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I'm not declaring this a conspiracy. It could have been as easily as some prosecutor somewhere letting zeal exceed judgement. But...

I somehow get the impression that what ever forces perpetrated this don't really care it wasn't legal, so long as MU got ruined for some reason, any reason. Even if it was by accident.
According to a poster on ToyTown Germany (expat site), web devs can get a freelance visa.
http://www.toytowngermany.com/lofi/index.php/t215325.html
"Hi scabadaska,

I do exactly what it is you are talking about doing: Web application development and design for customers spread around the world. I have a visa to live in Germany and to work freelance for German companies but not as a fulltime employee. I approached it with very similar rationale as yourself (bringing money into the city can't be a bad thing, etc...) To get the visa I provided a well-written business plan (ca. 10 pages, translated to German) describing how I was going to make it here, proof of sufficient cash on hand to cover all my costs for well over a year, demonstrable German language skills, and two letters of intent to hire from Berlin-based companies. 200 euro and 7 days later with the help of an immigration lawyer I had the visa I wanted. Painless and cheap, when compared to some other countries. The visa requires renewal through 5 years at which point one can apply for permanent residency. Thankfully my German was good enough that I didn't have to take any integration courses.

I hear a variety of stories from people so I don't know what the norm is, if there is such a thing, but it's definitely possible to get what you're after.

I have private health insurance with dental, full coverage no deductible, from ALC-Allianz. I believe John G is "da man" in that category. Though you can also get it through Mike Woodiwiss at Spectrum (use the search) It costs me around 130 euro per month, which is peanuts compared to US insurance costs. I actually just went to a doctor last week first time so I'll soon find out how good the service is.. Some salespeople will try to tell you ALC is not sufficient but they are wrong."
When I first read the title I thought that search engines that all .com domain searches have been declared illegal and now the Kiwis cannot search on .com domains (I know that sounds weird, more like meaningless :)).

Edit: Now the title has been updated, previously it was:
<Dotcom searches declared illegal (judgment full text)>
you are a brandophobe then, completely guided by a logo rather than the capabilities of the device.

i own iPad 1, 2 and 3 devices (through my job) - never, ever did i need to replace the battery. it lasts very long, days, by then you have plugged it in somewhere.

my customers are big on ipads for their mobile sales forces and none, NONE, report issues with the batteries. that's a sample size of 15k+ users, worldwide.
Arun just sent out a final update to the WakeMate mailing list, hopefully wrapping up this fiasco:

WakeMate Update

Hello WakeMaters!

MiLife+

Many of you received an email this morning concerning a new
product called MiLife+. I want to make it clear that
WakeMate is not affiliated with this product in any way.

Today was the first time I have heard of this product and I
am shocked at the way it was promoted to WakeMate
customers. Our mailing list was used without our knowledge
by a former WakeMate employee, Greg. Fortunately no other
user information was compromised and I am deleting the
mailing list.

For those of you who have donated to the Indiegogo project
I have contacted Greg and Indiegogo and it is being taken
down. You will all receive your money back.

What’s Next?

I poured my heart and soul into this company and though we
stumbled along the way I believe that we provided something
of value to our customers. However, as many of you have
guessed, we have exhausted our capital and will no longer
be making any more WakeMates.

Currently our plan is to keep the service going while we
work on open sourcing the technology. Hopefully this will
ensure that you can continue to enjoy the product and its
benefits even after the company no longer exists.

I am very sorry for the unsolicited emails. This email list
will not be used again.

all the best,
Arun Gupta
co-founder of WakeMate
'Strictly quid pro quo, because your "friends" are the first to screw you over. So make sure you have dirt on anyone you help.'

Do you work in Westeros or something? I would quit if I felt this way...
Yeah, from what I've read the FBI took copies of everything they need and will essentially just flip the bird to NZ authorities. Go team USA.
That's a strange thing to say.

Obviously this device will run the Kindle software too, so the whole Amazon library is available to you - in addition to the Google Play library & app store.
Simple one... Look at the 6th girl from the left. Look at the two top pieces and how when they are reordered it changes the count.
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Ugh. That sounds all too much like the way we do taxation here.
The best startup market in Australia is enterprise software (especially servicing the mining industry).

Instead of raising capital, use early customers to fund the development.
False. This has been photoshopped.
SPOILERS:

Think of all the portions on the top half as heads and all the portions on the bottom half as legs. As you can see in the two pictures, the number of legs is always 14.

On the top picture, there are 15 heads counting the disembodied head in the corners (the bowtie.)

On the bottom picture, there are also 15 heads counting the disembodied head third from the right (the girl in the bikini with no bottom half.)

So what happens between the two pictures? The first disembodied head (the bowtie) is paired with a set of legs, and, though the subsequent swapping of heads and bodies that results, we are left with the disembodied head in the second pic (the extra girl.) Cool illusion.
But you know what, it's always rock solid and will run on a budget rig while still looking good. That can't be said for Crytek stuff which will not run on even the most advanced hardware at max settings. I like getting good frame rates and looking good.
I'm sorry for your loss. Losing two parents so close to one another must've been very difficult.
Mmmm. Strange.

Anyways, the major problem is that shares and options are taxed like income at the time of issue, with no easy way to defer the tax bill. This makes it essentially untenable to hand out equity to employees. This then makes it a lot harder to employ people as a bootstrapped startup.
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Not a quick summary but...

This line from the ruling PDF basically explains why the searches were declared illegal:

"The warrants did not adequately describe the offences to which they related. Indeed they fell well short of that. They were general warrants, and ash such, are invalid."

The judge then goes on to say:

"Before I leave this topic, there is one further peculiarity about the form in which the warrants were sought and issued which I record: the applications did not extend to racketeering, or to conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. It included money laundering rather than conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Attached to the warrant was this document that stipulated what could be searched and seized by the authorities. It listed this particular part:

"All records and things in whatever form, including communications, relating to the activities of the Mega Conspiracy, including but not limited to, Megaupload, Megavideo and Megastuff Limited"

The judge says about this (in reference to Dotcom's lawyer I believe):

"I accept his submission that without definition of the 'Mega Conspiracy' it is hard to imagine what falls within this category"

Another juicy bunch of tidbits are these:

"Assuming then that the police were operating under a valid warrant, what were the police entitled to do in this case? There were required to conduct a preliminary sorting exercise at the premises, as the warrants could not authorise an officer to removed from the premises indiscriminately all documents and records. In this case the police faced the additional difficulty that they were not the investigating officers and had limited knowledge of the operation."

"Given the state of knowledge of the police, it would have been proper approach for them to involve officers from the FBI in this exercise. Section 46(1) authorises the use by police of "such assistants as may be reasonable in the circumstances for the purpose of the entry and search. Because assistants would have been foreign law enforcement officials it maybe have been prudent to have them as named assistants in the warrants authorising the search."

"Providing the police act reasonable in so doing, following the initial sorting exercise, they were then entitled to remove from the premises those things which at the time they reasonable believed contained material which might be of evidential value."

Short story is: the warrants were too broad, didn't accurately describe what the items were being seized for in relating to the offences and thus the warrants were unlawful not to mention the police technically weren't allowed to seize what they did from the properties in the warrants.
Seems to be doing a good job, is not really a technical statement. Lot of things that fail seem to be doing a good job.

Im sure Zuck had a meeting yesterday about his mobile HTML5 team and said "You seem to be doing a good job".
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Okay, I thought you were making no distinction between your #2 and #3.

But eh, I thought it was kind of cool. The jumping out of planes part didn't help sell the product to me, it was just fun to watch. Brin was so genuinely excited.
Why? I have a pretty new Galaxy Nexus and I can replace the battery just fine.
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Note for anyone wondering why this is duped on the front page. The other link was originally for the full text of the judgment, rather than a news article. It was subsequently edited by Hacker News staff.
(In case anyone is confused by this thread, the original link was to a pdf of the judgment on some highly overloaded government server in NZ.)
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Very nice and free. I wonder how tedious the process is.
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Uhm, not charging hundreds of dollars for 8bit pngs?
As someone attempting to create a MVP and then bootstrap in Perth, thanks for helping me feel less-bad about my efforts :) It is possible to have a startup here (one of my day jobs is at one), but it is certainly less common than I imagine it to be in the US.

One thing I've noticed is that people here tend to aim for services rather than products. You can make money a lot faster contracting for a big mining company than you can trying to develop a product, fund it, market it, and make profit off it.

I'd even go as far as to say it's cultural - we're less likely to take the risk - probably because the big reward (anything to do with the mining industry) is so low risk to begin with. You even see it in other sectors - for example musicians over here are more likely to try making a living in a related service (music teaching etc) with guaranteed income than "risk" investing in their own music and trying to get big selling a product.

Tempted to move to NYC now and follow your lead!
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This appears to be related to the raid on his house, is the seizure of all of the servers in VA still valid? That is where I'm sure the majority of the evidence related to the case lies and if that is still valid I would think there is still a major case to be had.
Good news. Sqlite3 has already been great. It's also good to read that the API will not be changed much, it's very important.
err, litres per 100 km makes even more sense, and is the metric we've adopted in all sensible SI using countries.
It does in 3.7.13 (and presumably older versions, but I don't have a solid record of this immediately available).
I guess that since the farcical attempt at pressuring NZ into submission failed, a full-scale war on NZ is now MAFIAA's only option. This shouldn't be very hard to arrange - NZ surely must have WMDs, no?
> "All records and things in whatever form, including communications, relating to the activities of the Mega Conspiracy, including but not limited to, Megaupload, Megavideo and Megastuff Limited"

That bit reads like someone wrote up a search warrant after watching a few episodes of CSI: Miami.
That was a great read and thank you! BTW - I recently made some new biz cards and switched "owner" to "CEO" (because I had my QR code printed on them :) and I still clean toilets and whack weeds...

I think it is all in the mindset. I've met CEO's that think they can walk on water "Oh, Calgon - take it away..." And I've met CEO's who actually still do the grunt work. I prefer the latter because you should never forget where you began...
As always, "beauty" is in the eye of the beholder.
I guess I'll end the story with a question:
how do I/we get back to that?

Should you tho? Sure it's a high and fun in a way, but can you really expect people to spend the night sleeping at the office on a regular basis and basically making their workplace their family?

What about people who have their own family (kids, spouse)? Would you still want to do this (I presume that also means working very long hours) in your 50s and 60s? Would you want to make everyone working there do it?

There are virtues to startup life but I'd get tired living it my entire career.
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No. As I wrote: (which could well be the developer himself)
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"The fact that I worked my tail off in university and on the side to build up my skills so that I could earn a great living should be more of an attraction than say the fact that I inherited certain genes from my parents."

if only that were true - good genes almost always trumph hardworking mentality. Wealth can trumphs genes (but only if its vast amounts). In other words, good looks (which is an indication of good genes, not just good clothes etc), is highly desired. And rightly so, for the biological requirement of reproduction demands such selection.
Oil would last a lot longer if car makers would provide the 60mpg cars they have in Europe, here in the USA too.

Toyota's Prius C will do 55-60mpg if you're not out on the highway a lot, provided you adjust your driving habits to fit with the hybrid system behavior. Highway mileage is closer to the advertised 48 or so.
If you start with "what product should I sell" and have a moderate exit you can continue with "what should I do with my life" and be really passionate. I think this solves the issue: exit once with or without passion and then follow your passion.
Hey qeorge! Original author of the Shopify post here, and I do have a lot of experience with drop shipping.

The best ways to find suppliers are:

1) Google, but you'll need to dig deep. Most real drop shipping suppliers usually don't rank well as they are notoriously awful at marketing and SEO

2) Contact the manufacturer and ask which wholesalers they use to distribute their products. There's a good chance some of these will drop ship.

3) Drop shipping directories like World Wide Brands. There are a lot of spammy, low-quality lists out there so I'd stick to these guys if you do go this route.

If you'd like to learn more, I've written a detailed eBook on eCommerce which includes an entire section on how to find and evaluate drop shipping suppliers. You can download it for free below:

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Also, I just finished a screencast on finding drop shipping suppliers which I'll be posting to my blog in the next few days.

Hope this helps, and best of luck!
We've talked about this quite a lot here on HN[1, 2, 3, 4]. It is a cool technology nonetheless.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4002418

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029524

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4008520

[4] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4007083
If you look at how the figures pair up when swapped, it's actually a long chain that shaves a tiny bit out of each figure to add up to a whole girl in the end.

This puzzle is old and comes in a variety of forms (http://www.archimedes-lab.org/page5b.html) that are usually in almost exactly the same arrangement.
At the fireside chat afterwards the Android team said the real term they use internally is jackbusting. Butter is just a marketing term.
The exact quote from "Mere Christianity":

"Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call “humble” nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is nobody.

Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.

If you do dislike him it will be because you feel a little envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He will not be thinking about humility: he will not be thinking about himself at all."

This particular quote of Lewis'(in face the entire chapter on Pride from this book) has always stuck with me. I am always amazed on how right Lewis can be on things regarding human nature. When I first read this passage I immediately realized that I had met such people. And I had liked them a lot and enjoyed their presence and conversation greatly. I never understood why I found spending time with them so uplifting until I read this, and then I got it.
I don't know what you're talking about. I dreamed of these glasses since I was in high-school.

Guess I'm not a geek.
I can relate. Ever so often I think about how effortless my life is. Someone picked the coffee beans. Someone fed a cow. Someone roasted te beans. Someone drove a truck. Someon build a factory where the beans are made into instant coffee. And so on.

All I did was drink the coffee.
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The reason cloud streaming is so important is because wireless streaming from a device eats the battery alive. Amazon recently announced that battery and then price are the primary drivers for users buying tablets, and battery is amazingly import for phones as well.

Cables are a little iffy, a lot of non-techies simply aren't going to go plug their cable in to show off their pictures or music. A simple enough UI, though, can bring them in. Successful consumer mobile products generally prize being ridiculously simple because that's the only thing many people will use and media oriented, because that's the thing most people do with the smart part of their phones, nothing more.
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... then 2011 numbers are a google search away.

"Ford’s 2005 models contain between two and three million lines of code. Current 2007/2008 vehicles have an average of six million lines of code. The company is expecting about 10 million lines of code in its vehicles in 2010."
http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_sg/about_us/success...

Although it's an unfair comparison if you're counting all the dozens of subsystems in the car, mostly developed by third parties, but not counting the OS kernel, full MySQL source, libraries, etc. used by Facebook & Twitter.
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It runs smooth as butter on my three-year-old 3GS. Smoother than a lot of websites, actually. Are you perhaps using a third-party browser or something? Because otherwise, unless there was a serious regression with the iPhone 4, I think something's wrong with your phone.
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OP here. I definitely understand where you're coming from but I've personally experienced something different.

One of the eCommerce niches I entered based on research (not passion) was trolling motors. Starting out, I had absolutely zero interest in them. None. Never even used one in my life.

But after selling them for a few years and building a business around them, I've come to be a trolling motor geek and even enthusiast. Driving down the road, I'll crane my neck to see what type of motor the boat in the other lane has, and I enjoy talking with customers about them on the phone.

Is it really trolling motors I'm enamored with? Not really. They're just the vehicle I've picked to build a business around. As I mention at the end of the post, passion is 100% essential for success. In my case, I'm just passionate about building eCommerce businesses and some of that eventually leaks over to my product of choice.
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