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good jobs what you have here, cause i feel like losing my friends in the EDM friends on facebook we have share thoughts humor and happiness now facebook delete it, i lose my friends, i miss them, i hope theres a facebook page for ex member EDM so we can gather together again.
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Yes, it looks like it. And it's unclear how Facebook somehow shares more than other sites...
I absolutely agree. I think that competition between Apple and Google (and whoever else) can only benefit us, their customers.

I only wish that Google did a better job of it. I agree with the OP in that they do sound petty. I wish they would just focus on building a better product. They're instead trying to channel the nerdrage about all the missing features everyone is supposedly going to miss.

As far as I can tell, the only ones who are going to miss anything are the ones who already know or have been told that the things are missing. People like my mom, who are clueless about a lot of this stuff, just think the iPad is great. Multitasking, Flash, what's that?
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That would all be spelled out in whatever contracts came along with the influx of VC capital, wouldn't it?

The whole point of a contract is to get down in writing the agreement between parties as to how things will be handled.

If you expect,as the founder, to be able to take profits a certain way at a certain time... put it in writing. It won't happen magically.
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Ask HN: Two startups, one me: Which opportunity would you take?
I'm in a bit of a quandary that this group might be a be able to give me some advice on. I have two job possibilities laid in front of me, both of which are very intriguing. I don't really care which opportunity you would choose, I'm curious WHY you would choose it.

Opportunity one is a very early stage startup. I would be the first full-time employee. We have financing through an seed-stage VC. One of the partners is currently directing the company as a "side project." My job would primarily be product management with some amount of coding (which I'd rather not be doing). We have a licensed technology that we need to productize; I have to figure out the product. Pay is low (not surprisingly), potential upside is pretty significant. I'm a little concerned about the complete lack of structure at this stage. I'm trusting the VC (who I've known for 10+ years and really do trust) to make the right things happen from a compensation standpoint, but I'm not 100% comfortable with that. I have to do consulting on the side to stay afloat.

Opportunity Two is a fairly well established start up that recently secured a second round of funding, has customers and products, etc. Again, I'd be joining as product management. Upside is not nearly as attractive, since I'm joining much later, but current pay/benefit scale is much more appealing.

There is a small chance I could take opportunity two and continue working with opportunity one in a part time basis.

So, what would your thought process look like?
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"Yes, AT&T service has been pretty shitty. It's hard to make this a direct knock against the iPhone..."

Excuse the crassness but bull shit. Apple chose AT&T. Apple committed to AT&T. AT&T today is as much a part of the iPhone as the display, the OS, the camera, anything. Indeed, more so, since Apple signed a 5 year, exclusive contract with AT&T and the hardware has changed and will change many times in that period.

If Apple signed an exclusive contract with some LCD manufacturer and was forced to deal with sub-quality displays nobody would cut them any slack. Apple made a choice in the design and implementation of the iPhone by choosing AT&T as an exclusive provider, they have to live with that choice.

This is an absolutely valid criticism of the iPhone.
I'm sorry but I have no idea what you are on about. The original point under discussion was very simple - I don't know where your headed with these scenarios, so I can't help. You sound a bit confused though.
Thanks for the frank feedback. Maybe in its current form it doesn't have much of a future. When this all started, my grand vision was the following:

Imagine that soundkeys are common-knowledge and familiar to everyone. Then, you could have soundkeys on wine bottles, menus, in magazine articles, books, business cards, basically anywhere.

Anyone can take their smart phone and take a picture of the soundkey (or enter it manually), and instantly know how to say the name of the wine, how to pronounce the items on the menu of some French restaurant, how a bird mentioned in the magazine sounds, how a car explosion in Iraq mentioned in the book sounds, how a potential client's name sounds, etc.

It would bring alive static pieces of paper (like menus, books, magazines, business cards, etc) : You see a soundkey anywhere and you know that you can hear a sound related to that thing.

So, to start things off, I started the website. Maybe instead of focusing on consumers, I could focus on talking to companies to start incorporating this into their products, books, etc. Of course, there needs to be a general awareness of soundkeys before companies use them, so there is a chicken-and-egg thing that needs to be addressed and which I thought that a consumer-facing website (i.e. soundkey.com) could address if it became popular.
Is there some reason a proper contract couldn't have prevented this in the beginning?

If you sold off 10% to investors, then it's your fault, is it not, that you did not get the financial control you required out of the deal, allowing the VC to disproportionately influence the company in your eyes?
Their constant battle with vaporware of various stripes isn't with only one company - some of the competitors ship but slip way behind on dates and/or release hurried crappy releases, some don't ship at all and make true vaporware demos, but Apple tends to rarely pre-announce things and therefore doesn't ever slip behind publicly committed ship dates. Or ship stuff that's clearly beta because of a publicly committed ship date.

Check out how Google hedged their bets by fudging the UI of Google TV. Who knows how this thing will actually work like because the interface in the video was drawn with frigging crayons.
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Well, that being said, it's a growing market and the winner may not take all, but they will take a large chunk.
So what was the murder of Theo van Gogh designed to manipulate us into doing?

Or was it actually just someone murdering someone who was critical of Islam, because they didn't like the fact he was critical of Islam?
Agreed. That was not the specific point under discussion right here though of you read back a few posts :-)
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I do like the idea of a pan fitted to it's heating coils. If these two things were designed together, you actually could get the same temperature everywhere.
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Demo of tabloid headlines that would appeal to the demographic of this website.

List your best headline for this site. This is an exercise in marketing.

Maybe,

"Code Guru says code quality metric proves Open Source superior to closed source."

I'm bored.

How about...

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This is the part that troubles me: " It wasn't until WSJ contacted them that changes were made."

How do you interpret that?

1) Too busy to care enough to prioritize this?
2) Indeed there was intent?
3) To dumb to realize the consequences?

Maybe I'm too biased now, but I can't think of a good way to put a positive spin on that.
Hard to say without knowing more details but there are two big red flags in the first option: that the co is run by a VC as a side project and that it is "productizing" technology licensed from someone else.
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Yes but the weakest point is usually the trackers. If you shut down the trackers, no one is able to initiate a download.

Except when you use a trackerless BitTorrent but even in DHT mode (for the trackerless torrent), you still need to connect to an initial server for fetching a swarm and have the initial view of the DHT network.

In my view, we would need to improve the bootstrap process to avoid (or at least limit) the single entry point. But this is the classical chicken-egg dilemma...
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Yes it is. This is one of the reactions the extremists were hoping for. It stinks of fear :-(

if nothing else the protest is confused - who is it directed at? Extremists? I fail to see how playing their game is clever.
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If you don't have significant equity (at least 10% or more) the second is the right choice.

If you do have significant equity then it depends on the expectation ([estimated] probability of successful outcome * magnitude of outcome ) multiplied by your percentage.

you have to estimate future dilutions and so on but the above is how I would choose, at a first approximation.

That said, the first option doesn't sound very compelling. I have had bad experiences with "productizing" projects. Now when I hear that word I run.
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> Privacy and Facebook are serious issues. It's irresponsible and unhelpful to report on them like this.

As the post points out, this is done for pageviews or for karma mongering. What I find interesting is that my (and from others, too) posts that are critical of the media brouhaha over FB privacy issues quickly get downvoted on HN. Do you know how FB privacy controls stack up with GMail, LinkedIn, Plaxo or others, e.g. what URL does GMail forward to an advertiser when you click on a link in the sidebar? Can anyone enlighten us on these matters with hard facts, rather than creating another anecdotal post about how their even non-tech savvy friends are now so worried.

I'm not an expert on these privacy matters, so my approach is simple. I approach all companies that have my personal information with caution, including not only FB but Google. Unfortunately, in some cases there's nothing you can do, there's a service you need despite the potential security risks.

I wonder what your family members, who are now so worried about FB, would think if they knew that gas and electric utility companies routinely sell their personal information to junk mail spammers because they are "public records" (if you're in the US, go ahead and search your name on http://www.peoplelookup.com, it's a chilling experience)
Massachusetts natives should cope well with witch hunts. Facebook will float.
"We've emailed both writers to ask for clarification in the event that they are in fact referring to something else, but haven't heard back from them yet. "

And, as the updates show, they were indeed referring to something else.

Rushed article to cash in on hype.
This thread should be: How do you find a better morning routine?

My flatmate is shifting from working freelance to 9-5 and is worried about getting to work at 9am as that's been an issue in the past. Caffeine makes him feel like carp.

I suggested Modafinil.
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For now treat the pay and benefits as zero and focus on what really matters.

Which one will give you the most challenge and highest responsibility? 2-3 years from now, your salary wont matter that much. So you made 80k, whooptidoo. Pay-check money comes and goes, but experience is eternal. And so are contacts and exposure.

The lack of structure should be encouraging. You will be the one to bring order to the chaos; you and the team will go through hell together, and that will shape you, in a year's time, better than any school.

If you don't make much money, the experience you gain from a position of heavy responsibility will give you a lot of back-bone. I spent 6-months building a startup with someone; it wasn't mine, I was freelancing, but I made all architectural decisions and coded the initial version all by myself. I made pennies, worse than minimum wage. But since then, all my job interviews felt like an interrogation, with all the power on my side. I could pick and choose who to work with and how much of myself to give them. I conjured up my salary and fees, based on faulty mental arithmetic and currency conversion, and had them agree to an atrocious figure that added up to my income from the previous 3 years combined.

Experience under high pressure and immense constraints will trump a pay check, equity, or whatever monetary gain you can imagine. Three years ago I used to hope for a "Programmer I" position. Today .. heh, "keep the titles, but first tell me a little about yourself" .. I can safely say I am more cautious of my heart than the prettiest of girls in my high-school. Along with the right money, I demand the right people to believe in, because I know what I am talking about :-)

Go for the more ambitious startup and give it your all. Two part-time jobs don't make a career.
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Not to be mean, but I don't think this is really worthy of discussion here.
I wish I had some of the structure that some people here have. Being a student means my hours will swap around every few days. Occasionally I will try and make some class but being that my main student thing to do this year is an honours thesis it's very easy to do this whenever, same goes with my freelance/ early stage startup work.

I frequently find myself less productive without a routine and continue to plan to start one. I am also horrible at major task shifting. As in give me some free weeks just to concentrate on just one focus, student or startup and I can be crazy productive. Give me both of them at the same time and I will find a way to waste half my time in limbo.
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It is, developing a good routine can easily make people much more refreshed and productive.
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But how many WSJ readers would know that they were referring to something else?
I think Apple is an example of a company that rode the upside of a narrative. Microsoft is evil. Microsoft is insecure. Microsoft is old and crufty, etc. There were a lot of practical reasons for Apple machines to never talk off (no support, poor supported software, no one uses it, hardware investment, etc), but they made decent products, and more importantly, fit in the story.
I don't think you get things moving in the right direction to have the factions on the outer fringes talking, there is more to be gained from getting people talking that are closer in viewpoint.
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I'm in the same camp. Loved the iPhone when it came out, then it slowly wore me down. Switch to the Droid was huge for me, and I cant even imagine using an iPhone again. As a hacker, droid just "feels better". More open, hackable, and solves almost all my key frustrations with iPhone (doubt I need to repeat them here, as they've been gone over to death).

iPhone is something I'd recommend to my mom. A droid is something I'd recommend to a coworker.
Unless you guys are totally friends, and you don't have any clauses in your contracts about any side-projects being property of your current company, I would be careful!

Definitely double check any contracts you have with your company before anything too crazy.

That aside, I'd hate to see talent and potential partnerships get staunched by rules like this. If you have a good fit with someone, definitely hack your way through it to make it happen.
Since you haven't said much about the companies themselves this is about early vs late.

One potential way of looking at this is thinking about the development of option #1 into something similar to #2 in some period of time.

What do you think the chances of that happening are? How long would it take if it did? Is there relatively costless "fail early" mechanism built in to the company at the moment? Would company #1 with the size & funding of option #2 be better? worse? equivalent? How much better off would you be if you arrived at option #2 via option one? (stock, salary, position)

If, for example, co #1's current path seems to be, "Spend the next 12 months building then raise more money," and after that it's similar to option #1, you might be able to compare them a little easier. 12 months cost for whatever the difference in stock.

Obviously this doesn't take into account anything about the likelihood of the companies' success. That's probably more important, but you gave very little information about that.
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Here is what one of the Facebook guys says about the situation:

The Wall Street Journal article is not exactly factually false, but the implication you're drawing from it is incorrect -- the actual issue is that in some cases (e.g., after performing some editing operations) the viewing user's ID is contained in the page URL. If the user happens to click on an ad on such a page, the browser will send a Referer header line that has the URL with the ID in it. On the other hand, if the user clicks away to a different page then clicks on an ad there, the ID will no longer be present.

This by no stretch of the imagination represents Facebook "going out of its way" to pass user information to advertisers.

In any event, the accusation makes little sense given the context. If Facebook wanted to leak user IDs to advertisers, surely it would be far more profitable to do it reliably, on every ad click, rather than doing it via a mechanism that (even according to the WSJ article) only discloses user IDs a small percentage of the time when the user happens to be viewing certain pages in certain ways.
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