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Exactly. Mod parent up.

I did see the movie this morning at 10am.

Lessig faults the film for not telling the story of Chris Hughs and Sean Parker's utilization of the internet for nonprofits and the election of Obama.

This is a platform that has made democratic innovation possible—and it was on the Facebook platform resting on that Internet platform that another Facebook co-founder, Chris Hughes, organized the most important digital movement for Obama, and that the film’s petty villain, Sean Parker, organized Causes, one of the most important tools to support nonprofit social missions.

The tragedy—small in the scale of things, no doubt—of this film is that practically everyone watching it will miss this point.

I think Lessing really misses the point of the movie. What I saw was a young guy able to take VC money and not lose his post as CEO.

I didn't see Parker portrayed as a 'petty villian'.

SPOILER ALERT: In the movie, Parker first learns of thefacebook after a one night stand with a Stanford undergraduate. He asks if he can check his email on her laptop and notices the site. At that point, Stanford was one of the few university .edu email addresses allowed on the site. He is so convinced, thefacebook will be the next big thing, he needs to find the creators of the site.

Basically, Parker takes Fanning under his wing, suggesting he move to California. There is probably a 20 to 30 minute VC montage, where Parker helps thefacebook get funding, using his various connections. He also has Zuckerberg dress in his pajamas, (Parker drops him off in an Escalade and waits outside) and go to a specific VC, and has Zuckerberg tell the VC, Sean Parker says "Fuck you" and then leave.

I own Startup.com (the movie, not the domain), and also E-Dreams. Watching both too many times, neither movie had a happy ending for the founders (within the context of those specific startups).

Startup.com CTO is ousted by the CEO (the two founders were best friends). Kozmo.com's CEO got ousted by the VCs.

This movie left me feeling icky at the ending. Not "Requiem for a Dream" soul fuck, but you really don't know who is a good guy and who is a bad guy. It really isn't black and white like that.

It did, however, have one of the most cinematic uses of 'wget' I have ever seen.

Also, kind of cheap headline there. I thought it would be a movie review, not an articulated rant. I expect more from that Harvard law dude.

Also, I have never heard of Parker before this movie, I was only aware of Fanning as the Napster creator.

EDIT: Changed ambiguous pronouns
I've never used it myself, but http://mixpanel.com sounds similar to what you're looking for.
Can't remember the name but an experiment by a prof from UCL showed that cars approached him more closely when he was wearing a helmet - but they gave him more space when he was wearing a long blonde wig.
So the safest solution is a transvestite without a helmet.
To me the most interesting part of this article are the comments: many people questioning Arrington's impartiality since Yahoo is a competitor to AOL. It'll probably subside over time but still interesting.
For bombers thats the main cause of aircraft losses, fighters of WWII were pretty ineffective, especially at night.

It's difficult to believe a WWII era fighter diving into a stream of bombers, at night, while the multiple gun turrets on 100s of bombers were returning fire - were making precise tactical decision about which part of the airframe to target.

The nice thing (statistically) about AA fire is that it's rather uniformly random.
I would really like a justification for the down-votes. I have no one providing discussion as to why I'm off-base. All I have is a post that I consider to be bordering on 'troll' (i.e. calling all concerns outside of the fiscal realm 'mythical') getting up-votes.
How aggravating. "I'll go through 10 people before I find another like him" yet he will continue to pay the man 7.25 an hour. Everything you want out of an employee and nothing else and you can't pay the guy better than dirt cheap minimum wage and somehow lament at his death.
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I don't completely agree with you. You need good ideas, and you need to be able to execute them properly.

An alternate quote could easily be "If Zuckerberg had come up with the idea of Facebook on his own, then he would have come up with the idea of Facebook on his own" and the Winkelvosses wouldn't have had even a weak argument to put forth. Zuckerberg's original execution was more along hot or not, correct? And it wasn't until he had input from the Winkelvosses that he solidified something closer to the current Facebook. That's an important contribution. Whether it deserves any legal or financial reward is another story, but you can't just ignore the importance of an idea.

And I am confident in assuming that Zuckerberg also did not come up with his modern mission of Facebook all by himself, for it to be a social, informal version of Google search (for lack of a better description). Without that pivotal idea, Facebook would die or be dead already, just as MySpace has died.

Not everyone can figure out how to code so easily. That's why you have contract work.
for the sales role, are you interested in an entrepreneurial engineer with sales experience?
..and the use of "bait-and-switch" headlines.
I guess an interesting point to think about, of those 1000 or so shots on the wing, what about the one that finally hit the wire that disconnected the aileron from the yoke? You might have plenty that hit around the wing, but one that takes out that wire and it could be over. The sweeping logic being used doesn't cover those areas.
Why should I not steal his car if he steps out of it and leaves his keys in the ignition, and place the blame upon 'the system' if Lessig summons a policeman to his aid? The value of his car stems from its current configuration as a vehicle, and Lessig is arguing that designs do not belong to anyone in particular. the materials which make up the car - some steel, rubber and various kinds of plastic - are mere commodities, and at most I have laid hands upon some junk which just happens to be organized into the shape of a vehicle at present. If I drive it away and wrap it around a tree, what has Lessig lost? With enough time and ingenuity, he could reassemble the wreckage into a working automobile: others have done no less, so why does he feel entitled to have his idea of a car actualized at someone else's expense, just because it existed independently in the recent past?

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Oddly, I can't remember the name either, but I'm almost certain I've read the same study. Let me know if you find it first. ;)

Edit: Secondary source, still working on the primary - http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/653/blonde-wigs-safer-hel...

Edit': Got it - http://drianwalker.com/overtaking/

American drivers' attitudes may differ from UK/Austrailian drivers', especially regionally (i.e. rural Texas vs. New York City). I'm curious how drivers would behave around bikes with a (scientifically fake) baby / child seat, with a man or a woman riding.

My experience (in the urban midwest) has been that most drivers are agreeable as long as you ride predictably (not weaving erratically, running red lights, etc.), but drivers high on testosterone should be given space - whether it's a red car full of teenagers with something to prove or (in my worst case) a skeezy, ponytailed, balding 40-something man with a considerably younger woman in his convertible. That guy tailgated me for over a mile on a clear two-lane street, trying to prove something (?). I turned off just to let him have his stupid moment and get on with my life.
That's ad hominem BS. He explicitly is against extremist copyright - and I find it difficult to disagree with him re the continuous extensions of copyright terms, and attacks on fair use - but that opposition to extremism also extends to copyright abolitionists:

"My real fear is that the last 10 years have unleashed a kind of revolutionary attitude among the generation that will take over in 10 years. And it will be hard for them to distinguish between sensible copyright legislation and the kind that we’ve got right now. So my real fear is we’re going to lose control of this animal... I just want to reform [copyright] to make it make sense."

http://techcrunch.com/2008/11/21/larry-lessig-defends-copyri...
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Reminds me of Neal Stephenson's character whose strategy for bike safety at night was to assume he was wearing reflective clothing and that everybody in a car would be paid a million dollars to kill him.
I haven't seen it yet, but I'm hoping it's better than http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/
I am an adult. I am old enough to know what I am doing. Why do you ask?
There's no risk. Even if this isn't part of image maintenance, "AOL's TechCrunch fires writer for leaking orientation details" isn't really the headline I think anyone over there is looking for.

And even if AOL were that bone-headed (they aren't), Paul Carr could ride the wave of the ensuing press to any other gig he wanted.
Are you intentionally forgetting the part where Zuckerberg is working for the Winkelvosses, yet not performing any work for them, and coding a competing website at the same time, then launching his site, and telling the Winkelvosses he can't work for them any longer, because of their problem code?

Also, the Winkelvosses had two prior programmers, whose code Zuckerberg had access to.

This is on Wikipedia about ConnectU:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnectU#Mark_Zuckerberg

Later that evening, Zuckerberg told Cameron Winklevoss in an email that he didn't expect completion of the project to be difficult. Zuckerberg writes: "I read over all the stuff you sent and it seems like it shouldn't take too long to implement, so we can talk about that after I get all the basic functionality up tomorrow night."[9] The next day, on December 1st, 2003, Zuckerberg sent another email to the HarvardConnection team. "I put together one of the two registration pages so I have everything working on my system now. I'll keep you posted as I patch stuff up and it starts to become completely functional."[6] On December 4th, 2003, Zuckerberg writes: "Sorry I was unreachable tonight. I just got about three of your missed calls. I was working on a problem set."[6] On December 10, 2003: "The week has been pretty busy thus far, so I haven't gotten a chance to do much work on the site or even think about it really, so I think it's probably best to postpone meeting until we have more to discuss. I'm also really busy tomorrow so I don't think I'd be able to meet then anyway."[6] On December 17th, 2004, a week later: "Sorry I have not been reachable for the past few days. I've basically been in the lab the whole time working on a cs problem set which I"m still not finished with."[6] On January 8, 2004, Zuckerberg emailed to say he was "completely swamped with work [that] week" but had "made some of the changes ... and they seem[ed] to e working great" on his computer. He said he could discuss the site starting the following Tuesday, on Jan. 13.[9] On January 11th, 2004, Zuckerberg registered the domain name thefacebook.com.[12] Three days later, on January 14th, 2004, Zuckerberg met again with Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narendra about HarvardConnection, however, he never mentioned registering the domain name thefacebook.com or a competing website, rather he reported progress on HarvardConnection, told them he would continue to work on it, and would email the group later in the week.[9] On February 4th, 2004, Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com.

The Winklevosses and Narendra attempted to force the Harvard administration to act on what they viewed as a violation of the university’s honor code. They took the case to the Harvard Administrative Board and the university president Larry Summers, but it was ruled to be outside of university jurisdiction.[13]
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Nor am I. So why are we even having this conversation?
I can tell you truthfully, 'us' tech people did not all see the same thing.
this author misses the point completely.

if apple would have gone the MVNO route, the iPhone would be multiband, and have tethering. it probably could have connected to either sprints/verizon tech, or to ATT's network.

it could have been the phone with the best connection. apple could have also made deals with people to route calls through wifi, 3 years ago.

think of how much time apple has lost to ATT being slow.
Subtle trolling.
I thought the tech stuff was pretty realistic (although I refuse to believe Facebook was written inside of emacs).

Also I felt the whole "I scored 1600 on my SATs" and shooting down his professor with some technobabble about memory management was a little much. I understand there needs to be elements to add dramatic effect, but I can't help but feel there's a whole generation of assholes out there taking notes and thinking that being arrogant all the time = being right all the time
I had always thought his basic idea was to reduce the concept of copyright back to a 'limited term' of something less than a human lifespan, and to promote alternative things like Creative Commons or one or other of the open source licenses. I haven't looked at any of his more recent books, perhaps he has to stake out ever more radical positions to up the stakes?

Anyway, this seems like publicity-surfing more than anything else. I suppose if I turn on the TV tomorrow it'll be the #1 movie in America or something.
Yeah, I really like the tilt-shift, and alot other interesting camera work during the crew race set to In the Hall of the Mountain King.
Failure of similar idea -

Diggnation used to have a tiered system - subscribe and get everything early, don't subscribe and wait a day or two. This worked until someone thoughtfully [and illegally] created a mirror that provided subscriber time access to non subscribers.

I believe that Diggnation no longer has a subscription service.
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How about the Karate Kid reference?
What Neal Stephenson book was that? Zodiac?
Subculture's movie? 500 million people.
Wow, playing with fire, though it's somewhat entertaining from this side.

Keep in mind, AOL has no problem firing people. They used to have tens of thousands of call center workers in the states. Now all those workers are gone and replaced with re-routed overseas calls.
If a corporate entity is created and funded with very little in the way of assets it can be disregarded in a legal proceeding. This is called "piercing the corporate veil".

There are other factors a judge or jury will weigh as well, but assets are among the most important.

This is pretty common sense if you think about it - although most people (especially those who read the "incorporate for $99 and protect yourself from creditors) don't realize it.. just because you sign some papers and create a legal entity the law isn't going to allow you to stiff people and evade legal obligations.
They did use Motorola RAZRs, though.
The movie doesn't portray him as evil at all, imo. He comes off as witty and quite good at evaluating risk.

As for his hacking abilities, I've heard stories that he's not (or is no longer) among the best; perhaps he's better at coming up with creative uses for a system than actual coding. And for what it's worth, I don't think the movie made him out to be a "genius hacker" in the coding sense -- more a genius hacker of what the Internet was intended to be.
Do you consider that hacking?
I'd take Jolie over Eisenberg, personally.
Yea I'm sure the manager who probably makes 10 an hour can just start giving people raises at will. How aggravating indeed.
An entrepreneur is anyone who has to make payroll, even if the entrepreneur is the only one on it.
I hadn't heard of Parker until this movie. I thought it was all Fanning, too.

I still think Justin Frankel is the real badass programmer/hacker of the generation.
Your premise (that Lessig's article is a movie review) is not true which makes any conclusion you make invalid.

The misleading HN headline notwithstanding, Lessig's article is a commentary on the nature of Internet and how it was missed by the movie authors.

Not to mention that nowhere in the article Lessig gives any indication that he knows how to make a better movie out of it. Quite to the contrary: whenever he talks about the movie as it is, he prises it.
You said it.

Quote:

Dayhoff, his boss at Crab Shack, read the story on the Times website and found himself outraged by unsympathetic comments posted by some readers.

"I just can't get over some of those people reacting the way they did," he said. "This guy was a human being. He might not have meant something to somebody else, but he was like family to us. He meant something to us."

--

Meanwhile:

--

Jeff Lackey, who lives across the street from Mr. Smith's address at Hollywood Park, recalled one of the rare conversations Mr. Smith initiated.

"I was coming back from the Dumpster and he invited me over," said Lackey, 53. "He said, 'Jeff, I've worked at Crab Shack for 10 years. I never got a raise or a Christmas bonus. I never even got a card.' "

--

Yeah, I'm _sure_ he was appreciated in life. /s

TL/DR: Actions speak louder than words.
Startup lesson: focus on what functions, what your customers use, and your core competencies, not fixing things no body is using anyway.

An example of a company I think not following this advice: Pivotal Labs. Why are they not building premium options into Pivotal Tracker instead of building WebOS apps?
I get what you're saying about hackers, but I don't see why you'd necessarily correlate hackers with entrepreneurs. There's a very narrow overlap in that Venn diagram, precisely because hackers (orig. definition) don't do what they do to make money or build businesses. Hacker/founder/entrepreneurs are a rare enough breed.
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Heh, once upon a time it was so cold my hand was growing sores. My doctor prescribed me a paste made of animal fats to rub on my hand when it's cold to keep them warm, and as well as wool gloves, too.
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What more could one ask for?
Also, hat tip to PolitiFact (http://politifact.com/), run by SPT, and one of the best political fact checking sites on the net.
Best line of the movie for me

"You're not an asshole ... but you're trying really hard to be"

Awesome movie ... I have no doubt any hackernews faithful will love it.
Compressing 1920x1200px images to 45K is not "real world" in the first place.
My model didn't follow a bimodal distribution; it followed a uniform distribution. I got the same results. A Pareto distribution would be interesting to try.
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His book is a mixed bag. His thoughts about how to ride are good, but his conclusion in favor of wide curbside lanes and against bike lanes did lots of damage, as many locales/planners used his book as justification for not putting in bike lanes. This thinking was difficult to unwind. Of course bike lane use shouldn't be mandatory, as they aren't in California at least. I don't know any cyclists here who aren't grateful for the great bike lanes we have, thanks mainly to good codified, standards for their implementation. [I think I read his book 20 years ago :-)]
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That was when I got sold on the movie.

You could see him fire up putty on his windows xp box and catch snippets of code as he ran perl & shell scripts to do exactly what he wanted.
going to give a lot of fellow HNers a queasy feeling in their stomachs like I got; like you need to get back to your computer and start coding right away, and everything is passing you by,

That is exactly how I felt watching it. It's inspiration to work harder.
I think you're mistaken.

The part he talks about Perl is when he's writing utility code to download the pictures he used to build his first hit website at Harvard.

Correct me if I'm wrong though.
Inexplicably, this conversation from earlier today (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1745322) hasn't been linked, yet.

If you're interested in programming, than I insist you read _Paradigms of Artificial-Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp_ yesterday. That's probably in my top five programming books EVER, and I've read a LOT of programming books. Your brain could gnaw on that sucker for months. Its pseudocode is in Lisp, but it's about real programming - don't write it off as just a lisp book.

Also, if you have a good question, he might answer.(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943633)
And yet here I am reading HN.
I particularly recommend Johnnie Johnson, Jeffrey Quill, Pierre Clostermann, and Hugh Dundas.
Out of curiosity, do you feel that 10 years of loyal service should not be rewarded with any kind of raise at all?

Even if he wasn't earning much more than 8 or 9 dollars an hour even then, but it probably would mean quite a bit for someone in that situation.

With inflation, he was actually being paid less 10 years later.
This has been happening for months and is nothing new. Even companies that host big name company profiles on Facebook use this tactic to "unlock" content.

Calling this a worm or exploit is absurdly silly. There is no security threat here, just don't click on dumb links.
You're missing Lessig's central point: $65 million is a ridiculous amount to pay for whatever Zuckerberg got out of Harvard twins and amounts to extortion and abuse of legal system.

If we go by the movie, Zuckerberg and twins met at most a couple of days, they described the general idea of the site (which, by that time, wasn't anything original: it was My Space or Friendster except with exclusivity) and he agreed to program the site. Except he didn't and instead created such a site, from scratch, by himself, dodging the twins the whole time (which implies they had no further contact except the initial meetings).

That might be an asshole move but I don't see where did twins contribute anything worth remotely $65 million. If anything at all.

If you're under assumption that if you talk to me, describe an idea for a website to me and I go ahead and implement a similar idea (with no help from you) then you deserve any part of revenue for it, they you're very much mistaken.

The reason we have NDAs, contracts and other sorts of legal tools is precisely because the above scenario doesn't play the way you think it does and if you want to protect your ideas, you can either use trade secrets (i.e. don't blab about them) or get the other party to sign a contract that spells out his rights wrt. to ideas you're planning to disclose.

It really is that simple and Winklevosses won legal lottery - there was no merit in their claims.
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With 'Modern Perl' you get 'Ruby on Rails' style of programming in Perl

What exactly does that mean? Optional parenthesis on method invocations? Considerable use of convention over configuration? Built-in object mapping to database schemas?
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