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> As far as tweaking in production goes, its usually better to launch and iterate, than to sit and try to make it perfect before launch.

So tweak on a staging site is my point (and has been all along). If I refresh the page and suddenly the bottom footer is no longer in the center but flush left (with dead white filling the right), that looks sloppy. I'm not saying hold up the launch, I'm saying try your changes on a non-visible site.

To reiterate what I mean here: you should not be running vim on the box hosting www.videolan.org. I watched you do it earlier today.

Commit those changes as a unit, then pull them over to production. Half-baked edits to production should never happen on a public-facing site, especially with $20/mo VPS providers that can spin you up a server in minutes.
I no longer even use a menu bar at all. It took a few days to get used to it but I don't miss it.
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besides being harsh - why does she reject it?

Her reasons were that she showing that she believed in her children when they did not believe in themselves.

Now I definitely have to read the book. I just read her wsj post.
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maybe its okay to lose some precision as everybody knows that doubles are already inaccurate? :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#Accuracy_problem...
It is not true that Rails 3 is dependent on Prototype.js. It is just that it is what Rails started with. You cannot just get rid of something that will break backward-compatibility.

Btw, Rails 3.1 will start supporting jQuery. https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/708e09448ba41c45f189c6...

That's a commit of mine. But, it won't be in the official release of any 3.0.X. It is currently only on the master trunk and soon it will be released together with Rails 3.1.

To answer your second question, I don't think that anyone in the Rails community will say that SC is the future of Rails 3 even though two of the core contributors of Rails are involved in SC.

And, don't forget that 37 Signals which is the company started Rails is going to release their Cinco javascript framework.
Polished or not, the ability to remotely install apps on the phone is a killer feature!
You are correct. A legal entity of any type is not going to protect anyone given the typical underfunded HN startup profile.

The great thing about technology/web based businesses is that they don't take much capital to start.

Unfortunately probably the single most important factor in determining whether a legal entity will be respected when it comes to liability is whether the entity has sufficient assets given the character and nature of the business.

So, for a business that is started with say $100K and maintains some assets thereafter, pretty straightforward that shareholders, limited partners, members, etc. will not be personally liable. However, if it starts with $1 and you keep a few hundred to a few thousand in cash or other assets in the business, it's not going to shield you personally.
(Of course, you also need to respect all the other formalities, accounting, regular meetings, authorizations to act, etc.)

Probably the best thing about using some type of legal entity is (as you mentioned) is that it makes it easier and provides more clarity to "who owns what" when there is more than one person involved in the company.
Thank God.

Seriously, this restores some of my faith in bureaucrats.

[edit] Interesting information from replies. I'll not be so quick to restore faith in the future.
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Many activities become enjoyable after a certain amount of mastery. Overcoming the initial hurdles is not fun and it's important to stick with it but it seems like some Chinese parents overdo it. If you just give up because you can not overcome certain initial hurdles then you might miss out on something worthwhile but if after the initial hurdles you're still not liking it then it might be a good idea to pick up something else.
This article reflects a constant theme in American innovation. Capitalism by itself does not demand innovation, but its militant thirst for resources does. What Stephenson calls lock-in is a product of a system that demands maximal efficiency of resources within an organization, but huge waste across the culture. Think of the empty flatbeds driven across Iraq to inflate cost plus contracts, drug companies competing to produce chemical analog drugs, or three drug stores selling identical products on a single corner.

The modern Capitalist attitude among modern business schools is that research and development is a cost center which must be minimized. This was a major element of Carly Fiorina's plan to cut HP to profitability. However, tremendous resources are thrown into marginal technologies in order to redundantly market and protect them.

Most great innovations in American culture seemed to occur due to a great existential need by our military. The Internet was designed as a communications network to survive nuclear attack. Rockets, as Stephenson pointed out, were improved for ICBMs. Most alternative fuel research is funded by the DoD to provide alternatives for tanks and jets in case our nation gets cut-off from its oil supply.

As someone who has run for office twice, I deeply understand that lobbyists exist largely to make money flow regardless of the suitability of a given contractor or product. I doubt our current military-industrial-congressional complex is independent enough to provide groundbreaking developments when incremental improvements suffice. Military lobbyists have become too powerful and too monetarily influential to the candidate that wins.
I love online shirt designs / prints / creativity. I'm a regular fan of shirt woot, threadless, design by humans, etc. etc. Great job capitalizing on a fast trend, you can use the income to reinvest into other ideas and fast trend products.
"Job creation" at its finest.
I'm sure this idea will help some people become more productive. Not people like me, though. Maybe I just get easily distracted, but I make small deals with myself when working through a mundane (but important) task.

Deals like:

- "15 more minutes and you can get a coffee".

- "You can't look at HN until 4pm".

- You get the picture.

A clock helps immensely with this. Sometimes a task feels like it's taking forever, but it's only been half an hour.
You may also end up with schedule C income anyway if your legal entity provides you with a dividend or other payment outside your regular salary, and you are likely to want to do that anyway because non-salary distributions are not subject to social security taxes - saves you 15%.
Usually I leverage the insults to fuel my productivity in order to prove the woman wrong.

I guess it also depends on the type of rejection though.
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Does the bulk import send everyone a resubscribe message? I've got a very small list (sub 100 people) of customers and prospects that I meet with IRL, and I don't want to annoy them by asking them to subscribe again to a list they've already subscribed to.
At Exxon, they used to switch people every several years. The way it worked was:

year 1 - learn to do this new position

year 2 - actually do it correctly

year 3 - now that you can do it correctly, can you improve it? Do you enjoy it and want to stay doing it?
This is true. And I understand that if you suck at something, the only way to get better is to confront the fact that you suck at it and work on it.

I guess it's just hard to process that there's someone out there who knows a ton about me and based on that, wants nothing to do with me. I feel like my startup could get a buyout offer tomorrow and that fact would still be ringing in my ears.
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Without a clock in sight ... I'd just spend the entire day on Hacker News and not even realize it.
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Wow on the idea, wow on the execution, and wow on the design! Out of curiosity:

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I'd love to see a write-up on your final takeaway on this. I know it's a bit personal, but it'd be inspiring to see.
No, that's not correct at all.

Under OCILLA/DMCA, counter-notification cannot be accepted by your provider and is not legally usable unless access to the alleged offending material has been completely prevented. 17 USC 512(d)(3). The material must stay removed completely for at minimum 10 (ten) business days and at most 14 (fourteen) business days to allow the complainant to file suit or otherwise obtain an injunction if they so desire. 17 USC 512(g)(2)(B) and (C). That's with a counter notice; without one, the material can never be restored.

So, your scenario then becomes:

- Wolfire > Apple: DMCA
- Apple > Pirate: We have received a DMCA and removed it
- Pirate > Apple: Counter notice
- Apple > Wolfire: Here's a counter, we will restore in 10 days unless you sue
- (10 business days)
- Apple > Pirate: OK, it's back

After the waiting period, you or the provider can restore access with the DMCA's blessing. DMCA only requires providers to "act expeditiously" to remove access to material, so what "expeditiously" means is left to interpretation. I doubt Apple would leave anything up for long, though.

When you get a serious DMCA complaint -- meaning, not one of the automatic-fire BitTorrent ones from MediaSentry or whatever -- try a counter-notice without removing the content and see what your provider does. If they abide by the law, they'll immediately reject it and ask you politely to remove the content, or they will for you.

But wait, you say, doesn't that encourage frivolous DMCA complaints to remove content from the Internet that I do not agree with? All I have to do is file a well-prepared DMCA complaint that asserts copyright and the content is federally required to disappear?

Answer: Yes.

(IANAL, but I have researched it extensively to draft policy.)
If you think that "Chrome" was chosen for any reason other than a direct reference to the widespread usage of the term with regard to Mozilla, you're crazy; i.e., if you have an agenda to name someone to blame for muddying the waters, pointing the finger at the Chrome team would be far more apropos.
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I think this is exactly the situation that would have evolved if government did not support monopolies.

There are economies of scale for utilities and there are economies of corruption and waste for government. Without coercion, we'd have neighborhood ownership of the last mile and multiple entities competing to connect them.
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Here's a hard question (I know because I've gone through it recently): What's the least amount you would take for the site?

My experience on flippa has given me some interest, but it seems all the buyers are only interested in existing, stable revenue streams, and not a project that will take some work.
This is wonderful news. I was planning to attend my first 'rally' on saturday to protest UBB. I was shocked at how even non techies cared so much about this issue.

I hope the monopolies(rogers&bell) don't try less subtle ways to achieve their goals.
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The Liberals may be forcing an election soon, and after tens of thousands of complaint emails, the decision was an easy way to gain a couple percentage points in the polls. This was a no-brainer for the incumbent Conservatives, but their swiftness in resolving the issue was really impressive.
Still, it would mean that registering on match.com only increases your chances by 0.4%
At a guess I'd say that's what happens when you click 'more' on a page that's too old for 'more' to mean anything in that context.
Unfortunately there are also fireman, police, city managers, political assistants, etc. who make $150,000 to $450,000 a year, and will retire with 90% of that salary per year for LIFE (I kid you not). That's where all CA taxes (corporate, property, sales, you name it) will end up going. The reason why is that the unions control lots of voters, and politicians that wanted to get elected became beholden to those unions and gave them contracts 20 years ago that the state can't afford.
Singapore might be an OK fit for me. I live in Darwin, Australia. It's a few thousand kilometres away, to be sure, but a hell of a lot closer than the valley, Vancouver or Amsterdam. Plus there are direct flights a few times per week.

Hmmm.
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First thing to do is to get rid of the justified text. Stick with ragged-right (flush left). Then you can make a better judgement of correct line spacing after the word spacing is no longer so inconsistent.
So Google, by doing this, has created up to a hundred or so bogus entries in the Bing database, to which I say, "big whoop". If Google had to pay damages for the extra infrastructure that Microsoft requires, the stamp to mail the check would be more than the check itself.

What I would classify as an attack is if, through a similar process, Google introduced bogus entries for real search terms, which they don't claim to have done.
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You might want to keep an eye on that Pay Pal account - the "pay me now and I'll send you $stuff in a few weeks" pattern is exactly the sort of thing that trips their "might be fraud, lock the account and keep all the money for 6 months" response.
He runs http://beetnikaesthetics.com/ so this is an off shoot of what he does already.

Nice site for sure..
Could you post a follow up statistics in a week or so? As this is a one shot sort of deal I wouldn't imagine you feel the need to keep the numbers under wraps.
My first thought after looking at it was: "What exactly do you do?" I know it's well explained, but I should know within a few seconds. I agreed with antidaily since it says what it is.
I hope it leads to change in the future. We still have the fundamental flaw that third party ISP's need to piggy back on the big 3.
Technical error: I can't see plans or pricing, no matter if I select the red or blue pill so to speak (sign up or cancel).
The bureaucrats (CRTC) were the ones who tried to force this on the population. Elected officials decided to reverse the decision. The Conservatives first said they would send the decision back for "reconsideration" and then Harper chimed in with a more definitive reversal stance. The Liberals came out earlier saying they were against UBB. The New Democrats have always been fairly progressive about the web and are also against UBB. Even the separatist Bloc Quebecois and Green Party were both voicing concern with the decision. There was no major political party in favour of the decision.

We get into these kinds of messes because the CRTC is a bunch of unelected bureaucrats playing musical chairs in and out of executive positions at Rogers, Bell, Telus, etc.. It is most perplexing because if you've dealt with other bureaucrats in Canada, most of them at least care about their jobs and try to look out for the public good. We can joke at their expense about how they have all these perks and what not. But most do uphold the laws and regulations they're sworn to. And since they tend to outlast elected governments, these are the people that actually keep programs that we depend on, like health care, running. But the CRTC? It's the lone hold out of the bunch. I pretty much have nothing good to say about that organization. I would not be sad in the least if they were dissolved.
The stock photography is a real turn off for me.
It might be a sensitive question for you. If you use PayPal as a payment platform, do they charge you income tax or will you have to claim income tax by yourself?
I've been through it twice. Just ignore everything she said. You'll meet someone soon enough that will see positive where this last girl saw negative.

Sounds like she's on a power trip that most likely is fueled by her own unhappiness / insecurities. Save for a few historical figues, I don't think most people could be considered objectively bad.
Uh... the health care bill is projected to reduce the deficit, mostly due to decreased consumption of Medicare/Medicaid (because more people on those plans would be covered in the private sector). The current FOX news bugabooo "individual mandate" is, in fact, one of the "tricks" used to prevent the costs from being borne directly by the federal budget.

Now, one might argue that this is essentially the equivalent of a tax increase, and that's sort of true. The left wing version of that argument is that it's a dumb and complicated scheme when it would have been simpler to just raise revenue and pay for health care directly.

But the core point is that whoever told you the health care bill "increases the deficit" was lying to you.
I don't mean to flood the comments here, but I figure each concept deserves it's own thread so others can add.

The concept seems promising, and could be a step closer to pulling in users to provide feedback. You earned my respect for having South Park characters in your about page :)
In some ways, I'm envious of Canada's swift reversal of this horrible idea. In the US, we wouldn't have the populist outcry to force action, and even if we did, it would be met with only a token change to the legislation that would succeed at shutting most people up.
no firefox?
any word on revenue figures for this? kudos.
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I checked the statute. You're right about a DMCA notice / counternotice exchange essentially requiring a minimum of 10 days of the disputed content being offline. Thanks, I like learning things.
That was his first sentence, but this is his second sentence:

If you let a kid do what he wants, he'll eat coco-puffs, watch TV and eventually turn to drugs and booze.
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Making the developer guess as to context is my least favorite way to file a bug report.
Good idea. Since I want to use some of this for JS tutorials - I may provide some inline boxes that the reader can then modify in-situ.
The second half of this article reads like it was written by Bell or Rogers.

The problem with UBB is not caps, per se, but the fact that the caps were absurdly small and overage fees grossly exceeded the cost of bandwidth. Not to mention that they were introduced at the same time as Netflix launched in Canada, and the providers' own TV-over-IP services were exempt.

I dumped my $120/mo Bell Expressvu subscription last month in favor of Netflix and AppleTV. Why should I pay over a thousand dollars a year when I don't watch 98% of what it provides? UBB is just Bell saying 'screw you, we'll get that pound of flesh one way or another.'
As an aside (this is the first time I have noted this) is anyone else annoyed by Techcrunch having a "read more" link on the article page that links to Mobilecrunch? Seems like having your cake and eating it too page view wise. Surely just redirecting to the main article when I visit it is fine?
Well if that isn't a ray of sunshine in a turd-sea of announcements regarding the state of the Internet.
I don't really see this as a problem. This is in fact what search is all about. Some human makes an association between A and B, and a major search engine picks up on that. Google has algorithms for picking up on these associations, and so does Bing. It just so happens that some of those associations have passed through Google's servers before reaching Bing. The point is that Google is not creating these associations. They're algorithmically picking them up from others, just as Bing is doing.

Btw good job with the disagree downvotes guys.
I had about 50GB of backed up data with mozy for that last 3 years, growing from ~20GB when i started. I've been paying $5 per month for almost 3 years now, which means I have paid ~50 a year (very rough to take out transaction fees and bandwidth fees, etc). That should buy them at least 320GB of average sata disk drives per year (assuming all money going into storage).

This means for "unlimited" they can recoup 6x the storage i was using per year through my fees. So the question becomes why it's not sustainable? Too large a company and not sustainable due to employee salaries? Not economical enough storage prices (ie using enterprise SAS disks rather than cheap SATA)? I'm guessing since they buy large quantities of disks, they could get drives for even cheaper than what you get on NewEgg.

This is why I believe that this model _is_ sustainable, assuming that it's done right. Also why I switched from Mozy to Backblaze because I felt that Mozy was gouging me by taking away their unlimited plan and replacing it with a tiered plan.
I do something similar in that I asked my girlfriend to change the password to her Netflix account and not tell me what she changed it to so I cannot use it when I am not with her. When it is time for us to watch an instant video, I put a virtual keyboard on the screen, hand her a wireless mouse and she types in the password while I avert my eyes. (Note that this only helps if I remember to log out of Netflix when we are done for the evening.)

I am aware that many (most?) people are made uncomfortable by restrictions, even ones they chose with an unclouded mind, but I seem to like them if they reduce my need to exert willpower to resist temptation and do not get in the way too much.
I still don't understand how this is not cheating.

Microsoft has lifted Google's SERPs verbatim for a particular search ... what else is there to discuss?
Amazing this was 22 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2093662
I don't have the clock turned off, but all of the other cognitive distractions were removed long ago, particularly notifications of any sort. Sometimes I forget how distracting that stuff was because it's the first thing I do when I set up any new computer. For me, the clock isn't a distraction, but a popup for any of the million things that can happen on the intertubes is ridiculously distracting.

If I'm in focus mode, I'll also quit Adium, fire up think, and use Vitamin-R to do a pomodoro session. Works well for me, YMMV.
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No. They were able to put 1 million people into the streets with the internet cut off.

But it does help.
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Characterizing it as "copying" is what's ambiguous. This can easily be seen by reading most discussions about this. People are arguing past each other, armed with their own personal definition of "copying". The facts are that make-believe search results showed up on Bing after Google intentionally tried to train Bing to pick up the association. Declaring this to be "copying" is begging the question.