skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A portion of that convenience fee you pay gets handed back to the decision maker who chose to go with Ticketmaster. New players who don't screw their customers can't compete because they don't have that extra money to offer as a bribe.
I've seen a proposal to throw out all the existing states, and partition the US into several regions, where if two areas were adjacent and were similar geographically, agriculturally, and economically, they would be in the same region. Boundaries would thus tend to be along things like mountain ranges, major bodies of water, and the like.

I have been unable to find this proposal via Google. I seem to recall it had around a dozen regions, or maybe twice that.
Oops, my bad. I mistakenly thought the 'db error' notice was for today.

I retract the 'very' in my original parent comment, replacing it with 'usually'.
On the other hand, the idea of search engine companies blocking autocomplete keywords is a new concept that isn't taken into account by existing definitions of censorship. Regardless of how you define censorship, the core concept is that censorship is blocking content that is deemed inappropriate. Google is essentially blocking content that is deemed inappropriate under some standard, so therefore it is censorship.

English is a constantly evolving language. Words' definitions aren't set in stone once they're entered into the dictionary.
Ok, I don't think $150k will actually make you less poor, nor make you work any less. What it does allow is a little more leeway, say if you have bills that need to be paid. Maybe you are not right out of college so car payments, house payments, etc... might need to be paid while you take 3 to 6 months off form work. I like that it shakes things up in the VC & Angel world because they need to be shaken up. You are dealing with statups, you can't be risk averse... go invest in mutual funds if you don't want risk.

Congrats YC and Yuri, wise investments. Oh, this is not a bubble this is the same pattern that came about in the 1930's and 1940's with Great Depression and the auto industry. It's simply happening again with the internet industry (steam engine == bubble/economically unfeasible long term && combustion engine == years of growth/redistribution of power and wealth; dial-up == bubble/economically unfeasible long term && mobile/high speed == years of growth/redistribution of power and wealth)
I'm reading your comment to imply that Chinese are more interested in researching their production of malware.

But really, we'd need to know what proportion of leechers there are for other pirated software torrents before we could even think about drawing conclusions.
It would be nice if the states were permitted to run their states as if countries, without the incessant interference of the federal government.
If you have that much time on your hands, just use github as your main repository source and Redmine+Gitosis as a secondary? Everybody with a git clone has a full copy of everything.
I would also argue that Microsoft didn't put out Windows Seven on their first day of business.
They put out DOS, which they didn't even really create.

Try your best to do a simple product, it is hard enough as it is. And you'll get honest feedback from "simple" clients, which will be very useful if you want to create something with much more features down the road.
What is the point of this article? I've been able to watch Al Jazeera the past few days just fine, and I don't subscribe to any cable company. Why are these old media folks acting like television is still relevant?
That was basically the original conceptualization. It didn't work too well and was modified. IIRC, that political configuration has a history of failure whenever tried. (Maybe someone who is more of student of political history can elaborate. Not my strong point.)
Proportions are right on. Simple and probably easy get passed by the public... errr well maybe. Very good point.
This reminds me a little about about what happened with Mark Zuckerberg and the Winklevoss twins. Communication was cut off for a while and many excuses were made. However, if it makes you feel better, the twins now have a $150 million stake in Facebook. [1]

Anyways, I'm not sure if I have much advice. First thing should definitely be hiring a lawyer, though. You should probably refrain from posting anymore information here on HN as well. I've seen you've already removed some, which is good. We only need to hear the gist of the situation (for future reference).

Hope everything turns out well!

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I traced back to when you were first starting this project. One of the people commented and wrote:

I see these types of posts and it astonishes me that people will look for
cofounders "on the street."

I can't imagine that [ increases the odds of being successful -- but maybe I'm
wrong. Employee number 5 can be an unknown quantity,
but employee number 2? That would terrify me. [2]

This should be a warning to everybody else.

[1] - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/01/04/...

[2] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1625890
Abstraction is key when it comes to CPU's.

Do I know how to make a CPU? No. But you know what I do know- how to use transistors to make gates. How to use gates to make flip-flops, ALU's, and memory-mapped IO. How to make a pipeline out of flip-flops and ALU's. So on and so forth. Nobody can envision a whole CPU in their head right down to the gates, they rely on many layers of abstraction.
Yes, that seems the same as an Islamic sermon calling for the destruction of the Jewish race. I see the analogy, well played. You've completely countered berntb's point.
Scary..This is why I make sites alone without partnering anyone..But that takes too much off time..
is reliability the price of convenience, or the other way around?

edit: that makes no sense
Basically, he's investing in everything that YC is investing in, except he's investing at much worse terms than YC gets (that is, YC typically invests in companies at a valuation of a couple of hundred grand, while Series A rounds are typically at a significantly higher valuation than that). It may, in the end, pay off, but I don't think it's a good investment strategy to follow someone else's investments and pay systematically more than they did.
Past performance, as fund managers are always obliged to remind you, is no guarantee of future returns.
> Google isn't hosting the content nor have they stopped indexing and linking to it.

That makes it pointless, ineffective, and minor, but it doesn't necessarily make it not censorship though. In fact, that ineffective pointlessness is what the article is getting at. Why is it worth Google's and the Entertainment industry's time to do something so silly?
Java's major claim to fame is its cross platform compatibility. Sounds like Python is making its way across all platforms as well
I hate to be "Why is this on HN" guy, but why is this on HN?
Well obviously the grandparent should be read as "If my net wealth decreases over a year then should the fine give me money?"
I hope this has nothing to do with the people who hacked sourceforge..
What do Global Times, CRIENGLISH, and Confucius Institute have in common?
holy crap that's cool, the nes music at the end makes it the awesomest thing ever.
People need to be more carful with the terminology, not every editorial exercise is 'censorship'.

I'm pretty sure that Google would be unhappy with your characterization of their change as an "editorial exercise," as well. [I say this even as I agree that is what they are, in fact, doing.] Exercising editorial control potentially exposes them to additional liability for the content which they do choose to display.
I actually think Facebook is a pretty poor name, like Microsoft. Sometimes, the only reason why these names sound okay is because of repetition.
If you truly believe the idea has some merit then you should launch it. Looking at wikizu, it does not seem as if he is very far in development.

Unless you are out lots of money, you should let it be because lawyers cost money and time.
It works fine on my linux box. Is there anyway to adjust the screensize to full-screen?
Is Larry Page the Consummate Anti-Social CEO?
A major selling point of Git is the distributed part. You are allowed (even encouraged) to have more than one "source of truth". For ~7$/mo (including admin. and cheaper than Linode), GitHub is just another place to have a hosted version of your repo, with a nice UI and social features.

Shit happens, servers go down, that's why you also have a remote repo hosted on Linode, and X, and Y too.
It's also worth noting that the rods in your eyes are much more sensitive to low light than the cones in your eyes (which detect color). That's why it's hard to see color in low-light conditions.

So I had a fantastic surprise when I was photographing comet Hale-Bopp because it looked white to my eyes but when I developed the photos the camera had picked up that it had one red tail and one blue tail: http://imgur.com/XKJr1
1994 Katie Couric And Bryant Gumbel Try To Figure Out What This ‘Internet’ Is
I believe that AsbestOS (http://marcansoft.com/blog/2010/10/asbestos-running-linux-as... seems most authoritative) is what you're looking for. It's early; you need to netboot a PPC linux kernel, but that blog post mentions pretty much everything that you need to do to get linux running in GameOS. I can't find anything about a root-key signed version of AsbestOS that allows booting without the USB hack, but I could have sworn that I had found it earlier today. Maybe somebody else can give a link?
Both of which are protection for SF, not for the user. Personally, I use a utility called 1Password, which means I don't use the same password for very many sites. My point is that for those who do use the same password for SF as well as other sites, this move doesn't protect them. It only protects SF.

In short, I disagree with the wording of the title. This does nothing to protect users, it only protects SF.
What to do now? Send a stern email explaining the situation: you think he's ripping you off, if he can't produce evidence of a product being worked on or provide an explanation of where the money is, request the money back, if he can't provide that then I'd suggest contacting a lawyer (got any contracts?). If he can't explain where the money is, show a product or return the money, in that situation I'd suggest lawyering up.

It's possible he got sidetracked, or it was more work than expected, but money given as "marketing budget" for a product that he can't show exists should not have gone anywhere. If it was wages, or a fee for the work then sure he could explain it away, but marketing money? Having been in this situation on the other side, in my case I got extremely busy with work that was paying me directly and didn't have time for the side-project work, but I didn't take any money intended for post-launch and spend it in the interim... that crosses the line from slow/lazy to wilfully ripping someone off.

If he had spent the money to keep himself afloat while he worked with money coming in from other means later on that he intended to pay you back with (or sneak back into the marketing money without you knowing) that could explain it, but if there is no product to show that can't be the reason.

tl:dr; if he took money, can't account for the spending and refuses to show a product (eg: it doesn't exist) lawyer up.
Well, it has winners and losers.

The winners are the poor (who don't get around by car anyway) and the very rich (who think that five pounds a day is a small price to pay in order to have somewhat less traffic). The losers are everyone else.

The biggest winner is always the politicians, who get chauffered around in cars which are exempt from the charge, and find that they no longer have to wait in traffic. This is why such schemes are disturbingly popular among politicians.
True, it's always tough to judge a name of a company that has already taken off. You'll either like it because of hearing it so much or dislike it because you think you'll have a bias if you went the other way. The truth is that you'll have a bias no matter what you choose.
Complex problems don't always need complex solutions. Elegant solutions tend to be superior anyway. You can add bells and whistles later, to keep it fresh and growing, so your target market doesn't move on to the next 'ooh, shiny'.
Who doesn't want free money? I don't need $150k, but if someone offered a zero-interest loan with a repayment date I can push off arbitrarily long, why wouldn't I take it before they changed their mind?
Deals fall through. Money in your bank account doesn't.

http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html
Major Seattle highways have variable speed limits now, same constant traffic jams as before.
A google search including his name and "scammer" brings up results, as does one with a pseudonym he uses for various sites.

This is pretty weak evidence. Google searches for "Colin Percival" +scammer and cperciva +scammer find a few dozen results too.
I have no programming experience. All I bring to the table is the idea, and some money.
How much longer until I can implant a camcorder in my eye and think about taking a video, having it take a video, then watching it again whenever I want?
Financing your startup: How to sell stock without going to jail
It's just you.

My team uses dozens of private repos hundreds of times a day and everything's been smooth for the past few months, aside from the disruptions noted on their status blog.
My idea along these lines, which I may have explained in this forum before, is to replace one of the houses of parliament (or congress, or whatever you call your local bicameral legislature) with the "House of Taxpayers", where representatives are elected by taxpayers whose vote counts in proportion to how much tax they pay. The other house remains a "House of Commons" where the one man/one vote rule applies.

The point of this idea is that every new piece of legislation must be approved (in effect) by two groups: the people who are affected by it (everybody) and the people who have to pay for it (disproportionately the rich).
New York, too, has a divide between the Southern ("downstate") area of the state (New York City and the surrounding metropolitan area) and the Northern ("upstate," though this is sometimes used as a casual description of any place north of where one is). The two have different priorities for funding (the south needs transit subsidies, the north agricultural ones) and very little compromise (nor between parties). There are many parts of upstate New York that are closer to Boston than The City and root for the Red Socks.
I've wondered where Quora plans to obtain monetization too. I've seen no clue of that, and the company has been in beta for six months, followed by "production" for another six-seven months up through the present.

Facebook requires you to use your real name too. Which is not a great sign, given your point about Quora!

One thing I'd mention regarding Quora, which I've used. When you answer a question, you have the option to make your answer anonymous, or, make it "not for redistribution" which means I presume no linking to it.

I don't know if that also means it is unavailable to Google search crawls, as you referred to when mentioning "site:quora.com". That doesn't show EVERYTHING I've written on Quora, but it does find almost everything!
It's not _just_ him. Right now, it's me too.
I basically told him that I don't understand anything about computers, and that I'd like some proof to appease my concerns. An easy way would be for him to send the money back, and since initially he had claimed to be very well-off, he certainly had the money to spend. He could have lied about being so well-off, I suppose.
To paint this as Apple vs Microsoft is to miss the bigger point. Regardless of how you trivialize the experience the author had with Windows, many people share it. Hell, a lot of the same is true for OS X; even with the app store. Likewise, the experience on the iPad is just as the author describes. The bigger question is, which will people prefer?

This is where it gets much broader. This isn't Microsoft vs Apple. This is space shuttle vs passenger car. One you simply get in and drive. The other you need a lot of training and a hell of an intellect to operate. I think it's pretty obvious which one your average person is going to prefer.
Hey Guys, check out our startup Frequency. You can see quite a bit of al jazeera.
http://www.frequency.com/aljazeera
They do actually give away money - although with some strings attached (like your government not using open source!)

IKEA itself - not the owner - is a charity, registered in Holland to be in the Eu but actually in the Dutch antilles so they don't pay Dutch tax and they can keep secret any donations
As a doctor who has seen implants, long-standing implants, get infected, let me urge you to never, ever want this.
Why can't we have a web interface for GitHub?

I should be push a new release right from my browser.
> There's nothing stopping anyone else from making similar deals, including you.

SEC Accredited Investor Status.
[F11]?
Putting aside the completely unsourced FUD in your comment, clearly MEMRI does have an agenda. Personally I rarely visit that site and wouldn't get my news from it. But my question was why would you consider a network that is openly financed by Qatar objective, and an organization that is not financed by Israel "Israeli PR"?
Okay. Well for the future then: When you see someone being successful at any trend, piggyback on them. The lets you piggyback their research and hard work, but participate in the upside. If Anna Wintour says leggings are in, they're in. If Warren Buffett starts buying up aerogel companies - get in! If PG anoints some dotcoms, drop some pocket change on them all.

NB: This is regardless of whether you agree with the trend or not. I think leggings are hideous, but I won't argue with Anna Wintour. This is purely business, personal feelings have no place here. If someone is throwing out information asymmetrically (They're talking, you're not) take it.
"We will consider showing people sample items for a given zipcode based on feedback."

That's what I was looking for when I first went to the site; it didn't occur to me that I could only see local sales items by E-mail.

If I find a site that offers useful info, but I have to keep going back to get that info, then an E-mail sub looks quite inviting. But if the only way to see if this is going to be useful is to first sign up, I'm much less motivated.

Anyway, nice job, hope you do well with this.
This is an interesting theory, but it isn't how git's client actually works. If the repository exported a list of "mirrors" to the client that it then stored and was willing to use, that would be awesome, but otherwise you have a million people out there who are now just getting error messages when they do "git pull" and the only fix is for them to go back to your web page and try to get information on what is happening and where else they can switch their origin. Meanwhile, if you do your own hosting you can just update your DNS to point to another box and no one is the wiser.

They key problem, frankly, is that GitHub conflates two entirely unrelated things: a nice UI and social features, and a hosted version of your repo. I love the idea of outsourcing a nice UI and having cool social features, and /maybe/ to make those features work they need to have a mirror of my repository (I'm not convinced), but when people go to pull it the URL listed should be the actual upstream "I own the DNS on this and feel I can make this stable in the long term", not the GitHub mirror.
It will probably change who applies more than it will change who gets accepted. A lot of people reason that YCombinator is 6% of your company for ~$20k, are discouraged by the implicit valuation, assume (incorrectly) that the other parts of it probably aren't worth very much, and discard the idea of applying to YCombinator. This deal makes it obvious there's more value than the initial investment and makes application more compelling.
But what about the racist results? That's just as verboten in the office.

An experiment: try typing "nig" in the google search box. I think the results are somewhat localised, but I get "Nigella Lawson", "Night Noodle Markets" and "Nightmare on Elm Street".

But type another "G" and autosuggest vanishes completely.

And talk of torrents doesn't qualify by this standard.

No, but it does count as enticing people towards criminal activity, which would quite arguably be against Google's "Don't Be Evil" policy.

Another thing I couldn't get any autosuggest results for: "How to commit su..."
Not sure how this is relevant. Github isn't hosted on any cloud.

http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2009/09/github-designing-succe...
Don't ccd cameras also see in a slightly larger wavelengths? I seem to remember unfiltered ccds from normal cameras that could see IR flashlights.
We better shutdown and close all the libraries and bookstores too. The page-to-eye data transfer protocols are evil, we need to crack down on this kind of piracy.
He might change his mind.

(Or he might die of a heart attack, or the Russian government might seize his assets, or any number of other unlikely scenarios might make him unable to close the deal.)
It is an extraordinarily generous deal, and I can imagine many reasons to accept on the spot, some of them good. That said, I might have gone and cooled my head somewhere while thinking things through, and possibly chatting with a lawyer or other advisor. I preface the following comment with "We're all businessmen and know how this game works, right?" because it may sound greedy or contrary-to-the-communal-spirit : if you have just told me you want to invest $150k at hyper generous terms without knowing anything about me, I have reason to suspect that a five minute conversation has a high probability of leading to a better offer. ("Hiya, you just offered 150k sight unseen. Salient fact: our traction is... Cool huh? Would you be interested in investing more than $150k at the terms mentioned earlier?")

I suspect that $150k is the lowest possible outcome of that conversation.
Well, here's the beauty of Github--if they lose all my repos I just don't care. Since I've got a copy of my repos locally, there's absolutely nothing they can lose... Worse case if they go completely down for a couple days I can still collaborate using ssh or "git send-email".

This is the only reason I decided to use Github after avoiding Sourceforge and their ilk for the past decade and a half.
Actually, every rich tax payer should be given a free trip to developing countries where poverty and crime is rampant, and the rich are forced to live in gilded prisons because it is so unsafe outside.
Location of 16k recent U.S. Mechanical Turk Workers
"Ever" is too broad. What about a genetically engineered, personally tailored biological implant? It may be in the distant future, but I'll guess it'll one day be possible.
You mean this cloud? http://cloud.github.com/
Google is essentially blocking content that is deemed inappropriate under some standard, so therefore it is censorship.

A fun exercise: what else would count as censorship under this rather expanded definition? For instance, if I run a bookstore then am I "censoring" every book I don't carry?
It was sarcasm gone awry.
You are just making things up.