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You're missing the point that we're trying to make.

The reason the lawyer is important at the 'cops' stage is to prevent you from saying something stupid that will then be used against you at the 'court' stage.

Once you're at the 'court' stage, it's too late to hire a lawyer to prevent you from saying something stupid at the 'cops' stage, and the damage is already done.
It's not a pleasant experience, but a Ford Fiesta can reach 200kph. (And it would've been legal for Rust, at least at home).
Thanks. OK, you have your street cred back Linus. These clearly show you can program.
Yea, I'd say the opposite instead. Even then I still would recommend bringing a lawyer.
Someone tell Steve Ballmer. Before he gets fired.
Actually, that's fairly consistent for pg. As he notes later in the interview, he believes that a startup's founders matter more than the idea as good founders will improve upon or drop a bad idea.

I think that was exactly the heuristic pg used in this case. He may not think GroupOn is best company in its current form, but he believes that Andrew Mason's smart and driven and is thus capable of evolving GroupOn into a solid and profitable business.
I don't think this game is going to be decided in a year. I suspect people mostly use tablets for web browsing, checking email + Facebook, and watching the occasional video. None of these applications are particularly "sticky" and I don't think dominance today is going to guarantee you dominance two years down the road at all.
The question I wanted them to ask is "How do you identify great founders?". Every question they asked led to "YC picks founders, not the business". If it's all about the people, I want to hear more about how he evaluates them.
Not just a bloc of NATO countries, but also with Russia, which seems to be eagerly invited into organizations such as G8 (= G7 + Russia). With Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, the total population of such a bloc is 1 billion. I can forsee the US, France, Germany, and Russia soon forming a proto-military alliance, to give them the option to counter-balance China if they need to one day.

And of course the US, unlike China, has immigration as its foundation. They could accept, say, 20 million educated and/or wealthy immigrants from China over the next 20 years, with no shortage of takers ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2660178 ), which would strengthen America and weaken China.
Consider another use for this idea: it would allow governments to prevent all those photos/videos of rights violations that we've been seeing a lot of lately.
Although I had stumbled upon the S and K combinators with Unlambda (http://www.madore.org/~david/programs/unlambda/) I didn't know about Smullyan's book and this related paper by Keenan (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs655/readings/mockingbird.html)

Sure seems like an interesting contest this year even though I didn't people still cared about Magic: the Gathering.
Asking for a lawyer does not fall under probable cause, which is what they need to arrest you. "He looks guilty" is not probable cause. And if they already have cause, you really want to have an attorney present. I don't understand why this isn't completely obvious.

I'd suggest taking the time to speak to someone in law enforcement about how difficult it actually is to perform arrests. I think you would be surprised.
The best lawyers, I would expect, read about law in their spare time, debate their friends on legal issues, and keep honing their skills. The best doctors, I would hope, keep up with medical literature, reading up on the latest advances and changes in their spare time. The best artists, I am fairly sure, will continue to sketch and paint in their spare time. The best carpenters, cabinetmakers, etc will continue to work wood even when they're not on the job.

No, it's not restricted to programmers, although continuing to focus on honing work does seem to be far more prevalent in the creative professions.
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Except that if you're not actually guilty how big of a risk is this?

If you are guilty, then sure, bring a lawyer. But if you are innocent you don't have a lot to worry about. Not zero, certainly, but not a lot.

You have to weigh two things: How likely you are to be found guilty when you are not (because of what you say) vs. how likely you are to convince the cops you have nothing to hide and not get arrested in the first place.

I think talking to the cops is more likely to get you released than it is to get you found guilty when you are actually innocent.
I occasionally try new recipes, jog, travel, exercise and other none computer related activities are way to prevent from getting burned out.
Upon hearing the GroupOn question, I was so waiting for pg to kick off his reply with, "I worry, I worry..."
How about another?

It would mean I can stand behind people at a concert or other live event and actually be able to see the act rather than 3000 phone screens lighting up the arena
1) This is a problem.
2) It can be solved with the help of internet service.
3) It's easy to get started because you don't need a banking license.

My conclusion - we will see a lot of startups solving this problem.
I agree that there are no carriers involved which makes it different. However, there are still elements similar to the smartphone that exist.

One is form factor. There will be Android tablets with different sizes, with dual screen, with slide-out keyboard. This would widen its appeal which would translate to more sales.

Another is price. Like with the phones, there will be several manufacturers building Android tablets. With the competition, prices will much more attractive compared to the IPad.

Also, this would be fully integrated with Google services. This is the main reason why I picked an Android phone in the first place because I use Gmail, Google Calendar, etc. The IPad cannot give the same integrated experience.

On a sidenote, I actually wonder how brand affiliation would impact tablet sales.

I have an Android phone which is why I picked an Android tablet. If this is true for most people, Android tablets will sell really well since Android's market share is now bigger than the IPhone's.
I'm a bit confused by your threat model - you use SSL but the attacker is able to get your webserver to output arbitrary data? Most web applications that can be persuaded to output arbitrary data can also be persuaded to, say, output the entire database - and no amount of session cookie trickery is going to help you there...
While making the world a better place may not be sufficient to build a successful business, I don't think it's fair to say only organizations focusing on the third world are improving quality of life. Companies usually don't make money unless they are helping someone, and that help often leads to an improved quality of life, first world or not.
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Actually now trends.google.com redirects to google.com/trends, which is the form used in the given link.
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This is actually not quite true, unless you have a very long downhill slope or a Fiesta at the upper end of the bell curve - I was driving a Ford Fiesta in Germany at the very same time Rust was flying his plane to Red Square. Top speed, and I mean, pedal to the metal on a straight stretch of empty Autobahn, was maybe 180 kph. At 200 kph I'm pretty sure you'd get something like the opening sequence of Serenity. That last 20 kph is like the sound barrier on those things.

My Fiesta was special, though; I had broken a key off in the starter switch, so I had to remove the switch entirely (fortunately the theft-proof bolts had vibrated loose, probably at 180 kph). Crossing the Swiss border once while starting the engine with a screwdriver caused a very, very unamused reaction.

The outside rearview mirror had also rusted off. I was stopped by the Polizei once and he sternly informed me that I needed a rearview mirror - I told him I did: it was in the back seat. He laughed, but said that unless it was mounted on the car, the car didn't conform with its definition. (No, really, that's the way German law works.) I promised him I'd buy a new one the next day, and he waved me on. And I did, too.

All in all, the adventures of a redneck in Europe can be fun to recount.
How long after release do you think it will take for IR filters for the IPhone will be on sale by 3rd parties?
Appsumo does it already with their tools of the trade series - http://blog.appsumo.com/
As a regular concertgoer, I support this 100%. I went to see the show, not the back of 100 phones held aloft.
I wonder if this is just an MVP to see if there would be an interest in this type of product.
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From the guidelines: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Mind you, a lot of HN readers (about half IIRC) are not in the US. Please have some mercy on us. I completely accept that fact that HN news are biased to US, because that's where most web startups are. But I'm sure there are many other forums where you can discuss American politics.

For comparison, a series of uprisings in the Arab world is a very big thing. Even conceding the extremely large importance of US in world politics, yet another case of conflict of interest in American politics is not that new or interesting. The fact that people pay more attention to sensationalistic news than to important stuff is not new either.
I find that the less time you spend programming, more time solutioning the better developer you become. reading and learning how other folk are solutioning is where its at for me. anyone can program, not everyone can design a good solution for a problem.

If you enjoy programming as a job, then in your spare time you allow for tech, take the time to read a couple of pages here and there. If you don't read or get exposed to other talented programmers/architects then yeah, you are destined to be a bad developer!
I'd really like to hear about pg's gripes with TechStars.
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hi, the funny thing is: all big travel sites lost
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=tripadvisor.com%2C+exped...

i did not hear from a single big travel site that won in the so called google panda update.

and to be honest, i understand it

the spammiest verticals are not only PPP (pills, porn, poker), it's PPPIT (pills, porn, poker, insurances, travel). i worked in poker, i worked in travel, i did insurances and yeah from an SEO perspective they are all very disgusting verticals.

and from what it looks like: the whole travel segment got a hit. so yeah, you can try to get out of "panda" but then you should realize that "panda" is nothing you can get out of. it's not a "penalty", it's a new set of rules. try what works, try what doesn't and then iterate. so simple.

and from what i see: http://tools.pingdom.com/?url=http://www.travbuddy.com/Hotel...

you root HTML already takes 900ms to get delivered, then you load about 162 additional dependencies. ... i would work on speed.
The only real Android tablet problem is that the Honeycomb emulator performance blows goats and you need to have a physical device to do any sort of meaningful development. Google is working on it though, just not fast enough for us devs. :(

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/01/27/android-team-acknowl...
People get into SAP for the love of money, not software.
There are places where it's a criminal offense to go deface some person's facebook?

I think you'll find that to be the case anywhere that has laws about "computer crimes" - the laws are usually phrased as gaining access to or manipulating systems or data for which you have no authorisation.
If device thickness wouldn't matter, people would still be buying iPad 1s.

A lot of devlopers already have Android apps that only need to be ported to Honeycomb.

I am not going to install 400000 apps on my tablet.

I don't like Apple's lock in and politics.
I find it much easier in the evenings to read about programming than to program. For me that is not the same, although it is very useful also, on a bit different level.
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Hello everybody. A friend of mine and myself are thinking of starting up a little side project.

If this turns out to be successful, we'd like to have a contract in place that assures stuff like we get 50-50, important decisions must be taken by both of us etc. in general have an initial contract set up between the two of us.

Has anyone had experience with this and can you give some advice? Are there some online templates/samples of contracts like this?

Thanks!
I think betting on the founder breaks down as a company grows to a certain point.

Steering a small startup is one thing. Steering a 10k person public company is entirely different.

I doubt Steve Jobs at age 26 could have saved Apple from impending doom in 1996. Even at age 41, with all his additional skill/experience, it was far from easy for him.
I agree it is very hard to compare the United States with Europe, but there are many similarities and a ton of cross over in ownership. American media firms that are competitors in the United States are many times joined at the hip in Europe. There is a ton of collusion going on.

Ben Bagdikian, former Berkeley Journalism Dean and author of "Media Monopoly" has spent 30 years painstakingly chronicling these relationships.

These media conglomerates are constantly merging and getting more powerful by the day. They of course have their sights firmly on taking "control" of the Internet (will there always be some dissension...sure on the fringes of society) But those that think that the Internet will always have to be an open medium are naive, remember everyone said the same thing about radio in the 1920s.

One more thing to think about when we compare Europe to the US. One must look at French Pres. Nicolas Sarkozy and his attempts "civilize" the Internet which is really a code for “regulations favorable to big business and the national security state.

Full story here:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/france-attem...

The difference is the French citizens on the whole are more engaged (as braindeomon points out) so they haven't put up with Sarkozy's proposals... unlike the American populace who are largely uninformed on what's going on politically (outside of Congressman Weiner's antics).
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Yes, you're a bad programmer as you do it for earning.

Good programmer code if for satisfaction, contributes to open source, /., HN....
> A new Apple patent will put an end to recording events

Patent does not put an end to anything. First it must be implemented, second, even if implemented this will only work at these events where technology is actually put to use.

And patenting something does not imply company really wants to do that.
I guess some stuff got patented exactly just to stop others from doing something.
The facebook app for android is going through this kind of process. While it is quite decent, I prefer a third party one that exists. The only real disadvantage is that it requires a facebook application to get peoples data. So anybody who blocked friend's apps from viewing information won't show up. It also means I can't disable the social plugin, so I get those stupid "comment with facebook" popups on sites.
I've been driving 1-2h/day recently, and Bloomberg on satellite radio is one of the better parts of that. (BBC is nice too, and sometimes CNBC, but CNBC's quality varies greatly).
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Does anyone find the Dwolla website rather uninviting. I'm instantly met with a flash piece that won't load... and not much else.
>“The Tab is a reasonable choice for people who watch a lot of video, as long as it’s all pirated, because there’s almost no legal content available.”

Ha, the only thing that proves is that Marco lives in a nationalistic bubble. Outside the US, there is no video content on the iTunes store. Nothing, not even a public domain propaganda movie or some old public domain stuff.

Yet the iPad is popular here, as well.
Do you have any research to support this claim? Because there is lots of research that supports the depletion model.
What's their plan post BTC. (please, do not take this post as prediction or judgement of BTC, just a thought)
So,

1) Not much content on that page exclusive of navigation.

2) Not enough site trust.

3) Not enough links pointing directly to that page, the category (state) pages, or leaf node pages, like the individual hotel ones.

Prior to Panda, a domain with a lot of links could have virtually infinite leaf node pages with no links but laser-targeted content and rank a large portion of them. These days, "lots of links to our homepage" plus virtually infinite pages with no links is a recipe for being Panda'd.

I don't think the core "top -> state -> hotel" structure is likely a problem. That sort of tree structure, with variations, is pretty much universal in large sites. Having a lot of links on a page will not, by itself, burn you to bits.
Backstory as I understand it:

David Cohen asked PG's permission to start a YC franchise of some sort in Boulder. He said no. David Cohen cloned YC in virtually every respect (down to copying the application form).

Basically what Wimdu is doing to AirBnb.

Still, it has been 5 years and YC has certainly not suffered. I'm surprised PG isn't a bit more magnanimous towards them.
"Adventurous" and "Self-reliant" are not necessarily good traits for a programmer. It depends on the field one programs in.

For example, the programmers that http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/06/writestuff.html talks about are neither (at least not when on the job). They do have a strong desire to get better, though.
What about Apple? They're clearly working on WebGL support for Safari. They have at least equal insight into the whole stack, considering the ship the GPU drivers with the OS.

Then there's XNA in Silverlight. If they believe in the security of that, why not build WebGL on top of it? Probably because they're in direct competition with one another, and Microsoft wants Silverlight to win.
Outside of Panda, in terms of your goals for your business: do you really want to be in the business of arbitraging existing travel brands like Hale Koa Hotel and charging them (Hale Koa Hotel) money for customers who already knew of them? That strikes me as not a great place to be in life, for a lot of reasons. For one: what does Google need you for in that scenario? (Answer: nothing after they debut Google Travel and give it 80% of the non-ad real estate on the search page.) For another, you're in perpetual competition to be in the top ~10 of the 1,000 sites who are adding equally little value, and your best answer on why you should be there is guaranteed to be "OK so we're meh-tastic but come on we're 2% better than our meh-tastic competition doing the exact same thing we do."
They've admitted that there's al algorithm then also sites can be manually 'reviewed'... layman's terms... yeah they made exceptions and got called out hardcore with this last panda release on it and at least they 'claim' that they're working on fixing it. search google for panda site slap.
you'll see lists of all the big ones that went down...
I think the people who fall on the bad end of the spectrum will have a different opinion of the professor. I have an axiom to consider yourself average, even though you might be above average and make your decision from that perspective.
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There's an old saying that a good prosecutor will convict most guilty men, and a great prosecutor will convict a few innocent ones too. The sole purpose of law enforcement is to collect evidence to convince a trial jury of guilt. Whether or not you're guilty, have a lawyer, do a song and dance in the interview room -- it makes no difference to the police. They will only extract whatever they need to build a case. You can't expect "good faith gestures" to give you any bonus points -- there are only negative points.
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Fortunately, he wrote a whole essay on that very subject: http://paulgraham.com/founders.html . It's the fourth from the top on his "Essays" page: http://paulgraham.com/articles.html .
I think he underestimates how many Android early adopters are there. I'm sure there are at least a few million out there who would buy an Android tablet this year if given the chance for a good looking, high performance an well priced one.

The Xoom was too expensive. Asus Transformer has been hard to get so far. And Galaxy Tab may be arriving a little too late because a lot of people are already expecting Tegra 3 tablets, but I'm sure it will sell quite well, too.

However, I don't think Android tablets will make a big impact until the second wave starts, late this year - all the Tegra 3 tablets arriving, and Amazon is launching 2 tablets as well, and they'll push those heavily.

And ultimately, the price will help the most, probably. Once the big name manufacturers start making "mid-end" tablets under $300, I think marketshare for Android tablets will quickly rise.
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Why root and jailbreak? The whole premise is based upon IR light being received and interpreted by the phone. IR filters are easy to come by, get an IR filter, stuck it to your phone, problem solved.
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No, no, no. I thought we'd killed this at reddit and assumed it wouldn't be reposted here. It's just a patent. This happened last week or earlier and has already been discussed here. :/
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It won't be long before someone starts selling ghost armour with an IR filter in it. Cover the entire phone and infrared is no longer an issue.
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So what you actually want is a way for a camera on a phone to be fired without lighting up the screen.
What you say is true for practicality. But ad hominem is still invalid. You are ignoring the other persons argument (as a means of saving time), not countering it.
They have, I know multiple developers who have small apps running with CouchDB on iPhone.
In the wider world most people are still using C, C++, Java and C#. And then in the more interesting statically typed languages the most used are Haskell, Scala, F# and Ocaml. So no I don't think static languages are in the wane.