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Blake:

If Focus on the User really doesn't want to be "evil" and you want to "focus on the user" then the plugin needs to be changed. The edits the plugin makes are better, but it just looks like Facebook/Twitter are just making sure they get their websites mentioned. It appears they are not focused on the user, but focused on how it will help them.

Here are some major suggestions:

1. If someone searches for cars in Google, 95% of the time they are looking to either research cars, buy a car, or the movie Cars. First of all do you honestly feel that Ferrari's facebook or google+ page is more relevant/useful than the websites of CarsDirect, Edmunds, or MotorTrend? The Google+/Facebook pages are more prominent than these websites. That makes zero sense. I don't know if you can do this, but if possible the "People and Pages" section should be removed. If not, see #2.

2. Why would the first result be Ferrari's facebook page in this search over Ferrari's own web site?

3. The Autosuggestion thing should work the same way as above. When I search for Matt Cutts I am not looking for either his Facebook or his Google Plus page, the most relevant result would be mattcutts.com, no? Or just remove the autosuggestion thing period. Assuming that I want to go see Matt Cutts Facebook profile over his Google+ profile is silly.

4. Make it so that you can actually remove Google+ results period. When I search for NFC Championship Game I don't care to see that MG Siegler went to that game. Nor would I want to see that on facebook either. It just ideally would be removed.
Age appears to be an uncontrolled for important variable, given that both the probability of marriage and income tend to rise with age.
This article has a really good point - the discussion should shift from SOPA to how fucked-up and rotten these industries have become, on how they are destroying jobs, on how they are stifling creativity and ripping-off authors, on how they've abused the DMCA and on how they are bribing politicians.
This is all kind of obvious

You're probably much more experienced than I am, but I thought a good 80% was new to me, and incredibly useful. Perhaps in the abstract I knew many of the principles, but to see them elaborated down to the level of actual conversations that happen during the negotiation was very valuable.
Related: Cameras May Open Up the Board Room to Hackers — NYTimes

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It's an arms race. The ideal position is a. spend as little as possible and b. outspend your opponent. This inevitably results in spiraling escalation that harms both parties. The obvious solution that the US has avoided and France has embraced(1) is enforceable limits on spending. Like many applications of the prisoner's dilemma, the existence of external authority limiting the freedom of participants actually results in a better outcome for everyone involved.

1. This is the entirety of what I know about French campaign finance as of five minutes ago: http://www.loc.gov/law/help/campaign-finance/france.php
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Yes. The Economist is also heavily advocating closing those `loopholes' instead of increasing the marginal rate. Today, only people with incompetent tax lawyers pay the highest marginal rates.
This is the way it works where I work, and it's a real-world workplace, with bureaucracy and inefficiency and all. I get bitten by HR and stupid hiring policies all the time. It doesn't mean that I (or the company) want to screw the candidates out of money, it means that HR does.

In larger companies, it's likely that the people that want to hire you are not the people doing the salary negotiation. The "company" is probably not trying to pay you the lowest amount, but the HR person doing the negotiation might be.

In that case the HR person has a low number and a high number he can give you without authorization. You don't know what those numbers are. You are at a disadvantage, and your goal should be to get information about those numbers.

Perfect example is a recent hiring for my deputy, where HR didn't make a lowball offer, but offered the low-end of what we were willing to pay. HR would have been crazy not to. The candidate countered with something much higher. We really wanted to hire that person, so we countered with the highest we were willing to pay. All "plays" in this game were completely rational, but the candidate found out what our highest offer was by not mentioning the number first.

Turns out that our highest offer was STILL not enough for that candidate so she declined. But notice how the whole time she held all the cards and was able to find out our best possible deal. That's the best you can do in a negotiation.

Now, if it actually were an advantage to state a number first, companies would be falling all over themselves to do it. You'd walk in the door and they'd be shouting numbers at you. That never happens.

Clam up and find out your actual value to that company. That value might be well above the going market rate. Put the shoe on the other foot and see how nice your life would be if the MAXIMUM you had to pay your employees was the average market rate.
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Now a days your kid would have to create the next Call of Duty.

Your mileage may vary: my kid was quite happy to muck around with a text-based game he crafted.

Then he laid it to one side: he's enthralled by actual engineering: building things made out of atoms, not bits.
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One of the devs keeps a blog, and he has a post about implementing unique closures. (There are several posts on the topic actually, since I guess the idea evolved a bit with time. Just check out the Rust category for more...)

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2011/12/16/impl...
I just tried out Processing [0] right now, and it seems like you get a lot of control in it, and it looks pretty good on the eye candy side too. You could try that out.

[0] - http://processing.org/
It would be awesome if you could share some of those discoveries.
Yeah, but why take away the access to Gmail?

If Facebook/Twitter bans you, you don't lose access to Gmail. It makes no sense.
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My new start-up travel magazine? Relax, spend a few hours chillin' :)
I code with SublimeText 2, which validates JS files as soon as I save them using a local Node instance of jshint.com and a plugin called SublimeLint. It took a while to set up but the productivity gain is well worth it.
There are a lot of people here who don't seem to understand you can earn money and a good living with 'free' software.

The term 'free' is very misunderstood in this context. Its free as in freedom/free speech, not (necessarily) free as in beer.

Although sometimes (most times) its both. This doesn't stop you using it to earn a living. It allows you to freely use and modify it to your own purposes. Contrast that with non-free (i.e. locked, obfuscated and proprietary).

I've written freely available stuff that people have (never the less and willingly) paid me rather handsomely for the privilege of using or modding to their own needs. They didn't have to, but people can be inherently decent that way.

I could have made it entirely closed and I think I'd have made less out of it if I had. I would have had to market it for a start -- and that's a fucking headache. I'm not a salesman and don't want to be.

Anyhow, Stallman is 100% right. Everything he's been warning us about for years is already upon us. With much worse to come.
There are many other things you could be doing (instead of mining Bitcoin) that can bring you much better returns.
It works really well. But, I consider anyone who finds the dense grid display easier than browsing down a list a savant; I have trouble focusing on just one thumbnail in the sea of others. Wasn't there a recent article about the merits of list vs box display?

Anyhow, if I narrow my window down, it looks great and my complaints go away, so good work.
Looks cool, and a nice way to get some affiliate revenue. I would suggest adding some filters (like sort by number of purchases, price, etc.), and search parameters.
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Dogs.

I want a yard where I can have 2-3 dogs. I want to be free to let them romp. I dont want to share with 10 other dogs at a dog park, where my responsibility is to identify and watch for the least attentive owner's dog.
While I think they make relevant points, the underlying logic of this whole video is questionable.

Before the recent changes, "Jamie Oliver" simply didn't show up when searching for "cooking", I expect. It didn't matter if his twitter or G+ page were the first result for him, because they were probably on page 800 of the search results.

Now, with the additional info it has via G+, Google is featuring him and some other people alongside the normal results when you query for Google.

Where Twitter falls in the query for "Jamie Oliver" doesn't seem particularly relevant to that. I understand the thinking, but I don't think it makes sense to say that because Jamie Oliver is a top G+ result for "Cooking", and Twitter is the top result for "Jamie Oliver", then Jamie Oliver's Twitter must be the top social result for "cooking".

The OP is assuming that search results are somehow transitive in nature, and I'm don't think they should be just taking that for granted.

Should Google add links to the other services in those G+ listings coming up alongside the results alongside the cooking SRP? Maybe. But that seems like a UX/business question, not one that you can answer quantitatively.
> So the $5M in sales? It wouldn't have happened without them! (that's the perception)

Maybe there was a either a strict deadline or a challenging technical issue to overcome such that that sale couldn't have happened without your contribution.

Maybe that software was sold for $5M because it was way more stable, responsive and easy to deploy and use than its competition.

Maybe, thanks to good engineering and best practices, bugs and requests for improvement were quickly answered.

Maybe, again thanks to good engineering, that software was easily tailored to each customer's need, and customers were willing to pay (way) more.

Maybe... Start to look at your job and at your product with sales goggles and find other selling points.
I dont believe that.

My first serious programming was Povray scene desciption language on a 486dx2. (yes, it was turing complete)

The joy of programming was not in ipressing anyone with the fancy graphics, but tweaking and trying new things to see what would happen - being creative.

My older brother and I, actually messed around with a hybrid Autodesk Animator / text based adventure, earlier. I think it was batch file based, but nothing came of it. Still, it was great fun to mix together sprites from my favorite dos games.
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Nope, if you set it at $125K, you walk away from anything lower. That is how I do mine...I leave at most $5K room for negotiation but other than that, I tell them this is the fair salary in my view and they can match it or I walk. And indeed, I'll walk if they can't come pretty darn close to it.

The $150K is if you want to play a more elaborate game. Then you don't say between $125K and $150K. But if they come back with a $130K counter, you take it.
That must be the Longhua plant (Foxcon City) because no way I would want to live near the Guanlan one ;-). I spent a few weeks at the Guanlan iPhone factory at the end of 2010, debugging my device driver.
Hi,

Indeed your quick analysis is true: MegaUpload was a platform to download copyrighted things over the internet.

But there is a greater principle at play: when should action be taken? The way it is done in democracy and countries where liberty is valued is that the action taken is done after due process.
Also and I think this is pretty damn important there are international rules in terms of law and what can be done. Citizens of other countries should have the right to benefit from the law in vigor in their country without the US interfering with them. The US is not all saint and sometimes take poor decisions that cost the business, health or life of some people, especially when the problem comes from private interests.

Anyway if you allow authorities to take action without due process you end up in dark dark world where arrests become arbitrary.
There were plenty of evidence that MegaUpload business was not legit actions could have been taken legally, but probably bribes came into play and short-circuited the whole thing. This becomes rampant in the US (Bradley Manning anyone ?) and it has to stop before it's too late.
About Hartz IV and Bafoeg, etc: I hope the talks of moving to a guaranteed basic income lead somewhere. That would eliminate lots of bureaucracy.
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My problem doing this is the weekend. I like to go out to concerts and occasionally bars with friends, which has me out until 1 AM on an early night. Then I sleep in the following day, which destroys the whole schedule, since it's the complete opposite of what I need to do during the week.

Compare my current schedule, which has me going to bed around 2AM most nights—even if I go to bed at 5 AM on Friday, that's only 3 hours off from my usual schedule, so it's much easier to recover by Monday.
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I've begun to suspect the same thing. I'd love to read that article if you can find the link.

I'll add "Single-column mode" to my to-do list. I think I will also make the "Large preview mode" default as well for much the same reason.

I built the whole thing thinking a lot of thumbnails would be awesome. Which is funny because, now that it is built, I agree that it can be distracting. Oops!
Garry has always been one of my favorite YC founders, and not only because he bought me a large quantity of gin shortly after Posterous got funded. Aaron made a huge impact on my life through his gutsy blog post on RSI [1]. Congratulations, guys, and thanks for being awesome.

[1] http://aaroniba.net/articles/tmp/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain.htm...
No, it does not work like that. The math on benefits are really simple you can take either your SS benefit or 50% of your living spouses or 100% of your dead spouses. Taking 50% of your spouses is a proxy for the 'low-income' subsidy where a single worker is supporting 2 people. There is a minor 'penalty' for taking SS early which is supposed to even out the expected benefit but this is calculated for each benefit separately.

So, let's say you decide to retire at 62 and not wait till 68. You have 2 choices you can take your normal befit and gain nothing, or you can take your 50% your spouses benefit at 62 wait until 68 take your benefit calculated as if you had revived zero benefits. Net result your ahead.

PS: Feel free to use there calculators to check this out: http://www.ssa.gov/planners/benefitcalculators.htm
"Can't disclose my current salary due to NDA?"
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No longer. They just all but abolished the draft.
Already on the to-do list for the next version! :)

Unfortunately, Envato has a rather poor affiliate program. You only make money when A) a new user signs up to their service and B) deposits money into their account.

Since most people using a tool for ThemeForest probably already have an account I don't expect to make much money. But that's ok, this was mostly built for fun and as a portfolio piece.
I had an interesting idea given that I did not know that this exists and I would love to hear on the feasibility of it from people that know about mining. Anyways, I am building a house in the Florida Keys and I am putting in a 10KW solar array in, given my location it will be fairly efficient, to the point that at most times I will have energy to spare. Now I can pump the energy back into the grid, but I do not believe the return is that great for doing it. So I wonder if I could design a system of GPU's that would utilize the reserve capacity to mine and turn into bit-coins and then turn into hard currency. What variables would I need to know to calculate if it is a more efficient method of capitalizing on the energy? I know I have the sunk cost of the hardware (I am not including the solar hardware because it will be purchased either way). I know I would have to calculate KW to bit-coin creation ratio and then translate that into dollars and then compare that to what the energy company is purchasing spare energy for.

As well, does anyone know if their is any efficient native GPU bit-coin mining software. I found a link talking about a python lib, but is there something written that is closer to the hardware?
Both truly awesome! A fantastic addition to YC!
It's well worth the effort writing code that conforms to JSLint or JSHint. There are a few rules which seem excessive but if you code in a team then it's so much easier knowing that all code follows a standard.

When another programmer asks me to fix bugs in some code, I get them to make it parse JSHint first. Most of the time, fixing errors to make it conform either fixes the bug or helps them understand the code enough to fix it themselves.
2 years ago we were discussing a few of the direct advantages of this in a comment here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1143317 including tcp_slow_start_after_idle which also interacts with icwnd.

Also it's much easier as of late to get the benefit from a larger initial cwnd. Back then you needed to recompile the kernel with source tweaks, now you just use a backport or depending on your distro version you already have the benefit as kernel 2.6.39 has the change... http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_39
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Are you in california? If so, you should keep in mind that 5 AM is like 8 AM in NYC (i.e. lots of people awake)
I've never understood advice that talks about negotiating fringe benefits like vacation time. At best, company policy will prevent those terms from being negotiated because they're standardized. At worst, you're just going to look like an entitled asshole from day one if you try to get special treatment. I'd much rather make up for it in salary negotiation and take the same deal that your future teammates got.
Do you know why "Made in <country>" was originally introduced? It was a 19th century ploy by the British to make their consumer able to discriminate against those cheap poorly produced German goods which often tried to pass themselves of as British.
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You need a tiny bit more colour on the homepage to me. It's an off-white-pink on my screen (looking at it on a mac in chrome). Or maybe some kind better shading. That's just my one gripe.
Otherwise pretty easy to set up and get started. Do you need other people to sign up too in order to use it, or can they use the site as a guest?
Don't have an issue with the angry birds avatar, actually makes me want to change it, and is probably in keeping with the whole thing being more lively than dreary old "work".
Good luck with it.
Debates used to be run by the League of Women Voters. Questions had more substance, and substance is the enemy of the modern candidate.
Thanks for the link. Google's Javascript style guide in conjunction with this article's best practices really helped.
A-fricken-men. I have an allergic reaction every time I come across one of these posts about "how do I teach my kid to code." The whole sentiment strikes me as extremely myopic.

I'm all for providing exposure to a variety of things in school and at home, coding included, but we need to let our children be themselves. Give them exposure, let them taste what the world has to offer, but don't compel them to be the über-coder that you wanted to be.
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It's likely that the effects are quite different for movies and for music. For movies it seems much more likely that downloading a pirated movie directly substitutes for renting one, since the experience is largely the same (watching on your computer or streaming it through a set-top box).

Music, however, is possibly helped by piracy (the artists more than the labels). I have downloaded pirated albums worth $10 from some artists, only to go see them several times at concerts worth $50-100. If I hadn't heard a deep album track from the pirated album, I would never have gotten into those artists.
>But it requires that you understand the lowest number the guy can go without taking a hit.

I don't give a damn if he takes a hit or not. His profitability is his problem, not mine. Ideally, he takes a loss on the car he sells me because that sale pushes him over some target that actually works for him. Only he knows his position explicitly. I can never know this. Assuming I can is putting me in a loser's position.

Generally, if a car salesman isn't pissed off at you following the sale, you are getting ripped off. I hate to tell you this, but it is true. If the car salesman is "happy" to sell to your dad, it's probably because he's an easy sell. That's not negotiation.

The first case is only an example, but your $3800 offer is pretty close to my example where you offer $2000. The error you're making is that $4500 is some sort of set in stone value. It isn't. The car might in fact be worth more than $10K to you, and less than $1K to the dealership.

The art of negotiation is the act of getting the car for the lowest possible price, regardless of its worth to you or the seller.
This article (http://www.telecomlawmonitor.com/2011/04/articles/access-cha...) explains th FCC decision against the company for trying to exploit this model.
I had this exact idea for my [expected future] children. I'm glad to have at least anecdotal evidence that it works.
> But why don't we use Ocaml again?

Rust offers better control over memory layout, more predictable resource usage and a fuller concurrency model. If it works out it will be a good replacement for ocaml, especially for systems development.
If you set it at $125, and get $125, their budget was probably at least $150. You're leaving money on the table and not even realizing it.
Ok, so the FBI served Carpathia with a search warrant and .. somehow copied the internal email directly from the physical server without MU being aware of that? The FBI then goes home with their USB stick and reads through that collection of email to find incriminating evidence. That evidence is used as a foundation for their indictment, which is then presented to a grand jury.. to then go back to Carpathia and physically take all of the servers?

Just trying to figure this out..
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What's the target platform? Looks like it compiles to system-executable, but Mozilla was involved, which makes me wonder if there's browser execution.