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How Trello is different? More like: How Trello is the same.

"You agree that You will not:

(a) upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy (up to, but not excluding any address, email, phone number, or any other contact information without the written consent of the owner of such information), hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;

(j) intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law;

(l) promote or provide instructional information about illegal activities, promote physical harm or injury against any group or individual, or promote any act of cruelty to animals. This may include, without limitation, providing instructions on how to assemble bombs, grenades and other weapons or incendiary devices."

https://trello.com/legal

So, basically, my associates and I can't use Trello to make our plans for world domination. Back to the index cards, guys.

SERIOUSLY: Content-restrictive ToS, which is now the norm, is killing the Internet, possibly with even greater efficacy than DMCA, SOPA, PIPA, and their ilk, combined, because it proactively chills speech. Congratulations on a nice product, but no matter how nice it is, or how much nicer it becomes, the ToS makes Trello unusable to me, as well as to many of the people who ignore the fine print, and who will therefore end up losing their accounts over trivialities.

"The business goal for Trello is to ultimately get to 100 million users. That means that our highest priority is removing any obstacles to adoption. Anything that people might use as a reason not to use Trello has to be found and eliminated."
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What made it big should have been obvious- it hit a nerve. It rang true. He wasn't just ranting and making shit up.
Ahhhhh, I get it now.
What? How exactly was he describing a non-lean company? Hell, he was angling his wife as a supplementary source of income, and his home as investment capitol!
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more to the point, does .99 still work on anyone? I understand that "round number" signals "classy" while "odd number" signals "cheap" but does that signal change behavior?
Or possibly an established enough economy. How many startups are there?

Billion-dollar companies don't have to worry about it nearly as much as tiny ten-man ventures.
I have quite literally never heard anyone brag even jokingly, or for that matter even mention their friend count on Facebook. The few friend counts I've noticed and remembered, including my own, have all hovered around 150-200. I think his claim that Facebook friend count is a motivating popularity metric like Twitter's follower count is spurious.
You willfully misrepresented what they're doing. "Focusing on everything from writing code to scheduling and managing expectations" sounds like How To Work For A Project Manager School.

It's obvious from everything they said that they're focused on writing code.
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Do it in a subdirectory, the links to your blogpost will count as links for the various ranking indicators. Your blogs role is to feed traffic to your main site.
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I believe you misunderstand me. I never said that he wasn't a lean company.

I was comparing the average lean startup to the average large corporation. Neither made-up example was his company.
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Brilliant idea, I've never been very far below the surface of Reddit. I'm a big fan of the @newsycombinator twitter account for mobile reading -- do you know if there's a way of making something similar for the reddit subgroup?
I do not understand. Is your comment even related to the article at all then? This whole article is about how startups don't work in Hungary, and you're talking about how this is evidence why startups are so much better?
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The solution to all such problems is as obvious as it is unlikely to happen. It's not "women get six years' vacation if they want it". It's not "at-will employment". It's complete freedom of contract in the context of secure, effective, and responsible government.

You and your employer come to an ex ante mutually beneficial agreement. A secure and effective government will enforce such a contract, unless it represents an egregious abuse by one of the parties. A responsible government will formulate a wise definition of egregious abuse.

Once you start to enumerate all unenforceable contracts, you will come to understand how far we are from this situation. And when you look at how insecure, ineffective, and irresponsible governments are, you'll see why we may never get there.
Yeah sadly it does. And it works on products of all price ranges especially at critical price points, the lowest of which is $.99. But it works just as well at $199 ... or $189. A computer for $999 for some reason seems like a much better deal than the same computer for $1010 but in reality represents a difference of 1% which is still much less than the tax you're going to pay on the machine.

Check out the current king of selling "classy" computers and whatnot http://store.apple.com/us their site is crawling with this peculiar aspect of human psychology.
Speed aside, maintaining certs for all your backend servers would suck.
Among all social websites out there, Linkedin is probably the least social.
> Couldn't Twitter do it anyway, allow them to take the info by force, let them reinstate their servers, and then sue the Government for damages?

Good luck with that. The government would simply argue that Twitter could easily have avoided the damages by cooperating ("you brought this on yourself").
I may be wrong, but at least here in Germany I'm pretty sure the unavailability of spotify, rdio and so on can't be explained with major labels refusing to allow those service here. No, when it comes to germany you have to look at the media right organisation GEMA that seems to demand unreasonable high fees from streaming services. There is an ongoing dispute between the GEMA and Google concerning Youtube, which is why you will see a lot of videos that are "unavailable in your region".
It seems as if at this point these companies aren't even bothering to negogiate with the GEMA anymore. I can't see why labels would refuse to offer their content here.
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also a nice way to artificially inflate chrome visitation figures.
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In Spain you cannot fire a pregnant woman. It could be even illegal asking for it in a job interview... Recent laws allow the father taking the 50% of vacation for child care. In candidates lists -algo by law- there must be 50/50 men/women. So, definitely, Hungary is not representative from European Union.
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Tell HN: I can see comment scores (of other users) after I upvote.
If you run a search and have already upvoted a comment (in some cases even this is not necessary, I think these cases are when the option to delete a comment has expired), you get to see the comment score! Is this supposed to happen? Or are they supposed to be completely invisible?
Really? That's certainly not my experience. I'd be curious to hear from other folks on this thread. I bet your view here is pretty unique.
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I am simply saying, in a very simple way, that opinion on certain topics is only valid when it comes from the right perspective. This has nothing to do with personal principles or morality. It's business (and reality) 101.

BTW, I say this from the perspective of having lived on both sides of that equation. I've even done things like not taking home a paycheck during bad times in order to make payroll and keep people employed. Business isn't black-and-white and it is usually far harder than it looks from the outside.
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"...that at least SOME meaningful percentage of people find utility decay in social network design."

Define "Some"? I mean, you can never please 100% of your user base. Ever.

And to be crude, who cares if 5% of the user base doesn't like the service? Then leave. You don't have to be on Facebook. You don't have to be on Twitter. Or do you?

I mean, people want to be popular.
I very quickly shot up to 150 friends and have only recently, years later, broken 200. I don't expect it to accelerate any time soon.

I don't go out of my way to delete people I don't speak to, but I do lose friends over time, either people removing me, or people deleting facebook. The rate at which I lose friends is just slightly slower than the rate that I'm adding friends.
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FYI for confused:

* you face 'forward', which is to the right.
.walk! or .walk!(:forward) is what you want until later.
* you can feel walls: .feel.wall?
* you can print: p "Feels: #{warrior.feel}"
* add this to the bottom of your file to get .archer? and .wizard? methods on look:
class RubyWarrior::Space
def archer?
self.unit.kind_of? RubyWarrior::Units::Archer
end
def wizard?
self.unit.kind_of? RubyWarrior::Units::Wizard
end
end

Thanks for the original monkeypatch go to numle at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3435382

It's beatable w/o hand-coding each action - I ended with a fairly-general setup that only took a couple changed lines to solve the last task (a should_shoot? method, basically). But the 'course' as a whole needs a LOT of work. And better documentation. And fixes for the missing methods. And a better progression - if you don't set up something fairly flexible early on, you'll be re-writing a lot each time; the steps don't encourage you to generalize very well. And / or hints as to how to design something good to do this - there are absolutely no suggestions, no learning, just 'tips' that tell you half the API available to you.

If anyone wants a cheat-sheet for my setup for the end: https://gist.github.com/1574167 though it was tweaked at each level slightly, and grew into that. Definitely not my best work, but it works.
I'm in Nairobi, Kenya. The output indicates I'm in the US as well.
Now get HN stories on Facebook via an auto-updating Facebook Page
I was surprised when I was unable to find any Facebook page that shared Hacker News top stories, so went ahead and created a page for all of us. It is connected to the RSS feed and automatically updates when the feed updates. Here's the link :

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hacker-News/321008654600119

Twitter, RSS.. so why not Facebook?
Simplest solution: move the fuck out of Hungary.
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There is a clear agenda, the only failure is journalistic integrity.

They have to keep the masses ignorant of SOPA, Patriot Act, and NDAA, wouldn't want people to be upset with the destruction of the Constitution.

They are expecting the worst and so are now preparing for the worst. I am scared of things to come.
Actually he says he wouldn't hire anyone, because he won't be attempting startups in the first place. You shouldn't get in trouble for your hiring policies when it is simply: "I don't have employees."
Sweden has a reasonable number of startups relative to its population: MySQL, Spotify, Wrapp, Mojang, Massive, Absolicon, etc. But I agree that the economies are quite different, which is why I prefer careful analysis (preferably based on data) to anecdotes.
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I don't even see a friend count on my Facebook page. I have to click on "Friends". And even then I get a list.

So it's not like the number is surrounded by an H1 tags.

And I don't tweet. I'm on Twitter, but I lurk. I think I have like 4 friends. But I follow about 25.

So where's the noise?

Edit: Ok I found the count. I didn't notice it at first. I have 537 friends on FB. So guess I'm an attention hound. :)
In Russia if you don't minimize taxation with tricks and do it straight, you pay like 1,2$ for each 1$ your company makes. So mostly companies aims for super profitable niches, like selling chinese shit with 1000-5000% margin.
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my hypothesis is that (a) no one likes "noise" (b) everyone has a different notion of what "noise" is and (c) these systems are designed to amplify noise (but there are ways to create noise dampeners).

Personally I find my direct usage of some mature social networks decreasing for the reasons that Mike and I outlined.
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And now, for your entertainment, an implementation in a language I'm pretty confident has a user base of just me:

gimli> pascal <- local {
gimli+ loop <- function(n, xs) {
gimli+ if n > 0 then do
gimli+ print(xs);
gimli+ loop(n - 1, [0, xs] + [xs, 0]);
gimli+ end
gimli+ };
gimli+ function(n) loop(n, [1])
gimli+ }
func(n) loop(n,[1])

gimli> pascal(0)
F

gimli> pascal(1)
1
F

gimli> pascal(9)
1
[1,1]
[1,2,1]
[1,3,3,1]
[1,4,6,4,1]
[1,5,10,10,5,1]
[1,6,15,20,15,6,1]
[1,7,21,35,35,21,7,1]
[1,8,28,56,70,56,28,8,1]
F

To clear up what's happening in the recursive call to loop, the (+) operator represents vector addition, not list concatenation:

gimli> xs <- [1]
1

gimli> xs <- [0, xs] + [xs, 0]
[1,1]

gimli> xs <- [0, xs] + [xs, 0]
[1,2,1]
Or you have the 'official' salary of $50/month, and you get the rest paid to you in cash in the envelope each month.

Well, at least that's how things were about 10 years ago when I left - it could have changed a lot.

There was some economist who estimated that if a business in Russia pays EVERY tax it's supposed to by the law, it will pay way over 100% of the profits in taxes. So technically there is no business that is following the law 100%, giving the 'controlling organs' the power to ask for bribes. Could be an urban legend though, I don't have links.

Edit: The parent talks about general taxation, and my take is about the taxes a company has to pay for each employee on top of her salary. Still, I think, "white" and "grey" salaries is an interesting point.
Well, it's very simple to actually run a site running on news.arc

The guide here http://arclanguage.org/install

and the how-to-run-news file you extract make it simple to have it up and running in under a couple of minutes. It's just a question of whether you want to run it. I just did it to try out arc and see how HN ran in the back, but it got expensive to run it in aws all the time with no actual users or tangible benefit.
He's saying it in the context of pointing out problems and inefficiencies of the system. I interpreted it as "these laws designed to protect women and the elderly are in fact incentivising bad behavior by employers, and thereby doing them harm, not good."
This was a really long, enjoyable article. My question is, how does the company that he works for manage to pay him enough to buy a 90k flat? Are they shaddy like the other companies he described? Is he shaddy and not paying his taxes? How did his employer manage to do it and why can't he just follow that path?
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You can get this right now in many state university systems in the US if you want it. Especially in the case on non-exempt employees. Unless the employee does something criminal I would say it would takes a minimum of a year to fire someone but probably more, and with clever enough employees it can be nearly impossible. Because of seniority and the like it can be really hard to layoff a specific employee even when there are budget cuts that eliminate positions.

Here's the problem. Bad employees tend not to leave of their own free will, in my experience the worse they are the more this is true. However, really good employees tend to move on every few years as they grow into new opportunities. What this means is that every time you replace a good employee you roll the dice that you'll get a bad one. There is now one position that is likely locked in place with bad employee. Over time this leads to a lot of bad employees, which in turn lowers your retention rate of good employees.

Now there is a standard tactic to fight this (and this same tactic would work in your senario as well). Make the bad employee extremely uncomfortable. Within the rules of the system do everything you can to make work suck. This does work reasonably well. The problem? Terrible employees are immune to this. So if this tactic is abused you end up with only terrible employees.

So in short, without the ability to fire people easily you tend to go on a downward spiral of increasingly bad-mediocre employees.
If you're downvoting, by the way, please leave a comment about why.

I think the comment is too political and lacks content. The Guidelines say: "Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them." Although I don't wish to be a jerk, I also don't think the comment meets this criteria. So I downvoted it.

In reading comments, I try to upvote those written by people with special knowledge or insight, usually gleaned from particular experiences in the field or unusual reading / insight. I often downvote those that seem to lack such insight, or be random, or that don't have "something genuinely new to say," or that are too overtly political.

I'm not downvoting you because I disagree with you—I actually haven't given much thought to the issue of at-will employment versus government-mandated employment and so don't really have an opinion—but because of the lack of content in the comment.
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Trevor Strong of the Arrogant Worms thanked me for downloading their music. Of course downloading the music made me a big enough fan of theirs to drive 300 miles to see them in concert as well as buying several CDs there. I also introduced many people to their music.

Point being I think many artist are open(ish) about sharing music (for example). It does seem things like SOPA come from far larger groups like the RIAA.
Even better solution: don't penalize any employers for their employees' reproductive choices.

If the state believes it's a good idea to have a parent at home, the money for maternity and paternity should come out of the state's coffers.

And I'd encourage everybody to be open about their plans to have kids or not. If this results in undue discrimination against people raising kids, offset it with a corporate tax break for employing people with dependents.

This would be really expensive, but probably cheaper than the costs that a destitute single mom or a poorly-parented kid can inflict on society. And at least the costs would be borne by everyone, and both businesses and their employees could be honest and plan realistically.
Similarly, include this in the patch for .wizard?:

def wizard?
self.unit.kind_of? RubyWarrior::Units::Wizard
end
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I would say the opposite. College is awesome. You could do it anytime but the best time to go through university or a college is now, while you are young. On the other hand Silicon Valley is not going anywhere. If you are talented, there is a place for you in the valley anytime you want.
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How can the government mandating the kind of paid-leave in Sweden be good for a startup? Tell me how this sort of policy can increase a new startups short-term cash flow? You can't exactly advertize superior working conditions (Google w/ free food/massages/nerf guns/paid child-related leave) since you do not have any track-record of being the hot new startup. Even if you did have the best working conditions available having to pay out for an employee who is not producing anything would probably kill the startup.

Culture/location/talent/vc $ is what makes a company though and to some extent trumps unfavorable tax/labor laws, this is IMO why SV & California have most of the startups as compared to Arizona/Texas or why Scandinavia>Eastern Europe.
The author realizes that these 5 restrictions don't even apply in Silicon Valley, right?

1. I can fire you, if I want to.

California has at-will employment, but you sure can't fire someone based on gender or age anywhere in the United States—and he opens with his desire to do just that.

2. If VAT goes down to at least 20%, better yet 15%.

Sales tax alone is not 20%+$.01 anywhere in the Bay Area, but there are a surprising number of added taxes here and there—Healthy San Francisco, for example, or the California state gasoline taxes—that can make the surcharges on consumer goods add up to that level.

3. If the state takes away "only" 30% of your money.

Federal income tax + California state income tax + FICA significantly exceeds that for most people in the technology industry in Silicon Valley.

4. If higher income is not exponentially punished.

The US certainly does have a progressive income tax scheme.

5. If the states punishes corruption instead of decent companies.

No-bid contracts, anyone? The US is hardly free of corruption.

He's asking for a place that doesn't exist. Moreover, it's a place I wouldn't want to live in; I don't want to live in a place where it's legal to discriminate against minorities, in particular.
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> but you sure can't fire someone based on gender or age anywhere in the United States—and he opens with his desire to do just that.

i think his desire was to be able to fire people who don't do their job or dont do it well
Just as an added fact, for those who don't know it, Hungary is currently ruled by an extreme right-wing party which is pretty much doing away with democracy.

Edit: The EU is considering if measures should be taken; I hope they will, and fast.