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I wonder what the 'get a lawyer' threshold is? I mean, as a SysAdmin or a programmer, I've not seen a reputable company even threaten to sue someone for leaving... the very idea smacks of empty threats from a crazy, entitled consulting client.

I mean, I'm all for getting lawyers when you need them, but if I've never seen it happen, is it worth the cost?

Maybe it's something that is more common when people who deal with customers (sales) leave.
You think the government is trying to depress demand and cut spending? The Federal Reserve intervention in the MBS / Treasury bond markets is intended to increase demand, and gov spending is rather high in historical context.
Ask HN: Any $business owners?
With all of the tech startup entrepreneurs, does anyone have experience in starting a $business? Any facts or figures you could provide about the cost to setup, info for getting licenses, etc.?
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I noticed that too. I'm sure you could have found a more interesting (to you) way to get that credit - but then again, errare humanum est and I've certainly made my own share of mistakes.
Well imagine what would happen if I had pointed you to this:
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(and this: http://boxerapp.com/ - if you need it)
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A guaranteed monopoly lasting eighty years or so isn't a government subsidy?

It's not clear, and Cato's document doesn't explain, how anyone outside of major cities would have been able to get telephone service in the absence of monopoly guarantees. Universal service would have taken decades otherwise.

There is some hand-waving in the document comparing telephone service, which required expensive and widely distributed equipment, easements and infrastructure, with radio and TV (which itself was regulated out the wazoo). This comparison doesn't survive even momentary scrutiny.

The Bell System was the envy and standard of the world, and I don't see how it could have been anywhere near as successful at meeting the needs of the entire US population without those initial monopoly guarantees. Contrast the telephone system's universal service mandate with privately-operated electrical distribution networks: sizable chunks of New York City and Boston were still using DC power until the 1960s.

I think the biggest problem with the AT&T monopoly was that they were allowed to milk it for decades longer than was good for anyone, including the AT&T companies themselves. The company should have been broken up the minute they showed a net profit.

Even that opinion is debatable, though -- we didn't get the first laser from General Electric, or the first transistor from Hewlett Packard. Both these inventions and countless more came from a company that, by government fiat, could engage in long-term research beyond that needed to show an immediate profit.

So, yeah... that Cato position paper is pretty goofy, IMHO, and it's one of several that will be on my mind when it's time to re-up my own membership.
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Yeah! Let's go and repeat all Windows flawed decisions!

First - the windows firewall which in no time involved into one button [ALLOW] because millions of stupid users were bombarded customer support.

Lets try to establish a privilege separation everywhere, so all users will work as administrators. Lets make code bloated and slow, only because it is a proper way of doing security.

btw, do you know, which is best security solution for Windows? The low-level full restore from a copy of just installed system form the second hard drive. Most of public PC providers are using this strategy.

So, the answer is fast, easy and idiot-prof re-flash procedure.
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So this is why I hate the idea of being expected to always put the toilet seat down. I'm a meta-contrarian. Or am I just a bit of a dick?
The author isn't suggesting that something being meta-contrarian actually makes it wrong...
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This story reminds me of the book "The Art of Profitability" which is told in the same master-student setup. Well worth a read!
Court order, that is the question, what they want is to be able to tap anyone, always, "just in case you are a terrorist".Read: control your political adversaries and get more power.

I'm for it if and only if there is a court order(You know they are listening you).It must be balanced.

I'm working on voice recognition software, in a few years the any government will have the option to transcribe ALL the skype messages in a very very cheap way and store them. This way you can search for patterns...and improve your industrial spying too. If they have the power to do so, they will do so.
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If by introvert you mean prospering in solitude, being the master of your own fate, seeing things differently, being an independent free spirit, an automatic recluse from the busy, meaningless world, then yes, it is okay to be an introvert.

And if by being an introvert you mean the constant state of insecurity, being the lonely outcast, constantly agitating, trying to regain a long lost connection with mankind, hopelessly trying to be something you're note, then by all means no, it is not okay to be an introvert.

:)

Seriously though, if you think it's okay, then it's okay. If you want do be more social, go ahead and do that. I used to be introverted in high school and maybe I still am at heart. But I learned to enjoy social gatherings an casual social connections just as much as meaningful conversations with close friends. I made myself go to parties and join dance clubs and what-not and I couldn't be happier for it.
Agreed. Their argument is they are trying to better protect us:

But law enforcement officials contend that imposing such a mandate is reasonable and necessary to prevent the erosion of their investigative powers. ... "We’re not talking expanding authority. We’re talking about preserving our ability to execute our existing authority in order to protect the public safety and national security."

But our intelligence services had all the data necessary to discover the "Christmas day bomber" but failed to connect the dots.
I think more of the fear of Google stems from the average person's relationship with it, and doesn't have much to do with how large a company it is.

BofA, Amazon, etc. are all companies that we deal with directly in a customer<->vendor relationship. Amazon puts up products for sale, people buy them. BofA gives people a place to put their money, in return for the ability to lend that money to others.

But your average Internet user isn't Google's customer. They're Google's product, and are "sold" to advertisers. People interact with Google every day, and in return, Google gets to collect, store, and mine our information in ways that we don't really know about or understand, and sell the results of that analysis to others.

So I think some of the Google-fear is based more on that than raw revenue generation. Being sold to advertisers on a massive scale is just kinda creepy.
That's a pretty big non-sequitur, I think you're forgetting the context of the original article when interpreting my comment. I think confusion's clarification is very well-put.
How old are you? Because if you are young, that makes sense. I used to not gain weight no matter what I eated until I hitted my thirties. Now I have to watch what I eat.
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This deserves another mention: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=469940

Is K. right? Maybe. That depends on what context he's thinking about - the kind of startups he's done, probably. I suspect that he's likely making an attempt (a regretful one, I must add) to generalize whatever it is he's learnt, and apply that to every single bloody startup there is out there.

Because almost everything he's saying is utter rubbish, applied to web startups. The context isn't right. Google won because of cleaner design? Right. Sure. The iPod was a lousier product? Right. Sure. Microsoft and Windows as an example of how to do things? I'm not sure if that's the right advice he should be giving to a young student-entrepreneur. 'Be like Microsoft' doesn't make much sense when you consider the fact that Microsoft wasn't much like Microsoft when they first started out.

Paul Buchheit has an opposing view point (http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/02/if-your-product-is-...) that you should consider - one of the many people who say things that run contrary to K.'s advice, I must add. (See also pg's How to Start a Startup http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html)

I suppose it all boils down to: a) what kind of business do you want to build? Because that determines b) who you listen to. If you want to get into K.'s space, that's fine. He's probably right. But if you want to build a Google, or an Apple - heck, even a Microsoft ... well you should consider looking elsewhere.
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Point of curiosity. Do you have any clue who chromatic is? Or what his role in the Perl community is?

I guarantee you that there is no shortage of good developers who's primary language is not English who would love to work with chromatic.
"Please don't. That is, unless you have material after this line, which is unlikely unless you are already skilled in chatting up strangers.You'll create an awkward situation."

Please do. Of course this is what is going to happen, I have done that too, but it is fantastic to fail, because it is the only way to improve and success. You will discover that the world doesn't end from you making mistakes, in fact you had the courage to try.That is the important thing, that and to persist!.

"Material after this line?" Ohh my god, believe me girls know when someone is shy and will help him if they want but what they all hate is being considered machines over human beings. PUA's techniques are already heard a million times by a pretty girl today. And is not what you say("material"), is how you say it.

Those that not even try will not have success ever, because they don't try in the first place.
The FBI have a legitimate cause for concern: if strong cryptography ever becomes foolproof and widespread, it will make intercepting communications much, much harder -- and there are legitimate reasons for why the FBI would want to intercept communications.

Obviously, the proposed legislation is pretty crazy, but I have at least a little sympathy for the FBI here.
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When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

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>Have you ever failed in doing something but eventually succeed in re-doing it in another way?

Sure, that's called "pivoting".

Also, from the fact that you got coverage on TechCrunch France, I'd guess you're French. Being a fellow Frenchman myself, I know that failure isn't usually as well tolerated in France as it is in the US.

You talk about "Epic Failure". Chill out. You seem to have identified the reasons why your project didn't suceed. That's great. Now it's time to move on and try to pivot. There's nothing wrong in failling, really :)

(Also, it reminds me of a quote I once heard in a start-up conference: "Try and fail, but don't fail to try.")

Good luck
"There is a contradiction, because the argument in the article assumes the signalling of social standing is THE reason for the behavior."

Yes, of course it is the (proximate) reason. That is the whole point of the article. It does not argue however, that it happens consciously:

"What is interesting about these triads is not that people hold the positions [..] but that people get deep personal satisfaction from arguing the positions [..]"

People gain satisfaction from arguing. They don't have to be aware of the fact that they might be doing it to signal social standing but that is the end result of their actions on average.

People usually go for status but like to convince themselves (and most often do so successfully) that they do things for a noble course.
You take the time to post an URL to the site for your club, and I take the time to look at it... --I find a useless and unreadable site at the given URL that requires both javascript and Flash. We can probably just agree that I'm simply not your customer, but did you even think about how many potential customers you've turned away by failing to keep things simple and accessible?
... And this is why proprietary formats (not software) are evil. Once the owner decide to kill the tools, the format and the corresponding documents/applications are dead also.
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I'm in agreement with you that the success or failure of the marketing endeavor is execution dependent.

However, I do feel that there is a point to a measurable loss, namely that you know not to do it again. If you spend a $1000 on setting up a Groupon deal and don't make your money back then you very clearly know that it was bad marketing move. If you spend a $1000 on a radio ad it's much more difficult to know what impact it has on your business.
Ask HN: Has YC released its model Convertible Note document(s) yet?
If so, where? Thanks.

These are the documents I'm referring to:

1) See Paul G's recent article: http://paulgraham.com/hiresfund.html

2) And his recent tweets and comments, including this one, where he says / suggests that YC will soon be releasing model Convertible Note documents similar to the model equity documents they released a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1657906

Thanks :)

PS: Sorry if this question has already been answered.
Having very nearly been bankrupted by lawyers acting for the company I had co-founded I can't agree with that comment enough.

It's not really a trust thing, it's just the fact that unless you are their client lawyers basically don't have any duty to look out for you, but they certainly do have a duty to act in the best interests of their client. Your interests and those of your previous/future employer probably don't completely align.
My advice is to face the unknown, but very little by little, you can be whatever you want. Our (small) decisions change us, read "the brain that changes itself", I have seen "introverts" become social beast, but not overnight, over the years.

The first thing is that you need to know what do you want to be in a very specific way, write it down, study it.Maybe you want to feel great among people, identify the current blocks or obstacles.

The most important thing is not trying to change overnight, you have already an "introvert" training of years:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/04/30-days-to-success/

You need to be able to get over your comfort zone regularly, my best advice is find a mentor, a person that is very social, talk to him.
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>People usually go for status but like to believe (and most often do so successfully) that they do things for a noble course.

This was never a discussion about people and their actions in general, but a stratified examination of the differences in thought patterns between 3 groups: those of average intelligence, those of moderate intelligence, and those of high intelligence. You are ignoring the context and framework of the article, and making sweeping generalizations where you project your experiences and manner of thinking to not just those similar to you, but to "people" in general.

edit: If you're not talking specifically about the "most intelligent" subset it's a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawman
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I simply hate it when people define me. "You're X and Y."

I think it's even more careless to define myself (And incredibly boring), especially if that definition includes a shortcoming.

The person I was whilst typing this message is in the past, I am who I want to be in the future.
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What timescales are you talking about? I've certainly noticed that it takes me quite a long time (over an hour) to context switch away from intense coding to a situation where I'm happy having a serious conversation with people (answering whether I want another coffee doesn't count).
That's how it should work (and in a famous (if probably apocryphal) story Sam Loyd was denied a patent on the 15 Puzzle because it was fundamentally insoluble and therefore there could be no "working model"), but these days patenting ideas seems to be a done thing
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Of course law enforcement is necessary. But you've jumped and equated resisting unfettered wiretaps to a world with no law enforcement. That's the same kind of broad stroke generalization that gets our rights trampled, like they were in the illegal wiretapping of Internet traffic at Folsom St., San Francisco:

Mark Klein, a retired AT&T communications technician, submitted an affidavit in support of the EFF's lawsuit this week. That class action lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco last January, alleges that AT&T violated federal and state laws by surreptitiously allowing the government to monitor phone and internet communications of AT&T customers without warrants.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619
Ask HN: Are there any design-led frameworks out there or should I create my own?
Hi everyone. Wondering if you could help me, or at least have a discussion on templating systems that are design-focused. We are creating a 'sitebuilder' app for a niche and we've created our first app, which has one template. We have decided to allow people to create designs for the system, but this will mean having a templating language. We've looked at others - from Wordpress through to Shopify - and most seem to use one that they have home grown. I am wondering what peoples experiences are?

1) Would you create your own template system as Shopify has done? (http://wiki.shopify.com/Theme_from_scratch). I see the downside of this that every designer will need to use your specific 'language' to create themes/designs

2) Are there any templating languages out there that you would use or recommend. I've looked at language-specific ones, but most of them are focused on coders and not designers. At the moment we have most of the app coded in PHP, but we are moving slowly towards Python, so it would be great to have a templating system that we can use for both

I'd be really interested in what people have to say about this and if they use any solution or what their opinions are

Thanks in advance

John
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>You are ignoring the context and framework of the article, and making sweeping generalizations where you project your experiences and manner of thinking to not just those similar to you, but to "people" in general.

I am neither ignoring the context of the article nor am I making "sweeping generalizations" or "projections". And I would prefer if you don't make these assumptions about me.

All I am saying is that signaling does not have to be conscious or self-aware in the sense of "Oh, I have to say this and that to rise to the top of the hipster hierarchy". It might just be the hipster enjoys dressing contrary to the mainstream just as the contrarian enjoys arguing contrary to the mainstream opinion. Hence my analogy: I enjoy sex. It's a heuristic shaped by my genes that would usually serve the purpose of reproduction. People enjoy signaling in the form of buying nice cars of putting on make-up: it's heuristic shaped by our genes that on average (not every signal leads to a better outcome) increases the chance of reproduction. It is not the you actively think "Okay: if I buy a car it might increase my social standing and ultimately increase the chance of girls liking me more.". You just enjoy the stuff. Just as you "just enjoy sex" or the bower bird has an innate desire to build colorful homes.

EDIT for clarity.
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My situation is not as extreme as yours, but I was diagnosed with IBS and second this advice. That said, you should also cut chocolate, alcohol, carbonated or acidic beverages and anything with caffeine in it. Reduce your diet to fruit and vegetables for a few days and drink mostly water (room temperature). Then experiment by adding in other foods over time.

You may already have done this. But if you haven't you need to. Because if something in your diet is exacerbating your digestive problems, you will start feeling better faster by cutting all suspect foods than by randomly eliminating them one-by-one. Also, you may find your system better able to handle certain foods when it isn't under stress from digesting others. Some things that cause problems for you when you're sick might be perfectly OK in moderation when you're feeling healthy.

As far as business goes, I run my own startup (bootstrapped) and it is really hard and stressful. I'd suggest keeping your job with health insurance and trying to fix your lifestyle/diet before taking on any extra stress. It may be a cliche, but slow and steady really does win the race.
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