaking and entering. Similarly a tow company only violates the law if they cut a lock or something illegal.
Interesting even if it is closed source. The real key is that nobody has integrated the existing social graph into P2P..
Well, the fact that the specific experienced authority is a well-known poster on Metafilter (by which I mean, I already knew his name and associate it favorably with well-considered commentary) helped a lot. I'm not convinced the NYPD was really in control of the situation, for instance. Pollomacho, though, I trust. I had no idea he did this for a living. That was a pretty cool bonus.
It's rather telling that they're marketing Digg as a way to get traffic. Yes, it's good for that that, but that's not what it's for. It's (well, used to be) for finding interesting news, articles, links, etc. Getting more people to post their own blogspam probably won't help the site much. And for the actual users, I think it'd be a little disheartening to see Rose trying to appeal to publishers rather than the community.
Google did it, Google did it!

Seriously though, it's obvious, and shown to work with quality engineers, but no less cool for all of that. Bravo to Inventables, we need more companies that do this (and in general, organize their workforce according Dan Pink's insights).
AFAIK a naked IP address as domain like IPInsteadOfDomain@127.0.0.1 doesn't work (at least in some mail servers like Postfix they are bounced with a "bad address syntax error). The address has to be like IPInsteadOfDomain@[127.0.0.1] and I don't see this case covered.
What if my email address is:

"@"@example.com

?
i speculate his lawyers recommended he donate.

i also speculate he expects them to fail.
There seems to be some kind of bug with the voting though it could be intentional. I upvoted one link and then subsequently downvoted it (I suppose this could be because you are allowed two votes per item?) and then could not click up or down.

Cool app for 24 hours!
Well, you have wormholes (but they require exotic matter) and anything with singularities in it; there is the Gödel solution of a "rotating Universe" (which could be true for a "parallel" universe), the van Stockum's solution and so on.
I guess until closed time-like curves are proven to be unphysical (which seems likely), physicists will keep coming up with possible solutions to Einstein's equations which allow for CTCs (and refuting them). And who knows, maybe one of them can be implemented by humans.

On the other hand, it would be very interesting to know what is the mechanism by which the Universe protects itself against CTCs.
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I think you nailed it, this is the insight I was looking for and wasn't able to express myself. I've had this experience in the medical field and it is true, certain practical stuff (surgery, soldering, etc) requires demonstration/feedback. Thanks.
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Paraphrasing without direct attribution. Very very close to plagiarism; in addition to the Gladwell quotes Brooks could have/should have said something like "As Gladwell has noted:"
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I hope the G summiteers like insects.
I'm so totally gonna steal this!
Those hard-coded top-level domains in the "improved" regex may also be also an issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain#Proposed_domai...
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Hey! Thanks for your input!
The upvote/downvote is intentional (it lets you change your mind, or cancel out an accidental mis-vote). That being said the behavior has surprised a few people... I'll do some research and find out what people think it should be...
Yeah, that python script (from StackOverflow London - http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html) that learned what was correct from a large number of words would work. Analyse your DB of users' email address url (after @) that have registered fully and provide a "Did you mean.." type response if a new users email url was not found and something close (within 2 alterations) to it was.
There are more reasons to check for an email than simply validation. Perhaps you want to detect emails in a field and let people click/tap on them to send that person an email? Don't want to let people send email off to foo@bar.baz now, do we?
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The root cause: neoliberalism.
Roll it back (already happening) and bad apples evaporate themself.
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Could you put up a link to an explanation of what the website is all about? You already have that in the comment you linked to. I wish RefactorMyCode would do this, too.
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Other people have already commented effectively on the two components of your reply, but let me say that I found the transparency straw man to be the weirder of the two, because that's not how I use that word.

I'd also like to note that from a technical standpoint, I think Google is fantastic. They do great work, I love where they're going with services, and I personally have no complaint with Gmail nor could I improve things were I magically in charge.

But their nearly autistic attitude towards dealing with users is a real problem, and as large as they are, I think they bear a real moral responsibility to make the world a better place. "Don't be evil" is a great motto. I have every reason to believe they try to live up to it. But disengagement from their users to the incredible extent that Google practices it verges dangerously close to evil when it affects so very many people.
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Or " * is a required field", or even " * required."
I'm using Pylons as well. It's the perfect balance between using something too basic like cherrypy / web.py and something way too spoonfed like "django".

It removes the need for writing my own MVC which I would have needed anyways, and doesn't force me to use anything I don't want to. It's just Python, but neatly separates the files in logical places.

Thus far, Pylons has met every single need so far outside of async I/O, for which I've turned to node.js.

Contrary to popular belief, Pylons is not for intermediate Python users. I've taught web development in Python to beginners using Pylons and it's not hard at all to pick up for them.
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Some kind of tag feature would be neat. Say I wanted to read just Haskell code, I could click a link which would filter out everything that wasn't Haskell oriented.

This is a really cool idea, though.
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1. Digg is still a place for finding crowd sourced news. It simply is recognizing user demand seen across the web for social features and adding that into its product.

2. You say you get enough sharing on Facebook, etc. but what's funny is every time a new sharing/social site launches, over time, we've all grown to begin using it anyway. First we had Delicious (2003), then we added Facebook (2004), then we added Twitter (2006), then we added Google Buzz (2010). Clearly folks ARENT getting enough of it on any one of those sites, since each site has been able to build sufficient user bases. The Internet's a huge world, and different products will appeal to different groups; many can survive. Besides, if we only had one platform, all the privacy folks would be up in arms (as they get from time to time about Google or more recently Facebook) that X company controls too much of our information. Ultimately, competition/multiple platforms is a good thing. Digg entering this space only adds to that.

3. You can still type in Digg.com and see what the "world" finds interesting, however now you'll get to see what your friends/followers/"tastemakers" find interesting too. Think of it as a USA Today adding a "local" section.

4. At first, I agreed with your point that v4 does not appear to show a solution to Digg's lowest common denominator problem. However, upon further thought, it does. Digg has given the power to the user. During the "onboarding process" you select who you follow, friend, etc. and decide what your stream of "My News" will look like. Follow all brilliant people and you'll get interesting, valuable content. Follow idiots and you'll get great funny pictures of cats. Follow a mix and you'll get both.

5. Ultimately I can see myself using the new Digg, but it will take time to see how it fits into my arsenal of social websites. If it doesn't do enough to differentiate itself, it'll go by the wayside. However, as history has shown us, we seem to have no problem adding another site to the mix.
Thanks!
I have the back-end already setup for categorization by language, I just have to write the controller for it. A tagging system sounds interesting though: ie: looking for all code tagged 'server' across all the languages...

I'll see what I can do!
Sure! I was thinking about this earlier... A message that only shows if you haven't visited the site before. I'll put that on the to-do list!
Every single GP will admit it's a total giveaway when they're drinking and amongst their kind. How do I know? I've been drinking with many in my time as an investment banker, junior VC employee, and "trusted" entrepreneur.

You know what's worse? The PE guys and the hedge fund managers get this treatment on carried interest too, but they know there's absolutely no way to justify it and so they're letting the NVCA stick up for all of them. There are massive amounts of money being funneled by members of the Private Equity Council into this debate that no one is seeing.
I agree TLA scanning is stupid and no indicator. I never said I did that, so don't assume I do. I look for interesting stuff they do. But if they show a trend that they can't seem to hold down at a place for any length of time, that is still a big warning sign.
Is there a need to emphasize that the website referred to is an "internet" website and not an "intranet" website? Should Yahoo! say "visit our internet website at yahoo.com?" Or even the least sophisticated user knows that yahoo.com is an "internet" website? Wikipedia does not even list "internet" website as "type of website." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website#Types_of_websites
So what? U.S. government free speech policies allow citizens to say most whatever they like, including things that cannot legally be said in Islamic theocracies. When a U.S. resident inevitably exercises his freedom of speech in a way that offends Muslims, would someone in Saudi Arabia therefore be justified in claiming that "the U.S. insults Islam"?

No, of course not.
I would guess a greater percentage of their customers have never heard of Rails.
Very cool. Why didn't you use Disqus for commenting though?
I don't think they were meant to be funny. Light-hearted, certainly, but they weren't supposed to be a joke. They were supposed to be an eye-catching marketing exercise that associated Chrome in the public mind with "speed". And they're great at creating that association, but the actual tests themselves were completely irrelevant to demonstrating that speed. Which, as a nerd, irritates me.
Thanks! I was considering using Disqus, but I prefer to have as much control as possible over the content of the site, so using Disqus goes against that.

I realize that to an extent using GitHub goes against that too, but all of the source files are kept on my server as well so I can always change how everything is displayed if need be...
I hope there's more, because this just looks like minor refinements. Hardly worth the 2 years and umpteen millions of dollars that went into it. "My News" isn't all that different from the existing user profile.
By all means, use a CFG or a PEG for parsing emails.

While you do that, I'll do something that doesn't involve tweezers and code.
I consider myself a professional user experience designer, and I have no idea. Please tell me when you find out. :(

UX as a discipline is still pretty unrefined: people are only just now realizing that you need actual (traditional) design (art, usability, ergonomics, cognitive science, psychology) skills to really do your job well.

A lot of people who call themselves web designers, user experience designers, user interface designers, information architects, interaction designers, etc., today, even (especially?) senior- or architect-level ones, are there because they were mucking about with HTML very early on, but they are often stuck in their current company because they don't have the modern skills we expect. They didn't keep up. They're grandfathered in.

Example: I interviewed people for a "web artist" position recently. I'd expect someone in that position to have good traditional layout, composition, sketching, drawing, coloring (whether painting or markers or Photoshop) skills, understanding of and practice using grids, typography, font selection, be able to describe their design process, how to run a critique, how to take a critique, plus a basic understanding of not just HTML, but CSS, and that they keep up on things like CSS animations and such. That's all on top of other things like demonstrated ability to work as part of a large team (jacks of all trades are immediately suspect) and being able to sit for long periods.

One person we interviewed stopped learning about the web when tables were okay to use for layout. One person couldn't articulate their design process. One person couldn't explain the difference between serif and sans-serif.

At my last employer, we talked about this huge list of knowledge domains that a UX person should know, how you need some theoretical or practical experience in all of them, plus depth in at least N of them. This came up a few years ago with the "levels of knowledge" lists:

http://friendlybit.com/css/levels-of-css-knowledge/

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200605/levels_of_html_...

There isn't anything really like that for UX, although I've been sketching out ideas for one, coming out of the workshops I run.

The professional organizations are similarly disparate: IXDA is voluntary and (because of that?) I don't feel like it has a lot of ability to provide social pressure towards particular skill sets. Other organizations have narrower specialties: AIGA is for artists, UPA is for usability engineers, ASIS&T is for the information sciences, HFES is for ergonomics engineers, SND is for newspaper designers, SPD is for magazine designers... all of these organizations say they're branching out but I don't get the impression that any of them have any traction. That said, I also feel like I should be an active member of all of them.

In the short term, you might have the best luck networking within the media programs at art and design schools. I'd bet you were in the minority in your CS program, hacking on open source in your spare time. There will be a similar minority in the art departments, people applying their skills to web or games or some such.

Good luck!
And it's usually more accurate and constructive to label the behavior as manipulative, dishonest, etc. instead of the person.
Sure as heck matters what your employees do on other days. If I had a customer service team, I don't think my customers would appreciate it if they all decided to stop answering support calls on Fridays.
Re: 2. Two social sites are clear winners: Facebook and Twitter. Delicious initially had strong adoption, hence they were acquired, but it's been downhill since then. Google Buzz can be considered a failure; Google forced their social graph upon users and they weren't happy.

For the two successful sharing sites out there, hundreds are struggling (Digg included) or dead.

In regards to the rest of your points, there's no telling how the product will exactly play out until we have access to play with it for ourselves.
As far as I know we don't see a lot of this in ecosystem management. The best example, at least in terms of the millions it kills every year, is the jihad against DDT extending to preventing twice yearly spraying of the interiors of dwellings to limit malaria infections.

What a bizarre statement. First, that is more an issue of public health and toxicology than an issue of ecosystem level management. Second, the people involved did admit they made a mistake, and the WHO has endorsed DDT spraying in areas with high malaria incidence since 2006. Its use in such areas has increased every year since. There is continued concern that increased spraying may breed resistance and that overuse in the home may lead to its own health problems, so the current strategy is to try other options first where possible.
I would implement reddit's system, where you can click an arrow to upvote/downvote, if you click it again it undoes that, and if you click the other arrow it switches your vote.
The problem is that to find a truly good ux developer, you have to find someone that is not only artisticly inspired, but also someone who is grounded in statistics and testing / scientific method. It is a rare breed and the market is flooded with hacks. Start by looking for someone who has a background in human factors and then look at their portfolio. It's not a magic bullet but it will weed out a good deal of hacks.
Sorry - my bad. I meant in so much as a government agency etc should be transparent (but that's not a great example either) :)
Worse yet, the dissonance between straight-jacketed cog-in-a-machine style working environments and the need for creativity and deep intellectual thinking is often a source of cognitive and emotional stress. So much so that I believe it's a primary factor behind burnout in the tech industry.

So many of the norms of the tech industry revolve around a belief in the productivity of "be creative now!" And to a certain extent it does work. But only in a very limited fashion and only at an extraordinarily high cost (reduced job satisfaction, high levels of turnover, high levels of burn-out, etc.)