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I know that's how a common law system works, and I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just saying that, for someone who's been involved in hundreds of these suits, it shouldn't be hard to provide a more relevant or more recent analogy, preferably one involving intellectual property or computer crimes, or both. He should also be able to cite the statutes or rulings that provide the legal groundwork for his theory of negligent contributory infringement. (If the SCOTUS has already says that contributory infringement must be willful, what provides the cause of action against an unknowing enabler of infringement?)

His example of negligence in a case where there was a contractual business relationship that was not satisfactorily fulfilled doesn't seem very convincing up against a Supreme Court ruling that contributory infringement must be willful. It sounds more like a way to be on the losing side of a summary judgement.

The fact that the defendant can perjure himself is really never a good reason to invent a new offense.
It's not your job to "pull up dirt on him". Writing bad checks is a criminal offense (in both California and New York) and pursuing people who do this is the job of the district attorney. That should be your next stop.
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Well stated man totally well stated.
I did just a quick search and found a number of sites, most referring back to John T. Reed's piece here: http://www.johntreed.com/Kiyosaki.html

Although the content at the Reed link feels sensationalized to me (and sometimes very nit-picky) many of the points could be generalized as:

- Don't blindly follow what you read, and

- Kiyosaki is not consistent.

I found the books (I bought many of them - rather inexpensively by getting them used) VERY repetitive and along the lines of "read more, I am about to spill the secrets" followed soon after with the let down of "I am not going to tell you how, just why." I guess I was feeling more as a how-to kind of person when I chose the books. They also repeatedly recommended getting expert advice from professional CPAs and Attorneys.

Still, just like all "advice" books, there are bits of truth and helpful angles to be found. I am building up a modified version of the Cashflow plan in Real Estate, while continuing to keep my day job. :)

But the game can really expose one's level of acceptable risk, and help one see their choices and the possible impacts. Nothing like playing with fake money first and getting your hard knocks virtually, instead of betting the farm and having to start over.
Thanks. The question is which DA to contact. His company is registered with a San Francisco address while most of his past cases are in Marin County. Also, I'm in NYC.
I'd definitely take the work down if it hasnt already.. and if legal action is your next step, use every opportunity to document this relationship (follow all emails up with recorded mail that he has to sign for etc)
This is a perfect example of cargo cult thinking. Just because you're a tech start-up doesn't automatically put you on the same level with Google and Microsoft. Both of those companies have products which require a team of developers with understanding of computational complexities of algorithms, data structures and etc (think of Windows, Visual Studio IDE, Google Chrome/OS, Bing/Google search engines). I'm yet to find out how this applies to your featured list of companies such as Disqus, DropBox or Weebly and i am more than 100% sure that it doesn't.
My best hack around this is commuting instead of driving a car and doing something mindless like cleaning the house or laundry after being stumped by a problem. Its in these times that ideas & solutions get formed or destroyed.
None of the system's space-faring users know the significance of the date 01970, though a few believe it is the date when computers were invented. :)

And some thought we measured time from the date of the first moon landing.

More relevantly in the book is the class of people known as programmer-archaeologists who specialise in digging through libraries of software looking for code that already does what they need.
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Unfortunately this seems to be a pretty common occurrence. I have seen it quite often in the Entertainment section with apps like X-Ray Scan or Phone Tracker. Not sure why nothing is ever done about it.
im using python for this. just cause its simple and it just works.
Ailes is an advocate for his political views, and business is just the latest way he advances them. Even if he's somehow uninvolved in content direction, Fox News doesn't get a free pass with "it's just business." A lot of destructive things have been done in the name of profit, and poisoning the national discourse is no different.
Made a test room, 'hn' (https://crypto.cat/?c=hn). Set a key, 'password'. Will leave it open in background and peek in occasionally if others want to try.
Actually everyone I use to know from Digg (the front page makers) are mostly into StumbleUpon rather than Reddit. I also have another friend from my Digg days who built up his Facebook page via ads and that gives his blog quite a few page views. But i don't really see many folks trying to push content on reddit — the front page is off limits so you're stuck with the sub-reddits (which can be good but they can also be a waste of time). I don't have any good numbers on reddit or Twitter because I haven't really pushed stuff there for quite some time (so sorry if this didn't help you much).
Note that with JRuby, it is trivial to implement a "normal" java interface so your java consumers do not need to bother with the implementation detail (language) of your jar.
Look at it from a Windows System Admin perspective. You want WP7 to be the phone OS because you are assured Microsoft will bring out tools for Windows 2008 to admin the phones. You can probably get another certification and you don't have to deal with Apple or Google. You can keep your full Windows stack and don't have to worry about something new. Blackberry was OK, but Apple and Google are not exactly a good thing.
The marketing aspect is definitely a positive, but I'd fear it may make adoption of your services in the corporate world a little difficult.
I stick to VPN over 3G / 4G just because it would be embarrassing to get hacked.
I only got around to seeing Cosmos when I was in graduate school, but I could see why it would inspire people to get into science. (For myself, I blame Isaac Asimov.)

One problem I have with a lot of science programs today is how they don't make it clear how we know what we know, or who figured it out. Science is presented as a bunch of facts rather than as something that was developed by people (who always have interesting stories). Carl Sagan didn't make that mistake, nor did Asimov, and I hope this new Cosmos sequel also takes the historical and human perspective.
> If you knew you didn't have the money to fairly pay for this designer's services, why ask?

By this equation, a startup without a lot of VC money wouldn't have a shot at hiring anyone great - and yet a startup needs great people. Put simply, if you want to make a lot of money at minimal risk, run far away from startups. Go work at a big tech company who's a money making machine, become employee 29751, and enjoy your biweekly paycheck which will come whether you work hard or not.

The equation at a startup is different. You have to love what you do, first and foremost. That's not measured in dollars, but not hating the place where you spend most of your non-sleeping hours is worth a lot. Secondly, you really have to believe in the company, and your impact on it. Without that, you'll value your equity at $0, and the financial side of things will wear on you (you will believe you're being paid unfairly).

Part of attracting great people is making sure they believe in you, and making sure you can provide a great work environment for them. The people who are strictly motivated by salary are probably not going to work out. There are still a lot of great people willing to take on some risk so long as it's something they believe in.
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The scale of reddit is quite tiny when put next to Twitter: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com+twitter.com/
If I ever have a site which posts content, or if I ever finally make a blog, the first thing I will do is turn off the comments. If you want to talk to me, you can email me, or write your own post in response.
There could also be more Windows users if they agree with the line of thinking that says you should run the same system as your targets.
That's in a perfect world. Most DA offices are overworked and have a lot of discretion it seems. And for a charge like this, claiming I got a returned check from someone with past criminal record for it can be the difference between being taken serious and being passed.

San Frnacisco DA's office took almost a week to return my call. It went to VM. Been a week and I'm still waiting for the return call.
"At Heroku, we discussed a real issue they were having and halfway through the interview we were both up at the whiteboard bouncing things back and forth, drawing things up. At the end of the Heroku interview we both knew how the other worked and how we would work together."

I find this kind of odd and correct me if you think I'm off because I'm not a programmer.

But for any company to give you a problem that they are having and for you to help them solve it... shouldn't you get compensation for that (outside of a job position)? That's basically free consultation. It's like how some companies give design tests for designers, which is basically spec work. Even if they don't choose you, they could still take some of the ideas and implement it.

It's one thing to give a general problem and analyze your problem solving skills and knowledge (as well as to verify your resume).
The problem here is using "cmd.exe". powershell.exe (see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb978526.aspx) is really a very nice shell (and I believe it supports "dir").
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Ailes is a means to an end. If right wing news is the business opportunity you want to pursue, you hire Ailes. I'm speaking from the perspective of Murdoch here.

I never intend to justify Fox News, only explain it.
On the other hand, they might just PCAP all of _your_ traffic, and wait until some flaw like DSA-1571-1 surfaces, and go back a week, a month, a year later to recover the plaintext of all your encrypted sessions.
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I think that the product is not aimed at the corporate world but lone developers trying to develop things quickly and efficiently :)
Don't guess, talk to a lawyer!
What people actually choose to buy is more interesting to me.
Your 24 hrs fame on HN is probably adding zero value to your startup. I don't understand why ppl get so excited when they got techcrunched, nonetheless HNed. Anyway change your name, I thought that was obvious reading into the comments of that thread.
The project was started less than 48 hours ago. Isn't quite finished yet. :)
Sounds like a great idea if you want revenge in the short term and don't mind hassle and risk.

I agree with this poster. Better to not give them any opportunity to countersue no matter how ridiculous a countersuit it would be. http://freelanceswitch.com/clients/what-to-do-when-a-client-...
Not likely. But it can correlate with other changes which matter, e.g. moving away from some of the issues of traditional grade-oriented methods. On the other hand, it can also introduce a bunch of trite off-topic nonsense which wastes time and needlessly complicates things.
this is a risk you already run anytime you connect to any network so i'm not really sure why it makes defcon "more" dangerous.
yes. i'd have big problems on any other network i'd join if i wasn't sure, wouldn't i?
This one, by the same developer(s?) is far worse http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/id452096746?mt=8

It's called Flash网页浏览器 and the entire description (in the AU store) is in (chinese?) except for a few words like "Adobe Flash","100%" and "SOUTHPARKSTUDIOS.COM FTW!!!!!" The screenshots appear to depict an iPad viewing a number of flash based sites and playing flash games. Oh, and it's $10.49

Edit: Their description contains a link to a "trial version" at http://hdmediaplus.biz/flash. This redirects to http://www.dailymotion.com/html5 which demos a movie playing using html5
Democracy? The US? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America
I read it as "fuck me". Is that the joke?
Seems useful.
Yeah, us smart, evolved Haskell users are so much more awesome than those dumb other guys.
Corporates are real people too, and people enjoy humor. That's one thing we've realized with our name change. We were formerly the incredibly boring "Transparent Financial Services..." and our website was the terrible http://transfs.com until last September, when we changed our name to the more fun name of FeeFighters (http://feefighters.com). We're in the B2B space, and have customers that range from HN startups to large nonprofit museums and public companies. They are all run by PEOPLE who love that we don't take ourselves too seriously.

On the flip side, we actually had one VC who turned us away because he hated our new name... but Fukime him.

The larger problem I see with your name is that people won't know how to pronounce it/spell it. Buy all the alternates and redirect them, but also take this feedback into account - you might find it worthwhile to change your name.
This is a pretty great addition to the invites system. Here's 150 from me you can link your friends to: https://plus.google.com/_/notifications/ngemlink?path=%2F%3F...
Oh that's a real company? I thought it was just a hoax/joke because of the name.
Also, Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness.

Postman references Huxley/Orwell in the introduction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
There is a difference between talking about how to solve a problem, and actually implementing the solution. Talking with a designer about the problems they would be facing and about how they would approach some of them is very different than having them implement the solution (a complete design). I suspect the same applies to programmers. As long as you're not asking for the implementation (working code), it's probably fine.
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You still pay it at international prices, that are set by events in the Golf.
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Try "command" in that field instead. I don't even know if it still ships with Windows 7, but my gut says yes.
Cool. If I manage to find this Lisp, I have a couple real Apple IIs to play with it. I can even provide screenshots (either from an emulator or pictures from a CRT).
> My partner, for instance, recently graduated with a degree in civil engineering from a very challenging private school.

The challenge of civil engineering is that you need to be professionally licensed. As you know, a new graduate has only taken the EIT (Engineer in Training) exam. You need four or five years professional experience before you can sit for the PE exam. In fact, in at least one state (Massachusetts?), you need to submit at least four inches thick of completed engineering calculations to prove your experience. The PE exam is very difficult, especially for structural engineering. I have friends who failed twice (the passing curve is statistically determined after all tests are scored, in some regions).

That being said, I have a Civil Engineering degree, and I never was paid to do any engineering calculations.

What most people who do not go through an ABET-accredited engineering 4-yr program do not know -is that an engineering degree is a superb background for building problem solving skills. The entire curriculum is based on problem solving and later, problem definition.

I believe that if your partner so chooses, he could develop fluency in the programming language of his choice. The most important thing though is that either he wants to do software development or already had programming skills.

You cannot motivate someone by burning them, the fire must be lit inside them, by them.

Consider checking out this: http://www.kolbe.com/

$$ skills survey much better than MBTI
Windows may no longer have DOS code in it, but it certainly has DOS characteristics and limitations in it. Most significantly: drive letters, backslash path separators, and 260 char file name limits. Also the pathetic batch file system. There are a few other limitations that come from DOS days.
Agreed. Not doing that.
Took me a little while to realise you set the password in the blue box above the text entry. Interesting concept though.

For those interested it uses crypto-js (http://code.google.com/p/crypto-js/).

Might want to increase the random entropy source, from what I can see it's just DateTime.

Also I'd use a better hashing algorithm than SHA1 with AES-256.

I understand the need for PBDKF2, but I'm not so sure about using the password as the key and salt.
I don't know anything about ray tracers, but if it's an algorithm, then it's "mostly plumbing work" in the same way you say a web application is. The beauty of the world we live in is that you can compute anything that can be computed with an absurdly small set of basic operations.
Debt is the same as savings. "How Savings Has Defined Human History" somehow doesn't get people worked up.
Congress can't actually divert revenue from SS. The way that cutting benefits affects the budget is that the SSA uses more of the payroll tax to buy more bonds, rather than paying the revenue out as benefits. The government still has to use non-SS revenue to pay off prior SSA-held bonds. Thus, once SSA collects less from the payroll tax than they need to pay out (which will happen soon, and may have already happened due to the Making Work Pay tax cut), cutting benefits will not reduce the budget deficit at all, because the SSA will need all of the revenue from the payroll tax and all of the revenue from its maturing bonds to pay out benefits. In order to use any payroll tax revenue (via SS bonds) for non-SS programs, they would have to make unrealistically large cuts in benefits. So, in short, that well will run dry soon enough, and you won't have to worry about it.
If your customer base largely consists of the kind of people who read HN, there's really no better place to launch.

I had immense success launching my startup naming business here[1], the conversion rate on clicks from HN exceeded 1%...

On the other hand, when my Photoshop business made the front page[2], it didn't bring in a single new sale. Essentially, it all comes down to who your real target audience is.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2257572

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2063061
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Agreed. One of the things i liked about ruby-lang.org was the prominent display of demo code.
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This is why I like strong static typing. Instead of bad programmers making a mess of the language, the compiler makes a mess of them.

(I'm half-joking, since there are a variety of bad programmers and not all are of the "can't get code to compile" variety. Actually, the most dangerous bad programmers are the high-IQ bad programmers, but that's another rant. Still, I think it's true that the discipline enforced by languages like ML and Haskell turns a lot of bad programmers away.)
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I've left that as an exercise for the reader.

Personally, I type the above sequence pretty much instantly, though, so... I don't mind: http://screencast.com/t/jw0LFrlBg
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as a founder and an engineer.. you are being naive. You know how many times we hear, "I have a billion dollar idea, all i need is 1% of xxx market". Yes we all hope our startups will be successful, but in the end engineers and designers have to look out for our own best interests, as the odds are stacked against you and more than likely you will fail. While your idea has some social proof ( http://www.maven.co/knowledge-marketplace , http://www.liveperson.com/experts ) , its very hard to convince people your idea is good.. especially if its an extremely new idea, and second hard to hire the best at lower than market value, especially if you are a first time founder with no experience raising funding ( the TC article does you no help either).

You should see if he would be willing to contract with you, while allowing him to work another job and possibly give him equity incentives along with pay.
I agree with your overall point. But, like you said, people may not know how to pronounce it. Imagine all of the people that may pronounce it "fuck me" and simply may not take it seriously.

I think the overall marketability of a humorous/cool/different name is great, as long as it isn't in the realm of possibly being distasteful to a large number of people.

I think many may discredit the company immediately, thinking it is a joke or satire.
"BOOT.INI" was actually introduced in Windows NT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLDR#boot.ini

I'm planning to upgrade this weekend, hope I don't have a similar issue!
Why not just have users type in a room name and password on creation...no need to set the salt after the fact.
nicer versions of DOS?
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> Short answer: technology destroys jobs for dumb people and creates jobs for smart people.

It sounds like you're only considering high-tech jobs, like computer programmers or engineers. Those aren't all the jobs that technology creates, not by a long shot. Think about pizza deliverers, call center workers, fast food workers, etc.
Because some random person on the internet says don't? If you're going to cite someone lets have someone with a little more credibility.
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I love the Metro UI, but the only time I have seen it was when a MSFT employee demoed it.

Outside of TV commercials, I have not seen a single WP7 phone in the wild.

Hopefully Nokia can make WP7 sexy and mainstream.
(Graeber's book looks great. I just ordered it.)
One of the most insightful points in the article, summing up much of DEF CON, got buried near the end of the article; it's worth emphasizing:

It's not about breaking the lock [...] it's about learning the lock can be broken.
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I don't know how people manage to get "decades of industry experience designing and implementing very complex systems" without being able to program. I have only run into a couple such people, but I suspect that is because we get very few applicants with that kind of employment history.

I don't think >80% of programmers can't code. I think that programmers who can't code are much more likely to be applying for jobs than programmers who can code, which makes the pool of applicants look much worse than the pool of all programmers would look.
I'm a regular Linux/OSX user, but recently needed to do some Windows work. I heard the same things about powershell (powerfull, very nice, just like the ones I'm used to)

It's not. It's limited and it looks ugly as hell. Hated it. Please stop telling people it's good

(but yes, it does support both ls and dir (but strangely there were a few things I could do in cmd that I couldn't do in powershell (can't remember what now though)))
It is very smooth. I remember a lot of touches having feedback through small vibrations. If it weren't for the browser, Id recommend it to people.
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But they are limited permanently and may spend hours doing things by hand that could take a moment. A common one is renaming photographs.