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Sorry I couldn't fit "on Verizon" in the HN link (character limitation). I should have tried to fit "on VZ" in the title. This was my oversight, sorry for the confusion.
You are absolutely correct sir. I am (21 y/o) going to be a senior in college. I notice (among my friends/fraternity) is that not many kids post statuses too often. the main sticking point is to see new photos your friends are tagged in (imho). Facebook's height was 2-3 years ago honestly
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Flagging is different in that you can un-flag.
Whoa, "dealership"? That's the part of the equation that everyone wants gone.
Article appears to be a mis-statment of the actual quote (from http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120515120106322)

> Judge: We heard the testimony of Mr. Bloch. I couldn't
> have told you the first thing about Java before this
> problem. I have done, and still do, a significant amount
> of programming in other languages. I've written blocks of
> code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do
> it, you could do it. The idea that someone would copy that
> when they could do it themselves just as fast, it was an
> accident. There's no way you could say that was speeding
> them along to the marketplace. You're one of the best
> lawyers in America, how could you even make that kind of
> argument?

It sounds like the judge is saying that he has written code before, just not in Java. Presumably this was some time ago, before he decided to become a judge.
I'm tempted to wonder why this announcement is made two days before Facebook goes public.
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I had a feeling that flatironjs is coded by amateurs its down
My suggestion is to sit down with him and work out a deal to help him leave the company for his own good. Let him leave with a compromised amount of equity and try to help him find a more stable job.

If he does not (whether he does or not, really) write your shareholder agreement to avoid situations like this.
HDMI = DVI + audio.
I fail to see the difference.
What if there were a futures market on individual organs, should they become harvestable? What do you think the market-clearing price for, say, Mark Zuckerberg's eye would be?
That argument is about not giving bittorrent traffic first priority, and not offering AK-47 scholarships.
There was a nuclear reactor in downtown Atlanta for 25 years.
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If Netflix would give me a $20 / month streaming option that enabled me to get access to a good library of movies, I'd pay it without hesitation. Their selection is shockingly horrible. Feels like walking into a second rate VHS rental store in the 1980s.
It takes time to actually build a search engine - you just can't get up and say you're gonna build one. Even if you somehow bring in a partner like Bing. Google has been fighting spammers, scrapers, black-hatters, and thinking about all kinds of search problems for over a decade.
Look up "compliance" and how it relates to self-applied medical care for nutrition, acne, exercise, birth control, etc. Vasectomy is more effective than pill is more effective than condom, not because of chemistry or biology or physics, but because of psychology.
When I was 16 I had a summer job as an intern for my Physics professor. Our main task was to stir these huge vials of very viscous liquid for hours on end.

So I went to the Chemistry lab, got some mechanical stirrers, plopped them in, and played video games all summer. Good times.
Do you have a vesting period? Pretty sure you didn't, but just making sure.
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Switch to a Japanese keyboard - none of the @ _ ; or : characters require the shift key.
Looking forward to meet CEO of cool startups
You need to learn the difference between insults and logical fallacies. This has nothing to do with whether or not insults are bad in a discussion (they almost always are), it has to do with the poster citing the ad hominem fallacy incorrectly because they think using Latin words will strengthen their point.
You aren't wrong, but you could cut 70% of the words from your post without losing the point. Trim the fat.
I don't think that any Google employee is going to reply to your comment with advice. "As a Google employee, I say invest!" is not going to get you on the good side of the lawyercats.

What I think is interesting about Google is how much voting power the founders retain. Things like a campus of solar panels, space elevators, and self driving cars (not to mention Chrome and Android) make a lot more sense when you realize it's not "the shareholders" that want those, it's the founders that want those. Google is a company where two successful guys and several thousand of their closest friends (we like to think) can do whatever they want. Is that a good investment? I'll let you decide.

(Disclaimer: Google employee. And if anyone takes that quote at the top out of context... well, let's just say laywercat suggests that I don't put it in writing.)
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I've found Apple and Amazon beat Netflix on content, and Amazon always beats Apple on price.
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The first betas where really slow but the new beta is a whole different story.

I too have issues editing, I'm hoping that'll be resolved soon but even with those bugs it has been a better overall experience than the Chrome or the stock browser for me.
I don't think it is that simple. In Asia, which is ground zero for non-Google Android devices, fragmentation is certainly a problem, but the absence of fragmentation would have been far worse. Without fragmenting an open-source Android, manufacturers just wouldn't have been able to make and sell the cheap smartphones Asian developers are targeting.
I especially enjoyed the fact that he kept it on the down-low. Just use your super-power to do 4 days worth of work in 20 minutes and righteously goof off for the rest of the week. Win.
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Like you said, a deal's a deal. If you maintain a reputation as a reliable and honest person, it'll be much more valuable to you than the equity you could gain by going back on your word. The SV tech scene is a pretty small world, and a good reputation will help you grow your business in unexpected ways.
No, we all came in under founders common stock. The partner in question took less equity as it was understood that he would have to draw something of a salary soon.

This wasn't because of lack of enthusiasm, just an economic reality for the guy.

But wow, as soon as we kicked off, it was like Jekyll/Hyde. And I've known/worked with this fellow for ~6 years, in fact I escorted him as first hire into his last gig where he did an outstanding job for several years.
More-accurate version: "Android is as open as the BSD networking stack."
Thanks for the advice, I'll give Opera Mobile a try.
I think your comment is spot on, but I see large opportunities for them to increase revenues in the near term. Contrary to popular belief, Facebook ads are not well targeted. The only thing you can target is profile data and some action data like "likes". That is weak because stated preferences are less valuable than revealed preferences. Their remarketing offerings are non-existant. For instance, I can't target people that have visited my site, and GM can't target people that have already searched and looked at the chevy equinox.

I have bought about $5k of facebook ads, and they were not great. If I could remarket on facebook, I'd likely spend several thousand a month, and GM would spend a ton more than the $10M they recently cancelled.

I honestly think I could re-work their ad platform, and double revenues over time without changing the product.

Right now, on facebook I am seeing ads for generic stuff like cell phones, and clothing. On other sites on the internet, I am seeing ads with a special offer for a local gym that I was considering.
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Maybe because pages gives them fresh content and visibility for free?
There are also many people in biology research who do these kinds of repetitive tasks on daily basis for hours without realizing that much of it could easily be automated.

While we're sharing horror stories, a shining example from my experience is a friend who spends days analyzing western blots from experiments: it comes down to identifying a set of 10 rectangular black patches on clear white background and measuring their average brightness. The standard solution is this software package that lets you open each .jpg file one by one (there is a folder with hundreds), and you draw little rectangles and it tells you the average brightness inside. You write the number down inside an excel spreadsheet one by one, alt-tabbing back and forth.

After a brief facepalm moment I opened MATLAB, wrote ~30 lines of code and processed all images in the folder automatically, dumping all average brightnesses into a giant matrix in 1 minute of runtime. Several days of work saved that could go to curing cancer instead of filling spreadsheets.
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The fact the MySpace was awful probably had more to do with it.
Oh I hope this is true.

I sit here seven months after Google released the source to ICS, and still the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II has not been upgraded to Android 4.0, and today the rumor is it will be at least another month before TMo and Samsung can get their act together.

Android may have lots of Google induced issues, but it certainly seems that 90% of the issues most users have comes from terrible carrier bloatware and infrequent, late, or just never occurring carrier updates.
Ask HN: How to structure ownership of a startup?
I have an online startup getting ready to launch in the coming weeks. A few friends are "involved," but they haven't really put any work in so far. At this point, I own 100% of the company. How do I figure out what percentages to give them to work with me? 10%, 20%, 30% or is there no standard method to figure it out?
Also, while being a joke, there is a language that uses only semicolons: http://pksunkara.github.com/semicolon/
People talk about it being addictive and it was, but then after you get back in touch with all the old friends from way back when you realize you can't keep in touch with them all.

Then you learn leaving Facebook is easy and fun -- http://joshuaspodek.com/leaving-facebook-easy-and-fun.

After deactivating my account, the only reason I haven't logged in one last time to message everyone that I left (mainly because I find their privacy policies creepy and getting more so) is that I'm in China for a month, which blocks Facebook.

Don't use the site for a few days and you find you don't miss it. At least that's my experience. Missing the invitations and updates from there didn't leave me alone in a room with nothing to do. I did other things, with people who invited me in person or directly.
Yep. I got sick of entering the same data six times in spreadsheets at work. I made an Access database. Added VBA to make it better. Ended up hitting the limits of VBA, made a full client app in VB.NET. Ended up importing data from a remote system using an AutoIT script. I was still an admin assistant- no-one would promote me.

That was the beginning, I never looked back.
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Louis CK's non-DRM shows got some HN love the other day.

I paid my $5 and proceeded to download, but I have a crappy connection and kept getting disconnected. LCK puts a 4 download limit on his shows.

Easiest thing to do was to find a torrent. I'd already paid my $5, so I felt OK about it. Bonus: it downloaded faster than from his site, and he didn't have to serve all the bits.
To take it to an extreme, it's like saying you murdered someone when you ran a red light and hit their car. Yes, they died, but you're only really guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Manslaughter gets you 5-10 years, murder gets you life. Two sides of the same coin, maybe, but wildly differing laws, punishment, and intent.

Stealing and pirating are both taking something that is not rightfully yours, but they are barely in the same category of crime.
Wow. "Você deve entrar primeiro.

Obtenha Facebook para Android e navegue mais rápido."

Is Facebook suddenly feeling the threat of Orkut?
I (and my other partner) do value reputation and overall I'm inclined to roll with this.

The only counterpoint is that the departing co-founder really didn't live up to his end of the bargain. Work was low output and quality and this isn't in retrospect. It was like the fellow started crumbling almost from day one & then, the obvious inadequacy of his efforts just sort of piled back on in feedback loop.

So while I feel sorry for the fellow, honestly I do, I also don't really in any way feel that he lived up to any spirit of his commitment to us and his non-performance has hurt us in material ways.

It sort of feels like a choice of either being a jerk or a patsy.
Whenever I want to watch something I search for it on Netflix, Amazon then iTunes in that order. I've found its worth it to keep a Netflix account around because:

1. A few times a month they actually have something I want to watch. It doesn't take very many occurrences of this to save me money over Amazon/iTunes.

2. Occasionally I just want to watch something, and don't really care what. Its nice to have a decent sized library of content that is available at no additional cost.
"Downloading Linux distributions"

Except at my work, where they monitor and squash torrent connections. Sigh. OK, so I'll tie up the work internet downloading one big file from one busy place.
As long as he didn't broken any law, and he didn't regret what he did, why someone would say he did anything wrong?

You may think, he earn his money in the US soil and he should contribute back to the US people. Morally correct. However, if that means he have to fund the US government by paying tax and portion of that money eventually used for launching a war in the middle east, I also think legally avoiding tax to the government is morally correct.
I just really cannot understand how people don't have ideas right now, the world is changing profoundly and practically every industry on earth needs to leverage web based software or fall out of relevance. This is a once in a generation opportunity. I can't imagine not having any ideas, it's always execution and dealing with (self and others) attention deficit that's key, everything else is basically a semantic issue.
I think this is the key to this debate: in the importance range of all the skills one can learn, where does programming fall?

Nobody would argue that plumbing and talking have similar importance and value. But what about plumbing and programming? Or programming or reading?

I personally believe that programming is closer to reading than to plumbing for a majority of people. I'm glad to see you feel the same!
It should be interesting to see what a product sold to consumers rather than wireless carriers will look like. My guess is that they will be less expensive and have less bullet-point features; carriers need expensive phones to justify an expensive ETF (and cost to switch), but consumers just want to buy something inexpensive and replace it in a year or so.
Judge Alsup didn't learn to code during the trial - he already coded before it! It's just that he learned about Java during the trial.

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Judge Alsup: "I couldn't have told you the first thing about Java before this problem. I have done, and still do, a significant amount of programming in other languages. I've written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times before."

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This is not Reddit, you can't downvote a story. You can flag a story or ignore it. You can downvote only comments.
If the rest of the market undervalues them it can still undermine a value investor by sticking the company with high interest rates on bonds etc.

Keynesian beauty contest etc
The timing might not be significant. Would anyone have cared that GM saved 10 million months ago? Probably not. But its a good story around IPO time.
Yes, When I did he stanford course I just skipped from slide to slide and backed up if the slide was unclear.
This hypothetical app exists. I used it when I started using Google+ to copy my photos over to Picasa. I believe it was a Chrome extension.
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What’s the difference? I can’t see one.
There's a difference between tax rate and effective tax rate; the high taxes of yore were never really paid by anyone with money.
Is there anyway to view this without being forced into creating a google+ account?

edit: I can see it when browsing from my pc, on mobile I get redirected to a G+ signup form.
The big idea here is that no other country in the world handles taxes in this way. As far as I'm aware, no other country is as aggressive as the US in taxing income earned by it's citizens while working overseas.
I'm not even sure I'd need my photos; I've got better copies of most of them in Aperture anyway. In fact, I'm really not sure what I'd want to keep from Facebook if I were to leave the site for good.
Very nice of the attorney to tell the poor guy to stop the script so the Law Firm can bill for 3 days of work... I was billed by my law firm for figuring out drop box after putting all my files into Drop Box. Now the entire firm is using it... Go figure.
Whoa. Herd mentality includes looking out for each other and helping each other and communicating.
Ha. The title is so existentialist I just had up-vote the pathos.
They pay way more total money, and most people are complaining about capital gains taxes but that's not really income is it? It's risked capital that has already been taxed at the corporate rates.
UC Davis has one, even though the city calls itself "nuclear free"

http://mnrc.ucdavis.edu/about.html
You don't have to create a google+ account to read it. I just tested in a logged-out browser, and it worked fine.
Singapore doesn’t have a capital gains tax.

At 15% long-term capital gains tax rate on $3.84B (4% of Facebook),

He saved $576 Million by giving up his citizenship and moving to Singapore.
I've been interning at a power company since high school (I'm a junior in college now -- EE/CpE major) and one of the things I did was taking log data for a bunch of events in csv format, filtering the irrelevant data, and formatting it to make it more readable by humans. Since I had to repeat the process a bunch of times, I spent an hour or so writing an Excel macro that let me select a few examples of what was relevant and then proceeded to do all the hard work. I told my supervisor about it and she had me write up documentation for using the macro and then shared it with everyone in the department to save everyone's time.
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I agree completely. Fragmentation isn't something Google wants; we waste a ton of engineering effort supporting old devices. For example, Google Wallet has to support Gingerbread for at least two years because one carrier won't upgrade their Nexus S to Ice Cream Sandwich. That's one extra test run for every commit for two years, eating up thousands of hours of CPU time, physical devices, and developer patience. Multiply that by about 50 for apps that run on all phones, not just ones with special NFC hardware...
Giving back != paying taxes
AFAIK your claim is factually untrue by a very large margin. Care to explain?
He says he still does a significant amount of coding, actually! This is some Posner-like polymathism out of a judge.
It is not the only thing that can, but then again not all things have the same multiplication coefficient.

Clearly being a great writer, orator, or doctor have high coefficients. Being a great plumber probably has a lower coefficient. Being a great doorman might be still lower on the scale. (I'm not saying there's anything wrong with being a doorman, just taking it as an example of a skill with a low change-the-world coefficient)

I think all things being equal, it's better to learn things with a high coefficient. Of course personal enjoyment is important too, so when I say "everyone should learn to code" I'm of course not advocating forcing people to learn to code against their will…
That would be absurd. Anyone who would propose something like this at a GM board meeting would be marched out with all their personal belongings in a cardboard box.
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It seems to have worked.
Yes, but nobody is saying that.
> It's one of the greatest blessings of humanity to be able to access, hand on and build upon its shared heritage. We should embrace it as the monumental achievement it is - but here we are, having to justify it.

I do love it when people wax poetic when it comes to piracy discussions online like this. By the above you mean the monumental achievement it is like having access to data such as the Human Genome Project, or online journals and data related to AIDS, cancer and other research correct?

Please don't try and state it is a human right to have free, immediate access to the latest Lady Gaga album and Game of Thrones for free.
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those are little issues that can be programmed in. I can save every photo tag and info about tag for uploading that info into the new network (but saving it for now)
Thats not really a tutorial, just an introduction on how to install the CLI tools. What's missing is a tutorial on how to use them.
Would his eye be worth more than anyone else's eye? If I needed an eye and all eyes could see equally well, I'd pay $0 over market price for Zuckerberg's. What value would his eye bring to the table that Joe Average's eye wouldn't?
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That list of lessons learned? That's why everyone should learn to code, or at least try, if for no other reason than so they know what it's like on our end. And hey, it might be directly useful, too.
IBM had their own P/390 systems that basically put a mainframe on a PCI card to go in a PC or RS/6000 host.

There were also the FLEX-ES systems that were Linux-based mainframe emulators running on Intel hardware. IBM sanctioned and allowed this for long enough for a number of companies (including mine) to buy them, then pulled the plug on the program and forced everyone to buy real mainframe hardware instead.
To clarify, this is the problem where the screen blinks off really fast at completely random times. There's another problem with flickering that had something to do with scrolling.
Ask HN: Books written by successful entrepreneur
I like to read books written by successful entrepreneur.

Please recommend books to me.

The following are examples of what I read and like.

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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win

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How is that backwards induction?
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