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> Employers have a responsibility to maximize the profits of their shareholders/investors.

Somewhat shortsighted statement for this topic, considering the people they're harming here are employees who are... shareholders.

> If it were human, it would be a sociopath.

It may not be human, but they're ran by humans, and legally in many ways Corporations are people. In fact its a meme running in US politics lately. People with a lot of money, and a lot more power than 99.99% of humans. I'm getting sick of reading humans say Corporations, considered people and ran by humans, can do anything in the name of shareholder value, but for some reason, people with less money, power, and connections, have moral values applied to their actions. It's complete bullshit, and if people weren't so brainwashed they couldn't get away with this shit.
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Lawyer up and sue for trademark infringement.
I heard a similar thing over at airbnb
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When I look at laws like E-PARASITE that are aimed at "taming" the internet (whatever that means), I do not see a big lumbering government trying to gain control over the internet. What I see are big lumbering corporations trying to keep the money flowing without having to work to keep up with the rapid pace of technology.

From the Wikipedia entry on SOPA/E-PARASITE:

Rogue sites legislation receives broad support from organizations that rely on copyright, including the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, Macmillan Publishers, Netflix, Viacom, and various other companies and unions in the cable, movie, and music industries. Supporters also include trademark-dependent companies such as Nike, L'Oréal, and Acushnet Company.

I can't imagine what the landscape of the internet will look like in a decade, but it's worrisome that the next generation will grow up in a world that would make even Orwell roll in his grave.
By logging in, your search results leverage your profile information and connections. I guess a pretty strong "nudge" would simply be to aggressive promote that when you're not logged in.
This is correct.

It's easier to enforce a registered trademark, but common law trademark rights are all based on likelihood of confusion, which is present here.
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Some merchants may use Groupon this way. Others use it the same way that they do any other advertising service; as a technique for getting their foot in the door, so to speak. For those who use this as a way to get fast cash, this article - and whatever service Womply is providing - may be useful. For those who use it as yet another avenue for advertising, alongside weekly coupons in the newspaper and ads on television, this article is irrelevant.
I figured out most of these aspects of the academic game before I bomed out of it.
Wasn't aware of these guys. I didn't think many game companies had made it into YC. The only other game company I'm aware of is Koduco. Humble Bundle isn't a game company per say but is probably the most successful game related company that has been in YC. This thread was pretty useful (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1948870) and lists a few more. Are there any more?
It was a hypothetical scenario based on a combination of past experiences. Right now Firefox shows 464M resident (RES column in top) with five tabs open (wait, it's growing, now it's 480M, 486...). After a couple of hours it will be close to 1GB resident.

I've been working on large images in Gimp and Hugin/panotools in the past, and reached a point where swap was being used. The system immediately slowed to an unusable crawl with only a few % of swap in use. Considering that rotating hard drives have a random access throughput of a few MB/s, it's not surprising. These days a swap partition's only use is hibernating. Swap is effectively useless.

One webapp I'm working on triggered a bug in older versions of Chrome that caused it to grow rapidly in size, quickly consuming all of memory. Fortunately that was fixed.

So basically, I'd like to have another GB of image data in RAM before hitting swap (or whatever it is I'm working on), while still having my browser responsive.
I didn't start using twitter until tweetdeck came along.

Google need to work on the API.
Now you're just descending into pedantry. Yes, unvested shares are not technically equity, that doesn't mean they cannot be the basis of extortion.
I work with Startup Weekend managing this program, and it should be great! If anyone is involved with GTUGs or local Startup Weekend events (or wants to be), either comment here or email me (zachary@startupweekend.org).

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My favorite - "I recall the hot summer in remote Bulgarian village, almost on the Turkish border, with car broken and no way to get home, where I devised the first version of ØMQ wire protocol. Thanks to the guy who fixed the car! Without him I would have been herding donkeys today. There would be no ØMQ."
For me 25 minutes are too short - you just get into something and it's time for the pause - especially for programming I think you need longer time periods.

When doing the pomodoro technique I usually go for 45 minutes work units + 10 minutes break. That way you get longer focus and when you take a break it's a real break (so you can get out and walk for a bit for example).
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Anyone that uses a check cashing business or accepts a bad loan is probably doing it wrong too, but that doesn't stop millions of people from doing those things. Regulating that kind of thing is a good idea. To be fair though, I don't know enough about Groupon's terms to say whether the comparison is fair.
I built a mobile site (http://evocatus.com/m) and lesson learned: JQuery Mobile while incredible easy to use is absolute performance crap.

I really really wish I used Sencha Touch.
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I don't have any trademarks related to it.

What infringement?
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As a Singaporean, I feel the same way too. High costs of living, overcrowded public transit and mandatory conscription for all citizens.
Whether G+ is dead or not, or if it will be killed as a product in 1 year or 5 is not entirely clear. What is sure is that Google is adding social to all of their products in the form of +1 buttons. So even if G+ is shut down like Google Buzz, Google is betting on social.
Yes this is missing the oft-overlooked option of synonyms.

There is no reason why the auto-complete cannot have something like this:

<option value="DE">DE</option>
<option value="DE">Germany</option>
<option value="DE">Deutschland</option>
> "Some talent might be more attracted to Zynga because they 'deal with the dead wood' in a proactive way."

Would you really classify this as "dealing with the dead wood?" If they were "dealing with the dead wood", I'd expect they would just fire them for being dead wood in the first place and get their unvested options back as a side-effect.

Trying to keep the dead wood employed, but scaring them into effectively renegotiating their contracts isn't the sort of "dealing with" that very many people are going to look upon favorably.
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This is a bit far afield. The most likely prospect for G+ is that it becomes a social network for the more technically inclined while Facebook remains the social network for all -- a bit like the differentiation between reddit and digg. The main reason is not something great that Google is doing, however, but the immense dislike that many have for Facebook. Facebook, of course, is sucking in all data it can get access to regardless of whether it has any legitimate reason to take that data and, despite willful violation of data protection laws, is likely to remain above the law like many other protected parties.

I think the long term hope is that Google+ might become something like Gmail is to Outlook. G+ is the innovative, feature-driven, technologically saavy option, whereas even if more people use the "Outlook" option today, because of the technological advances attached to the "Gmail" option, people will transition to it over time.

That said, I think that is the best possible option and I don't have any reason to think that G+ is really delivering in any meaningful way on these hopes. Let's see if they actually can stay one technological step ahead of Facebook. Some better APIs would be nice...
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The company didn't hire you to work as a 4-share employee, they hired you to work as a 4-share employee with significant upside potential. That is how early startup employees are compensated for the increased risk and lesser salary they take on.
Closing the performance gap on jQuery Mobile is going to be a watershed moment for mobile web application development.

I've worked with jQuery Mobile and I need to disagree. jQuery Mobile doesn't add much to mobile web app development. It's just a UI toolkit that offers boilerplate styling and page navigation/transitions.

I'm not trying to take away from the usefulness of jQuery Mobile for some people, but it doesn't bring a lot of excitement to mobile web.

You touched on the real watershed event in mobile web development though --- which will be hardware accelerated WebGL and hardware accelerated CSS3 animations. When that happens, it'll be a whole new world for mobile web apps.
They don't care about the long term. They are going for IPO (hand off to dumber money) and then getting out.

The game is: lie, leverage, flip.
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I started out with Sencha Touch. The performance is much better, but developing in Sencha Touch is a nightmare. Maybe if I was building the JOSN objects with CoffeeScript it would have made life easier. But tracking down the syntax errors for these super nested JSON objects is not something I recommend.

What I would like to see in jQueryMobile is a way to pre-enhance my multi-page applications. Then you can turn off dynamic page enhancements and everything should be fine.
Zynga would be effectively firing them for being too expensive. That's probably the most common reason for any layoffs. It sucks, but I can't imagine they have a legal leg to stand on.
Well stated. I tend to look at it in a similar way, but phrased differently: When you decide to work from home vs. in an office, neither is better or worse, you're simply trading one set of problems for another.

For example, you brought up lack of human contact, and I sympathize. Team interaction was huge for me when I worked in an office, and I didn't realize how much I took it for granted until I started working from home. When you trade that for the solitude and separation that comes with working from home, things get lonely
fast. However, when I really need to get work done, the solitude is a huge net positive.

I've experienced many other this-for-that trade offs, but the social loss is one that I identify with the most. I think software developers have a stereotype of sitting in front of a computer and writing code all day, mostly in isolation. That may be true to a varying degree, but I think the social aspects of software development are underrated, and working from home has helped me realize that.
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The article is ridiculous on the face of it. "Proclaiming that Google+ won’t survive is like saying that the Apple mobile iOS operating system will die, but the iPhone and iPad will live on" -- a better analogy is "Proclaiming that Google+ won’t survive is like saying that MacOS will die, but the Mac will live on". Except that this _did_ happen.

If Google+ fails, Google can let it die, and slowly remove all the places where it has intruded into search. Or Google+ can fail, and Google can decide to drag the whole company down with it, by trading all of their goodwill and usefulness to drive people to their social network. But claiming that they are forced to do the latter is stupid.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't stripe more of a payment gateway, where as what hes asking is more about structuring recurring billing based on a contract?

In other words, he could actually do the charge through stripe, but he couldn't generate the invoice by which he comes to the amount that he charges.

Maybe i'm wrong.
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So in answer to your question, we already have the physical and legal infrastructure to support general-purpose automated cars, and we have the technological capacity.

That is such a stretch from the four sentences before it. You are discussing 1) a prototype vehicle that is not available to consumers and requires supervision by a cadre of engineers and 2) a recent law in just one of the least populous states of the country. How about a few choice details from that article you cited:

"... with only occasional human intervention."

"Before sending the self-driving car on a road test, Google engineers [have to] drive along the route one or more times to gather data about the environment."

"...there are many challenges ahead, including improving the reliability of the cars and addressing daunting legal and liability issues."

You must have read it with unrestrained optimism. I also applaud your idealistic notion that statistics matter more than public opinion, but the country isn't run by scientists and mathematicians (that's actually a good thing in certain respects). The reality is the general public does have to support changes that affect society, like laws and the development of physical and legal infrastructure, and there are many ways of formulating reasonable policy arguments with or without statistics.
Is it a stretch to imagine that once the government has all their surveillance and control set up on the Internet (actually a lot of it is already in place), they will attempt to shut down competing models in a similar fashion?
Yes you are right. I guess what I wanted to say, is that 0MQ relies on trusted code and network. It's okay for code to assert, as soon as there is someone to fix it, and it's probably expected. (Crash early, fix early).
I found this, more than anything else, to help me get started with 0mq: http://api.zeromq.org/

A lot of the behavior is on a per-protocol and socket type basis, which is well documented here: http://api.zeromq.org/2-1:zmq-socket
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It's not just business use alone that matters for Google, they are a complete productivity/life suite. Facebook fails miserably at this.

Enter the realm of Facebook and what do you accomplish, you add friends, like something, and look at photos, essentially nothing, a closed experience that ignores much of the internet as a whole delivered through an unusable interface (does anyone else feels like facebook has a b-rated windows 95 feel to it?). Seriously, try to find apps in Facebook vs. finding apps in Chrome Web Store. I understand the numbers behind it, but AOL was cool at one time too.

Google you have everything you need to help you be productive and useful. Amazing integration across all platforms, mobile phones, google docs, chat, news, reader(quit whining about the redesign) and discovery (google +, seriously video chat in hangouts thats pretty and easy to use, why do I need Citrix?). If your against the thought that google + can be successful and aide you in having a better social user experience online, then I'll let you get back your USWeekly and you can keep joining your "Kim Kardashian Support" groups on Facebook.

Google is the company that Microsoft failed(fails?) to be. Sure they don't make pretty iphones, but they make real, usable products.
Threw this together over a couple of weekends for fun. It's kind of a cross between HN and /. - I'm trying for more of an editorial voice and some eye candy. I'd love some feedback if anybody has a minute :)
Anybody else think we need a HN meetup in Austin?
I read HN way too many times daily and I know a few of my friends that do too. I'm positive there are thousands of others here in Austin that do as well and it would be too much fun to have a meetup sometime in the near future!

If anybody else in Austin feels this way on HN, comment / message me and I'd love to get something going!
I can see your point. I was referring to how dead simple it is to build a nice, professional looking application with jQuery Mobile. It is very easy, requires very little mark up. When the performance gets there I think you'll see a flood of applications just because of the very low barrier of entry to use jQuery Mobile. The jQuery Mobile team has also gone through a lot of effort to ensure the highest amount of cross-compatibility with difference mobile platforms. A goal that, at times, sacrifices performance on higher-end platforms for the sake of ubiquity.

Developing more sophisticated mobile applications with hardware accelerated canvas and CSS is going to be awesome and definitely will allow mobile web apps to compete directly with native apps. But the barrier for entry will be much higher.
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Detailed and realistic, thank you. And I agree, you should make a blog post about it.
Because they made inflated stock awards to lure in the suckers, then canned it at the last minute. It's classic.
Can anyone explain why 'United States' could possibly be an autocomplete result for 'CA'? I am staring at United States and just can't see a 'C' anywhere... have I totally lost it?
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Given Groupon's published payment terms, this article is a little odd:
http://www.groupon.com/pages/merchant-terms-of-service-1 (see 4.3). It seems they're paying merchants only after coupons have been redeemed. So in reality, merchants get their cash later than for regular purchases.
Of course these default payment terms can be overridden in a custom agreement, but I wonder how often this really happens?
I would say that's true only in the beginning. Reddit was only the outlet for "technologically inclined" for the first year or so.

Once it gains critical mass, in theory there's nothing preventing it from becoming the new Facebook, and Facebook from going the way of MySpace
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You can always hire a relative/mistress to a no-show/do-nothing job and further dilute the option pool in your favor. It's easier on the conscience as you effectively cancel the stealing out by adding to the employment rolls.

Beware the shuffling of chairs, granting of titles, lateral promotions, unannounced appearance of new employees cutting back on company snacks. These are all clues that lead to a financial event where unless you're in the driver's seat, you're bound to take a hit.

For those of you with the altruistic bent, please watch the Spanish Prisoner. It's a classic example of fuckery.
Hey Ben!

I'm actually helping out the growl team work towards 1.4. That's entirely an option. This model is similar to Textmate and XChat which remain open source but if you want to download the binary version you can either pay for them a well tested version from a trusted source to help support the project or find any number of the third party builds from questionable sources.

Paying the $2 gives you unlimited updates forever in the store and helps support a full time dev working on the project is all. Growl is used by thousands but is maintained by 4ish people people (and now me) in their free time and it doesn't get the attention it needs.

(On another note, we should grab a drink sometime! Haven't ran into you in months!)
Have you tried the 37signals suite? Basecamp might fit the bill here.

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Internet voting is a bad idea. It's vulnerable to coercion.

Even if we can guarantee the votes are submitted and counted accurately, it's impossible to tell if my boss was standing behind me telling me what to vote (or lose my job).

At a polling station they prevent coercion by enforcing secrecy. One person in a voting booth at a time, no cameras in the voting booth, etc. If you can't prove you voted either way, you're free to lie about how you voted.
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There's talk of "traits" for Ruby 2.0 that will let you scope your monkeypatching.
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This update doesn't seem to affect my iPhone. Battery still drains very quickly. 100% to 93% in 10 minutes just browsing over wifi with 50% brightness.
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In terms of the average quality of their content, G+ : FB :: HN : /. That's just my experience, and YMMV, but if it's globally true then I expect G+ to win in the long run.
It's a little slow making it over to google code. It's been up for a while. Bleeding edge work is on a private HG and cloned over to Google nightly (or least it's supposed too). Can always come into #growl on freenode and ask for access the other repo.
I agree with most of your points. The one thing I would add is that Apple and Google will continue to innovate on their OS so they are always a few steps a head of web apps. For example, once Siri is open to developers, voice interaction with apps will be something that continues to make a native iOS app better than a web app.

It'll be a cat and mouse game for years to come.
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Also love this passage:

“Most people after they win the Nobel Prize just want to go play golf,” said Eldar Shafir, a professor of psychology at Princeton and a disciple of Amos Tversky’s. “Danny’s busy trying to disprove his own theories that led to the prize. It’s beautiful, really.”

It shows amazing intellectual honesty.
Not sure about if this is such a good idea. The writer comes from a point where everyone is active on the internet in some form or another. But in fact only about 72% actually were "connected" as of October 2010.

The same logic would declare surveys on the internet as representative of the society - and we have seen over and over again that these are often quite different to "reality". The idea would therefore favor those views popular among an internet crowd by lowering the access barrier towards this group as much as possible.

Historically American elections have been putting certain hurdles in place that aim not to generate the biggest turnout possible, but a turnout of those who are really interested in the subject (i.e. the preregistration in some states etc). But this is another discussion.
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I agree. It is a legitimate question, though, to ask whether the benefits of internet voting outweigh the increased opportunity for coercion. No internet voting advocates seem to be addressing that question, though, which makes me think that it is premature to be rolling out these kinds of systems.
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Usually networking/talking with other developers/start-up dreamers. There are some presentations at times although at this next venue (RFD) there would probably be some isolated laptop demos.