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But if they were GPL only, it's much more likely they'd ask for assigned copyright, in order to achieve the same thing.

To be completely 110% "open" you'd GPL (or even AGPL) and not ask for assignment, which would level the playing field for everyone. But it's not common for business sponsored projects, or required to be Free Software. And again, even RMS accepts that there are strategic reasons to use non-copyleft licences for e.g. audio and video codecs as widespread adoption of proprietary alternatives would harm Free Software.
What do you do about disputes in the case of 50-50 ownership? In particular, what do you do if one founder wants to fire the other founder?

I've heard of a so-called "shotgun clause". It's analogous to the problem of fairly cutting a cake. One person cuts, the other person gets to pick a piece. IIRC, in the shotgun clause, one founder can demand that the other founder leave, and names a price for the company. If the other founder wants to stay, he can buy out the first founder for the named price. This sounds reasonable, except that founders might not actually have the money to buy out the other founder.
It was just an example; food is equally expensive, and many consumer goods are roughly double the US equivalent price.
I think acangiano was referring to the current Facebook claim (http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-lawsuit-paul-ceglia-...).
We're going for Braintree as well. Have heard many great things about them.
A form with just the persons name and email and optionally organization and how they plan to use the software. Something similar but much shorter from the optional one already on the download page.

Its the full version without any restrictions except it contains a watermark that links back to the site.

Even if I did put a compulsory form I would make it clear that you'll only be contacted for suggestions on product direction and never ever a sales pitch.
I had the same issue when I registered a domain. But if you go ahead and put content on it and use the same word on Twitter or inbound links, eventually Google drops the "did you mean ..." since it is clear this new phrase/word exists and has links.
They also have control over when they set their breaks

So... maybe they routinely take a break after a particularly emotionally trying or complicated case? Then we only need demonstrate the messy cases are more likely to produce an unfavorable decision.
"English degrees, on the other hand, do not ordinarily teach or imply possession of commercially valuable skills."

Writing is an integral (I'd say a keystone) component of an English degree: The critique and analysis of others' writing as well as your own. Additionally, the development of said writing skills is supplemented with supportive activities such as peer review of others' papers and theses as well as incidentals such as submission to academic journals and creative writing periodicals, both on- and off-campus.

That's why newsdesks and tech writing bullpens as well as copywriting departments often require an English degree; it infers a seasoned level of both creative and expository writing and a supposition of deadline steadfastness (in the context of writing) that is simply not taught in any other concentration.

But, you're right. Degrees of any stripe shouldn't determine the fitness of one's abilities in the real world. After all, Larry Wall studied music and linguistics (with the intent on transcribing and creating a writing system for indigenous African tribal languages) in college, then turned around and created Perl while working at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Yes, that is one of the reasons I haven't put the form anyone can just fill it with gibberish just to get to the download. But I have asked a few people who have compulsory forms and all of them say that people fill them in and mostly accurately. So I don't know its confusing.

The note sounds like a good idea.

I'm hesitant to ask for specific feedback since its Silverlight and not Html 5 or something cooler. Most people will be instantly turned off.
Exacto. I'm very excited about their program and totally supportive, but I just left a light-hearted comment/jab about the paradoxical geographical requirement in light of this blog post :D
In the years I've been using haml my experience has been exactly the opposite. Haml discourages excessive code in the template, reduces noise, makes the document structure immediately obvious and places emphasis on classes, ids, element names and attributes, making it easier to work with CSS and Javascript. As a result, its benefits become even more obvious as templates become larger and more complex.
Are you suggesting that Ebonics evolved from Newfies?
Is your intranet discriminatory?
Chomsky's idea wasn't that there was a strong inductive bias in language learning, it was that language isn't learned at all [...] It's because, acc. to Chomsky and his followers ("Modern Linguists"), Greek and English are really the same language, and kids don't LEARN this language, called "Universal Grammar," they GROW it. What they DO learn is the values of some "parameters" that cause different instantiations of UG to appear superficially different, like Greek and English.

At least from the perspective of machine learning, those seem like similar claims to me! A very common form of strong inductive bias is that the learner has a parameterized model class, and is learning model parameters. For mathematical simplicity the models are usually simpler than anything towards the upper ends of the Chomsky hierarchy, but there's no particular reason the model class can't involve a regular expression or context-free or context-sensitive grammar.

My impression of the UG proponents is that they think the size of the parameter space is quite small relative to the total size of the symbol-protocol space, so the language-learning problem is greatly simplified, perhaps so much that it's not even worth calling it learning (but that seems like a philosophical dispute with a gray area). The way to argue against that afaict would be to somehow show that in fact the minimal size of the parameter space is quite large. Perhaps computational methods don't make that feasible to do currently though, hence the focus on a genealogical analysis of one particular language feature.
Keep the user waiting for 30 seconds with...
So the user has to hold his finger on a device plugged to the iPhone that can feel pressure for 'round 20 seconds, do you got any idea on how to keep the user waiting 20-30 seconds without having him go bored?
The actual waiting time varies depending on the user, but it will be roughly around that time.
One idea which I don't like is a bird that flies, and the pressure keeps the bird "stabilized". The "game" won't be any vibrations or sound.
It's basically a "dynamic" progress bar that gets annoying after a while. And everytime you use the app you have to go through that.
The idea I like, is the actual heart-rate monitor. Seeing the pulse in realtime by having your finger on the Device.

Any thoughts?
I see that this article cites "fatty liver = insulin resistance" and correlates that directly to sugar ingestion. Well and good - I don't want to be foie gras. But this article also suggests that going off sugar quickly causes the fatty liver to remediate itself - or at least so in lab animals, such problem "promptly goes away". How prompt is this effect in people? Failure rates on commonplace diets seems to make me think it isn't all that swift a process. Anyone have any good stats/links/refs?
Looking at this photo:

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/shuttle041311/s_d0...

I can't help but picture a storied old workhorse complicity plodding to it's demise. Just think of the places this thing has been! It's somehow a sad picture.

It's going to be dismantled (killed), 'made safe' (sterilized), and put on public display (put up in stocks). Outta go out with a bit more glory.
This is fascinating. Descending order by salary is interesting. A lot of obvious typos, but a few interesting nuggets:

WALT DISNEY PICTURES
500 SOUTH BUENA VISTA STREET
BURBANK
CA
91521-0153
Marketing Managers
PRESIDENT, MARKETING
850000

VOLKSWAGEN GROUP OF AMERICA, INC.
2200 FERDINAND PORSCHE DRIVE
HERNDON
VA
20171
11-1011.00
Chief Executives
CEO
564000

And the very large number of physicians in the $500k-$600k bracket. Due to insurance reasons?
I'd just rather have colour codes. Threshholds of 5, 10, 25, 45, 75+ or something along those lines.

Points trigger a certain response among some people. The ones that get sucked into WoW for example simply because they have this impulse of getting all the best gear. Works with points as well.
Only part way through that article you linked to, but it is fascinating. The part that includes Moore's rant against local variables crystallized an idea that had been bubbling around in my subconscious for some time. Very often the only reason I find I am writing a local variable is to make an expression with several sub-parts easier to see the sub-expression values in gdb. This wouldn't be quite so necessary if the debugger had a syntax for saying "list the sub expressions of this statement" and for saying "print sub-expression #N". For instance, with the debugger stopped just before a line like x = foo(bar(a,b), blat(c,d)); "list subs" -> "0: bar(a,b), 0.1: a, 0.2: b, 1: blat(c,d), 1.1: c, 2.1: d." then just typing something like sub0 would print the value of bar(a,b)."

Of course lacking such a facility I just end up scattering extra locals even though I end up feeling like the output is rather archaic. a = ...; b = ...; c = f(a,b);
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I only became a user some day in 1999/2000, but still it's impressive how Linux has changed and developed since then. I literarily could see void bubbles above people's head when talking about Linux. if only they would have known that there mobile is running on Linux in 2010 ...
for years i've been very impressed with how well the original approach worked, and I tend to get downvoted a lot, being a bit of a troll now and again. I don't oppose a new approach, but I do think it is on the hook for compelling evidence of improvement. hacker news has aged well in the same way that the constitution has, considering Internet time.
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Any chance of making the script open source? I'd love to give it a try for my classes.
Why not be aware of the "rules" (rather than ignoring them), but break them when you need to? By and large, they seem like good advice, as long as you take them with a grain of salt?
I prefer HN with points displayed on comments.
1168 points

I prefer HN without points displayed on comments. 989 points

Ah, welcome my creatures of the night. You have brought victory after a close contest. Seriously, it is interesting that early evening USA saw an almost perfect 50-50 split (384-382 at 9pm PST), but as daytime moves west across Asia towards Europe, there's been a strong trend towards points.

Paul, this might be worth exploring in more depth, breaking out by age or timezone for example.
I can say the same is in Istanbul and Baku, iPhones are used for games only, its nice to have an iPhone but its percieved as really cool to use Blackberry as a phone for daily use.
I prefer HN with points initially hidden, but displayed after a while. This way ratings are not as susceptible to group think.
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I'm a solo founder for my first two startups (the second of which has pretty much stalled because of my lack of available resources). My third startup is a 50/50 split.
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In that case, you might as well just have numbers, since you can correlate numbers with colors, at that point.

I would rather see colors indicating the "heat" of a comment. That is, its numbers, in relation to other numbers in the thread. In other words, you wouldn't have the following:

Blue == 5+
Yellow == 10+
Orange == 20+
Red == 50+

Instead, you would have:

Blue == average score in this thread/topic
Yellow == 5% higher score than other posts in this thread/topic
Orange == 10% higher score than other posts in this thread/topic
Red == 20% higher score than other posts in this thread/topic

This would help provide a more meaningful context for what posts are rising to the top in that particular conversation and the highest would always rise to the top. The top 20% of comments would always be the top 20% of comments, even if the lowest scored comment in the entire discussion is +10 points.
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in an ideal world, none of the founds will need the money to pay rent or pay for child care etc, they'd all be young guys with no debt living at home.

The fact that one founder may have bills to pay, and him being the only guy having to cash in very early, will beat the morale out of him: he'll be working as an employee. This is also your guy whose tolerance for risk is the lowest precisely because he's got bills to pay. He might as well quit and go work 9-5 for steady pay in that case.
This is exceptionally bad advice. 90% of startups fail, give or take. By far the most likely outcome is that you will be selling this company for less than you put in to it. If you do not give preferred shares to the founder who actually invested, then that person will not be first in line to get their money back.

Example: Alice puts in $250k. Alice and Bob split the company 60/40, common shares. After a year, there's $100k left in the bank, and Alice and Bob decide to call it quits. At this point, Bob leaves with $40k. If Alice had preferred shares, she would get more of her money back.

But even preferred shares are a terrible idea. The right thing is to give the founder a convertible note. That means the founder has debt if the company folds early (and gets his/her money back), and if the company raises a financing round, they just convert on those terms in to the same preferred shares as the subsequent investors.
I haven't done enough research about available options, but most probably you could extend your subscriber base quite significantly offering a print edition to old europeans without ridiculously high shipping costs. would be awesome to receive it here on paper ...
How will you manage to get the pulse from just the touchscreen?
The ordering is influenced by other factors, I guess either the post length or the average karma of the poster...

My understanding is that average karma of the poster influences it. I used to be more impressed but my average karma score has been as high as about 6 but most of the time sits somewhere around 2, give or take. One good debate where multiple comments of mine got substantially upvoted raised it that high and then it steadily slid (ie regularly changed if you checked it) until it was back down to around 2. Maybe other people have high averages that are more stable than mine but this experience has changed my view of average karma and made me somewhat less impressed. From what I gather, it's a moving, weighted average. It isn't the average across all comments for all of your history. I can understand the logic of that -- if average for all comments were used and you have been here forever and your comment quality has gone up, a million old comments that were never voted up could prevent you from ever seeing any substantial improvements in that area. But, like all such things, it's a bit of a game in some sense.
This was one of the best experiences of my life, you won't regret applying. Had the wonderful opportunity of getting to know the other founders whilst working side by side and going through preparing for DDay, DDay and fundraising together. The mentors are amazing and their advice has been invaluable.
- advertising: yes (I'm assuming this is 'how to do advertising', not 'advertising for someone else's product)

- SEO: yes (same)

- people selling useless web app: this is just how you look at it; in many cases, it's people who want feedback on their experimental ideas. Which I think is fine.

- ppl pushing affiliate links: no, but they didn't used to be here, either

- tax optimisation: yes

- blog promotion: as long as they're blogs on the topics of the forum, yes

Many things on the list are described in a negative way, so it's only natural that they're undesirable. But I don't see them that often (like affiliate links - they're quite rare as far as I can tell) and I used to think that Youtube was useless, too.
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Why didn't you just link to http://blog.profitably.com/post/4064020554/a-tale-of-two-fin... instead of http://5z8.info/uniqueinvestmentopportunity_h8e8mk_facebook-... ?
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I was for not displaying points initially, but after a few days of using the site in this way I'm for displaying the points again. The strongest reasons are:

1) It is harder to scan for good content.
2) Even if I want to read everything, when my knowledge about something is too weak to evaluate the real value of a comment, I can no longer use the wisdom of the crowd to make an idea.
3) Sometimes to resonate with a comment like a question like "Please can you point me to the source code?" the best thing to do is to upvote, so that it is easy for people willing to reply to evaluate if the effort is forth it. There are many instances of this case.

So all in all it was better with points IMHO even if there are advantages without points.
If you are using something like app -> db calls to be done automatically on a server, hashed passwords won't help since the script usually requires a stored non-hashed key unless it accepts hashed keys. Even then, if the password or hashed password is exposed, the hacker can still use it to access the database via your app.

Maybe you want decentralised permissions of multiple database users? They can't quite get or do most things.

Or centralised and/or put into a locked down file that can only be accessed by the OS user for parsing scripts eg www-data.

More references:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722487.aspx#EIA...

http://us.php.net/manual/en/security.php (Or check your relevant manual)

http://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/12/13/the-lessons-of-g...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3173698/how-safe-is-code-...
"Go to a market in Italy and try to buy anything without haggling. They can negotiate the price of a $10 necklace."

Maybe this happens to tourists but it is definetely not the rule for locals.
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For that to be fair, you'd have to set a super high interest rate on the loan.

Why? Hypothetically someone could take a standard loan and use that. That would be cumbersome, and sometimes impossible, but it wouldn't require a "super high" interest rate.

They both work as hard and they both share the same risks. If they fail, the IOU still applies. One just happen to have more money stashed away.
I look at all those and think bay area or Boston. NYC has Columbia, NYU, CCNY/CUNY and some spill over from SUNY's versus Berkeley, Stanford, SFSU, CCSF, SJSU, UCSC, and a bunch of other smaller colleges.

Also, I can't imagine the living cost in NYC is really that much than SF/Silicon Valley. I mean, I pay $950/mo for a nice room in a decent house in SF, and even in Menlo Park I payed $750.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/19/real_estate/housing_affordab...
Welcome wblackall to HN. Inspiring journey. I hope you keep up with it and go far with your efforts.
Inspires me to look at all the things that we coders are not familiar with and approach it with the same enthusiasm as you do.
Isn't the ideal outcome of all this a site where the comment threads are worth reading in full instead of skimming?

If there are so many skimmable comments in a thread that not having points gets to be annoying because you have to sift...well, then the experiment has failed.

But if on the other hand there are just plain fewer comments, which does seem like a possible outcome in the mid-range, and those comments are of higher quality...well, experiment has succeeded!
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Doing so would be in violation of ITAR among other laws:

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That is not how paxos works. It guarantees that all hosts in the system learn the same sequence of writes. The scenario where "one host accepts the write and two fail" does not happen. This is proved in http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/paxos-simpl...
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Do the credit card numbers ever travel via your server? Even temporarily in memory? If so you are liable for PCI-DSS section C, which is a LOT of hoops to jump through.

Spreedly saves you from that.
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For me, the great thing about the web is that it is geographically agnostic.

I haven't found that to be entirely true for me as an individual. The closest online friendships I have had typically involved a lot of live chat of some sort -- exchanges basically in real time when we are both online at the same time (whether via a chat system or ongoing email exchange or some such). When I moved from West Coast to East Coast, this damaged some relationships. Moving from night-shift to day-shift had a similar impact. I'm prone to insomnia and have had quite a few relationships with people in distant lands who happened to be online at the same time I was when I was up during night. When I start sleeping better again, it can be hard on the relationship. So while where I live is not the only thing which impacts this, it does have an impact.

I don't think it's just me. I've known a couple of Americans who worked with people in India who either kept odd hours to facilitate that (an entrepreneur/consultant) or routinely had their regular sleep schedule interrupted by middle-of-the-night calls (supervisor at a big company with a team in India).
Hope they do an iPad app!
and even better - have the iPad app sync the timeline position with the iPhone app so you can tread your stream on either..
I completely agree :) great folks all around -- top notch founders and advisors.
The searchyc concern is a good point. Maybe the points could start being displayed a couple of days after the comment was initially posted?
A really solid experience with great mentors, founders and speakers.