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IANAL, but...

Why don't we instead build a "Startup Law Standard" kind of thing that can get network effects in the startup scene. Get all the big firms law firm / VCs / angels / etc. signed on to these standards.

How would this look? I've read a lot of contracts, and you see some similar stuff. In many ways, it's kind of like programming:

VARIABLE DEFINITIONS: at the top - like: "'Company' shall be XYZ, Inc., a Delaware Corporation located in 100 Main St.", and so on.

TESTS: These are normally "Warranties and Representations" - these are often quite boiler-plate like: "Assignor is owner of all Intellectual Property", etc.

AUTHENTICATION: Signatures, etc.

I bet that 80-90% documents could be generated by a set of 500 boiler-plate sections with fill-in-the-blank type of stuff. There could be built into these something that'd figure out the incompatibility (i.e. "exclusive" in one section wouldn't work with "non-exclusive" in another).

Term Sheets are pretty standardized now with a couple made forms that are considered modern. Why can't we do the rest?

Call me crazy, but couldn't this at the very least reduce law costs, and at best be the first step down a road of nearly full-auto law?

Then again - IANAL...
1. Nature is not "smart", it is not a conscious entity. So neither can we outsmart it nor can it outsmart us.
2. I strongly dislike the dichotomy between nature and humans. Our species is part of the natural world same as any other. Investigating into influencing or even controlling our evolution means we are making good use of our evolutionary advantages (i.e. the highly evolved brain).
A few suggestions, not necessarily mutually exclusive:

1. Start doing what you want to do at work. Don't waste time in BS meetings, go talk to potential customers or partners yourself, build what you think is interesting/valuable.

2. Change things up outside of work, go to lectures, meetups, start reading different blogs, whatever.

3. Start applying for jobs and arranging informational interviews.

In all three, a big part of the point is to change things, and seeing what happens, at the very least, you'll be getting new perspectives, and after a while, you'll find that you are ready to make the big change and find another job.

This is basically what I went through over the past year. I knew I needed to leave, but couldn't quite find a way to do so. It took a while, but my last day is in two weeks. Ironically, things are looking better at work than they have in 18 months, in part because I felt free to push and try things in a way I didn't before. I'm still going though. Not exactly sure what I'm going to do in the long run, but I'm much more comfortable with my ability to make a reasonable living as a result of changing my perspective.
What Apple and Google owes to America? Everything...yet that doesn't stop them evading some taxes, much more than Saverin.
Other people are demons.

I might as well have crossed the river Styx into the land of the dead.

God says...
C:\Text\BIBLE.TXT

y beloved Son, in whom I
am well pleased.

1:12 And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness.

1:13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan;
and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

1:14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee,
preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 1:15 And saying, The time
is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and
believe the gospel.

1:16 Now as he walked by the
LawHub could be anything while GitLaw is exactly what it says: laws versioned in git.
>Let's fly a crazy fast jet plane that has it's software written by some throw-caution-in-the-wind Node.js hackers instead.

Because that's exactly what I said, or even hinted at.

I said the document reads like overly verbose government copy. Nothing more.
As they said: they clearly overpaid on company formation ($4000 for legal and accounting, which could have been accomplished to the same effect for around $500 if they were frugal, including filing quarterly estimated returns). But still, they'd have ended up with ~$9000 gross instead of $6000; the point still stands.

Some of these Kickstarter numbers look more game-changing than they really are.

But whatever, I'm not a games industry person; I'm really just here to chime my recurring bell about "don't put your company together on a napkin, get the LLC done; it doesn't have to be expensive and it will help you down the road."
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"Now, right off the top you had $10,000 for prize fulfillment."

The lesson to be learnt here? Very carefully consider your bonus goods. Will making and shipping them cost more than the extra profit they make over the base price? Price 'em out beforehand. And build in a healthy margin of error in case you are wrong.
Direct link instead of Gawker's shallow little summary wrapped around a giant quote from the direct link:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/starcommand/star-command...
A popular indie game is not so surprising. What's surprising is the sheer magnitude of the profits: $359,000 in daily profits -- a $131 million profit run rate. Pure profit. It's conceivable that Notch will become a cash billionaire over the next few years if the growth continues. That's just insane.
Possible. Unlikely. I couldn’t find anything by googling around. It’s pretty obvious that those warning shots have an extremely low probability of actually hurting anyone.

Something with a low probability of hurting someone and done with good justification cannot be reckless in my eye. Celebratory gunfire? Reckless. Warning shots? Not.
Law is a very, very, very hard task to tackle properly.

You may not know but there have been three big "generations" of law systems. Many parliaments are starting to use fourth generation systems. Third and fourth generation systems look a lot like a complex git, but there are many things that should and do work differently.

When I started dealing with these things I thought that it was a solved problem, just use SVN (the cool kid at the time) and everything will be solved. Well, none of the existing versioning models work well with law documents, especially acts. The general ideas do apply, but many of the details do not. For example, just think of a merge conflict: who are you so solve a merge a conflict? What you have to do is to just record the conflict and create two parallel universes, one in which the conflict has been resolved using branch A and another one in which the conflict is resolved using branch B. You then keep these two universes alive and apply all the later changes twice. You have to do this until a judge or a legal body declares one of the "branches" the correct one; this may take years and the decision reverted (even partially) many times.

A few links to relevant standards and systems:

* Legal XML: http://www.legalxml.org/ An OASIS working group that is merging all the relevant national standards into a worldwide standard.
* Akoma Ntoso: http://www.akomantoso.org/ A UN/DESA-sponsored format for legal documents.
* CEN Metalex: http://www.leibnizcenter.org/ a meta-format that acts as an exchange format between legacy formats and new systems.
* LexML: http://projeto.lexml.gov.br/documentacao/resumo-em-ingles A huge Akoma Ntoso-based repository of Brazilian laws.
* ICA/SPP: http://www.ica.org/792/about-section-for-archives-of-parliam... The groups of archivists that deals with all the fine points you have to deal with when archiving laws and dealing with legal documents in general.

The main international conference on Law and IT is Jurix, it started in 1988. Check out their proceedings to see how things evolved over time.

If you are interested in hacking something related to laws or legal documents (judgements, parliamentary debate records, historical versions of laws) just get in contact with me.

Disclaimer: I work in this field and I am related to some of these systems.
I'd recommend just reading Notch's blog[1], he started it within a few days of starting the project, and he kept a very good log of changes and reasons, there. There are the occasional fan video or something just for silliness as it is his personal blog, but most of it is related to Minecraft and its development.

[1] http://notch.tumblr.com/archive
May I suggest that code wins arguments? If this is a better way to do things, than starting with a small town that's about to incorporate could demonstrate that this could work.

Not the best list of such towns, but a starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planned_cities#Unbuilt_...
> You used a characterization of media sharing as "piracy", as "people who feel entitled to consume an arbitrary amount of music/movies without paying the creators anything".

I meant exactly what I said: I am against "people who feel entitled to consume an arbitrary amount of music/movies without paying the creators anything." I didn't say this includes everyone who downloads things over BitTorrent (and I don't believe that it does). I didn't say this includes everyone who sends their friends songs sometimes (and I don't believe that it does). You made this association, not me.

It does include people who say things like "I just discovered BitTorrent, which is great because now I don't have to pay for movies any more." Which as I mentioned in another comment, includes someone I met in real life just yesterday.

> The important point I'm trying to make here is that the idea that everyone who reads a book, watches a movie, or listens to a song needs to have engaged in some economic transaction prior to doing so (through either direct purchase or subjection to advertising) is a wholly wrong and dangerous notion.

Well if we're talking in extremes, it is an equally wrong and dangerous notion that the compensation of creative people should be solely dependent on charity, with no recourse against freeloaders. What do you think would happen to the movie industry if the ticket booth at theaters were replaced with an offering plate?
"Offering labor-intensive rewards that do not move your project forward are a net loss."
http://carlos.bueno.org/2012/03/rocking-kickstarter.html
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Even if the United States funded anti-aging. Would the results of its research trickle down to the masses. Or would it stay with the upper tier of society?

It could create a greater class divide.

I am in no position to speculate who actually makes money of our wars. I would love to know. Transparency should be a greater topic of debate.
This has some really interesting problems to solve. You should give it a try even if you know how to program.

I saw this a couple of weeks ago, and they have really improved the user experience a lot than before.

Keep up the good work guys!
Ah, so they're emulating the punch cards, now. Progress!
As long as we're having fun with the analogy: Whoever pelts me with mud is going to be lucky if I just flip them off.
It really depends. Yes, if you have a good idea about what you want to do, find a job doing that and give notice.

If you are uncertain, and your current employment situation is feeding that uncertainty, it might be better to get out. I say this as someone who didn't really realize the way I was being effected by my work situation until I heard from a few people who left ahead of me.
Ford IS more valuable that facebook. This guy's analysis is an apples to oranges comparison. Ford has $100.5 billion in debt and facebook has no debt - the companies should be compared based on enterprise value:

Enterprise value in billions = market capitalization + debt - cash

Ford’s enterprise value = 40.4 + 100.5 - 15.2 = $125.7 Billion

facebook’s enterprise value = 90 + 0 - 1.5 = $88.5 Billion

See here for a post I did on this article: http://hackerscapital.tumblr.com/
NYU does this as well, either 50% or 100% tuition remission depending on the employee for up to 9 credits per semester. It also covers 50% of course registration fees.
You are funny. Those stats have always looked quite similar for Germany, back to the fifties. Alone for that reason they cannot be a good indicator for whether a country is civilized. I’m sorry, but state sponsored murder of 11 million innocent people is not outweighed by the police only shooting very few bullets at criminals. Talking in those terms is just bullshit, it’s a weird worldview, one that especially Germans should be ashamed for expressing.

But that arrogance is common. It’s annoying.
Seeing Minecraft's profits makes it abundantly clear how much game industry money is being extracted by middlemen, big men and other parasites.
This stuff needs to be outlawed. If you want a backdoor for mainteneance, install some hardware serial console.
The article is disappointing in a good way: I was expecting a sales pitch to sneek in, but none that I can see so far. I should probably reread it now that I know that.

I disagree that the article is long: we need more well-thought in-depth analysis and commentary.
I really wish Yahoo would get their act together. Their technical work is brilliant. Shame they have so many distractions.
This article makes no mention of SOPA. The title doesn't correspond to the article. ACTA is a more appropriate analogue, according to the story.
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Hypothes.is is great for this -- see http://hypothes.is.

"A distributed, open-source platform for the collaborative evaluation of information. It will enable sentence-level critique of written words combined with a sophisticated yet easy-to-use model of community peer-review. It will work as an overlay on top of any stable content, including news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and regulations, software code and more-without requiring participation of the underlying site.

"It is based on a new draft standard for annotating digital documents currently being developed by the Open Annotation Collaboration, a consortium that includes the Internet Archive, NISO (National Information Standards Organization), O'Reilly Books, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and a number of academic institutions.
One thing that is important to point out that is that JavaScript (and thereby JSON) doed not separate integers from floating-point numbers; so if you have the double 3.0 it will be represented in JSON as "3", not "3.0". If MessagePack does not have a mechanism for dropping down to int32 for integral doubles, then you will actually see a 9:1 difference for this specific case (although if you are often storing integers in your doubles maybe you should be using int32 anyway, in which case 3.1 may have been a better general example than 3.0 ;P).
Specifically MS-DOS and not FreeDOS? I would have thought they would have EOLed licensing a while back.
That's why the author specifically mentions profit, which Ford has 8x more than Facebook.
The comparison to a football coach is very accurate, but I think it's unfair to put Linus Torvalds and Ulrich Drepper in the same bucket.

While Drepper is pure asshole, Linus just uses insults in the same situations the rest of us would use bold text. I wouldn't like to be on the receiving end of one such email, of course, but most of his tirades are actually very constructive.
The backdoor is a setuid-binary that gives a root shell when prompted with the correct "password." Deleting the binary removes the backdoor.
> No-one is interested in the number you come up with. They're interested whether or not you have a process you use to come up with that number.

Then ask, "How would you figure out how many golf balls fit in a bus?" This circuitous way around finding out what you want is anathema to most techie types anyway.

My problem with these brainteaser type questions is the interviewer (in my experience) NEVER has had the experience or know-how to interpret the answer; all they have been able to do is get a level of "ah, interesting" type "gut feel" from it. If I'm interviewing with someone who's got the background to be able to analyze what I'm actually thinking, fine, but to date, I've not seen it.
If you can't use the bathroom without assistance or recognize your family, that puts a sharp upper bound on your quality of life.
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And do you apply this logic to medical treatment in general?
I am relieved the author gave specific examples of what he was talking about. Both cases, in my opinion, seemed to be reasonable responses.
For the wars question, the most obvious beneficiaries is military arms manufacture all the weapons and vehicles used, the suppliers of perishables to troops (not just food, other supplies). Those two constitute a very huge chunk of the US militaries budget and if that budget disappeared they would as well - private defence contractors have a much smaller market demand for aircraft carriers.
I found that even 10 minutes are enough if you are oscillating between different ideas all the time.
I agree that starting clean, working through vimtutor and giving it a solid week (but going ahead and installing plugins to make it work how you need to actually do something) is the way to get it to stick.

Once you are the point of using Pathogen, you should also consider using Vundle for similar benefits but easier module management (update, uninstall)... with Pathogen you end up rolling your own stuff with git submodules or something and that's fine but it's already done in Vundle.
Al Jazeera video http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2012/05/201251242973...
The whole reason that we have Social Security and Medicare is that as people get old, they lose the physical and often mental capabilities needed for work. Fix that and there's no need for permanent retirement, and medical expenses fall drastically.
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I'm in the indie games business and I can say they overpaid for everything.

6K for music should be 1-2k at most!

Poster Art - What's wrong with those awesome sprites that Kotaku used. Should be 0.

IPads? More that one?

PAX East? - That's a holiday not a legitimate business expense.

This is why they say so many people don't make their money back in the App Store any more. You can't spend indie money like you work for a AAA studio.
I completely agree, it was a really inspiring read what this man has overcome and to learn about his positive attitude.

Luckily I only have to pay a little for my studies in Germany, though many people are still complaining about the fees. I think they could learn a lot from this mans gratefulness.
But remember, people on Kickstarter are pledging money, not investing money. So if you don't offer good rewards, you won't get any money, and your project will never happen.
Isn't ZTE a chineese corporation? It seems to me possible, that not only does China know this exists, they ordered it.
When I worked for the University of Chicago, they offered to pay 50% of tuition as well. But 50% of tuition for full time enrollment was more than my salary there :)
May I ask how much money in total you personally netted from making Bitcoinica? I'm intensely curious, but I'd understand if you'd prefer not to tell.
Buy F now.

It is paying a twenty cent dividend on a stock price of about $10.

Cheap. Plus its making cars that are very competitive.
We keep hearing kickstarter projects complaining about tshirt costs, maybe kickstarter should start warning people about this.
I never understood why the FDA won't approve drugs that improve an aspect of our body, but only those that treat something.
They are tangential arguments. We get more people through reproduction and we lose people to ageing, disease, and trauma. We don't even need to make Americans live longer to realize soon that we need to cut back heavily on the first.

Regardless of any new contributions to ageing research, the reality is that in this century we have over a hundred countries yet to enter the first world where births per family nears ~2 and until then medical and social advances in those countries will explode their populations.

We are already unsustainable, so the problem of stopping people from spawning more is really unrelated to medical advances in the longevity of first world inhabitants. The population explosion is happening elsewhere but is still a real problem.

Not saying first world countries have nothing to work on. We still consume as many raw resources as 3 - 50 Africans depending on where you live.

At that, scientific progress is always essential. I don't want to live to be 300 where I spend 225 years a vegetable or that my quality of life still free-falls past 60 like it does today. Extending quality of life has the added benefit of meaning you get more bang for your buck per person - if you spent 30 years training a doctor from birth to functionality, and their quality of life starts slipping 30 years later, you only get 30 prime years from them. If you can keep them at middle-age fitness and well being for 70 years, you get significantly more doctor per time spent on the person.
Wrong.

EV should include debt at _market value_.

FB could just as easily issue debt in billions and I'd think that the market will be valuing it higher than that of Ford's for the same issue coupon (which just came back into the investment grade club after residing in the junk club for quite a while). FB would probably have a good income-to-interest coverage ratio if it ever issued debt so the discounting of its debt's cashflows would be less severe than that for Ford.
Not to disagree (I don't know enough about the industry to disagree) but they got the iPads to show the game teaser at PAX.
Right, I have already decided to leave. That's definite. It's just a matter of how to go about doing it.
Quitting immediately frees me up to interview with more folks, to pick and choose so I don't make the same mistake again.

The concern here is how potential employers look at this. Would they rather hire someone who's already working, or someone who doesn't have a job? I'd like to get some opinions from people who make hiring decisions if possible.

Thanks
From the article:

> He's not interested in furthering his studies to make more money.

> "The richness is in me, in my heart and in my head, not in my pockets," said Filipaj, who is now an American citizen.
Can't articulate my inner feelings since I saw that image.
Market directly to your prospects.

This PR stuff is just a waste of time for small startups. You should market like the local pizza joint and not like a Fortune 500 company.

I'd like to hear from your troubles. Drop me a line? email is on my profile.
So censorship will finally be officially enacted in the UK.

Today it's porn or gambling - tomorrow it is the "wrong" political opinion, the wrong colour of skin, the wrong religion or facts the government (or some of its members) want to bury.

Looks like they soon will party like it's 1984...
I guess the problem is it's a shared medium. In many European countries, LTE (4G) rollout has been used as an excuse to halt investment in the DSL connectivity of rural areas. The results thus far have been disappointing, with LTE cells already becoming overloaded where no sensible DSL speeds are available. And that's with the severe volume caps that come with LTE contracts.
The war on drugs also violates fundamental rights. From a distance, anything a person does to themselves should be their right and nobody else’s business, because anything less violates your freedom in general. As long as you are not harming others with your actions, whatever you do should be nobodies business in abstract.

By even saying drugs should be illegal you tell people what they can and can't possess personally, or do in their own homes without impacting anyone else, and that is as much a rights violation as wire tapping or eavesdropping.
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