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They paid him. They admitted they were wrong and apologized. They clarified their policy so people won't dispute it in the future.

I'm not sure exactly what more you'd expect them to do. I'm sure they wish they'd handled this differently, but once he posted it, they seem to have handled things reasonably well.

Plus, of course, you've only seen one side of the story. Even if the company has other facts, they can't present them publicly, because then they'd potentially be open to a lawsuit. Similar reasons why people don't give honest feedback after interviews, or referrals other than "yes, he worked at this company on those dates".
Agreed. Sasha's February 27, 2000, Essential Mix is a classic. There are no fancy cuts back and forth, no ADHD mixing, it's just a fairly small number of well picked, well mixed tracks.
If you want it to be that easy, iTunes works well (I live in Canada).

Purchasing a single tv show or movie is the same price as a few months of Netflix, though.
Pay -> Watch replaces hundreds of network heads getting tremendous managerial salaries with a few web developers. Not easy, because the people who make the calls are the ones who no longer have purpose in the business, and thus they are trying to bring everyone else down on their sinking ship.
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Onionized headline:

'Asshole Chimp enjoys throwing rocks at unsuspeting onlookers'
Do you always come to these conclusions so quickly? I'm sharing my opinion, based on my experiences. I also explained that at my company perks are for employees, a status that the OP no longer maintains at Miso. Neither of us know the specifics of their deal.

I think you've jumped a few steps ahead of where you ought to be at this juncture. Perhaps you simply disagree with my point of view. I think HN is often one-sided, so I sometimes delude myself into thinking I should contribute. But now you have resorted to calling me a thief and encouraging others (along with Google indexes) to never do business with me. I think you've stepped a bit over the line.
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Oracle might only receive $150,000 in damages from Google
I believe I know what you are referring to. There is almost a natural limit to the amount of events can go to, before we suffer "burnout" and wonder if it's worth it. I and others have been conferences, got hyped, raring to go and spent the time afterwards doing... nothing, but recovering from the conference really.
That's even worse than the original analogy. No one is stopping you from going home and "making your own loaf" (I guess that would be shooting your own version of Game of Thrones? Ok, so actually someone would stop you, at least if you tried to share it.)

Something that often annoys me about the "piracy" debate is that the debate is very difficult to have, since there is very little to compare it to. No, it's not like stealing a car, but it's also not like making bread from scratch, and it's also not quite like sharing a (physical) copy with your friend, or like making a physical copy and handing that around (it's also not really like piracy, which is why I put that word in scare quotes)
My loose plan along these lines is to temporarily relocate my (three person) office to Kerala in India for a few weeks. Offshore development, but not as you know it.
The Networks don't want that. ESPN alone commands $5/a month. Don't want that? Disney has blocked all it's other channels - ABC/ABC family, Disney, etc as a huge block - that you MUST get. Want HD? another fee.

Cable is increasingly becoming the have's/have not's.
I'm sure your local newspaper offers tons of irrelevant ads as well (mine did once-upon-a-time). I suspect you've learned to pick out the relevant ones and skip the irrelevant ones - which is arguably the dead-tree newspaper equivalent of this proposal.
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They can already regrow a fingertip in an adult, though I think that is (as you said) still in research stages and not available to the general public. Having regrown lung tissue of my own using info available online and no fancy gizmos to speak of, presumably we aren't terribly far off from bigger accomplishments.
Again, a wild and broad conclusion based on my perspective that perks for employees are valid for actual employees, and not former employees. The company should have paid it out when he earned it. The employee should have requested it before quitting. Neither event happened. It doesn't matter if the employee quit two days ago, two weeks ago or two decades ago. He's not an employee now and should just move on with his life.
Can anyone give a comparison between this book and the Big Nerd Ranch book?
Not to be confused with Jason Rohrer's silk, which is an actually creative solution to a much more core problem, is open-source, and not driven by venture-capital segway hypewaves: http://hypertext.sourceforge.net/silk/
The only real solution is for companies like Netflix to fund the development of shows themselves. Until the IP is in Netflix's hands, things will never change. But once the people actually making the shows see that Netflix is a viable avenue for their content, a sea change will begin.
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The IPO is the signal, and this is more evidence. Facebook is being taken over by an MBA mindset, and that short term, cash first thinking spells doom for the customer experience and then the company.
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That sucks!
Tomorrow: Pay to hide or set relationship status to single.
Oh the establishment. They don't want to go out of their same ways of doing business and evolve like the rest of the people.
Maybe they could create an app that was a virtual mouth. You'd have to brush and floss regularly. Every clean checkup would get you 100 points . When you get a cavity, you lose 200 points. Make it for kids.

If you make this app, I want 5% ;)
it would make a BOATLOAD of money for both the networks and the operators.

Only if by "boatload" you mean one of those little toy boats that floats in the bathtub. Last year, NBC, the lowest rated broadcast channel, reported $4.2 billion in ad revenue (which represents a substantial decrease from the year before). At the top end, CBS reported $6.3 billion in ad revenue. (Source: http://adage.com/article/mediaworks/2010-rebound-broadcast-t...)
HBO clocked in at just over $1 billion (estimated, final numbers pending) in revenue for 2011. (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hbo-top-1-billion-inte...)
In order for a la carte to generate the same amount of revenue for a single broadcast channel, at say, $2/month, NBC alone would need 175 million subscribers, while HBO would need nearly 42 million subscribers (or roughly 1/2 again its current subscriber base).

It's not an ego game, it's basic arithmetic. Internet streaming may be the future, but it won't be the present until it gets a lot more expensive.
"useful" is in the eye of the beholder. I find both Pinterest and Instagram to be not useful (to me). Therefore a mashup of the two is simply twice as not useful (to me). But I'm not upset. I actually don't see anyone upset. Seems more like just being tired of hearing about them. And now both at the same time? No thanks
I have a similar experience. I actually traveled the world for 7 months last year working on my startup. It was exciting at first, but then the excitement became routine and I longed to get back to my SF home office.
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I've created an eCommerce/price-comparison website and I'm having trouble with setting up custom variables (Where do I place the line of code?) as well as event tracking for when people click "the buy button". If you've customized your Google analytic before, I'm all ears. Thanks

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I've known Suhail, online, for quite awhile. Good to see this news. Congrats. I remember when he wanted to learn Django, now look where he's at. :P
Tumblr has been doing this for weeks. Got some hype early then people stopped caring and just kept scrolling through the feeds.

But Facebook is a vastly different beast. Creators and curators have a different relationship with the audience. This is the new $1 bling people used to give each other back in the day.
Epidemiology specifically does not and can not nail down claims, but rather provides probabilities of possible causal relationships.

It is a collection of statistical methods based on interpretation of available data, usually from public health records.

Anyone who complains that it doesn't prove anything outright has no idea of what it is, how it works or what it tries to achieve.
Lol, no.

The IPO is because Facebook can't continue to attract top talent in the valley without those option numbers meaning something.
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They don't have a right to make a living from a horrible business model!
HN headline is wrong. The quote is from co-president Eric Kessler, not CEO Bill Nelson. The CEO isn't even mentioned in this article.
I guess that I'm bummed to hear that the standard we support is "not that bad". The internet and the "web" were built on incredible-thinking.

Yes:

> "it'll take nuclear strike!";

No:

> "it works XX% of the time..."
> There is a third alternative: free product, adblock, no ads.

You're absolutely allowed to do this if you choose, but you should also be aware that it's harming the sites/app that you're obviously visiting. If a site has incredibly intrusive ads, I just choose not to visit it. Most sites I visit respect the user enough to not have crazy pop-over/roll-over ads; as a result, I don't use AdBlock extensions and they get their CPM $.

FYI, here's the Arstechnica article RE: Ars vs. AdBlock, for those interested: http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/03/why-ad-blocking-is-d...
I agree, putting https on an ecommerce site actually does increase conversion. Even a silly ' this site is secure' increases conversion, so people do notice and care

The problem is the classic tld one. With https you know it's the same domain, but who's to say chase.secure is run by the same people as chase.com? Both could own a trademark relating to the word chase, both have verified (and different) addresses, but they're not necessarily the same

I know it ruins the tld extortion model, but I think for this to fly the .secure address should be linked to .com, so only the owner of the .com is eligible to buy the .secure and has been vetted as owning it

Otherwise I'm pretty certain the consumer uncertainty of the tld issue will destroy all trust in the .secure brand. No one argues that https is less secure, but when people have their geek friends put caveats on the .secure domain that they don't quite understand, I think that consumers will eventually avoid it
I find it interesting that "highlighted" posts are not actually marked as paid in any way. There may be no way for users to opt-out of seeing highlighted posts. So what we're left with are essentially advertisements (i.e., spam) indistinguishable from real content.

Suppose a brand or political campaign pays you a premium to highlight favorable posts, guaranteeing visibility in your friends' feeds. Suppose Facebook does this without your knowledge when they detect favorable sentiment about a brand in a post.

We already know they only surface posts to your feed when they cross some relevance threshold. I think its clear now that relevance might mean a lot more than personal relevance, but also relevance to their bottom line.
But your local newspaper is not trying to provide relevant ads. They just take ads from whoever will pay them and put those in the paper. Or am I missing something, such as sarcasm. I am bad with that.
I recall from Economy 101: the economy is moved by incentives..

Incentives in a wanted area cause that area to prosper, taxation causes an unwanted area to slow down.

If a sipmle photoshop-plugin-like application like Instagram is worth U$ 1 billion, then of course you are bound to see 250 clones/mashups/whatever by thursday next week, because U$ 1 with nine zeroes is one heck of an incentive.

The question on my mind is: are these websites worth this? Is a photo sharing app like tens of others out there worth this much? imgur is worth how many billions if instagram is worth a billion?
The complication is in the hands of the MSO (e.g. Time Warner, Comcast, Cox). That $100 isn't for the content license, it's for the exclusivity contracts in your area. Ever notice how there's only one or two options for a provider in your area? That's because companies like Time Warner physically purchase the rights to the actual cable lines in your area and forbid any other providers from transmitting over them. Your cable bill is for the most part ensuring this exclusivity stays in place. It's a whole lot of bs put in place by a lot of greedy people. Don't be fooled.
The problem in Canada is that Bell Media owns the Canadian distribution rights to many of the popular programs that aren't already available via services like Netflix.

Even if everyone in the USA agrees with you, Bell won't. They have far too much money invested in TV broadcasting technologies, and too little tied up in Internet infrastructure. There's no real upside to them providing you the content online, because not only will they'll lose their broadcasting revenue, but you'll fill up their oversubscribed tubes, making their internet services more costly to operate. A token fee for the program isn't going to offset that.
A great place to meet other developers in the local Hawaii tech scene is as Wetware Wedesdays. There's free appetizers and usually beer available.

http://wetwarewednesday.eventbrite.com/

Also you should definitely check out HI Capacity (http://hicapacity.org) a local makerspace/hackerspace. There is an interesting talk on Haskell coming up on May 24th:
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This is really cool. I'll definitely be chipping in. A world of streaming data is a world full of fun data analysis!
This reveals two things:

1) There's not much unique about any given social site, what drives it is the users and what they post. Sure, delicious is social around bookmarks, reddit is social around links, pinterest is social around visual content, flickr is social around photos, so they have their niche, but the "secret" sauce is the users.

2) The layout, theme, or visual identity of a site is completely arbitrary. There's reason to make it unique as part of branding and (minor) differentiation, but they are just uniquely laid out views of the same (user generated) content.

The ease at which sites can be re-skinned to look like another is the physical manifestation of the "we are the X of Y" start-up meme.
Agreed, I think most people at least consider leaving facebook frequently and with facebook going public investors will push these annoying but lucrative features (Although I almost like this one). If I remember correctly myspace declined steadily after going public itself.
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That's fine and good, but writing from Berlin as it comes into springtime, I for one would much rather have my boring, isolated, day-to-day grind come without metric assloads of snow and ice on everything and relative inability to do anything outdoors for half the year.

I expect no sympathy from Californians, but for those in NYC, Boston, Chicago, Berlin, etc - upvotes to the left. :P
Okay so the new Bing looks really good and works really well. Now they only need to change their name because I ain't binging. I can do MS Search or I can do Google but for God's sake change the name and please also stop running those spammy Bing rewards.
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It's very good. We have three lunches, pizza at 11, the main lunch at 12, and then a fancy food lunch at 1. The 12 and 1 lunches' menu changes every day, and the menu is sent out over email so you can choose the pizza if you do not like that day's menu.

I always eat on the noon/main lunch. They usually have two main courses, so for example meat and fish. I usually take one of each :-), they are both really tasty, and I'm not even a fish person :-)

We also have dinner at 7 for those who stay.

On Fridays we have breakfast instead of dinner. Also on Fridays we have happy hour after work.

Then of course we have all manner of snacks and stuff all over the place.

All of this free (There is nothing edible/drinkable that is sold). So yeah, the food's pretty sweet. :-)
heh... I kind of just assumed everyone consumed HN through a feed reader. I almost never go to the home page.
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All commercial software support sucks!
They wouldn't have to remove advertising, just become more creative. An easy solution is to keep advertising embedded in the broadcast and offer a premium option where all ads are removed for a greater cost.
It is terrible to see these wild animals behaving just like civilized humans.
Wait until you're a Canadian that like some American content, but you're physically outside of North America.

e.g. I like Mythbusters, and like to watch their latest episodes sans Ads at HD, in Hong Kong. I would pay something like $5USD to access Discovery.

The reverse case also happens, Lots of Chinese Canadians would like to see HK soap opera in a timely manner, but they'd need a VPN to get around to the location detection, and still put up with a bunch of ads with sub-par resolution. Again, I think they would pay $5-10 a month for that type of access. Instead, most pay through the nose through Shaw for a "local" chinese channel, where the shows that they want to watch is at minimum half a year behind.

Make it simple. A guy with a valid, paying credit card gets to see the shows they want, from whichever channel they want. Those channel will make money.
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The wonderful thing about having a smattering of French and Latin is that I can recognise "damned with faint praise" even in a language I don't know.

(Hint for the mono-lingual: http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|Stallman%2C%20conocido%...)
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I second your Superbly put. I cannot upvote this enough too. I've been doing C and C++ for over 17 years from embedded up to CRUD accounting type apps.... Spot on my friend, spot on!
Splash screen? You might of hit it on mobile. Check it out on your desktop computer.
Or, perhaps easier:

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Upboats for Collusion, I can't sleep anymore knowing 95% of the websites I visit are sending info to or from Facebook.
At current population growth rates (exponential), within 10,000 years the number of human bodies would be expanding faster than our light cone (polynomial).
It put my inferred age as 65+ years old, when I'm 29. I'm not sure what to make of that, other than google is much worse at this than I thought they were ^^
Yes don't believe it.
This comment was on the actual site & clearly outlines how sketchy this company is!

I'm agreeing with the person above... This had nothing to do with your "company policy". It was clear in the 2nd email that you were trying to get away from paying $10k because your former employee dropped the database when there were no backups.

If the unclear policy was the real reason, your email would have implied that.
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I'd throw shit at people if they kept me in a zoo.
Or perhaps it's a really good show? Its on tons of "watch for free" sites
And if you get a short SMS number that people can text to buy items, their carrier will just add the charge to their monthly bill so you will never have to take a credit card number. It will be easier for impulsive people to do that rather than pull their credit card out and type the number in somewhere.
Didn't we just have this discussion last month?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3863847
F1 in the UK is split between BBC (free[1] terrestrial) and Sky Sports (non free, satellite).

You can't just buy the sports, you have to buy a bunch of other stuff to get the sports. It's very annoying.

[1] You need a tv licence if you use a TV as a TV, even if you never make use of BBC content.
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They're not. They're owned by a media company named something similar to a cable company.
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Introducing: Highlighted Posts
February 3, 2012

Every now and then, a post comes along that’s meant for big things. It
could be pulling the wraps off your new project, promoting your next
show, raising awareness for a cause, or just sharing a truly
incredible photo.

Today you’ll have a new option to Highlight those extra-important
posts. For one dollar, your post will stand out in the Dashboard with
a customizable sticker to make sure your followers take notice!

http://staff.tumblr.com/post/16980189397/highlighted-posts

This seems to be a little different than Facebook's highlighted posts. Highlighted posts on Tumblr are distinguishable and would not be more visible than regular posts. (I'm assuming Tumblr dashboards are not filtered by relevance.)
I was expecting to be told how I too could live this lifestyle, if only I bought her awesome Article Spinner for <strike>99.99</strike> $9.99
Oh! Just to clear things up a bit more... it just earned him $10K :)
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Yow... is there a word for the special kind of bubble we're in now, with the profusion of Javascript and schema-free datastore-lovin' folks whose lack of experience in static typing and relational databases does not--in even the slightest way--constrain them from pronouncing their irrelevance?
I did mention (the author). Maybe I should have been more explicit (the author of this application & thesis). I've worked with him before, super sharp, straightforward dude.
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I think certain MBA types totally fail to predict disruptive business trends and that's because they never understand full implications of any thing. This is a problem with anybody who looks things only from a abstract sense.

Like many have mentioned in this thread, People said similar things about computers in the past.

This is why its so important to understand what you are dealing with, every aspect of your business sometime you need to get down to the grass root levels to understand.

Merely 'I can get this job done by hiring techies' doesn't always help all the time.
I agree with you on Facebook's Timeline. That UI doesn't work for me at all.
I have found Bing results unimpressive, too. However, I personally suspect I've just been trained to use Google effectively, giving Google the edge when I compare the two.
An OTA broadcast-based model [for TV] was a bit stronger than a fad. What was it that made it old-fashioned and bereft of really interesting content? Oh yeah, HBO and its ilk.

It always amazes me when dictators who succeed via coup d'état think they'll live forever.
You can be skeptical about paedophilia just like you can be skeptical about evolution. The thing is that there is a lot of science and solid arguments why voluntary paedophilia is a bad idea.