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No,specifically, the affiliate target site violated their landing page policies (Good luck trying to get more clear details than that from them). I managed to contact them and they agreed to remove my violation if I changed the page at the offending URL. I repeatedly insisted that I was just advertising as an affiliate, and didn't control the actual site, therefore couldn't "change" it to fit their policies.. I could only stop advertising it on Adwords and on their platform. Removing it from Adwords wasn't enough though for them.. I had to actually take down a site I didn't own in order for them to be satisfied. So its not explicitly stated, but only advertise for sites you control. (No, it wasn't porn or anything illegal either)

Google, F*#@ you. Seriously.
> The wrong kind of reform.

I am curious why, in light of software and gene patents becoming increasingly more relevant and flawed, the order in which patents are filed becomes "the first overhaul of patent laws in six decades".
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Is the upgrade free/reimburses for the old package?
Ask HN: Python Meet up in KC
I'm interested in getting a KC group of Python Artisans together to discuss Python projects, and to learn how to effectively use the language for web, analytics, and automation. In my mind, this wouldn't be another meet up, but a learning session with a bias towards action.

Anyone interested?

Things I'd like to do:

1. Programming competitions using Python

2. Create benchmarks for Python frameworks and understand there differences b/w other web frameworks

3. Discussing projects worked on using the language.

4. Demystifying python semantics and syntax to newbies

5. Identifying issues w/ language or frameworks and contribute to open source projects.
The "Republican with a conscience" line is unfair. Life would be a lot easier if all the sociopaths in the world were on one side, and all the conscientious people on the other. But it's not like that.
Even if AB price testing isn't illegal, it certainly is anti-consumer.
4 PMs to 5 devs seems like overkill. why do this?
Honest question: does the Tolkien Estate have any legal grounding here ?

The way I look at it, if there was legal grounding, it might be a little quirky, as technically we won't be able to even mention any copyrighted/trademarked brand in casual texts. Imagine reviewing products and getting a take down notice at the end of that ? Doesn't make sense to me.
When my company was sold, it was done as an asset sale, rather than a stock sale, specifically so my business partner could keep the health insurance. He then paid for my policy in the post-sale "group" because it was cheaper for him to pay for him, his wife, me, and my wife, than it was for him to buy an individual policy for him and his wife.

(His wife had serious medical claims, and is essentially uninsurable without a bit of a group.)
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considered just pushing all your code to GH ?
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Whatever solution your choose, you should have a regular backup process.

It's not that gmail could lose your emails. It's that email could lose your emails.
You're not asking "can?", you're asking "please! hack a gmail account".

You should google a site called '4chan' and ask there.

This will be most educational to learn how the internet works socially.
Idea theft is something many people freak about, but in actuality it happens more infrequently than you think.

I have visited several inventor's guilds where complete strangers meet up and share ideas. At my first meeting I expected to sign some sort of non-disclosure or confidentiality document to protect others' ideas, but I never did! Several of the inventors explained why:

1.) If your idea is truly good, then only you know how to immediately implement it. You will be hard-pressed to find someone that thinks exactly like you and will be able to discover the nuances of your idea. Still exercise a little caution when explaining an idea and don't give away the punchline too early!

2.) Execution is always the key to success and frankly, you would be surprised by how few people there are who have the time and resources to effectively implement your idea. Chances are, those who try, will only scratch the surface of your idea's potential.

3.) If by some freakish chance someone does end up implementing your idea in the exact manner as you had dreamed, then you just found yourself a partner!
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It's possible we just know different people who prefer open spaces, but the questions I'm frequently asked are more specific variations on "How does Google's serving and indexing pipeline work?" and "What are the best practices for building JavaScript-heavy webapps in an environment where latency matters?"

There are obviously no books about those topics (well, there are some about the latter, but they're all wrong, and we have experimental data to prove it). And even if they were, they'd be out of date before they were published. Google's indexing system changed completely when Caffeine was launched last year - the only way to get information about it is to ask the people who're responsible for developing it. And the ecosystem surrounding the web is continually changing, and we keep running new experiments to keep up with it, because things that we were absolutely certain were true 5 years ago no longer are.
Your blatant partisanship isn't helpful either.

Pretty much every analyst has opposed employer-based health insurance, even though you dishonestly implied that conservative and libertarians were alone in that view.

Secondly, the tax credit was for $5k, which is a joke for anybody who knows what individual policies cost if you aren't in your 20s, or have any troubling medical history.

Thanks for your hypocrisy. Please drive through.
Again very dependent on the team. I've been in teams which specifically carved out time for this and also been in teams where prototyping/building crazy stuff was something you did all the time.
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What about new machines running Windows XP? That's just sad.
Moreover, this discussion is not helpful nor germane to the topic at hand.
I work in an open space. The office has some secluded spots with couches that people can go to with their laptops to work without distraction. They can also attempt to steal an unused meeting room if they need complete isolation.
Everything done at MSFT is based upon dev-test-pm triads where all members of the team have equal say in the product and decisions. This is true from the individual contributor level up to the VP level (where it starts to break down). Dev's report to dev leads, test to test leads, and PMs to PM leads. All PMs, including individual contributors, get laptops. They are the same level as developers, and more importantly, in a completely different hierarchy.

I'm not going to lie and say devs don't want laptops - of course they do. Everyone wants a free laptop. But guess what? I'm a PM at MSFT, and you know what I want? A second desktop and better monitors. Are these a status symbols for devs? No. Resources are fairly assigned based on need, and everyone at the company realizes that.

I should also point out that most senior devs do have laptops in my experience. It's the really new, junior guys that don't get them right away. There are communal resources if a dev really needs portability for a few days.
Let's please not have political discussions on HN.
Backing up e-mail is something hard to think about. Atleast, for this thing the service provider should take the responsibility.
If you are seriously looking for a cofounder, it would help if you posted your idea. You don't just want someone with experience, you want someone who has as much of a passion for your idea as you do.

It is also important to realize that an idea is worth next to nothing (and that many people have probably thought of the idea before you). What matters is the implementation and your ability to deliver what users want.
This is precisely why I loathe the political articles so much.

For instance, if I'm not mistaken, patio11, who is a great contributor here, has declared his Republicanness (sorry if that's not accurate), something I'm more or less opposed to in its current form in the US. I might find it fun to chat with him about that in person, but I do not want to get into political discussions with him here. First of all, because he has way more valuable ways to contribute his time in terms of discussing his startup, tech or whatever, and because... why introduce discord about a subject that's off-topic here.

I guess this article is closer to on-topic in that it certainly is pertinent to new startups in the US... but look where it got us already.
"iOS is far less usable and powerful than Android, but people like it more because it's visually pleasing."

I'd argue that iOS is far more usable than Android in addition to being visually pleasing.
well i guess it would boil down on what's the aim of your startup and with that, maybe you can pair your application with any of those available technologies that would best suit your need.
And for me, it hilighted some of what I've suspected for a while is wrong with Windows development.

I own a small company that handles a lot of end-users' various issues. Although I spend most of my time now coding, I spent more than my fair share of time working one-on-one with individuals and companies that were having problems with their systems. I still spend around 10 hours a week doing it.

My primary development machine is an aging laptop that can't even play YouTube videos any more without stuttering. I hate almost every minute of using it. It's slow, and limited, and it hangs.

So when I write something, I write it to work well on that laptop, because I know there are lots -- lots -- of people out there with similar old hardware, and to say they're frustrated with computers is an understatement.

How could a Windows developer possibly understand just how frustrating their product is when they spend all of their time using the most powerful hardware available?

How could they possibly understand that Windows file sharing in a mixed environment running SBS 2008 is still complete and miserable and utter garbage, when they're running on a network that hides those kinds of issues?

Their development process is great for their developers. No argument there, and I'm totally and unabashedly envious.

It's also terrible and completely wrong for most of their many users.
vote up if you want to live in a world with no patents whatsoever.
Jason, I remember you from back in the day... enjoyed your flickr series of photos where you blogged about setting up the then new Textdrive data center. That even got me to install open solaris and use it as a headless server for a while (and did not add to the downvote pounding you are taking here, FWIW). I don't see anything on the Joyent site about this upgrade offer to migrate off. In fact, I don't see a support section period. Do you have a link?
I'm kind of fond of Singapore's health care system...

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/01/singapores_heal....

http://blog.jparsons.net/2009/08/why-singapores-health-care-...
Anecdotally, the best system I've ever experienced was in Austria, which is some weird mish-mash of public and private which I never fully understood the details of. You have to have health insurance, but those companies are non-profits... or something like that. Here in Italy, it's government run, and suffers a bit from that, at times, although on the other hand, you have complete "peace of mind" in terms of not worrying about losing your job or something and being unable to take your child to the doctor.
Learning by Google: get 1,000,000 search results for every phrase you type in, no clue whether it's complete or even accurate, no clue when you've learned enough to be proficient.

Learn by book: get the information you need organized in a sensible fashion by someone who's an expert on the subject.

Learn by taking a course from an expert: all the advantages of learning by book, plus you get answers to your questions that may not be covered in the text, quizzes to reinforce what you've learned, practice exercises, etc.
From what I understand, Solaris killall is used in the final stages of system shutdown. Why it has to be on the default $PATH I'll never understand.
> ...solving “How do you tell if a number is even or odd” with clumsy solutions such as (x % 2). They don’t [...] come to the conclusion that (most) computers are digital machines, all you have to do is check the first bit (x & 1).

Not to be nitpicky, since your overall point still stands, but I'd argue that it's better to use a mathematical abstraction (modulo) than an optimization that's dependent on the way the data is stored (bitwise operations), particularly when the compiler will probably optimize it away anyway.
Right, sorry. I was speaking in the context of being an entrepreneur. If you are not self-employed, health care costs must clear 7.5% of your AIG before they are deductible.
Where did the stack go?
The problem is that coders and the designers are in a different world.

If contributed code to a project, I'd expect another coder who knew what they were doing to change it.

But what happened is more as if someone contributed code and then, say, a tech writer changed so it wouldn't compile and then checked the code in.

I suspect it's not so much that a designer want to have their design never change. Rather, they want someone reasonably competent change it. The programmer often doesn't even know that they've "broken" the design by changing a few pixels.
I don't mean to drag this out, since I largely agree with what you are saying, and it's true that the OP seems to focus on that.

However, his intro blurb specifically says that we are wrong in assuming that writing software is a "soul-crushing bureaucratic exercise." Which, as you point out, the post never really says anything more about.
No one forced the employees of his company to apply. There should not be restrictions on companies like this. I don't even think there should be a minimum wage. If the employees are walking in the door, and asking for a job, then it's their choice whether to take it or not.

When you raise the minimum wage, or require the employer to provide health insurance, you are closing the door on many potential employees and definitely increasing the unemployment rate.

Employees are paid according to their value. If you are making low wages it's either what you're worth, or because you're too stupid to realize you're being exploited.

I for one think people have a right to be either worthless or stupid, and therefore do not think business should be regulated in such a way.
> The drag on entrepreneurialism would significantly heavier if companies and individuals weren't allowed to freeload.

Measuring that difference is actually the methodology the linked study used; their main source of data was looking at the difference between people who had coverage via a spouse and those who didn't, then attempting to control for confounding variables. In effect people with coverage through a spouse serve as a "freeloaders" control group who are assumed not to suffer the health-insurance drag on entrepreneurship (or at least not to fully suffer it).
"Meanwhile free web content continues its race to the bottom: companies like Demand Media, Associated Content and – yeah – Aol have dropped any pretense of quality journalism in favour of churning out page after page of SEO horseshit. "

I disagree with his doomsday attitude, but only because I think the web will rebound. But his assessment of the current state are spot on. What % of the web is horseshit? 80? 90?
Great post. Burning Man is a much more valuable life experience than college. Many of the engineering projects people bring there are completely amazing and trump even the wildest accomplishments of CalTech students. What people are learning in mechanical and electrical engineering in the whole Maker Community for example is way beyond what is going on at the university level.
Most companies are nothing like Google.
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Thanks! That interview is much more interesting and informative than the OP.
Gödel, Escher, Bach is a bit more idiosyncratic, but covers some of the same topics (in an incredibly interesting way).
Indeed a great snowstorm(w\ tons of snow) in Tahoe ha. Following @sacca on twitter, I can tell 2010 year of Tiger was really good him. Happy for him.

This trend highlights again that, there are 3-4 companies that become thunder lizards and money just pours on them. As companies ready to go ipo, underwriters want to get early access and back stage tickets.

EDIT: Morgan Stanley takes facebook and JP Morgan takes twitter. Awesome to see underwriters paying upfront to own quality companies - shows how dry the ipo market is and how desperate underwriters are.
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Whoops , its damn confusing that 4 chan site
I want to open this
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is it possible ?
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Me too, but it's government run... Seems like your previous statement would preclude you from liking it.
Not to mention that there are many small PLs that don't have bitwise operators.
Oversampling only improves DACs (CD-plyers, sound cards), it does not solve anything for ADCs (mastering). When mastering a CD, the antialiasing filter still needs to shut off at 22.050 Hz and there is nothing oversampling can do to improve this.

You can use really long, linear-phase look-ahead FIR filters that are way better than the analogue IIR filters of the olden days, but the filter slopes still have to cut off between 18-22 kHz, which means some ~60dB+ per octave. A filter like this will always produce audible artifacts. This is pure physics and there is nothing we can do about this.
I don't know if this is what you were looking for, but one option would be the Fedora project.

General:
http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora

Specific Areas:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join#Content_Writer
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join#Designer

One of the proposed long term goals (still going through the approval process) for the Fedora project is to lower the barrier of entry for new members (Not a great link but one of the better ones that I could find: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2010-12...)

DISCLOSURE: I do work for Red Hat on the Fedora project but my interest in open source is also personal. I suggested this because it seemed appropriate and I'm familiar with it.
He's not talking about unfairness to the employees in this case, but to third parties who are neither the employer nor the employee. If a company doesn't offer health insurance or a salary sufficient to buy private coverage, then what happens when one of their employees gets seriously ill? Generally they will still receive some care (at least in serious enough cases), so someone has to pay for it. It will be either: 1) a different company, indirectly via their health insurance package, which covers the person in question as a spouse or child; or 2) hospitals or the government, if a patient ends up going to the ER and receiving care they can't pay for.
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This list does indeed appear to be a veritable who's who of the president's campaign supporters. Seems hypocritical to me. If it's good enough for the rest of us, it should be good enough for them too.

http://www.hhs.gov/ociio/regulations/approved_applications_f...
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Thank you for posting this. It's nice to see a startup article on here for a change that isn't about getting lots of investment money.

There are a few things I'd add, having done essentially what the article is about:

* Concentrate on making money, not on saving it. Saving money is important, but it's more important to continuously figure out how to grow your bootstrapped business, and it's easy to be distracted by various tactics for saving money.

* Focus on what's important for your particular business. I've poured a lot of time, money, and effort into various projects that weren't important to my business -- things like advertising, marketing, community projects. There's absolutely nothing wrong with those things, but they're probably not vital to your business in the first year or two.

* Do what you're good at, and

* Don't hesitate to farm out what you're bad at it. I'm terrible at bookkeeping, for example; it doesn't make sense for me to try to spend my time doing that, and making a mess of it, instead of having someone take care of it for me.

I bootstrapped by consulting while working a couple of part-time jobs. As the consulting work grew, I gradually freed myself from the jobs, and then as the consulting work finally merited getting more help, I've freed myself from that, too.

It's a classic old formula that works.
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Exactly. Unless you're going to allow people to die in the waiting room at the ER because they don't have insurance, someone is bearing the cost of treating the uninsured. It's either a spouse, the government, or everyone else who has insurance via higher premiums.
Do we actually need to contact support to be upgraded? My understanding from the old Shared Accelerator documentation[1] (which you seem to have deleted) was that we were supposed to wait to be offered a “golden ticket”, unless we absolutely needed to be upgraded ASAP.

Are you even still offering regular (not “cloud”) web hosting? I can't find it on Joyent's site anymore; it seems as if the Shared Accelerator plans are discontinued, too.

[1]: http://wiki.joyent.com/shared:kb:start

Edit: Found it. This is the page that implies that TextDrive users have needed to wait for a “golden ticket” to be offered to them: http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20090305040858/http://wiki....
Both finance and tech startup-related article. +1.

I thought I'd mention Sharespost. Its a good source to buy premarket stocks. They allow for shareholders (often internal stakeholders) to put their shares up for sale before IPO. Currently, Facebook and Linkedin are up for grabs. I found an interesting article on Linkedin's IPO earlier today. I'll start it in a new thread here in Hacker News.
If you ask nicely on 4chan then they will look into your problem for you. They are very good at hacking into accounts.
I would love to hear what some other HNers think of this
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Seems like by "designers" it means you would like contributions from "graphic designers", yeah?

Just my humble, but designers, like programmers, can grow as their knowledge and experience encompasses more techniques. From drawing to composition to color theory to typography to XHTML to CSS to Javascript to PHP to Perl to ASP.NET/C# etc, et, al.

So what kind of designer were you looking for?

BTW, from a visual design point of view, the classic education is to first use a monospace typeface at a single size, then use other typefaces and multiple fonts and weights, then get to the fancy curves and Photoshop bullshit. But honestly if the designer couldn't make it work in Courier, they may want to consider another career.

So there you go. Did you want gratuitous eye candy or did you want a talented and educated artist who also knew booleans, conditionals and how to hit up a database?
You missed the part where they said they were on a windows box trying to copy a file to their home directory. Instead of copying the file to the home directory, it made a file called ~.
The author seems to be pounding his chest about how efficient the MSFT code world is, but I was struck by how inefficient it all seemed. Is that just me?