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Shelved is good, but they will pass eventually. The cloud is becoming the wild west where anything stored there may be seized without due process in the never-never land of international copyright law. Foreign hollywoods will claim you are copyrighting Indian, Chinese, German or Russian property.

All good admins should have daily backups (encrypted onto a medium you actually own) so that when nations all over the world seize your property because some competitor complains, you don't lose your entire business for years while authorities strong arm the ISP's and Web Hosts to make you invisible. Your original site will be invisible and blocked, but while you are waiting years and years for the copyright carnival to play out, you have a 3 step process where you can re-deploy your entire business on a new web server. A new business name, a new website name on a new server in a different nation. A nation who might care a little bit more about businesses than USA. When enough 20 something startup people full of energy start a mass exodus, moving their businesses to foreign countries, congress will take note that the draconian measures are hurting tax revenues.

It means you need a business recovery plan when foreign nations attack your business. The sovereign was supposed to protect us unlawful search and seizure, but appears these rights are going away. If you are my competition and I can squish your business by adding some material to your site then alerting some company somewhere to shuts you down without due process... I will.

Summary, Lets cause a ruckus that we are all moving our businesses overseas because of what congress is doing. Lets see how fox news spins that.
I used to work for a startup, Kenan Systems, that was 100% owned by one of the founders. In 1999, Lucent bought Kenan Systems for over <dr-evil>one billion dollars</dr-evil>. Obviously, all the Kenan employees had understood from the time they were hired that they were not getting stock options, but there was still some grumbling about how they didn’t share in the jackpot.

(Well, after the acquisition, we did get stock options... Lucent stock options... which, like the Kursk, went underwater and never resurfaced.)
I agree, it seems crazy to say that it's fair to pay $n now and another people $n in a year or two if we're still around. Maybe he thinks that feels more fair than any solution that compensates with equity, but it doesn't seem like that's objectively fair.

I wonder if issuing convertible debt would be a good solution. So then you are giving equity to reward the founder for taking on the high risk of not being repaid, but you let future investment determine how much they should get.
Look at Craigslist for another example.

All listings are free. With the exception of job postings and agent housing ads in NYC. The exceptions provide enough revenue for the small (~40) staff of CL to keep things rolling. The free postings zero out revenues for anyone else looking to compete in the same space, establishing a large marketplace with strong network effects and an effective monopoly.
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It is the case. The U.S. congress basically runs on payola. You can buy any bill you want.
They all made my head spin. By the time Andrew Warner was done the first session the conference had paid for itself.

Patio11 and HNshah holding comedy jam sessions / teardowns together was great. How can we forget about cows.
There's nothing quite like discussing startup challenges with other single founders. And where else can you talk at length with the speakers in small groups at lunch and over drinks?

Now...time to get some work done so I have plenty of questions and a few landing pages to get critiqued by April 30.
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As I suggested in an earlier thread, why is noone starting a copyright liberalization campaign? If there was a strong political coalition to limit the duration of copyright to 25 years, to limit the use of overly broad patents, etc. it would provide a counteracting force that would force the copyright holders to compromise "in the middle". Instead we are doing boycotts and strongly worded letters, which while helpful, does not really do enough to stop them from steamrolling along with their agenda.
afaik RIAA member labels are still making money from spotify and iTunes.

Taking the youtube example though, I suppose legislation like SOPA could wipe them out and neuter them enough.
If you host server in the US, you are not a foreign website. You are a local one. In that situation, a SOPA/PIPA makes little difference. They can shut you down easily with existing laws. Do you understand?
I went to MicroCong last year. Long way to go from the UK. If you can't afford Business of Software, go to MicroConf. It's much better than the European ESWC.

I wrote a blog article about each talk and a few other bits. Most speakers let me post the MP3 of their talk as well.

http://www.softwareverify.com/blog/?tag=microconf
good post, but most cannot afford to pay them out-of-pocket for their time (nor do they expect that), and we're all approaching this as a project we'll do on our nights and weekends, right?

isn't "vesting" traditionally determined as "in service" with the company, ie: full-time employment?

side projects are a flake factory. everybody is "busy." you split 50-50 w/ some guy and then he disappears for 6 months. you're pretty pissed.
That is true, and you can replace the battery. Doing so voids your warranty, but by the time your Li-Polymer battery no longer holds a charge your laptop will be out of warranty anyway, even with AppleCare. All you need is a screwdriver.

But Apple does support a lot of draconian IP policy. I think they're in need of a whipping over this.
In time, thou', the balance may tilt one way or the other.

In China nowadays, it's heavily tilted government-side. In the US, it's just as heavily tilted corporate.
Printing enough books so that 10 million people can read what you created costs ~1/2 a million dollars. Hosting a torrent with that same content costs anyone with a regular internet connection less than a cup of coffee from Starbucks.

PS: Many people use the internet without actually owning a computer. In this case language and cultural barriers are more important than internet access which says a lot about the world IMO.
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It's time for some proactive civil rights legislation.
> we’re not addressing the real problem: the MPAA’s buying power in Congress. This is a campaign finance problem.

This is delusional at best. I'm from France, where campaigns are paid for by public money.

France: the country that brought you Hadopi and where SOPA-like laws have been in place for a long time.

This has nothing to do with campaign finance.
Attacking campaign finance is not the way to go, because (a) it can't work, and (b) it's shooting ourselves in the foot by constraining our own right to speak.

Consider, all of you that moan about Citizens United: if it's wrong for a corporation to support a political position, then why are your cheering about what Wikipedia, reddit, Google, etc., have done to support the opposition to SOPA/PIPA?

And there's no way to stop monetary influence on politics. Even in the most draconian case, where all private funding to candidates was banned, with money coming from public coffers, there are countless backdoors. A CEO hoping for special treatment mind just mention something that turns out to make the politician a pile of money in stock trading, for example.
You forgot the part where the people all still have their letters, and the post office was keeping a copy of that letter.
The goal of the equity adjustments is to keep the expected value (at time of compensation) roughly equal.

The expected value of a $100k IOU from a startup is likely $10-20k.

The expected value of $100k in equity is (if priced reasonably) roughly $100k even though the value in case of default is $0.

If somebody was really adamant with me about IOUs being treated equivalent to cash, I'd ask if we could simplify and just pay all the founders equally, at the same time to get rid of the discussion.
To be honest it wouldn't make much difference , tech community is a small % of the population and it's members probably commit a much higher than average rate of piracy anyway.

It would probably be more effective to stand outside a cinema waving banners.
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Fully support the criticism on the name. But it is a nice idea with quite a lot of potential. Many options to upsell your customer base into tutoring/coaching services etc.
Although there are a lot of people here that like Apple products and support their policies, there are also lots of people here who use Free Software/Open Source. Lots of us are already boycotting lots of companies that don't fit what our ethics are.

I'm a hacker, Hacker News community member, and a FLOSS user/developer, and I oppose Apple's draconian policies.
It is exactly what they are suggesting, because that is how it works in the Land of the Free[1]. Bills are usually written by lobbiests, paid large sums by the entrenched industries, and sponsored by congressmen who received large donations from the industry. Unless there is a real threat to votes (aka job security) these are passed. The only things that get serious attention and debate are the ones where 2 industries are fighting via congress proxies.

Sad, but true.

[1] Free is not an absolute scale, but proportional to the amount of money you can spend - e.g. lots of money means more freedom to pass laws, to get out of trouble, to buy licenses to do restricted things, etc.
Non-removable batteries are an extreme edge case that simply don't adversely affect most consumers. In fact, they benefit most consumers with increased battery life.

I've never met a single person that actually used this feature (most people I know have their laptops plugged in most of the time).

On the other hand, I'd consider content DRM as a non-edge-case that does harm and affect a majority of consumers.

Let's not allow the noise of such edge-case complaints distract from more relevant restrictions that DO hurt consumers on a daily basis, like content DRM.

I've had multiple relatives show fear of plugging in their iPods because iTunes wipes out their iPod. My wife refused to plug in her iPod to her new laptop because she felt she'd lose the episodes she had bought on the iPod itself. And that's not an irrational fear. Even I had it before iCloud enabled you to redownload all your purchased content.
Welcome to the cloud indeed. And what we discovered that just coping data to your home computer in a format which can be used back in some other cloud services is gettings harder and harder as virtualization of data and information increases. And you need to upload all that data again...

So the right solution is to have your (important) data replicated in a couple of different cloud services (Google Docs replicated with Dropbox, etc.).

That is reason I started cloudHQ: just sync and replicate data between cloud services in real time. Nothing sexy: but fast and reliable.
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I've been seeing Google differently since G+. Google, the global CDN and distributed computer, is a platform now. G+ is the frontend they're building on top of Google to bring all their Google-based services together.
I don't think Twitter is an adequate comparison. Even within the developer world you get plenty of programmers saying Twitter is a "weekend toy project" to implement. (And in many respects it is, for the functionality--the more interesting bit is handing the massive user load.) A more apt comparison may be with the Linux Kernel, or Windows 7.
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Caveat emptor.

More importantly, what's the difference between your site (data) and an mp3 (data)? Your site was "taken from you" but you didn't take that artists mp3, just a copy?
"Just listening to Rick Santorum last night made me wodner if he believes in separation of church and state."

No. Of course he doesn't. Be very afraid of people like this.

"I find it interesting how one can justify sexual descrimination but not racial"

I think that if you can justify sexual discrimination, scratch just a little below the surface and you'll probably also find a colour bias there as well. Along with a few others. I find prejudices tend to come in sets with a lot of a certain type of person.
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HAhahahahahahaha!

Diaspora is a non-starter. Have you ever even tried to explain it to a non-technical user? Their eyes glaze over with disinterest.

It's to complicated, and no clear benefits other than the rather abstract benefit of de-centralized control.
I agree, and I'd kind of like to boycott Apple at this point. But the problem is that I need to get my work done, and Apple has a monopoly.

On what?

On decent UI design and hardware/software that "just works."

Linux UIs are getting slightly better with Gnome 3 and Unity, but they still suck. (And they're getting better by copying Apple.) Windows UIs have been getting worse since XP. (All the good features in Windows 7 are copied from Apple, like their Expose equivalent.) Neither OS offers anything like the plug-and-go and design cleanliness that Apple offers.

It really makes a difference in terms of productivity. I know how to futz around with my machine to make it work, but I have better things to do with my time.

Until either a competitor or the open source community can offer good design -- which matters -- I am stuck with Apple.

BTW, I'll give you all a hint on good design: minimal is a synonym for good. Exterminate features.
Apple also do a lot of these kinds of region locking restrictions, like locking iPhones to certain regions. Now iPhones are released in many many countries. But when it was just USA, people in the EU would be breaking the region locking to use an iPhone they bought in the USA.
I think you'll have to get rid of the TV. SOPA supporters include CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, Viacom, ESPN, NFL, NBA, and the MLB. Also, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) are supporters. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) does not support SOPA, however.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_with_offi...
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111213/17373717070/writer...
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They're doing a pretty decent job of convincing an entire generation that locked-down, manufacturer-controlled computing is good.

I've spent 20 years playing tech support to friends and family who have accidentally fubar'd their open computing devices. IME that has done far more to convince folks that locked-down, manufacturer-controlled computing is good moreso than anything Apple's done.

The conflict is framed as "open" vs "closed" but once someone can do "open done right for non-techies" that's where the industry will go.
If you can pay someone 100K + equity, you should just pay them 120K and not have to worry about that.
I agree they are making money from these platforms, but independent artists are also making money and getting exposure using these platforms that would have been impossible a decade ago. If something is created that is more effective for artists (and possibly gives them a bigger cut..see Louis C.K.), this would be quite effective.
You know, you're not supposed to fill a wine glass to the brim. There's supposed to be plenty of extra room in a wine glass - it's important for aeration and for properly bringing out and concentrating the aroma of the wine.

My cabernet sauvignon or pinot noir glasses could probably hold an entire bottle of wine each, if I wanted to fill them up, but that'd be ridiculous. The proper pour remains about a sixth of a bottle - bigger wine glasses just mean the public's grown more aware of the effect of glass shape on taste.

No disagreements on the increased alcohol content in wine over the last generation or so - blame Robert Parker and his popularization of a certain type of dark full-bodied red. 'Good' has gotten associated with 'boozy'.
Meanwhile, the X > 0 dollars in salary your partner drew are still worth X > 0. That's the point.
Yes. Scala lets you bypass the compile time type safety pretty easily, and as a result tons of libraries do precisely that. Take squeryl for example, it advertises itself as a type safe DSL for querying databases, but virtually anything you throw at it will compile, and then results in run-time exceptions.
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But I like to watch movies. I think a lot of movies are great--great enough to pay for them. Why should I shoot myself in the foot to keep someone else from shooting me in the foot?

This idea that the root cause of all bad legislation is political donations: it's wrong, and not supported by the data. The vast majority of political donations are made by people who are not lobbyists.

No one raised more political money in the history of this nation than Barack Obama during his presidential campaign, and the letter from his administration helped kill the bills. How about Rep. Issa and Sen. Wyden? Guess what, they got into office by spending donated money as well.

The problem isn't money, the problem is engagement. The tech industry, particularly on the Internet entrepreneurial side, has long prided itself on staying out of Washington. Well, now we see the consequence of that approach: it took a last-minute emergency OMG shitstorm to stop some bills--bills that could have easily been shaped, adjusted, or stopped much earlier if the industry had been engaged and paying attention.

The U.S. government is participatory. It will respond to citizen wishes, but only if citizens actively and continuously make their wishes known.

And it is inclusive. No matter how much you might think copyright should end, or that the MPAA should just go away forever and die, there are enough people who disagree with you that it's just not going to happen. Internet companies and advocates need to get comfortable with continuously engaging content companies in the legislative process, seeking common ground, and compromising.

IP law is not a winnable war. It is an ongoing negotiation that must be managed forever.
My vimrc is cleaner:

$ cat ~/.vimrc
cat: /home/evanm/.vimrc: No such file or directory

I mean, it's cool and all that you love your tools, but I suspect these sorts of blog posts are net harmful when you consider the number of people who will read it and take it as an opportunity to fiddle around with settings in a program as a way of further putting off making something meaningful.
yes. I'm using it for a long time now. It's great.
Amdahl discusses pipelining in paragraph 7. I thought pipelining was always attributed to Ritchey at al as something for Unix. It had not occurred to me that the concept existed in general computation well before that.
Won't SOPA takedowns be easier to initiate and faster to implement?
This is actually completely brilliant. Sure, it's hollow and somewhat manipulative, but by the nine, it will teach some people what their computer can actually do. As someone who works in tech support, and therefore routinely has to waste my time doing utterly basic things for people, I would absolutely love if Microsoft/Apple/Ubuntu/some beginner-friendly OS did something like that.
My experience has been that startups demand a larger pay cut of early employees.
Personally, I think we need to make it so that only registered voters can give money to candidates, with a maximum amount set per contributor. That would automatically disallow all direct contributions from corporations and prevent the rich from having more influence than the poor.

(Of course, something like this would probably have to be a constitutional amendment, and I doubt that would ever happen.)
I never said that Apple was right. There are a lot of things I disagree with in regard to Apple (I hated the first iPhone, I really did). I said that you're comparing two completely different models and range of products.

You're also assuming that everyone who uses a computer knows how to modify it and not break it. Understand that a lot of Apple users want a device that just works. They don't want to have to mess around with the operating system or type a lot of intimidating commands into a terminal just to change something. They want to go on Facebook, play some games, listen to music, or type term papers. DRM does nothing but prevent things from "just working." It locks down where you can watch DVDs, how you can watch them, how you can use things, and can even lock you out of something if there's a problem on the developer's end (example: Assassin's Creed 2 included a DRM that needed an internet connection whenever you played the game, so if Ubisoft's servers went down or you don't have access to Internet, you can't play the game). To say that DRM is for the user's benefit and totally not for the developer's is insane.

Comparing the MPAA's restrictions with Apple is a bit unfair, and their success is only due to almost a complete monopoly in that area. The MPAA executives look at their audience with dollar signs in their eyes. Apple looks at them with those same dollar signs, but also with care and pride for the products they push out. They want to get a good product out. They adopted new business models like iTunes, iCloud, and even Siri. The MPAA is the antithesis of innovation and doesn't care about the products it pushes out, it just wants money.

Sorry for the long rant, but I needed to do it.
One step at a time. There are lots of people engaged in ethical boycotts. This is not a new concept.
Spolsky's premise is that people are not trying to get investment.

If founders want to fundraise then the question of equity vs salary is likely to be moot.
If that is true then I'm amazed that a credible 3rd party has not yet surfaced that vowed to reform politics.

Assuming even a half competent set of politicians they would be able to do an objectively better job since they would consider things on merits rather than contributions.

Why do you need so much money to run a campaign anyway?
Surely you could get the word out online and take donations from the public.

Of course you would really need 2 parties so people could express their left or right wing beliefs.
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This is very true for any lifestyle decision that seems to suggest a more productive way of living to someone else. We naturally feel the need to have our lifestyle habits justified as the right choice. Any threat to that, is a threat to our egos.

A better strategy would be to point out the progress (even if false) that someone is making in living a better life (less TV for example). If you can successfully plant that identity seed in their head, they will feel empowered to continue to cut back. The ego is a funny construct.
By "campaign finance" I'm referring to direct contributions to candidates (and promises of cushy jobs upon retirement).

You're absolutely correct that corporations/unions/organizations can and should be able to support positions, but that doesn't have to be a direct benefit to a candidate in that way that campaign contributions are.