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Actually they don't use ADB but rather implemented their own USB protocol, which is why it doesn't work on current devices. See also this rant here: http://romfont.com/2011/05/11/a-closer-look-at-googles-open-...
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who is liable now, though? I recall learning about technical errors leading to some devastating, or potentially devastating problems, but the builders weren't necessarily held liable to the full degree?

I imagine there would have to be some sort of blackbox device like airplanes in for safety, learning and obviously insurance purposes...
"If you earn $100K a year and your pants cost $15 then you have a problem"

Disagree. If you go to second-hand stores or flea markets, you can find great deals. And in fact, you constantly wear vintage, that's a specific style that speaks just as loud as wearing a luxury brand.

That said, you are right about fit. I think it's actually better to get cheaper stuff but spend the 'savings' on tailoring because that has much greater benefits than the brand.
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"The system's running smoothly, so why am I paying IT?"
"The system's down again, so why am I paying IT?"
Experimental broadband management app could keep ISPs honest
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Code (supposedly) linked from http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/05/finally-source-code-of-...
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I don't drink coffee. I have. Sometimes I have tea when it's around. They're both very successful at doing absolutely nothing for me, so much so that up until a couple years ago, I wasn't convinced that everyone is just bullshitting about it. Much like when you'd go to a house party in high school and people who've had very little (or perhaps unknowingly, nothing at all) go on about how drunk they are.
I think it's an exceptionally rude comment. There's no way that the fellow is going to find it helpful in any way, and it's seriously demeaning to offer the unasked-for "advice" that their hobby is probably not worth pursuing further, and maybe they should just go do something else instead. If you have to preface your words with "Not trying to be a dick, but..." perhaps you should just leave them in your mouth.

I found the asker's response to be amazingly gracious. I would have been rather rude in return.
> All of a sudden they'll be breaking the law unless they hand over half a million to the government.

Or put up a few coins for a surety bond. If you're a financial startup and your investors don't trust you enough to put up bond money, you should probably find a different niche (or investors).
For big companies Microsoft owns email, and is in the process of owning voicemail, since it's part of Exchange now. They want to run your phone system too, but Cisco is the leader in that space at the Enterprise, and a bunch of telco/cable companies in the SMB space.

So how is Microsoft competing?

In the enterprise, they embed the phone (Lync) technology pervasively and throughout their platform. So, without doing anything, I can click to call from SharePoint, email or SMS from an Office app, videochat from PowerPoint. They're exposing the communications mechanisms everywhere.

IMO, this Skype thing is intended to do the same thing, but on the consumer and SMB side. Unified communications for the millions of people using Hotmail/Live and Skype -- and for the millions of business people who DO NOT have UC today. Skype gives them consumers in Europe and small business everywhere.

One of the holes in Office 365 is a voice offering for smaller companies -- the pricepoint for the full Exchange/Lync suite is really high unless you have 10,000+ seats. So you can give small companies with little money access to unified communications, buy accessories like handsets and speakerphones from the same partner (Polycom) and eventually graduate into the enterprise offerings.
Ask HN: Input on changing equity allocation
Hello HN-ers,

I have a question for folks who have some experience with equity splits before. We are building a Social Game on Facebook and I am one of three co-founders of a startup with the following equity split:

1. Person A: 60%
2. Person B: 28%
3. Me: 12%

The above was calculated based on risk, time-commitment, idea premium and some other factors. So basically:

1. Person A: Full time on project, brought the idea. Non-technical cofounder, but brings in game design/mechanics experience.

2. Person B: Part time on project (kept a 3 day job to pay bills). Technical co-founder engineer.

3. Me: Moonlighting and weekends (couldn't go full time for reasons that involved visa)

We have been working on and launched a product over the last year. The risks have not changed since We have no outside investments( interviewed at YC twice but didn't make it). So the risks necessarily have not changed since last year besides the product going out (which in my opinion is the least of the risk compared to distribution, virality, raising money etc).

The current state of the product: We have about 10K MAUs and 1K DAUs. We are not distributing or marketing like crazy yet, because we feel like the product needs work to retain users a bit more before we do that. Our k-factor is also not where it needs to be yet.

What's changin: So the deal now is that Person B, and myself are going full skin into the game giving up all our gigs. Obviously, since the risk profile is changing, we feel like the equity allocation needs to be revisited.

It's an open ended question, but if folks here have opinions on what instrument/knobs to use here based on the data I gave, please do so. I would appreciate it if these are answers based on past experience, or something they have seen (as opposed to a subjective opinion).

Thanks!
I think a well-articulated and unconfusing policy on refunds goes a LONG way. As does ease of customer service process. If you nail these two things, in my experience, then questions about where to draw the line with refunds become almost academic.

Customers don't like headaches. The goal of customer service isn't to bow down to the customer at all costs, but rather, to minimize or alleviate headaches.
You are right at that corner where this will become possible. Before 18 months, there is no way. But at 18 months, they usually can play independently for longer periods, and you should be able to put some time into work. The older they get, the easier it gets.

But I have two recommendations:

1) Find activities they can get caught up in for long periods of time - drawing, crafts, or something like that. You need them to be nearby, but independently occupied.

2) Find work that doesn't require being "in the zone". You won't get a solid 2 hour block of time. You will get interrupted often. If you choose work that will suffer from frequent interruptions, you will struggle to succeed.
Oh, I know there are guys who are into clothing and hair and all of that, just as much as there are guys who only wear one color of clothing (so everything always matches!) and usually take a trusted female along to make sure they don't do anything too stupid.

But that is a case where someone has chosen to care. If you have an interest in something, it's completely different than someone volunteering their opinion that you suck at it and need someone to do it the right way for you. Especially if it is of no interest to you or you're fine with your own choices, thank-you-very-much. What they're really saying is "let me help you, so that I'll stop judging you".
True, but an exchange market could really pop up anywhere at any time and disappear just as quickly. People could liquidate through Craigslist if they really needed to. If the BTCs have enough distribution and momentum, it'll be around a long time.
> The thing is, managers actually -like- being informed on a weekly (or even daily!) basis!

This. As a coder, I like to be left alone and allowed to focus on the same thing for long periods of time. Interruptions break my train of thought, and task switching is mentally costly. Thus, out of courtesy, I used to make a habit of leaving managers undisturbed except during designated weekly meetings or via the occasional email if something important came up.

It took me a long time to realise that managers are not like coders. Being informed makes their job easier - especially when you're ahead, but especially if you're falling behind.
It's because they are pulling in the small image and than scaling it up instead of using the bigger one and scaling it down.

One they use: http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/1181691748/vs_black_logo_...

One they should use: http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/1181691748/vs_black_logo....
In this case, the whole cut :)
Does Skype actually route voice traffic through a supernode? I thought it was just routing TCP/UDP requests to open up ports behind a NAT'd router. As well, supernodes may also be handling some authentication traffic. But I'm not 100% familiar with Skype's protocol.
The money-moving startup that can't cough up $25k to post a bond isn't scaring PayPal or Western Union.
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Apple releases iOS 4.3.3 WebKit source, but stretches the spirit of the LGPL
There are all sorts of gray areas here that Apple will have to get called out on.

Third party payments are a great example. Say I sell an app that lets you pay for movie rentals at a RedBox kiosk that does so by letting you select and purchase on your phone/tablet and sending the right instructions to the RedBox servers so that your rental is prepaid when you arrive at the box.

Do I owe 30% of what was paid to RedBox even if I as the app developer am not RedBox?

Then let's talk declining balance accounts, a subcategory of the above. For example, your lunch money account at college. Your mom might put $500 on that account at the beginning of the school year from her home computer. You then use your phone in the food areas on campus to pay from your lunch account.

Is this considered a virtual currency and therefore Apple gets 30% every time you pay for lunch? It definitely is based on how I read Apple's agreement.

-Jeff
If you're already making $100K a year you don't have a problem to begin with. If your lack of ability to make friends and influence people prevents you from making said money in the first place, then yes you may have a problem.
Intellectual property and the economy: Patently absurd
Self directed effort is the best kind
If you're not specifically interested in learning the bowels of DirectX, you might be better off starting with C# and the Xna framework from Microsoft. It gives you a much simpler API to work against, and the use of managed code means you can really worry about designing and implementing a game instead of developing the details of rendering, audio, input handling, and asset pipelines.

You still get all of the great DirectX abilities without all the headaches of C++ and the DX API. It's a hell of a lot less verbose to boot.

Edit: with a small fee, you can then also use Xna to develop and release titles for the Xbox 360 without having to rewrite everything in C++ and DX9.
Agreed, and I saw the "No thanks, just show me the video" message too. This is still annoying.

At times there is also a large popup nag to sign up for the newsletter or something like that on the site (I was already signed up because I like the content btw)

I really like what Andrew does and I feel like these kinds of aggressive moves might have some negative effects on the brand.

Meetup.com does similar annoying things with a nag screen to tweet about a meetup you singed up for or are attenting and there are no profile settings to make them go away so they come back whenever you switch browsers or reset safari etc.

Anyway, know your audience and stay classy please.
1. You have to do what makes you happy and comfortable
2. Do not I repeat DO NOT let yourself be bullied by anyone who makes snide comments about what works for you

The feelings you have are natural for a parent. Even if you don't work - you'll feel guilt over many other things.

So here are some tips from a female who works from home.

Try for a job that allows flexibility. Some of my best hours of work are from 8pm-12am.

Instead of a 'day care' perhaps someone in your neighborhood babysits children. My next door neighbor has a little play group that all the mothers are super happy with and my son literally bursts through the play group door. He is ready to leave the second he wakes up.

If your job pays well perhaps a babysitter who comes to your house while you work can be a possibility. They can also do light cleaning and perhaps help peel vegetables for supper etc.

Your 18 month old will not stay 18 months old forever. So perhaps now you might feel a bit of natural guilt but children are resilient and your baby will be fine. My mom worked all through our childhood and we had no resentment issues ever. Just make sure to give your baby lots of love and as much attention as you can.

Again - do not allow others to dictate how you feel. Do what works for you.
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I like the argument that says that when things are good, they are acting like private companies, but when they're bad, they're acting like governments; ergo, private companies good, governments bad.

Can we officially acknowledge that this part of the thread --- which is notionally about bonding requirements for money transfer companies, but is now discussing torture --- has officially gone off the rails?
> You wouldn't be screwed if your business operates in Bitcoins, and your customers pay you in Bitcoins.

At some point, you need actual money to do things like pay taxes. Last I checked, no government accepts Bitcoins for this.
Yeah, but in these use cases it's using a lot of traffic because the application of file transfer, and voice/video conversations use up a lot of bandwidth.

If we take, for example, an application like Bitcoin, it uses a minimal amount of data transfer because all it's doing is coordinating transactions and mining.

If take a simple use case like P2P text chat, would the bandwidth costs be all that bad compared to a cloud or client-server model?
"Guys, are you emotionally immature man-children who have long been considered 'adults' but still need mommy to help you purchase clothing? Don't boldly take on the responsibilities of adulthood, as your fathers did; celebrate your immaturity!"

I don't have a problem with anyone shopping by 'net, I'm a guy and yes, I do somewhat hate clothes shopping. However, I strongly object to the infantilization of the ostensibly adult men in these videos. There is a trend in our society towards perpetual boyhood and I think it's damaging to the male psyche. Just as women are told they're ugly and inadequate in order to sell them things, men are told they should never grow up or stop indulging themselves in childish ways (to the same end).

I like the business idea but please don't encourage and promote the man-boy image as laudable. Good, short article on the subject: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2526/

(for identity politicians: I am a 26yo man with 2 kids, I very much fit the "perpetual boyhood" template before I became a parent, and initially accepted my adult responsibilities only reluctantly. I'm not just speaking down here: this article describes me as well.)
Google lobbies Nevada to be first state for self-driving cars
I agree with you on most points.

I wouldn't do business with a payment company that can't afford a 500k expense. Requiring insurance for moving furniture is also important to me, I wouldn't let a company move my furniture without them offering a solid warranty.

What I question though is whose role it is to impose those requirements, the government or the customer? I believe it should be the customer's role.

> Personally, I think that if we're going to require bonds to move furniture, it seems sane to require a bond to move cash.

It is sane, but why not let companies choose whether or not they want to get licensed and let customers choose whether or not they want to take the risk of doing business with an unlicensed company. Note that I do not object laws that deal with misrepresentation, lying, breach of contract, etc.

Anyways, as you said, it's more a question of principle than anything particular about this specific regulation.
I don't think Vegas would be the starting point. Nevada is in the midst of massive unemployment numbers and a massive budget crises. There are a lot of people employed in Vegas as drivers of cabs, limos and other private services. Launching driverless car services in Vegas would likely meet with massive public resistance. I could see it as another tourist attraction for the strip I suppose but I wouldn't want to test autonomous vehicles there given the crappy traffic and idiotic/distracted drivers there.

I would probably start testing in the Carson City, Reno, Sparks area. You can get a flight from the bay to Reno that takes 45 minutes. If you need to take cars back and forth to Mountain View it is only a 3-4 hour drive. The capital is Carson City so if you need access to the legislature you have it. There's also very diverse geography and lots of public roads available for testing. If you need populated areas or unpopulated areas everything is here all while being a lot closer to Google than Las Vegas is.
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Google sets aside $500 million for potential settlement
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Perl's regexes are part of the syntax of the language. They're compiled when the script is. That's why the perl syntax is cleaner and the implementation more robust. A bug table of regexes to parse fields out of a record or whatnot looks natural (i.e. declarative) in perl; in python it's kind of a big, imperative mess.

Perl exception handling is quirky, but pretty clean. You raise an exception with die() and "try" a block with a simple eval. It's basically the same amount of syntax. The one bit perl lacks as a builtin is the type-based exception matching; you have to do that logic yourself.
Ask HN: HN like Reddit now (which became Digg); alternatives?
Notice the mainstreamy smell?
A few (minor) things:

The url is tvdinnr but the logo is tvdinner (notice the e). This makes it harder to remember the URL.

The search button isn't wide enough and looks broken (Firefox, OS X): http://d.pr/UHUT

When I search there's a weird red box in the upper right: http://d.pr/R72E

The "most discussed" videos have no comments, which seems strange.

My browser's back button works, but Cmd+Left doesn't. Is something trapping keypresses?

As someone else mentioned, there's a horizontal scrollbar when there doesn't need to be.
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Less evil: read about how duckduckgo uses Boss and Bing APIs

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/08/thoughts-on-yaho...

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and check http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets and infochimps, maybe dataset is already out there

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and ...never spider from home, you'll always screw something up: referrer HTTP header, user agent, random wait time between requests,

http://streamhacker.com/2010/10/04/perils-web-crawling/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2463058
see first comment
[Perl 5 exception handling works] through eval() which is a questionable design decision at best.

eval() and eval {} are very different constructs in Perl 5. The questionable design decision there is reusing the keyword.
If money transfer isn't lucrative, it seems weird to blame regulations for the fact that Google isn't staying involved with it.
heh, this reminds me of last years github outage: https://github.com/blog/744-today-s-outage#comment-9179
Oops, you're right, they do work when your iPhone is muted.
good concept, agree the logos at the bottom cheapen the site. Perhaps have them in greyscale as well, most would recognise those logos without the colours
"we have a strict no refund policy — and you should too"

I disagree. Stating that you have a no-questions-asked 30-day money-back guarantee will convince some people to sign up, because they known that if it doesn't work out for them the can always for their money back.

I've had this policy in place since day 1, and my refunds rate is less than 1%. That's in 3 years and over a heck a lot of sales.

Oh, and if people ask after day 30, or day 40, or even day 50 for their money back, I'll do it.
I do use StartSSL but the problem just comes from having multiple sub domains. I get IPv4 addresses for $0.50/mo/each but I'd rather not setup each subdomain on its own dedicated IP for the sakes of using free SSL certs.
Is this poking fun on GO?
"business owner" != "entrepreneur"

Its not exactly uncommon for people to own businesses and to then employ people to run the company for them. This is pretty much how most long established public companies work.
I don't see any of those as "unless ifs", but "whens". Gaming will come to the browser, first with HTML5 and NaCl. Offline access isn't a technical issue, we're just waiting on developers to implement when they feel it's necessary. JS is only getting faster and, combined with efforts like NaCl, we'll have native perf inside 5 years. Printing from my Cr-48 is already solved (Cloud Print is great), and we'll undoubtedly see scanning and camera solutions soon, one way or another. Native tablet apps will be killed by web apps in the same way native desktop apps were/are being.
Good to see that someone watched Capitalism: a Love Story and joined the fight.
Alternately, if you have the talent and personality, nobody cares what you dress like. At worst, you're eccentric.

I have a hard time believing there is anyone out there in the world who doesn't have the basic common sense to dress themselves well enough to make it at a job interview, a date, or some formal or semi-casual event. Nobody really needs help figuring out the four pieces of clothing that are appropriate and look fine on them, do they? If the advice they're paying for is that basic and simple, then I'm going to start a service where for only $10, I tell you to throw away your stupid junior high school AXE and replace it with something like a nice Bvlgari.

Look at Henry Rollins. Smart guy. A bit eccentric. Looks fine. Does it take a rocket scientist or a hired-hand to tell you that a nice pair of pants and a plain black tee shirt is a good look? Or that untied Converse and sweatpants isn't the way to score points with people who don't know you, yet?

Also, there's a world of difference between "let me dress you like you're my Ken doll, because you have to be hip to the latest fashions in this quarter's fashion magazine" and "hey, don't dress yourself like one of the Kids of Whidney High".
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Great point, it always good to have a level perspective when making a comparison.