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We looked at Recurly too... You are wrong that you can just zero out the gateway numbers in the calculators. Recurly charges 1.25% + 10 cents (http://recurly.com/pricing). 1.25% is a CRAPLOAD. Using a merchant account from FeeFighters would for us end up costing something like 2.1% + 20cents for the merchant account but then we'd have to pay an additional 1.25% + 10cents to Recurly, making it a total of 3.35% + 30 cents, far more than Stripe. Plus there's a $69 minimum fee, which sucks when you are starting out

Chargify (http://chargify.com) or Spreedly (http://spreedly.com) + Samurai (http://samurai.feefighters.com) is going to be significantly cheaper in our case (we expect to ramp to $30k/sales/mo). I'll pretty-up and share the google spreadsheet I used shortly. Stripe is still the best option if you have low transaction size and low volume (I think it was <$6k/mo). Other than that it was either chargify+samurai or spreedly+samurai (depending on the number of transactions because of chargify's tricky pricing)
Definitely not true. I am a former employee who worked on Visual Studio.

Visual Studio is close to a $1 billion business. The lion's share of the Server and Tools Division is licenses for Windows Server and SQL Server.
"People who are timid are less willing to attack schleps, to acknowledge schleps and ask for help with schleps. Maybe this is the correlation? Maybe people are timid because they are embarrassed or unconfident in their ability to overcome schleps? Maybe they put up a wall or get defensive so that others who seem smart (and who blow through schleps) don't see them as unintelligent."

Very useful insight. As someone who isn't timid at all, I think often times I may help in my own way build the wall for timid people.

I am so caught up in shooting down "schleps" that I think that ends up being even more intimidating.

And I think the counter for that is as you say, being "Extremely welcoming and nice."

Because it's always better to take "schleps" with someone who is making you feel better about it than someone that is just doing the work, and moving on with no consideration for their feelings.
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Shortsighted? They've been selling Xboxes for 10 years with almost no upside to date, so I'm certainly not looking at the short term picture. But I'll take your advice to wait for (something), because I'm certainly not buying MSFT in their current state.
This is my point, exactly. A backup to a private DropBox folder of the iso is clearly fine even by Apple's own terms, regardless of what the law says.

However, a backup to a public Dropbox folder with a known, distributed link is.

So far so good. The question is, does DMCA require both to be taken down for a given notice, because they hash to the same file in the Dropbox database?
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What's clear now thanks to this whole affair is that PIPA and SOPA are completely unnecessary. Megaupload is the stated target of those bills. Here we are, with no new laws passed, seeing infringers charged and domains taken offline.

Why isn't the media playing up this angle more? It writes itself.
we called it ripping when it was just audio cds with no drm whatsoever, if im not mistaken.
the dmca makes it illegal for you to distribute drm-circumvention tools with some exceptions, but it does not make it illegal for an individual to make a personal copy of anything.

as for the hashing stuff, dropbox etc, that could be considered simply a form of optimization on their part. if its about removing infringing links from their site, and they do, then they have complied. why should they be under some legal obligation to remove links not identified in the takedown notice simply because they used a clever deduplication mechanism, when another site without such a mechanism would not be?

Lets make it even clearer... what if it is my original work, up on dropbox, and i find someone distributing it illegally on another link at dropbox, and serve dropbox with a takedown notice. It would be absolutely wrong to remove my content from my account.....

at some point were going to haveto distinguish between posession of data and distribution of data or this will just get ugly.
if you want to make 800 copies of Windows and never use them or distribute them, there is no public or private harm done, though it would violate current copywright laws. time to have the law catch up with the future.
According to the Steve Jobs biography, Khan did really well at Apple following that incident.

I would guess this incident taught Khan to take more initiative in the future. That's much more valuable than saving half an hour by assigning the task to one person directly.
agreed.

do you happen to have a link for the article that graphic comes from? thanks!
"In fact, we sometimes make misleading suggestions in order to see how founders respond"

Wait, really?... Being intellectually dishonest is not cool. If you cannot figure out the winning strategy without lying then you're not trying hard enough.

Asking questions where you are honestly open to consideration even though it seems wrong, that's great. Knowingly making misleading suggestions isn't.
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It is the latter. Only the output is restricted. The material belongs to you.
Given that the inability to look at user data was an explicit design decision, calling it out when you talk about this very issue is quite fair, I think.

I think it might be lame if cperciva reacted to the 37s thing by changing his product, but he called it long before it happened.
Arrests for large-scale commercial copyright infringement and money laundering schemes aren't new. This simply isn't an example freedom getting more and more restricted.
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I don't read that from the writing. It just isn't relevant to what he is saying.

What he is saying is, taking the ball and running with it on your own, and really attacking the issue, for all it's faults is better than saying you're taking the ball and running with it, and instead allowing challenges throw you off the path.

That's what I read from it. Nothing about flexibility or being open minded. You can be both of those things, and still allow challenges to make you focus on other topics.
That's not why it's called ripping.

From the Jargon File: "Rip: 1. To extract the digital representation of a piece of music from an audio CD. Software that does this is often called a “CD ripper”." (http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/R/rip.html)

Audio CDs don't have encryption.
I get his point, but think it is a little too broad. Yea, you probably shouldnt spend all your time worrying about debts and instead should focus on building what you can or just enjoying life, but at the same time you cannot gain a reputation as somebody who wont pursue debts.

Estimate your chance of collecting a debt, calculate the approx hourly of collecting it and then decide if you should pursue it. However, NEVER, publicize the fact that if collecting doesnt earn you more than X/hr that you will not attempt to collect.

As a business, debts should never just be forgotten. Maybe you never expect to actually collect the full debt, but that doesnt mean invoices shouldnt be sent, and it doesnt mean that at a certain point the account should be sent to collections.

Focus on building your business, but dont let money owed simply walk away from you.
Not at all. An entrepreneur is not expected to be an expert in everything. Rather, he's expected to to figure out the fastest, cheapest way to get things done. Oftentimes the best way is just to ask somebody.

On the hand-holding point, it's really just about taking action and trusting that you will figure out how to see it through to completion. You don't have to know much to set up a meeting with a VC, but you do have to follow-up and actually set up the meeting.

It's amazing how few people in the real world follow through on things this simple. I have a friend who complains about his job every time I talk to him. I've offered many, many times to put him in touch with companies he might want to work for and even an HR specialist friend at Google for some free career coaching. He always says "sure!" but never follows through. This has gone on for years. Years!

Asking for advices is not bad as long as you process it and act on it accordingly. Pretending you know something that you don't, OTOH, is another form of arrogance. I've never heard anyone say "that guy's not arrogant enough."
Ask any college student if he or she thinks that the dead-tree textbook industry is a racket. I'd wager that 99% or more of those asked would say "yes."

This is an area ripe for a shake-up. It has been for decades.

Granted, the iBook Author EULA is pretty intense. I'd also venture to say that public school systems are not the ideal institutions for such a play.

Consider private institutions of primary, secondary, and higher education, as well as public colleges and universities: In these venues, the student, or his/her family, is responsible for the cost of textbooks. That amount can be huge. The high cost is the result of a lack of competition. The lack of competition is due to the barriers to entry that are bolstered by the textbook publishers.

Given a student body already well-armed with iBook-compatible devices (likely today), it seems to me the overall cost for educational materials (textbooks) will decrease significantly.

If a given author is unhappy with the iBook Author EULA, then I suggest that he or she publish their content as a PDF document. PDFs can be consumed easily on iOS as well as many other platforms.

In the case of independent PDF publication, the author loses the distribution power of Apple's marketplace, but they gain the right to distribute their work how they see fit, to the best of their ability.
Even if Megaupload took down files based on hash, there are ways for pirates to work around it. The MKV and AVI video container formats, for example, have loads of places where you could stick a nonce so that the exact same video would produce arbitrarily many hash values.
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i suspect that the cpu time to even partially render a page via webkit is really expensive at scale.

that said, i recall there was a headless chrome that someone built - anyone remember where that is?
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Huge difference between knowing there's some infringing content somewhere versus reviewing, rewarding, and noting an uploader because of "10+ Full popular DVD rips (split files), a few small porn movies, some software with keygenerators (warez)." Censoring all uploads is hyperbole.
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Dan Ariely at MIT has picked up where Kahneman and Tversky left off in terms of behavioural economics. He has written a few books.

That said, Kahneman Tversky and Ariely dont deal with scene perception - which is what you would want to look into if you were interested in planting ads. They all started off as vision researchers then shifted into deeper cognitive work.

If you want some scene perception look into Dan Simons or Ron Rensink.
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How does "difficulty to talk with" fit into your picture of "really attacking the issue"?
> In other words, they don't bring cases that they can't win.

That's not what I wrote. I wrote that they can convict anyone because they have vastly more resources and everyone commits several felonies/day, that is, is guilty.

Are you claiming that being able to win because of extra resources is good or is it the "everyone is a criminal" part that you like?
And it only took almost two years of investigations.

Think of how many copyrights could have been saved if only some new draconian laws had allowed swifter actions.
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This was my experience in the interview. I felt like during the interview, I held my position too tightly rather than accept the problems that showed up. It wasn't until we left that I could really digest the problems more thoroughly, and test that advice against potential customers. I wouldn't have gotten that advice without the interview, and probably would have spent more time in the wrong direction. For me, we came to most conversations except the interview at that stage looking for advice or data, and we went to the interview looking to have an unorthodox presentation. Not only was that the wrong approach to get in, but I'm sure some of what was said to us was lost, which is unfortunate.

All that is a bit strange to say publicly, and is a bit of a rehash of advice given elsewhere I think. Maybe it helps somebody else though.
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"I cannot believe that Megaupload is being touted as an anti-SOPA posterchild."

The US government just proved that the US government does not need SOPA to shutdown a foreign site and physically arrest its operators in foreign countries.

I can't think of any better demonstration against the need for SOPA.
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This is a huge deal, and you've done a great job expressing it. I definitely find that I think faster as a result of being a vim user / being in vim. Since most of the actual editing gets thrown to muscle memory, all I have to do is think 'gosh it'd be nice if that refactoring happened' and it does, while I'm on to thinking through the next step.

I'm constantly mortified at how rarely my co-workers/employees use vim macros. I make vim do the hard parts for me.
And it's not like they didn't have time to react, as the article points out. Digital cameras were moving farther and farther downwards in price, and upwards in capability quite slowly.

Digital cameras had been an expensive curiosity for years, but around 2001/2002, and for me, in May 2002, decent 3 MP cameras started showing up around $400 or so.

http://www.amazon.com/Canon-PowerShot-S30-Digital-Optical/dp...

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Until the Powershot S30 showed up, I was still shooting a Nikon F3 and a Yashica T4 compact.

It took another couple of years before the D70 appeared and could compete with a decent negative scanner, but it did, and I've been happily stuck at 6 MP ever since, though my small sensor compacts all pretend to be able to do better. (But can't)

edited: I messed up the dates, I've been shooting digital longer than I imagined!
I agree with this. I actually didn't go the route of school, preferring to just go out on my own, and I was/am amazed at all the passivity.

I think if anything the defining quality of my career is a total lack of being passive. Having no formal training allows you the quality of never being intimidated.

I didn't know anything when I started. I am not concerned about taking on any challenge I know nothing about.
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Hmm. I agree. I guess I'm less optimistic because what I'm owed is a drop in the ocean compared to others.
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Thank you for offering your opinions on this matter, but allow me to disagree on the following points:

1) Robin hood was a criminal. Stealing is a crime, and he stole from the rich to give to the poor.

2) In this context, "piracy" does not mean stealing, it means sharing. Sharing objects, whether they are information objects such as movies or real objects such as lawnmowers, is natural and a natural right. See John Locke for details.

3) The MPAA, RIAA, and major software and video game makers have organized, through political donations and manipulating public opinion, a legal, institutionalized system of tyranny that deprives ordinary people of their natural rights.

4) The United States of America, through the FBI and other federal agencies, devotes considerable resources to finding and prosecuting those who work to oppose this system of tyranny. The United States of America is working for the tyrants whose business is predicated upon depriving ordinary people of their natural rights.

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Was the MegaUpload raid planned to draw attention away from SOPA?
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This is absolutely terrible. The world would be a much better place without people/countries that think/act this way.

You know what the scary thing is, though? We're headed in a similar direction. NDAA '12 was signed into a law and it essentially gives the government the right to detain U.S. citizens indefinitely. For what crime? If someone is merely "suspected" of sympathizing with or providing any level of support to groups the U.S. designates as terrorist organization or an affiliate or associated force may be imprisoned without charge or trial "until the end of hostilities."

I'm appalled at how much protest and awareness was raised against SOPA, but nothing against the NDAA. But hey, we might have uncontrolled access to the internet while being indefinitely detained...
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I wasn't referring to the sign, I was referring to people there wanting a handout - wanting student loan forgiveness, wanting government sponsored grants/loans for starting companies, wanting government help in increasing the value of their home or money/tax incentives to pay their mortgage.
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"And it only took almost two years of investigations."

Yep well I consider it a small price to pay, if the alternative is handing some of my liberty along with internet security over to the government and/or the entertainment industry.

Now obviously I'm not the one paying the price, so I do understand why "content owners" are not satisfied with the status-quo..
When I read the details of the story, I feel like this isn't meaningfully different from a few years back when there'd be warehouses of DVDs or VHS tapes,and hundreds of duplicators seized along with bags of cash.

The medium change, but the crime appears to have remained essentially the same.

There were two interesting things to me:

1) the email from Kimble to PayPal where he was clearly trying to cut off PayPal to his competitors whilst keeping it for himself; trying to convince PayPal that they shouldn't do business with those other guys.

2) the type of evidence they have makes me wonder if it was an inside job, or perhaps even a setup by a competitor who hacked into their systems. It doesn't feel like a case the FBI would pick up without a strong bootstrap.
> I cannot believe that Megaupload is being
> touted as an anti-SOPA posterchild.

That's the point! According to you, they were a piracy haven, and they were shut down. Without SOPA. So why do we need SOPA again?

This is pretty clearly an anti-SOPA talking point.
Not to mention megaupload has filed lawsuits in US courts...
That is kind of what http://dar.fm is trying to do.
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> and they claim that Megaupload purposely offers no site-wide search engine as a way of concealing what people are storing and sharing through the site.

So if my site doesn't have a search engine, I'm at risk of being seen as purposely concealing what my users are doing?
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I don't think anyone I've ever considered competent or successful would be "intimidated into silence."

Silent resignation to authority? Sure.

Intimidated because PG's advice was impractical or irrelevant?

I can't even imagine such a thing. If anything I'd be emboldened by impractical or irrelevant advice!

It's sort of like in boxing when you take the first punch and realize, that wasn't so hard. I can do this. I belong here.