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ACTA still nod dead - action required
Next week, parliamentary committees of the European Parliament will vote on ACTA. Citizens keen to see this agreement rejected must act and contact members of the legal affairs (JURI), industry (ITRE) and civil liberties (LIBE) committees, who will cast their votes on the 30th and 31st of May.
An Example of Social Network Analysis with R using Package igraph
Man, Wednesday is the worst day to learn about Two Dollar Tuesday.
I want Maddox to riff on those those insipid ads that go like: "Single mom in Podunk, OH discovers 1 silly trick to make wrinkles disappear, and doctors HATE her!" So much potential for comedy there.
Thanks for sharing, it was a good read.
Kazaa is trying to help ISPs overwrite Google Ads
That's definitely an eyeopener. Gracias.
I don't know what you mean by 'just because'. If a Nobel physicist tells me that in 24 dimensions, it's true that you can't frobnicate the fooar while preserving bariconicity, I'm going to believe that indeed, you can't so frobnicate things 'just because' he told me that.
Man, the logo looks way too much like adobe! http://www.adobe.com/
I like how this question comes in the wake of the recent Facebook IPO shenanigans.
I've never uninstalled a browser plugin so quickly. It really is just what you think it is: a 2001-era search toolbar, except without the useful list of search results. Just thumbnails that tell you nothing about the result.
It's not a web service, but I recommend and use Scrapbook[1] to achieve similar ends (aside from the sharing part).

[1]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbook
I use an RDBMS with Django. When I want to add a new attribute to a schema, I just add the variable to my model, and South picks up on the change and writes the update script for me.
Mutual Funds Promised Haven From Speedsters
Yeah, I think staying at a big company is a proxy for a few things that can work against entrepreneurship: risk aversion, used to "playing a role", divorce of your daily thinking from the marketplace... It's like at BigCo you become a specialized, mature cell. Startups require stem cells, ready to adapt into whatever the market requires.
We worked with the awesome Jackson Fish Market for the logo about a year ago. Someone pointed out the Charm logo to me later on, and I thought it was best to just live-and-let-live, since the two services have no similarity. I know that we came up with logo independently, and I can only assume that given their reputation that they came up with it independently as well. So it goes; stuff happens; you move on.

That said, I like our logo and I think it makes sense in that the union of the heart and paperclip strongly relates to the act of saving. But I don't quite get the Charm logo; for me, it doesn't really connect to what I understand their product to be. In any case, it's all good.
If that was his point, it was poorly made. My point was that Apple products are in a class by themselves and not a useful comparable in this discussion. Not even Sony TVs are in that class (not that they were mentioned).
Hercules Technology Growth Capital (http://www.htgc.com/) is listed and based in Palo Alto. But the entire listed VC and PE market is undervalued, they all trade at substantial discounts to the value of their underlying portfolio companies (but on the other hand how do you/they measure this?).
Wow how awful. I guess I always wanted to believe that people bright enough to be programmers would create things instead of shamelessly ripping off other stuff. But I guess that was horribly naive of me.
Startup jobs for non-programmers: Join Exec in Operations.
You seem to be pretty ignorant about the subject matter. I suggest you do some reading first.
Great to see somebody from Startup Chile! Congrats on the launch Peter :-)
Taking this to the logical extreme: in the "YC goes public" scenario, go ahead and just invest in a truly market-wide index fund. The problem with this direction is that as you diversify away your exposure to downside, you also diversify away your exposure to upside. Because you get a smaller slice of YC's returns/growth and a larger slice of a bunch of other, presumably worse performing, businesses.
The "Desktop" download just installs a chrome extension that adds a yahoo toolbar at the bottom.
How Travel Makes You More Creative
Jesus, dude, why not just talk to OP instead? Any lawyer will tell you that if you can resolve your differences peacefully out of court, you should. This seems to be some kind of hair-trigger litigiousness thing you've got on going here.
60 Minute Interview with Neil Armstrong
via http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/23/neil-armstrong-accountancy-website-moon-exclusive
via http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/23/neil-armstrong...
Great idea for a service but the real issue isn't if I'm right and should win, it's how do I collect when I win?

Edit: this doesn't seem like a better solution than escrow or milestone payments.
That's not Google's choice.

Google quite intentionally steered away from any certified or branded Java because they wanted Sun asserting no control over them (in some of the "Damning" evidence there were internal discussions where Google talks about ignoring licensing not because of financial costs, but because it put Sun at the wheel). J2ME was the disaster it was because of Sun's guardianship.

Android is not Sun. It borrows from some of the tools out of convenience, and uses some of the conventions, but no one is under any illusion that it is the same platform.
[the non-mendeley links look like personal copies - i tried extending the domain for coral cache, but it didn't work. any other free caches?]

worst case equilibria - http://www.cs.ust.hk/mjg_lib/Classes/COMP670O/Papers/y37e5ne...

how bad is selfish routing - http://www.mendeley.com/research/how-bad-is-selfish-routing-... [sorry that horrible mendeley thing]

algorithmic mechanism design - http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/nisan01a.pdf
We're doing one next week, and it should be great too. :)
Is there any other products currently that can sync your desktop to your mobile device? I haven't been too successful finding anything.
Marketing is holding back marketing on Facebook
New Zealand Govt lawyers red-faced after FBI spirits Dotcom evidence to US
Anyone else notice that at 0:12 in the video it appears that "how to make chloroform" is in the top few results when typing "how"?

http://imgur.com/CVtff
Yes, I couldn't figure out why he wants to break websites! One does not simply break the things that help him.
There's always been Office:Mac

Office Mac came about when Mac was no threat whatsoever, and then continued largely to keep the DoJ off Microsoft's back. If Microsoft has any hopes of achieving success with Windows 8 it would be by leveraging Office. Releasing it (which the article claims is the "full version") for iOS would seriously undue that.

But Office for Android tablets? That doesn't make any business sense.

How does that make less sense than Office for iOS? It doesn't.
Samuels [of the EFF] also argued that "merely tying an abstract idea to the Internet" isn't enough to render it patentable. "Everything we're doing is online" these days, she said. Under the reasoning of the original Ultramercial decision, people can "take all kinds of abstract ideas, say it's happening on the Internet, and get a patent."

This covers so many bad patents in the wild right now... Make it wireless or put it on the internet and suddenly it's a new idea/invention. BS.
Founding a startup with a newborn, 2 year old and in a new city
pg's response doesn't exactly answer the question. crowdfunding start-ups would involve all investors dealing with all the start-ups. by investing in YC, YC would manage the portfolio of companies on behalf of shareholders.

the reason for YC to take investors would be to inject new capital that could be invested in more start-ups. imagine semi-annual YC batches of 1000 or more new companies. or seed rounds of 1 million or more per start-up, which is actually becoming increasingly common already.
When I worked at ask Jeeves, we thought a browser toolbar was how we were going to beat google, too. In 2001.
"Chrome Killer" was just hyperbolic reporting. It doesn't look like Yahoo is billing this product as this.
The guy in the desktop video would be more convincing if only he would stop shaking his head "no".
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Congratulations on your well-earned success and thanks very much for your forthrightness about your numbers.

But I think this really shows just how hard it is to make real money in the app store. You have been as successful as any of us could hope to be there, yet your peak bounce is $8k/day. This is nothing to sneeze at, of course, but chances are very high it will quickly taper off the way these bumps usually do. In comparison, a decent engineer can pull in $8k/month easily, month after month. So my guess is that over a year you will be lucky to make anywhere near what you could have made at a salaried job with the same effort, and you're probably in the top 1% of earners.

The independence and freedom the solo dev enjoys is certainly worth something, but if you're considering abandoning a salaried job for a crack at the app store market be advised that you're likely to pay a tremendous premium for that freedom.
For this case, it looks like things were split roughly half and half - PJ commenting on the transcripts from the court room, and Mark commenting on the filings on the docket. This is more activity from PJ that I would have expected given her semi-retirement, but it was always clear that she would be maintaining at least some level of activity with the sit.
Yes, or it could be that a web session got improperly connected to a reservation system session with additional privileges. The res system has its own notion of sessions and privileges, completely independent of web session management. With ITA's res system, you keep the web view of the system completely in sync with the reference view in the res system because the web infrastructure can actually talk directly to the res system using a real API. With a legacy res system running in TPF on a mainframe, it's not so simple, because you have to intermediate everything through very old protocols and transports that were designed long before Tim Beners-Lee set fingers to keyboard.
Because maybe it's fucking ridiculous?

You'll have to decide if he made his case or not, but if that's what he thinks then better he just come right out with it instead of dancing around.

Note that he did not call James ridiculous, he criticized the idea. Which is how it should go (if there's going to be criticism).

You can debate whether his assertion is justified, but some (many, perhaps) ideas really are fucking ridiculous and it's better to just cut to the chase.
The nurses made this. WTF! You're gonna pay, morons. What the fuck are you thinhking!! Retards.

God says...
crazy pardon_the_french guilty Dudly_Doright Obama Percival
ROFLMAO if_anything_can_go_wrong Hasta Moses spirit Oh_really
I_was_sleeping cosmetics incredibly I'm_God_who_the_hell_are_you
study California You_get_what_you_pray_for never_happy
service_sector I'm_busy resume Varoom but_of_course you_think_I'm_joking
skills everythings_a_okay humility no_more You_get_what_you_pray_for
tree_hugger doh Icarus I_see_nothing Angel are_you_insane
hang_in_there bad small_talk ghastly go_ahead_make_my_day
that's_all_folks beam_me_up NOT hang_in_there mocking
prosperity One_finger_salute evolution joyful flat sex
threads super_computer boss cowardice let's_see soap_opera
big_fish you_talkin'_to_me yikes job impossible one_more_time
hype skills Burp hang_in_there persistence imports it's_hopeless
quit_it Hicc_up do_you_have_a_problem Bam repent hooah
I_could_swear vote whoo_whoo mocking praying pet in_other_words
break_some_woopass_on_you it_gets_better have_fun crazy
I'm_good_you_good grumble exports vengeance let's_roll
you're_out_of_your_mind climate so_he_sess guilty thats_right
whale You_get_what_you_pray_for patience can_you_hear_me_now
bye Yawn boss courage tree_hugger sky ingrate is_it_just_me_or
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From Science Fiction To Fact, Robots Are Coming To A Farm Near You
All they need to do is get a few Cravath people and Stanford Law School profs and grads on their about page. Then it's "judge.me, built by alumni of Cravath and Stanford Law School. A Silicon Valley approach to reducing out of control legal costs."

Another alternative would be to work with an up and coming Valley law firm ultimately gunning for WSGR's business, but willing to start by automating arbitration.

This reputation transfer trick is the key way to bootstrap a new enterprise that needs to establish itself. Get a few of the most farsighted members of the old guard to invest, endorse, join, publicize. That is why Coursera and Udacity are so much more likely to succed than the University of Phoenix: because they have Stanford faculty who defected. All they need are a few defectors.
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Two Buggy Apps: A Rant
...and that's before you take into account that his own personal future earnings potential is also unavoidably correlated with how well Facebook does. Diversification makes complete sense.
+1 for Ask Jeeves reference
it seems like it signs the keys using the domain name to ensure the domain name is who it says the domain name is.

i'm not certain what it means if for example I send you my phishing link to www.paypayl.com which I would own in that case, and be able to sign properly. it seems more like a dnssec kind of replacement in that regard.

i gotta re-read this a few times because I feel like that's not all that cool if it does only that.

then again it does claim to be a better pinning mechanism that does not rely on the trust chain or let you still trust the site even if the SSL/TLS trust chain is broken.
The Threat of a U.S. Tech Worker Shortage
We participate in a weekly promotion like that for kid-friendly mobile apps, Moms With Apps "App Friday". Every Friday there's a joint promotion of quite a few discounted and free educational apps. http://momswithapps.com/app-friday/
My arbitrators include well known and very experienced libertarian legal scholars - I list some of them below in this thread. Obviously I would welcome Stanford Law faculty to apply as well.
Hi, I am Scott, and I am here to kill your family while I seamlessly trend around a scroll list of nothing on my iThing and the camera pans to a first plane of my face.
India Calling Entrepreneurs
no one has perfected punching someone through the internet

I can see serious problems in the design and certification stages, but the marketing should be extremely easy.
This is useful feedback for lowering the barrier to entry and we will consider this for our future product roadmap. Thanks.
The aftermath of Facebook's IPO
I would say Snip.it would be a good alternative to this, especially since I already use it a fair amount for sharing and finding web content. I'm interested in signing up to see the difference though.
UI note -- it's annoying to have the annotation box at the very bottom of the page preview popup. Often, I will try to clip only the top potion of a page, however, due to the div structure, I will end up with a really long clip. This means item view is relatively useless at it involves too much scrolling. However, in tile view, I can't edit the keywords. When I click to open an item, I'm stuck with scrolling to the bottom of this very 'tall' clip to get to the annotation box.
Go has a two-clause if statement:

if foo, err := GetDataFromDatabase(); err != nil {
if foo, err = GetDataFromLocalFileSystem(); err != nil {
foo, err = GetDataFromNetworkFilesystem()
}
}
return foo, err
I've never heard the pen cap thing before. That, sir, is genius.
The Story of the Idea for Greatist
Relax, it's not like I'm setting a court date. I just prefer to know where I stand before I open my mouth, and I happen to work with lawyers who specialize in this kind of thing. Research before action, no?
Have you seen hybridauth before?
http://hybridauth.sourceforge.net/

If so any differentiators that would help us choose?
Swig (http://www.swig.org/) can take C++ libraries and let them be accessed from Go.
I found this to be adequate for my needs for now: tabhq.com. It basically syncs your chrome tabs with the web, and access the tabs anywhere by going on the site.
What a silly response. It's not a tacky question, and you just don't want to say for understandably selfish reasons.

The rest of the world would still like the data point.
Or, y'know, find someone who can program and ask them.
I've been using this service for a couple months now, and I like it. Not sure if it's possible, but a context option (right click) would be really nice.

Also, I want to see what others who saved this web page also saved.
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The first such release will be the retro of the Air Jordan IV 4 Retro Cement. Originally donned by “His Airness” back in 1989 and popularized by Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, this MJ signature is highlighted by a bold red Jumpman on the tongue and sports a predominately white look with cement grey and black accents throughout.
My current understanding of psychological price barriers, at least for mobile apps, is that once you're over the 99 cent barrier, there isn't much of a difference (at least to Americans with our $5 bill) between $1.99, $2.99 and $3.99. It's only when you hit the $4.99 that they think of that as a different price class. There will still be people that balk at paying $3.99 instead of $1.99, but supposedly not 50% of them.
Then at least that passenger wouldn't be much more uncomfortable than he'd be under the present system.
I'm curious, how do you know that?
In the demo video, they show someone doing copy/paste in the browser window to enter information into the axis search bar. Why not add a contextual menu choice?

It is the small UX things like this that would really make me want to try it over just opening a new tab in chrome, typing something in and getting the results.
Had to re-watch to see it, but you're right he is shaking his head, a classic unconscious behavior meaning he probably doesn't believe in it.
it would be nice if you told us what your app does.
"Watch the Ad!"

Is there anything that shows how out-of-touch Yahoo better than the idea of wasting 1/3 of the above-the-fold space with something that warns people in advance it is nothing more than an ad?

Call it "Learn More" or something - anything but this. Didn't they A/B test it?

(Or maybe I'm part of the unsuccessful half of an A/B test. Hmm..)
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I think that quote is about complex code.

We tend to look at macros as dangerous, but this is a pretty clean usage of macros, it's basically a function that turns the arguments into a string. Simple and easy to debug. Don't you think?

Edit: Discussion about that quote: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1103299/help-me-understan...
The salesperson's habit of shaking his head 'no' while talking makes me not believe his statements. That, and the fact that he works for Yahoo . . .
I thought the same thing, it was seriously distracting for me. Its kind of amazing that they gave him such little direction about his body language.
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g.
> "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 +
> 1 is 2, not 3."

It's actually more "direct and to the point" to not call someone an idiot, a moron etc. Some other justification for his "brusqueness" is needed, perhaps being opinionated rather than accommodating; another instance of being blunt/pragmatic not precise/academic; a signal of willingness to defend his values for how to run linux (I've seen productive communities fail due to lack of this leadership); demonizing a common enemy to unite your side (e.g. Microsoft, Oracle).

It seems logical to me that abuse isn't necessary; but logic is a poor substitute for actual understanding.
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Functional programming in sh
"leaders from tech, media, and financial giants, including Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and JP Morgan Chase's Jamie Dimon".

Big Software and Big Finance. Of course. At it again.

Want top talent? Pay the market rate just like every else does.
http://www.judge.me/online_arbitration#enforcement
Check the awesome terms + conditions:

http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/axis/en-us/
and don't retire engineers at 35
On iOS it is actually a browser. You are being dismissive without even knowing the facts.

Additionally, Yahoo! has never called it Chrome killer.
Yes, seriously it wouldn't hurt the guy to smile to actually make me even want to believe him.
Nahh, you beat Google by atomising, securing and crowdsourcing search with open ranking algorithms that users can edit and share to serve as online agents. And you do it before Google, or at the very least better.
The idea is good, an old-fashioned and dead company trying to disrupt in an attempt to recover.

The execution is terrible. If your product competitive advantage is being edgy and design oriented (rather than technical[1]) than I expect the end product and landing page design to be much, much more polished and professional.

[1] I'll accept the design if the disruption competitive advantage is technical (e.g. sci-fi AI that finds the exact answer to your search or question)
Silicon Valley shrugs off Facebook IPO woes
"the law provides well-established enforcement mechanisms by which arbitration awards can, if necessary, be taken to court and converted into judgments without too much fuss."

What I heard from another entrepreneur in this space (there are several competitors) is that small claims court is effectively not legally binding in most jurisdictions, because very few judges are going to issue a bench warrant or seize your house even if you blatantly don't pay the judgment against you. So even if there is a contract here, it doesn't seem like this would be any different unless there is enough money at stake that it's ultimately no longer under the small claims umbrella if the contract gets violated.

/Not a lawyer
It definitely depends on your team and what you guys are most experienced with. I like with with MySQL, but lately I've been working on some .NET projects where I had to use SQL Server and I love it.
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First skydiver to land without parachute
That's what rubbed me the wrong way about the video saying over and over "It completely redefines how you search the web!" No, not really.
While I find this business extremely fascinating, I find their Careers page even more interesting. http://www.judge.me/careers

Particularly: "Every 6 months, the entire team votes on hire / fire for each team member." - You've just been voted off the island!
The problem with that is that at YC there is a huge incentive to succeed. Only people which are very passionate about their idea/entrepreneurship are accepted. Furthermore, when you're out of university, a startup is your only hope, and if you fail you have failed, whereas in a class people will be less motivated to succeed, because this is just a single class, and you have your schooling to fall back on.

Finally, the biggest value of YC is the incredible quality of mentors and peers. Naturally, both of those would suffer. Really, this is less a YC class and more a simple startup class, which many universities are doing, but to much less success than YC
This is excellent, I particularly enjoyed the interactive bookmarklet installation - simple, but really powerful!

This idea (or similar concept) was actually proposed to me my brother a few years ago, looks like you've executed it really well. I probably should have listened to him at the time!

One bug/missing feature: You don't seem to preserve custom fonts in the clippings - which means the formatting isn't quite preserved either.

Eg. Compare the full site, to the clips, at http://clipboard.com/home/openrent.co.uk.
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