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The careful use of English sentences and spelled-out words sounds like it might be aimed at making it harder to suppress it as non-speech. The law's still sort of gray-area around there, but in general courts are more willing to allow "devices" to be banned, and are more protective of "descriptions of devices". Machine code, or pages of hexadecimal numbers, seem like they could be construed as closer to a device, while an English explanation of a mathematical expression is at least a bit closer to a description.
Thanks! :)

I used Things and OmniFocus for a while.

I was pretty psyched about OmniFocus' hierarchical tasks when it came out, but what I ended up doing was organizing complex projects with OmniOutliner, which can aggregate numbers better. I simply pick out the more immediate tasks and add them to my task manager in a flat structure.

I love Things, it really strikes the right balance of features and simplicity. The thing is almost all of my tasks were at my computer, so GTD-style context was not used much. In the end I just needed a todo list. I'm sure other folks need to juggle contexts more often than I do, but personally I haven't had a need justify the overhead at the moment.

I think a major appeal for the current GTD apps are the offline mobile versions. They let users take their apps to actual different contexts, away from the computer.
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I thought this bit was a bit condescending, and starts the response off on a sarcastic note:

There have been a handful of stories lately documenting the struggles of cupcake
shops running out of batter or sushi restaurants who don’t have enough rice to
meet the demand brought on by their Groupon feature.

I possibly missed a Groupon story or two, but I don't remember any where stores ran out of ingredients - the problem is not so much that they can't satisfy the demand (though there is some of that in some cases) but that it's a cost sink that didn't generate the promised increase in "regular" customers.
Hey, it's Digilent! I know their president and founder--he teaches EE classes at my college and I took one from him. Aside from being a successful founder he's also a very entertaining lecturer.
Unless I'm doing something wrong, that graph seems completely wrong. Is it adjusting for inflation?

2000 non-wage compensation per employee is (Stats taken from your first link and 6.2C):
(615,931 * 1,000,000) / (137,228 * 1,000) = 4,488 per employee

2009 non-wage compensation per employee is (Stats taken from your first link and 6.2D):
(1,072,019 * 1,000,000) / (136,089 * 1,000) = 7,877 per employee

Your graph shows an increase of close to 20,000 from 2000 to 2009. If wages were stagnant, non-wage compensation doesn't explain this increase.

Edit to add: if you look at private companies only, which seems fair given this article is about collusion between private companies, the numbers are worse than those mentioned above:

2000: (424,680 * 1,000,000) / (114,597 * 1,000) = 3,705

2009: (690,975 * 1,000,000) / (136,089 * 1,000) = 5,077
"Lesson: Deeply care about what you’re working on"

This was one of the lessons-learned that resonated with me. My husband and I lacked passion for the first startup we co-founded back in the late 1990s and although we were profitable and did sell the business, I know that had we cared deeply about it we would have been 100x more successful. When you care deeply about something you do all the 'little' things that make ALL the difference.

More generally, I would like to thank Paul for his post. In fact, it may just be mandatory reading for anyone starting or planning to start a business. Even if you don't agree with Paul's assessment of NewsTilt's demise, it makes for a great case study, precisely because it inspires us to think about what went wrong, what should have been done, etc. In fact the combination of the post and this thread is precisely the kind of discussion I find so instructive.
But it IS the shops fault. They entered into a bad deal that they apparently didn't have the fundamental business to handle. It was a terrible business move on the shop owners part, but I don't see a single thing that groupon did wrong in this case. It's not their job to audit your business and make sure you can handle it. They're in the business of brokering specials to large groups on behalf of the business. That's it. What further responsibility could they possibly have?
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Well, sometimes it's fun. Other times it's utterly horrible. gcc doesn't always do a wonderful job and the maintainers sometimes just don't seem to care - induction variable optimizations and gcse were broken in 4.2 and 4.3 and the issue was left unfixed, with clear examples of obvious FAIL on simple and performance-critical inner loops.

However, this doesn't apply so much to OS code, which doesn't have nearly as much opportunity for micro-architectural shenanigans either way. Typically something like -Os does a good job of handling operating system style code.

Hand-coding OS asm remains a fine example of pointless tedium for the most part. There are clear places where you absolutely need asm, of course, but writing stuff in asm that can be perfectly well done in C is like cleaning out the barracks room bathroom with a toothbrush.

This was one of the early innovations of UNIX (high level language use), so there's something wildly anachronistic about this guy's suggestion. It's like suggesting that you rebuild grandpa's Studebaker so that it can be drawn by a team of horses.
That's what "solid B+" players are for: the rented lakehouse party, the corporate kumbayas and sufficiently-buzzed Wednesdays at the bar across the man-made pond in the drab, suburban office park. That's where A+ players go to die. That's why even at mid-sized software companies, we didn't hire the A+ players because they make hiring managers and peers feel stupid and impotent.

I should know: I'm a B+ player.

And, if by "illicit leisure" you mean "smokes the herb", I think you'll find that alot of guru type hackers are WAY into that kinda stuff. In fact, at my company, our HR technical recruiter once said that if corporate all of a sudden started random drug testing, half of the developers would be gone before they could read THC on the LabCorp printout.
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I think it's simpler than that. The labels would only support a standard with DRM, but secure DRM is impossible, and making copying inconvenient won't keep the content off torrents. It must have sucked to be on that standards body.
In most non-US countries the "tax" people pay for health insurance is a lot lower, and collected by the government instead of private for-profit companies.
This seems a bit like The Ladders for freelancing. You can quote me on that (JK). On a serious note, I would set the minimum higher. I don't get up in the morning for less than $50 per hour.
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My question is now... why do they still have the button? ;-)
No. Blu-Ray's BD+ scheme (which was co-designed by an HN contributor) is renewable, which means that when you break it, Rovi can push out a new version on the next round of disks that can't be ripped by the same code.

It's been "cracked" several times now, but not (so far as I know) permanently.
I'm really curious to see whether these smaller 7-8 inch tablets end up being closer to the sweet-spot than the iPad-sized 10-12 inch screens. Is the lighter, one-hand form factor more mobile and appealing? Or is it just a pain not to have the bigger screen on the device?
Something that combines finance and technology? It's about time that someone tried to do something in these two areas...

Fortunately for you, I most of the people in this here 'finance' area tend to be earnest, idealistic individuals, keen to share their ideas with anyone who will listen.
I think part of it's that the README is SO long. They should really move the installation documentation into a different github page or something.
Sometimes 'technically correct' isn't always the best kind of correct.

Thanks, Futurama.
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Couldn't agree more. Don't set a maximum. That's way too low. If you want to be a premium Elance, you can't set a max.
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First by Dennis Ritchie in his regular expression implementation, and then subsequently copied with the comment intact into all other regular expression implementations ever written.
I think I've given the wrong impression here. Everyone is disagreeing, and probably rightly for how I've phrased it, so let me try again.

I'm not saying that I believe our employee was lazy because he refused to work Sundays. I feel that we hired someone who wasn't sold on the whole startup thing, and treated an early stage startup as if it were a regular job.

I recall a talk from an early Googler, who worked 100 hour weeks for the first five years. Startups need dedication, not because of some kind of culture, or because some exec says so, but because everything is constantly falling apart and it always needs work. You could surely do them differently (perhaps a low-stress startup), but that is another animal altogether.

So the point is you need someone intrinsically motivated to make the startup succeed. Anyone else is the wrong fit.
The value of what you're doing right here with your post shouldn't be overlooked. Just to know that you guys were around, listening and taking suggestions would have made a difference to my satisfaction with IE... were I still primarily a windows user. :)

Keep doing what you're doing, get more of the IE Team to do the same.
I learnt something handy in BASH recently - operate-and-get-next (Ctrl-o). If you type:

$ echo one
one
$ echo two
two
$ echo three
three

Then up-arrow back to 'echo one'. Then press Ctrl-o instead of enter it will execute the command and display the following one in your history ('echo two' in this case).

Very handy for replaying a series of commands.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/bashman/bashref_101.html
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I'm not a believer in any press is good press, but I don't think this will be bad for groupon. The story made me say, wow, look at the numbers of people they get through the door. So many that it nearly sunk a little business - it's so successful that it's actually scary for a business. Groupon's excellent response here helps make the message positive as well.
Agree! As per my experience it is good to understand the best practices but it's foolish to assume that they'll work for you just because they worked for someone else...
As long as the team is willing to modify and evolve the process for good (as they gain experience)... it works well...
I agree that this trivializes the problem. A cupcake shop is as serious of a business to its owner as Groupon is to Andrew. And running out of batter is one of the most serious problems a cupcake shop can experience. If cupcake shops are running out of batter it's a problem that Groupon should be extremely concerned about.
>I noticed that the logo in Chrome is smaller than the logo in Internet Explorer. I found it weird till it turned out that the HTML that was rendered is different in Chrome than the one in Internet Explorer, and both refer to different logo files with different image sizes.

Did they also notice that the size of the entire page is different? The font is heavier weighted in IE, the logo is larger, and the text box is significantly larger.

Sounds like a design choice, IMO, probably due to the different text rendering (among other things) between WebKit and IE / Cleartype.
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> Employees aren't going to have the same motivation unless they get the same rewards.

Not at all. I work relatively long hours now, in my regular job at Mozilla. You know why? Because I love it! If I'm bored, I work, because that's what I do in my spare time too.

The point is intrinsic motivation. You're talking about extrinsic motivation. The latter will never be as good as the former.

> My applications to multiple startups, including YC startups, have been stopped because they say things like "Make this the most important thing in your life."

I think if you're applying for startups, you should apply to one at a later stage. I can't think of many startups who can afford to take on early employees who aren't putting their life-and-soul into it. There's nothing wrong with you not to want to do this, of course.
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Actually, we'd bought the domain in 2005. It seemed like the right thing to do later on.

Remember that nobody had really done domain names like that (maybe cr.yp.to? i also have had burri.to for 15 years...) in a big way before, so it wasn't clear that it was a bad idea at the time.

Some of the other domains, like http://delicio.us/ worked correctly too. I wonder if Yahoo! kept them all.
> How can I help you get to the 100% happiness point?

* add support for websocket

* add support for webgl

* make it cross-platform

* make trident open source

Yes, I do realize the last two are very unlikely and probably webgl too as MS tends to boycot everything opengl but if they added SVG maybe there is hope for this one.
From PosiesCafe blog: "When I talked to Lucinda today, she asked if there was a cap on how many were sold to help protect the business from too much loss, and the simple answer is, no. When you sign up for Groupon, you are agreeing to sell as many as get sold… and why would Groupon want it any other way? They get half of the earnings."

From Groublogpon: "Also, to clarify one important point: it has always been Groupon policy to allow merchants to cap deals. If a merchant sells too many Groupons, they’ll have a bad experience, the customer will have a bad experience, and therefore, Groupon loses."
Well, I hope they do, and soon. Been reading the code, and it's.. not good :(
Well, clearly I have some experience now. I've immersed myself in this world for the last few months. That's not long, of course, but I basically did this for 100 hours per week. I may not be an expert now, but I think I know enough to have an informed perspective.
And in diaspora's case, customizations for your community.
http://www.quickoffice.com/quickoffice_connect_suite_android...

They just started with this. I'll be curious to see how it works out.
You have the causality backwards. There is always "speculation" anytime there is an opportunity to buy something that one thinks can be resold at a profit. The real estate bubble, by inflating the prices of homes, increased the opportunities for successful speculation. The main cause of the bubble was cheap mortgages which allowed the price inflation to get so out of control. The speculation was a result of the problems, not their cause. And most real estate speculators were hammered worse than anyone else, except their creditors, when the bubble burst - always a risk with speculation.
whoops, just realized that should say "Google has always been FOR net neutrality".
With Google saying Android not quite ready for tablet purposes (http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20016085-260.html) and Samsung not actually announced the tablet, this is such an empty "article", except for the tornado warning bit (I'm currently away from the city so that was interesting).
Wow this is some next-generation William Gibson-esq shit right here.

As far as who its attacking if the PLC payloads could be unencrypted it might reveal that they attack a certain kind of device, or perhaps in a certain installation or configuration. Finding out exactly what those payloads doing will be the most interesting, and revealing of all. The Symantec article says that the payloads have changed over time, as well.
"It is a arguably a matter of degree, not kind."

Then don't just assert it; argue for it.
They do some great work. The Nexys2 is one of the few genuinely open FPGA boards out there.
Here's a category interface in a shipping iPhone app of mine:

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@end
Would it? I know this is a different scale of breach, but AFAIK region-free DVD players are everywhere.
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The large logo could well be a A/B test that Google may be running. I saw the large logo in Chrome earlier this week.
I think what happened is that people read Gruber’s post without stopping to figure out the context (frankly, not all that hard to figure out, but apparently just hard enough). To be fair, he could have been a bit more explicit about what this is all about instead of assuming his readers have been paying attention to the story.

I’m also pretty disappointed in the responses in this discussion though. One of the most knee-jerk lowest signal-to-noise discussions I’ve ever seen here.
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Domize (https://domize.com/) and Wordoid (http://wordoid.com/) both seem really useful
Gamification won't make your site fun - it's a fun way train and engage users.
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One of my favorite features of the current generation of browsers is built-in sync support. Particularly chrome, which syncs bookmarks, add-ons, form data, etc.

In terms of features, I think that's my one and only request of IE9- everything else comes down to performance and usability :)
That blurb by the end about having to implement it in hardware seems silly to me - surely there are software blueray players, right?

There might even be a market for an open source one, like there are open source dvd players, and they would be able to decrypt these movies using this key.
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At the moment, yes. Once it's decentralized, not.
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Quite a few of Woothemes/Templatic templates are available in Drupal flavors as well.. and they look to be cheaper as well.

Given that I can run Drupal w/ Postgres (the DB I'm already using), its a nice value proposition.
"For someone to use this information to unlock anything, they would have to implement it in silicon -- make a computer chip,"

I admit I know little to nothing about HDCP, but this sounds like BS to me. What about things like FPGAs?

And why can't it be done in software? Not enough raw processing power?
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Funny, I think of how I use social networking to talk to those I can't see, or I'm not around. The entire idea fits the term more than the term fits it. We are all seeking connectedness.
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In the Netherlands, law (dis)agrees with you.

Disagrees: Banks are obliged to make a honest effort of preventing that from happening.

Agrees: another way to look at that is that, alongside the mortgage, banks do give financial advice. Part of that is answering the question "can I afford this?". If they ignore that, you could call that "lying or otherwise being fraudulent".
> I thought this bit was a bit condescending, and starts the response off on a sarcastic note:

I didn't read that as sarcastic or condescending, but maybe it's because I already spent time watching all the Groupon site videos? There vibe is pretty friendly, lighthearted, and helpful - I bet there actually was a cupcake place that ran out as a notable experience, and that's why they write about it.

> he problem is not so much that they can't satisfy the demand (though there is some of that in some cases) but that it's a cost sink that didn't generate the promised increase in "regular" customers.

This is true, yes. I think a business owner should look at their desired customer base - the bagel shop it's a great play, because everyone buys quick food, and maybe Groupon users can shift to buying their bagels. For a slightly formal upscale cafe like Posies, you're trying to capture people's "sit down at an expensive environment" [1] time, which seems like it wouldn't convert as well long term. Groupon users might do it once for the experience, but people generally budget much less time and money for formal relaxing experiences, so you'd have a harder time displacing it.

[1] http://posiescafe.com/wp/?page_id=76 - Their coffee is compares reasonably to Starbucks at $2 to $3 a cup, their sandwiches around $9... they've got wines and beers from $3 to $7 per glass. I think this puts them in a tough spot where they're both upmarket/a slight luxury in most people's eyes, but still don't have crazy profit margins like an ultra-premium place.

My analysis:

I think Groupon is good for businesses that do high volume that want to replace people's regular common routine (a sandwich, hot dog, drink, whatever), low cost businesses that the Groupon demographic would keep using (inexpensive nail salons), and for places with no marginal cost (Chelsea Piers for instance, museums, other places where all the expenses are operating the place and there's no significant space constraints). I think slightly upmarket, not quick places would be one of the worst performers in Groupon if they couldn't at least break even on the Groupons.
I worked out of Pivotal's office for a few months. That sounds about right.
Since when needs decryption to be done in silicon? That's P.R. A captured data stream can be decrypted "offline" in as many time as is needed. Storing the stream for offline decryption however does need an immense storage capacity. But we all know, storage capacity is steadily increasing.
I am not going to claim that it is either of those, except possibility impressive to Ms Right, depending on who she is.

But it will help you get consulting gigs if you can say you wrote a book about X, where X is somewhat related to the consulting.

Whether that is worth it to you, is obviously something you would have to decided. I would by any book about how to run a small software company, organic seo, ab testing with rails or similar you write and I do believe many other here would too.
Because they write interesting articles.
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There are other ways to get XSS bugs than bad html escaping. For example, if you redirect to a user-provided location, they can inject javascript and/or http headers.
Perhaps you would be interested in just licensing someone the commercial reproduction+modification rights for your posts, then?
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In the context of his RSS feed it is pretty clear.
Still restart prompts after installation ? Come on, it's just a browser.

Anyway, I think it's good that they released a modern, standards compliant browser. However, I won't be switching anytime soon, since they don't provide versions for other operating systems (ubuntu is my desktop os).
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