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Having watched the back on forth on many contract reviews, "just DIY the contract review" is perilously bad advice. Thankfully, nobody gave it. You can DIY your company formation; the biggest risk you run is that you'll botch equity structure, but a lot of people don't care about that issue right away.
Yeah, Mission Beach is an excellent surfing beach, good for beginners but also attracts some good surfers because it's a wide open beach break in the usually crowded SoCal surf scene. I was about a 5 minute bike ride away. The downside is that this is pretty much what I spent my time doing. Keep that in mind any time you consider taking any advice from me ;)

Unfortunately, PB and MB are no longer anywhere near as inexpensive as they were when I was living there, so it's not quite the slacker paradise it used to be.
People obtain bitcoins by buying them from other people, who are typically miners or people who bought a lot of bitcoins early and want to cash out a proportion of their worth.

However, the people responsible for creating the bitcoin protocol only benefit financially if they sell their own bitcoins, or if an increase in demand raises the price bitcoins are trading at.

The Bitcoin economy is a free market; people can buy and sell bitcoins and will, and any profits they might make are entirely governed by supply and demand.
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this is some good advice. wish i had read this before my most recent round of interviews!
Disregarding the potential of Jonathan Kaplan or the driving technology, this title is almost a satirical representation of the current tech bubble/abundance of funding out there right now.

I swear this would be a great title for an Onion article.
Haters need to take a hard look in the mirror. I made a bland statement of common knowledge about readability. Never mentioned confusion.
Edit: pussies.
Wouldn't moving to LGPLv3 be a more natural transition?
I would say it's just more easy for them to parse/extract data, it shouldn't change much to the user (excerpt special cases in browsers).
Given all what trouble? You mean those few print publishers who don't understand the internet and are very vocal about it?

There has been very little actual trouble. Most business roll with new technology and use it to get an edge on their competitors that don't get it.

You've been listening to people who refuse to innovate and thinking they are the majority, or somehow a backbone of our society. They aren't either.
For a site put together by search engines, the URL structure for the site search is atrocious. "#q=Product" and not "?q=Product"? Who thought that was a good idea?

Site also looks a bit like spam. Needs more Firefox-esk awesome graphics, imo.
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The question remains: Who needs this?

I am still not really convinced that it is possible to integrate handcoded schemas for a wide range of use cases into search results in a meaningful way.

The solution Google proposes here will also restrain the content of websites in a lot of ways if it becomes widely adopted. Look at the recipes-example, it defines markup for including nutrition information for recipes:

"Can contain the following child elements: servingSize, calories, fat, saturatedFat, unsaturatedFat, carbohydrates, sugar, fiber, protein, cholesterol"

Every company that serves recipes on the web and decides not to offer this information because it deems other properties of recipes more important is now at a disadvantage. Google will show more information about the recipes of their competitors and presumably also rank them higher because they have included 'valuable' markup information in their recipe.

This approach favors shallow information ressources over complex ones as the former can be more easily parsed by metadata-crawlers.
So Google both ranks on page speed and encourages you to double your bits by adding a lot of cruft to your html. Wonderful.
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They need lot of cash in hand to spread wider & penetrate the hotel market; and probably to fight enough lobbying groups that might resist such large scale disruption of market.
The amount of people who said Bitcoin is a bubble is so great and so constant that I commissioned a comic about Bitcoin Bubble just so I can gain traffic by linking to that comic when somebody made that sort of statement. http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/comic-reaction-after-drama...

The ROI is fantastic.
Support for CC licensing is a very good move, their platform clearly benefits from remixing and they need to do what they can to make the legalities clear.

I'd like to see more up-front support for CC licensing on all social media sites.
I was just thinking about how I could actually see this being really awesome with something like Django.
"A person has no idea that they are violating the copyright of copyright holder X when they download the file."

And this is my whole point.

Everyone knows the correct way to get copyrighted content from the internet. You use iTunes, or Amazon's MP3 service, or NetFlix, or Hulu, or any number of services. Everyone also knows that when you get a legal copy of a copyrighted work there will be a 'payment' or a 'subscription' involved.

Naive people (I choose not to use the pejorative 'stupid' in this case) should know that any downloading of a copyrighted work which doesn't involve a subscription, or a fee, is nearly always illegal. This sort of action might train them with this fact.

Can you share information which is CC licensed or out of copyright or public domain? Absolutely. And I don't believe Titan Media or anyone else would be successful in pursuing someone by 'tricking' them with a filename that would otherwise be legitimate.

They could certainly try to sue you but any lawyer could move for a dismissal based on the clients beleif that the material was what it said it was, and deleted it immediately when they discovered it was not. There is no way to prove any sort of intent to violate copyright that way. Look of the case of Tracy Lords and her underage pornos where the buyer wasn't liable for child porn because she had represented to the production company and the production company had represented to the customer that everyone in the production was of legal age.

So if this educates a few thousand people that trying to get free copies of copyrighted stuff over the Internet is illegal and to stop trying (that would the educating the naive part) then its a good thing.
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Google is sued for $5.3M, in consulting project gone bad
Except that most of the articles are critical of bitcoin, making others less likely to adopt it, losing those early adopters possible cash. Then again, the only thing worse than being talked badly about is not being talked about.
You only see bitcoin stories that float to HN, not stories about bitcoin that got submitted and got only a few votes, at most.

My bitcoin stories sometime got voted up to get to the front page for a brief time but they often drop out the front page fairly quick.
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But Bitcoin is not designed to be a functioning currency, it's designed to enrich early adopters. Again, that is why it is a scam. Period.

How is this different from our current currencies, which first go to banks that then use fractional reserve to lend out money that they don't have. At least with Bitcoin anyone can mine them.
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Where does VirtualBox fit in?
Most people are decent human beings. But you have to watch out for the minority who are not - they can destroy your business.

I would say that one scenario where you should consult a lawyer at the begfinning of a startup is if the startup engages in a sticky legal area. You know, sharing files, privacy issues, etc. (I'm just thinking off the top of my head here, there's a lot more gray legal areas out there.) How terrible would it be if you found out that your business model is basically illegal conduct?

Be aware of the changing regulatory landscape of the internet - especially in the U.S.

(I don't want to be all doom and gloom, but it's more about figuring out if the startup is worth the risk.)
What you describe is a free market trading a limited resource; not a pyramid scheme.

In a pyramid scheme the wealth always flows up to the creator of the scheme, but the creators of Bitcoin can only make money by selling their own bitcoins - they don't get a cut when anybody else does.
I do, because I can get better search results:

Chicken recipe where calories<=350 and carbs<=20g
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I agree, he doesn't seem to fully explain this. Why were the "rulers" constantly losing calibration? How does the stadiometer fix this?

The rest of the article I find to make a rather valid point, though. Things are often "SNAFU" for reasons an outsider has no clue about.

This can breed unwarranted arrogance. It can also breed a mess, when an outsider (e.g. consultant, or executive having read the latest "Mind the Gap" opus) starts changing things without understanding what's really going on.
It's definitely not a Ponzi, but it's nice and easy to slap the label on it, so people do. It's not backed by a government, but neither is gold. It only has value because we attach value to it - there is no intrinsic value to a bitcoin. But that's just like many other things where the intrinsic value has little relationship to the 'value' we give it. And 'we' doesn't have to mean everybody - just the people who choose to attach value to it. So if most of the world ignores bitcoin but ten thousand stamp collectors decide it's the best way to shuffle money between them, it'll have value for those people. Similar to the stamps they'll be trading.

What bitcoin is, is a "greater fool" asset. Because it has no intrinsic value, you're hoping that a greater fool than you will come and buy your bitcoin at some point in the future. In this way it's similar to investing in stamps, gold, art or 80's vintage shoes.
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Enjoy your allrecipes.com dishes.
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Is there anything in the specification that's you think is ambiguous or hard to understand?

There's also the source code to bitcoinj, which is a very well-commented implementation of the protocol.
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I think this is obvious -- a bank will lend you money if you can offer returns in excess of the risk-free rate of return, balanced by the perceived risk and collateral for the loan.

Similarly, an individual will deposit money in a bank rather than keep it under their mattress only if the bank offers returns in excess of what it gets sitting in the mattress.

Since at the moment there is no FBDIC, as an individual you must also balance the risk of depositing in the bank against the return they offer.
So if the early adopters attempt to sell a large quantity of bitcoins, won't that move the market (down), severely limiting the amount of fiat currency they can get for their dump?
> Less than one Bitcoin per person?

There is no necessary relationship between the number of people using the currency and the number of units available, given that units are divisible. But if it makes you happy, define one "New Bitcoin" as 1/1000th of an original Bitcoin. Now there's enough to go around, and you can get 20 for free from the faucet!

See also: Rai stones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones

> TSA, airports, laptops and latex gloves. Where do Bitcoins go in this scene?

That's a huge win for Bitcoins. Store yours in the cloud and you can transfer arbitrary amounts of cash across national boundaries without paying tax, filing paperwork or risking seizure. Try transferring the same amount by carrying out bills or coins and you'll see your stuff silently stolen from your checked luggage or noisily seized either by TSA or customs agents.

> How do you bury Bitcoins in your backyard or out in the bush somewhere?

Back 'em up in the cloud somewhere instead.

> When the police, BATF and FBI break down your door without a warrant, trash your place and take your computer, do your Bitcoins go with it?

If you don't use passwords and don't keep offsite backups, yes. How is this worse than if the authorities steal your cash or silver and freeze your bank account?
But you can exchange your bitcoins for goods: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/libert...
So you agree that in the long term, money supply should closely follow real output. It's only in the short term that the Fed is allowed to untether them for the purposes of intervention. Let's not forget that the Fed's monetary policy in the 2000's helped create this situation: economic intervention necessitates further economic interventions. It's no wonder people are heading for the exits via BitCoin.
I'm sure the EU will have something to say about it if it does turn into that. Then again if it does they should have something to say about ChromeOS too.
Or has an interest in furthering the increase in demand for bitcoins (and thus the value of them) by offering goods and services in exchange for bitcoins.

There's a gold bug that believes:
Fiat currency is sovereign equity
In other words, when you hold Euros, you are "investing" in and holding equity in the Euro countries.

Similarly, perhaps when you hold Bitcoins, you are "investing" in and holding equity in [cyberspace ?].
The best legal investment I ever made was $400 on Law 101 at Stanford. It doesn't turn you into a lawyer, but it teaches you to look at things from a legal perspective, and understand the risks involved with everything you do (seriously, even stepping out of your front door) and think about what you could do to reduce them.

To paraphrase our professor on criminal law, if you stop to think about it, it's actually impossible to get through the day without breaking the law.
I wonder if they'll reward websites with higher page ranks if they implement this though.
so you are predicting the price against the dollar will fall?

it has risen and fallen many times already

a huge crash is inevitable and unavoidable because the market is thinly traded and very psychological at the moment

but when all is said and done, the bitcoin network will still be there, people will still have their bitcoins and will be able to transfer them across the globe is a short amount of time

i don't have a crystal ball, i can't tell you if bitcoin will become a successful currency, but you should realise that what is going on at the moment is a sideshow and doesn't reflect bitcoins true potential

a more constructive comment from you might have proposed a "fairer" system of minting than rewarding early adopters...
Half of the bitcoin articles seem to be rather negative, though. If it were just speculators posting, you'd expect to see more positive articles.
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Who provides social data such as Twitter/Linkedin/Facebook id from Email address?

Rapleaf has stopped providing and I just got an email saying that they are launching next week.
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I can't imagine "tagging with metadata" to be very patentable. It's too ubiquitous.

Then again, it wouldn't really surprise me.
Your comic seems to be missing a last panel -- y'know, the one with the punchline. Did you commission it from the writer of Marmaduke?

Is it possible that the number of people saying that bitcoin is a bubble is so high because bitcoin is a bubble? I mean, I'm not sure how anyone could even deny that bitcoin is a bubble -- the best you can hope for is that like gold it's a bubble that never ends. There's only been one of those in human history, though (two if you count silver as well), and it has at least a seven thousand year head start on bitcoin.

Anyway, my response to your comic is this:

http://projectomniscience.blogspot.com/2011/05/aardvarks.htm...
Compare those two graphs from say 2006 on. I am mystified that you would look at a graph with a giant, dominant spike, and conclude my point was about the shape before the spike.

Edits: To make it clear I'm not arguing with the statement that money supply has tracked GDP fairly well until recently. Or that GDP has trended up exponentially.
I am doing a similar analysis now and leaning towards Amazon EC2 for flexibility. I can deploy any of the standard PHP ecommerce engines. I think you will be rolling more of your own if you go with GAE. Although for a simple site that's not the end of the world - but time is money as they say.
I phrased that poorly. I meant accessible to the crawlers.
I usually do.

ranking>=4 and reviews>=50
This is going to sound curmudgeonry but it is seems like one more way search engines want to use your data without giving you the page view. It makes allot of technical sense and I can imagine some really great ways to use this data but in the end I guess I would just need to ask "what's in it for us- the content providers?"
What's wrong with short-form improv? I happen to like it!
Whatever happened to that actor who quit House to run off and help Obama?

Oh okay, he left. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kal_Penn#Political_interests

Obama's support from the left will basically be from lack of any other choice. I liked him a lot better when he was actually a Democrat, Senator Obama would be freaking out at President Obama. Less transparency than ever, more lobbyists than ever, new wars, expanded warrantless surveillance, TSA in bus and train stations, endless Patriot Act renewal, etc.

I am so not looking forward to an election year news cycle, the media is bad enough most days but wow it's going to get ugly.
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No, but we should definitely not condescend to those who do drop out. As someone who did the university bit and have helped fund friends' educations, there is a ton of value available for the taking from a university education. But that doesn't mean that everyone should have one: sometimes dropping out is better and smarter.
I bet this works out well.

I'm bullish on the fast-casual market; especially when a restaurant's menu is focused and provides quality food at a fair price.

Maybe grilled cheese and tomato soup isn't the right product mix, but I'm pretty sure this market is ripe for disruption.

The place I eat at most frequently is Whole Foods' self-serve deli. It's $8.99 a pound and always has fresh, quality food.

Whole Foods is a grocery store. But I don't buy groceries there, I just go there to eat. And I'm willing to drive 3 - 7 miles to get to one.

Just think if you only had to drive a couple blocks to get a decent cup of coffee or an espresso-based drink.
> my government believes the US dollar has value too, and it's willing to insure my bank accounts as a result. That's a hell of a vote of confidence.

Really? When dollars were "silver certificates" the bank's willingness to let you come collect your silver was a real vote of confidence in the currency. But nowadays if they "insure your bank account" they only pay you back in dollars. They're insuring that its value doesn't drop in dollars. How does that constitute a vote of confidence in the currency itself? I'd say it's only a vote of confidence in (a) the bank, (b) the government's ability to print more money, (c) the government's ability to tax.
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Did Google just deprecate microformat?
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I agree with camiller! The technical part of the article isn't the interesting point. It's the fact that the big boys were able to join together and create something for good!

Let's hope "Don't Be Evil" is infectious and no one goes after each other.
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1. Oracle, not Google.

2. Oracle is the one suing for $5.3M, not the one being sued.
This article is not intellectually stimulating and not valuable for the health of the community.

Believe it or not, there are a lot of 1) non-Americans and 2) non-Democrats on Hacker News. Maybe we can skip the Obama-hype this time around the election cycle. Four years of national transformation and transcendence is enough.
I lived in London for six months and discovered the wonderfulness of pasties. I admit that I would eat pasties whenever I didn't feel like cooking (which was often).

Why a pasty craze never took off here in the U.S., I will never know. Delicious meat in an easy-to-eat package? I'm sold.
Oatmeal should sue. It's just not that complex to build image similarity algorithms that are robust to minor changes like photoshopping the link back to the outmeal's site out or resolution changes or image degradation from compression. At this point there's no real reason for FunnyJunk not to be permanently banning oatmeal's images from being displayed on their site after the first dmca except they don't want to and it makes them money not to do so.

Hell, I can build that for under $30K. Email in the profile.
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I very clearly wrote should have paid, not would have paid.
Surely in a well-functioning economy/society one should be able to achieve that with enterprise and hard work alone. Why not an eye, hand, or lung? After all, you can probably get by with only one.
Bitcoin does share some aspects with a pyramid scheme. Bitcoin owners have incentive to recruit into the Bitcoin network. Bitcoins aren't really good for anything until merchants willing to accept Bitcoins also join the system. And the gain of the early adopters does come from what the later joiners bring, in the form of their goods and services that they exchange for Bitcoins.

I guess where Bitcoin diverges from a pyramid is that there's no chain reaction of recruiting. Once a user spends a Bitcoin, it's done; he doesn't stand to continually gain further from what the Bitcoin recipient continues to do or from anyone else the recipient brings into the system.
What is the difference on the internet between 100 "people" and 100 "user accounts"?
I order my sandwich at Specialty's in Mountain View using an mobile web app they offer. Even if I eat it there, it saves the time spent in line. It's no different than just-in-time inventory management, which is an old idea now. Mobile just makes it possible to handle lots of orders with nobody on the phone.

There's no need to open a chain, though. Just build and sell a system to lunch cafes. I think we all have learned from restaurant web sites that they shouldn't build technology, they should buy it. Except Sequoia's of course.
Incidentally, I am writing an article about bitcoin being a well-engineered memetic machine and why it helps bitcoin succeed.
>(if attribution is your only aim)

There is a difference between the minimum you tolerate and what you want to actively participate in. You're just suggesting that The Oatmeal drag himself down to their level.
I didn't know about the YouTube video editor, I've been messing around with building something similar, but much more primitive. Hate it when that happens...
In the case of Coca-cola, at least, the secret formula isn't even much of a concern anymore (I think it's been leaked a few times actually). Them protecting the formula is really just tradition and adds to their branding. What's important to them is keeping their brand power.
Did they want to make it illegal for people to read books without paying for them, or did they want to make it illegal to loan them out? There's a world of difference, particularly now that we're extrapolating that to digital media.