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Yes, this is SPARTA!

No seriously, I was just making the point as a joke that we shouldn't be surprised that a company like Zynga, who makes money through admittedly slimy means, wouldn't have the same attitude towards everything else too. I think the ScumBag meme is apt.
I think this stuff should autopopulate based on GPS, triangulation, then IP, in that order. Then do alphabetic sort order, taking the current position into account as the first item in the list.
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I reject the premise that the Occupy movement has very much to do with election administration. I'd bet voter apathy has more to do with the available choices on the ballot than difficulty in filling it out on time.

Further, I don't think Internet voting is automatically a smart way to boost turnout. Same-day registration, early voting, and no-excuse absentee voting are simple and cheap ways to make voting much easier without introducing a bunch of new security problems or dealing with unequal access to computers and the Internet.
The NYT should install some +1 buttons.
As for in-flight messages and server crashes, some explanation is given in the zguide in the part about durable sockets.

And you're right that some explanation of implementation is needed. I spent a few hours digging through the code today and it's not easy to read.
Exactly! Google+ is brilliant for business use. I'm sharing stuff with colleagues far more effectively (and selectively) now.
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Can I just say: fuck everything about that?
Hey - if you're interested, I could use your story! Check this out: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3220610

Ping me on email!
> If you're using Groupon deals as a quick way to get some cash in order to float your business then you're doing it wrong.

So if Groupon stopped giving cash up front they shouldn't lose any customers they need, right?
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I know google won't kill it for a long time, but in most ways it is going away since no one is using it. Then hopefully one day they'll finally admit failure and it will go the way of google buzz.

After listening to the zuck talk about facebook as a platform and the owner of the graph, I'm developing this scary feeling that it is going to be imposible for anyone else to break into that space.
I'd probably need a bit more detail - but send me an email!
thanks for the feedback!

"That "we" is painful to read." - what do you mean?

it would be cool to followup in more depth if you have some time. i'm at satjot at geemail - you?
A somewhat competitor slinging mud for press - cool.
ethically: equity compensation for a lower-than-market-rate salary is effectively an investment by the employee. They give up potential funds for equity. This includes unvested equity in the investment since, in the beginning, it's _all_ unvested.

If you take back some of that equity with no commensurate repayment, then fuck you.
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Note to self: search archives before posting. Just found this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2240595
... so why is Womply any different?
It's a non-sequitur to claim that free software "wouldn't exist" unless they charged for it. Programmers can (and often do) contribute to open source software without getting paid for it.
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You're presenting two different problems really.

1. Yes, sites should remember your personal preferences that you've already set.

2. When setting those preferences, pre-filling based on ip would work in 99.9% of locations. A standard selector can handle everyone else.
Never heard of SeedEdition, sorry.

Chargify has a really flexible structure for configuring how you bill, with an api that lets you hook into it pretty easily.

The main drawback is, at least the last time I looked at them, the cost structure. It very quickly gets expensive, although depending on how much you charge, it might not be an issue.

You can always roll that cost into your actual offering, as well
> They get a degree and expect to get a job the next day just because.

Yes, and what is more, they expect to magically get a job even if they got a degree in Minoan pottery, or post-modern French feminist theory.

But to be fair this issue is not limited to this countries, even in the US there are plenty of people who believe that if they got a degree that somehow magically entitles them to a job.

Also, see this picture:

http://marginalrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Edu...

Note: Not really relevant to this comment, but I'm Spanish, but left many years ago, and I have zero intention of going back.
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Same here. I worked from home for a year and was going to go insane! It was a great feeling yet still very depressing. It doesn't help that I am single and live alone either though.
I don't know what you're referring to w/r/t Somalia. Fill me in on your version of the events.
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Right - what I'm saying is that it's okay to be slightly more verbose if it means added readability. My point was that it was the comb. of 4 libraries that's causing a lot of context switching on the same line of code.
It's a strange loop, actually. The requiring attribution would be more restrictive, since the current license does not require attribution. If you re-license it with a license that does not require a less restrictive license, and then license it again with a license that is more restrictive, then you've violated the original one.

Logically, it implies "You can only release it under this license".

That is, the license says, "This is obvious, and doesn't need a license", and is a joke.
I don't think that Groupon execs are widely perceived as crooks, whereas Zynga's ones are more than hard to defend here.

Moreover, Zynga execs' move was likely intended to increase the total worth of their shares; if they manage to claw 20% more shares, but destroy 30% of each share's value, they've hurt themselves even in the short term (figures made up for illustration, obviously).
Cross your fingers that it gets approved. They will likely get their developer license revoked and all the apps will go away...
You might also be interested in my patented method of exercising a dog which involves a spherical shoulder-launched device.
Got it. Yeah, someone with CTO title might bend the rules a little. Otherwise stock and option plans are generally approved by the board. Asking a company to redraw the contact essentially makes it a CEO's call to reconvene the board as it goes outside of standard grant plan - not something that they'd do for a staff employee.
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working from hotels for a year? wow, i'm impressed. I did travel/work for 5 months this year (Southeast Asia), and welcomed very much to stay at an apartment for 1 month (in Vietnam).

Don't you feel lonely/unmotivated to do it that way? IMO hotels are not very conducive for creativity, and the quest to find a connection every day was a bit tiring at times. Something I missed was not getting to know other people doing the same thing. I could not imagine doing it on the long term.

On the other hand, it's great to just be able to do that and work from a totally different country for some time, and doing a bit of travelling :-) I just imagined it could be a sustainable lifestyle for me, but it was not.
This might be heresy, but how could one do something similar in Go? Would it be worthwhile?
I respectfully disagree. Was your expectation that G+'s user-base would eclipse FB after 5 months? I don't think that's realistic (really going out on a limb here). By that metric you could have said the same thing about FB in the early days when MySpace had all the users. Clearly, over time, people moved to the better product.

If you want to comment on the rate of adoption, that's one thing, but lets compare apples to apples.
I've seen that too, and I've heard some whoppers of stories. Like, stuff that does not even slightly exist.

Pig, meet lipstick.

Like I said in another part of the thread: the stock market is the dumbest money around.
> I wonder if the following was ever said about Apple in the past?

Probably not, but these are different markets, and Apple is in a drastically different position.

I don't own a crystal ball, and I try not to pretend I do, but I do like to play devil's advocate, so I'll take the opposite position here and say that fragmentation does matter in the post-PC market because Apple managed to define the segment, first with the iPhone and followed it up with the iPad.

With the iPhone and iPad, consumers who are used to the traditional PC computing experienced were introduced to a closed-loop vendor relationship. For all the warts that we (geeks) see, this is a fantastic experience for many consumers.

Case in point: this last week, I was in Ohio (I live in Florida). I had a problem with my MacBook Pro, and I had none of the things I needed to fix it. I used the Apple Store app to schedule a Genius appointment, dropped my laptop off, had lunch, and walked out of the store with a fully functional laptop, all within the span of a couple hours. My partners now take this level of service for granted. We recently switched to all Apple equipment after very positive experiences with iPhones and iPads.

When you contrast this to the typical PC vendor relationship, there are stark contrasts:

* Where do I take my Dell/HP/Acer computer to be repaired?

* When I call Dell/HP/Acer, what is the experience like?

* What are the costs associated with the repair?

In the case of Apple, it's Apple, Apple, and (often) zero. I have AppleCare on my MacBook Pro, but as it turns out, it didn't matter. Apple will perform simple software fixes at the Genius Bar for free, even if you're not covered by warranty. Are there cases where it would have cost me money? Plenty, but there wouldn't be any confusion over who I need to talk to. This leads to a high level of satisfaction [1].

Fragmentation has a significant impact on the consumer experience. "Android" has become a brand, but there is no consistency in revision, manufacturer, or expectation of service. All of these lead to open questions and insecurities in the minds of consumers. As the price of the device and term of commitment extends in to hundreds of dollars and multiple years, the opportunity for a negative experience compounds. Next thing you know, Uncle Dave is standing in the Verizon store frustrated because the counter clerk doesn't know why all his email account won't work with his phone. Why can't he run the app he just downloaded from the internet? When will updates be available for his phone? Lot's of open questions.

1 - http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/09/apple-tops-j-d-power-cust...
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I completely agree with the human aspect. That's why I'm going to go to a coworking space not to work every day at home/the coffee shop :-)
I've got no doubt the execs still make more overall, but how much more? And is the difference worth their name? We will never really know the answer to this question.

Likely they picked a minority of the employees, and there will be a lot of unfair pressure on them not to "rock the boat" from the rest of the staff. So if the employees take it lying down I don't think much will come of it.

Conversely, if it blows up into a full class action. Then Zynga could be in trouble. You'll have newspapers running statistics like "X% of people who got ripped off are convieniently minorities or women".
Law student about to graduate, but not yet admitted to the bar/not giving legal advice/etc:

The law does draw distinctions based on the circumstances surrounding a termination, even in an at-will state. The employee does not yet own the unvested shares, but they do have a contractual right to them. Terminating someone just to screw them out of a contractual right you agreed to in a contract is going to give someone ammo in a lawsuit.

Given its pre-IPO situation, Zynga is in a bad leverage position in the face of such a lawsuit. They're going to have an incentive to settle just to get the claims to go away. What they probably should have done instead is to terminate the employees for performance up front with a generous severance package and a contractual agreement to not sue the company for improper termination. But they probably couldn't handle these employees leaving right now. They wanted to have their cake and eat it too.
It doesn't seem that uncommon, if you're very good at what you do. There's a monthly HN thread for telecommute jobs and quite a few hiring ads from YC companies say they're open to it.

When I was in high school I got my first contract programming job building a CRM app for sales from the ground up. The guy I built it for was building a business around that app, selling access to businesses with small to medium sales teams...

When I finished that, I immediately thought "why did I just build all that for him, so that he can make the real money selling the app I just built, when I could have done it for myself?"... and that was the end of contract programming for me. I started building web apps of my own and work from home running them.
You just identified the problem. Create your own job and market your services -or- create your own product and sell it online.
But it's pretty difficult to prove unless you are a protected minority and the boss shows up in a white robe and says "we are firing all the N.....s" or you fire a secretary after he/she refused to sleep with you AND you got the refusal in writing!

Usually the employee only wins because the company messed up the paperwork.
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I've always liked the idea of PhoneGap, especially because it lowers the difficulty of native (C++) development significantly. But, it's a dangerous tool. I've seen far too many unambitious companies produce PhoneGap apps that are just a wrapped up version of their mobile site. Even simple things like offline (possible in HTML5 if the developers cared) don't get implemented.
Normal country selector:

Type I, click Ireland (seven or so down).

This: Type I - Ireland not shown.

This is less usable to me than the usual country selector as a result.

Yes, I'm being nitpicky, but all the JS doesn't cover up that it's slower to find my country.
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It's New BSD License, so yes binaries can be distributed as long as all the legal/copyright info is maintained

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#3-clause_license_....

And I see you just emailed it to me - thanks!
> So if Groupon stopped giving cash up front they shouldn't lose any customers they need, right?

That's not strong supporting evidence. Cash up front is one of the incentives that Groupon uses to acquire customers. Dropping it would certainly lose at least a few customers. They have a shit-ton of customers, doing many things would lose them customers. But it's not the core value proposition of Groupon.

Now if Groupon stopped advertising your business and discount to their enormous email list and only gave you cash advance in exchange for future revenue and they don't lose much business, then it starts looking more like what the OP claims.
Groupon is really good about giving credit (full value) to customers with expired Groupons. Does Groupon still payout to the businesses when they are essentially refunding purchased Groupons?

There is nothing sustainable about this model...but it works for me!
I've worked at home and lived alone for the past 5 years or so. I was still in college until a year and a half ago, so the lectures provided some socialization back then.

I don't think I've gone insane quite yet ;) Lots of IM and regularly making excuses to go be around people (meetup groups, running errands, working somewhere with people for a while) seems to be working for now.
Launch is a tool, not a goal
This reminds me of the awesome lasers in the 80s flick, Real Genius. Awesome!
>stories about how employees got screwed out of equity by investors/founders when an exit loomed do seem like the norm around here.

Well, "everything went as planned" doesn't make for a very interesting story.
If I recall, the issue with a public 0mq socket was that anyone driving by sending something 0mq didn't like would cause an assertion to fail, so your process would crash. It wasn't so much a "supposed to be exposed" as "expose it and crash".
In my experience at a big business, technical skills alone are not sufficient for "be treated with respect, get paid well". It takes a certain amount of shameless self-promotion and other skills normally associated with politicians. The nice thing is that you can do your boring 9-5 in two hours without anyone noticing, and spend the rest of your time preparing for a better job.
Respectfully disagree, up to a point. You can create startups in Italy (people do, and some actually succeed). True, bureaucracy and taxes hit you hard (but marginal corporate taxes in the USA are high nonetheless, aren't they?). True, if you are flagged as a bad payer, you end up in a very difficult situation (I guess that if you have a bad credit history in the USA, they will not put red carpets in front of you).

But just saying "it can't be done" makes it impossible for you to do it. Period.

Me: working as an associate in a VC firm. Yes, operating in Italy. And yes, it is difficult, but we (as a startup community) are creating momentum and we can see something happening.

Bottom line: banks do not invest money in your company, they lend you money, that's why they require a positive cash flow NOW.
Great idea. We are working on that blog post as we speak!
It would be ironical for USA government to ask for Chinese expertise.
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That seems odd, I always just type "can".
iOS 5.0.1 arrives with purported battery life fixes
This is the first over-the-air update pushed by Apple.

It purportedly fixes the iPhone 4S battery problems.
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Isn't that why we're here? I see no reason why this isn't possible (and as fast and scalable as it might be imagined) given the right serendipity of technology. Now that I think about it, weighting it for a set of countries say on a scale of 0-3 should be fairly easy and would probably fit into the :sort option provided after some tweaking.
"Google+ is Google"

So it might not be far fetched to think that they might start requiring (or implicitly nudging) you to sign-in to G+ to use their Search.
I think the integration of G+ in the core of Android will do wonders for its adoption. Suddenly the millions of users with Android devices have an incentive to begin using G+.
I imagine it will either be in prefs or via moving the application to the trash can.
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Actually, I would take it to mean that the wording has a huge effect on how people respond, as per his previous post: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ji/conjunction_fallacy/

Notice that in the jazz playing accountant example, 92% of people answered A, E, C.

Notice now that in the gambling situation, only 65% of subjects answered 2.

92% for the "story" question, and 65% for the "hard data" question. I still look at the jazz question and read it through the cultural interpretation of A > E > C, despite it being incorrect in a strictly logical sense. That does not make my interpretation a conjunction fallacy, regardless of what the question creator intended.

This only goes to show that the conjunction fallacy has no hope of being measured accurately unless the question is completely unambiguous in subtext (meaning that it doesn't tread upon cultural aspects of language, where people fill in the blanks and read between the lines).

And even then, the dice rolling question, though devoid of cultural baggage, still might not be the best way to measure the conjunction fallacy. I know a great number of people who couldn't figure out probability to save themselves. This could have skewed the results higher or even lower, depending on what proportion of the test subjects could properly interpret probabilities. Now if this question were asked to statisticians, the results would be compelling.
Italy has a grand and extensive history of craft and flexible production, and to ignore these "material" industries when analysing the existence of software companies misses a considerable factor.
Doesn't mean you can't sub-sort within those categories.
I've found its starting to get hard to analyze some Google products and their likelihood of survival when it comes to Google. In my case its when I get questions about the GoogleTV. If it were any other company I'd say "yeah that product is dead" but its not any company. Its Google, who has 40B dollars in cash reserves. They have an unprecedented ability to continue to develop products which are "flops" if they continue to see a strategic advantage to being involved in the space. With the amount of financial runway, and human intelligence Google can provide to a product - its hard to see any of them continuing to fail indefinitely.
Here's a guess: engagement metrics of a 4.5 month old site are pretty pointless. And since Google+ is clearly not in the Facebook ballpark of usage, it would only reflect badly on Google. So why should Google release them? If you think not reaching Facebook-like status or denting Facebook in 4.5 months means Google+ is dead as a Facebook competitor, what could have Google done in that amount of time that would have made them a competitor in your eyes?
Ask HN: Startup Community in Shanghai?
I lived in Shanghai for 2 of my 3 college summers and had a ball. I'm thinking of working remotely (currently in NYC) for a chunk of 2012. Does anyone know if there's a startup scene in Shanghai?

In particular I'm interested in:

1. Availability of good co-working spaces containing interesting people who are building things.

2. Events etc.
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If there were, wouldn't you be liable for the capital gains post-IPO?
how can you possibly be "really" into someone that many times in 2 months... it's like something out of High School Musical
This may seem a little out there but maybe Google should buy MySpace and incorporate it into G+?
I have experienced it (event got yelled at at company X for upgrading my computer to 1g from 512m - just bought a 512meg chip at lunch for about $40). I still don't think that just being able to replace your own drive and such will allow someone to generate 10+ times their previous value. I'm not intentionally trivializing your point of view - we'll just have to agree to disagree. :)